A meeting was held in the Jin Ling University conference room. The principal, Xu Jian, personally chaired the meeting. He requested the leaders of the computer science department to be present.
Many professors were originally in the laboratory, but they were called to the meeting.
The core of the meeting was simple. They were discussing one thing, which was an article that was trending on Weibo. [On China's Contemporary Academic Atmosphere – Starting from an Undergraduate Student's Thesis].
The article mentioned that an undergraduate student published nine SCI theses in one month. Using this as an entry point, the article criticized the academic atmosphere of China's higher education institutions and criticized a certain journal for not being strict enough. It also pointed out that the undergraduate student was from the University of Jin Ling.
This was basically putting Jin Ling on a hot stove.
In the meeting, an old computer science professor pushed his glasses up and said, "… I've read the nine theses. They're actually quite well written. It's not easy for an undergraduate student to write theses like that. It's a bit far-fetched to say that he's just an incompetent person. Many of the computer science journals aren't as good as him. That Zhu Fangcai … Education Commentator doesn't know anything about information technology. Maybe we can talk to him and point out his mistakes. We should be able to get him to delete the post. "
People will hate you if you publish too many theses?
Many professors were filled with confusion. This meeting was simply inexplicable!
"That's not realistic … Zhu Fangcai, doesn't he know what's wrong with him? Look at his titles, Education Commentator, Science Writer, which one of them is on the same level as us? " The secretary sitting at the conference table shook his head and said, "He's obviously here to scam us. Why would he want to talk to you?"
This matter was indeed difficult to deal with.
First of all, the student did not do anything wrong. The school could not punish the student. But now, there was a one-sided condemnation.
Speaking of which, the whole thing was quite funny. It was an outsider who used his advantage in social status to point fingers at others.
As for the motive, the school leaders did not understand.
Fortunately, it wasn't the time to fill in the application form a month ago. Otherwise, everyone present would have cursed him.
Regardless, this matter had a serious impact on the school's reputation!
Principal Xu's expression was a bit ugly. He was silent for about half a minute before he slowly said, "It's not a matter of whether the thesis is good or not. It's just that people from all walks of life are questioning our school's academic ethos. Our top priority now is to answer these questions and clarify things to the public. On the other hand, we still need to figure out what exactly is going on! "
After an afternoon of discussion, the meeting finally made two decisions.
On the one hand, for the sake of the school's reputation, they launched a public relations campaign to clarify the academic value of the thesis. At the same time, they sent a warning letter to the school's lawyer, asking for an apology. On the other hand, he requested the leaders of the various faculties to find out more about this undergraduate student with the surname Lu and find out more about the situation.
Nine SCI papers a month, one short of double digits. It did sound a little magical. Although the professors from the software department had the experience of pouring water into a thesis before, no one had ever been so crazy about it before!
However, at this time, the school leaders did not know that Lu Zhou had actually only published ten papers. It was just that the other one was not computer science, it was mathematics …
…
Weibo, comment section.
[F * ck, an undergraduate student published nine SCI theses. Who are you kidding? Is this thing that easy to publish?]
[… I think I can do it too. (dog face)]
[Support Teacher Zhu! Fight against academic cancer! Correct this unhealthy trend! (fist) (fist)]
[As an international student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this kind of phenomenon is impossible to happen in the United States. Without a doubt, the author must have taken advantage of some of the loopholes in China's pseudo-review system …]
[Sad, what kind of students do our universities produce! What's the use of researchers who only know how to write theses? Can a thesis become an atomic bomb? Even an undergraduate student can write so many theses! As you can imagine, our country's academic community is beyond cure …]
[Save your breath. See if you can write nine theses in a month. If you can't do it, then stop talking.]
F * ck, what the hell?
Is there not a single normal IQ comment on my side?
20,000 shares, 10,000 comments, countless likes!
Lu Zhou sat in an empty classroom and scrolled through Weibo. The more he looked, the angrier he got. However, he did not have a good solution.
Everyone did not care about the truth. They only wanted to see what they wanted to see.
For example, the overthrow of authority, the "product of exam-oriented education" being defeated, the "hypocritical" veil of academia being exposed … As for whether or not the thesis was as worthless as Zhu said, how many people would look at it with their own eyes?
It was non-existent.
In order to attack these trolls, Lu Zhou even registered a Weibo account. However, as the person in question, his comments did not even get a single like.
Maybe this is the tragedy of being invisible on Weibo …
Lu Zhou turned off his phone and scratched his head.
He thought he chose the easiest task, but he did not expect such a big trap.
Actually, it was his fault. If he used an alias to publish the thesis, no one would have noticed. However, it was already like this. There was no point in regretting it.
Just then, he received a call on his cell phone.
He picked it up and saw that it was from Old Tang.
