Monday, October 19, 2015
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Two candidates seeking to represent postgraduate students in the University of Hong Kong council have drawn fire for refusing to attend a forum to air their platforms.
The election will start today and run for five days. A postgraduate concern group representative fears the pro-Beijing camp will get one more seat.
The group plans to get around 10 law master students behind a petition to express their concerns.
The seat became vacant when Aloysius Arokiaraj resigned in July over delays in appointing Johannes Chan Man-mun as a pro vice chancellor. Council members later voted 12 to eight against appointing Chan.
Linguistics master Annabelle Mak Wing- man, who teaches at a tutorial school King's Glory Education, is squaring off against a mainland doctoral candidate in electrical engineering, Printa Zhu Ke, also president of the HKU Postgraduate Student Association. Both have been relatively silent since announcing their election plans late last month.
English tutor Mak recently posted on Instagram a photo with Steve Hui Chun-tak, a police chief superintendent who met the media regularly during the Occupy sit-ins.
Zhu wrote on Facebook: "Our concern should be focused on overall development of the university, such as the interest of students, university reputation ... I am very much in favor of autonomy in the university."
Johnson Yeung Ching-yin, a member of the HKU Law Faculty Postgraduate University Affairs concern group and a former Civil Human Rights Front
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convener, said his group gave the candidates three days Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to choose from, but Zhu said he was busy while Mak did not reply.
Postgrad concern groups have also been formed in the social sciences and arts faculties.
KENNETH LAU
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