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University Concourse (Podium)is a public place in the Floor 4 of Academic Building 1 in City University of Hong Kong. It consists of 5 zones (purple, blue, green, yellow, red) and 18 lecture theaters. Also, it links to the Festival Walk and the Kowloon Tong MTR station.

Structure
The general concept of “podium” is the 4th floor of Academic Building 1 of City University of Hong Kong. Two sides of the podium are the 18 lecture theatres, which most of them were named with the name of different donators. Also, each theatre has its code in its name for people to search the theatres conveniently, for example, Lecture Theatre 18 is coded as LT 18. To make students convenience, podium is divided into five parts, using colors to indicate different areas. The bottom area is purple zone, green zone is right next to purple, following is blue , yellow and red. There are a large space between the lecture halls. Hundreds of sofas, chairs and tables in that area for multi-purpose use. Also there is a shop called "CutPrice" in yellow zone. It works as a tuck shop for students to buy snacks, and they also sell stationery. Students with ID card can have certain discount when they buy stuffs in "cut price".

At the edge of the podium, there are two escalators and four exits to Academic Building 2 and 3.

Function
Podium is the junction of City University of Hong Kong. Through the podium, students can assess to different parts of school and nearby locations. For example it links with Nam Shan Estate, 18 lecture theatres as well as two others academic buildings, making the podium most crowded place in university. Therefore university guides usually take the podium as a signpost to take visitors around the campus. The podium is connected to eight escalators. Four allow students to proceed to Hang Shen Bank and Run Run Shaw Library, another four can go to university canteen and 5th floor classrooms.

School Activities
Some formal school activities were held in podium. School would hold some research and departmental seminar in the podium for academic purpose. Also, school invite some companies to have recruitment and internship talks for student in the lecture theater, such as New World Development, Hong Kong Airlines, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia), and Hong Kong Television Network. Also, some academic activities like exhibitions, academic festivals and talks would be held in the podium, which include the Annual Discovery Festival and the Information Day in every October.

Besides, some formal social activities will be held in podium such as the Political Reform Forum, which invited the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong, Rimsky Yuen, as the guest. This can be a type of socio-political engagement of adolescent. During 15th April to 15th July in 2013, the icafe in the podium (behind the Cut Price Shop) was temporarily replaced by the June 4 Memorial Museum to mourn the deaths in Peking June 4 Incident in 1989 and arose wider concern of this incident among students.

Moreover, art exhibitions are sometimes held in podium to introduce different artists’ works so as to enhance the awareness of university students, such as Animamix Biennale 2013-14: This Slow .That Fast. , and Legend Bricks Adventure 2013.

Student Activities
The City University podium was consider as the gathering hall for all kinds of student activities, from formal activities like orientation day, to promotion venue of clubs and societies to informal meeting of students for their projects, the podium is always the first choice.

Every August student union will set up a series of booth for each academic department, activities societies and university teams which we called the ‘Mok Yan Hon’ (Literature meaning: wooden people corridor; Chinese: 木人巷). In there, the new student would be able to get a brief idea of the activities that held by SU. Also they can feel free to ask the students in each booth about their university life. Moreover, this is a channel for the activities societies and the teams to promote their own culture and to recruit new members.

Also, there are the promotion and the new committee of the different academic department and the activity societies in three different promotional periods, December, February and April. The new committee members will set counter at the podium, give up souvenirs and promotional leaflet in order to catch the attention of their members. If there are more than one proposed cabinet, they will do everything to catch people attention so that they can beat the other proposed cabinet. The proposed committee members will shout slogans in the podium and sell their society to the passerby. However, these wildly used promotional methods are unwelcomed by some party that they consider the voice of shouting slogan as noise pollution and it is “uncivilized”. Despite the disagreement, the culture of the proposed cabinet shouting slogan in the CityU podium can still be seen frequently.