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McGill Party Pictures make news -- Are we really that uptight??
So university kids partying, drinking and getting half naked is a news item?? Seriously?
Whats this country coming to? When people are shocked that college kids are actually doing something other than studying i think its about time we take the collective pickles out of our ass.
Investigation? Why? Is drinking and being naked in a private residence somehow illegal?
Seriously.... get a life people!
| quote: | DENE MOORE
Tue Feb 14, 5:47 PM ET
Lewd party pictures trigger investigation by McGill University officials
MONTREAL (CP) - A few months after a hazing scandal cost McGill University the last few games of its football season, the school is investigating a series of wild parties involving nudity alleged to have taken place on campus.
Lewd pictures from the parties graced the first four pages of Le Journal de Montreal newspaper on Tuesday.
The photos show students taking off each other's clothes and one of a female student performing what looks like a lap dance for a male counterpart.
No students appeared nude in the photos, which were taken by two students in January 2005 and again last month during annual festivities purportedly organized by an association of students of the school of management.
The photographers, who were not identified, told the newspaper that for $60 students were provided with booze, a T-shirt and a cheap coverall dubbed a "puke suit."
They earned points for nudity and for competing in drinking competitions, such as downing 72 shooters of beer in 72 minutes.
University officials promised an investigation Tuesday.
"We don't condone it," said Jennifer Robinson, associate vice-principal.
"Our first priority is the safety and well-being of our students and if any kind of inappropriate or disrespectful behaviour occurred, then we're going to take whatever steps are necessary to make sure it doesn't happen again."
That said, Robinson added the photos appear to show consenting adults.
"There's no crime in that," she said.
No complaints have been lodged with the university and Robinson said that as far as she knows, nobody was injured.
Adam Conter, president of the McGill Students' Society, said the tabloid newspaper published the photos - including one of two female co-eds locked in a kiss - just to sell papers.
"This is a normal aspect of university life," he said. "People party, people study, people go to museums."
Last August, McGill had the dubious distinction of being the only Canadian post-secondary institution to make Playboy magazine's list of top 10 party schools in North America.
But Conter said there is no more partying at the Montreal school than any other Canadian institution.
The latest controversy comes just four months after university officials cancelled the last two games of the McGill Redmen football season following allegations from an 18-year-old team rookie that he was sexually assaulted with a broomstick during a hazing ritual.
A university investigation found no evidence players were sodomized but confirmed degrading and inappropriate hazing.
The leader of one Montreal women's group called the pictures published Tuesday "shocking."
Michele Asselin, president of the Quebec Federation of Women, was not available for comment Tuesday but she earlier told Le Journal some of the pictures were sexist.
"That shows the fact that we have a lot of work left to do to counter this phenomenon in our society," Asselin said.
But Rita Tennenbaum, president of the McGill Women's Alumni Association, said university students have always had parties.
"I would hope that McGill's reputation would stand on its own ground, in terms of being an international university with wonderful professors and students from all over the world," she said. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by jester
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