{"id":2167,"date":"2011-11-16T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2022-11-18T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:02:43","slug":"november-2011-periscope-ocamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/november-2011-periscope-ocamp\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2011 &#8211; Orienting Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University orientation camps, or o&#8217;camps, in Hong Kong have come under scrutiny in recent years. Media coverage concentrates on shock stories of sexual impropriety and &#8216;obscene&#8217; games. But for most students, o&#8217;camp is an unforgettable experience, an introduction to university life and the place where friendships are made. <em>Varsity<\/em> takes a closer and more comprehensive look at the o&#8217;camp phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Good O days\" href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/hk-ocamp-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hong Kong&#8217;s o&#8217;camps down the ages &#8211; a look at how o&#8217;camps have changed over time and what it tells us about our society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What\u2019s Wrong with O\u2019camp?\" href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/ocamp-negative-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why the media is obsessed with negative stories about o&#8217;camps and the reasons for the &#8216;offensive&#8217; games students play<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=1702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What makes Hong Kong&#8217;s o&#8217;camps so distinctively Hong Kong? How do they compare with orientation activities in other places?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A closer look at orientation camps, or o&#8217;camps in Hong Kong&#8217;s Universities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1990,96,7],"tags":[33,55,56],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-121","category-november-2011","category-periscope","tag-culture","tag-students","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21457,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/21457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}