Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 06:42:19 EST Sender: From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Message-ID: <9002261642.AA04350@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Feb. 26 (I), News Digest Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu | +---------I __L__ ___- i \ ------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | _/ * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Feb 26 (I), 1990 Table of Contents # of Lines 1. On UBC LYH Election and Its Story ................................... 78 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. On UBC LYH Election and Its Story ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note: In every university in Canada there is a Lian Yi Hui (LYH) to serve for Chinese students' benefits. As a student organiza- tion, LYH is elected annually by students. This has been a com- mon practice for many years and has been recognized by Chinese consulates. But this year, when Chinese students in UBC informed the education consul Mr Li Wong-Rong of the preparation for the annual election, he strongly opposed to holding the election. The consul replied that it is pre-mature to hold election now, while giving no hint on when it will be the "right time". However, the annual election was eventually held in UBC with a record high voters' turnout. The following is a very interesting story about this event. Mr. Li Wong-Rong, a teacher from Chemistry Department of Beijing University, has just replaced Mr. Liu Zaixiang as the education consul in Vancouver. We (NDCanada editors) would like to express warm welcome to Mr. Li. NDCanada is a widely-spread news channel for Chinese students. It might also be an ideal choice for educa- tion consuls in Canada if they have any message concerning Chinese students. We are very interested in knowing the reason why Consul Li thinks "it is not the right time to hold annual election in UBC" and when it will be the right time? It will be very much appreci- ated if somebody can send Consul Li a copy of this message and ask for an answer. ND Editorial Board hereby promises that any reply message from Consul Li will be carried in ND, without any editing. Please send reply message, if any, to . Thank you very much. --- NDCanada Editorial Board February 25, 1990 ................................................................. Story about LYH Election in UBC ------------------------------- A general meeting of UBC LYH was held last Friday and a new exe- cutive committee of four members who are all pro-democracy was elected at the conference. About 250 people, including students, scholars and their family members, showed up. 174 members voted at the meeting. This is probably the largest election gathering in the history of UBC LYH. The four members in the new LYH execution committee were elected with 170, 170, 158 and 151 yes votes. After the election, two movies, one of them from the Culture office of the Consulate General of PRC in Vancouver, were shown. Before the beginning of the meeting, some leaflets were found around the Woodward Library where the meeting was to be held. The leaflets, coming from the Culture Office of PRC Consulate, say in Chinese that the sole purpose of lending movies is to promote Chinese culture and is not to support the election. "If we knew the movies would be shown in such an occasion, we would not have provided it", say the leaflets. Two of the preparing committee members borrowed two movies from the Culture office without mentioning the election meeting. It seems that the officials felt they had been fooled when they were told (most likely by the student spies at UBC) where, when and by whom the movies would be shown. Those people who have close contact with the Consulate did not show up, although they always claim themselves as Chinese movie fans. --- NDCanada Correspondents at UBC NDCanada News Editor: Rupert Zhu rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca NDCanada News Transmission: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | China News Digest Subscription: (Xinmeng Liao) xliao@ccm.umanitoba.ca | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+