Facing the tough statement of Vice President Huang Pei, Luo Tao, President of the School of Computer Science, pondered for a moment and said, "I was wondering, why can't the company that outsourced the Tianxing Studio resell the software to Huazhang Software? In this case, it makes sense that Huazhang Software has similar units. Even if the studio has a large amount of income, it is clearly another unrelated company that made the call, and if Cheng Ran doesn't want to disclose the income account, that's fine too."
After all, Luo Tao still had to speak for the students of his college. Although he didn't want to confront Huang Pei, at this time, he still tried his best to fight for his support.
Huang Pei looked over, a little impatient, "Dean Luo, I can say this, which means I have made such a judgment. Don't make excuses for him anymore."
Luo Tao was stunned for a moment and remained silent.
There were a group of people nearby, including Luo Yanbing from the School Administration Office, as well as representatives from the Youth League Committee and the Academic Affairs Office. They were all afraid to say a word when faced with the vice-president's "show of power" in front of the dean of the School of Computer Science.
At this time, Wu Dan, a financial officer, said, "President Luo, I searched the keyword news about Qingshan Investment on the Tonglang.com portal website and found a piece of news from the first half of this year. The news content is not much, it comes from China Youth Daily, and it is just a report of more than 100 words. I printed it out and show it to you."
Wu Dan took out the printout from the file bag. Luo Tao held it in his hand and looked at it, pondering in silence.
"This news shows that Qingshan Investment invested in Huazhang Software in the first half of the year, so this company is actually a shareholder of Huazhang. Why would a company related to Huazhang Software pay a huge amount of labor fees to Tianxing Society? What did they do to get such fees? So the doubts that Dean Luo just had can be answered here." Wu Dan's mouth curled up. She dared to guarantee that her performance during this period would definitely win the favor of Principal Huang. This was an opportunity that she had waited for a long time. So in the audit matter, she spared no effort to earn a place.
This kind of thing might offend Dean Luo, but for Huang Pei, who is in charge of a lot of authority, it would certainly be more administratively promising to rely on a vice president.
Luo Tao glanced at Huang Pei and thought to himself that he was waiting here.
Huang Pei has always had some complaints about their School of Computer Science and Technology. The School of Computer Science and Technology is a strong department in USTC, with an academician behind it, and key research institutes such as the Institute of Computer Science, which accounts for a considerable proportion of its own funding.
School funds are divided into allocable and non-allocable funds. Most of the non-allocable funds are allocated by the government for related projects, and are used for specific purposes. However, this does not mean that the school cannot operate indirectly. For the basic construction and special funds allocated by the state and the government, although the school has no right to manage and allocate them after they are allocated, the school can apply or bid to the government for evaluation, demonstration, approval and decentralization. Therefore, it is the school that decides what projects and engineering to apply for, and therefore can indirectly control this part of the funds.
In the past, the School of Computer Science and Technology applied for a large proportion of the funds for this purpose, and there was a tendency for the formation of academic cliques. Before Huang Pei took office at USTC, he was actually extremely disgusted with this trend. Once the academic cliques were formed within a university, it would inevitably lead to academic bubbles and corruption and waste of funds, so Huang Pei had actually been weighing the pros and cons.
On the other hand, many of the students in the School of Computer Science are difficult to manage and are very unruly. They use their computer knowledge to do things that make USTC nervous. In the past, the computer room management software was tampered with to open a backdoor program and people could not be found. The meal cards were cracked, causing the logistics group to complain to the School of Computer Science. The internal computers were hacked, and not long ago, it was discovered that the 201 phone card was cracked... All of this is annoying. Sometimes the School of Computer Science can hand over people, and sometimes it cannot catch them. In Huang Pei's opinion, the dean is indulgent within the school.
Huang Pei might have been thinking about using Cheng Ran's incident to attack the Institute of Computer Science.
Luo Tao said, "Cheng Ran is a top scholar, and was recruited by Academician Li. He also refused to enroll in Peking University and Tsinghua University. Such a student has his own uniqueness. Maybe he did these things without knowing that he made a mistake. So, can Principal Huang take this into consideration and just teach him mainly, and punish him as a supplement?"
Huang Pei also knew that he couldn't really hurt the School of Computer Science by using Cheng Ran's incident. Although expelling Cheng Ran could hit the School of Computer Science, Li Taihang was behind the School of Computer Science, and it was not good to tear the face off and be too confrontational. And Luo Tao's words were also a disguised way of giving in and compromising. As long as Luo Tao compromised, some of the project application indicators of the School of Computer Science this year were given up, and he completely followed Huang Pei's guidance, it meant that Huang Pei won the game smoothly.
So Huang Pei thought for a while and said, "The most important thing is the person involved! If Cheng Ran explains the problem clearly, admits his mistakes and makes amends in time, the school will consider giving him a lighter punishment. Otherwise, we will punish him severely!"
After a pause, Huang Pei looked at Shi Jiaxun and said, "As the club's instructor, counselor Shi Jiaxun is guilty of joint fault and will be disqualified from receiving this year's counselor special award."
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Although Huang Pei expressed his intention to avoid the spread of this matter, there is no wall that is impenetrable, not to mention that there were many people present during the consultation today, and some small rumors still leaked out at the relevant levels of the school.
Universities are also administrative workplaces, and there are human relationships and social conventions, especially when there are some provocative content on the surface, such as some rumors that "Vice President Huang had a dark face and told Dean Luo of the School of Computer Science that the matter would be dealt with seriously", which is enough to make some people gasp.
After all, those things happening at the upper levels of the school are still far away, and the focus now is still on what happened.
"Something really happened to the Tianxing Society... It is said that they are really violating the law by operating externally..."
