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Andy wears blazer by Crow and Jester, shirt by U are U, Ferrets bow-tie by Ryder and Amies, Ferrets scarf by Ryder and Amies, trousers by Seal Kay and shoes by Azor

NAME: Andrew Middleton
AGE: 20
FULL NAME OF SOCIETY: The Ferrets
ROLE WITHIN YOUR SOCIETY: Grand Master

Vice: So, The Ferrets. Please expand.

Andrew: The ferrets is the university wide drinking society for guys with one common interest: alchohol consumption. Originally members were only selected from University athletes, but now that alchohol and sport aren’t believed to go hand in hand anymore we’ve had to widen our search.

Are there any special society rules?

Our scarves are not to be washed and you have to drink what’s put in front of you or down the funnel. On one outing a guy funnelled a quarter bottle of vodka, then later piss. One guy refused to drink piss so everyone else pissed on him later when he was drunk. Tabasco sauce or Dave’s Insanity sauce are a standard addition to any drinks. The only set initiation is at the end of the night. To become a Ferret you have to neck a bottle of port through a condom. You have to bite the condom but if you bite too much and you spill too much port then you have to do it again. Not everyone who is invited out as an initiate is given their port to do because we don’t like some people. For my initiation I was placed under a keg of beer and had to funnel until I vomitted. You will not be able to remember doing your port at the end of the night because you will have drunk so much beforehand. As Grand Master I like to enforce a lot of tequila drinking. The session will start at 10am and it’ss a case of last man standing. On initiate was told to impress the rest of us with a party trick so stripped fully naked and covered his cock in Dave’s Insanity Sauce—he spent the rest of the night trying to wash it off as it stung so badly. Most initiates either end up in hospital or in jail for the night. One guy fell onto a spiked fence and was in hospital for eight weeks.

Does your society have any famous or alumni?

John Crawley

Alun wears Downing Patricians blazer by Aitken and Niven, shirt by Taylor and Wright, cardigan by Fenchurch, trousers by Paul Smith, belt by Ben Sherman and shoes by Paul Smith

NAME: Alun Rees
AGE: 21
FULL NAME OF SOCIETY: The Gentlemen Patricians
ROLE WITHIN YOUR SOCIETY: To be very militant and booze hard. No official position

Vice: What’s with your gang?

Alun: We are gentlemen who love to booze but aren’t necessarily great sportsmen.

What is the initiation into your society?

You must drink a minimum of eight pints in two hours. This is called eight before eight. Vomiting is severely punished as the idea is to keep the beer down. Also, eight pints is the bare minimum and is really not very much. Any less than 11 is pretty weak. The president two years ago drank twenty pints in two hours on his initiation and only threw up once. The president’s initiation also includes the downing of a pint of Faal curry. Curry houses often insist on the signing of a medical insurance waiver. The Patricians do not go in for novelty initiations such as getting dressed up and eating stuff. A drinking society is for drinking—and so is the initiation. After initiations people have done the following things: woken up on Parker’s Piece (the large park opposite Downing College) the next morning, urinated all over their girlfriend’s room, ended up in France having taken the Eurostar in the middle of the night, tried to walk as the crow flies across the roofs of very tall buildings back to Downing from the centre of cambridge, done the City Kebab Challenge—neck a pint of Guinness, run all the way to the kebab shop, eat a special burger (a 1/2 pound burger with doner meat on top), run back to the pub and neck a second pint of Guinness.

Does your society have any famous alumni?

Michael Atherton

Does your society open any doors in certain fields/companies?

Many just end up in the city- banking, law, market trading etc. An “ex-pat” will always be keen to hire someone from the same club.


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