By: Staff Reports
Issue date: 5/15/08 Section: News Last update: 5/15/08 at 7:50 AM EST
Media Credit: Zachary Tracer
Freshman Grace Wang said in an interview with CBS News aired May 10 that the University was slow to support her after she was threatened for her involvement in a Tibet demonstration April 9. In an interview with CBS News that aired May 10, sophomore Grace Wang complained that the University was slow to help her withstand the international uproar that followed her involvement in a campus protest in April.Wang said she attempted to act as a mediator between pro-Tibet and pro-China demonstrators who gathered April 9 on the Chapel Quadrangle, but some perceived her to be a supporter of the pro-Tibet faction-triggering threats on Wang's life and vandalism of her parents' home in China.The threats placed her under extreme emotional distress and made finishing the semester a struggle, Wang told correspondent Michelle Miller in the interview.She acknowledged that the University did support her in some ways, but only after she had petitioned administrators."After I requested to get the police protection, I got it, and after I requested to have extension of my finals, I also got it," she said. "I had to push the limit a little bit."Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, however, said the University did all it could to support Wang following the demonstration."We were deeply engaged in trying to provide all the support we could," he told Miller.
Issue date: 5/15/08 Section: News Last update: 5/15/08 at 7:50 AM EST
Media Credit: Zachary Tracer
Freshman Grace Wang said in an interview with CBS News aired May 10 that the University was slow to support her after she was threatened for her involvement in a Tibet demonstration April 9. In an interview with CBS News that aired May 10, sophomore Grace Wang complained that the University was slow to help her withstand the international uproar that followed her involvement in a campus protest in April.Wang said she attempted to act as a mediator between pro-Tibet and pro-China demonstrators who gathered April 9 on the Chapel Quadrangle, but some perceived her to be a supporter of the pro-Tibet faction-triggering threats on Wang's life and vandalism of her parents' home in China.The threats placed her under extreme emotional distress and made finishing the semester a struggle, Wang told correspondent Michelle Miller in the interview.She acknowledged that the University did support her in some ways, but only after she had petitioned administrators."After I requested to get the police protection, I got it, and after I requested to have extension of my finals, I also got it," she said. "I had to push the limit a little bit."Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, however, said the University did all it could to support Wang following the demonstration."We were deeply engaged in trying to provide all the support we could," he told Miller.
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