Taiwan in Time: For the love of campus freedom
After doing away with school censorship policies over student publications in December 1986, NTU students launched a failed bid against the government for complete university autonomy
By Han Cheung / Staff reporter
Dec. 21 to Dec. 27
A historic decision was made on Dec. 19, 1986 when the National Taiwan University (NTU) student council voted 83-0 to abolish school censorship of student publications.
The publications’ faculty advisers still had to inspect the contents and were allowed to attach any conflicting opinions at the end of each article, but the school could no longer stop the students or punish them for publishing content that they, and by extension the government, didn’t approve of.