The northern exit of the University MTR is opened. So is the University Bookstore. The new school year 2012–13 has got off to a smooth and conspicuous start. Campus transportation has proved to be resilient and various amenities dependable. Uphill or down, one sees order and rigour all around, unhurried and unharried. Not a trivial feat.

About one per cent of the 7,000 new students have begun their college lives at C.W. Chu College, performing social services at the orientation and pledging to abide by the College’s Code of Honour. In talking to some of its teachers and students, we could feel the excitement and anticipation of forging a unique mode of education based on the College ideals. Professor Kenneth Young, its founding master, talks about its Honour Code, the Chu Scholars and why he’s reading Jane Austen.

The salivating piece on the CUHK Lemon Pie in the last issue has elicited, in our online version, over 70 ‘likes’ and comments from cities as diverse as Xi’an and Minneapolis. The appeal of this small pie is indeed massive. What’s on offer in this issue is a new arrival—the Pineapple Bun. Will pineapple whet the CUHK appetite just the same? Read ‘Mouth-watering Morsels’, judge it with your taste buds, and leave us your tasting notes.

In ‘Then vs Now’, we bring you back to 1976 when one could have a clear view of the then Postgraduate Hall, now the Pentecostal Mission Hall Complex. Other buildings and facilities have since mushroomed on the slope so that it now takes some guesswork to identify the hall standing alone in 1976 from the bottom of the hill.