My Take | Pot calling the kettle black: Row at HKU would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic
Latest conflict over ‘waste of resources’ in moving council meeting shows that some staff and students at city’s most prestigious university have lost the plot
You don’t have to be a fan of Arthur Li Kwok-cheung to find the latest criticism against him farcical.
Student leaders behind the boycott of classes at the University of Hong Kong have accused the school’s governing council and Li, its new chairman, of “misappropriating” funds to change the location of a council meeting to Wan Chai’s Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday.
They were joined by the Academic Staff Association, which has sent a complaint letter to Li.
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“This extravagant way of running council meeting cannot continue, as scarce university resources are being diverted from teaching and research,” association chairman William Cheung Sing-wai wrote.
“It not only will affect the performance of the university, but also is contrary to what you have said that the university should concentrate our resources only in teaching and research.
“If you, as council chairman, feel unable to do so as your predecessors have done, it is perhaps time now for someone who can to take over the job.”
