Universities have the right to limit number of campus visitors
AFTER A RECENT VISIT TO XIAMEN University in East China's Fujian province, journalist Jia Jia wrote that universities should not limit the number of daily visitors, contending that a good university should have an open campus. This has sparked a heated debate. Comments:
Some say Western universities are without walls and open to all visitors. That's not true. In Cambridge, for example, the university is distributed across town but its colleges are surrounded by walls, and some of them charge an entry fee.
In China, some universities have tried to be open to all but that has often resulted in chaos. For example, people visit Wuhan University every year in huge numbers to view the cherry blossom, which causes traffic jams across half the city. In order to solve the problem, the university had to increase the entry fee during the cherry blossom season.