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The current high school students were very eager to study at the Yale University’s new Singapore campus. But now they are angry and frustrated at the American university’s choice to crackdown on protests on campus. British-Singaporean Samantha H. said “I just feel we have been lied to.”
She said that as a result her parents would rather see her study in UK. She added, “They don’t want me at a university that seems to care more about the money involved than students’ rights and freedom of expression.”
Public gave mixed reactions on the debate over the restrictions. One reader on Yahoo! Singapore said “It’s like setting up an engineering campus and not allowing students to use any tools.”
On the other hand, another said, “If you want to form a political party, join one outside the campus. Freedom of speech is not an open cheque book and this needs to be measured with certain controls in place so that things do not go out of hand.”
However, Thomas Yang, who would be entering his first year of university at Northwestern University’s Qatar campus in the fall argued, “I just wish Yale would go away because we all were thinking it would be a way to start developing our society into a progressive one that allows protests and dissent.”
He previously wanted to go to Yale in Singapore, but then decided against it because “they are not maintaining what makes the university great. Its students do not seem the most important.”
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