Each year Durham University students pass down a torch of traditions to the next year’s ‘fresher’ cohort. You will be all too familiar with the whispers of fresher’s week: college rivalries, college parents and whether or not you’ll be ‘sharked’ on your first proper university night out. But what exactly does being ‘sharked’ entail? It certainly sounds insidious. At its core, it refers to an older student pursuing a younger student. But there do seem to be further connotations attached to ‘sharking’ that give it its predatory namesake. Some would argue that sharking is much more than a harmless university custom or ‘rite of passage’.