Gucci Gu / Shanghai Daily news

Zhou Zhewei and Ye Zhiming, Vice Presidents of Shanghai University, along with several school principals, were interviewed yesterday on the issue of the 71 undergraduates that had been advised to leave school last December.  The Oriental Morning Post reporter has more on this interview.
Zhou explained that a lack of motivation and unclear learning goals caused the problems.  Some students considered university a place of entertainment.  We will not indulge those students who have no sense of responsibility to themselves or to society.
"Expulsion discipline became effective 11 years ago, and since then, each semester, there were students broking the rules, " Zhou said. "We gave these 71 expelled students chances to re-select their courses to make up for their failing scores. However, they failed again, Zhou said disappointedly.
Another seven teachers at Shanghai University were punished for their careless omissions in their work which lead to a high failure rate in their courses.