Kes Buli NUS Makin Teruk Di Paksa Berlakon Rape Scene Bagai

GhostWalking · Post time 30-7-2016 07:02 PM

SINGAPORE: They were warned not to conduct inappropriate activities for freshmen but did so anyway.

Now, because of a handful of undergraduates, all student-organised freshman activities have been suspended at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

The activities suspended include Orientation Week, also known as O Week, a five-day event that was scheduled to happen next week.

It was to be the final orientation camp before the school semester begins.

The unexpected measure follows the controversy over how some of the games at the orientation camps had become sexualised.

The last straw appears to be a video that surfaced yesterday, showing students conducting dunking and ragging activities at Sheares Hall on Wednesday (July 27).

In the video, four students can be seen grabbing a limb of another student and dunking him into a body of water repeatedly while singing.

This was also carried out on a female student.

Another segment of the video then showed topless male students crawling on the floor while chanting obscenities.

NUS has since confirmed the video.

In a strongly-worded statement to the media on Friday (July 29), a spokesman for NUS said such activities were not condoned but were still carried out despite previous instructions on the matter.

“We are deeply disappointed that some of our students have flouted the rules and behaved in an unacceptable manner in organising freshmen activities,” she said.

“Dunking or any other form of ragging is strictly banned under the university’s guidelines for student activities.

“The university takes a very serious view of this breach and is currently conducting an investigation.”

The spokesman added that all student-organised team-building activities for freshmen have been suspended until further notice.

A local daily reported that ongoing camps were stopped halfway because of the suspension, and the participants were told to go home.

The suspension and video come in the wake of current investigations of the union camp and arts camp at NUS.

On Tuesday, TNP reported that orientation games at some of these camps had become sexualised.

In the report, one freshman told TNP that she was asked whose bodily fluids she would drink, while another watched her peers re-enact an incestuous rape scene as part of a forfeit.

Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung also put up a post on Facebook on Wednesday evening, condemning the sexualised activities at NUS’ orientation camps as “reprehensible”.

On Friday, the NUS spokesman said that those responsible will be brought before the university’s board of discipline.

“The instances of unacceptable behaviour and activities that have surfaced this week play no part in a university education,” the spokesman said.

“The university is conducting thorough investigations into these unacceptable as well as unauthorised activities.”

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