Chinese universities shun 'home-wreckers'

South China Normal University issued a stern warning to students last month about having affairs and destroying marriages and said that any student who has maintained a "special relationship" with a married person will be expelled from school. This warning has caused quite a stir among Chinese college students and the public, according to a report from www.gd.chinanews.com on Aug. 15.

The university has classified cohabiting and wrecking others' marriages as violations of school regulations, and offenders will be warned, punished or even expelled. However, students still have the right to defend their behaviors at a hearing before any punishment is handed out.

In addition, Chongqing Normal University is also trying a new rule where it will expel students from school if they are found working as a part-time prostitute, having a sexual relationship with a married person or engaging in one-night stands.

It is now commonplace for fashionably dressed college girls to get in the luxury cars parked at the gates of many universities in Guangzhou, especially those universities that are said to have many good-looking girls. Xiao Zhi, a sophomore girl at Guangzhou University of Foreign Studies, said one of her female schoolmates has a regular sexual relationship with a married man.

"We know the truth, but we never look down on her for being a mistress. We respect her choice," she said.

The reporter found that society used to despise all mistresses, but is now used to their existence, be it the advancement or degradation of society. The mistresses have also kept justifying their behaviors, and even some small groups of mistresses have formed. This widespread phenomenon is gradually eroding the pure souls of those unsophisticated college girls.

A fresh graduate surnamed Wang, who works for a Hong Kong company, said that her greatest desire is to marry a wealthy young man, and she is also willing to be a mistress of a rich man who is nice to her. It is particularly worrying that many college girls think the same way as Wang.

As for South China Normal University's unprecedented rule, a large number of students consider it necessary because the university is using the rule to help students develop correct moral outlooks and values.

However, some students think that the school has no right to interfere with students' private lives, and students can decide on their own what kind of love and marriage they want.

By People's Daily Online