Student cohabitation raises controversy
2011-05-19
A seminar to (foster) morality in college students named for Pang Jiaojiao, a 23-year-old math junior at Hebei University of Economics and Business, was held in Dingzhou Jizhong Vocational College in Hebei Province on Tuesday, raising a recent nationwide anti-cohabitation campaign.
The seminar comes after Pang (called on) about 1,000 students to sign their names on two banners splayed with vows rejecting male-female off-campus cohabitation in late April. The activity soon (developed in)to a nationwide campaign and was taken up by several universities.
"It was brave of Pang to take a stand against cohabitation. She represents a dynamic voice of social consciousness. Though (there are) multiple opinions about college-student cohabitation, it should be discouraged." said Ren Zhenjiao, vice president of the morals education committee of the China Ethics Society.
Pang got the idea after being (inundated with) fliers advertising "painless abortion" at her dorm. "This kind of thing makes me feel insulted as a woman." And she stressed that she doesn`t oppose students pursuing virtuous love, and that her boyfriend agree with her.
