The Wall Street Journal (December 17) reported that Zhihao Kong, a Purdue grad student from China, was
harassed by other Chinese students after he posted a letter online praising the 1989 Tiananmen Square
protests and his family in China received a visit from the Ministry of State Security. On hearing of this,
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels denounced the “atmosphere of intimidation” directed at Zhihao
Kong and his family and affirmed that Purdue is “proud” that mainland Chinese students come to his campus,
where they enjoy freedom of inquiry and expression. He insisted, however, that “those seeking to deny those
rights to others, let alone to collude with foreign governments in repressing them, will need to pursue their
education elsewhere.”
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