Taipei Times
Date: Apr 15, 2018
By: Huang Hsu-lei and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Kaohsiung’s National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) is to host a school-wide
Statues of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek are pictured at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung’s Gushan District on Friday. Photo: Huang Hsu-lei, Taipei Times
referendum tomorrow to decide whether to move the statues of Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) and Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) on its campus.
The referendum reflects Taiwan’s democratic education and is the first of its kind among the nation’s colleges and universities, NSYSU’s administration said in the announcement.
Under an atmosphere of rationality and mutual respect, the school can hopefully resolve an issue that has concerned its students and faculty for a long time, it added.
Student representatives on Oct. 21, 2016, at a university affairs meeting proposed removing the statues that stand outside the university’s Info-Library Building.
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