Students at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, have been made to cancel their famous May Ball this year due to concerns over academic performance.
The college has decided that the event, which has previously been held biannually, will now take place only once every three years.
Peterhouse did not do well in the 2007 Tompkins Table, which ranks colleges according to their students’ performance in exams.
JCR President, Ben Fisher, admitted that the amount of organisation required by the ball had affected students’ academically. He said, “Every member of the May ball committee last year dropped a class in their exams from what they were predicted.”
He added, "It's a shame that we're not having one. I would like to have a May ball as much as the next person but I think the college's rationale is that the members of the May ball committee were having to put so much work in they were getting distracted.."
