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FOREIGN LANGUAGES BUILDING TO BE COMPLETED IN JUNE

The Foreign Languages Building is scheduled to complete in June, upon which all six TKU foreign languages departments will move in to this new “home”, enabling all the faculty and staff of these departments to work under one roof for the first time. To mark such an unprecedented occasion, the university has made this year “The Year of the Foreign Languages”. The Dean of the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures (CFLL), Sung Mei-Hua is of particularly optimistic that such a building will spur further development in the foreign language education at TKU.

COUNTDOWN AT THE ALUMNI SERVICE CENTER

E-GUIDE DOG ON TRIAL RUNS

An integrated project—E-guide Dog Global Positioning System—has reached its trial stage and is presently being evaluated to verify its validity. This is a joint venture with inputs from various departments supervised centrally by the Information Processing Center. Under the center, the Department of Information Management is in charge of the operating system, whereas the Departments of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering as well as Architecture are responsible for the mapping of all the buildings, roads and other facilities on campus. Measurements and maps they have put forward have been systematically uploaded onto the operating system successfully, which is at the final stage of integrating all information.

ACUPRESSURE MASSAGE OPEN FOR APPOINTMENT

The Female Faculty and Staff Association has been busy planning a series of activities in celebration of various occasions. In March, they had an annual meeting when they elected senate members; while in April they offered an acupressure massage to all staff and faculty. In May for the occasion of Mother’s Day, they have planned a music concert and a KTV karaoke singing contest.

CARRIE CHANG MUSIC HALL GIVES JAZZ CONCERT

A Jazz trio consisted of an American, Lou Rainone, the pianist, a Taiwanese, Lin Wei-sheng, the bass cellist and a Japanese, Ochiai Seiji, the percussionist, will bring a night of classic and modern Jazz to share with TKU faculty, staff and students tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 7:30 at the Carrie Chang Music Hall. Tamkang is the first stop of the trio’s campus tour in Taiwan, and also the only stop in Northern Taiwan. So, those Jazz fans out there, don’t miss it.

YOU CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES

In an era of “Certification”, you can never own enough professional certificates and licenses. It is particularly true for students of Banking and Finance, where these papers decide whether they are employable or not. Therefore, it is not surprising that five of their students have multiple papers, exceeding their counterparts in other disciplines. Among them, Kang Pai-juan stands out instantly as she owns ten various certificates and licenses. At the moment, she is working on her 11th and 12th one on finance risk management (FRM) and finance analysis (CFA) respectively. Jiang Tai-jai, one of the five, is equally impressive with four papers and is working on his fifth, also a CFA as Kang. How did they manage to have so many professional qualifications in such a short span of time?

BEHIND A WHEELCHAIR OR WALKING STICK, UNCERTAINTY REIGNS

THE MONTH OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT UNVEILS

A series of annual friendly competitions and activities organized by the Business Management Association for Business majors in May was kicked off by the Marathon race yesterday (May 1st) on Tamsui Campus. It will be followed by various fun events all the way to May 20th. For instance, there are the “Dragon Cup”, “Campus Photography” and several other ball games contests, waiting for contestants to claim to big prizes. Finally, the autograph signing evening inviting some well-known basketball and baseball professional players on May 23rd will wrap up this eventful month.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPT IS THE WINNER AT PRESIDENT CUP

After a two-day fierce “combats” in the President Cup for Basketball, Volleyball, Table Tennis and Softball Competitions, winners have finally emerged. In the category of men’s basketball, the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) beat the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering to win the championship and they also won the number one in the slow softball category, making them the happiest winners in the whole tournament. History Department won over the Department of Business Administration easily, clinching their third consecutive win in the women’s basketball. In men’s volleyball, the Department of Chemistry overcame a strong rival, the Department of Mathematics to be on top, whereas the Department of Japanese beat their archrival, the Department of Information Management to regain the gold medal in women’s volleyball. In table tennis, Liu Yo-cai, of the Department of Information and Library Science and Jiang Pai-jin of the Department of Insurance won the first place in the men’s and women’s groups respectively.

EXPO ON GLOBAL VILLAGE HELD FOR ONE WEEK

College of Continuing Education and the Business Management Association have jointly organized a 2005 Overseas Study Tours—the 2nd Exposition on a Global Village this week at the Exhibition Hall of the Business Management Building, inviting several well-reputed travel agencies to provide detailed information regarding tour, studying and proficiency tests. Various presentations on these topics have been scheduled and are open to anyone who is thinking of making such a plan.