As soon as the news was announced there was furious opposition among faculty and students, and Liu Szu-i, too, was deeply affected: "If we couldn't preserve a piece of forest on the campus of a university that had as its motto, 'Seek truth, be honest and sincere, do one's best,' one day we would lose the entire green carpet of the central mountain chain."
消息一公佈，立刻引起師生強烈反彈，劉思沂也深受衝擊：「如果在一個以『求真、篤實、力行』為校訓的大學校園，我們都無法保住一片樹林，總有一天我們會失去整座綠色的中央山脈。」