Baffled! How come 3 deaths befell to 3 foreign students in Singapore in only 5-day time this 1st week of March!
1. March 2, 2009:
Indonesian top student David Hartanto Widjaja (NTU) died of falling from the 4th floor,
having been suspected to stab his professor on the 6th floor of an NTU building.
Click:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_344879.html
also doubts over David's death causes (in Indonesian language) at:
http://www.detiknews.com/prokontra/detail/pro/2009/03/05/113846/1094737/612/bunuh-diri-david-di-singapura-diragukan
2. March 4, 2009:
An USA undergraduate from Miami Univ. (a national merit scholar) was found dead in his
NUS hostel room, apparently over drinking with a bottle of pills found.
Click:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_346180.html
3. March 6, 2009:
People's Republic of China student, just graduating from NTU and started working in NTU on
March 2, 2009 (the very day David passed away) Zhou Zheng was found hanged in
Nanyang Heights.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_347185.html
and some interesting comments from the Straits Times readers at:
http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=17551&page=2
Also read the Indonesian detik.com news at:
http://www.detiknews.com/comment/2009/03/07/152155/1096029/10/setelah-david-giliran-staf-ntu-ditemukan-tewas-gantung-diri
Only God knows what has been happening this week in Singapore, involving NTU and NUS--the two most famous universities in Asia! BTW, guys, peek out my comment on the Straits Times comment page at:
http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=17387&page=53
Here I quote my comment:
"Regarding the Misnomer's comment of at:
http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=17387&page=13
saying "3.5 score over 5 is a score which many average students can achieve. Here, we are talking about an ASEAN scholar. ", allow me to inform that in MIT, yes, the GPA scale is 0-5.0., seehttp://web.mit.edu/registrar/gpacalc.html,but in NTU, at least the undergraduate study as written here:http://www.ntu.edu/Ac/bulletin/admission.pdfthe GPA scale is 0-4.0. Therefore, the demand of the required GPA for the ASEAN scholarship requires best of the best students, and not average ones."
BTW, also read one blogs' conspiracy theory on the #1 and #3 incidents from:
http://www.gabrielsai.com/blog/2009/03/a-conspiracy-theory-on-deaths-in-ntu.html
Saturday, March 07, 2009
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3 comments:
Hi, I happened to be blog-hopping and came across this post.
As an undergraduate student currently studying in NUS, I just want to point out that indeed NTU and NUS use cumulative grade point average with a maximum score of 5.0. I think you have misread the link that you mentioned.
An average of 3.5 out of 5.0 only requires an average of B for all modules, something I must say is justifiable for renewal of scholarships.
-Anastasya
Err ... have you checked this out, just wonder why the Admission office still wrote in their .pdf 2008/2009 the scale 0-4.
Check out:
http://www.ntu.edu/Ac/bulletin/admission.pdf
I've downloaded it again, and
read it ... it is 0-4.0. Sigh.
Thanks anyway.
A second thought:
Having heard from my school graduate, currently studying in NUS, that yes, most of univ./colleges now in Singp. adopted 5-scale grades, I rechecked:
http://www.ntu.edu/Ac/bulletin/admission.pdf
and tried this link:
http://www.ntu.edu/Ac/
I found out the bulletin was a 2004/2005 archive. Truly sorry for the imprecise data. Thanks.
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