Taipei Times
Date: Jun 07, 2020
By: Rachel Lin / Staff reporter
National Cheng Kung University students throw their caps in the air at their graduation ceremony in Tainan yesterday.
Photo provided by National Cheng Kung University
At National Taiwan University’s (NTU) event, students wore masks while speakers participated via videoconference.
The scaled-down ceremony, with attendees sitting apart to maintain social distancing, was attended by 523 students and 675 parents, compared with about 2,700 of each last year.
“We are apart in distance, put on masks and avoid contact with others. Such distancing can lead to alienation, as well as to more apprehension and misgivings, but we should reduce the psychological distance between people so that our society can maintain its intimate connections,” NTU president Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) said in his address. [FULL STORY]
