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National Taipei University of Business student Chu Shih-ching is restrained by security personnel yesterday as he tries to approach the stage where President Ma Ying-jeou was participating in a ceremony commemorating the school’s 97th anniversary. Photo: Liu Hsin-De, Taipei Times
HEMMED IN? Chu Shih-ching said he was trying to let the president know that the university has very little space for students to have academic discussions
By Shih Hsiu-Chuan / Staff reporter
A student at National Taipei University of Business yesterday shouted at President Ma Ying-jeou （馬英九） to draw attention to the university’s limited campus facilities, but was quickly restrained by a number of security guards who covered his mouth and took him away.
Ma took part in a ceremony commemorating the university’s 97th anniversary in a rare appearance after the Chinese Nationalist Party’s （KMT） massive loss in the last month’s nine-in-one elections.
After Ma had finished speaking and stepped down from the platform, a student hailed him from the back of the hall, quickly making his way to the front with a petition in his hands, shouting: “President. The university has no rooms. Students need dormitories.”
Ma appeared unperturbed by the student’s actions, going on to shake hands with other guests while the student was quickly surrounded by more than 10 security guards and the master of ceremonies asked the audience for a round of applause for the Ma, apparently to drown out the student’s shouting.
The student, Chu Shih-ching （朱士晉）, a senior and former chairman of the institute’s students association, later told reporters that he was trying to draw Ma’s attention to the limited space the university has to use.
Chu said he was not “dissing” Ma and that he respected Ma for being head of state, but he did not see why the president was complimenting the university.
The university, in Zhongzheng District （中正）, provides no accommodation near the university for its students, Chu said, adding that its only dormitory is in Pingjhen Township （平鎮）, Taoyuan County.
Due to the limited availability of space on campus, the university is more like a buxiban （“cram school”） than a university, which should be able to provide students with an ideal environment to engage in academic discussions, rather than simply attending lectures, Chu said, urging the government to allocate more resources to the university.
“The university might as well be transformed into a distance learning institute if its students do not have anything better to do after their classes have finished than to get on the MRT and go shopping in Ximending （西門町）,” Chu said.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
President Ma Ying-jeou, center, arrives at the National Taipei University of Business to participate in a ceremony commemorating the school’s 97th anniversary yesterday. Photo: CNA
