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First of all, the people in the administration at your university are morons. I think we can all agree on that. If there's 20 people having a good time doing anything sports/excercise related they should be ENCOURAGING you to make a club. Obviously kung fu is very different from karate. I personally took Shudokan Karate for 3 years, right now I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Here is some issues you could bring up:
1)Kung Fu and Karate have different katas/forms. Forms are usually a core component for many traditional martial arts, and kung fu and karate have very distinct and contrasting styles when it comes to forms.
2)Different approaches to self defense. Karate is a very linear and hard art. Punches and kicks are for the most part supposed to be very straight and powerful. From what I have seen from Kung Fu, and I will admit that isn't much, there is a lot more emphasis on rapid strikes and continuous flowing attacks.
3)Origins and principles. If you really want to be simple about it, Karate originated from Okinawa and Kung Fu came from China. They should be able to understand that. In reality, like others have said, pretty much all martial arts came from China/India thousands of years ago, but the administrative office doesn't need a history lesson. Also you could describe how kung fu usually involves some aspect of chi developement which is absent in most karate.
Those are some general pointers, good luck.
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