Taipei Times
Date: Oct 02, 2017
By: Rachel Lin, Tsai Ya-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin (高金素梅) pressured National
A page from documents obtained by the Liberty Times on a report on the agreement by National Taiwan University’s athletics department to allow the use of its athletic field for the “Sing! China: Shanghai-Taipei Music Festival” is shown to the media on Saturday. Photo: Rachel Lin, Taipei Times
Taiwan University (NTU) to loan its athletic field for use by the “Sing! China: Shanghai-Taipei Music Festival,” according to school documents obtained by reporters.
The festival on Sept. 24 was called off just two hours after students protested over what they said was the school’s failure to prioritize students’ right to use campus facilities.
After the event was called off, three university students were assaulted, allegedly by members of the pro-unification Chinese Unity Promotion Party (CUPP).
The university launched a review into its decision to host the event, which was one of series of events initiated as part of the Taipei-Shanghai Forum, and its investigative committee met for the first time on Saturday to discuss the issue.
A copy of the athletics department’s written report to the committee was obtained by the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the sister newspaper of the Taipei Times), which showed that festival organizer Mu Chieh Ta Co (幕婕塔) on Aug. 8 filed a request to rent the field for the event and it was approved the following day. [FULL STORY]
