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| April 2000 Student leisure activities prevail By Samson Lam RELATED ARTICLES: While university students are indifferent about joining Student Union cabinets, they also are apathetic about serious issues. The last Open Day at the Chinese University was held in November 1999. The atmosphere for the United College ’99 Open Day was lukewarm. One reason for this was that the stalls were not appealing to students. Mr. Martin Lau, a Year 2 student at the Chinese University, was the president of the organizing committee of United College ’99 Open Day. Said Mr. Lau: “The main aim of holding an open day is to introduce university life and school campus to people. “There are different ways to achieve the aim, but not merely through games and entertainment, which people have long believed. “During Open Day, exhibition boards and forums are more appealing to outsiders than to the students,” he said. According to Mr. Lau, only one student attended a forum held by Chung Chi College. “It is embarrassing. University students should focus on serious and critical issues,” Mr. Lau said. However, Miss Kitty Ma, 21, does not think university students should always be so politically conscious. To her, amusement is also important. She organized a band show called “The Chill-Out Show”. The show took place at the Amphitheatre of the City University of Hong Kong. Nine local independent bands featuring jazz, funk, hard rock and British rock music were invited to the show. More than 300 people, mainly students, attended. Said Miss Ma: “A band show is not academic in nature, but it should be promoted among university students. “It can introduce students to different kinds of music and provide them time for relaxation and amusement.” Miss Ingrid Tang, a sociology student at the Chinese University, was in the audience of the show. Said she: “There are very few channels for band sound in Hong Kong. “It should be promoted among university students as the students are believed to be more open-minded,” she said. It seems that not only those who went to musical shows prefer entertainment and leisure, but also those who joined the Japanese Festival. The Japanese Festival was held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong by Department of Japanese Studies in mid-February. Ms Jacqueline Lai, the student organizer of the Festival, told Varsity that the aim of the Festival was to raise the awareness among students and teachers to Japanese culture. According to Ms Lai, the Japanese Festival included both entertaining as well as academic programmes, but students preferred the leisure ones. In fact, attitudes of the students and nature of activities they organized have been changed. During 1970s and 1980s, student movements were robust in universities. Students kept track of social issues. Enjoying the harvest of a booming economy reaped by their parents, university students now expect more fun from their school life when compared with former days. So, for the time being, it seems that university students will make leisure activities their cup of tea. |
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