Lu Zhou had a strange expression on his face. He could not think of a reason why Old Tang would call him. He thought, Is it related to the thesis?
I don't think so, right?
Lu Zhou picked up the phone with uncertainty in his heart.
"Hello?"
"Little Lu, what are you doing?"
The voice was quite calm. Lu Zhou calmed down and said, "I'm studying in the classroom … What's up?"
Professor Tang paused for a second and said, "Come to my office if you're free."
"Right now?"
"Yeah, right now."
…
After packing his things, Lu Zhou carried his laptop and books and went straight to Professor Tang's office.
When he walked in, he saw that Dean Lu from the applied mathematics department and Dean Zhang from the computer science department were also there.
The three professors looked at Lu Zhou and smiled. Then, they looked at each other and communicated with their eyes. Finally, Professor Tang sighed and said, "Lu Zhou, I want to ask you something."
Lu Zhou said, "Professor, please ask."
Professor Tang continued to ask, "A while ago … After you published that mathematics thesis, did you submit it to SCI journals?"
Lu Zhou knew that he could not hide it from them. He sighed in his heart and answered truthfully, "Yes."
Dean Zhang looked at Dean Lu and said helplessly, "As expected … I heard that your surname is Lu. I thought that there are not many people with the surname Lu in our department. I asked them one by one. Forget about writing a thesis, they don't even know how to submit it. "
Professor Tang was anxious. He asked again, "You published a mathematics thesis, right?"
"Yes …" said Lu Zhou as he nodded. He then added, "I also published other theses … About artificial intelligence and geographic information systems."
Professor Tang's eyes almost popped out as he said, "You … Why did you publish a computer science thesis? Weren't you researching Mersenne primes a few days ago? "
"I found out that the journal pays 150 yuan per thesis," said Lu Zhou as he looked at Professor Tang. He then said, "Then, I split my research into nine parts and published it … Is that not okay?"
Professor Tang: "…"
Dean Lu: "…"
Dean Zhang: "…"
Is there a problem?
Of course there is. After all, the school encouraged students to publish more theses. Although it sounded weird to publish for royalties, it was not a bad thing …
However, there was a problem with this.
The office was silent. Finally, Dean Lu coughed and said in a friendly tone, "Um … Student Lu, did you write the thesis yourself?"
"Of course," said Lu Zhou as he nodded. He said, "I wrote it in the library."
He was not lying. It was not enough to exchange the thesis from the system. If he did not understand the knowledge, he would not be able to write it. At most, he could only copy the algorithm.
In order to complete these theses, he had read more than a hundred theses, not to mention the professional books.
Therefore, even if it was a few questions about artificial intelligence and GIS systems, he would be able to answer them fluently, let alone check the surveillance footage.
Of course, if he asked about the application of artificial intelligence in other fields, he might not be able to answer. However, with the system, it was not difficult to exchange general points. At most, it would be a waste of points …
Dean Lu did not know what to say. In the end, Dean Zhang from the software department stood up and smiled. He said, "Dean Lu, we didn't mean anything by it. We just didn't expect you to be so good at mathematics and also have such a high understanding of information technology. I've seen your C language scores. 95 is pretty good. Of course, we believe you wrote the thesis yourself … But some people don't believe it and are making an issue out of it. Have you been on Weibo? "
In fact, although most artificial intelligence was written in C + +, there was no direct correlation between the results of the C language test and the artificial intelligence. This was because the teachers would only teach the basic usage of the C + + language and would not teach anything in-depth at all.
However, on the other hand, a person who could write a thesis like that would not be too bad at C language. A score of 95 satisfied Dean Zhang's expectations.
"Are you talking about that thesis?" asked Lu Zhou.
"Yes," said Dean Zhang as he stared at Lu Zhou. He nodded and asked, "You've read it?"
"I've read it," said Lu Zhou. Even though he was furious, he still had to maintain his composure in front of outsiders. He waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "That kind of brainless slander, I'm too lazy to argue with him."
Although, when he said this, he really wanted to chop him in half with a knife.
"Student Lu Zhou, I have to correct you," said Dean Lu as he looked at Lu Zhou seriously. He said, "You're not just a person, you're a student of our school, you represent our school's reputation! We will not tolerate this kind of academic immoral behavior, and we will not allow anyone to slander our students. I hope you can correct your attitude and look at this incident seriously. "
"Dean Lu, I can't do anything about it. I sent him a private message, but he ignored me, "said Lu Zhou helplessly.
"Actually, Dean Lu didn't mean anything else. I just hope that you won't be so negative," said Dean Zhang in a gentle tone. He said, "Our school will make a public response to the public opinion. However, we hope that you can cooperate with us and speak up for yourself and the school. Is that okay? "
So you're going to stand up for me …
I thought it was something else, you should have said so earlier!
Lu Zhou sighed in relief and nodded.
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