China university requires golf lessons

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China university requires golf lessons

A Chinese university is requiring law and business students to take
golf lessons to prepare them for a business world where deals are
made on the golf course, news reports said Tuesday.

Xiamen University in the southeastern city of Xiamen joins a growing
number of Chinese schools offering golf lessons, but is unusual in
making them a required class.

Golf classes start in two months and also will be required for
economics and computer software majors, the official Xinhua News
Agency said, citing university president Zhu Chongshi.

"The aim is to help the students find good jobs," a sports professor
at the school, Chen Xiao, was quoted as saying. "Many Chinese
business deals are clinched on golf courses."

Elite Peking University set off a debate over whether golf is
appropriate for China, where most people still live in poverty, when
it announced in August that it was building a practice green.

Some students complained the sport was too elitist but supporters
defended it as a healthy social activity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061017/ap_on_fe_st/china_university_golf

Definition of Terms:
Clinched - To make someone decide what to do after a lot of
consideration or discussion.
Elite - The richest, most powerful, best educated or most highly
trained group in a society.

Guide Questions:
- What can you say about this new requirement of Xiamen University
for its Economics and Computer Software students? Why do you say so?
- If you are studying in Xiamen University, would you be willing to
learn Golf? Why/ Why not?
- Golf is an elistist sport, do you agree? Why/ Why not?
- In what other ways do most korean businessmen close their deals
with clients?
- If you are trying to close a deal with a client by playing golf,
would you deliberately let your client win? Why/ Why not?