SACES vs ELSA Waterfight: ELSA claim disputed victory
The road leading to the qu
adrangle today turned briefly into a fierce battleground as water balloons flew, water cannons were aimed, and a vast army in black clashed with an army in white – law students’ society ELSA renewed their fierce rivalry with architecture students SACES in waterfight held annually between the two organisations.
The Law students, led by President Tessa Marie Borg assembled at the end of the road closest to the quadrangle at 2pm, dragging their heavy artillery – a water bowser and high-pressure hose – along with the usual mix of water balloons and makeshift shields and catapults, as well as, inexplicably, what appeared to be a fire extinghuisher. As a crowd gathered on both sides of the road, ELSA got the mood going, chanting: “Tal-ligi, tal-ligi, ala bieb z****a” (“Law students don’t give a s***”) and “Monopulju assolut naqilghu flus iktar mil-Lhud” (“We have a complete monopoly, and earn more money than the Jews”)
At the other end of the road, by the ring road, the SACES forces massed, as two large cranes manouvred into position, the architecture students having clearly upped the ante from last year, where they marched into battle behind the protection of a beaten-up car. At around 2.20pm, the bulk of the architecture students came into sight, all donning black clothes and masks printed with the face of their President Sean Mayl.
And then the battle was joined, as both sides charged, retreated, and charged again. ELSA seemed to be gaining an early advantage until SACES regrouped and counter-attacked, their cranes giving them an aerial advantage that the law students found it difficult to oppose. Within fifteen minutes, everyone had been thoroughly doused and with ammunition mostly depleted, the battle resolved itself to a struggle around each side’s hose-pipe, and with SACES pushing forward inexorably, it seemed like yet another victory for the architecture students was on the cards.
But amidst the SACES shouts of victory, news broke that the ELSA President had, much like an erstwhile Libyan dictator, escaped from the field of certain defeat, and as the shouts changed to “Fejn hi Tessa!” (“Where’s Tessa!”), word spread that SACES President Sean Mayl had done the same.
With the unofficial rules of the event stating that the opposing team’s president needs to be dumped into a skip for victory to be claimed, it seemed like a stalemate had been reached. SACES, looking for the next best thing, grabbed prominent law student and SDM activist Mark ‘Guru’ Grech, who was promptly paraded down the road in a green chariot-cum-skip. But just as SACES began to celebrate their victory, there was one further twist in the tale, as a small number of ELSA members returned bearing Sean Mayl in a skip, having left the field of battle and found him sheltering from the conflict in a garage beside popular eatery “Meet n’ Eat”.
Arguments about who had actually won inevitably followed , but it was the law students who left the field with heads held high, having broken the chain of defeats that they have suffered in previous years. And then all that was left was for the combatants and their supporters to disperse, leaving only burst balloons, a torrent of water, and a brief wait until comments about how University students waste their time begin to flood online news portals.
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Glad to see water resources being wasted uselessly once more on campus.
Isthu ISTHU. Intom il-periti u l-avukati tal-futur? Fejn hi s-serjeta’? Oqghod hallas it-taxi bahnan, halli l-istudenti jitilfu l-lectures u jigu jitmejlu.
disputed? we got a BOWSER …we won before it started lol
@George Galea – biex tkun infurmat u ma toqghodx tinkwieta fejn sejrin it-taxxi tieghek, kun ghaf illi din l-attivita, illum fil-hames sena taghha, tigi ikkowordinata mal-fakultajiet stess, tant li l-lectures (ghallinqas minn naha tal-periti), jigu posponuti. Il-fatt li din l-attivita ssir fl-ewwel gimgha tas-sena skolastika, tfisser ukoll li bosta lectures ikunu ghadhom mhux qed isiru.
U iva, dawn huma l-periti u l-avukati taghna tal-futur, li jqattaw sieghat twal, sas-sieghat bikrin ta’ fil-ghodu jistudjaw, jahdmu, jistinkaw u jaqilaw fuq wicchom ghal 9 xhur shah mis-sena biex jmorru tajjeb fl-ezamijiet taghhom. Biex ma nsemmux l-kotba li jigu jiswewlhom il-mijiet ta’ euros fis sena, u l-materjali u n-noti u kollox!!! U gej teqred fuq in-nofs ta’ nhar li marru jgawdu?! Meta kont l-iskola x’kont taghmel mela?
U bhal ma gawdejt u stinkajt jien u kif ghamlu l-eluf ta’ zaghzagh li diga ghaddu mil-bieb tal-Universita taghna, grazzi ghat-taxxi li halsu l-ohrajn, illum jien kuntent u onorat li t-taxxi tieghi sejrin lejn l-edukazzjoni taz-zaghzagh, f’pajjiz fejn l-edukazzjoni ma tigix tiswilek il-mijiet tal-eluf ta’ liri. Ghallura oqghod kwiet, u hallihom igawdu, ghax la jiggradwaw u jilhqu, imbaghad jigi z-zmien tas-serjeta.
Tessa was hiding somewhere in Student House through out the whole thing! A student spotted her going up the stairs of Student House during the activity and never saw her again!….not exactly behind the bowser as the corrupt lawyers stated! I think it’s evident who won then
SACES MOVED THE LAWYERS ALL THE WAY BACK TO THEIR BASE, turned THEIR OWN hose into their faces, made half of them retreat and move to the side to watch and threw several elsa members into the skip! haha. HAIL SACES!
And as for those who are saying that this activity was nothing but a waste of resources, (which I usually don’t even bother replying to) are you serious? Is your life so boring you cannot appreciate other people having fun? After a year of hard work and stress we deserve this! We owe it to our selves to relieve of this tension and freshly start another academic year by having fun together. Childish maybe? For once a year i think its acceptable to be a bit childish. After all, as many psychologists and philosophers argue, children are the most creative people because they are the ones who have not yet been told what they can and cannot do. We would also like to make it a point that university students are not nerds but multi-active, creative, smart, open minded young people who are full of life and ready take on anything that is fun and interesting.The water is going back to the table and as for water bills, I would appreciate if one day I did not hear any more (or much less) ignorant comments! This is a leisure activity organised by two large student bodies, and as any other leisure activities, funds are required. Having said that I would like to point out that funding of water brought by the bowsers was done by both student organisations and not the university or government.
lol @Albert Borg and @George Galea. Get a life. 1. We paid for everything ourselves. 2. There were no lectures at the time. 3. Nothing wrong with having some harmless fun.
Not to mention that the students themselves clean up after and care is taken throughout the entire activity to avoid damage to third party properties and should this happen the student organisations themselves pay for or repair the damages. The way the students go about organising themselves for such extra-curricular activities is also a means of teaching them how to organise activities when they hit the ‘professional world’. Need more be said?
Heh Marc well and good hadt gost… jien student universitarju u li nara bowser ilma SHIH jinhela fuq cucati gewwa luniversita… hemmek ijja nghid li emm haga hazina, Listudenti universitarji ghandom ikunu dawk li jaghtu lezempju lil dal pajjiz, ghandom ikunu dawk li jkunu liktar aware ta xq jigri madwarom nazzjonalent u gloablmetn… Taf li s sitwazzjoni li Malta jibqa jkolla sors ta ilma nadif qed tideterjora… Taf kemm imutu nies bil ghatx kuljum? Well and good hu gost, izda nipretendi li taggixi u tihu gost ta student universitarju wkoll. G