Phi Beta Cons

Pandering to Chinese Students’ “Pain”

University officials at MIT removed from a course website a picture of Chinese prisoners being lined up by Japanese soldiers to be beheaded–when some Chinese students objected to it. The image had been intended as an example of how the Japanese employed propaganda for political purposes during the Sino-Japanese War.

Academic merit, and not students

Candace de Russy is a nationally recognized expert on education and cultural issues.
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