April 26, 2019, 11:50 AM 
On the evening of April 25, the National University of Singapore (NUS) held a town hall event to address recent outrage over how it handles cases of sexual harassment and offences.
This follows the case where NUS undergrad Nicholas Lim was exposed on Instagram for filming fellow student Monica Baey in the shower.
However, instead of adequately addressing the students' queries and concerns, the town hall appears to have left scores of students who attended feeling disappointed — some even angry — with the administration.
Many took to social media after the event with their views.
One Twitter user felt like NUS was merely "fulfilling their public relations duties":
Based on what happened in the town hall meeting, it seems like the NUS management was merely fulfilling their public relations duties, w/o detailed planning of concrete measures that they are taking. Came completely unprepared, no wonder the crowd was pissed... https://t.co/JiAPa6GuZP
— Elvis (@ElvisTheAwesome) April 25, 2019
The same user also asked for NUS to stop covering up such cases.
NUS yall need to step up your game for realz... The more you try to cover up misdeeds, sweep these cases under the carpet and do everything to “protect” the school’s reputation, the harder it’s gonna bite yo ass in future. Don’t believe me? Watch Avengers: Endgame 😂
— Elvis (@ElvisTheAwesome) April 25, 2019
This student who attended the town hall was heartened by the students' organisation and preparation, but wants another to be held to ensure that NUS is "held accountable":
i hope there will be another town hall to ensure that nus is held accountable.
— jan 🌸 thinking of do re mi; (@parkjaeins) April 25, 2019
Another was grateful that the students spoke to the "cold and unresponsive authorities":
https://twitter.com/rubiousrose/status/1121394110693134336
And this user summed up her feelings in two photos:
the town hall has only worsened my faith in NUS and it was supposed to do the opposite pic.twitter.com/ISatLqB6WL
— shakira law (@shakiraIaw) April 25, 2019
One person critiqued the panellists' handling of the situation:
Forgot to tweet this earlier at the NUS town hall but please, for any friends who are going into student administration, don't ever say patronizing stuff like put on a maternal voice and say "please voice out. Your voice is sOOoOo powerful"
— ave pauriah (@pauriahcarey) April 25, 2019
While this user pointed out the realities of the effectiveness of town halls in general:
Students are frustrated that they are not getting the answers they want at NUS Town Hall.
— songboh (@songboh) April 25, 2019
Heads up: You will never get what you want too at corporate town halls.
A student who attended the meeting felt that the school's management is severely out of touch with the student body.
https://twitter.com/idkirt/status/1121429886193688577
More importantly, tweets one user, despite multiple suggestions from the audience, the school seems unable to implement, or even promise to make, systemic changes that can deter potential sexual offence perpetrators:
https://twitter.com/idkirt/status/1121429890350247941
Even one person claiming to be a member of NUS's staff was embarrassed:
{A} I walked out of the NUS Town Hall meeting feeling embarrassed to be a staff 😢
— PavS (@Pavarness) April 25, 2019
On Instagram, similar sentiments of the Town Hall being "seriously inadequate" and unsatisfactory" emerged:
Seems like the town hall may not have helped matters.
Top image via NUS/Facebook and Twitter users @ElvisTheAwesome and @Pavarness
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