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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - NTU warns students abt creating blogs!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>kojakbt_89 <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>Sep-8 7:45 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 9) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>38591.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>NTU warns its students not to create blogs regarding politics and religion
September 9th, 2010 |
Author: Your Correspondent
In the aftermath of the foreign “academic poisons” scandal, NTU has sent an email to all its students warning them not to “create blogs regarding politics and religion” unless they have approval from the universities and a licence from the Media Development Authority (MDA)
A blogger from theliberatingtruth.wordpress.com had earlier posted a “blacklist” of 15 NTU foreign students, including their names, photographs, and nationalities attached with a “testimonial” from fellow students from NTU School of Computing Engineering on their work ethics and attitude, sparking massive outcry among Singaporeans.
They were accused among other things of leeching on other students in their joint projects, not contributing to the team and stealing credit for work not done by them.
The sensational news was first published on the Temasek Review and subsequently picked up by straitstimes.com.
According to Terence Lee, a media student from NTU, he received an email from NTU with the following header:
“MESSAGE ON EXERCISING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION RESPONSIBLY”
The gist of the email is to implore NTU students to express their opinions in a “responsible” manner and to warn them not to create political blogs without permission from the school:
“Don’t: Creating webpages / blogs containing information regarding politics and religion, unless you have acquired proper licenses from the Media Development Authority AND the written approval of the University.”
Terence Lee, who blogs about Christianity at irreligiously.blogspot.com wrote on his blog that he would be ignoring the email:
“But what is even more interesting is that the University wants all its political and religious student bloggers to seek approval from the administration. This is a demand that will be largely dismissed by yours truly, and a handful of other bloggers who are studying on campus. Just like its rules on attire.”
[Source: [URL="http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html"]http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html[/URL]]
In the meantime, the NTU student blogger who published the foreign “academic blacklist” has deleted his blog at theliberatingtruth.wordpress.com. It is not known if he is forced by NTU to close it down or if he has been called up for questioning by the Singapore police which has been monitoring the internet lately.
The School of Mass Communications which produce the majority of Singapore journalists is ironically situated in NTU.
How can NTU ever hope to become a world class university when its students are not even allowed to express their views on politics? How are we going to evolve into a knowledge-based economy when we are denied the basic human right of freedom of speech?
The email by NTU shows how shallow, ignorant and out of touch our university administrators are with the real world outside where university students are often active participants in the political life of their countries and is a sad indictment of the repressive political climate in Singapore which continues to be dominated by the fascist PAP regime.
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In the aftermath of the foreign “academic poisons” scandal, NTU has sent an email to all its students warning them not to “create blogs regarding politics and religion” unless they have approval from the universities and a licence from the Media Development Authority (MDA)
A blogger from theliberatingtruth.wordpress.com had earlier posted a “blacklist” of 15 NTU foreign students, including their names, photographs, and nationalities attached with a “testimonial” from fellow students from NTU School of Computing Engineering on their work ethics and attitude, sparking massive outcry among Singaporeans.
They were accused among other things of leeching on other students in their joint projects, not contributing to the team and stealing credit for work not done by them.
The sensational news was first published on the Temasek Review and subsequently picked up by straitstimes.com.
According to Terence Lee, a media student from NTU, he received an email from NTU with the following header:
“MESSAGE ON EXERCISING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION RESPONSIBLY”
The gist of the email is to implore NTU students to express their opinions in a “responsible” manner and to warn them not to create political blogs without permission from the school:
“Don’t: Creating webpages / blogs containing information regarding politics and religion, unless you have acquired proper licenses from the Media Development Authority AND the written approval of the University.”
Terence Lee, who blogs about Christianity at irreligiously.blogspot.com wrote on his blog that he would be ignoring the email:
“But what is even more interesting is that the University wants all its political and religious student bloggers to seek approval from the administration. This is a demand that will be largely dismissed by yours truly, and a handful of other bloggers who are studying on campus. Just like its rules on attire.”
[Source: [URL="http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html"]http://irreligiously.blogspot.com/2010/09/students-required-to-register-their.html[/URL]]
In the meantime, the NTU student blogger who published the foreign “academic blacklist” has deleted his blog at theliberatingtruth.wordpress.com. It is not known if he is forced by NTU to close it down or if he has been called up for questioning by the Singapore police which has been monitoring the internet lately.
The School of Mass Communications which produce the majority of Singapore journalists is ironically situated in NTU.
How can NTU ever hope to become a world class university when its students are not even allowed to express their views on politics? How are we going to evolve into a knowledge-based economy when we are denied the basic human right of freedom of speech?
The email by NTU shows how shallow, ignorant and out of touch our university administrators are with the real world outside where university students are often active participants in the political life of their countries and is a sad indictment of the repressive political climate in Singapore which continues to be dominated by the fascist PAP regime.
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