The Big Flip... Flop?

The nightspot St James Power House was gone a U-turn to their policy of free entry for foreign tertiary students after a Singaporean student wrote a feedback to MyPaper and received comments that the controversial policy is unfair. The power of the media. Starting from tonight all tertiary students can enter the the club for free before 11pm. Mmm.... That's settled. From Life! today. Mr Foo was quoted "Where we have erred, then the thing to do is to change. We will grant free entry to all tertiary students." What took them 2 years to realise it, as the policy was in place from the first day of opening in 06.

He was further quoted as saying "Powerhouse, being a dance club, targets the younger set, some of which are tertiary students. But there are so many tertiary institutions here, we can't offer it to all, so we chose foreign students to start with. It was also to give the place a more cosmopolitan feel." So erm two years ago they could not "afford" to give it to all students but now they suddenly can "afford" to offer it to all tertiary students?

"The policy was in place since Day One and we had no complaints till now." So if someone had complained about it on lets say Day Two they would have extend it too all tertiary students rite away like they have done now? Or if the student have not wrote in to MyPaper, the local tertiary students will still have to continue to pay till god know when. So to those tertiary students who have paid obediently for the last two years, are they saying that you are to blame cause you did not compliant. Caused if you did you will not have to pay anymore.

"If you say I discriminate against locals, that is not true because more then 80% of my patrons are local. I would be mad to discriminate against them." So what was going through the people when they set the policy? Didn't they think about the effect on the local tertiary students? The feelings they might have when they realised about the policy?

Not to forget about the Ladies Night the other time...