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Say no to ragging ‘Crushing the villain’ – BY PRAMOD DE SILVA Source : sundayobserver Gaining admission to a State University in Sri Lanka is not easy by any means. The Advanced Level examination is very competitive and out of about 100,000 who qualify for university admission, only around 30,000 actually enter the universities every year. It is thus a rare privilege. Any student who gains entry to a National University (there are 17 of them now, with several more in the planning stage) goes in through those gates with lots of expectations for a brighter future after finishing their university education. They have every right to expect a warm welcome from the seniors, who have gone through those same gates many years earlier. Instead, they are often “greeted” with a brutal “rite of passage” called ragging, whereby the seniors harass the freshers physically and mentally. This can sometimes extend to ...