From: wnf_222@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu
Subject: Re: Anniversary for the Halloween Tragedy in University of Iowa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:13:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa

In article <1992Nov08.164832.263797@sue.cc.uregina.ca>, yan@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Yongfei Yan) writes:
> In article <1992Nov8.014231.1@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu> wnf_222@iowa.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
>>In article <BxBKIG.8rH@acsu.buffalo.edu>, ziniuwei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ziniu Wei) writes:
>>> 
>>> I just read the current Chinese Magazine (CND-CM) cm9210z.  There is only one
>>> long article about the bloody Halloween last year at University of Iowa.  It is
>>> a very worthy article.
>>> 
>>> It was the first time I know so many details about the event.  If you havn't
>>> seen it yet, you'd better get the CND-CM to read it.
>>> 
>>> I think it can be a new topic to discuss.
>>> 
>>>             /|
>>>            / |		
>>>           /  |		Ziniu Wei
>>>     _____/___|_____	Center of Excellence of Document Analysis (CEDAR)
>>>    /    /    /    /	Department of Computer Science 
>>>   /    /    /    /	State University of New York at Buffalo
>>>  /____/____/____/	
>>>       |   /
>>>       |  /		Internet: ziniuwei@cs.buffalo.edu
>>>       | /		
>>>       |/		
>>
>>Please don;t be fooled.
>>
>>We have sent CND-CM a letter which is co-sign by ALL except one chinese students
>>metioned in Mr. Liu Yujian's article.  That one student also agrees with the 
>>content of our letter, but he prefer to keep his name anonymous.
>>
>>The feeling of ALL chinese students at Dept. of Physics and Astronomy of UI can 
>>be summed into one word: OUTRAGED.
>>
>>I think and I hope CND will carried on our letter soon.   Here is just the 
>>first paragraph of our letter:
>>
>>"  We are deeply disturbed by Liu Yujian's article in your special HXWZ 
>>supplement.  In that article, the author distored the facts, misquoted
>>other people's words, stretched-out herasay, and, more over, made up a theory
>>out of his own speculation.
>>
>>........."
>>
>>Personally,  I am angry since most of my words quated (either with or without
>>my name on) were made out of nowhere.  Mr Liu simply fake them up.  But I am
>>outraged because the real victims got killed one more time by Mr. Liu Yujian's
>>"soft knife".   We just can't accept that.
> The victims (Lu is one of them ) are the victims of the problems within
> academic circles. Lu is not a born villain. It is easy to cast all
> the blames to Lu, but it is not fair and it won't solve any problem.
> 
> Yongfei Yan

I agree Lu Gang is a victim of this tragedy. All of us who close to this tragedy
believe it is NOT all Lu Gang's fault.  (Neither in my previous post nor in our
letter "cast all the Blames to Lu".)    But this doesn't mean Mr. Liu's artilce
tell the truth or justified.  As pointed out in our letter, Mr Liu's article 
distorted the fact, misquoted our words (even bricated some) and made up the 
details of the stories to justify his own speculation.   That's what we can not
accepted.   Please note all chinese students in our department, including Lu 
Gang  personal friend,  agree on that.   Is this clear eonough?

We understand the publication of such extremely biased article will mislead a 
lot of people in the chinese community about truth of this tragedy.  I am sorry
to feel that you are one of them.   That is the basic reason we are forced to
speak out even we do not want to talk about it publicly.  you know, after one 
year it is still hurt even to discuss it among ourself.

Feng, Wei
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of Iowa