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It truly is a sad week for everybody as news of the slipping moral standards on Antarctica begins to break.

While the headline to the Sunday Star Times page 3 story may have been truly witty - South Pole stripper gets cold shoulder - I can assure you its contents will offend even the most Capillesque of offenders.

A University of Canterbury student who accepted money to strip during a night of high jinks at Scott Base has formally apologised to Antarctica New Zealand bosses for her antics.
Kiwi officials have been left red-faced by the impromptu strip show which occurred just days before a host of dignitaries including Prime Minister Helen Clark and Sir Edmund Hillary arrived at the base to celebrate 50 years on the ice. The student, who was there as part of the University of Canterbury's Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies, was drinking in the bar when a man stripped down to his underwear and scampered around the pool table. She offered to do the same - if bar patrons paid her $200. The money was duly raised and the woman completed the circuit. Then, egged on by a team of drillers working at the base, the woman stripped completely.

Didn't she stop to think about the Prime Minister's imminent arrival...?

She was only several days away afterall.

Didn't she stop to think Sir Ed would soon be celebrating the base's 50 year anniversary?

That someone would carry on like that when Sir Ed, in his frail state, was only days away from land-fall...

Didn't she stop to think that her immoral behaviour in front of a bunch of consenting/ willing/paying adults would pollute that unspoiled landmass?

More importantly didn't anyone stop to think about the penguins?

Antarctica New Zealand chief executive Lou Sanson, who is understood to be furious about the incident, said it was reported only after the student had left the ice.
"We've investigated the incident and confirmed some members of a contract drilling team were also involved - they've since left Scott Base," he said.
"We're now awaiting separate disciplinary investigations by the University of Canterbury and the drilling contractor into this completely unacceptable behaviour."

I mean, jesus fucking christ, what is the world coming to: students getting drunk, having fun and stripping for a little bit of cash???

Where are your morals? You make me sick.

Finally, thank you Sunday Star Times for bringing us the news that truly matters; may your fearless reporting save our souls from eternal damnation.

And to Antarctica chief executive Lou Sanson, if you truly are "furious" about the incident, then please get a fucking sense of humour dickhead.