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Chinese Student Association to hold awareness forum
Andy Dose
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: News
In response to negative media interpretation of the Olympic Games in China, CSU's Chinese Student Association is holding an open discussion forum Thursday on the Lory Student Center plaza to facilitate cultural awareness and to give an alternate perspective on the issues affecting the games.
The forum will facilitate community discussion of issues concerning the Chinese government and the impact of the games on Chinese students.
Jessica Gu, a journalism graduate student and member of Chinese Students and Scholars Association, says that the media has a significant impact on American people, and has not allowed both sides to be represented.
"There has been a lot of discussion [from such sources as] the Collegian and CNN," Gu said. "The problem is that a lot of the media criticize the Chinese government. The government did have issues to face, but people shouldn't just judge if a country should host the Olympic Games or not according to [those] issues."
April 14's Collegian "Our View" opposed the games in Beijing due to restrictions the Chinese government has placed on journalists' access, which inspired the student group to hold the forum.
Staff writer Andy Dose can be reached at news@collegian.com.
The forum will facilitate community discussion of issues concerning the Chinese government and the impact of the games on Chinese students.
Jessica Gu, a journalism graduate student and member of Chinese Students and Scholars Association, says that the media has a significant impact on American people, and has not allowed both sides to be represented.
"There has been a lot of discussion [from such sources as] the Collegian and CNN," Gu said. "The problem is that a lot of the media criticize the Chinese government. The government did have issues to face, but people shouldn't just judge if a country should host the Olympic Games or not according to [those] issues."
April 14's Collegian "Our View" opposed the games in Beijing due to restrictions the Chinese government has placed on journalists' access, which inspired the student group to hold the forum.
Staff writer Andy Dose can be reached at news@collegian.com.
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Peace Love
posted 5/01/08 @ 9:55 PM MST
Jessica,
Perhaps you could hold your open discussion forum in China.
Perhaps not.
I keep forgetting that China is held in slavery by a brutal totalitarian communist dictatorship that kills students for even thinking about open discussion. (Continued…)
Leewood
posted 5/02/08 @ 9:36 AM MST
"I keep forgetting that China is held in slavery by a brutal totalitarian communist dictatorship that kills students for even thinking about open discussion. (Continued…)
A CSU Alumnus from China
posted 5/03/08 @ 1:16 AM MST
I have lived in the US more than 12 years. Occasionally, I saw a Free Tibet sticker on the car bumper. Whenever I saw that, I could not help but thinking whether the person who put that sticker on the bumper know what "Free Tibet" truly means. (Continued…)
enderandpeter
Spencer
posted 5/03/08 @ 9:57 PM MST
Peace Love, I'm not sure who your comments were directed towards, but I did want to clarify that at the beginning of my post, when I said "An uncountable number" of people had lost their lives and had been injured in the summer of 1989, I meant "An unknowable number". (Continued…)
Craig Hawley
posted 5/04/08 @ 12:06 AM MST
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/hr_facts.html
feynmann
posted 5/17/08 @ 5:14 AM MST
Response to Dear Mr. Spencer Williams:
After carefully watching the so-called "Documentary" video of "Tank Man" (52 min long!), now I started to understand how and from where all those ideas in your mind were cranked out. (Continued…)
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