Posted on 06/14/2013 3:04:00 AM PDT by markomalley
NYU isn’t letting a pesky thing like human rights stand in the way of its expansion in China.
The university has booted a blind Chinese political dissident from its campus under pressure from the Communist government as it builds a coveted branch in Shanghai, sources told The Post.
Chen Guangcheng has been at NYU since May 2012, when he made a dramatic escape from his oppressive homeland with the help of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But school brass has told him to get out by the end of this month, the sources said.
Chen’s presence at the school didn’t sit well with the Chinese bureaucrats who signed off on the permits for NYU’s expansion there, the sources said. THAT WAS THEN: Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is all smiles last year as he arrives at NYU after fleeing his Communist homeland.
“The big problem is that NYU is very compromised by the fact they are working very closely with the Chinese to establish a university,” according to one New York-based professor familiar with Chen’s situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Well, just goes to show it’s more important to a university to expand it’s business in a communist country than to protect a political dissident in search of freedom. It gets down to money and prestige, huh, NYU? Sell your soul to the devil, and embrace the very system that enslaves a billion people, the workers paradise. Academics and their administrators continue to show how truly stupid they are.Hopefully a conservative college/university will pick up this gentleman and recognize and value him and his cause for what it’s really worth. Tragic, again.
Commies helping Commies.
Liberals, always there when they can use you.
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