Yin Xiaodong said, "Your Honor! I believe the plaintiff’s lawyer is slandering us!"
"The plaintiff’s lawyer claims that many impoverished students at our university have not been selected, implying that there is backdoor manipulation in our scholarship process?"
"I have stated before that the scholarship selection process is handled by the student union and the class committees, meaning it’s the students who do it. Therefore, it’s normal for some oversights and errors to occur."
"Some individual students having issues with scholarships is also unavoidable."
"So what if Zhao Wenxuan is a rich second-generation? It’s indeed impossible for the school to check every poor student’s family situation, and the school leaders are usually busy. Moreover, no students reported Zhao Wenxuan, and the submitted materials were sufficient to prove his impoverished status, so no further investigation was conducted."
"Now that it’s been uncovered, the school will cancel Zhao Wenxuan’s first-class scholarship, and transfer the scholarship to student Zhang Tao. The school will also apologize and in the future, will enhance the investigation of impoverished students to avoid mistakes."
"However, if the plaintiff’s lawyer insists that there is backdoor manipulation in our scholarship application process, I absolutely cannot accept it!"
"Moreover, it’s impossible for many poor students to be unable to receive scholarships at our school."
"Does the plaintiff’s lawyer think they can tarnish our school’s reputation with such illogical arguments?"
"Your Honor, I request legal action against Gu Chen!"
Before the judge could speak, Gu Chen said, "Who said I don’t have evidence?"
Xue Qingqing directly handed a stack of documents to Gu Chen.
"These are the documents of fifteen impoverished students from Yangcheng University this year. There’s nothing wrong with their procedures and materials, yet all fifteen were not selected for scholarships! Only a few were granted third-class scholarships!"
Gu Chen submitted the materials.
Judge Shen Jiarui took a glance....
Goodness.
These fifteen impoverished students didn’t get selected!
Some of the documents were for other impoverished students, who only received third-class scholarships.
But their level of poverty should have qualified them for first-class scholarships!
By the time the case reached this point...
Everyone could see it clearly.
The school has a problem!
How could Zhao Wenxuan, a rich second-generation, be selected for a first-class scholarship?
Who issued Zhao Wenxuan’s certification?
It couldn’t possibly just be a forgery he made himself, right?
[Goodness, so many impoverished students weren’t selected from the school?]
[Their documentation can’t possibly be problematic, can it?]
[I see this school has issues, surely they aren’t awarding scholarships to wealthy students, are they?]
[Fun fact, sometimes scholarship selections also depend on connections, it’s not guaranteed just because you’re poor, most student unions are like this.]
[Sigh, our school is relatively better, we’re a 985 university, and the scholarship lists are public, so there’s no disagreement.]
[A good school certainly won’t make a fuss over scholarships, honestly, our school is average, but scholarships are also public.]
[Then what is really going on with these scholarships?]
Looking at so many documents...
The four people at the defendant’s table were a bit uneasy.
The president, vice president, and the student union teacher all looked a bit pale.
It should be fine, right?
It shouldn’t affect them, right?
An apology should be enough.
Just say it was a procedural problem with scholarship selection.
Then reevaluate the scholarships, and it should be fine.
The issue isn’t that big.
As for what they did, Gu Chen wouldn’t possibly have evidence.
Yin Xiaodong’s complexion was also grim.
He didn’t expect Gu Chen to uncover even this.
But so what?
What can this prove?
Yin Xiaodong said, "Thanks for the reminder, plaintiff’s lawyer. It seems the school indeed has issues with scholarships, but this year’s selection was handled by the student union and class committees, and these are all first-year students. They’re evidently unfamiliar with the process, which caused some errors, which are the school’s responsibility."
"The school will issue an apology statement later. Should there be any scholarship replacement issues or bias due to relationships among students, the school will certainly enforce strict punishment!"
"After going back, the school will seriously investigate this matter and then punish the erring students with disciplinary action!"
"Then, the school will reevaluate the scholarships, ensuring all impoverished students who weren’t selected can receive scholarships."
"Moreover, the school will learn from these problems and make corrections to ensure issues like this don’t happen again in the future."
Yin Xiaodong realized he couldn’t just continue to be stubborn now.
He had to admit fault...
Even when admitting fault, they still blamed the students.
The school would at most issue an apology, without much compensation needed.
At most, the school would cover legal costs, which isn’t much money.
These are minor issues.
"However, regarding Gu Chen’s other litigation requests, we firmly reject them!"
"Our school has always been fair and just; occasional errors are normal."
"But to say school leadership is colluding for profit, we completely disagree! Gu Chen still defames our school!" Yin Xiaodong tried to steer the topic back to Gu Chen one last time.
Gu Chen just smiled.
This lawsuit; the initial impoverished student scholarship issue was just the appetizer.
Because even if the school was negligent with scholarships, it’s not a major issue, at most just warrants an apology.
But from the beginning, Gu Chen had already sued the president, vice president, and student union teacher.
Gu Chen said, "In fact, I have investigated the scholarship issues at Yangcheng University every year; every year, many impoverished students don’t receive scholarships. The fifteen names I just submitted aren’t the entire list from the school, just examples of extremely impoverished students."
"Actually, each year, at least forty students in the school don’t receive scholarships!"
"And Yangcheng University hasn’t disclosed the scholarship list in the past ten years; when they occasionally do, the list is fraudulent."
"At least forty students on the list do not exist!"
"And if these forty students do not exist, where did their scholarship money go?"
"A first-class scholarship is at least 5,000 yuan each, with forty people, that’s 200,000 yuan."
"And each year, some of the scholarship money, whether from the President’s award or the national scholarship, is given to non-existent students."
"Each year, just from scholarship and award funds, it’s over 400,000 yuan!"
"And this is just the tip of the iceberg!"
As Gu Chen spoke, he also presented materials.
Xue Qingqing was beside him handing over the materials.
Everyone listened to Gu Chen’s description, feeling somewhat shocked.
Does this mean that all this money... was embezzled by the people on the defendant’s bench?