VICE FASHION - ELITE BOYS' CLUB GANG RITES
PHOTOS BY TAZ DARLING
STYLING BY ALDENE JOHNSON
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Cambridge University is renowned for its elite clubs and societies which offer exclusive rights to its members, as well as huge networks of alumni in the best paid and influential jobs in the country. These people run the world.
If you gain membership to one of these gangs, you get instant access to Britain’s most important boys club. For example, Prince Phillip is the current Chancellor of the university.
To gain entrance to these clubs, you have to submit yourself to initiation rituals that wouldn’t be out of place in a Hell’s Angels club. They involve piss-drinking, vomiting, hospitalisation and humiliation on a massive scale.
We went there to talk to the leaders of the societies to find out how it all works.
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NAME: Joe Marwood
AGE: 21
FULL NAME OF SOCIETY: The Marguerites Club
ROLE WITHIN YOUR SOCIETY: Women’s Officer
Vice: What’s the Marguerites Club?
Joe: We are Christ’s College Men’s Sporting Society, established in 1899, to uphold the sporting excellence of Christ’s College. We can be found on a social most Wednesday or Sunday evenings, with a flutter of fine young ladies keen on finding out what sporting excellence means. The club also throws parties in college each term, allowing students to escape from the stresses and strains of academia.
Are there any special items of clothing worn by society members?
Members are eligible to wear the club colours of maroon, navy blue and white. It’s not advised to wear them if you aren’t.
What is the initiation into your society?
New members are admitted into the club on “Suicide Sunday”, the Sunday before the world famous May Week. “Welcome drinks” are administered by three roving teams of current members, more than happy to visit each prospective member’s room unannounced, anytime between 7 and 9 AM. Each team is given creative freedom over the contents of their drinks, but it’s kept in mind that three pints of spirits before breakfast really makes for a unique day. The breakfast is definitely not to be forgotten. All members then proceed to the club garden party, held in the Fellows’ Garden for a few hundred guests. New members are considered not yet ready to talk to women, and doing so will result in fines.
Does your society have any famous alumni?
Most, if not all, of our past members have gone on to be incredibly rich and famous. This is a tribute to the type of distinguished gentlemen the club welcomes into its fold. We couldn’t of course name drop, for it would be improper to single out one or many Marguerites as “superior” to the rest, as needless to say, all Marguerites, past and present, are great men.
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