News

2008.0523

NTNU Student Club Members Have Their Moment of Honors

By Jocy Su Campus Reporter A total of 10 student clubs shared the honor of “National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Camel Award” at the main campus’ auditorium tonight for their efforts and endurance to maintain their clubs during the past year. The award would be named as “camel” because the award was designed to symbolize the spirit of a camel’s long-lasting endurance without complaints.  Whoever won this award meant that the club’s improvement for the past year was recognized. The first “Camel Award” was issued 22 years ago, to encourage students to overcome all kinds of difficulties they might encounter during club activities.  Office of Activity Staff Member Lee Jen (李貞) said that this would be the spirit which they would be expecting from students through club activities. "What this ‘Camel Award’ means to students would be similar to what ‘Golden Horse Awards’ mean to entertainers,” Lee said. By the evaluation of a 61-men evaluation group, which was consisted of instructors, former student club presidents and alumni,a total of 13 awards, including “Camel Award,” were given tonight, as a total of 39 student clubs were involved in the final evaluation..  These 61 judges would decide their favorite student clubs based on these clubs’ introduction brochures and their performances or presentations during the annual “NTNU Student Club Fair” on May 23. In addition to the “NTNU Camel Award,” “the Best Student Club of the Year” was another highlight and it was shared by Department of Educational Psychology Counseling’s Student Council and Department of Health Promotion and Health Education’s Student Council.  The latter, however, was the winner among all other student clubs because its members took home a total of four different awards tonight. Former Chia-yi Club president Huang Huei-chun (黃惠君) said that the congregation sing-along in the end of the event, when light went out and everybody was waving his glowing rods, was the most sensational moment. "At the moment, I felt that our hard work during  the past year were all worth it, no matter being awarded or not,” she said.