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附South China Morning Post
It's fine to skip class for Occupy Central, says Chinese University lecturer
It's better than getting drunk, says professor. He plans to film classes to help absentees keep up
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 04 September, 2014, 3:51am
UPDATED : Thursday, 04 September, 2014, 8:13am
Jeffie Lam jeffie.lam@scmp.com
Gordon Mathews says he "might not penalise" students who miss classes to protest. Photo: Edward Wong
Occupy Central is a legitimate reason to skip classes, says a department head at Chinese University who will provide filmed lectures to help students who join class boycotts in protest at Beijing's restrictive framework for the city's political reform.
 "Students miss classes from time to time. This is better than going to Lan Kwai Fong and getting drunk, after all," Professor Gordon Mathews, head of the anthropology department at the university, told the South China Morning Post.
"I would want people to be in tutorials … but if someone were to miss some tutorials because they were occupying Central, I think that will be a legitimate reason and I might not penalise students for that," he said.
Mathews' remarks came as the city's first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, opposed the school strikes initiated by the Hong Kong Federation of Students and student-led group Scholarism which could take place in mid-September.
Mathews said that putting filmed classes online would be a way to help the student activists.
"That means if students were to miss a few classes, it would not be a great deal," the anthropologist said, adding that it would be up to individual teachers to decide how to deal with the issue.
Other academics expressed similar views.
Professor Timothy O'Leary, head of the University of Hong Kong's school of humanities, told the Post the school had issued guidelines advising teachers to be "as flexible as they can be" during the boycott to minimise the impact on students' learning.
That included rescheduling compulsory tutorials and avoiding deadlines for papers during the period. "We would not condemn students as we understand what they are doing."
In contrast, Baptist University - which did not encourage students to join class boycotts - said students absent without approval for more than 15 per cent of scheduled classes of a subject would be banned from exams.
Mathews, who has lived in Hong Kong since 1994, also pointed out the dilemma expatriates faced amid the political tension.
Deeply disappointed by the national legislature's Sunday decision that effectively ruled out pan-democrats running for chief executive in 2017, Mathews said he feared his participation in Occupy Central would bring harm to the movement.
"Hong Kong is my home … I would never want to be a coward here," he said. "But I would hate to be used by China."
This could happen through Beijing saying his attendance showed American interference in the democracy movement.
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as It's fine to skip class for Occupy Central: lecturer
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