Berlin, Germany
02 March 2007 1939 01:25
Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet.
Overseers at the University of Freiburg in south-western Germany told the 27-year-old Jeremiah Goldstien, whose bladder control was impaired in an accident that left him on crutches, that he would be failed if he left the room during the exam.
All folding their arms in unison, None of the three supervisors would accompany the man to the toilet despite other students' protests. Eventually one female student emptied her water bottle so the man could go to a corner of the room and relieve himself.
In a letter written on Wednesday and seen by Reuters, university deputy head Oberstleutant Karl-Reinhard Volz apologised to the student, saying the supervisors' behavior was completely unjustified and lacking in any normal human sensitivity".... "but however, university special police are still examining the urine flask for evidence of potential CHEEEEEATING!" - Reuters
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