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2006 WORLD TKU ALUMNI CARNIVAL CRUISE: 500 ALUMNI HOLD REUNION AT LA;

FIRST LESSON FOR THE FRESHMEN: CONQUERING KE-NAN HILL

The 2006 school year orientation for graduates, undergraduate freshmen took place at Shao-mo Memorial Gymnasium last Thursday and Friday. Before the ceremony, TKU President Chang C. I. led the students to climb up Ke-nan Hill, to be blessed by the “Simplicity, Truthfulness, Firmness, and Perseverance” school tradition. “What a beautiful campus! It is worthy of my first choice,” some students remarked after the sweating stepping up to the hill.

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION REWARDS DISTINGUISHED PROJECTS

Ministry of Education (MOE) announced the results of rewarding universities’ distinguished projects, and TKU is granted eighty-four million dollars, a brilliant achievement among the 58 universities on the list that includes normal, physical education and technology universities and colleges within an expanded yearly budget of five billion dollars.

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS WINS THE TITLE “CREATIVE COLLEGE” FROM MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

College of Liberal Arts participated in the project of ‘Creative College” organized by Ministry of Education (MOE) for the first time, and stood out from 69 universities that submitted proposals to be labeled by MOE as the standard school of the project and win the grant of three million dollars. In the press conference, Dean of College of Liberal Arts Chao Ya-ly elaborated and demonstrated the idea and spirit of MOE’s “Creative College” through the example of TKU’s College of Liberal Arts.

TAIWAN BLIND BASEBALL TEAM WON CHAMPION THE THIRD TIME IN WORLD BLIND BASEBALL GAME

One blind TKU student, Chiu Wen-shen acquired the honor as the MVP hitter. Taiwan Homerun Blind Baseball Team had great games with 3 wins in USA 2006 World Blind Baseball Game on August 7th when people all paid attention on our “baseball prince” in Major League Baseball – Won Chien-Ming. Won Chao-se, an alumnus of TKU, Chiu Wen-shen and Chen Chun-Min, senior students in History Department, are major players. Besides, Chiu Wen-shen gained the honor as the MVP hitter.

EMBARKING FROM LANYANG

264 EXCHANGE JUNIOR STUDENTS GOING ABROAD

The 2006 ceremony with flags for junior students’ abroad study was held by President C.I. Chang and presented by the founder Dr. Clement C. P. Chang on August 16; the officers of representative office in Taiwan were invited to join the ceremony.

FUTURE DOCTOR CHEN YIN-SHU REWARDED BY NATIONAL SCIENCE COUNCIL

The National Science Council (NSC) reward humanity and doctor of domain of the social sciences candidate and thesis writing for the Doctorate in 2006 ' has announced the award-winning list a few days ago. Chen Yin-shu, a TKU graduated student of Industrial Economics Department, passed the evaluation with the topic “the study of long-term inefficient dynamic research - the application that reason expects.” She also got 420 thousand dollars as reward. Among 54 award-winning people, only 4 private school students received the honor.

SHAO-MO MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM STARTS TO BE USED OFFICIALLY FROM THIS ACADEMIC YEAR

Shao-mo Memorial Gymnasium, completed in May 2006, starts to be used officially this academic year. Apart from being the place for teaching, the gymnasium will also be the best ground for all kinds of contests and large-scale gatherings. Two hundred student clubs will move into the gymnasium successively from Sept. 4.

DR. WANG MING-JEN WANTS TO BUILD LANYANG CAMPUS INTO AN INTERNATIONAL WELL-KNOWN ECO-CAMPUS

Dr. Wang Ming-jen, Prof. of Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Management, College of Entrepreneurial Development, proposes a project called “Lanyang Campus of Tamkang University: An Eco-campus of Taiwan Native Plants” after he observed and experienced the natural surroundings of Lanyang Campus with his students in the class “Development and Creation” he taught. Through this project, Dr. Wang expects that Lanyang Campus can become not only a nice environment for study and research, but also an international well-known Eco-campus.