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Look before you kiss
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/07/04 09:50  上海英文星报

  Strange things often happen on our university campuses. At the same time as two college students in Chongqing in Southwest China were expelled because they were discovered having an affair, condom vending machines were moving into colleges.

  Every time I wander about the campus at night, I can expect to see an old man searching our campus woods with a flashlight for "bad boys and girls". Meanwhile, a student at the Central China Normal University has declared himself married before completing his college degree.

  There are even stranger things. Shenzhen University, located in a modern city, recently came up with a draft code of conduct and morality for college students, which, among other things, forbids kissing on campus. Suddenly, all the boys and girls who are kissing stop and are stunned. What has happened?

  Nothing has happened, actually. Nothing should happen. You bad boys and girls - kissing should not have happened in the first place! How can you be so bold as to touch the other's lips in broad daylight on campus?

  I wonder who proposed that draft?

  The adviser must have a very noble mind and a very high conviction that make him believe that he can and should turn college into church, students into saints.

  But unfortunately, it seems that he will not be as successful as he thought.

  There was a debate going on some time ago on whether college students have a right to get married. The enlightened view is that since most students in their junior or senior years are well above the marriage age line stipulated by China's Marriage Law (20 for women and 22 for men), they have a legal right to marriage.

  Such a right is also constitutionally protected. Thus, although getting married in college is neither practically desirable nor compatible with the traditional outlook of Chinese parents and teachers, it is a legal right that no stipulations at a lower level (lower than the Marriage Law) could justifiably overrule.

  But now things are going far beyond that. It is kissing rather than getting married which is forbidden. If students are legally permitted to marry, why should they suffer sanctions if they kiss?

  The second doubt I have for the draft code is how it is going to be implemented. He who puts forward the draft seems to be unsatisfied with the current work of the college professors and has attempted to assign them a new task - become "kiss watchers".

  Dear professors, please always keep an eye on the students, whether they are in class, in the canteen or in the campus woods. Be sure to take a camera wherever you go since evidence of kissing can be hard to secure.

  Anyway, with so much talk remote in impact, we still cannot rule out the possibility that this draft code, so divorced from reality and from common sense, could be passed and brought into force by the school authorities, or rule out the possibility that other schools will follow suit or part of the way either. So, I hereby would like to kindly advise all my peers to kiss off-campus next time!




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