Fijian student

Western Samoa

suspended

A Fijian student at the University of the South Pacific’s Western Samoa campus has been suspended for three months following a fight with a Solomon Island student at a night club Apia.

The disciplinary committee of the university’s School of Agriculture said the student had also been fined for the incident wliich is said to have involved a female student.

The committee’s chairman, Professor Bill Pattie, said that the fight was not related to recent tension at the university’s main campus in Suva.

The Fijian community in Apia is reported to have come forward to apologise to the school and the families of students involved in the incident.