During a freshmen orientation session on Monday, National Taiwan University (NTU) president Lee Si-chen (李嗣涔) gave some advice to the new students, including avoiding parking their bicycles randomly.
The other three bits of advice Lee gave the NTU students were: Don’t cheat on exams; don’t copy other students’ assignments and don’t skip classes.
Bicycle parking has long been a problem at NTU, with an average of 2,000 bikes impounded per year because of “illegal parking.”
When Lee told students not to park bicycles at random, some students who had been dozing off snapped to attention and burst out laughing.
Lee said a person’s moral character could be assessed by minor behaviors, adding that “parking bikes anywhere one likes is like running a red traffic light. It’s a matter of one’s moral standard.”
University administrative officials said the school’s Shuiyuan campus, where impounded bikes are held, had 1,000 bikes waiting to be claimed. Because of the large number of bikes impounded there, the campus had to turn 800 into scrap iron this year.
Lee said students should avoid skipping classes unless they had a good reason.
As an example of one case in which skipping class was warranted, Lee cited a student who left school to go on a tour of Europe, returning to Taiwan a new man who was able to focus on studying after he found his “life goals.”
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