朱永安意见调查

校友朱永安于2002年12月1日至2003年1月15日，通过电子邮件，邀请校友对有关南大的三个事项，表示意见。调查结果如下：

Hi Nantah Alumni,

I sincerely thank all alumni for tolerating the numerous survey related e-mail flooding your mail systems. Thank you very much for all your responses. I also like to thank all the Nantah web sites for showing the survey results to their readers. This marks the end of my survey. Hopefully it can be continued or extended with new results added.

The survey results are very educational in many ways. A total of 49 alumni (out of around 150 by e-mail) participated in the survey. The response rate is a mere 33%, lower than I had hoped. I am particularly disappointed at the lower response rate of 26% from Vancouver (my city) where only 7 out of 27 participated in the survey. The survey results are given below followed by the names of participants.

Vote counts of 49 participants.

Question 1	47votes	1"yes"	46"no"
Question 2	43votes	25"yes"	18"no".
Question 3	37votes	19"yes"	18"no".

Reasons for question 1.

[1a]	NTU is the resurrection of Nantah:
(1)	Because it still uses the name related Nanyang University's name. Since the government took over the University, they could have used other name unrelated to Nanyang University at all. Then people will forget Nanyang University altogether. The only thing that can keep Nanyang University intact is not to let the government take over. But this is not the case.
[1b]	NTU is not the resurrection of Nantah:
(1)	Nantah was booted out of YunNanYuan in 1980.
(2)	It is impossible.
(3)	Nantah had three faculties, and NTU has one only.
(4)	Not until NTU develops into a full-fledge University with all the major faculties.
(5)	Some crucial changes must be done first. I believe all Chinese high school graduates must be able to attend the Nanyang University by passing the entrance examinations like we all did in our days.
(6)	I have no feeling of NTU at this stage. They must change the system and environment to take care of Nantah spirit and Chinese culture.
(7)	Nanyang University was murdered in 1980. NTU is totally irrelevant to NU except forcibly occupied the site.
(8)	They are trying to whitewash the blunder of closing down Nanyang University that was established under the leadership of the late Tan Lark Sye.
(9)	Objectives have changed. Do not serve students from Malaysia well. Do not promote Chinese culture.
(10)	NTU belongs to the Government of Singapore. Nantah founded by Mr Tan Lark Sye belonged to all overseas Chinese.
(11)	Nantah and NTU are different entities.
(12)	NU and NTU are of different aims in Education. NTU does not "carry-on" NU history but twisting it.
(13)	The essence of NTU is not the same.
(14)	NTU was a tool used to kill our alma mater. Any dream on the part of NTU to resurrect Nantah and assume our alma mater's identity is an evil dream, which no one with any sense of decency would like to see it become true. We cannot allow this crude usurpation. We can be more constructive by working for Nantah's revival ourselves.
(15)	They are two different identities born under different period in time and having different missions.
(16)	I believe Nantah had not passed it tradition, spirit or etc. to any institution. If Nantah is a trade mark or own some IP's then it will be an interesting case.
(17)	NTU is in no way related to Nantah. If someone broke into my house, chase me out of the house and claimed all my properties, then I would not call him my friend.
(18)	Nanyang University and NTU are two different universities in nature.
(19)	Completely different courses and different (areas of) faculty members.
(20)	Cannot mix, different background, goals and objectives.
(21)	NTU does not provide "continuity" for Malaysian Chinese Education, which was the main objective for Nantah.
(22)	Not until the spirit of Nantah is restored. However, every effort should be made in reaching out to NTU.
(23)	The purpose of the establishment of Nantah in 1953 was to provide teachers for high schools and train professionals and educators (for post-secondary and post-graduate studies) because many Chinese graduates from high schools were NOT accepted to continue at the University of Singapore or the University of Malaya. The purpose of the establishment of NTU is different.
(24)	More and more old Nantah characteristics are being eliminated including the sceneries and buildings in the campus.
(25)	However, if the conditions and culture are right, it could be.
(26)	There is no connectivity of the present NTU and Nantah. NTU is essentially a government-supported university with no obvious distinction from NUS.
(27)	It is entirely a different educational establishment except it was built on the soil of the original Nantah.
(28)	My alma mater is a Chinese university not a Singlish university.
(29)	It lacks Nantah spirit, although it occupies the campus where Nantah was.
(30)	NTI was created upon the demise of Nantah and years later was renamed NTU following a series of changes.
(31)	Chinese language has been neglected as an optional tool of instruction in classroom as well as communication.
(32)	Tan Lark Sye, principal founder of Nantah, was deprived of his citizenship. Would he ever be exonerated?
(33)	"University of Technology" reflects a focus on technology.

