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RENOVATION OF TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION TAMKANG SAILS TO THE FOURTH WAVE

Founder Clement C. P. Chang announced in the meeting of renovation of teaching and administration last Friday (Dec.2): Tamkang’s teachers, staff, and students should follow “the new S-curve of the Age of Discontinunity” to make four times of efforts, making possible Tamkang’s sailing to the fourth wave, the new academic pinnacle and kingdom in the brand new era.

PRESIDENT FLORA C. I. CHANG LED VISIT TO TUNGHAI

PROPOSALS TO UPGRADE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH PROFICIENCY: ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Starting from this semester, the English Department has proposed a series of programs to upgrade TKU students’ English proficiency, including setting a English Corner at Building of Foreign Languages and Literatures, a website to promote reading ability—“Readathon” [http://www2.tku.edu.tw/~tfex/decwebsite/dechome.htm], and providing a writing consulting service by graduate students of English Department. Dr. Yueh-kuey Huang, chair of English Department, recommends TKU students to make good use of these resources to brace their English proficiency.

SPIRIT TALK PREMIERES ON TUESDAY: TKU STAFF ASSOCIATION

Spirit Talk, a Taiwanese-made National Geography Channel documentary film about Taiwanese rituals and customs about death, is to premiere on this Tuesday (December 6), 12:20, at Q409 Chungling Memorial Hall, TKU. The premiere of this 47 minutes film is co-sponsored by TKU Staff Association and National Geography Channel. Mr. Shih Chu-te, a TKU alumnus and the producer of this film will attend the premiere and join in the discussion with TKU staffs and students.

DIRECTOR CHEN MIN-NAN VISIT ALUMNI IN SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA

Last month, Chen Min-nan, Director of Office of Alumni Services and Resources Development, was dispatched to attend the founding meeting of Vietnam TKU Alumni Association (VTAA) and the 10th anniversary celebration of Malaysia TKU Alumni Association. In the April and May of 2006, VTAA, in cooperation with The Council of Taiwanese Chambers Of Commerce in HCMC, will recruit TKU graduates to work in Vietnam. The first founding meeting of VTAA took place on November 20.

KAO PO-YUAN LEADS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS CLEAR UP SHA-LUN BEACH

The blue sky, blue sea with the beautiful sand beach, was what Sha-Lun beach area used to impress local people and visitors. However, the beach actually has become dirty and mess in the past few years. Last Thursday, Dr. Kao Po-Yuan, Vice President of Administrative Affairs, led the Committee of the Service Education Center and summoned more than 200 teachers and students to clean the Sha-Lun beach. They got 60 sacks of trash altogether

CHENG GI-TAI AND LEE CHI-CHEUNG WON “SPLENDID STEED”SUBSIDY

CLUB LEADERS FORUM OF 2005 ACADEMIC YEAR WAS HOSTED BY PRESIDENT CHANG ON Nov. 30

Club Leaders Forum of 2005 Academic Year, hosted by Dr. Flora C.I. Chang, President of TKU, was held on Nov. 30, in which Dr. Chang encouraged club leaders to express their opinions to the school authorities at any time. Since all the club offices will be moved to the new gymnasium after its completion next year, Dr. Chang hoped that the club which has any suggestion can propose their ideas right now so that the school authorities can make a more integrated plan. She also asked students to take club evaluation seriously to raise the club quality. Dr. Kao Po-yuan, Vice President for Administrative Affairs, expected that the clubs can spend more time developing their affairs at Lanyang Campus after its completion to make up for the limited space of Tamsui Campus. Dr. Kao also used the mutual visit between Scouts Group of Tamkang University and Japanese university as an example to encourage club communication with other sister universities.

TKU GOT THE BEST PRIZE FOR TAIWAN AT THE 9TH CHALLENGE CUP IN MAINLAND CHINA

The final contest of the 9th Challenge Cup of University Students’ Extracurricular Technological Design Competition was held at Fudan University, Shanghai, on Nov. 19, 2005. Seven universities of Taiwan including Tamkang University, Chinese Culture University, Tunghai University, Yuan Ze University, National Taiwan University, Shu-Te University, and National Chengchi University were invited to join the contest for the first time. TKU not only won the “Cross-Strait Communication Cup,” the only group prize Taiwan obtained this time, but also got many individual prizes, like Kan Ya-ting, 1st year Master Program student from Dept. of Management Sciences, and Chang Yu-jung, the crew of Extracurricular Activities Guidance Section, gained the “First-Rate Prize” for their paper “Consumer Protection Law and Campus Cases in Taiwan.”