This year, student orientation was in a lot of trouble, because current student association of Chung-Ang University, which is affiliated to Hanchongryon, was planning orientation to travel Kumgangsan under a nominal of “Understanding North Korea.”
 In addition, current student association requested 500 million won for the “South Korea and North Korea interchanging fund” to the university administration center at the annual tuition adjustment table. This request caused negative effect on student’s position at the negotiation table with university administration center.


  Moreover, current student association did unexplainable thing in the Chancellor’s room, such as scribbling on the wall and put insult on the window of Chancellor’s room. These acts were inducing failure on tuition negotiation with school administration center. It seems that, current student association is trying to get money from the university administration center for their business with holding CAU students as hostages. CoCAU (Change of Chung-Ang University) is against current student association’s policy on annual tuition adjustment table. In addition, we can not agree with current student association’s reaction at the annual tuition adjustment table, because we do not think that getting a small refund from the university administration center is such a great result as the student association often exaggerates.


 Of course, we agree that the unification of South Korea and North Korea is very important. However, we can not agree that the unification of South and North Korea is Chung-Ang University student association’s main business. We think that the significance of the existence of student association lies on the welfare of the student and improvement of educational environment of Chung-Ang University.


 We organized CoCAU, because we want to talk about problems around us in the campus. First, we started with three people at the online, in mid-May and currently 171 students were joined CoCAU to discuss our problems around our campus. We elected Ryu-Seung Joon (Mechanical Engineering, 00) as the representative and now we are preparing for the active performance on fall semester, 2006.


 During the spring semester, 2006, CoCAU suggested five proposals to the university central library. First, we suggested simplication of the list of late book-returning student, because we thought that it seriously infringes individual privacy. In addition, we proposed not to place CCTV on one reading room, because of individual privacy problem, and these two proposals were accepted by central library. Central Library installed CCTV in every reading room except 6th reading room in the central library. Third, we suggested activating our donation of books in order to increase total volume of the books in central library. However, central library responded that they do not have enough space for donating books currently. Fourth, we suggested putting double-layer windows on the central library in order to reduce noise from Giants basketball court, and central library answered that they will consider arranging fund for the double-layer windows in November, 2006. Lastly, we suggested using central garden in the first floor of central library practically, and central library responded that they will also consider raising fund for this in November.


 We could find the hope from the central librarian’s affirmative answers; however we still felt that we can not get a responsible explanation from the university, because we are not representing the whole Chung-Ang University students as student association.


 We CoCAU think that the main purpose of student association should focuses on welfare of students and improvement of educational environment of our campus. We will try our best to speak up our voices as we are the students of Chung-Ang University.
 Thank you very much for your attention and support.


By Go Beom-seok(01.Public Adminstration)

 

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