Loughborough University angered students with its event (Picture: Google Street View)

Students have been left furious at a ‘slave night’ event at a university, which encouraged them to ‘buy other people’.

The event was included in the freshers timetable for new students at Loughborough University’s Faraday Hall.

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Several students claimed they found the name offensive and complained to vice-chancellor Robert Allison.

‘Faraday Hall on the campus was going to hold an event called “Slave Night” where people would go along dressed as slaves and buy other people,’ one second year civil engineering student said.


‘I’m black and from Africa and I complained to Faraday Hall without anything happening. Eventually I contacted the vice-chancellor and he got it stopped.



‘This has caused a lot of disgust among the ethnic minority students.’

Other students shared their anger on Twitter.

Twitter user @Kelila-Jade said: ‘This is disgusting. Completely and utterly disgusted with them.’

But red-faced Faraday Freshers 2017 apologised on Facebook and admitted the name was ‘unacceptable’ and ‘racist’.

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It posted: ‘Faraday Hall would like to offer our sincere apologies after we inappropriately named our Freshers event.

‘”Slave Night’ is an unacceptable and racist title. As a committee we are deeply saddened to realise that we have caused offence and regret that entirely.’

‘We take full responsibility for our actions and have removed the original timetable. We will be renaming the event to something more appropriate.

‘We apologise to everyone that we have offended or isolated in continuing the tradition of this night.

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‘Faraday will be working with LSU Welfare & Diversity and hopefully the Ethnic Minorities Network to develop diversity training for hall committees in regards to Freshers to ensure this is completely avoided in the future.

‘We are truly sorry for our actions and are seeking further education and training surrounding this issue.’

A spokesperson for Loughborough Students’ Union told the Guardian: ‘This type of event is not appropriate and has no place at the university.

‘It was not a students’ union event. Working with the university, we will sit down with students on their return and explore why this event was proposed and what we need to do better in the future so that this does not happen again.’

The event has been cancelled. The University and @LoughboroughSU are carrying out an immediate investigation. — Loughborough Uni (@lborouniversity) September 14, 2017

Loughborough University sent out a tweet, which is thought to refer to the ‘slave night’ event.

The tweet said: ‘The event has been cancelled. The University and

@LoughboroughSU are carrying out an immediate investigation.’

Richard Taylor, Loughborough University’s Chief Operating Officer, said: ‘This type of event is not appropriate and has no place at the University.

‘Working with the Students’ Union, the University will sit down with students on their return and explore why this event was proposed and what we need to do better in the future so that this does not happen again.’