After returning to school, Cheng Ran was informed by his roommate about the current situation of Tianxing Society. It was said that the upper management of USTC was very dissatisfied with their Tianxing Society. On the day of Qin Xizhen's concert, teachers and students could be seen everywhere walking out of the dormitories, leaving the school through the main roads, and then taking the bus to the Nanzhou Central City Gymnasium at the platform.
This scene actually shocked the school. In the past, when there were concerts in Nanzhou, there would naturally be many students going to watch, but in terms of scale and the number of people mobilized, it was still impossible to reach such a large scale. Naturally, people would think of the posters and banners that Tianxing Club had distributed in the school before, although Tianxing Club's promotion of the concert only lasted less than a day.
"Also, when we returned to school that night, even though there were extra buses, a student from USTC still got into a fight outside the gymnasium over a taxi, and the police station asked the school to arrest the person... There was also an accident on campus where someone got drunk and fell off a ridge and broke a bone..." Lao Guo had a serious expression.
There are several safety accidents at HKUST every year. Some people go out drinking and bump into things when returning to school at night, and some people ride motorcycles on the school road and rush into the river without paying attention. But if such an accident is directly related to a previous cause, then the school can completely blame the incident on the previous condition.
"I heard that the school's top brass are discussing this matter, and the unfavorable situation that has been reported is that some people are saying that we are still recruiting students for commercial activities, which violates the school's regulations on the management of commercial operations on campus. The school leaders may discuss stopping the activities of our Tianxing Society, and may even ban our society."
Li Wei and Wang Xinbo both came over, looking worried.
Campus business management is generally a matter of looking for regulations when something goes wrong, but most of the time, the relevant leaders are relatively tolerant and turn a blind eye. The computer classrooms used by Nie Chuan's team in Tianxing Society are all provided by the school. Recruiting for business outsourcing is not a black job, and the remuneration is also the normal tax-deducted remuneration of the entrusted company in the contract. But if you want to find trouble with Tianxing Society, you can find many provisions using the campus business management regulations. For example, this form of recruiting teams of college students to work is "unauthorized."
It seems that their Tianxing Society is indeed outstanding.
Cheng Ran thinks that the reason why the big stick has not been dropped yet is probably because the Planning Research Institute had once given a heads-up when the Tianxing Society was founded, and the Planning Research Institute has the background of Li Taihang. But we should also understand that the Planning Research Institute is a research unit of the University of Science and Technology, and it has the influence of scientific research, but its influence on the school's administrative power is much weaker.
What's more, in the eyes of many people, it may be just a student club.
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A review meeting involving the leadership of HKUST is underway. HKUST will hold a review meeting with the participation of senior leaders when necessary to discuss the management and disposal of some situations and events in the school. Today's discussion is about motor vehicle management methods, the punishment of students who fight, and the handling of safety accidents. After all these are passed...
Huang Pei finally proposed, "I have been focusing on the construction of the academic style of USTC. The academic style of USTC is well-known throughout the country, but recently, I think the academic style has been shaken. Commercial entertainment has been promoted in the school, which has caused many problems. The Tianxing Club formed by college students, the club leader should bear a great responsibility... At the same time, I think the club's violations should be banned. At the same time, the discipline of our school's student clubs should be regulated."
The previous topics had been warmed up and many consensuses were reached smoothly, but this last topic was the only one that everyone present found a bit tricky after Huang Pei brought it up.
The thorny issue is not the problems caused by a student club and their subsequent handling, but the fact that the founder of this student club was a student recruited by Academician Li Taihang, a student representative at the freshman ceremony of USTC, and even a news figure at USTC.
Otherwise, this matter would never have been raised at a meeting like today, but would have been simply issued an executive order.
It can be seen that Huang Pei did not want to confront Li Taihang head-on, but instead used the power of this review meeting to come up with his opinions on how to deal with the situation, so that even Li Taihang could not say anything.
"I agree." Chen Yue, the dean of the first college, nodded. "I heard before that some students in this club were engaged in commercial activities that violated school regulations, and they were doing it under the banner of USTC. Some of the projects they took on even involved private companies with unknown sources of funds, as well as software design from state-owned enterprises. The quality of these outsourced projects cannot be supervised, and there may be any problems in the future, which will affect the reputation of USTC. After all, if there is a fight, the police station can mediate, bring the people back, and handle it internally. If it is an act with a company, especially some companies with foreign capital backgrounds, if some of the projects they produce violate the law, then the impact will be very bad, so I do not agree with the club's behavior of taking on commercial projects from outside."
