Alvin Tan: I have only one regret

Alvin Tan: I have only one regret

By Pearl Lee
The Straits Times
Sunday, Oct 21, 2012

SINGAPORE - The university scholar whose sex blog has garnered attention and criticism on both sides of the Causeway claims to have only one regret - that his institution's name was dragged into it.

"I don't feel good about NUS being dragged in. It was never my intention to let that happen," Mr Alvin Tan Jye Yee, 24, said yesterday.

"This was just my own personal thing," the National University of Singapore law student added.

Mr Tan, a Malaysian, will go before a university disciplinary inquiry on Oct 31. It will comprise three senior academics elected by the university senate and two student representatives elected by the students' union.

They will decide on the appropriate action to take on the undergraduate, who is on an Asean scholarship but has been on a leave of absence since August last year.

He has not received any scholarship funds since.

Last Sunday, he publicised on a local forum the link to his blog. It featured sexually explicit photos and videos of himself and his Malaysian girlfriend, Miss Vivian Lee, 23.

The blog has since been taken down after objections from both their parents.

Mr Tan continued to be defiant about his actions yesterday.



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