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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:45:33 MDT
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- From: Vaclav Trojan <TROJAN@CSEARN.BITNET>
- Subject: Trnava university - Student's declaration
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- DECLARATION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TRNAVA
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- We, the students of the University of Trnava residing in Trnava, do
- resent more and more sharpening dispute between the Ministry of
- Education and Science of the Slovak Republic and the management of the
- University of Trnava. What we perceive is that under the veil of various
- invectives there is a political combat taking place, which is not
- admissible on the academic ground according to the law. The development
- of recent events heads even towards abolishment of the University of
- Trnava. Under these circumstances we cannot stay silent any longer and
- thus we appeal to public with this declaration:
-
- The University of Trnava was established by an Act of the National
- Council of the Slovak Republic number 191/92 on March 25, 1992. At the
- same time the National Council of the Slovak Republic with its decree
- nb. 278 established a commission for creating a Preparatory Committee as
- a guarantee of the quality of the new university. On May 15, 1992
- President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel appointed, in response to the
- commission of teh National Council of the Slovak Republic, RNDr. Anton
- Hajduk, DrSc. a rector of the University of Trnava. In the first half of
- September admission process started at the university. As soon as at
- this time started to gain its sad popularity due to an argument over the
- personality of the rector and thus over the whole University. This
- crisis peaked at the matriculation to the university.
- We don't want to deal with individual aspects of the whole case
- since we are here to prepare for our future professions in a peaceful
- and calm atmosphere. On this occasion, we would like to thank to all of
- the professional staff of the University of Trnava (UT) for their hither
- to work, without any financial compensation. But the blocked account
- of the university does not guarantee us a required quality of education.
- Why do we, as regular students, (within the assignment _ 18 paragraph
- 4, act number 172/1992 on universities) have to be involved in the
- action of the Ministry of Education? What are we to blame for?
- In connection with the case of UT representatives of the Ministry of
- Education start talking about the groundlessness of a "country" UT. We
- would like to remind that almost no university in the Central Europe has
- such history as UT. It was her who educated many signifigant
- personalities of not only of the Slovak nation. The signifigance of the
- university was fully appreciated after its moving to Budin, in 1777.
- Then it was already late.
- After 215 years, our university proudly clams to be a sucessor to
- this school and it has a full historical right to do so. The then
- students allowed their school to be taken from them, we will not allow
- it anymore. If we want to re-enter the mature democratic Europe, we
- can't do so without educated people. And we want to rank among them
- after completing our studies at UT. Woe is a nation which does not look
- ahead.
- We apppreciated the attitude of the city of Trnava which tries
- within the framework of its possiblities to create conditions for the
- activity of UT. We also like to thank the union of university students
- of Slovakia for its solidarity. These approaches encourage us and give
- us hope that in our fight for the preservation of UT, we are not alone.
- We demand the management of UT to present even further a maximum
- effort to preserve UT. We request the Ministry of Education to uplift
- over some reservations against UT and to contribute to a fluent
- educational process.
- We are convinced that it is in the interest of the democratic
- Slovakia to settle this absurd situation in a peaceful way as soon as
- possible. We appeal to the Minstry to make a positive step which means
- unblocking the bank account of UT in VUB Trnava. This will be a signal
- for us that the whole case of UT will be solved in the benefit of us,
- the students of UT.
- The estate of Alma Mater in Trnava is sacred for us and we will not
- disgrace it. We will not leave UT. We, the students of UT, residing in
- Trnava, do not want to be ashamed before history.
-