Reasons for question 2.

[2a]	I support Professor Teh's Internet Nantah:
(1)	It is a constructive project that can provide good values, such as Nantah Education and Research Foundation.
(2)	This is a good way to keep the name of Nantah, Nantah spirit and make contribution to the societies.
(3)	Any effort to make Nantah visible again is good. I suppose it is the cheapest way. Will be nice if some Old Boys (and Girls) can contribute in the teaching of certain subjects. Must act fast before all of us are gone.
(4)	Although the proposal of Internet Nantah in its current form is strong in rhetoric and weak in substance, it deserves recognition. It re-ignites the interest to re-establish Nantah.
(5)	Internet Nantah is still the easier way to "revive" Nantah (assuming the main language is Chinese).
(6)	This is a most practical way to revive Nantah. I urge all alumni to read the materials on the subject put out by fellow alumni Zheng Fenxing and Fu Wencheng and extend to them our support.
(7)	The effort is commendable.
(8)	Easier to use distance learning. However, still need a lot of effort.
(9)	No objection as Nantah alumni's establishing an Internet University.
(10)	If this internet university is run by Nantah graduates, we can make it follow our own ideals.
(11)	This is a global trend. If Nantah is alive now, it would likely have set up some kind of internet Nantah.
[2b]	I do not support Professor Teh's Internet Nantah:
(1)	It is just NOT realistic. The project will need a tremendous amount of resources. I do not think Internet Nantah can compete.
(2)	Will you allow a robot to raise your child?
(3)	Nantah already long passed away. 20 years gap could not be filled.
(4)	The Nantah spirit is not there! I do not see how one can "preserve" and "prosper" Nantah's spirit through Internet. It was the physical campus - YunNanYuan that had nurtured the Nantah's spirit!
(5)	Too much work. Where is the funding?
(6)	I do not think it would serve any purpose.
(7)	The objective and the scope of the Internet Nantah is not clear. It requires huge resources, both financial and human resources to support a viable educational program. For the internet program to survive and continue, one cannot count on a few retired professors, no matter how dedicated they are.
(8)	We can channel our effort to support New Era College and Southern College which play significant roles in the private education in Malaysia. Even the MCA sponsored University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) is worthy of our support.
(9)	Serve no purpose, cannot challenge other universities.
(10)	The idea is great but there is no backup of a real university. Many universities provide internet studies on top of a physical campus.
(11)	Premature at this stage. Source of financing? More concrete platform and plans required. Total and continuous dedication of a significant group of "core " people needed.
(12)	If it does not work, it may detract from the name of Nantah, and what has already been accomplished by Nanyang University during its short lifespan.
(13)	It does not solve the real issue. It looks like another version of NTU.
(14)	I would not support internet Nanda financially. It should go the venture finance market to raise about 5 million to run such a business. I do not think anyone should use Nanda's name as the name for the so call internet Nanda University.

Reasons for question 3.

