National Taiwan University (NTU) on Monday said its gender equity committee is investigating an offensive set of proposals by two student council candidates that stoked controversy over the weekend.
The NTU Economics Department said it has already forwarded the case to the university’s Gender Equity Education Committee for investigation.
If the case is substantiated, NTU regulations allow for penalties ranging from formal admonishment to expulsion.
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The university on Monday said the case would be handled according to procedures, but declined commenting further.
The department’s student association late on Saturday posted information to its Facebook about the candidates for upcoming student council elections.
In the policy proposal section for one pair of candidates, the association left a note informing viewers of the inappropriate and offensive nature of their submitted policies. It then included the submission of their 16 “proposals” as an addendum at the end of the post.
Among the “proposals” were calls to “require girls with smaller than an A cup to take two national defense credits” and barring “LGBTQ students and dogs” from playing Arena of Valor during student council meetings.
It also expresses opposition to quotas for indigenous students, overseas Taiwanese students and athletes.
The post comes amid debate at NTU about the quotas, which drew protests and counterprotests last week after a banner criticizing the policy was seen at an NTU Student Association free speech event.
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