Ho Teh-fen, who used to be seen by her students as a "comrade-in-arms" in reform, says that because she is strict and doesn't let her students slip by with inferior work, the number of students asking her to be a thesis advisor has declined each year, and now very few at all come to see her.
過去被學生視為「運動同志」的賀德芬就大嘆，由於她對課業的要求嚴格，不喜歡學生馬虎過關，找她當指導教授的研究生逐年下降，如今幾乎門可羅雀。