What is the price it takes for young people to uphold the righteousness in their hearts?
The answer is: bet on your future.
Recently, the most out-of-the-circle thing in the academic circle is that 11 graduate students from Huazhong Agricultural University jointly reported their tutor Huang Mouruo's academic fraud, suppression of students, deduction of labor fees and other misconduct.
After the report fermented, on the evening of the 16th, the School of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine of Huazhong Agricultural University issued a statement on its official website saying that a special working group would be set up immediately to start the investigation procedure. In the early morning of the 19th, the school made a briefing, saying that the problems reported by the students were basically true, and it was preliminarily determined that Huang had academic misconduct.
However, the question that all netizens who are concerned about this matter is most concerned: Can these 11 graduate students graduate successfully? Why is it so difficult for graduate students now? Do they really have to pay such a big price for what seems to be the most ordinary fairness and justice?
This PDF report entitled "Joint Real-Name Report on the Academic Fraud of Professor Huang Mouruo of the Department of Animal Nutrition of a University in Central China of 211 Universities" is 129 pages long, involving 19 degrees** and 15 articles***
Some people say that this material itself can be called a "whistleblowing", which is justified and logical.
There are not only detailed screenshots of chats, but also a comparison of overlapping content against academic fraud, as well as Professor Huang's various accusations against students, including the cramped experimental space and the lack of experimental equipment.
In addition, Professor Huang will also deduct the student's small amount of subsidy.
Even netizens couldn't help but sigh that Zhou Papi had to be honored as "teacher" when he came.
The 11 students who reported were all Ph.D. or master's students of Professor Huang. After the report letter spread all over the Internet, their elder brother, a classmate named Zhang Li, posted on Weibo to respond to netizens' questions.
This senior brother has been studying for 6 years in Huanong for a master's degree and a doctorate, and if it were not for this report, he would have defended his graduation in June.
Brother Zhang Li's family conditions are not good, his father died, and the family is poor and supported by his mother. But under such conditions, he still chose to stand up and speak out, and promoted this matter to continue to ferment on social **.
Zhang Li's *** is a smart doctoral student with positive energy", and continues to answer the doubts of netizens.
In the comment area, there are voices that support them.
But some people are worried that such a fanfare report is likely to make Zhang Li a target for attack. Because some netizens soon discovered that the focus of ** was on Zhang Li.
It seems that who reported Professor Huang is more important than what the professor did.
The hot search is full of Zhang Li
Professor Huang himself was interviewed after the academic misconduct report. In the interview, he did not admit the content of the report, and even said that he had written a response and was ready to hand it to the school - but for the sake of students, he did not send it online.
In other words, until this time, Professor Huang was trying to portray himself as a "good teacher".
And this "good teacher" directly said in the interview that "there is a student taking the lead", and said that all the reports are the student threatening everyone.
The purpose is self-evident.
It's just that how much power does a student have to threaten a dozen other students to report a teacher who holds his or her academic future?
Although they are just ordinary students, they are also masters and doctors of 211 School after all, how can they be instigated by a few words?
Later, Zhang Li said on Weibo that all the students who reported were ready to lose their degrees and go home to find a job.
The students are ready for the worst
But Professor Huang may not understand this.
He couldn't understand why, if not a threat, a group of highly educated students who knew the stakes were all too good to risk their studies and their future by issuing the whistleblower letter.
The answer may be simple. At the conclusion of the report, the student wrote: "We and other students have worked tirelessly, studied hard, and wanted to contribute to society with their insights.
For the sake of justice, that's all.
In fact, the 11 graduate students who have been treated unfairly are not the only ones who have been treated unfairly. Xiaoshi talked about the Huanong incident with some graduate students, and also saw the current situation of many graduate students, each of whom has their own sufferings.
Xiao Jia, who is a graduate student this year, has been paying attention to it since the day the matter was fermented. She had discussed the matter with her classmates and felt that the students who reported Professor Huang were courageous, but she also knew the price behind that courage.
Xiao Jia is in her second year of graduate school this year and is a restrained and quiet girl. When she first started graduate school, she was looking forward to her graduate school life. "When I was in my first year of graduate school, I was full of ambition and responded positively to my supervisor's requests. But it may not match the frequency of the mentor, right......The results were less than ideal. After being criticized a few times, I was frustrated, and I began to doubt myself. ”
Xiao Jia said that when she saw her classmates and friends in the past, she was silent. Although she can't put all the blame on her graduate school life, the current situation of "the mentor is the sky" makes her have to put away all her temper and agree with her supervisor's evaluation of herself, even if it is "a little hurtful".
She likened graduate school to a "second reincarnation." She knew the importance of "reincarnation", so she studied online for a long time before choosing a mentor. "You can't just look at the achievements of the mentor, but also the official position, age, place of origin, personality ......and so onIt's best to find out from your brothers and sisters. ”
But after such a round of operation, Xiao Jia's only conclusion is only: watch fate.
Sometimes the real situation in the group is not clear from the outside, and most mentors are not absolutely good or bad, the key is to look at the people."
Choosing a mentor is "second reincarnation" - the immortal mentors are all from other people's families, and the "original mentors" have their own difficulties.
Xiaojia's current tutor does not have Professor Huang's "saucy operation", she is very responsible, but she is really strict, and the mentor's guidance makes her sit on pins and needles, and she unconsciously gives up the posture of "equal" dialogue. She knew it wasn't her problem, it was structural – but it wasn't going to make it any less painful.
The current mentality is worse than bad, although my boss is not easy to get along with, but it is more than enough than the upper and lower than the bottom, just like going to work, and I can always survive until graduation. ”
Graduate school is not a job, and graduate school is not as good as work."
