Peking U. Criticized for Creating Elite Unit

Faculty members and students at Peking University are criticizing the creation of a new elite unit, which will offer a Rhodes Scholarship-style program for foreign students, The South China Morning Post reported. One student told the newspaper that those in the special program "will live on the school’s best plot of land, have the best teachers, they will have bright and spacious class and dorm rooms.... They will be the privileged elite and all the other Peking University students will be second-class citizens.”