The Control Yuan has launched an investigation into the safety of dormitories at National Chengchi University (NCCU) after a drunk foreign student broke into a female dorm room last Christmas.
The Control Yuan has the power to investigate alleged malfeasance at government-affiliated organizations, including public universities such as NCCU.
Control Yuan member Kao Fehng-shian (高鳳仙) will interview student representatives and administrators at the school this morning, Hsu Hsiu-kuo (徐修國), a student representative at NCCU, wrote in an article posted on the online bulletin board of the school’s student association.
Hsu said Kao would also talk with student representatives about the university’s coed policy, dormitories for international students, school policies on foreign students and gender issues on campus.
The probe came after a resident at one of the school’s coed dormitories posted an article on the Grumble Board of the school’s bulletin board system (BBS) on Dec. 25 saying she was shocked to have been woken up at about 5am by a foreign man kissing her cheeks.
The resident said she screamed and said “no,” but the foreigner allegedly told her to “relax.”
The man fled the scene while she was screaming, she said.
School authorities issued a statement on the school’s Web site the following week, saying it had identified the foreigner as a student at the university living in another dormitory.
It did not reveal the identity of the student.
The school said the victim and her parents did not file charges against the student, who subsequently gave a personal statement and apologized.
The international student was given a major demerit and evicted from the dormitory, the school said.
Hsu, who participated in the school’s administrative meetings, said the foreign student argued that he was drugged at a bar, but the school’s disciplinary board did not believe him.
The incident resulted in many angry postings on the BBS targeting foreign students, with some Netizens complaining that the school was being partial to international students.
NCCU denied it gave the foreign student preferential treatment.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching