City college raising money for dead students’ families
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FLOWERS cover a grass area near the Shanghai Youth College of Management gates in front of a board bearing the names of Meng Yan and Zhang Yan, two 21-year-old students who lost their lives in the New Year’s Eve tragedy.
Most have been laid there by students and teachers while some were from local residents, according to a guard.
The teachers’ union at the college yesterday launched a charity drive calling for donations for the bereaved families.
“Our teachers donate money for students from poor families at every year end, and this year the donations will be given to the parents of Meng and Zhang, who are from peasant families in Sichuan Province. The event will last several days,” a school official who requested anonymity said yesterday.
The official said the parents of Meng and Zhang arrived in Shanghai last Thursday to identify the bodies. “They are very sad and we have some staff accompany them with their life here and aftermath of the tragedy,” he said.
Meng and Zhang were outstanding students, the official said.
A box for donations has also been set up in a students’ dormitory building.
Many students have already gone home, having finished their final examinations, but some local students went back to the college yesterday.
Wang, who put 100 yuan (US$16) in the box, said Zhang had been in her class.
“She was so shy that we did not communicate much. But she impressed me with her hard work. I was really surprised and shocked to see her name on the victim list,” Wang said.
At least seven students from city colleges were killed in the stampede on the Bund.
East China University of Political Science and Law and East China Normal University each had two students who died in the tragedy. The universities have offered professional psychological counseling for students needing help to come to terms with the tragedy and have temporarily changed their websites to black and white in mourning.
The stampede caused the deaths of 36 revelers and left 49 injured.
Shanghai authorities have verified the identities of all 36 fatalities. Thirty-four were residents of the Chinese mainland, one was from Taiwan and one was a Malaysian citizen.
Twenty-five people, 18 of them women, are still in hospital.
Seven were seriously injured, the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday, and one remains in a critical condition.
Shanghai Party Chief Han Zheng, Mayor Yang Xiong and other city officials stood in silent tribute for the victims at meetings held yesterday.
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