Bermuda College have stopped Gina Spence Farmer working with students on their weekly radio show.

As Mrs. Spence Farmer?s bid to be both a Senator and a College worker took a bizarre new twist, students said campus chiefs pulled the plug on her radio role because they think she might put a political slant on the College commentary show now she has a Senate seat.

Co-producer Davida O?Brien, 20, said students were up in arms about the decision.

She said last night: ?This is ludicrous and it has not been handled well.?

She accused the College of double standards and said: ?It?s fine for the College to have a PLP Senator on the board (Raymond Tannock), but not to have an Opposition Senator helping on a little radio show.?

The hour-long New College Commentator programme is broadcast on the Bermuda Broadcasting Corporation?s Power 95 station every Saturday night.

Dealing with campus news for the last two years, it is put together by students as they are advised by mother-of-three Mrs. Spence Farmer, 43, who is a popular youth worker at the College.

But the show was not broadcast on Saturday. Students were told at the last minute that for contractual reasons the BBC would not allow them to go on air without Mrs. Spence Farmer?s involvement.

The student added: ?The College is now saying that she can?t take part in the show because she?s in the Senate because they feel it?s going to become political.

?The College thinks that she might put some kind of United Bermuda Party slant on it. But they should have said something when she joined the party.

?Why has it become an issue now that she is a Senator??

The radio row comes in the wake of the controversy over new Housing Minister Senator David Burch keeping his Sunday night talk show on Hott 107.5 FM.

Ms O?Brien said the students would have pulled out in support of the youth worker if they had not been under contract to produce shows until January.

She added that a meeting was held at the College yesterday but claimed that none of the students? questions were answered.

?Nobody is talking to us,? she told . ?The whole student team is very disappointed.?

Co-producer Fellon Raynor, 22, echoed those views.

She said Mrs. Spence Farmer had never discussed politics with the students who put the show together.

Students all had their own political views anyway, she added, and would not be ?brainwashed?.

?This could have been handled better. The college motto is putting students first, but the decision was made last Thursday and we only found out on Saturday.?

She said Mrs. Spence Farmer was one of the only staff members who made student life ?come alive?.

Nobody from Bermuda College was available for comment last night. Mrs. Spencer Famer declined to comment but said union officials were still locked in talks with College officials about her bid to be both a Senator and a College worker.

Controversy erupted last month when the College said it would not be possible for the youth worker to take off Wednesdays in order to serve in the Senate. This triggered a political row amid claims she was being denied the opportunity to serve her country because she represented the Opposition.

The Progressive Labour Party, however, said it welcomed Mrs. Spence Farmer to the Senate and said the time off was a matter for the College.