Some Clarifications

Hi all!

We would like to first express our welcome to everyone reading this, doesn't matter if u are a student from MMU, or someone just stumbled upon us by chance. Thanks for all the overwhelming response to our cause! We never expected such heat and passion. It really wow-ed us!

At first we used some sharp and direct words here and there, because obviously, it's very attention grabbing (and we are truly sorry if we hurt anyone's feeling. It's not intentional!!!). We are trying to cut down those name-calling words from now on. Apologies!

By the way, some of the posters are still there since this campaign is still on going. When the campaign is ending, we will take them down one by one. Thanks for MMU security for giving us a head start, though it's a tad sooner than we would like them to. (Did you guys notice most of the papers used are actually recycled?)

After reading through all these comments and opinions, we found that we did not send our message as clearly as we wanted. Thus, we would love the chance to say something to clarify this. We made some points that we really like to share with you all why we are doing this. Here goes...

Our Objectives are to:

1. raise awareness among students that, breaking records does not always mean achieving something substantial.
   
2. raise questions to the students. Why are we breaking these records? How does these records helps you to achieve your club's objectives? Is the money used money well-spent?
   
3. stimulate the students to think critically, to rethink the meaning and purpose of organizing any events. After all, university is the training ground for future leaders.
4. bring some impact to the society. We do hope that this campaign can be carried forward by you all to cause a bigger impact to our nation.
   

We are NOT here to:

1. bash or spam or undermine the students' effort or write a hate blog
2. ask STAD to tighten up student activities regulations. In fact, we are proud to have a student affair which has always been helpful and supportive to students activities all the time. (Mr. Omar appearing in MMU radio says it all)
3. question how students trust fund is used. We are questioning why are we using money (be it student trust fund or sponsors) lavishly on some record-breaking event which ultimately does not really contribute much to the university or the society
   

We do realize that:

1. people will not change overnight just because we are doing this. We are just hoping that in the future, when they are thinking of breaking a record, this might influence their decision (not about doing it or not, but how and why they want to do it)
2. things will die down very fast and people will not change. But if one person has changed because of this, then our objective is achieved. (afterall, we are not here to change the world, just one person at a time)
3. point (1) and (2) are actually the same >"<
4. people will always have different opinions and we respect that. We do hope that you respect our opinion too.
   
5. our English far from perfect and there are grammar errors and poor choice of words throughout this blog. But we will try to improve on that to push our message through

Yours truly,
Organizer of Awareness Campaign