Here is an orientation activity that took place at one of the local tertiary institutes a while ago. The objective of the game is to pass the fish on the string from one point to another, and to do this the boys and girls will have to pass the string and fish through their clothes. As you can see in the photo, the girl is putting the string under her top and bra and the others are helping her move the fish into her clothes and out. How is this a bond building activity?

The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced it was suspending all student-organised freshmen activities after All Singapore Stuff exposed recent instances of unauthorised and unsupervised freshmen activities despite NUS's instructions on the issue after facing public uproar. All Singapore Stuff posted a video showing students dunking a girl in a pond at Sheares Hall on 27 July 2016. The school said "dunking or other forms of ragging is strictly banned under the university's guidelines for student activities."

The "orientation" programs in NUS comes very close to a sex orgy session. After reading the so-called"rules and guidelines" set by NUS for these orientation camp programs, it is clear that 50% of all the "do's and don't" were violated. To think that this has been going on for the last ten years is unbelievable! Whoever is in charge of approving should be hardly reprimanded if not discharged from such responsibility.

The school held a disco night whereby there was loud booming music blared for nearly 2 hours, during which, according to my child, there were already people in distress complaining that the music was too loud, the disco was too stuffy and warm and there were even a few girls that burst out in tears. The event ended late at night, at nearly 9.45pm that my child only reached home at 11pm!

I wonder if it is alright for the polytechnic to do such a thing?

Why is it compulsory to have our children exposed to such loud thumping music in a hot, stuffy area till late at night?

The Nanyang Business School (NBS) Freshmen Orientation Camp (FOC) was cancelled two days ago — three days since it started — after several of its participants were hospitalised, having suffered seizures. The camp was due to end today. All of them, except for one with an eye infection, have since been discharged. The Nanyang Chronicle was unable to confirm if that student also suffered seizures.