Claims wrong, say undergrads

All is well at Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) in Ukraine and several allegations of rape, corruption and undesirable lecturer-student ratio are exaggerated, according to some of its Malaysian students.
They said the campus and the Simferopol town where the university is located are safe places, adding that it could only be dangerous if they broke the institution's midnight curfew.
These were the comments from many of the 400 CSMU students who turned up for a dialogue with MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu at the Putra World Trade Centre here yesterday.
Muhammad Hilmi Muhammad Hafni, 19, said he believed a claim that a Malaysian female student was raped by a local there was just a rumour.
Regarding the lecturer-student ratio, he said there were no more than eight students in each of the classes he attended, adding that the internationally accepted ratio was one lecturer for every 10 students.
“The lecturers are good, I love the Russian language and I enjoy my campus life immensely,” he said.
Sheila Sivasubramaniam and Mehrun Nissa Sarfraz, both 21, said CSMU enforced its curfew strictly so they spent most of their free time at the campus, watching movies on the Internet.
Sheila described stories of the alleged rape as “rubbish,” adding that there had been no official report on the matter.
“The issue was blown out of proportion to give the public the impression that rape and violence are rampant in CSMU,” she said.
On the comment made by the Health Ministry about CSMU graduates being incompetent and having a poor command of English, Sheila and Mehrun Nissa felt this was an unfair statement.
“The graduates referred to might have been locals,” said Mehrun Nissa.
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