How open should university campuses be to the public?

大学校园应该对公众开放到什么程度?

Round Table China

2024-02-21

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In the height of winter, the Weiming Lake ice rink on the campus of Peking University is open to all skating enthusiasts. Come spring, the cherry blossoms of Wuhan University attract millions of visitors both locally and from across the country. There are a lot of pros and cons for universities to open their campuses to the general public, and is there a right or wrong answer to the question: should university campuses stay open? On the show: Laiming, Niu Honglin & Steve Hatherly
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  • Discussion keeps the world turning.

  • This is round table.

  • In the height of winter, the wimming lake ice rink on the campus of Peking university is open to all skating enthusiasts.

  • Come spring, the cherry blossoms of Wuhan University attract hundreds of thousands of visitors, both locally and from across the country.

  • There's a lot of pros and cons for universities to open their campuses to the general public, and there really isn't a right or wrong answer to the question, should university campuses stay open?

  • Hello, I'm Lai Ming, and this is roundtable today with my colleague Niu Ho ling and our guest Steve Hatherley.

  • We will see why we are having that discussion again about open campus.

  • Welcome, Steve, to the show again.

  • Thank you so much for having me back.

  • It feels like it's been, oh, gosh, I don't know, a good few months since I was here.

  • The last, last time.

  • I thought you forgot about me.

  • No way.

  • Yeah, we always remember you.

  • I mean, in fact, you're always in at the back of my mind, if not at the forefront.

  • Well, that's nice to hear.

  • No, honestly, thank you for having me back.

  • I'm really looking forward to the show today.

  • So it's winter time both in China and in South Korea.

  • Well, are people up for winter sports where you live right now?