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OVERSEAS CHINESE STUDENTS CELEBRATE NEW YEAR

To celebrate the coming of the year of the Monkey, the Overseas Chinese Student Guidance Section will hold an “Overseas Chinese Student New Year Party” in the restaurant at Ching-sheng Memorial Hall on January 12. The New Year ceremony will follow Chinese traditional ritual in which students will worship their “Chinese ancestors.” The ritual aims to remind overseas Chinese of their Chinese heritage, and the party will soothe their homesickness when students are far away from home.

WINTER CAMPS WARM UP STUDENT CLUBS FOR NEXT SEMESTER

Winter camps will begin next week, warming up all student clubs for next semester. According to the Extracurricular Activities Guidance Section, more than forty student associations and clubs have registered for this event. Tamkang campus is to be packed by the camp participants next week.

CHEN BO-CHUN, JUNIOR, DEPT. OF MASS COMMUNICATION, ELECTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT COUNCIL

Chen Bo-chun, a junior in the Department of Mass Communication, and Shu Chien-ting, a junior in the Department of Japanese, were elected as the president and vice-president of the Student Council on 12/29. Facing the problem of insufficient Council members to form a quorum, Chen Bo-chun declares that the by-election will be held at the beginning of the next semester. He hopes that at that time students in TKU will participate in the election more actively.

280 STUDENTS OF TEN TKU CLUBS WILL JOIN THE COMMUNITY SERVICE TEAM IN THE COMING WINTER VACATION

In the coming winter vacation, many TKU student clubs are going to join the Community Service Team of the China Youth Corps after final exams. These clubs include the Torch Welfare Club, Multiple Christian Club, Tzu Chi College Youth Club, TKU Changhua Alumni Club, TKU Erh-chi Alumni Club, TKU Pingtung Alumni Club, Grass-roots Cultural Service Team, Kanfu Club, and the Environmental Protection Club for the Earth. 280 persons are divided into ten teams and all of them will gather in the Ching-sheng International Conference Hall at 3:00 p.m., Jan 12, 2004. President Chang Horng-jinh will grant every club a flag, symbolizing the beginning of their service.

FORTY-TWO STUDENTS TO GO ABROAD TO SISTER UNIVERSITIES IN 2004

The list of students to go to TKU’s sister universities for the academic year 2004-05 has been announced. Forty-two students will participate in the student exchange program and study for a year at twenty-one universities in eleven countries.

FACULTY AND STAFF YEAR-END PARTY TO BE HELD ON JAN 16TH

The annual year-end faculty and staff party will take place at 1pm on Friday January 16th. In addition to award ceremonies and performances, there will be a raffle with prizes offered by the administrators. All the faculty and staff of TKU are invited to the party to celebrate the coming year of the monkey.

TKU IS POPULAR AT THE EMBA FAIR

The Third EMBA High-level In-Service Education Fair, sponsored by The China Times, was exhibited at New York, New York Mall in downtown Taipei on Dec. 27 and 28. Sixteen departments and graduate institutes of TKU participated in the event to promote enrollment. Prof. Fu Hsi-jen, Dean of Academic Affairs, and Prof. Chen Ting-ko, Dean of College of Management, were present at the promotional fair that attracted a multitude of visitors interested in seeking on-the-job training.

68 FACULTY MEMBERS AWARDED FOR EXCELLENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

According to a statistics published by the Office of Research and Development, Prof. Yu Gwo-hsing of the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering won the first place in soliciting commissions of off-campus research projects with a budget of NT$17,800,000, followed by 60 faculty members, each of whom obtained a research budget exceeding one million NT dollars in the 2002 academic year. These teachers will be publicly cited at the TKU’s Year-end Party and awarded “The Honor of TKU” by the university founder Dr. Clement C.P. Chang.

THREE TKU ALUMNI AND TEACHERS WON THE FAR EASTERN ARCHITECTURE AWARD

The globally noted “Far Eastern Architecture Award” announced the winners of the fourth competition in Dec. 2003. The winners of “Best Architectural Design” were exclusively from TKU: Te-hong Sun, instructor of the Department of Architecture, was awarded the “Prize of Prominence”, and Su-chang Kong, instructor of the Department of Architecture, the “Prize of Excellence”. TKU alumnus, Cho-ming Lin won the “Special Prize for the 921 Campus Reconstruction”.

3 COLLEGES AND 12 DEPARTMENTS ON LANYANG CAMPUS TO BE AUTHORIZED BY MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

The titles of the new colleges and departments of Lanyang Campus have been authorized by the TKU administration in the 89th administrative meeting held on Dec. 26, 2003. The new departments are scheduled to recruit new students in August 2005, after the approval of the Ministry of Education (MOE).