¡º Time to finish the Rankings ¡»

     Various statistics are developing steadily every year. Some of the groups have been ranking on all kinds of social phenomena by their subjective criteria. University rankings are pretty good example, but their standards are absolutely vague.

     There are universities placed in America or Europe at the top of the chart which were ranked in 'Top 150'. Could be the power or the property of the country ranking standards? I'm sure that things seem to be reflected to a certain extent. The situations are eliminating the objectivities, discouraging those students who are attending univ.s which were not ranked orlow-ranked. I, of source, admit that of the efforts and the contributions for their schools and countries which the Ivy League students are making. I just worry that it would fix the prejudice what low-ranked univ. students are not smart, so it could be chained to the country images. It's not fair to deprive students of their individual chance, ability and protectiveness, even though they are attending low-ranked univ, just as poor people can not be allowed to study without worrying as they want.


     Now, it's getting morealleviated, but in a recent few years, especially Asian students have been harassed with their skin color. What a man calls, it was the 'Racial Discrimination'. The skin color is not a suitable constituent for being a genius. That phenomenon has shown the facts realistically that those univ.s in Asian continent were not ranked at the top.


     Not every student, of course, has seemed to do their best in school days. They might just criticize without doing studies. For instance, the KNU recent researching in 'How long do you spend to study' had shown us two remarkable results. Firstly, about 80% of the students in KNU do not study in less than 2 hours a day. Secondly, they are not familiar with reading a book for raising their cultural level, so except only for major course readings, they hardly ever read.


     Though somewhat to my surprise, it is apparent that spending time to study is proportion to their achievements, which would enhance our Korea's value as a top-class in the world.


     As a result, all of the hard-working student names are deserve to be placed at the top of the chart, not school names, so we young men are the best as a winner.


     From that perspective, University rankings are severely preposterous and no use. Those valueless matters should be abolished as early as possible.

 By Park, Sung-eun, student of Geology, KNU (e-mail : zauberinsel@naver.com)