The HKUST campus is divided into East, South, North, and West Zones. The east area is the office building, the south area is the teaching building, and the north and west areas are the dormitory buildings and teachers' family areas, respectively. The school's weekly Board of Trustees meetings are held in the conference room on the third floor of the East End Office Building. Standing in front of the window of the conference room on the third floor, you can see the verdant ancient camphor and students on campus.

The conference room is a rectangular structure, with a large oval conference table in the middle, several pots of flowers are placed on the conference table, and two small national flags are inserted in the chairman's position, and the entire conference table occupies most of the space in the conference room. During the meeting, the president and the party secretary sat at the two ends of the oval conference table, and other leaders and department heads sat at the conference table.

In this sample meeting, Director Liu came to the conference room and left the meeting early. Only a few directors from other departments arrived, and the school staff made tea for them, the tea was ordinary jasmine tea, and the air was suddenly filled with the smell of tea-making essence.

The first few department chairs talked about some things about their department. Because Director Liu had something on his mind, he chatted with them for a while, and then sat silently in his seat, looking at the churning tea leaves in the teacup in a daze. I called the old principal that day, and after listening to it, the old principal was silent for a while before telling Director Liu that he knew. I hung up the phone, and I don't know if the old principal will come over today.

At the school council, the topics of the meeting are usually just some of the daily work arrangements and handling of the school. Major matters are generally decided by the Standing Committee of the President, and then communicated and arranged for handling at the school council. The executive meeting of the principal is held once a month at the end of the month. Today's meeting is the third school board meeting of the month, and there are usually no major matters to report, and it is just some daily work arrangements.

At this time, as the meeting time approached, everyone arrived one after another, and everyone knew that there was nothing to do in today's meeting, so the mood was relatively relaxed, and only Director Liu seemed to be preoccupied.

"Director Liu, what's wrong, you don't look happy?" Director Wang, who has a good relationship with Director Liu, asked. Director Wang is the head of the Chinese Department, and they are both proud protégés of the old principal.

"Director Wang, it's okay." Director Liu didn't want to tell anyone about Ye Zifeng. When Director Wang saw Director Liu like this, he didn't want to ask too much.

As in previous meetings, President Zhang and Secretary Wang stepped on time, walked into the conference room one after the other, and sat down in their seats. Principal Zhang looked around, and when he saw that everyone had arrived, he took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and the venue immediately quieted down.

The director of the school's teaching department presided over the meeting, and President Zhang made an opening speech, and the first topic of the meeting was that it was the graduation season again, and the school should do a good job in the employment of fresh graduates. This is a routine topic that is discussed every year, and the heads of departments express their opinions and determinations, and the agenda is unanimously approved.

The second topic is that the admissions office should do a good job in recruiting students in the second half of the year, which is also a routine topic.

The third topic is the issue of school safety, the director of education said that it is necessary to do a good job in the safety of school students, and to strictly manage the phenomenon of violating school spirit and discipline.

Director Liu heard the conversation of the Director of Education and knew that the third topic was preset for him, which should be the instruction of Principal Zhang, so when the Director of Education was speaking, his eyes glanced at Director Liu intentionally or unintentionally.

Director Liu pretended not to see it, but he was very nervous. According to the meeting process, the last is President Zhang's concluding speech. But the old headmaster hasn't come yet. Director Liu made up his mind to pay attention to it, as long as they didn't ask about themselves, they would pretend to turn a blind eye and come to Cao Ying without saying a word.

Sure enough, after the director of teaching finished speaking, President Zhang began to conclude his speech: "There are more fresh graduates in our school than in the past this year, so we must do a good job in the employment of fresh graduates. If you do it well, people will say that you are a graduate of HKUST, and if you don't do it well, you will also say that these people are HKUST. Therefore, their performance in society will directly reflect the value of our school, and the social value of our school is reflected in these students who have walked out of school. The self-worth of our students depends on our cultivation and requirements for them in school. ”

"Our school is known for its rigorous management of schools and schools, comrades, we must be rigorous in governing schools and schools, we must not be slack at all, we must not be relaxed for a hundred days, we must keep in mind all the time." Principal Zhang suddenly said earnestly.

When everyone heard this, they all looked at each other, and they didn't understand how Principal Zhang could talk about governing the school and the school so seriously today, only the director of teaching knew that Principal Zhang was going to start playing.

Before the meeting, Principal Zhang asked Director Liu to bring up the matter of student fights at the meeting, and Principal Zhang has now paved the way, but Director Liu is not on the road, so Principal Zhang's tone is also stern: "But now, what about the facts, some of our departments are completely inadequate in the management of students, turning a blind eye to what happens, turning big things into small things and small things, and if this continues, it will have a very bad impact on our rigorous purpose of governing the school." It's off to a bad start in school, and we must not let that happen. Thus affecting the reputation of the school. Director Liu, how did you handle what happened in your department a while ago? ”

Seeing that Director Liu didn't answer, Principal Zhang had no choice but to roll him out, and Director Liu couldn't lie down, so he reluctantly took over the topic and said: "Two weeks ago in our department, there was a fight between students, because these two students had some holidays before, a student ran to another student dormitory to find trouble, and was beaten, in the process of fighting, this student was beaten to a slight concussion, and there was a slight bone crack in his arm. After the class and department leaders talked to the two of them, they criticized and educated both of them, and now the two of them have reached a settlement, because they are both fresh graduates, so the department also focuses on criticism and education, and gives a verbal warning to one of the students, and compensates part of the medical expenses of the injured student. ”

"A settlement? But how could the student report to the school office? Principal Zhang tapped his fingers on the conference table and said sternly: "If you fight at school, just give a verbal warning?" How to run the school rigorously? That's how your finance department handles things? ”

Seeing President Zhang's tantrum, some of the participants looked like they had hung up on everything, and some looked at Director Liu with pity. Director Liu knew that this was a matter in his department, and no one else would help him speak, not to mention that the principal had already lost his temper, if someone else spoke for Director Liu at this time, it would be directly against President Zhang. So everyone chose to be silent.

Director Liu didn't expect anyone to speak for him, he looked helplessly at the door, hoping that the old principal would arrive in time. But the old headmaster never appeared.

Director Liu had no choice but to continue: "Principal, these two people are fresh graduates, if this matter is dealt with seriously, it will affect their lives, so the department has made the above treatment after comprehensive consideration!" ”

"If you are afraid of the impact, don't fight, if you violate the school rules, you must be dealt with severely, otherwise how can you take it as a warning? I think this kind of person should be severely punished and expelled from school! Principal Zhang put the teacup in his hand on the table, as if he wanted to deal with the matter with one final word.