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MELBOURNE - The senior campus at Melbourne's Xavier College will be quieter today after all 250 Year 12 students were booted from the last week of classes before exams following wild muck-up day celebrations.
The prestigious all boys' independent Catholic school banned Year 12 students following incidents including an unruly ball game that left one boy with multiple leg fractures, three students who streaked through an assembly wearing their school ties as g-strings and the discharge of fireworks by Xavier students at a railway station.
A resident living close to the school told Fairfax newspapers the behaviour of many boys was "disgraceful".
"They were blind drunk and some of them could barely stand. My kids have been through muck-up day, but I've never seen anything like that," he said.
The injured boy, 17, is thought to have been crushed in a lunchtime rugby-based game known as jockball or deathball.
Paramedics took him to the Epworth Hospital with multiple leg fractures "following a fall", an Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said. The boy was in a stable condition.
Xavier's director of development, Graham Sharp, confirmed the disciplinary action in a statement yesterday.
"Unfortunately during lunchtime today a large number of Year 12 students exhibited unacceptable behaviour and as a consequence the decision was taken to cancel classes this afternoon, tomorrow and Wednesday," the statement said.
"The decision was taken in the best interest of students at all levels."
Year 12 students can contact their teachers by email and can meet them during the pre-exam study period.
The Nine Network said the injured boy was assaulted at the school last year, when students were placed in wheelie bins that were dragged and kicked by other students.
Footage of the incident, one of a string of bullying allegations involving Xavier College students, was recorded on a mobile phone and uploaded to the YouTube video-sharing website. At the time, the school dismissed the wheelie bin stunt as a hoax.
Xavier College, a Jesuit school, was established in Melbourne in 1878 and caters for more than 2,000 students over three campuses.
The senior campus at Kew caters for boys in Years 9 to 12, but the campuses at Brighton and Kew accept girls up to Year 4.
Many of Victoria's elite have attended the school, including former Victorian governor Sir James Gobbo and Melbourne Catholic archbishop Denis Hart.
- AAP
