Just as humanism is baffled by the deliberate will to evil, so is a well-honed sensibility puzzled by the ridiculous and the weird.

MP for Wangsa Maju Dr Tan Kee Kwong, who studied medicine at the Universiti Malaya in the 1960s, was constrained to remind his alma mater of its more urbane days when he learned yesterday of the nine charges being preferred against UM student leader Fahmi Zainol.