But for several days in a row, not only the old student union, but also the literature club and calligraphy club were holding meetings of all sizes. The small classes that were originally held in the dormitory every night were temporarily suspended due to the absence of the college and teachers.
I returned to the dormitory later and later. Many times, after finishing my evening classes, I was notified at short notice to go to activities.
Even though Xu Manman didn't care about school activities, she noticed something was wrong.
It wasn't until Tuesday, after a group fight in the cafeteria, that we understood the reason for the abnormalities of the past few days.
The root cause was the contradiction between the academic faction of Class 1978 and the workers, peasants and soldiers faction of several other grades.
Many workers, peasants and soldiers who were university students could not even read a single word when they first entered school. Most of them did not even finish elementary school, and only a very small number of them actually finished high school.
With such a hugely diverse student population, coupled with the influence of social activities at the time, it was impossible for students to concentrate on their studies. Instead, various club activities in the school flourished.
Moreover, some of them had participated in the Little Red Guards in the early years. In various clubs, student bureaucracy was prevalent, and sometimes even teachers and schools had to avoid it.
Fortunately, everything happens on campus, and their quality has improved to some extent. Violence has not happened much, but it is unknown how the relationship between superiors and subordinates is handled in private.
After the college entrance examination was resumed, there were natural differences between the students who passed the college entrance examination and the workers, peasants and soldiers college students in terms of cultural level and ideological concepts.
Because of the rectification of wrongs and the restoration of the college entrance examination system, the situation of the former workers, peasants and soldiers college students has changed subtly, especially for those who have not yet graduated in recent years, whose situation is even more embarrassing.
When the school started, everyone was still in the stage of testing each other, and no major conflicts surfaced.
It was not until the midterm exam that the stark comparison of grades and rankings brought the difference between the two to the surface.
At first, it seemed that it was just some students gossiping in private, saying that the workers, peasants and soldiers were rubbish, that they only knew how to spend their days idling around, that they occupied the toilets in school but didn't do anything, etc.
Word came from the workers, peasants and soldiers that the freshmen in the academy only knew how to study and were a bunch of lazy nerds.
Although the academics were upset when those words were spread, they focused most of their energy on studying. Except for a few extremists, everyone else was relatively calm.
But the opposition from the workers, peasants and soldiers was more intense. They already felt that their status in the school was awkward and they were inferior in their hearts. They were very angry. The workers, peasants and soldiers who had rich experience in making trouble decided to teach these freshmen a lesson.
The workers, peasants and soldiers resistance camp, with the student union as the main body and various social organizations as the auxiliary, formed a united front.
Since the freshmen are good at studying, we will give them no time to study. At the same time, we will use the experience of previous activities to criticize and suppress the ideologically of some of the more outstanding individuals through club meetings.
At the beginning of the meeting, the situation was relatively mild and the freshmen did not notice anything unusual. It was not until later that the language and actions of the so-called senior management became increasingly excessive and everyone began to notice something was wrong.
The protagonists of the cafeteria brawl that day were the dispute between the Student Union Organization Department Secretary and his dormitory members on the one hand, and the Student Union Patrol Group on the other.
The cause was that this officer missed the meeting organized by the Student Union on the pretext of attending classes. The patrol team caught him with a small braid and went to the cafeteria to block him. They also gave him a fierce ideological education in front of everyone in the cafeteria - openly insulting him.
At first, the freshman did not resist too fiercely. He took out his leave application, explained the reason for the leave in a gentle tone, and informed the minister in advance.
But the inspection team said they did not recognize the leave note and gave him a severe reprimand. They also wanted to take him away on the spot and hold a student union meeting to criticize his thoughts. This young student was also very brave and immediately applied to withdraw from the student union. He was pinned to the ground by the inspection team on the grounds of desertion.
This freshman was no pushover and he fought back directly in the face of such humiliation. The patrol team saw that the situation was not good and planned to attack him with all their might. However, his freshman roommate was no pushover either, so it turned into a small-scale fight.
It would be fine if we just stopped at this stage.
However, the patrol team had always been accustomed to bullying and could not bear this defeat. They waved their hands in the cafeteria and called out many of their accomplices from the student union and various clubs to join the battle.
Seeing that the small group of freshmen was weak, many freshmen who had been severely suppressed recently also joined the battle.
Then the situation began to get out of control, and it evolved from a fight between a dozen people to a fight between a hundred people.
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