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In light of the recent media focus on drink spiking, a lot of universities are taking measures to keep students feeling safe. This is great and I applaud the SU for pushing for drinks covers in Below Deck and Stags but the reality is that the majority of spikings will not be occurring in the Student Union but instead in popular external settings such as clubs and bars, including Switch, Trilogy and Jesters to name a few. 
Rolling out drink spiking tests only in the student Union will do nothing comparatively to making them accessible across the university for students to use on nights out or in accommodation whether that be halls or private, it shouldn't matter where people live.

Exeter university are doing a similar thing in rolling out spike test kits across their student bars and accommodation but surely Southampton can go one further and make them available to all students regardless of what bar they're going to or what accommodation they're living in. This shouldn't be something that is restricted on the basis of where people go out or if they choose to pay the university accommodation fees. 
 

Please can you consider making spiking kits available for all and easily accessible without the need for using the student pub/bar and living in university owned accommodation. Thank you