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Hi, I have been lurking around SDN for a while, but I have to post. I have been accepted into a vet school for the fall. Through the vet student formum for the school there was a message from a now 1st year welcoming the class of 2012 and directing us to a video that she posted on you tube about 1st year anatomy. I clicked the link and it is a video, still shots on a slideshow set to the drowning pool song "let the bodies hit the floor". It shows the storage cooler full of cadaver dogs, it shows the horse cadavers hanging from the ceiling, it shows a vet student posing with the skinned head of a dog (holding the dog head up to her head). It showed some nice group shots of the class and a few ok, ( appropriate shots of students at the disection table dissecting).
Coming from lab animal field and definitely I will be specializing in lab animal, I know the response that that video can cause if PETA were to get their hands on it. I think the pics of the cadaver cooler are for shock value and serve no other purpose. And some of the pictures look less than respectful, posing and smiling with the animal heads. BTW PETA has infiltrated the school in the past.
I feel like the student has acted irresponsible in regards to their maturity level, the cadavers are not there for us to play with. Also it has the ability to hurt the school image, and yes in the more info link under the posters screen name the student gives the schools NAME!
This is exactly the type of video that PETA likes to send around saying " look at this place abusing animals, let's protest them."
I posted a comment to the video on you tube briefly stating the same that I have stated here, however now I wish I had not done that since my screen name is not that far from my name. I think I should have anonymously emailed the comment to the person or posted it to the vet school forum anonymously. I hate that the video is up but I don't want to put myself in a situation coming in as a 1st yr and making a fuss about the actions of a 2nd yr that I think are inappropriate, and I know they violate the vet school rules about taking pictures.
Any advise?
Coming from lab animal field and definitely I will be specializing in lab animal, I know the response that that video can cause if PETA were to get their hands on it. I think the pics of the cadaver cooler are for shock value and serve no other purpose. And some of the pictures look less than respectful, posing and smiling with the animal heads. BTW PETA has infiltrated the school in the past.
I feel like the student has acted irresponsible in regards to their maturity level, the cadavers are not there for us to play with. Also it has the ability to hurt the school image, and yes in the more info link under the posters screen name the student gives the schools NAME!
This is exactly the type of video that PETA likes to send around saying " look at this place abusing animals, let's protest them."
I posted a comment to the video on you tube briefly stating the same that I have stated here, however now I wish I had not done that since my screen name is not that far from my name. I think I should have anonymously emailed the comment to the person or posted it to the vet school forum anonymously. I hate that the video is up but I don't want to put myself in a situation coming in as a 1st yr and making a fuss about the actions of a 2nd yr that I think are inappropriate, and I know they violate the vet school rules about taking pictures.
Any advise?