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PRESIDENT OF BRISTOL UNIVERSITY IS SCHEDULED TO VISIT TKU NEXT YEAR—ANOTHER MAJOR STEP TOWARDS A CLOSER PARTNERSHIP

STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTION APPROACHES

The 12th Election for the Chair and Deputy Chair of TKU Student Council (SC) is scheduled to take place next week from Tuesday to Thursday at five appointed ballots that are located on the second and third floor of the Business Administrative Building, Poster Street, New Engineering Building, and Taipei Campus respectively. All students are urged to cast their vote.

RUSSIAN DANCE, TAIWANESE STYLE

10 TKU students from the Russian Department were invited by the Ping Tung University of Science and Technology to perform traditional Russian dances at their celebration for the teaching staff exchanges among Taiwan, India and Russia last Friday.

AMONG DANCES AND GREAT FOOD, FOREIGN LANGUAGE WEEK KICKS OFF

The annual Foreign Language Week officially begins today at 12 noon at the lobby of the Foreign Language Building, amidst various dancing music and dancers from all six departments of the College.

A DISTANCE LEARNING FUN FAIR UNVEILS THIS WEEK

In order to enhance the “visibility” of TKU’s cyber campus, the Center of Distance Learning has organized a fun fair to promote distance learning this week. The center wishes to encourage more students to enroll to the courses that are available on line.

CUTE IS THE WORD FOR THE JAPANESE PLAY

Some words of wisdom to live by uttered sincerely by the ghost of the dead mother to her already re-married husband and two daughters: “Happiness is like the milk you put in a bottle—when this bottle is full, you fill the milk in another bottle—that is how happiness should be passed on.” With these words, audiences left the annual play put on by the Japanese Department at the end of last month, contemplating on a story that was sad, but humorous at the same time.

THE FUTURE OF CITIES ARE MAPPED OUT IN THE LECTURES ON OUR FUTURES

A series of seven lectures have been organized by the Graduate Institute of Future Studies delivered between 1 and 4 of May at the Tamsui, Lanyang and Cyber campuses respectively. These lectures addressed issues related to the future of the world cities, given by 7 scholars from the institute. Their lectures invited students to look at the urban development from a novel perspective and urged them to be more actively involved in the world we live in.

FUTURE SITUATIONS OF ASIA PACIFIC WILL BE EXAMINED

The Graduate Institute of the International Relations will meet its counterpart from the American University (AU) next Tuesday at TKU on a conference on the New Developments of Asia Pacific and the World to discuss issues regarding Taiwan’s relationship with Asia Pacific and the rest of the world, global economic development, and Taiwan-American relations and its extended network. The conference will be held at the Ching Sheng International Conference Hall, and opened by the Vice Director of the Northern American Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

MILITARY OFFICERS, A FORCE NOT TO BE IGNORED IN STUDENT COUNSELING

Many people do not associate military officers with therapy; however, they play a very important role in today’s campus in providing either guidance or counseling to students. According to the March evaluation on this regard in colleges and high schools conducted by the Ministry of Education, TKU’s military officers were considered the most effective and diligent. They had served at least half of the student population by the time of the evaluation (49.2%).

WORK IN VIETNAM, A LAND OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES, IS UP FOR GRAB

The Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development of TKU held a presentation the other day, explaining to and recruiting alumni who are interested in working in Vietnam. On May 13, there will be a second presentation, so those who missed the first one, should not miss this one again.