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PKU‘s Reformed Ceremonies
PKU NEWS 2009—02—27
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=235924415
Peking University, Beijing, Feb. 27th, 2009: "When for the first time we wear the
school badge on our coats with PKU school song played, I became very excited.
Peking University is like the spiritual shrine of China and is the dream of every
student. From that moment, I also took over the responsibility and mission PKU has
given me." PKU student Shi Jing from the Department of Sociology wrote this down
after the opening ceremony.
―This is just one of the many letters the teachers got,‖ Ma Huaxiang, head of the
Division of Student Affairs told the reporter, "PKU has reformed the form of the
opening ceremony, the scholarship award ceremony and the commencement, thus
to enrich the content and the form of ceremonies. And the new ceremonies proved to
be instructive."
Campus culture is regarded as the soul of a university. The reformed ceremonies at
PKU become a platform for inheriting PKU spirit.
At the opening ceremony, PKU choir members taught the freshmen of the school
song which was first composed in 1952 and has touched generations of PKU
students. After that, the DV clips recording the moments the freshmen entered PKU,
registered, walked into their new dorms, met the new classmates, formed the new
class collective was played.
"University student soldier" Gao Ming and outstanding members of mathematical
modeling group was highly praised, setting good examples for the freshmen.
At the scholarship award ceremony, celebrities, well-known entrepreneurs who
established scholarships for PKU were invited to present the scholarships and give
speeches to tell their stories of success.
At the commencement, PKU graduates put on academic costumes, walked through
the elaborately decorated "Academic Degree" door in due order and had their tassel
turned by School principals and teacher representatives. Every time the President
read out the degree-granting decision to students of a certain department, students
would stand up together and shouted the slogans they designed for their department
with pride in unison.
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