【推荐1】College Regulations

It is important that every student gives careful attention to his educational objectives and the program of studies before he registers. Deadline date for change of program, refund of A. S. Membership, etc. , are indicated in each semester’s schedule of classes and in the Student Handbook.

Attendance and Student Request to Withdraw from a Class

Since attendance is considered necessary for normal progress in a class, the student is expected to be in class regularly and on time.

First Ten Weeks: A student may withdraw from a single class or from all classes during the first ten weeks without penalty. Proper forms for withdrawal are available in the Counselling Office.

After Ten Weeks: A student may withdraw from a single class or from all classes by filling proper forms available in the Counselling Office. A grade check will be made with the instructor. If the student was passing the course at the time of his last attendance, he will receive a “W” grade. If he was failing, he may be given a “U” (unsatisfactory withdrawal) grade.

Exception: This policy does not apply to “classes for adults” numbered 9000-9900.All students who withdraw will be given “W” grades in these classes.

Attendance and Instructor Request to Drop a Student

A student may be dropped from a class when, in the instructor’s judgement, the number of absences has become too great. Such judgement should be based exclusively on the student’s prospect for successfully completing the course. When a student is dropped from a class, he will receive a “W” grade, except under the following conditions: If the last attendance occurs after the10th week and if the student was doing failing work, the instructor may assign a “U” grade.

Exception: This policy does not apply in classes numbered 9000-9900. All students who withdraw will be given “W” grades in these classes.

Failure to follow these procedures by discontinuing attendance in class may result in “U” (unsatisfactory withdrawal) grades and possible disqualification from college.

【推荐1】Student from Taiwan played a key role in safeguarding his community in Beijing during pandemic outbreak and is working to establish closer ties between young people across the Straits.

Chen Wencheng from Taiwan, a postdoctoral student at Peking University, had been doing volunteer work in his neighborhood since Spring Festival. This was the first Lunar New Year holiday he didn’t celebrate in his hometown of Zhanghua, Taiwan, during his nine-year stay in Beijing.

Chen, 31, from the university’s department of philosophy and religious studies, chose to stay in Beijing’s Haidian District with his pregnant wife, who gave birth to their daughter last month. After the COVID- 19 outbreak hit Beijing in late January, he soon applied to be a community volunteer to help with pandemic prevention and control.

He started work on the day he signed as a volunteer on Feb4, with his duties including such tasks as checking passes and the temperature of people entering the community or delivering food and other necessities to his neighbors in self-quarantine.

The buildings in the community have five floors with no elevators. Chen sometimes had dozens of deliveries each day, including big rice bags and barrels of cooking oil, among other daily supplies.

“Those were heavy, and that’s why the community needed us younger people to help, ”Chen says.

“The volunteer job looks like petty work, but it matters as it enhances the safety of the more than 2, 000 residents in our community, ”Chen says. “The work also allowed me to get to know more of my neighbors, which makes the whole community feel like a big family. ”

【推荐2】“I still cannot believe it!” said the newest Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, Diébédo Francis Kéré, who had already received numerous accolades in his field, including the Aga Khan Award and the Thomas Jefferson medal. But he was still as surprised as anyone else to be selected for the field’s most famous prize.

Most of the architects and critics had openly supposed that 2022 would be Sir David Adjaye’s year, who is best known for designing such notable buildings as the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Kéré, who is based in Berlin but centers much of his practice in Africa, has been far lesser known, with signature buildings that include primary schools and a health care clinic.

Kéré said his architectural practice was inspired by his own experience attending school with around 100 other children in a region where temperatures were regularly higher than 38℃.

“It’s very hot inside and there was no light, while outside, the sunlight was abundant. So I dreamed of making it better one day,” he said.

When he was twenty, in 1985, Kéré earned a scholarship to study carpentry (木工) in Berlin. While studying roofing and furniture making, he also attended night school and was admitted to Technische Universität Berlin, from which he graduated in 2004 with an advanced degree in architecture. He was still a student when he designed and built the Gando Primary School. The recognition it earned helped Kéré open his own office in Berlin.

In his designs for Gando Primary School and Naaba Belem Goumma Secondary School in Burkina Faso, Kéré drew on traditional building materials such as local clay mixed with concrete, and emphasized shade and shadows with well-aired spaces that reduce the need for air conditioning.

【推荐3】As a child, I had spent my holidays travelling our village in Bangladesh — running across the rice fields or farms and fishing in lakes. But, this had started to wear off as a teen. One thing I remember about that trip was when we were only about half an hour from our village, we had to get out of our car. The road in front of us was completely under water. We all got on a bamboo boat for another two or three hours.

That was 15 years ago — the last time I visited our village. One by one, many other villagers left there. But my father has been working hard to build it up. He doesn’t want it to be lost.

Yes, we should protect our home. But there is something else to think about: climate crisis (气候危机). Bangladesh is at the centre of the climate crisis — it is hit by floods, droughts, storms and other natural disasters. “I jokingly say, Bangladesh is God’s laboratory for natural disasters,” says Prof Ainun Nishat, an expert on climate change from Bangladesh.

The period from June to October sees heavy rains. But the rainfall time is becoming more erratic (无常的). In 2020, Sylhet, my hometown, was hit by huge floods that affected thousands of families, whose homes were swept away. In fact, over a quarter of the country was flooded. Nearly 1.3 million homes were damaged, and hundreds of people died.

The weather is getting more extreme (极端的). It is getting too hot. And the supply of water can’t be relied upon, leaving the land getting drier.

Although people have worries about droughts and floods, unlike in the past, the country is well-prepared to deal with them. Prof Nishat says, “Maybe 20, 30 years back we depended on external (外部的) support to return to normal from any natural disaster, but now it’s different. The country has developed, and we suffered these disasters many times, so the people are one of the most prepared.”