Taipei Times
Date:  Nov 01, 2015
By: Wu Po-hsuan and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

National Chengchi University (NCCU) student group the “Wild Fire Alliance” on Friday

Members of student organizations at National Chengchi University petition for the abolition of their school anthem on Friday in Taipei. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

handed in 1,378 signatures to school authorities, asking the university to abolish its anthem, which they said contained “party-state ideology.”

Pointing to lyrics to the anthem such as “implementing the Three Principles of the People is our party’s mission/building the Republic of China is our party’s responsibility,” student group spokesperson Yang Tsu-hsien (楊子賢) said that the university’s insistence that students sing the anthem in the annual choir competition “makes it difficult for people to tell whether NCCU is a national university or a university established by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).”

Students said that the phrases “the responsibility of our party” echoed party-state ideologies, adding that it sounded more like brainwashing rather than arousing within the students a sense of pride in their school.     [FULL  STORY]