哥大中国学生为什么抗议杨澜获奖?(附:哥大通知)
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杨澜被邀请于9月11日参加哥伦比亚大学国际关系学院和美国亚裔哥大校友联谊会合办的一个筹款晚宴。在晚宴上,这位哥伦比亚大学国际关系学院1996年的硕士学位获得者,和另一位国际关系学院1988年毕业生,中国证券研究设计中心总干事王波明一起将获颁“哥伦比亚大学杰出贡献奖”。
主办单位之一,美国亚裔哥大校友联谊会的网页上的该筹款晚宴的电子请柬显示,晚宴的门票收入将会转给美国亚裔哥大校友会设立的奖学金以及哥伦比亚大学国际关系学院为亚裔学生设立的奖学金基金。每位晚宴的参加者要缴350美元。
哥伦比亚大学的校长Lee Bollinger,国际关系学院的院长Lisa Anderson,教务长Alan Brinkley,校董Savio Tung和 Clyde Wu都被邀请出席该晚宴。
但是,哥大给予杨澜奖励的活动却引起了有1000个会员的哥伦比亚大学中国学生学者联谊会的不满。
哥伦比亚大学中国学生学者联谊会9月10日给哥大的中国学生学者发出了一封公开信,抗议校长Lee Bollinger于9月11日(周六)为哥大校友杨澜颁发“杰出校友奖”,呼吁中国学生给被邀请出席该晚宴的学校领导及校董发出电子抗议信,以确保哥大和中国学生的名誉不受损害。这封署名为哥大中国学生会的公开信,是写给哥大校长Bolliger的。公开信对丧失了“诚信度”的杨澜是否有资格获得此殊荣表示“怀疑”和“关切”。
公开信开篇就说,代表了哥大1000位中国学生和学者的中国学生学者联谊会认为,哥大将向杨澜颁奖的事实与哥大一贯鼓励学生诚实和自尊的校风背道而驰,是“一件错事”,等于变相鼓励撒谎和欺骗。
哥伦比亚大学中国学生学者联谊会在用电子邮件回复多维记者的询问时解释说,“大多数同学不能接受杨澜作为哥大中国学生的模范代表,哥大还有许多更受尊重和有影响力的中国校友。如果杨澜可以认识到自己的错误,并愿意公开道歉,解释真相的话,我们会支持她,并为她(获奖)而感到自豪。”
中国学生学者联谊会的邮件中还说,此举是在许多会员的强烈要求下,由联谊会执委会集体开会讨论过后做出决定,以哥伦比亚大学中国学生的名义,就杨澜获奖一事做出抗议。
信中提到杨澜曾多次对中国媒体说,自己是哥大的校董,还多次公开为其夫吴征的“假文凭”辩护。
杨澜1996年毕业于哥伦比亚大学国际关系学院,获得硕士学位。她在自传《凭海临风》一书中提到自己从哥大毕业时,拒绝了美国三大电视网的争相聘请,不做主播,要回中国发展。
这是哥大中国学生会第二次就杨澜发表公开声明。上一次是在2002年1月20日,上一次的公开信是中文,在中国学生会的网页上仍然可以找得到。那一封公开信没有要求中国学生给校长发电子邮件表示抗议。
在这次的公开信中,加入了上一封公开信的链接,并说当初写公开信是为了“哥大的荣誉不被玷污”。
新的一封抗议信中还告诉校长Bollinger说,“几乎任何一个受过教育的中国学生和学者都明白杨澜曾经撒过谎。校长可以去问学校里任何一个哥大中国同学会的会员,杨澜是否有资格获得该荣誉?”
抗议信的最后还直言不讳地指出,“哥大给杨澜颁奖是所有诚实和勤奋的哥大中国学生的耻辱,是给全世界特别是中国传递了一个有损哥大名誉的错误信息。”
公开信中列出了数位学校领导的电话和电子邮件地址,包括校长Lee Bolliner,教务长Alan Brinkley,杨澜曾就读的国际关系学院的院长Lisa Anderson,和两位校董事会成员,Clyde Wu和 Savio Tung的电邮,并呼吁收到电子公开信的同学给他们发电子抗议信。
哥伦比亚大学的教务长Alan Brinkley告诉多维记者,他在9月10日(周五)的下午一下子收到了十几封内容相近的抗议信。他表示自己在周五之前,对“杨澜是谁”,“为什么得奖”一概不知,直到收到抗议信后,才意识到“颁奖一事存在争议”。他表示自己较早前收到过校方发出的关于给杨澜颁奖的晚宴邀请函,但他无法参加。他说,颁奖晚宴是正在学校举行的“哥大与中国”研讨会的一部分。他表示,如果校长问起,他会如实反映抗议信的内容。
多维记者周五下午5时半致电校长办公室,被告知校长已经离开。校长办公室的工作人员不肯透露关于颁奖晚宴的任何细节,要求记者与哥大的新闻办公室联系。
新闻办公室给予记者的答覆是,9月11日的颁奖晚宴是一个非公开的仪式,只有接到邀请的人士方可出席,并不愿意透露任何关于此奖励和获奖人的有关资料。
-----Original Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:33 AM
To: Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association:
Subject: [CUCSSA] Call for Action Against Dishonesty .Regarding SIPA
Award to Ms. Lan Yang
Dear Fellow Columbian:
As you might know, School of International and Public Affairs
(SIPA) & Asian Columbia Alumni Association will present Ms. Lan Yang
Columbia University Distinguished Award this Saturday. We have been
taught by Columbia to respect freedom of expression, honor individual
dignity, as well as to keep high standards of honesty. Now, with the
coming Columbia University Distinguished Award to Ms. Lan Yang, we
believe our university is doing wrong thing by endorsing cheating
activities and supporting dishonesty.
We are truly worried about the message that Columbia University is
delivering to the world by this award, especially to China. It is a
shame to all hard-working, diligent, honest Columbia Chinese that our
beloved University to honor Ms. Lan Yang this award, it is the
endorsement of dishonesty, which is contract to core values of Columbia;
it is ruining the reputation of Columbia by sending wrong message to the
world, especially to our home country, China.
As Columbia Chinese, we have the responsibility to protect the
reputation of Columbia and we have the right to condemn people who have
damaged the image of Columbia as well as the image of Columbia Chinese
as a whole. We are calling you to express your great concerns to
Columbia officials listed below and to voice your endorsement of the
honesty and dignity:
Background:
Among numerous stories reported about Ms. Lan Yang, she repeatly told
Chinese media and Chinese people that she was a trustee of Columbia
University, she refused the invitations to be an anchor woman from Big
Three TV networks in US, etc.. She publicly and forcefully defended her
husband's purchase of an online Doctoral Degree (not from any accredited
online institution) when people realized his Ph.D. is fake, etc.
Her dishonesty and deception were investigated by several independent
freelance columnists in the U.S., and were widely discussed, or rather
disdained, by the Chinese community in the popular China News Digest for
months. More than that, Ms. Yang never apologized for her dishonesty but
instead using all her power to defend those lies.
We were so ashamed about the ruin of Columbia reputation at that time
that CUCSSA finally stood up, issued a statement, condemning her
dishonesty on January 20, 2002. (It is still available online at
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cucssaews/yl.gb.html).
It's known to almost every educated Chinese in the U.S. and China that,
to her full credit, she's been a liar and cheater at the very least.
All records and evidence of these are still available online today at
many websites, just name a few:
http://cn.geocities.com/bit131911/BIT/jour/yanglan.txt http://www.peacehall.comews/gb/china/2002/...201090233.shtml CUCSSA working committee 2003-2004