Degrading College Drunks Go Gay

‘In one initiation ceremony, called ‘Two Men’, first year students are stripped to their underwear and forced into the middle of a circle where they must wrestle another student with the aim of removing their underwear‘

Over the past few days, the Fairfax press here in Sydney has run several exploratory stories related to the goings-on at St John’s Residential College, at the University of Sydney. That includes, as above, detailing alleged, truly bizarre and decidedly homosexuals rituals. Young men such as these, who can defiantly humiliate women and each other, will go on to become the captains of industry, politics and academia. The resilience of these archaic cultures to the march of progress lies in the fact that privileged young men know that they can do as they please, the closed nature of the institution and that few, if any, within that institution, dare to speak out.

The University of Sydney continues to assiduously resist implementing an anti-bullying policy for students…

Of course, you would expect that any university would, upon hearing allegations of a young female student seriously harmed during a college ritual, to ’huddle’, working overtime to keep the problem in-house and to shut it down as quickly as possible. What, perhaps, you would not expect, is that those supposedly ‘independent’ people on and off campus, whose duty it is to uphold the health, safety and well-being of students, would remain so extraordinarily mute about this most recent incident, and the conga line of others over the previous decades. I should not wonder then why so few cases of unlawful sexual discrimination and harassment have been brought by students against the University of Sydney.

Perhaps when Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, launches the ‘See Hear Speak‘ campaign at the University of Sydney next Thursday, a campaign that aims to educate women (but not men?) about sexual harassment, she might refer specifically to the alleged goings-on at St John’s College?

And as for young men at St John’s College reportedly measuring each other’s penises in a group setting? Well, enough said…