Foreword for the Special Issue: For You, Away from Home

 For Those Who Are Away from Home

Alvin Dahn

Ever since we first published our Department Journal—E-Power on line, we have been sticking to the layout of four pages— Department and Campus, Entertainment and Enjoyables, Analytical and Critical, and Trending and International, i.e. the D.E.A.T. format, which has been a good guideline for us and has been working quite well for the editors for the individual pages. 

And yet, we are making an exception for this issue. As one of the few English publications on campus, on line or in hard copies, we are feeling obliged to help foreign students here on their exchange projects. Particularly, we’d like to be of help in aspects of recommending places to go for daily necessities and relaxing hangouts at reasonable prices. 

For this said purpose, we have two of our best editors—Shan Chien and Florence Huang—work focus on the recommendations nearby and a bit further down the MRT route. We hope this issue to serve as a practical tour guide around the campus and to ease some of the homesickness for students so far away from home. Enjoy your life here!