Talk:Thammasat University

I think TU's Official motto isn't mean that she want to be the Leader of the society. In my opinion, means TU want to make society the better way together with the university. I, however, really don't know exactly official motto in english. So if it's proper to be like that. Just don't mind.

well, yes, I also agree, but it is quite difficult if one can translate that motto in Thai to match with sound and meaning into English. It is sort of vague, that Eng motto...

As I understand, there is no official motto; the one previously provided was the administrative vision statement and doesn't really qualify as a motto in the context of the word. I have removed it from the page (since it makes little sense as translated).--Paul C 22:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

ใครชอบเข้ามาเปลี่ยนภาษาตลกๆอ่ะครับ
ต้องพิจารณาด้วยนะครับ ถ้าหากคุณต้องการเข้ามาเปลี่ยน ไม่แน่ใจเปิดพจนานุกรมหรือถามeducatedเจ้าของภาษาก่อนนะครับ ไม่งั้นมันจะเละเทะ

Part of the article now under the overview section needs clean-up. The descriptive tone also needs to be edited for NPOV.--Paul C 17:57, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Support merge
The faculty stub is small and needs help, which it'll more like get if it's part of the main TU article. Wisekwai 20:20, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Mergers
OK, I've merged the three small articles on the faculties to this page, but left the much longer article on the Institute of Technology, and the stub on the College of Innovative Education, since it does not really add anything to the article. Hopefully, they'll do well on this page. -- Con  Dem Talk 03:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Thammasat and NIDA
from http://www.tu.ac.th/intro/about/ :
 * The Institute of Public Administration, offering a postgraduate program, was established in 1955. It was transferred to the National Institute of Development Administration in 1966.

Tha Phrachan/Prachan spellings
There're two spellings of Tha Phrachan in this page, "Tha Phrachan" and "Tha Prachan"


 * 1) which one is officially correct ? (say, by the local authority, Bangkok Metro, etc.)
 * 2) which one is prefered by the university ? (to use as its own campus name)

-- Bact 05:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

"Faculty of Engineering" section contains unnecessary details
I don't think we need information like IELTS scores and discount fee percentage here. -- 58.136.73.216 06:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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6 October 1976 Massacre?
Shouldn't there be a section in this article dedicated to the 6 October 1976 Massacre which occured on the grounds of Thammasat University? —Preceding unsigned comment added by OnTheMantle (talk • contribs) 06:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Also, in the text mentioning this massacre, it says images of the hanging were doctored to make the actor look like the crown prince. However on the article about the massacre, it says there is no proof the images were doctored and all surviving original versions look the same. I'm not informed about this topic whatsoever so I have no idea which is true. --86.138.228.53 (talk) 12:56, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There are no cites for "Several newspapers printed photographs of the mock hanging with, however, one of the students retouched to resemble Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, an act of lèse-majesté." Anyone got any? How am I meant to know if this is true or not without cites? What about a cite for the resemblance to Varairalongkorn being the trigger for the attack? 124.171.198.7 (talk) 03:01, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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Support of Fascism
It would be great if someone could include Thammasat's recent history and its slide towards supporting more and more fascism and military juntas in Thailand. It's fact that the head of Thammasat is a member of the Junta-appointed government. In addition, a retired professor who is the wife of a former top Thai general has been assisting in the running of the Liberal Arts faculty. It is unclear what her influence is. There are also many faculty who participated in groups who supported the overthrow of previous elected governments. The campus had military and police on campus monitoring students yet there was no outcry of civil rights violations by the administration or most faculty. The evidence is clear that Thammasat has accepted the current dictatorship since before the takeover. The university promotes itself as offering more freedom and as being more open and tolerant of alternative ideas but these days that is absolutely not true. Thammasat is a supporter of fascism. NaturalEquality (talk) 05:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Strong accusations. Got sources? Seligne (talk) 08:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

→ Well, as I noted the head of TU has two jobs. One is heading the university and the other is in the NLA, the junta's regime. There was no resistance to this from staff. I know there are staff members who are against this but TU has a lot of ultra royalists throughout the various faculties who put fear in the air. At this point, there is peace and quiet but it wasn't as if there weren't many who would like to have said something earlier on. You can do a search to see how many faculty members fled abroad or stayed abroad as the coup occurred. Dr Somsak, probably the most outspoken professor had to flee. Thammasat tried to take away his pension as he had not reported back to Thailand at the start of the following semester after initially going abroad. Where was Thammasat's protection for alternative views then. It let the junta threaten its people. This went on prior the coup even happening. Thammasat is not a university that protects free speech. The first term after the coup, a few students tried to protest on campus at some of the buildings with classrooms. The university leaders let plainclothes military hunt them down on campus. One Thammasat student was arrested by plainclothes soldiers or police just outside the campus gate on another occasion. Some of these events were covered in the media so there should be evidence there too. The best way to find out more about what happened on campus would be to talk to staff, teachers, cleaners, security guards and students but of course questions will infuriate the fanatical fascist staff who don't want a different version of the truth to come out. Still, the evidence of the Head of Thammasat in the NLA says enough. Mahidol university had a faculty dean who was planning on working for the junta's regime as well but there there was enough resistance to stop him from doing it. The history is there. Overall, Thammasat is open to fascism of the present military junta in control of Thailand. NaturalEquality (talk) 05:45, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


 * See for example this Bangkok Post article. I won't characterise the criticism as the university supporting Fascism/dictatorship/whatever. It's more like the administration failing to live up to the university's traditionally claimed reputation as a bastion of liberty. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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