Maybe they're really into ornithology. That's why they kept repeating the words "cuckoo bird" over and over again.
But the way the young men and women were pointing at their crotch while chanting the words in last week's viral video suggests that they're probably more interested in anatomy.
I was their age once, though not so publicly demonstrative of where my prurient interests lay. When I first heard there was a video going around of inappropriate behaviour at a freshman orientation camp at a local university, I assumed it was the National University of Singapore (NUS) again.
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NTU investigating inappropriate student behaviour at freshman orientation camp
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is investigating inappropriate student behaviour at one of the university's freshman orientation camps.
A video which circulated on Instagram last weekend shows a group of male and female freshmen chanting an inappropriate word while gyrating and making some lewd gestures.
The Straits Times understands that it was likely part of cheers written by students.
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NTU investigating video of students performing 'obscene' cheer during orientation camp
Stomper C alerted Stomp to the video, which was posted on Instagram last Friday (Aug 9).
In the 30-second video, a group of male and female students can be seen gyrating and pointing at their crotch while chanting a cheer.
A male student appeared to be leading the cheer.
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NTU investigating video of students performing obscene cheer
The video was reportedly uploaded onto Instagram on Aug. 9, and a censored version has since been uploaded onto Stomp.
In the video, a student can be seen leading a group of youths to perform lewd gestures, such as pointing at their crotch, thrusting and gyrating their hips at different parts of the cheer.
The cheer also repeatedly used the word “kukubird”, in reference to the male reproductive organ.
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NTU probes video of students making crude chant and gestures
A video showing a group of male and female students repeatedly chanting an inappropriate word while making crude gestures harks back to the sexualising of university orientation games in previous years.
The 30-second video, which was circulated on Instagram last Friday with a caption, "Warning: contains sensitive content", features a male student leading others of both sexes in the chant while gyrating and gesturing at his genitals.
Past cases:
- June 21, 2018 - National University of Singapore (NUS) students from Kent Ridge Hall allegedly stripped naked in the water at Siloso Beach, Sentosa.
- July 26, 2016 - An NUS female freshman was asked about drinking of bodily fluids in an orientation game. Others re-enacted a rape scene involving incest.
- July 2014 - A bare-bodied NUS male student was reportedly blindfolded and bound with tape before female students licked whipped cream off his neck.
- September 2011 - Orientation games at the Singapore Institute of Management-University of London required a male student and a female student to share a biscuit while facing each other.
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NTU investigating inappropriate student behaviour at freshman orientation camp
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is investigating inappropriate student behaviour at one of the university's freshman orientation camps.
A video which circulated on Instagram last weekend shows a group of male and female freshmen chanting an inappropriate word while gyrating and making some lewd gestures.
The Straits Times understands that it was likely part of cheers written by students.
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Sexual Harassment Scandal At Singapore's Top University
The National University of Singapore has accepted all the recommendations by a review committee on sexual misconduct, including tougher penalties such as a minimum one-year suspension for serious offences and immediate expulsion for severe or aggravated cases.
The committee was set up to review the university's disciplinary and support frameworks after an undergraduate who was filmed in the shower at a hostel said that the punishment meted out to the perpetrator was too lenient.
Madam Kay Kuok, a barrister-at-law and a member of the NUS Board of Trustees, set out some of the recommendations in an e-mail to students, staff and alumni on Monday (June 10).
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NUS probes students for alleged stripping
NUS students investigated for stripping at Siloso Beach
2 years after sexualised orientation games at the National University of Singapore (NUS) sparked a public furore, some of its students may find themselves in hot water again, this time by allegedly stripping naked.
The incident occurred during an unofficial orientation outing to Sentosa earlier this month when some seniors & freshmen took off their clothes in the sea while playing a game.
NUS told The New Paper that it is now investigating the students for inappropriate behaviour.
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At least 14 NUS undergrads disciplined over risque orientation games
30 NUS senior students punished for sexualised orientation activities
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has taken action against 30 senior students for their role in inappropriate orientation activities in July.
In a circular sent to students yesterday afternoon and obtained by The Straits Times, Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS' deputy president (academic affairs) and provost, stated the range of punishments meted out.
These included suspension for one semester, fines of up to $2,000 and mandatory community service of up to 100 hours.
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Sexualized Freshman Orientations at NUS
Orientation - just fun or plain lewd?
When National University of Singapore (NUS) freshman Rachel Lee turned up at an orientation camp in campus last month, she got a rude shock. During one of the games, she was made to do a forfeit where the "girls had to lie down and the guys had to do push-ups over them", she said.
Ms Lee, 19, declined to comply - she felt the act was lewd. Another game she observed required participants to pass M&M chocolates to one another using their mouths.
"I left after the first day with five or six like-minded friends," she said of the five-day camp organised by the NUS Students' Union.
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