by Louis Chen
Administrative error was cited as the culprit that kept a group of DFLL juniors who tried to register for Professor Chao Chi-yu’s 趙姬玉 second year Japanese course out in the cold. Nine DFLL juniors who signed up for Prof. Chao’s class couldn’t believe their eyes when they received their course cards and discovered that they had been assigned to no Japanese course at all. The nine, who studied Japanese under Prof. Chao last year, need credits in Japanese II this year in order to graduate next year, and were unable to change to a section taught by a different professor due to scheduling conflicts. At the same time, a number of students who chose Prof. Chao’s course as an elective were accepted into the class. “We found it incredible that we would be refused admission into a required course,” said a DFLL junior. “We have a right to be in the class.
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by the Foreign Exchange Editorial Staff
Not too many people haven’t heard about electronic mail, a.k.a. e-mail, by now. Plenty of folks use it regularly for local and worldwide correspondence, academic discussion lists, and collecting information of all sorts, among other things. But plenty of other people still haven’t taken the plunge. The defenses are many: “I’m no good with mechanical things.” “I don’t even know how to do word processing - how can I do e-mail?” “I can’t finish all the things I have to do the way it is - I have no time for frivolous things like computers.” “I don’t want my privacy invaded.” “It’s too expensive.” “I have no idea where to start.” Or, most typically, “I hate computers!” by Mei-lan Liang
A little burrowing around on gopher (online service for finding information, organized by topic) revealed 46 recent additions to the Liberal Arts library. So far, only about a quarter of them have ever been checked out, mainly by faculty members. We encourage you to explore the pleasures and knowledge to be found in these and other fine books - before they grow a furry coat of dust! We offer here only a very small sampling of the treasures that await you: The Authority of the Consumer. R. Keat, N. Whiteley, and N. Abercrombie, eds. HF5415.32 A93 1994. “Museum visitors, theatre audiences, sports spectators and TV viewers, university students, hospital patients, social workers’ clients, and even taxpayers and the public served by the police - all are now deemed to be consumers…The aim of this volume is to examine what is meant by this current extension of the status of consumer, to explore what, if anything, is going on beneath the surface of the changing rhetoric…” by Jenny Shern
The door to higher academia is creaking open wider, nudge by nudge. You can now enter a university not only through the Joint College Entrance Exam (JCEE), but also through the “recommendation exam” program, initiated just this year, or the “gifted students” program, now in its fourth year. Both alternative channels of college admission aim to identify and select the top students in each senior high school. by Chi Shen
Muzzy? Theosophy? Muon? Debouch? Where do Time writers get all those words, and why aren’t they in the dog-eared, bilingual Far Eastern lexicon that got you successfully through the JCEE? Your professor keeps encouraging you to use an English-English college edition dictionary - but where do you go to get it, and which one should you pick? by Juliet Tzou
On October 18 and 19, forward-looking students formed long lines to sign up for the Career Planning and Life Exploration Workshop, an activity sponsored by the NTU Student Counseling Center since 1990 to give students an opportunity to exchange ideas on their lives and futures. The workshop is open to juniors and seniors trying to map out a plan for their futures, or who are just interested in sharing the ups and downs in their lives with their peers. “The students join the workshop mainly to gain a clearer idea of their future profession,” says Ms. Hsu Mei-kuei 許玫瑰, a workshop facilitator. by Louis Chen
DFLL students will have to face reality: on Oct. 16, the DFLL basketball team was narrowly defeated by the Department of Information Engineering 25 to 33. Then on Oct. 17, the DFLL softball team lost to the Department of Information Management 4 to 7, in spite of four runs scored in the last inning. The volleyball team, which played at the same time as the softball team, lost two straight sets 11:15 and 12:15 to the Department of Agriculture. There could be no argument about the teams’ lack of training, lack of sufficient players, and even the lack of rooters. The one good thing you could say about the games is that everybody did their best. by Mei-lan Liang
You may have been noticing an enigmatic message every time you log into your e-mail account: !!** NTU Library’s New Service!!** —> type “libnew” to see what’s new about NTU library services The diction may leave something to be desired, but it is not a message to be ignored - it will direct you to FirstSearch, a powerful new online information service available on the NTU computer network from October 1, 1995 to February 28, 1996. For anybody doing research, or anybody looking for something that just can’t be found in the NTU library, First Search is the place to go by Timothy Casey, Instructor, DFLL
The few jazz CDs scattered among the abundant classical and ethnic collections in the AV Library are a feeble representation of America’s greatest original contribution to world music. Anyone curious about traditional jazz would learn more by browsing through the jazz racks of Kungkuan music stores, hanging out at the Blue Note Coffee House on Shih Ta Road, or listening to Bill Thissen’s jazz program Flavors on ICRT (Sunday, 9:00pm) by Chris Damm
(Exchange student from the University of California) In the lonely hours before dawn, when the darkness of night turns into the patchy grayness of a new day, a haunting sound can be heard echoing down the hallway of the First Floor of Men’s Dorm #8. It is the mournful cry of a creature remembering the days when it ran free, a master of back alley garbage cans and empty fields. Now the cat who walks between floors is a king in exile, consigned to a labyrinth of dark crawl spaces and steamy pipes. |
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