The president of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Baxter College has denounced his own involvement in the chanting of an offensive song on a regular "Boys Night Out".

A video emerged of a group of young men from the college singing a call and answer song referring to women as "little red foxes" and detailing how they would like to "shoot them in their boxes".

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James Dunn was part of the Boys Night Out and admitted he took part in the chanting, which he said he now realised was inappropriate.

"The video is pretty appalling," he told 7.30.

"As a leader of this college and me being a part of the group that was likely in the video, for me it is really personal and I have no idea why I did it.

"I'm sort of condemning my own actions at this time, and the actions of everyone in the video."

Mr Dunn said he just accepted the behaviour as part of the Baxter culture when he first moved from his country town for university two years ago.

"I walked into the culture that is Baxter and was taught these chants as part of the culture that we have here and something we do as a night out, as a whole college both males and females," he said.

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"It has been ingrained in many college societies for too long that those things can be gotten away with."

UNSW said it was "appalled by the sexist and demeaning attitudes and behaviours" directed towards females in the chant, which included lyrics that have been attacked for glorifying rape.

I wish that all the ladies Were little red foxes And if I was a hunter I'd shoot them in their boxes I wish that all the ladies Were buns in the oven And if I were a baker I'd cream them by the dozen I wish that all the ladies Were holes in the road And if I was a dump truck I'd fill them with my load.

The university said it had taken steps to investigate the incident and meetings involving college residents, student representatives and the UNSW SRS Women's Collective were convened on Monday night.

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"The university will be working closely with staff, student groups and colleges to ensure that incidents of this kind do not occur again," a statement read.

"UNSW is part of a national campaign which is designed to counter these very attitudes and behaviours across university campuses."

The residents of Phillip Baxter College apologised to the community for their "sexist and misogynistic" conduct.

The statement said the chants were in "no way" an indication of the values the college adhered to, but merely singing them was "enough to tarnish the integrity of every resident".

"As a community we are using this opportunity to reaffirm the values with which we live by and ensure that nothing of this nature is ever present within our culture again."

Offensive chants reportedly common among colleges

Jocelyn Dracakis, the women's officer at the Student Representative Council at UNSW, said similar incidents were increasingly common but social organisers had been confiscating mobile phones to prevent footage or audio emerging.

"[The lyrics] were incredibly degrading and objectifying of women, and glorify acts of rape," she said.

UNSW Student Representative Council member Emma Donaldson says sexist chants are sung at numerous colleges at the university.

Students at the university are concerned the sentiments expressed in the video are part of an alarming misogynistic culture on campuses around Australia.

Emma Donaldson, another member of the Student Representative Council, said similar chants were common among many of the university's colleges.

"The video depicted a sort of chant that is used in, I will admit, not just one college at this university. It is endemic to a lot of colleges," she said.

"It starts with [the] phrase I wish that all the ladies and ends with a variety of gruesome metaphors that objectify women and glorify acts of rape."

A National Union of Students survey published in February found that 73 per cent of women had experienced some form of sexual harassment during their time at university.

Twenty seven per cent had experienced sexual assault.