[3a]	I support the role of the president of our local Nantah alumni association as vice president of the "Nantah History Writing Committee":
(1)	Why not? As far as I understood from the website, all presidents of local Nantah Alumni Association worldwide are supposed to be vice presidents of the "Nantah History Writing Committee".
(2)	It is the general practice for most associations doing similar things. The "vice president" is basically only the name, not the major duty.
(3)	They must have loved Nantah more than others to be involved in their branches.
(4)	The effort is commendable.
(5)	As a leader in an association, he/she should be the right person to be co-opted into the committee.
(6)	I endorse the writing of Nantah history with facts, NOT personal opinions.
(7)	No harm.
(8)	The participation of the President of each of the established alumni groups in the History Committee is really not an important issue. The issue is to make sure that the history that is finally written is based on the Nantah perspective.
(9)	by default.
[3b]	I do not support the role of the president of your local Nantah alumni association as vice president of the "Nantah History Writing Committee":
(1)	This is undemocratic. Nobody should be forced to do anything without prior consent. Each association is an independent entity and should not be considered as a branch of an organization or corporation.
(2)	He/She should be one of the editors.
(3)	Presidents of local associations do not do any work as Vice President of the Writing Committee and as far as I know the Writing Committee do not officially invite or appoint our President as Vice President of the Writing Committee.
(4)	I would not give a blank cheque directly or indirectly to an alumni group, apparently a strong supporter of so called "fu ming nantah". Re: http://www.geocities.com/vyfoo/nantahalumni/history/memo.html.
(5)	There were no proper discussions among the members.
(6)	Writing history is not a simple task, especially Nantah History. A professionally trained prominent history scholar is required to carry out research on the issues.
(7)	Appoint a good Editor for the job.
(8)	I prefer domination of one or two from each local Alumni Association to work on the project till completion to coordinate local views, input and review.
(9)	Appointing local presidents is a political maneuver which has nothing to do with the actual writing of history. I like the idea of writing Nantah history, they should recruit the talent from local associations to actually involve in the writing instead of rubber-stamping the committee.
(10)	The role of the president of my local Alumni Association as vice president of the "Nantah History Writing Committee" is unknown even to the president himself.
(11)	Writing history is a serious business and should be in the hands of experts.
(12)	The president of a local alumni association is changing from time to time, this extra duty is not listed in the constitution.
(13)	Consultation with individuals seems a better approach. The president of a local alumni association may express his or her own view(s) with regard to such a matter.
(14)	How representative are the various Presidents anyway? How many alumni groups have in fact conducted serious discussions about matters affecting Nantah, let alone the writing of Nantah history? How many Presidents really know what the feelings of their membership are on the various issues? How many of the Presidents are prepared to speak out at the History Committee meetings?

Suggestions on writing Nantah history:

I suggest that the History Committee organizes open discussions on thematic issues related to the history of Nantah. This can be done first and foremost in Kuala Lumpur, where the Committee is located, by allocating topics to different alumni and friends of Nantah for discussion. Perhaps a series of public seminars can be held, or workshops each stretching over two or three days. This is not to substitute the work of writing by the History Committee, it is merely to bring in more facts and ideas, and to make Nantah history writing a truly alumni affair. With the assistance of the various alumni groups, the same can be done at the other alumni locations. Certainly, an even larger scale discussion can be organized in conjunction with the reunion to be held in Penang. We must establish access to the Public Records Offices of the U.K., U.S. and Australian governments to make sure that we widen our sources of information.

List of alumni participated (up to January 15, 2003) in the survey:
Ang Siow-Leong, Bong Kik-Sang, Chan Gin-Hor, Chan Yip-Hoi, Chen Chuan-Chong, Chew Kim-Peu, Chew Tuan-Seng , Chia Ban Seng, Choo Eng-Ung, Choo Kim-Biao, Choo Koo-Guan, Chuan Zheng-Zheng, Foo Boon-Seng, Foo Hee-Yang, Foo Ven-Yee, Goh Ee-Hua, Haw Yong, Heng Aik-Koan, Hew Choy-Sin, Hew Choy-Leong, Huang SF, Hui Tak-Kee, Kang Hak-Boon, Koh Khee Meng, Lai Hong-Chaw, Lee AG, Lee Lily, Lee Peng-Yee, Lim Chong-Keang, Ling Tok-Wang, Lo Raymond, Ng Kok-Chwan, Ong Her-Yam, Ooi Boot-Cheong, Ooi Poy-Hoe, Phua Kang-Hoh, Siah Soo-Seng, Sin Wan-Ching, Tan Kok-Chiang, Tan Kok-Keong, Tan Kok-Swang, Tan Meng-Kwan, Tan Ting-Yean, Teh Chin-Yong, Teng Tjoon-Tow, Yang Ann-Fook, Yap Tin-Song, Yeo Liza, Zhang Kee Leong.
(编者按：以下是上述参与者的中文姓名)
洪少良，黄吉生，田银河，陈业开，曾传仲， 周金彪，周选星，谢万森，朱永安，朱金表， 朱固源，庄正正，傅文成，符气男，傅文义， 吴怡华，侯平，邢益群，丘才新，丘才良， 黄盛发，许德琪，江学文，许其明，黎海洲， 李益伍，萧虹，李秉彝，林忠强，林卓旺， 罗玉良，黄国全，王火炎，黄物种，黄培和， 潘江湖，谢守成，沈文卿，陈国相，陈国强， 陈国瑄，陈民光，陈定远，郑振勇，邓俊涛， 杨安福，叶天颂，杨秋祈，张基良。

Cheers.

Zhu Yong-An (朱永安)

2003-1-16