Students have right to a private life

SHANDONG FOREIGN LANGUAGE VOCATIONAL COLLEGE recently provoked fierce debate because it insisted on shooting videos of student couples with pre-installed cameras on campus and posting them on their website as a "warning" to other students. Many people criticized the college, but the college administrators responded that "campus love was uncivilized". Beijing News comments:

Shandong Foreign Language Vocational College is not alone in its attitude. About a week ago, Binzhou University, also in Shandong province, organized a student discipline group, whose members surrounded and beat a young couple on campus who did not obey their orders, although the university later said it had punished the students responsible.

It seems there is a tendency for some domestic colleges to intervene in students' private lives, unilaterally defining campus romances as "uncivilized".