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IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME, IT’S PARTY TIME

This year’s Christmas falls on a weekend so for a lot of students this is a perfect ‘excuse’ of having parties and endless fun. On 24th, the Christmas Eve, there will be a disco party featuring a beauty pageant at the Student Activity Center between 6 p.m. and midnight. It is organized by the six departmental clubs that include Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chinese, Information, German and Spanish, who will begin the party with a pageant where the most beautiful male and female students of TKU will be judged and crowned. There will be a DJ playing the hippest music afterwards. So, whoever is in for 7 hours of marathon party time, can get the ticket with NT$ 150 at entrances of the Business Administration Building as well as the Main Engineering Building.

TKU HAS SHONE IN MARTIAL ARTS CONTESTS

TKU won several prizes in the 2004 College Martial Arts and Tai-chi Push Hand Championship Cup last week. The competitions were hosted by the Chinese Cultural University attended by various teams from all over the island. TKU was represented by members of the university’s martial arts clubs and have won a total of 9 awards.

MUSIC CLUBS MESMERIZED TKU

A heavenly evening for many people would be spent in the smell of delicious coffee, delightful music and a glorious sunset. Well, this heaven is nearer than one thinks. Last Tuesday, December 14, an evening as such unveiled in the event entitled “Thanksgiving Concert” organized by the Office of Student Affairs and performed by the seven music clubs of TKU.

BOY SCOUTS BUILT A HIGH TOWER TO INVITE CHALLENGERS

15 STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS ELECTED

The 14th Student Council Representatives Election was held last Friday, December 17 resulting in 15 candidates being elected from a total of 17 for 38 seats. Surprisingly, the former Chair of the Council, Lee Chien-wei, a senior of the Department of Public Administration, who was also running for this election, has lost. He put it down to biased “opinion polls” and no time for campaigning.

HONOR BESTOWED UPON STUDENTS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

TKU’s students of the Department of Information Management (IM) attended the 9th College Cup of Projects in Information Management and Innovation in Information Services on December 10 with outstanding results. This event’s organizers were the Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Chinese Society of Information Management (CSIM). The Chair of IM, Shaw Ruey-shiang was very proud of their performance and sees the positive results as a confirmation of their efforts.

BORDERLESS VIDEO CONFERENCE ON THE NET CONNECTED THE WORLD

Professor Wang Ai-ling, her TA, Chen Shih-hui and two first year students, Peng Wei-wen and You chih-wei of the English Department participated in the Megaconference organized by the Regent University in Virginia, US on December 10. The digital conference involved 372 sites worldwide and TKU is one of three participants from Taiwan. This conference is mainly to promote global communications, innovation and participatory videoconferencing.

FATHER CHRISTMAS INVITES YOU TO CHRISTMAS PARTY PERSONALLY

CAN THE OXBRIDGE STYLE EDUCATION WORK IN LANYANG ?

The Lanyang campus of TKU will be the first residential college in Taiwan adopting the collegiate system of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK. It aims to achieve a harmonious and effective learning environment by fostering a close teacher and student relationship. Due to the novelty of this system in Taiwan, Tamkang Times, on behalf of the university, has organized a series of talks to illustrate its merits. Last Tuesday (December 14), the fourth talk on this theme was held at the Ching Sheng International Conference Hall. Flora Chang, TKU’s President moderated the talk in which Lin Jyh-horng, the director of Lanyang campus and Chan Yang Ying, the director of the Center for Higher Education Research and Evaluation were invited as the discussants.

ALARMING SIGNS OF ILL HEALTH FOR TODAY’S YOUTH SURFACED AT THE ANNUAL CHECK-UP

The general physical check-up that was carried out on this year’s freshmen earlier this semester reveals an alarming sign on their body weight which in turn is a reflection of their life style. According to the health reports on 5063 students compiled by the Office of Student Affairs, it is found that nearly half of them (49%) suffer from either overweight or underweight issues. One fifth of them require Hepatitis B inoculation whereas 83 students were identified as carriers who have been subjected to regular treatment and check-up ever since.