Welcome!

To: Fellow NTU students and prospective NTU freshmen

It had been a well-known fact that the school is currently working on the conversion of double room to triple rooms in various halls in the coming semester. This is due to the increase intake of freshmen in the coming semester in accordance with the delay of the construction of the 4 new halls. In addition, this proposal also serves to relieve the strain on the waiting list from the Hall Allocation System. Two different versions of show rooms for the triple-sharing accommodation had been set up in Hall 13 and Hall 14 to gather feedback from the students.

Through various means of feedback and surveys, we do understand that a large proportion of the NTU population (including the students and professors) are not in favor of this conversion. We do see the cons of this implementation, which includes compromised basic needs, social problems and degrading of comfort level. Therefore, the Hall Presidents’ Council which constitutes all the Hall Presidents had been tying up with the school in many occasions to voice out the dissatisfaction of the students and will continue doing so.

However, we will not be able to do so without the support from the school population. Many residents and students alike are thinking that there is nothing we can do to put a halt to the conversion as the show-rooms are already out and everything is proceeding faster than we are expecting. Many professors, hall fellows and hall officers are also not supportive of this conversion as they do see the disadvantages and problems that are going to be attached with this implementation. As they are staff of the university, they have no choice but to follow the school’s direction.

We are different, we are the students of the university and these policies have direct impact on us and the incoming batch of students. If we do not do anything right now despite of all the problems that we expect to occur, the triple rooms’ conversion will unfold before our very eyes in the next moment. The incoming batch of freshmen will be most directly affected as many of them will be allocated to such rooms. If we were them, we would definitely hope that the current students will be able to ‘fight’ for their rights. Besides, some of us may also be randomly allocated to such rooms. As hall presidents, we have not given up on persuading the school to do away with the triple room implementation. We need the student population to be united together at this very moment to show our disgruntlement to the school and not just show our dissatisfaction among ourselves.

With this blog, we hope to gather views and opinions of the student population and also to update information to fellow school mates as well as the hall residents with regards to the triple room. Let's show our cohesiveness at this point of time and support the 'Say No to Triple' notion.


Hall Presidents’ Council 07/08