Campus life at China's two most prestigious universities has returned to normal several hours after two simultaneous explosions rocked their respective dining halls at mid Tuesday.
The two dining halls, the Heyuan dining hall of Tsinghua University and the Nongyuan dining hall of nearby Peking University, remain sealed off by police.
Tuesday's job fair for graduates at Peking University proceeded normally, drawing approximately 10,000 participants and concluding at 4 p.m.
Students were seen scanning the film posters at the Peking University cinema.
The only difference can be seen in the dining halls.
"We have received more customers than usual," said a waitress in a Peking University dining hall.
Several students said they would be on the lookout for any suspicious people carrying large bags in the dining hall.
Students learned the news through an official announcement placed on the website of Peking University one hour after the explosion occurred, which was intended to restore calm to the campuses, explained a teacher at Peking University.
"Who did this, and what for?" asked students via the Internet.
When the darkness of the night curtained on the campuses, the front yards of the libraries were still filled with neat lines of bicycles and sporadic sounds of peddlers at fresh fruit stalls could be heard in surrounding university residences.
Tuesday's blasts on the campuses of the two prestigious universities injured nine people altogether.
(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2003)
