SCU Wins Honesty Cup Debate

29 November 2015 saw the perfect ending of a three-day fierce competition of the 9^th Honesty Cup College Debate Contest (9^th HCCDC).  The first prize went to Soochow University (SCU), followed by China Medical University, and University of Macau. Debaters from SCU won the championship with abundant evidence, thorough elaboration, and logical articulation and discourse.

The Contest, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, and Taipei City Government, was held to help raise awareness among college students on the government’s system and corruption-free policies.  Among the many honorable guests at the grand opening of the 9^th HCCDC on 26 November 2015 were Yang Shijin, Deputy Director General of the Agency Against Corruption, Liu Guangji, Director of Corruption Prevention Division, from the Ministry of Justice, Feng Haoting, Director of Government Ethics Office of Taipei City Police Department, and Li Zongxun, Professor of Department of Foreign Affairs Police of Central Police University.   

The proposition this year is “Which Is Better in Preventing Corruption: Transparency in Administration or Severe Penalties?” For nearly one month, debaters of SCU prepared and practiced industriously. Zheng Yuxuan, SCU’s junior student from the Department of Social Work, and Secretary General of the Contest, won the Best Debater, and could not hide her delight as their effort eventually paid off.