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WORLD, Page 27World NotesCHINAMaking the Marxist Grade
As Beijing's 67 universities opened for a new term last week,
the mood on campus was strictly back to basics -- Communist basics.
Two months after the bloody suppression of the student prodemocracy
movement, the authorities are putting new emphasis on "political
re-education." At Beijing Teachers College and other former hotbeds
of student protest, incoming freshmen reported a month early for
a required refresher course on Deng Xiaoping's speeches.
Hardest hit was Peking University, where the entire class of
811 students has been ordered to spend its first year not on the
spacious city campus but at a spartan military academy 1,260 miles
south of Beijing, where the curriculum will be heavily weighted in
favor of discipline and party ideology. Said an angry teacher: "The
government probably thinks it can change the minds of young people
in this manner so that they will avoid being troublemakers in the
future." Some face a particularly grueling ideological brush-up.
The State Education Commission has ruled that all graduates since
1985 must spend a year working in the countryside or in a factory.