Chula probes focus on alleged assault, walkout at oath-taking ceremony
Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty Senate has assigned a fact-finding panel to launch an ethical probe against a lecturer who allegedly grabbed and dragged a student who was said to have showed disrespect during a traditional oath-taking ceremony in front of monuments of King Rama V and VI last Thursday, according to the university’s website.
A committee for student discipline will also investigate a group of students that vice rector Assoc Prof Bancha Chalapirom said had failed to honour an agreement with the university to pay respects by standing and bowing their heads, the website said.
Both panels would investigate the incident with independence and transparency while maintaining the law and university regulations, the website said.
The alleged assault by assistant rector Reungwit Banjongrat on a fourth-year economics student, who abruptly walked out of the ceremony along with Student Council President Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, was captured in pictures that were widely shared on Facebook.
