On April 21, around 6:00 pm.
After making nearly 20 phone calls with his parents, mentor, senior brother and close friends the day before, Huang Xueling fell from the roof of the building, his life forever fixed at the age of 24.
Huang Xueling, a 2019 graduate student in materials engineering at the Institute of Powder Metallurgy of Central South University. Three hours before the incident, in the corridor of the fifth floor of the College’s Trinity Building, Huang Xueling had appeared twice and went back and forth between the fifth and sixth floors several times. Until 6:02 p.m., a black shadow in the outdoor surveillance fell from the air.
The police investigated the scene and decided that it was a high-altitude fall (excluding homicide).
When a poor student through diligent study all the way, through their own struggle and struggle to become a 985 graduate school, after graduation left him, should have been to create unlimited possibilities.
However, when he was about to graduate in one year, he left the world, leaving others with endless sorrow.
The last phone call
On April 19 and 20, Huang Xueling and his mother, who only called each other once a week on average, made 12 phone calls to each other because of the problem of “thesis error”.
On the 19th, on the phone, Wang Yixiu’s mother, who was far away from Longyan, Fujian, heard her son say that a published paper had been wrong. Because of the signature of the dean and supervisor and other people’s names, he is worried that the final implication of the teacher, “serious words may not be able to graduate. “
The matter of the thesis, Huang Xueling mentioned on the phone before, but read less Wang Yixiu is not very understanding.
She only knows that in the phone a consolation and enlightenment son, let him communicate more with the teacher, do not care too much about the thesis, but also remind him to eat on time.
After hanging up the phone, Wang Yixiu also did not forget to leave a message to her son on WeChat, urging him to take a video of dinner and send it to her to see.
“Dad, are you tired of working on the construction site? You have to rest more ah. “20 at 9:38 p.m., Huang Shanghai heard his son Huang Xueling’s voice on the phone for the last time.
Tired of the question, the son had asked him. Just this time the son’s concern, some stammering in the voice, Huang Shanghai can not help but be a little surprised.
“Is there something going on at your end? ” Huang Shanghai asked.
On the other end of the phone, Huang Xueling said, “Nothing. “
When her mother picked up the phone, Huang Xueling then told her, “The matter of the thesis is very serious and has a great impact. ” and instructed her mother to take care of her sister.
After hanging up the phone, at 9:46 p.m., Huang Xueling contacted her high school classmate and best friend Lin Yi (a pseudonym). As his best friend, Lin Yi has always been concerned about the situation of his thesis.
On the phone, Huang Xueling told Lin Yi, “I talked to my supervisor, no more problems, it’s okay. “These words put Lin Yi’s mind at ease.
They all did not expect that the next morning, Huang Xueling would say goodbye to everyone forever.
Grandma’s call
The night of the 21st, when Huang Xueling’s family and relatives from Longyan, Ganzhou and other places rushed to Hunan Changsha Yuelu police station, everyone learned the news of his death by fall.
The next few days, Huang Shanghai and family members together to view the remains of Huang Xueling, relics, the original monitoring. The group also went to the scene of the incident in the Trinity Building of Central South University, the laboratory desk, the roof of the building, and the dormitory where he had lived to check.
They seem to want to search out Huang Xueling’s past in these places.
Along the way, Huang Shanghai held back his grief, while Wang Yixiu was hospitalized for being too ill from the stimulation.
In the photos provided by Huang Shanghai, Huang Xueling’s dormitory is very simple. Toothbrushes, toothbrush cups, flower lotion cluttered on a small computer table, three pairs of shoes piled under the table. In the location where Huang Xueling fell, the reporter saw some blood stains from the photos.
Huang Xueling laboratory on the desk, leaving a failure to carry away the black schoolbag, as well as a notebook for experimental records.
April 30 afternoon, the reporter rushed to the Central South University, Huang Shanghai, together with relatives and friends, in Trinity a building door pull out a banner, asking the school to give a statement.
“In the past, when eating dinner at home, you can often video chat with him, but now nothing is left. “Although his son is shy and does not say much, but Huang Shanghai likes to video call with him, because in the video, he can hear the sound of his son operating laboratory equipment,” feel the daily work of his son’s laboratory. “
At this moment, 11-year-old sister is still waiting for her brother back in Longyan, take her to the cinema to watch the cartoon of her choice.
The grandparents in Ganzhou, on the other hand, are already 80 years old.
These days, the grandmother often run to the back of the old home alone, calling Huang Xueling’s nickname “gold”, expecting someone to answer.
Progressive youth
In a photo provided by his cousin, Huang Xueling is standing on a rock in front of a waterfall with his feet spread wide. He makes a V for victory with one hand and a smile on his face.
From the remote rural area, he entered Nanchang University, and finally became a master’s student in materials engineering at the prestigious 985 university, Central South University.
In the eyes of his uncle, Huang Xueling was very obedient and understanding when he went to school in his hometown of Goegong Village in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Even when his parents went to work in Fujian later, he lived in school every day and never worried his parents and teachers about his studies.
