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LAWRENCE, Ka.--Officials at the University of Kansas (KU) recently announced that they will not send a letter of complaint to the Taiwanese government as requested by Taiwanese faculty members at KU who charged two weeks ago that fellow Taiwanese students were spying on them...
...three-page statement issued yesterday, KU officials said that anyone who might be "monitoring the comments and activities of their countrymen and reporting those comments and activities to their home government" would not be violating any federal or state statutes...
...AAUP, which has decided not to call in the FBI, last week sent a letter to the KU administration suggesting that the university's lawyers determine the legality of foreign students reporting the activities of their fellow students and professors to their government...
Robert P. Cobb, executive vice-chancellor of KU, said yesterday that university lawyers are still studying the situation and the university will make a formal statement sometime next week after the Kansas state attorney general concludes his investigation of the situation...
...Taiwanese professor claims that between six and ten Taiwanese students at KU were recruited by the Taiwanese government which sent them letters offering monthly stipends ranging from $400-1000 in exchange for an "analysis of the situation within the campus...