Ning Ning decided to go to graduate school after two years of classes, and she clearly recognized the difference between the two after experiencing the workplace. Ning Ning's supervisor had a theory that graduate school was a different kind of work – so it was necessary to introduce a "wolf culture" to keep his students "working" at all times.
But Ning Ning said that she was not a "clear and stupid" college student, and this big cake was useless to her. "The boss is in charge of your present, but he doesn't decide your future. Ning Ning summed it up like this, "It's a big deal to resign at work, and it's a big deal to go to work and be passive and slacking." But as a graduate student, these tricks are not easy to use. ”
Ning Ning said that during the New Year's Day holiday that had just ended, the mentor "showed great mercy" to them and let them go home. But then he said that he needed to take home what he wanted to do, and he would complete it while he had enough time during the holidays, so that he could hand it in when he came back from the holidays.
That's not how I go to work. Ning Ning said angrily. There is also a graduate student labor fee, which was just issued the day before, and it had to be taken out and handed over to the tutor the next day, leaving only 100, "The company sent me money can't be recovered the next day, right?" ”
The problem of labor fees for graduate students is frequent
Later, Ning Ning's senior brother was depressed because of the high-pressure environment, but the mentor said that he was cranky and idle. This senior brother's family conditions are average, and he just wants to rush again and fight for his future when he goes to graduate school. Ning Ning felt that what would be infinitely squeezed was ordinary people like them who had no family background. And there are many similar encounters online.
Ning Ning read the post of rectifying the academic circle, and she was very relieved, but she also knew that she couldn't do it. This is the same as going to work - if the family can be at home, even if it is psychological, you can be tough in everything, "My parents are honest, I have been taught since I was a child that the teacher is right, and the teacher is always right, but now I don't think it's necessarily like this." It's just that now the mentor's decision power is too great, and it doesn't matter whether he is right or not, it only matters whether we can be obedient or not.
How obedient should you be?
Ning Ning said that a friend's mentor asked him to pick up couriers, buy food, and send power banks, which was purely a maid, and it was not a normal teacher-student relationship at all. "In addition to academic research, my friend's most important job is to take care of the daily life of his supervisor and his family." There are many subdivided categories, such as cleaning the tutor's house, cleaning the tutor's office, picking up and dropping off the tutor's wife, and so on. The granularity is a little smaller, and the tutor can blame the student for not reminding him if he doesn't bring an umbrella.
A small amount of power may float in people, not to mention the power that can determine the future of others. Ning Ning read the pdf of Professor Huang who reported it, "Do you know what is the most terrifying?" It's not the more than 100-page pdf, but what Professor Huang did after reading it, and none of them I find incredible. Therefore, the choice of a mentor really depends on the character, the upper limit is not easy to say, and the lower limit has to be held. ”
Other than that, Ning Ning didn't seem to have much to get rid of.
That's the rules of the game, and we can only follow them. ”
These 11 students of Huazhong Agricultural University are like the epitome of thousands of scientific research students.
After the incident broke out, many people also posted ** about the academic "bullying" they knew.
Some have already graduated, and they have to be oppressed by their mentors, and even speak ill of each other.
There are tutors who turn what students write into their own books, and squeeze students with the threat of not graduating, desperately trying to be a cow and a horse for themselves.
If a tutor does have a case of academic misconduct and the student wants to report it, they must risk ruining their academic career.
In 2020, a student at Tianjin University sent a pdf file to report the fraud of the tutor, and the whistleblower claimed to be a former master's student Lu who dropped out of Tianjin University.
In order to make the student sign a statement of "fidelity" so that he could get rid of the pot, the tutor also forced the student to sign a guarantee before graduation.
How obvious!
More tragedies are not known to the public in the form of "whistleblowing".
In 2018, Tao Chongyuan, a graduate student at the School of Automation of Wuhan University of Technology, committed suicide by jumping off a building at school.
Also in the 18th year, Yang Baode, a master's and doctoral student in the Department of Pharmacology of Xi'an Jiaotong University, drowned in the river, and his girlfriend once posted a long post on Weibo, denouncing his doctoral supervisor Zhou as the culprit of the tragedy.
Under the topic of bullying by mentors, the question was asked:
So many PhDs and masters are forced to die by their supervisors, is it because they don't know the way to report? ”
In the comment area of the report incident of Huazhong Agricultural University, many people are swiping Mr. Lu Xun's words:
May the young people of China get rid of the cold air, just go upward, and do not have to listen to the words of the self-defeating people. Those who can do things do things, and those who can speak up can speak up. If there is a point of heat, a point of light, it will make it like a firefly, or it can shine a little light in the dark, and there is no need to wait for the torch.
This passage is high-spirited and has inspired countless young people to work hard.
However, when these simple requirements are to be realized, they need to work hard and sacrifice everything, which is too cruel for a fledgling student?
Is it necessary to teach students in this way what reality is and what is bowing?
On social platforms, aggrieved students compare graduate students to slaves and slaves, is this really a reasonable academic environment?
In the case of Yang Baode's drowning, some people will ask such a question, how can a doctoral student become a mentor"Domestic servants"?
But no one responded.
After the fermentation of the Huang incident, you said that if the normalized supervision and correction mechanism were complete, students should not have taken such a big risk.
The sentence "shouldn't be" expresses how many people's sadness and helplessness.
In addition to them, there are also students who are silently enduring injustice. They "shouldn't have been" unwarranted repression and emotional attacks; You shouldn't have wronged yourself because of the selfish desires of others; "It shouldn't be" because doing academics gives birth to weakness;
They say that when they are in graduate school, they are happy only when they are admitted and graduated.
But it wasn't supposed to be this way.
Perhaps, only when the teacher-student relationship returns to the academic standard, only when the student is really a student, and the tutor is really just a tutor, can academics be just academic.