Student defaulters
The childish tiresomeness of the student population of Britain continues unabated. At Sussex University some two hundred students have, for some time, refused to pay their rent. Like any other defaulters on legal obligations they are now about to face the rigours of the law. But, claims their President, a Miss Judy Coutinho, they will fight back, both in the courts, and through the occupation of university premises. Now, it is open to any citizen to defend himself in the courts against accusations that he has failed to do what he is legally obliged to do but, as has become typical of the expression of student irritability in recent years, the children of Sussex propose to make their will felt by force. The funds needed to pay their arrears of rent, it should be added, are in the possession of the union, and will be released whenever, according to Miss Coutinho, a "realistic" settlement with the university authorities is reached — that is, a settlement which the students accept. It is now meet that the authorities move against these dissidents with the full rigour of the law, both as to their rent failure and as regards any other illegal action they take.
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