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TKU ALUMNI LIN SHENG-HSIANG IS NOMINATED WITH SEVEN AWARDS IN THE GOLDEN MELODY AWARD

Taiwan annual musical festival, “Golden Melody Award,” has announced this year’s nominees. Lin Sheng-hsiang, a graduate from the Department of Transportation Management in 1995, is nominated with seven awards, an even better performance than Jay Chou’s six nominees, with Lin’s album named, “the Nightfall”, by his band “Shenghsiang and Kiln Pit 3” Moreover, Yao Chun-min, a student in Department of Aerospace Engineering, the vocalist for his band “Wang Fu,” is nominated for the Best Band Award.

GRADUATION PROM AFTER THREE YEARS

TKU’s 2005 hottest summer bikini party begins at 7 p.m. this Friday (April 29) on the herding grass beside the library of Tamsui campus. Female students with bikinis (small outfits allowed) members of Graduation Organization and Students Association with student IDs or other identifications enjoy free admission. Other students, however, have to pay for the admission.

THE 18TH CAMPUS MARATHON CHALLENGING YOUR STAMINA IN THE 100-KILOMETER RELAY RACE

The 18th Campus Marathon, held by Business Management Association (BMA) will take place at Tamsui campus on May 1st. Any student and staff of TKU or Tamsui citizen who wants to engage in “TKU 100-Kilometer Relay Race” please contact with BMA at Room 127 of Business Management Building (BMB).

EXHIBITING SOCIAL SERVICES ACCOMPLISHMENT

An exhibition on the accomplishment of social services will be held on the Exhibition Hall of the Business Building from April 26 to April 29. Accompanying this exhibition, the Extracurricular Activities Guidance Section, Office of Student Affairs will lead a group of several dozens of TKU students to do one-day social service at the Creation Social Foundation Homes for PVS Sufferers.

108 COMPANIES RECRUITMENT TOMORROW

Organized by Career Planning and Placement Section of Office of Student Affairs, “2005 on-Campus Job Fair” will be held at poster avenue and Student Activity Center and in front of the library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow (April 26); 108 companies are invited, covering the fields of transportation, the military, education, construction, media, industry, technology, finance and insurance, food production, and human resources.

TKU PROFESSORS TO READ PAPERS IN CROSS STRAIT BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, MAINLAND CHINA

Dr. Chao-kang Feng, Vice President for Academic affairs and Dr. Horng-Jinh Chang, former TKU President led professors from Departments of Management Sciences and Decision Making, Accounting, Insurance, Statistics, and of Information Management to attend a cross strait conference, “2005 Cross Strait Management Sciences and Decision Making Conference,” at Jilin University, Mainland China, on April 19 and 20.

ARTICLES FROM TAMKANG REVIEW ARE ADOPTED IN TEXTBOOKS FOR AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

According to a mail last Monday (April 18), San Diego State University inquired to use one article and accompanied photos from Tamkang Review, an international journal published by English Department, as a textbook material in the course, “Asian Traditions” to be open in the coming semester.

PRESIDENT CHANG VISITS SISTER SCHOOLS IN EUROPE

President C. I. Chang, accompanied by Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Feng Chao-kang and TKU delegation, started a visiting tour to TKU sister schools in Europe yesterday (from April 24 to May 4). They expect to visit three colleges at Oxford University, England, University of Cologne, University Bonn, Germany, and Universite Lyon 3, France. They will also see TKU exchange students at these sister schools.

FORMER PRESIDENT OF CALIFORNIA SATE UNIVERSITY IN SACRAMENTO VISITS TAMSUI CAMPUS

LANYANG CAMPUS APPROVED BY MOE AND RECRUITS 200 STUDENTS THIS SUMMER

Tankang’s Lanyang Campus will recruit its new students next academic year (2005) for the first time. The Ministry of Education has already passed the regulation and by-laws, Taiwan Higher Education 3 of No. 0940048946 issued on April 15, 2005. The school is allowed to recruit a maximum of 250 new students; the school officials, however, expect to recruit 200 newcomers this coming summer. President Dr. Flora C. I. Chang stated that Lanyang campus adopts the same boarding-system as that of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in Britain in order to accomplish the goal of making students first-rate qualified people for the future.