My Take | Universities are allowing radical students to get off scot-free even when they resort to violence
Latest incident at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where a security guard was injured, shows it’s about time we stopped mollycoddling our students
A group of students and outside protesters wearing intimidating black masks gatecrashed a meeting of the Chinese University’s governing council.
They caused mayhem, resulting in the injury of a security guard. Instead of calling the police and reprimanding the students by name, council members invited two of them to the meeting. Even then, the intimidation didn’t stop. They were protesting against the law that automatically makes the chief executive the head of Hong Kong’s public universities.
The university did issue a statement condemning the violence, but only in the most general terms. Well, we all know violence is not a good thing. But how about chasing, naming and punishing those responsible? Probably not.
