A university restaurant has recently become a hot topic in the academic world.
The newly opened professor’s restaurant in Baoshan campus of Shanghai University has inadvertently turned into a “Netflix restaurant”. Its publicity poster states that the restaurant is open from 7:00 to 22:00, but only for full professors between 7:00 and 14:00, and for other faculty members after 14:00 and all day on non-working days.
The posters were captured online and caused heated debate among netizens.
Those who agree with the idea that senior talent should have better treatment, otherwise what to attract talent to retain talent pinch ~
Some opponents feel that this is naked title discrimination, is blatantly engaged in class division, the faculty members into three, six, nine, etc..
Some people in the university, who are probably pan-arts, directly and cynically suggested that the dining place should be arranged according to the publication level.
Who is more justified in the end?
Special care for special talents is not new
In detail, the operation of Shanghai University, it seems to have good reasons.
First of all, special care for special talents is basically a routine operation.
Seventeen years ago, “No Thief Under Heaven”, Master Ge said through the mouth of the boss of thieves, Uncle Li, that powerful conclusion.
What is the most expensive in the 21st century, talent!
Further back in time, in order to recruit talents, give some special treatment to this thing, there are all the dynasties.
2,400 years ago, the Duke of Qin dared to promise the following in order to recruit talents.
The guests and ministers have the ability to come up with strange plans to strengthen the Qin, and I respect the official, with the land.
We will not talk about the fulfillment, at least the momentum is given enough. No wonder that the Xiaogong to descend, six generations and swallow the world!
Today, talent is the first driver to promote the economy of housing prices, in order to enhance competitiveness, the cities are trying to recruit talent, giving a variety of preferential treatment to settled talent; for non-resident talent, many cities also correspond to the introduction of the talent green card policy, as far as possible to absorb.
Guangzhou introduced the “Guangzhou Talent Green Card System” in 2016, which gives policy preferences to talents after sorting and rating them. When you get a talent green card, not only do you enjoy policy leaning in terms of settling your family members, buying a house and a car, and enrolling your children in school, but top international talents are also expected to receive a 10 million dollar settlement fee.
Image source: Official website of Guangzhou Municipal Government
Shenyang and Xi’an, in order to increase their attraction to talents, even posted a notice of “priority medical treatment for high-level talents” in local hospital clinics.
Image source: Shandong Public Channel, Pear Video
In contrast, the opening of a restaurant dedicated to full professors in colleges and universities seems to be justified – colleges and universities, still have to respect science and knowledge ~
Secondly, the professors probably really need such a restaurant.
As the saying goes, “the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility”, many professors have a lot of work, scientific research management, and miscellaneous ushering, meet a bad student, have to suffer for years, it is not easy. I’m afraid that most of the time, meal times are not up to them, and it is common for them to take advantage of them.
Considering the actual needs of the professors, it is reasonable to open a special restaurant to take care of them. Moreover, the professors’ time is more valuable, dining less queues, the time saved can do other more meaningful things, even more rest is good ah ~ if you can publish more articles, then the school can make a lot of money.
Moreover, the number of professors who dined was small and harmless.
Compared to the majority of staff and students, the number of professors is very limited, full professors are even less, can often go to the cafeteria is very little, will not give others too much trouble in the dining. That is to say, taking care of these large and respectable people, and will not obviously harm the interests of others.
It is understood that the restaurant at Shanghai University, originally a restaurant serving professors, is only open to others at the right time in order to increase the use of the restaurant and reduce idleness. In this way, the operation of the restaurant is a step in the direction of humanization, but on the contrary, certain netizens are really a bit shady.
Image source: Zhihu screenshot
As you can see, this approach of Shanghai University is quite reasonable.
But be wary of the tendency to engage in specialization
But under reasonable, is there really no problem at all? Maybe not. Netizens’ questions about this matter are not entirely overwhelming.
First, the differentiation of treatment, easy to engage in specialization.
All specialization has the potential to evolve into privileged, all specialization is also from the differentiated treatment of individuals a little breeding. On the surface, is a restaurant operation, behind the hidden, is the tendency of specialization.
Many people are concerned that if we treat professors and other faculty members differently during meal times today, will we set a precedent tomorrow in terms of the use of public resources? The day after tomorrow, will it show a tilt in teaching evaluation, honor awarding or even personal practical benefits ……
After all, those who hold the power of speech in universities have a professorial title.
Secondly, the differentiation is, in itself, a break with fairness.
Colleges and universities have traditionally been regarded as a clean slate, and the harmonious relationship between teachers and students is always celebrated.
Opposition to exclusive restaurants, in the end, is not to “fight for a bite to eat”, the restaurant’s food is delicious, is always a cafeteria, inevitably can not catch up with the three Michelin stars.
Out of the sense of fairness, the opponents’ demand is that, as a public resource of the university, the bottom line of the restaurant should be to serve all the staff, why is there a distinction between three, six and nine? This is a kind of talent care, or an imbalance of fairness?
You know, once the fairness is torn open, the public interest will be eaten. The unfairness is likely to intensify under the weight of the Matthew effect. This is certainly what no one wants to see.
Third, I can’t say where I feel strange.
I wonder if those who do not serve in the school and have little possibility of becoming a full professor of the road, the first time they see this poster, there is a kind of unspoken displeasure.
To put it another way, would giving priority to military or disabled people create such a big public outcry? Obviously not. In fact, military priority has been written into the National Defense Law of the People’s Republic of China.
A full professor is a full senior title, and there are many other full senior titles. Is it true that having a high title naturally allows you to have more benefits than others? Is a title an affirmation of past work achievements or an endorsement of present contributions? In the deployment of social resources, should career or title take priority?
There are many more questions that can be asked such as these. Opponents should not resist the use of a restaurant, but should guard against the potential problems underneath the secrecy.
It is better to prevent than to worry.
How should we look at it?
Analysis is analysis, but it’s important to keep a good mindset about the matter itself, whether you’re for or against it.
First of all, don’t be red-eyed.
When it comes to this kind of thing, eye red should not be. Whining too much to prevent broken hearts, for the sake of the faraway things think too much, careful to lose hair Oh ~
Imagine, see the professor has a special restaurant is not happy, opposed to oppose to go, a sulking restaurant is not still open as usual? In addition to the special restaurant, there is a special bus allowance, there is a sky-high settlement fee, there are various care of children’s enrollment …… Yes, these things, foreign universities are rarely available, but who can oppose it?
The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these.
It’s better to spend some time trying to work hard, we also become professors, let others envy to go! This is the good guidance of the school and society. Preferential treatment of talent, is the hope that more people through their own efforts to become talented.
To think differently, the professor’s exclusive restaurant has become a “mentor touchstone”.
The professor has a special restaurant and the professor special dining is two different things. In the cafeteria to eat, eat is always a working meal, the figure is clean and healthy, affordable and convenient. On the current general level of the domestic university restaurant, most of the solution to a “full”, not likely to rise to five-star standard meal standards, there is absolutely no need to get on the line.
Professors themselves are afraid that they will not use the exclusive restaurant to show their identity. Go, peace of mind; do not go, frank and honest.
And those who do not go to the professor’s restaurant, willing to play with the students of the tutor, naturally become the best in the eyes of students. From this perspective, the professor’s restaurant is also a touchstone.
Image source: Screenshot from Zhihu
For professors, the access to a restaurant doesn’t mean anything, it’s the research made and the people trained that are the halo on the body. Therefore, everyone’s attention should still be focused on the proper meaning of the professor’s title.
As for the professor’s restaurant, and by its open down, in time, there will be a public debate. Believe that time is the medicine to solve the controversy.
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