Roses mark end to school feuds

To mark Valentine's Day yesterday, 50 teachers and students of Kanchanapisek Samutprakan Technical College presented roses to representatives from the Eastern College of Technology (E-tech) in Chon Buri's Phan Thong district to mark a new beginning of partnership and reconciliation.

The group, led by college director Dr Anant Ngamsa-ard, met with E-tech director Prasert Klinchu at the college to announce they would together promote a good image for technical colleges and stamp out student brawling. The two colleges' technical students then shook hands and handed each other roses.

Prasert said that E-tech had 10,000 students, 3,000 of whom stayed in Samut Prakan. In the past the students from the two colleges had brawled many times as they travelled to school on the same route.

The Valentine's Day rose-exchange campaign was planned as a sign to stop fighting and start working together academically. Anant said if a student of either college still caused problems leading to fighting, the student would face serious punishment.