I REFER to the article in which Sir Ti Liang Yang, chairman of Hong Kong University's council, expressed his 'regret that this undertaking [students' agreement of confidentiality] appears to have been flouted' (South China Morning Post, February 24).
It saddens me that Sir T L should hold such a view of students, particularly when no supporting evidence was presented.
Student participants have not disclosed any information about any of the candidates considered for HKU's next vice-chancellor.
Following the disclosure, in the Chinese press (February 16), of the name of the first candidate (Professor Y W Kan), the student participants were just as shocked as everybody else.
To show our concern, we even wrote a letter (dated February 17) to Sir T L requesting that he deal with the leak. However, no steps were taken to deal with this matter at the Selection Committee's meeting on February 20.
In fact, some press articles have revealed confidential information which, for the record, have never been disclosed to the student participants.
