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As most of you may have already known the tragedies happened in NTU, last Monday, an Indonesia final year student was reported to commit a suicide after stabbing a professor, who is the supervisor of his final year project.  As the top Singapore news paper, Strait Times reported the whole story immediately, which unfortunately, was regarded to mislead his readers by some untrue information. For example, ST reported the student slit his wrist before the suicide jump. But his parents declared later that the wound was not on his wrist but on his neck, throat and back. People can hardly understand such a mistake (if it is really a mistake by a journalist) is just unintentional? Or they intentionally help to cover the truth from the public?

Now, the situation becomes more complicated. Last Friday, another NTU staff, who was used to be an undergraduate student of NTU from Hubei, China, was reported to kill himself at Nanyang Heights in campus! The wired thing is that both of them worked in the same lab. Is there any linkage between these two accidents?  So far, the investigation is still on-going. Before the whole thing becomes obvious, I hope our university can take a right stand at that moment, to support any action of trying to reveal the truth beneath the news.

Chinese may hear many stories about the Culture Revolution happened in last century of China. Most of them are quite unfortunate. But I think the worst thing happened in that period of time is that young people were encouraged to do many wrong things and criticized many good people, using some ridiculous or even fake evidences. As a result, they tended to loss their yardstick of moral values, which caused severe consequences when they became the core of the society someday.  Now the only thing we can do is to remember the shamed history as long as we still can learn from it, i.e. the wrong thing should be corrected immediately after their occurrences.