港大校委李國章15年9月29日校委會會議發言（中文譯本）

主席先生：

陳文敏是個老好人

最初，我以為事情很直接簡單。校長提個推薦人選，我們蓋一個橡皮圖章批了它就是了，而人們也認為事實就是如此。然而，我的確有些憂慮，而我認為我必須要清楚說出來，法律學院院長當時是由學院推選出來的，所以要成為院長，你需要做的就是做好人，對所有人都如是。而我覺得陳文敏是個很好人的人，在此我需要利申，其中一個推薦人就是我的表兄弟，而他就認為陳文敏是一個非常非常好人。
 
陳文敏缺法律博士學位

從以上的角度去看，對於陳文敏當法律學院院長，我並無憂慮。我主要的擔憂在於學術方面，陳文敏並沒有等同PhD的學位，或MD或LLD，你或許會認為，這些學歷在法律界並不需要。但是，若果真的不需要，那為何這學歷要存在？當你看看其他推薦人，他們都有LLDs學位。所以，他要不是沒有嘗試，就是他太忙，或者是他認為這些學歷並不重要。如果真的是這樣，他可能會貶低一些擁有博士學位，並經過嚴格考核而得到這學歷的講師及教授。這樣一個沒有經過嚴格學歷考核的人在處理另一個人晉升事宜時，又能否秉持誠實、獨立而客觀？對此我是有懷疑的。

副校任命沒受官方干預

第二，有人說我們是受到中聯辦、梁振英的壓力所干預，我希望此表明，我絕對沒有受到任何壓力。有人說左派報紙，如文匯大公寫了數百篇文章去攻擊陳文敏。但坦白說，我不讀文匯報、大公報，我亦認為大部分香港人都不讀文匯報、大公報。相對說，不少人較負面，以文匯大公愈寫得多的，愈多人對文匯大公的說法持相反意見。但另一方面，有政黨非常有組織地、消息靈通地和非常積極地去推薦這個候選人，正如紀文鳳所言，例如，用威嚇脅迫、用衝擊校委會、用成立關注組、脅迫用司法覆核等等令校委就範。我只在想，為甚麼這些政黨會這麼堅持推舉這個候選人(陳文敏)，是不是他們希望校內有個黨委書記，就像內地大學一樣，有個黨委書記在港大？他是不是黨委書記？我不知道！撇開政治，所有這些事情令我對這個候選人感到非常不舒服和不放心。

謝謝！

Mr. Chairman,
 
When I came on the scene, I thought this would be a very straightforward matter. The Vice-Chancellor makes a recommendation, and we rubber-stamp it, and that’s deemed a fact. However, I do have some worries that I feel I should articulate, the Dean, the Vice-Chancellor, in those days, were elected by the Faculty. So all you have to do is to be a nice guy to everyone, and I think Johannes Chan is a very nice guy. And at this point, I’d like to declare my interest; there was one of the referees which is my cousin. And my cousin has already said he’s a very, very nice guy.
 
So from that point of view, I have no worry in that he is dean, my main worry on academic side was that he has no higher degree equivalent to a PhD or an MD or LLD, now you may say in law is not necessary. Well, if it is not necessary, why is such a degree there in the first place? And when you look at the other referee professors, they all got LLDs. Therefore, either he hasn’t tried or he is too busy or he doesn’t think it is important, but if that’s the case he will be devaluated maybe of the lecturers, professors who have got PhDs, who have gone through the rigours of academic pursues. Now, can you, can someone be in charge of promotion of another person who actually has not gone through the same rigours as that other person and give an honest independent objective view? And I would put my question here is that, I do have my doubt about this.
 
The second thing I’d like to bring up is that, we’ve been said that we’ve been under a lot of pressure form the liaison office, from the Chief Executive, and I’d like to say very categorically I have not been under any pressure. It has been said that the left-wing press, 文匯報、大公報 have been running hundreds of articles against this candidate. And quite honestly, I don’t read 文匯報 or 大公報, and I think most people in Hong Kong do not read 文匯報 or 大公報. Relatively most people take a negative view, the more they say about something, the more we feel anti whatever they say.
 
However, on the other side, it’s that the political parties are very well-organized, very well-informed, very well…how would I say… very keen to push this candidate by, as Leonie said, by intimidation, by failing our council meeting, by having concern groups and all these threatening JRs and everything. But I just wonder why is these political parties so keen on this candidate, is it, you know, in the Mainland universities, they have 黨委書記. Do they want a 黨委書記 at Hong Kong U? Is he a 黨委書記, is he put in here as a 黨委書記? So I don’t know, forgetting about the politics, all these things made me feel very uncomfortable and very uneasy with this candidate.
 
Thank you.