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02 NEWS News Bites CHRONICLE 19 05 NTU NTU TO INVEST IN SOLAR PANEL NTU will invest about $15.5 million to install a solar panel system by 2016. The installation is the largest ever planned for a single site in Singapore, and will cover some 50,000 square metres. It will provide enough energy for more than 1,000 HDB households annually. NTU COLLISION LANDS CAR IN CANAL Three NTU students escaped unharmed after their car took a nosedive into a canal on October 31, following a car collision. Strong currents dragged the car for more than 50m after it crashed through the railings. The accident took place at the junction of Nanyang Crescent and Nanyang Avenue shortly after noon Two students were unhurt while one had slight injuries. NTU TO CO-HOST WORLD ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM 2013 NTU, together with the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) , will jointly host the sixth edition of the World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) in Singapore next year. The WEF aims to be a meaningful platform for entrepreneurs, policy makers, and experts from different parts of the world to promote sustainable entrepreneurship. NTU’S ALUMNI HONOURED IN ANNUAL HOMECOMING Clean water advocate Dr Adrian Yeo and award-winning photojournalist Sam Kang Li were two of 26 alumni recognised by NTU in the Nanyang Alumni Awards on October 13. These awards are presented to alumni who have attained exemplary achievements in their field of specialisation, or have contributed significantly to the betterment of NTU or society. Other notable recipients include new MP Sim Ann and former TV news presenter Serene Loo. TORRENTIAL RAIN EXPECTED OVER NEXT FEW WEEKS Heavy downpours causing flash floods in various parts of Singapore are expected to continue over the next few weeks. Singapore will receive more rainfall during the north-east monsoon season which is expected to last from December to March. But PUB said despite the sudden heavy rainfall that hit, water levels dropped quickly and traffic was not severely affected. CHOA CHU KANG LRT GETS TWO NEW PLATFORMS Two more platforms will be built at Choa Chu Kang (CCK) LRT station to ease crowding on the existing platform. Currently, commuters board and alight from the trains at a single platform which sees high human traffic during peak hours. The new platforms will free up the existing platform for boarding passengers. They will connect to the link bridge leading to CCK MRT station. SINGAPORE WORLD NTU KICKSTARTS “UNIVER-CITY” PLANS NTU will construct a new Learning Hub and boost the number of residential places under its Campus Master Plan. The Learning Hub, which will be ready by 2014, consists of tutorial rooms stacked into towers. Open for 24 hours, the seven-storey building is designed to promote togetherness in learning. The number of residential places will also be increased by 5,000 places by July 2015. Works for the first two halls at Nanyang Drive have already begun. JOB GROWTH TO SLOW TO 2 PER CENT Job growth in Singapore is expected to slow to 2 per cent. This is due to a structural policy shift to boost competitiveness and productivity and reduce overcrowding, according to labour chief Lim Swee Say. Mr Lim, who is also the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, said a workforce growth of 4 per cent a year is no longer sustainable from both an economic and social angle. SINGAPORE HOLDS FIRST EVER ZOMBIE WALK More than 100 Singaporeans dressed up in their zombie best for Singapore’s first ever Zombie walk over the Halloween weekend. Two different zombie walks took place, one along Penang road near Park Mall, and a larger zombie walk took place along at Clarke Quay on October 27. Organiser Gillian Ang, 27, said she was inspired to organise the event here after seeing it at the San Diego’s comic convention. HURRICANE SANDY DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 146 Hurricane Sandy has resulted in 146 deaths as of November 1. It is the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, with a diameter spanning 1,800 km. It swept the Caribbeans, the Mid-Atlantics and Northeastern United States in late October. In the United States, it hit 24 states. Total damages in all affected countries totalled USD$55.4 billion in estimates. GREEK JOURNALIST TRIED OVER SWISS BANK LIST A Greek journalist has been charged with breaking private data rules after he published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks believed to be holding Swiss bank accounts. Costas Vaxanavis, the editor of “Hot Doc” weekly, published “Lagarde List”, the list containing the 2,000 people, allegedly originated from Christine Lagarde, who sent it to the authorities of several European Union (EU) countries. DISNEY BUYS STAR WARS FROM LUCASFILM Disney has bought the Star Wars franchise from Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. Disney plans to make the seventh episode of Star Wars movie in 2015, and will pay about half in cash and half in stock, issuing 40 million Disney shares in the transaction. George Lucas, the founder of Lucasfilm, will continue as a creative consultant for the franchise. The last Star Wars movie was ‘Revenge of the Sith’, released in 2005. CYCLONE NILAM KILLS EIGHT PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN INDIA At least eight people have been killed and thousands displaced after powerful Cyclone Nilam swept off India’s southern coast. 8,000 people in the low-lying area of Tamil Nadu state have been moved to temporary shelters. Nilam crossed the southern coast at around 4.30 pm, according to the India Meteorological Department.