"Their previous integrated circuit competition was very well organized. They were well-organized in all aspects. They were wealthy and powerful, and the whole school was mobilized. Where do you think they got so much money to do this? Once the results are achieved, it will involve business, which is really a test for people..."
"Bullshit! I am an external liaison member of the Tianxing Society. Nie Chuan, Zheng Xing and their studio team are all great people. A popular saying in the team is 'We are not heroes, we are shrimps. But even the big shrimps can serve the country and the people!' You said they would break the law, what law! I don't believe it! Whoever said they would break the law, I will be angry with you! Who are they? Why would they care about such a small benefit? The president Cheng Ran is the number one scholar in Sichuan Province and a representative of freshmen. When he founded the Tianxing Society, he said that he wanted to make a fraternity that came out of our University of Science and Technology!"
Some people also mocked, "It sounds good to say, but I'm afraid it's not the way it's done... Some things have good intentions at first, but they go astray in the process..."
"Come on, don't impose your ideas on others. Not everyone is so narrow-minded!"
This type of dispute also fermented because of the audit of Tianxing Society.
Shi Jiaxun felt the warmth and coldness of human nature in a short period of time. Of course, when something like this happened, some of his colleagues came to show their concern and comfort. But there were also some who said nothing on the surface, but actually talked about him behind his back.
The selection of special awards for counselors is announced on the list every year. Although it has not been announced this year, Shi Jiaxun, who has already been recommended by the college, has basically been selected. Now that the information of his disqualification by Vice President Huang has come out, it is well known.
Shi Jiaxun called Cheng Ran and asked, "You haven't been in school these two days?"
The person on the phone said, "I went out to do something and will be back in two days. What happened? Is it still about the audit? Isn't Nie Chuan cooperating at school?"
Shi Jiaxun said, "Now we are insisting that you accepted the company fees related to Huazhang. Dean Luo has also told the school that if you really had internal manipulation, as long as you admit it and remedy the situation, the school can plead for you and give you a lighter punishment."
Cheng Ran asked, "Teacher Shi, what do you think?"
Shi Jiaxun was silent for a moment, then said, "I don't think you would do this... But now it concerns your future. If you don't want to talk about confidential information, I can help you arrange a notarization to prove that the source of funds is not reselling. In short, don't act on impulse and go against the school. You have a bright future ahead of you, and this matter cannot be recorded in your files."
Cheng Ran said, "I understand. I'll give you an answer on Wednesday."
"Anyway, as soon as possible..."
Shi Jiaxun did not urge Cheng Ran. Since Cheng Ran said he would give a reply on Wednesday, he could assume that an explanation would be given for everything.
But Wednesday, Wednesday again...
HKUST has a leader inspecting on Wednesday, and the core administrative layer is making various preparations. Some laboratories have been notified. Some have to demonstrate to the leader, ensure cleanliness and hygiene, and produce certain results. The relevant key units are working overtime. Of course, there are also people who are assigned to come and go, which increases the workload and makes people complain...
They are all gathered together, but this is also a good thing, at least it can postpone this matter, because the school top management cannot deal with the negative impact and appearance caused by students issuing notices at this juncture.
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On Tuesday night, Cheng Ran was taken back to HKUST by a car. Before he even entered his dormitory, someone who recognized him approached him downstairs. “Cheng Ran! I haven’t seen you these past few days. Is everything okay?”
Cheng Ran shook his head, "It's okay, it's okay..."
"I also heard that there was a problem with the Tianxing Society's review. Senior Brother Nie Chuan and his team have been in a panic these days. All the work on hand has stopped. Who did you offend?" For students, the usual impression of university is that it is inclusive and relaxed, as if you can do anything here. But if the upper-level administrative power of the university is really used to target them, even if they are not targeted, they can still feel the high pressure that affects their future.
"Nothing serious, thank you everyone. It should end smoothly."
“I’m glad you’re okay… If you need any help, just let me know,” someone said.
There are those who are so righteous and concerned, and of course there are also those who stand by and watch indifferently.
At least at this time, clearly distinguished from the people who came over to Cheng Ran to ask about his concern, there was another group of people standing at the intersection leading to the snack street opposite the girls' building.
They were in the same group as Yang Mu. They watched Cheng Ran return to school and heard him say "It's okay" over there. Yang Mu sneered and said to the people around him, "Let's go eat skewers and drink beer..."
A group of people responded.
Yang Mu led the group under the street lights. Many girls who were walking back to the dormitory building stepped aside and watched them walk by. Faced with this behavior that attracted the attention of the girls, most of Yang Mu's group felt that they were quite cool for calling friends and having a group of brothers around them.
At the same time, Yang Mu felt that compared with Cheng Ran’s current situation, university life suddenly became more interesting.
When someone falls, someone else will rise.
When Cheng Ran returned to the dormitory, he saw that some of the three people who had called him several times before had directly thrown away their keyboards, while others who were soaking their feet pulled their legs out of the water and jumped up like zombies.
"Fuck, Cheng Ran, where have you been? You've been gone for several days! The dean came to look for you, and Teacher Shi also looked for you. We called you and you said you were outside. We thought you were kidnapped." Li Wei said.
"Didn't I say that a friend of mine was coming to Nanzhou to do something and I would go with him?" Cheng Ran said with a smile, throwing his backpack aside.
"So how is Brother Nie Chuan's studio doing? It looks like he hasn't been to school yet." Lao Guo asked.
Wang Xinbo said, "You don't know that many people in the Tianxing Society are asking about the situation. Of course, I can't be cowardly and say that everything is under control. I dare not say that you are not in school, otherwise it will shake people's hearts even more."
"You are right about that."
Cheng Ran smiled and said, "Everything is on track. I'll go wash up first. I'm tired, so I'll go to bed early."