I know that I have already talked about this whole chant craziness, but after reading some of the posts and comments by CBC, and people around the world, I need to share something else that is more important than this single, disgusting issue.
The thing is, people are blanketing ALL of SMU with this label, and I can promise you that SMU is one of the best universities around! I love it here. This whole thing is stupid, and doesn't just encompass SMU students but our society as a whole. Not every student took part in this, it was a bunch of frosh leaders who continued a four year tradition and I have no idea why or how it stuck around. I don't know how anybody could listen to the words this says, and believe that it's just okay, but it happened.
The surface problem is that a chant was made about, and promoting rape. The BIG problem, is that This arrogant, self-righteous president Jared Perry has ZERO humility and empathy towards the issue. His apology was insincere, and was a formality.
The BIGGER problem, is that people all around think it's just ok. They think things like this are stupid and funny and that we shouldn't be offended or care. NOT Just SMU students. I've been reading comments from people who see nothing wrong with this, and they aren't just from Alumni. These things happen at every campus, and I can promise you that SMU is not the only campus who has done something like this, however, ours just happened to go viral, and for a damn good reason.
I am disgusted with this chant, as well as the chant about masturbation and whatever else was said. I think that frosh weeks in general are too focused on sex and sexual objectification. But people can say what they want, because if I went to X, Dal, or another University, it would have been the same thing only different words.
Since this went viral, I've read comments on CBC news saying how awful SMU is, how you shouldn't let your daughters date boys from SMU, how all students who graduate from here are snobby people who believe they're better than others, and how plain and simple it's just an awful place. The sad thing is, the whole of the student body, the faculty, and most of the students, are all amazing people who take pride in our campus. I LOVE my school. I LOVE my friends. This awful, disgusting chant, is a product of our hypersexualized rape and pop culture.
We don't need to fix SMU, we need to fix society. We need to stop pointing fingers at others and start pointing them at ourselves. If your child is going to university with the belief that this kind of disgusting chant is okay, what kind of things have you been teaching them? What kind of role models do we have in society? We have politicians who lie, celebrities who cheat, and singers who strip and make out with dolls to get famous. Seriously, I mean, our role models SUCK.
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who went to "THAT school". I don't want to apply for grad school, and be turned away because of some awful chant that I had no part in. I don't want people to look at SMU, and see it in the disgusting way they seem to be seeing it now.
I challenge you all to look in the mirror, and really reflect on the product of your environment you became. I challenge you to think of who you consider a role model, who you look up to, what you want to be and how you plan to achieve it. I challenge you forget about this single incident for just one minute, and think about the bigger picture: Where society has gone wrong.
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