Beijing Normal University used two face-scanning machines for student registration on Sunday, the first day of the new semester. After scanning a student's face for two seconds, a digital photo with the student's name, student ID, and major is created. Students can share the digital photo online with their family and friends, and they can also print it out for free. The university will finish capturing facial images of all the students on Tuesday. The face identification technology will be used to control access to student dormitories this semester. Students will be required to swipe their cards and use facial recognition to gain access. If they forget their student cards, they can speak their names into the machine, which has a sound recognition function, or enter their student ID and password. Then they still have to scan their faces to gain access. "I heard about the face identification system just a few days ago," said Lu Jiabao, a third-year master's degree student at BNU. "It will be convenient if we forget to bring our student cards because we will be able to get in by scanning our faces," Lu added. Ma Liang, a doctoral student said the newly installed system will increase security. "People who don't live in the building will not be able to get in even if they have student cards," Ma said. Cheng Si and Zhang Yi contributed to this story. how to take off festival wristbandbracelet maker onlinecustom fidget spinnersyouth wristbandscustom sweatbands no minimum
BEIJING -- Five students have been put in administrative detention and fined, after a video of them bullying a schoolmate went viral on the internet. In the video, the victim was standing in a toilet, while the bullies forced him to touch excrement. School uniforms worn by the students indicated that the incident happened in a school in Beijing's Yanqing district. Police with the Yanqing district Branch of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said Monday that the video was taken on Thursday. The seven students involved in the case also extorted more than 100 yuan ($15) from the victim and physically abused him. Of the seven bullies, two were exempted from punishment because they are under the age of 14, although their guardians were told to be more strict with them, police said. Education authorities in Yanqing district placed two of the students under surveillance, while gave demerits on the records of four. Another bully was given a warning. The parents of the seven students were summoned for talks. There have been frequent media reports on bullying in China's schools recent years. In December 2016, a Beijing mother's article describing her 10-year-old son's treatment at school, went viral. After having a toilet waste-paper basket thrown on his head and being mocked by other classmates, the fourth-grade boy was diagnosed with an acute stress disorder, a mental illness characterized by severe anxiety. In April 2016, another video went viral showing a schoolgirl being slapped more than 30 times by a group of older girls. Police detained a number of the perpetrators.
