As of this year, Tsinghua University has designated November 12 as a special day for male students. To celebrate the day, it is giving the boys a week's worth of free ice cream and showers, and 50 per cent off photo-copying and laundry. It also threw a cocktail party and gave lectures on male etiquette. March 7 is the university's Female Students' Day. The male-female ratio at Tsinghua is five to one.

(China Daily Hong Kong edition 14/11/2002)