Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chengpi@ecf.toronto.edu (CHENG) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: News Digest Message-ID: <89Oct16.135923edt.20600@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: 16 Oct 89 17:59:16 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 140 Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu Original-To: utchinese * N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Oct. 16, 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) An Excerpt about Current Policy of P.R. Applications .......... 29 2) Recent Situations in China Universities ........................ 94 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. An Excerpt about Current Policy of P.R. Applications from CBIE file, released on Oct. 4, 1989 (CBIE: Canadian Bureau for International Education) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (page 1) A. Immigration: Claims for Permanent Residence There have been rumours of a change in governmental policy on permanent residency (H & C) claims. The following is a clarification of the current situation. 1. Policy There is no change in the law. The section of the Immigration Act dealing ^^ with policy on P.R. (H & C) applications remains the same. This policy states that all individuals have a right to apply. Thus, all P.R.C. citizens in Canada may continue to make application for Permanent Residence in Canada; the date of arrival in Canada is not relevant. 2. Special Measures re: processing of Claims ..... details please see the FILE in local LYHs or ask related people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Recent Situations in China Universities BY: WILHELM, KATHY ; Associated Press Writer DATELINE: BEIJING (AP) October 14, 1989 -- via: "J. Ding" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ China's most prestigious universiy opened Saturday for the first time since soldiers crushed the massive pro-democracy protests its students helped lead. Students gathered to buy books at the center of the Beijing University campus near a long red banner that urged them to uphold Marxist principles and take a clear stand against Western capitalist values. Few were willing to talk about the protests that ended in gunfire and triggered a hard-line backlash in which Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was ousted and thousands were arrested. "Most students have become more realistic about the situation and now they want to study," said one. But they reported that among themselves, and on other Beijing campuses, students have taken to sarcastically singing the jingle from a pesticide commercial that goes, "We are the harmful insects." Students were noticeably fewer than usual. The 750-member freshman class down from about 2,100 last year will be absent all year to undergo military and political training at an army academy outside the capital. Their dormitories were empty. Authorities announced after the protests that freshmen for the first time would spend a year at a military academy, but they insisted it was not punishment for the pro-democracy protests. The reduction in the freshman class was part of a nationwide cut in first-year students from about 640,000 to 610,000. Beijing University has been particularly hard-hit, partly because it is mainly a liberal arts school and liberal arts are losing the most new students. The university played a leading role in the demonstrations, but authorities claim the enrollment reductions had nothing to do with that. The school has an enrollment of about 10,000, but students said some upperclassmen failed to show up, fearing investigations of their roles in the protests. Other colleges are still continuing such investigations two months after reopening, with special teams pressuring teachers and students who were heavily involved to write fuller "self-criticisms," or confessions. An official notice posted in several places at Beijing University said the government would be lenient toward those who "turn themselves in, confess or render meritorious service" which it explained meant reporting the crimes of others or providing evidence. Other schools reopened early, in August, to complete the spring semester's unfinished work and hold special political ideology classes. But Beijing University's opening was delayed until after the Oct. 1 anniversary of 40 years of Communist Party rule, apparently for fear its students would disrupt the festivities. The day passed peacefully. The party newspaper, the People's Daily, said Friday that Beijing University was a "major disaster zone" during the protests. It called for strengthening school management, saying that people with bourgeois liberal, or anti-socialist, views took advantage of its past free atmosphere. "Bourgeois liberals will always try by hook or by crook to meddle in Beijing University" because of its tradition as China's most prestigious school, it warned. But university President Wu Shuqing, a Marxist economist who replaced the relatively liberal Ding Shisun after the protests, said in an interview last week that he was confident the students would be "more healthy" this year. "The university will help the students to understand how to advance the nation's economic and political reforms according to China's actual problems and sticking to a socialist orientation," he said. Wu said the school's goal was to train students to be both "red and expert." Beijing University traditionally has led other schools in political activism, dating back to its leadership in the 1919 "May Fourth Movement," a student-led protest movement against German concessions. Although most students in Beijing and other cities have predicted there will be no big protests this year, there have already been individual acts of defiance. One student at a technical college wrote "Down with (Premier) Li Peng" on a blackboard. He was tracked down and arrested. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (in Canada) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu (outside) .