Some of the school leaders present looked at Chen Yue, "Professor Chen, what do you mean?"
Chen Yue said, "Although some of HKUST's research is not groundbreaking, we have our own specific lines. For example, we also ask some students to do some work in our research. But if these students take some internal secrets and bribe outside companies, and leaks occur, it will be a very serious situation. It will be a blow to the misguided students and research work."
Many people present frowned. What Chen Yue said had to make them prick up their ears. The consequences still had to be considered. USTC had many key projects, many of which had national and military backgrounds. Of course, it was unlikely that college students would leak core secrets of such projects because they had no access to them. However, if there really were those who went astray and were corrupted by sugar-coated bullets, the act of betrayal might not cause any major harm, but it would itself become a scandal or a serious violation of the law, and we really had to guard against it.
Scientific research leaks have always been a difficult problem to regulate. On the one hand, there is a lack of awareness of the harm, on the other hand, some people think that academic research should be open, and on the third hand, there is also a view that my country's science and technology is backward, and whether some scientific research can be done is another matter, so there is no need to keep it confidential. Although HKUST has a confidentiality committee, many of its members are part-time, and they have no idea how to manage confidentiality business knowledge and confidential scientific research tasks.
It seems that recruiting students to do private work in school does have certain risks.
Vice President and Deputy Secretary Zhao Hongjian looked over and said, "This should be illegal. Even if it is not a commercial activity recruited on campus, as long as the laboratory supervision is not strict, or the students have bad behavior, and the tutor's ideological construction is not in place, this kind of situation may also happen. What does Dean Chen mean by this? Have you confirmed that there are students who work or have worked in your laboratory who have this kind of situation?"
This is quite serious. Everyone looked at Chen Yue, who said calmly, "I'm just worried."
Someone looked at Chen Yue deeply, thinking that since they heard that there were personnel changes in his laboratory recently, he might be sensitive about this aspect.
"Then nothing happened." Luo Xin, the dean of the School of Computer Science, said, "I think the issue raised by Dean Chen is not essentially about the commercial behavior of the student group, but about whether the confidentiality of the entire research is done. We need to strengthen management and awareness in this regard, and it is not a matter of abolishing a society to prevent future troubles." Cheng Ran was a student of his School of Computer Science, so of course Luo Xin had to defend him.
Zhao Hongjian also said, "Principal Huang, the Tianxing Club, a student club, was established not too long ago, but the integrated circuit design competition they held some time ago was still very well organized, proving that they have the ability. If Tianxing Club is abolished just like that, it would seem that the University of Science and Technology is not inclusive enough. Of course, they recruited students from the school without the approval of the school. I heard that some graduate students worked for them in their freshman and sophomore years. Hey, I really don’t know how they persuaded them... However, in this case, of course, they need to be supervised and reviewed by the school. This is part of the school’s rules and regulations. Their situation is that they are indeed in violation of the rules. In my opinion, it’s okay to abolish the club, but all activities will be stopped first. Their external projects will be reviewed by the school. If it is determined that they are in accordance with national laws and regulations, they will be released."
Zhao Hongjian, the deputy secretary, is the superior of the school's Youth League Committee. The establishment of Tianxing Society was approved by the Youth League Committee. Zhao Hongjian himself knows that Li Taihang thinks highly of Cheng Ran. He believes that the content of today's review meeting will eventually reach Li Taihang's ears.
Huang Pei was silent for a moment, then nodded. He obviously had not expected that he would encounter such strong resistance when trying to disband an association.
This Tianxing Club is really not simple. They organize school-level activities and recruit graduate students to work for them. On the other hand, they even give them large amounts of sponsorship fees for advertising at celebrity concerts, causing all kinds of ups and downs in HKUST.
Huang Pei regarded the Tianxing Society as a thorn in his side, and he looked at Chen Yue, not understanding why Chen Yue had said that. He thought to himself that Zhao Hongjian had just mentioned the team that the Tianxing Society had recruited. Could it be that they had poached Chen Yue's research talent? So Chen Yue also disliked the Tianxing Society
However, these are secondary issues. As the vice-president, Huang Pei dislikes Cheng Ran's Tianxing Society. Although it was not banned today, he certainly cannot directly use his vice-president level to directly ban it from the administrative level. If he does not follow the procedure of the Youth League Committee's Society Department to discuss and disband the society, but directly issues an administrative order to disband it, his prestige will be greatly reduced if this spreads. Huang Pei certainly does not want to take this risk, but this is enough.
