CW Chu College The Chinese University of Hong Kong eNewsletter

College students Miss Ma Ming Yan (Year 3, English), Mr Wu Pak Yiu Byron (Year 3, Philosophy) and Miss Zhang Xian (Year 2, Economics) were selected as award winners of the General Education Best Essay Award 2013–14.

Mr Wu obtained the Silver Award by the essay entitled 'A Clash of Ideals and Reality on Government Legitimacy', while Miss Ma and Miss Zhang, who wrote 'Dialogue between Science and Art' and 'Please Give Me an Ideal State' (in Chinese) respectively, were given Bronze Awards at the General Education Student Seminar cum Best Essay Award Ceremony organized by the Office of University General Education on 7 February 2015. Officiating at the ceremony were Prof Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor, and Prof. Hau Kit-tai, Pro-Vice Channcellor and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on General Education.

The General Education Best Essay Award celebrates the innovations and critical thinking brought to bear on student essays written for the two General Education Foundation courses, In Dialogue with Humanity and In Dialogue with Nature. Eighteen essays from over 300 keen submissions received the Best Essay Award this year. The student seminar featured seven of them. These papers comprise argumentative essays as well as original attempts at short story and Platonic dialogue as alternative approaches to integrate classics from various times and to examine their relevance to the contemporary world. CW Chu College is pleased that our students, constituting about 2.5% of the undergraduate student body, won three out of the 18 awards.