Good friend Lin Yi recalls that during his three years in high school, Huang Xueling was one of the few most diligent people in his class. “And he was too kind, not willing to trouble others with anything, and carried all the problems he encountered on his own. “
Huang Shanghai now still remembers his son’s college entrance exam score that year – 566 points.
Entering Nanchang University, Huang Xueling began to rationalize his time, but also fell in love with running. Every day after dinner, running 3 to 5 kilometers, he likes to use “Goudong” APP to record the running time and distance. The habit of running in his undergraduate days, he has persisted until his graduate school.
When he registered for the graduate school, Huang Xueling consulted his cousin about schools and majors, and he was advised to apply for Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University of Science and Technology, which was relatively easy. But Huang Xueling finally chose the stronger Central South University, with the strength to achieve his wish.
Open Huang Xueling WeChat friends, album cover is fresh blue sky and white clouds; avatar, a traveler lying in the middle of the unoccupied highway, nicknamed “hiking”.
He likes to travel. In Nanchang, he often go with friends to Tengwangge, Qiushui Square; winter and summer holidays to Longyan, Fujian, where his parents live, he will take an hour train to Xiamen to turn around, looking for friends; in Changsha, Orange Head and other attractions he has been to many times.
He loves “chicken” game, more love the glory of the king. However, because of self-discipline, Huang Xueling only relaxes for a short time after studying and experimenting fatigue, and strictly controls his game time.
Imperfect papers
In the academic world, to be able to publish an SCI paper is equivalent to the highest recognition of academic level.
Huang Xueling said in the phone “thesis error”, is he published a SCI paper this year.
According to the one-line version of the paper provided by his family, the paper was published in the European journal Scripta Materialia (Material Express). Scripta Materialia is an SCI-indexed journal, which is more influential among traditional metallic materials.
Since December last year, Huang Xueling has been preparing this paper under the guidance of her supervisor Li.
Until March 22 of this year, the paper was accepted by the journal, Huang Xueling immediately called her friend Lin Yi to report the joy.
“The paper was accepted, which means it passed the journal’s review and can be published after partial revision. “Lin Yi recalls that Huang Xueling on the other end of the phone was very happy and surprised.
After passing the tutor’s revision, Huang Xueling’s paper was officially published around April 10.
At this point, Huang Xueling is happy, but still a little worried, “because he found that the published paper, there are matching pictures tutor did not modify to. “
Subsequently, Huang Xueling found some small problems in the paper one after another. Later, after he found that a formula in the paper was used wrong, he began to be extremely worried.
Since April 16, Lin began to receive frequent phone calls from Huang Xueling, each time a chat is more than an hour.
During the phone call, Huang Xueling said his thesis was short and had many problems; he also communicated with his roommate and lab colleagues about the problem; later he was worried that the news would be spread and once it was reported, the most serious consequence might be “academic misconduct The most important thing is that the paper also carries the name of the dean, supervisor and other people, and I am afraid they will be implicated, so I blame myself.
Lin Yi obviously feel that he “a little panic”, the voice of speech is trembling. Huang Xueling regrets sending this paper, “if not send this paper on the good, you can do normal experiments, normal life. “
On April 30, in the content of the face-to-face communication with the tutor Li provided by the family, the tutor said the paper just has formatting specifications, English grammar and other issues, is not serious.
Reporter multiple attempts to contact the tutor Li, but has not been able to get a response.
The mystery of the signature
How do the authors of SCI papers generally sign their names? If the manuscript is really problematic, will it be concluded as academic misconduct?
Professor Wu of a university in Wuhan told reporters that, at present, there is no SCI requirement for master’s degree students in universities. Most PhD graduation requires an SCI paper. “Even if it is not required for graduation, SCI is a threshold when a doctor is looking for a job. “
Nationally, it is possible to publish an SCI paper, and it is possible for a student to go ahead and submit it on their own if they are fairly high level, but it is extremely rare. It usually requires a supervisor of the subject group or a leader with an administrative rank to push it, so they may appear as a second author in the byline.
“According to the National Press and Publication Administration’s “Definition of Academic Misconduct in Academic Publishing Regulation Journals,” substantial contributions to a paper are required for attribution. ” said Professor Wu. In reality, however, some leaders in administrative positions do not have time to participate in academic work, but their teams are assisting, and the byline is rare. Therefore, the paper with the name of the supervisor or administrative leadership has been very common.
A domestic magazine journal editor said in an interview that published papers found errors, you can generally contact the relevant editor to correct by way of errata.
In recent years, the academic climate has become stricter and stricter, and plagiarism, plagiarism, falsification of data, and multiple submissions have all been included within the definition of academic misconduct. Once a dissertation is recognized as academic misconduct, all authors will be implicated to varying degrees, ranging from withdrawal of the manuscript to deprivation of degree and revocation of existing positions.
However, master’s and doctoral students are facing strong pressure from research, dissertation, and various projects. “It’s hard to get a master’s or doctoral degree, and there is no way to explain to relatives and friends if they can’t get a degree, so they invariably put further pressure on themselves. “
Professor Wu suggested that supervisors should really take up their responsibilities and keep a good eye on the dissertation; schools should also strengthen psychological counseling in a targeted manner to avoid the recurrence of tragedies.
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