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STUDENTS' E-MAIL NEWS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC
School of Social Sciences of Charles University
Smetanovo nabr. 6
110 01 Prague 1
Czech Republic
E-mail address: carolina@n.fsv.cuni.cs
Fax: (+422) 231-7391
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C A R O L I N A No 80, Wednesday, June 30, 1993.
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Dear Readers,
many of you alerted us to the fact that we mailed Carolina 79 instead
of Carolina 80 by mistake. We apologize, and with a delay caused by
vacation-time traffic, we send you the original text of Carolina 80.
Thank you for your understanding.
The editors.
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FROM LAST WEEK'S EVENTS (June 9-16, 1993)
Military Service Reduced from 18 to 12 Months
On Tuesday, the President of CR decided to reduce military service to 12
months by signing an amendment to the Military Service Act. It will come
into force this year, on July 29, which means that all those who will
have served one calendar year by this date will be discharged.
In the Czech Republic, There is No One to Appoint University Professors
One hundred post-secondary pedagogues are waiting for the change in the
law which would make their professorial appointments possible. According
to the Czechoslovak Constitution, this function used to be performed by
the President. The fact that the constitution of the independent Czech
Republic did not authorize the President to do so, nor did it transfer
this function to anyone else, was brought up by Tuesday's Mlada fronta
Dnes (Youth Front Today) on the front page, under the headline The Law
Forgot About New Professors.
The paper informs us that recommendations for professorial appointments
are piling up at the Ministry of Education, because on account of
imperfect legislation not a single university professor has been
nominated in the Czech Republic since spring 1992. Hence, the Ministry
of Education intends to present an amendment to the Universities Act to
re-instate nominating the professors by the President.
A ruling Civic Democratic party deputy Jan Koucky characterizes this
requirement as irrational and contrary to the modern conception of
school legislation. He claims that in many Western countries, the custom
of nominating professors and university rectors by a President or a
monarch is being abandoned and the universities are entrusted with it.
Post-Secondary Entrance Exams Started This Week
Starting Monday, entrance exams are conducted at Prague universities.
Charles University received 35,695 applications, which is 5,325 fewer
than the year before. The interest in studies at the Faculty of
Philosophy has declined, but the number of applications for law studies
has increased, just as last year.
Admission quotas are no longer determined by the Ministry of Education,
as was the case until November 1989, when each faculty received a so-
called target number. At present, the faculties make their own decisions
how many first-year students to admit, guided only by personnel and
space limitations. It is of interest that, for example, about 40
domestic students are traditionally admitted to journalism studies at
Charles University. These 40 places will be contended for by 675
journalism hopefuls. 880 applicants are interested in economics studies
at the Faculty of Social Sciences. However, fewer students applied for
Sociology and Social Politics (305) and Political Sciences (252).
At our faculty, the entrance exams start next week;, on Monday, June 21,
written exams are scheduled for applicants for journalism studies
(language tests in Czech and in another language of one's own choice, a
test assessing their general knowledge, and a talent test). Only the
most successful ones will get into the second round, i.e. oral exam part
of the admission procedure.
A Civic Association Aiming to Renew Czechoslovakia
"Muj domov - m^oj domov" (My Home - Czech and Slovak reference to the
national anthem - translator's note) is the name of a civic association
whose goal is to renew Czechoslovakia by gradual rapprochement between
the Czech and the Slovak Republics. The chairman of this association,
which came into existence on Sunday, June 13, and according to its own
data represents 12 thousand signatories, is the former Czechoslovak
Minister of External Affairs from 1968, Jiri Hajek.
Slovak Republic Signed a Memorandum with IMF
On Tuesday, Slovakia signed a Memorandum with the International Monetary
Fund. The journalists were informed about it by the chief of the
present mission of IMF to Slovakia, E. Zervoudakis, and by the Finance
Minister of the Slovak Republic, J. Toth. If the Memorandum is approved
by the Presidium of IMF, Slovakia will receive its first loan at 90
million dollars by the end of July, and will be able to draw 90 million
more during the following half year.
When asked if the Slovak crown is to be devalued, Zervoudakis replied
that the Slovak government will choose its own means how to meet the IMF
conditions.
CULTURAL SERVICE
Theater Island in Prague
A theatrical, musical and film festival started on Friday, June 11, on
the Strelecky ostrov (Rifleman's Island) in Prague. During one hundred
days of the duration of the Theater Island, tens of theater ensembles
will perform. Shows for children take place in the afternoons, evenings
are devoted to film viewings. The area is arranged as a port, and is
open till midnight.
A Famous Hungarian in a Czech Movie
A world-renown Hungarian actor Gyorgy Cserhalmi started to shoot in
Bohemia on Sunday, June 13. He will play a role in a film by a director
Drahomira Vihanova The Fortress (from a novel by Alexander Kliment).
Cserhalmi said that he had not seen such a good script for a number of
years - "a movie I would play in even for free".
Faith No More in Slovakia
A three-day Rock pop concert, replacing former Bratislava Lyre, started
in Bratislava on Thursday, June 10, with a concert by an American group
Faith No More. The group will then continue in its tour of Central and
eastern Europe.
EXCHANGE RATES
purchase sale
Great Britain GBP 42.75 45.59
France FRF 5.07 5.47
Canada CAD 21.61 23.39
Austria ATS 2.46 2.58
Germany DEM 17.27 18.19
USA USD 28.15 29.55
The rates are as of June 16, 1993.
SPORTS
Radegast Prague Open - a memory of world tennis
The king of world tennis of the seventies and early eighties, Bjorn
Borg, won the singles of this year's tournament Radegast Prague Open.
The tournament, which ran through June 10-13 in the Stvanice sports
area, belongs to the circuit ATP Seniors, and precedes the international
championship of the Czech Republic, Skoda Open.
In the finale of men over 35, played only in one set, the Swede defeated
his Italian rival Corrado Barazzutti 6:3, thus winning 3000 dollars. The
match, appreciated by the spectators, had plenty of long rallies from
the base line, only with occasional well-prepared passages to the net.
Both athletes showed a typical style of the seventies.
In the doubles, the pairs Pavel Slozil - Bob Hewitt and Mansour Bahrami
- Andre Gimeno competed for the first place. The Czech-Australian tandem
handled its rivals easily 6:2, 6:2. During the match, no one seemed to
care for the first place and a handsome reward (20,000 dollars for the
winning pair). Especially, the quicksilver Iranian Bahrami often got
laughs by his nimble antics.
The crystal cup was presented to Slozil with Hewitt by the Czech Prime
Minister Vaclav Klaus, then the Minister of Economics Karel Dyba
congratulated the conquered finalists.
The Czech tennis nestor Jan Hrebec became the winner of the "satellite"
competition of tennis players over 45. It was, however, conducted using
a reduced tie-breaker.
WEATHER
A belated Medard is perhaps the best characterization of the weather
these days. It's raining cats and dogs, we add for the benefit of those
unfamiliar with weather lore, in particular, that if it rains on St.
Medard's Day (June 8), it is expected to rain 40 more days.
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Dear Readers,
we offer you many apologies for the technical foul-up
(inadvertently, we sent out CAROLINA No. 79 twice, the second
time under No. 80.) We have just received the correct text of
No. 80 with a selection of news from the week of June 9-16, so
we are rectifying this mistake at least partially.
We will try our best not to leave you without information from
the Czech Republic even during summertime. Because of
university holiday time, we will issue CAROLINA every other
week.
We hope that you will accept this measure with understanding.
Wishing you nice holidays,
Your Editors of CAROLINA.
Translation: Slavek Kovarik <kovarik@mcmaster.ca>
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