So fun, or so vulgar?

zane80, it never ceases to amaze me how easily things can be taken out of context, how easily a picture can paint a thousand words, and how easily people like you can fall for such a one-sided, and poorly-elaborated article.

I'm a student at SIM-UOL. As such, allow me to criticise your thoughtless comment.

Firstly, the picture was taken during this year's Freshman Orientation CAMP (F.O.C.), organised by our Student Representative Council. What this article failed to mention is that not every freshman has the chance to participate in it, as there are limited spaces for both males and females in a 1:1 gender ratio. I attended FOC during my freshman year, and I had a great time taking part in their activities and making new friends with whom I still hang out with to this day.

Secondly, SIM Global Education offers courses from various overseas universities such as the University of London (UOL), University at Buffalo (UB), and RMIT University, among several others. This article talks about SIM-UOL's FOC.

This leads me back to the first half of your comment i.e. "parents shouldn't let their daughters go to SIM". Not every 'daughter' will get to attend FOC, and whether this is a good or a bad thing is up to readers like yourself to decide, albeit with an open mind. Also, do not judge the daily campus life of our entire student body by the events of a 3D2N orientation camp held solely in this instance by SIM-UOL.

What I'm trying to point out here is that I (and pretty much every other SIM student) feel insulted by the way you blatantly stereotype our school without even the slightest bit of knowledge of how our school works. For your lack of insight and your laziness to do some research, I'd say that the only one stuck in medival times is you.

The next you post a comment, get your bloody facts straight before adding fuel to an intentionally misguided forest fire.

I understand your sentiments, and I do share some of the same.

However, the main focus of my reply was on your first comment, not the article itself. I find it very unfair that you condemned an entire institution for the inappropriate actions of a select few.

Imagine, for example, the same thing happened in NUS Business School's orientation. Would it be fair to brand NUS Law, Medicine, FASS, etc (i.e. the whole of NUS) as uncivilised people? Whether you realise it or not, this is essentially what your words meant.

With regards to the girls bursting into tears, the negative tone of the article compels us to believe that they shed tears of shame.

I don't intend to play the devil's advocate here, but it should also be in the girls' capacity not to succumb to peer pressure even under all the orientation hype, especially when their dignity is at stake. Nonetheless, I feel that the Student Representative Council (SRC) should indeed bear full responsibility for this controversy, and take the neccessary steps to counsel the affected party. This is something that cannot be condoned by any moral individual, but sadly the damage has been done. It's just unfortunate that some self-righteous nitwits probably thought that this would make a good story and decided to inform the local press, inevitably causing more harm than good.

Oh, about this...

"I believe you will not(?) mind your gf or wife to participate in these kind of games and end up bursting into tears, am I right to say that?"

I choose to interpret this sentence of yours as a grammatical error on your part. Don't make this personal.

Bear in mind that it's best to let SIM-UOL's SRC resolve this matter by themselves without any further external interferences or unneccessary derogatory remarks about the entire institution. With that being said, I wish to bring this chapter to a close and do something more resourceful in my life.

You can have the last say if you wish to. I won't reply any further.

Cheers.