News Books galore in NTU – Page 6 Halloween horrors in NTU IMAGINE NTU with tentacles hanging from walls, gruesome body parts served as food and scary zombies haunting the hallways of the university campus. That was how students and faculty celebrated Halloween the past three weeks — dressed up as ghoulish characters and scaring others out of their wits — just for the fun of it. Organised by Epiphany, NTU’s English and Drama Society, ‘Fiendish Fiesta’ was housed in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). There, students from all faculties gathered in creepylooking costumes, shared horror stories and read poetry. Sarah Daud, 20, Epiphany’s Vice-President of Publications, said the best part of Halloween is being able to dress up and take on a different role. She said, “Everyone comes to school every day wearing the same old things all the time. At least during Halloween, you get to be someone else.” Besides HSS’s Halloween party, students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) also celebrated Halloween. Students came dressed as different NTU teams embark on first OCIP collaboration IN an unprecedented school-wide collaboration, six teams across NTU will work together this year to supply a Laotian village with clean water. They aim to furnish the village with water dams, pipes and water collection points. Through this large-scale collaboration, the teams hope to make a lasting change that benefits the local community. “This project will culminate in a tangible end product, so together we can form a stronger purpose when planning a project that will truly impact and improve the lives of our beneficiaries,” said Hall 5 expedition director, Justin Loh. “There’s a limit to how much help one team can render as they usually come and go without continuity,” he added. The project will be carried out by teams from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), School of Physical and Mathematical Science and residents from Halls of Residence 2, 3, 5 and 11. Each team will contribute 25 PHOTO | RAPHAEL LIM SPOOKY: Children went trick-or-treating dressed in their ghoulish best. characters such as Pac-man, Super Mario and the Addams Family. As part of the event, the school’s Communication and Information Club organised haunted trails which, according to the club’s Social Secretary, Shahrin Izhar, 21, scared members to the project, with a total of 150 people involved. From May to June 2013, during the semester break, the six teams will take turns to visit Na Phong village, each handling different stages of the construction process. “Students can come together and work with people from other faculties and halls.” Ms Wendy Gwee Senior assistant director Student Affairs Office The process will only be finalised after the CEE team returns from a reconnaissance trip, which will take place from 7 to 12 December. The CEE team will also design the blueprint for the dam, which will be built at the top of a mountain, and pipes connecting the water supply to the village. even the ‘ghosts’ themselves. “There was a first-year student dressed as Wednesday Addams who looked pale and scary herself but she was still so scared during the haunted trail,” he said. Schools were not the only Aside from construction, the teams also plan to teach basic English to primary school children in the village school. The idea for a big project was conceived as there was a great interest in Laos amongst the OCIP teams in 2011 and 2012, said Ms Wendy Gwee, the senior assistant director at the Student Affairs Office. While overseeing the OCIP teams in Laos this year, the overallin-charge of the Overseas Exposure Programme (OEP), met up with Mr Peter Tan, a Singaporean who has lived in Laos since 1995. Mr Tan happened to be the point of contact for a number of projects being carried out last year. The guesthouse owner, who has facilitated more than 30 OCIP collaborations with Singaporean organisations such as Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Singapore Buddhist Lodge, took Ms Gwee to Na Phong village to explore future project opportunities. Ms Gwee said the idea to supply the remote village with water came from the villagers themselves, who have to trek long places where students celebrated Halloween. In Hall of Residence 11, the Junior Common Room Committee organised musical performances, a ‘best dressed’ costume fashion show and a spooky treasure hunt for thrill-seeking residents. According to resident Koh Hui Lin, 19, decorations were put up around the block a week before the event to build up the Halloween mood. “I felt excited during the event as I saw a lot of people dressed up,” said the first-year psychology student who attended the event dressed as a ghostly bride. “The event was a joint effort from a lot of people, like the cultural performance groups and the organisers who prepared the decorations and the food.” The NTU faculty joined in the festivities as well. Halloween-inspired games included ‘creepy Hangman’, where balloons filled with talcum powder were popped on faculty members. Ms Caroline Essame, 49, hosted a Halloween party for residents and their children staying in staff houses. The party was held at the ‘Gory Garden’, the scarily decorated backyard of Ms Essame’s house at Nanyang View, which was the main attraction. As part of the festivities, Halloween games like biting donuts hung on a string and wrapping a friend up with toilet roll to create your own mummy were played too. After a round of games, the children left for trick-or-treating around staff houses, dressed as witches, sword-wielding ninjas and other ghoulish characters. For Ms Essame, festivals like Halloween mark the passing of time in Singapore, where there are no distinct seasons. “Being British, I’m used to having time marked by seasons, and you don’t have seasons living in the tropics,” she said. “And I found, having lived here for so long now, that it’s the festivals that mark the passing of time, whether it’s Chinese New Year, Deepavali or Christmas. And I think Halloween is just part of this cycle of time.” Ms Essame, who specialises in creativity and child development, added that Halloween helps children develop social and emotional skills by managing fear. “Halloween is about exploring fear, being scared, and going out in the dark and yet getting something good from going in the dark,” she said. “I think playing with the rituals of Halloween help children learn about fear and risk, and if you go into the darkness once, you will not be so scared of it the second time.” BEHIND THE EFFORTS: Tan Wa, 8 and Amanda Tang, 21, the Hall 5 Twenty One Young Hearts Committee Vice-Chairperson in Laos Pong Song Village. distances across mountainous areas to access clean water. At the Laos Night 2012, OCIP groups that previously went to Laos came together to share their experiences. During the event, Ms Gwee noticed a “shared common interest among those groups to return to PHOTO | COURTESY OF JUSTIN LOH Laos to ensure continuity.” She subsequently opened up the project to the floor at the OEP briefing this year. “Students can come together and work with people from other faculties and halls, for a sustainable cause they feel passionate about,” she said.
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