Kao’s remarks were widely seen as belittling Hsinchu-based Chung Hua University as an inferior school to NTU — one of Taiwan’s top schools, from which she holds a master’s degree. From left, Democratic Progressive Party legislators Michelle Lin, Huang Shih-chieh and Wu Yu-chin attend a news conference in Taipei yesterday. After her remarks were widely seen as elitist, she yesterday apologized to Chung Hua University. “Voters in Hsinchu are to choose a mayor who will speak up for them,” Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokeswoman Huang Tsai-ling (黃彩玲) said. “In past decades, many teenagers could not take university entrance exams, not because they were not smart, but because of their family background, she added.
