SCOTLAND: Student vandals cost universities £600,000

The Young Ones made undergraduate excess an art form, but it seems they have nothing on Scotland's students. Universities north of the border have suffered damage worth more than £600,000 (US$942,000) at the hands of students in the past five years, reports The Scotsman.

And, much like celebrated fictional hellraisers Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike, Scottish students specialise in stained mattresses, broken headboards, flooding and fire damage. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show there were at least 14,000 cases of damage recorded in university residential halls since 2006 - an average of seven a day.

Despite the extent of the destruction wreaked by drunken and high-spirited undergraduates, fines are rare and the highest recorded was just £200. According to the figures from Scotland's 21 universities, the bill for damage since November 2006 has hit at least £610,000, with Aberdeen emerging as having the most destructive students.
Full report on The Scotsman site