“Is this person still suitable to be a university president?” Su asked. Kuo uses the title “Academia Sinica academician” in the media, she said, adding that academicians have “power and prestige.”“Should they not take a degree of social responsibility?” she asked. “After the university was stormed by police, the campus was in chaos, yet the university’s president disappeared,” DPP Legislator Chang Liao Wan-chien (張廖萬堅) said. “It is impossible not to face [the situation] without feelings or to remain silent.”Academicians at Academia Sinica are “honorary, tenured positions,” Chou said. Academia Sinica should not involve itself in politics, he said, adding that to do so would diminish the institution’s prestige.

Source: Taipei Times November 14, 2019 16:03 UTC