KUALA LUMPUR: An article on non-Muslim having to wear the songkok and not the mortar board during a graduation ceremony had inspired a 19-year-old student to fight for the mortar board.
It was a Sin Chew Daily article on Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 1987, and the student was MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
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