Support the Merger.

Here is the email I sent to Yi Dao. We need to fully support the merger with

TongJi medical school. HUST is not MIT yet. We have to admit HUST has a long

way to go to catch up with BeiDa and TsingHua. The simple fact is currently

HUST needs to compete with Wuda to be the number 1 university in the middle

of China.

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Yidao,

Thank you for your emails about the naming issue of HUST. As a HUSTer, I

am watching closely on what is happening to my beloved university.

Considering the trend and goverment's policy, my opinion is the merger

with TongJi medical school is very critical for HUST's future. Very few

university can remain at top without a medical school (and a law

school), which is specially true for Hua Gong which is relately new

compared to other older universities and is not that famous yet. It will

be a nightmare to Hua Gong if WuDa merges with TongJi.

I don't think naming issue is more important than merger. We need to

view this issue from long term. Yes, we hope we can keep the current

name or have a new name which contains "HuaZhong". But before that, as

alumni,I think we need to fully support the merger.