The scenes created by undergraduates in funny attires soliciting money from the public under the aegis of 'Rag Day' used to be enthralling to my young mind years ago.

Yesterday, however, looking at the same sight from a mature perspective was in no way appealing. I was greatly appalled by the fantasies I had nursed as a child; looking at young men in torn skirts and brassieres, some other ones with painted lips and faces and a large number of females trying to outdo one another with the eccentricity of their fashion statements holding cans like mendicants and begging passers-by for some 'change', prompted me to seek the rationale behind this irrationality.

To whom is the money collected remitted? Charity or the students' pockets? These are my questions begging for answers from those who have participated in the 'show' anytime in the past and from anyone with a contrary perspective.

Someone says, "Before you pull a fence down, find out why it was erected in the first place." Who knows why? I don't!

It ain't got no single significance. I so hate seeing students doing it.... And I never ragged during my time.

Mannylex: I never ragged during my time.

I never did either, but I think the ones who did might know something we don't.

Neva ragged. But i think t z d only extra-curriculum activity in d school dat z strictly african.... I dnt c anytin wrong wit t since d money z used 4 charity aswell as d student.

RAG DAY::A day on which university students do silly things for charity; often the culmination of rag week''

most student knoweth not the meaning.
The money is meant to go to charity homes,to the poor e.t.c

^{tho During my own time,we did it for fun and money}