Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1994

President Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar in his younger days. Imported Expertise Is Beneficial to Hong Kong, CU Debaters Successfully Argue 'Import of mainland expertise is beneficial to the prosperity of Hong Kong' — this was the motion of the 23rd Intervarsity Debating Contest held on 19th March at the Loke Yew Hall of the University of Hong Kong. Arguing for the motion, the CUHK debating team defeated the HKU team 5:0 and won its second victory in two years. Miss Yu Ming Lai on CUHK team was also selected best speaker in the contest. The intervarsity debating contest was first instituted in 1972. To maintain the impromptu nature of the debate and to encourage quick and creative thinking, the subject o f the debate is disclosed to the contestants one hour before the debate. The language used in the contest alternates between Cantonese and English each year. This year the debate was conducted in Cantonese. Champion Again in Chemistry Olympiad For two years in succession, the University's chemistry majors outdid their counterparts from other institutions of higher education and captured the champion trophy i n the Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad 1994. The Fifth Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad jointly organized by the Hong Kong Chemistry Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry was held at the Hong Kong Science Museum on 22nd January. This year all UPGC-funded tertiary institutions except Lingnan College took part in the competition. Each team was given a topic at 5.00 p.m. one day before the competition, and was required to give 15-minute presentation on the day of the competition and to answer questions from a panel of judges and the floor. The CUHK team was give n the topic 'Perfumes' and was selected by the judges as the team with the best performace. Conferences and Lectures • The Department of Architecture and the Centre for Planning, Architecture and Developmen t jointly organized an international symposium on architectural developments in urban China (1898-1937) from 4th to 6th January 1994. • The MBA Programmes held their second Entrepreneurship Dinner Talk on 26th January and Mr. Paul Kan, chairman and chief executive of the Champion Technology Group, was guest speaker for the evening. • Chung Chi College hosted it s annual education conference on biological technology and morality on 29th January 1994. • United College held its annual workshop entitled 'Freedom on Campus: Myth and Reality' on 15th February 1994. • The Cantonese Opera Research Project of the Department of Music organized a series of four seminars on the theme of Cantonese opera in February and March 1994. • Prof. Chen Guu-ying, visiting professor of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, gave a public lecture on Chinese ancient ideology on 22nd February 1994 at the invitation of the Institute of Chinese Studies. • Prof. Jin Guantao, research fello w of the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture, spoke on 'The Transformation of Chinese Society (1840-1956) 一 and the Fate of Its Ultrastable Structure in Modern Times' on 25th March 1994 as the speaker of the K.Y. Chang Lectureship in Modem Chinese History organized by the centre. • The Faculty of Education organized a conference on 'Primary Education in the 21st Century: Directions for Development' on 2nd April 1994. • New Asia College and the University's Department of Anthropology, together with the French Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies and the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Nationality Studies, jointly organized a News in Brief 40