The Tianxing Society’s activities were stopped, and the school’s regulatory department conducted an audit of its financial and business activities.
These few blows were enough to demonstrate his authority.
Huang Pei felt that he finally felt better.
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"Bang!" A ball brushed the ground and flew rapidly towards the lower left side of Cheng Ran from a low altitude. The tennis ball on his wrist was a little jerky because of his slightly awkward adjustment movement, but he still relied on his quick reaction to swing the tennis racket sideways in time and hit the ball back.
The agile figure on the opposite side quickly approached the net area, jumped, stretched his body gracefully in the air, and then smashed with a forehand.
Cheng Ran staggered, but he still managed to push off the ground halfway and pulled half of his body over to reach out his racket to receive the ball. However, he lost the initiative and fell into Zhang Jing's control in the corner. After another round, Cheng Ran finally won the game because he was unable to save the ball.
This is the tennis court. Zhang Jing happened to talk to him about playing tennis together today. Cheng Ran thought about it and agreed because it was just exercise. But when the game started, he realized that he was still too naive. Zhang Jing's playing gave Cheng Ran the same fear he felt when he faced Jiang Hongshao's badminton racket in No. 10 Middle School. But he still managed to get through a few moves in front of Jiang Hongshao. Although there are differences in movements and techniques between tennis and badminton, the amount of exercise in badminton is actually greater than that in tennis, so Cheng Ran actually performed better than expected in terms of maneuvering and reaction. Of course, he still didn't beat Zhang Jing in the end.
"You're good. Your reflexes are very good." Zhang Jing picked up her water bottle and opened it to drink. She was wearing tennis clothes, tight sports shorts that covered her round buttocks, white Adidas sneakers with a pair of green-striped tennis socks, and her smooth calves were exposed. She sat on the chair with her legs tucked in. After drinking the water, she closed the lid and turned her head to look at me. "If you want to play tennis well, you'd better learn it systematically. Otherwise, you always want to win by force. It's hard to find the way to play with a weak and unhappy style. This will actually cause deformation of movements. You need to control muscle strength to a certain extent in order to defeat the enemy with cleverness and changes. You have fast reactions and speed, and you are very talented. I think you will be very good at playing tennis."
"Let's talk about it later. This requires a reservation of a venue and an opponent. If you want to exercise, it's not as casual as running or swimming."
"The venue is fine. Just make an appointment in advance and come over. As for the opponent, or teaching you how to play, that's me!" Zhang Jing half raised her hand.
"You play against each other often. Wouldn't you get bored after playing for a while? Besides, my level is not that good, so you must be very tired too." Zhang Jing has friends who play against her, including several senior students. There is a junior boy in the court next to her who used to play against her often. He is very handsome. It is said that in the past two years, several girls have brought him water and clothes.
"That's right. Then I'll be humbled and teach you first. If I get addicted and don't want to teach you anymore, you can practice with other beginners. I'll come and teach you after I've had enough of playing with others." Zhang Jing raised her lips, exuding the demeanor of a domineering queen.
Cheng Ran smiled and thought, you are still training me, little girl, you are playing with fire.
Zhang Jing's big eyes suddenly winked at him mysteriously and smiled, "According to my calculations, you may be in trouble recently and very distressed. Your Tianxing Society has been investigated, right? I heard that it was proposed by Vice President Huang Pei. Originally, they wanted to ban you. In the end, after discussion, they still felt that disbanding the society was not appropriate, so they changed it to rectification. The projects that your Tianxing Society outsourced from outside, do you have a contract period? With such supervision by the University of Science and Technology, they asked you to temporarily suspend your activities, which may bring big problems. How much money did you outsource? Tens of thousands? Will there be any liability for breach of contract?"
"Would you like to resolve this as quickly as possible? Do I have a solution?"
"Huh?" Cheng Ran was stunned. He thought that this was probably the reason why Zhang Jing called him out today.
"It's very simple. There are relatives in your family who work in the education system. Your Tianxing Society's activities were reported in the newspaper. Some people came to show their concern and say hello. Do you think your problems will be solved?"
Zhang Jing smiled playfully, "But this is using family connections, so you might even have to go out to dinner with me. So you understand, making money is not easy. If you want to have smooth sailing, you, as the person in charge, have to use more connections."
"Of course, I'm not asking you to take the back door."
She acted like a gentle heroine, "How you behave will be up to you at that time. Sweet mouth."
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