This year’s male graduates of TKU have made a new record at the military preparatory officer exam, the result of which was announced the other day. 616 students from Tamkang made it to the list of officers – 52 on the list of sergeants, whereas 564 on the list of corporals. It is a great improvement in comparison with the number, 532, of last year. The majority of future preparatory officers of TKU are mostly from the following three departments: 46 students of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (DCSIE), 40 of the Department of Information Management and 43 of the Department of Electrical Engineering.

Among these students, the most outstanding performance goes to Su Wei-huang of the DCSIE whose score was the highest in the category of system engineering in the exam qualifying to be a sergeant. He maintains that system engineering has always been his expertise and with the help from the Office of Military Instructors (OMI), he was able to achieve such a high score. Apart from him, some of his fellow students from the same department also did well in the exam.

The reason for the high number of officers, Wu Yi-fan, a military instructor from the OMI, puts that down as the better condition and salary of an officer’s life. He humorously added that today’s students are smart enough to know that.