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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:09:01 EST
From:         "(George Frajkor)" <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
Subject:      Re: Declarations from Cs. academic environment
              Trojan" at Nov 12, 92 1:54 pm

Vaclav Trojan writes:
>
> I am sending two declarations from czechoslovak academic environment
> I hope interresting for this discussion forum. Unfortunately I am
> not able to translate them to English, perhaps somebody hooked to
> this list could do it.
> Vaclav Trojan
> --------------------------------------------------------------------

   I have given it a try with the first one, which seems to bring up a
completely different issue from the University of Trnava one.

> >From jhv@unitra.cs Thu Nov 12 09:52:28 1992
> From: Jozef Hvorecky <jhv@unitra.cs>
>
>           Vyzva pracovnikov a studentov Nitrianskej univerzity
>                 verejnosti a sesterskym vysokym skolam

            Declaration of workers and students of Nitra University
        to the public and to sister universities


>  Zakonom SNR  c.140 zo  dna   27.2.1992 bola zriadena "Nitrianska univerzita"
> zlucenim  dvoch  vysokych skol - Pedagogickej fakulty v Nitre a Vysokej skoly
> polnohospodarskej v  Nitre.  Dna 1.7.1992  uvedeny  zakon nadobudol platnost,
> avsak jeden zo  subjektov -  Vysoka skola polnohospodarska - odmietol vstupit
> do Nitrianskej univerzity a poziadal o zrusenie zakona. Nasledujuce niekolko-
> mesacne rokovania boli neuspesne.


    law  #140 of the Slovak National Council 27.2.1992 established
"Nitra University" with the union of two schools -- the Pedagogical
faculty of Nitra and the Agricultural University of Nitra.  The law
was to come into effect 1.7.92 but one of the two subjects, the
Agricultural university has refused to join Nitra university and has
asked that the law be repealed.  There have been no successful results
from several months of negotiations.

>   Napriek nasej snahe o zachovanie univerzity Ministerstvo skolstva a vedy SR
> a vlada SR podali navrh na zrusenie Nitrianskej univerzity.
>   Byvala Pedagogicka fakulta v Nitre, zalozena v r.1959, ma v sucasnosti 3827
> studentov v  roznych formach studia a 580 pracovnikov na 30 katedrach a usta-
> voch. Spolupracuje  s  viac ako 20 vysokymi skolami v zahranici a je  vysokou
> skolou s orientaciou aj na narodnostne mensiny.

       Despite our attempts to start the university, the Ministry of
Schools and Science and the Government of the SR have proposed to
abolish Nitra University.  The former Pedagogical Faculty of Nitra,
established in 1959, today has 3827 students in various study programs
and 580 employees in 30 chairs and institutes.  It cooperates with
more than 20 other universities abroad and is oriented in its programs
towards national minorities.

>Svojim vedeckym  potencialom,
> vzdelavacim obsahom,poctom studentov a organizacnou strukturou splna kriteria
> univerzity.Na zaklade zakona vznikli na baze Pedagogickej fakulty tri fakulty
>novej univerzity : Pedagogicka fakulta,  Fakulta prirodnych vied a Fakulta hu-
> manitnych vied.
>
     Its scholarly potential, practical content, number of students
and organizational structu4re fulfills the criteria for a
university.  Based on the law, three faculties stemming from the old
Pedagogical Institute were set up: A pedagogical faculty, a faculty of
natural sciences,  and a humanities faculty.

>  Narodna  rada  Slovenskej republiky ma 17.novembra (!) rozhodovat o zruseni
>Nitrianskej univerzity. Domnievame sa, ze pokial VSP nema zaujem o
zaclenenie do univerzity, byvala Pedagogicka fakulta ma vsetky
predpoklady stat sa zakla-
> dom Nitrianskej univerzity.
>Nie je nam jasne,preco student, studujuci rovnake
>aprobacie v rovnakych  podmienkach s porovnatelnymi vedecko-pedagodickymi pra-
>covnikmi  ako na  inych  univerzitach na Slovensku ( Banska Bystrica, Presov )
>nema  narok na rovnaku moznost uplatnenia v praxi. Sme odovodnene znepokojeni,
> ze studenti novoutvorenych univerzit budu doma i v zahranici preferovani pred
> studentami nasej "samostanej PF".

    The National Council of the SR on Nov.17 will decide on the
abolition of Nitra University.  We suggest that even if the
Agricultural University has no interest in being part of Nitra
University,  the former Pedagogical Faculty has all the necessary
prerequisites to be the founding home of the Nitra University.  it is
not clear to us why students studying the same programs with similarly
qualified in knowledge and pedagogy as any other university in
Slovakia (Banska Bystrica, Presov) are not guaranteed the equivalent
opportunities to practice.  We are very disappointed that the students
of the newly-opened universities will be recognized here and abroad
and preferred over those of our "independent pedagogical faculty."

>  Prosime  Vas  o podporu nasho usilia o zachovanie Univerzity s uvedenymi fa-
> kultami v Nitre, v meste s bohatou, viac ako tisicrocnou narodnou a kulturnou
> tradiciou.
>

     We are asking for your support in our attempts to establish the
University at Nitra, in a city with a rich and more than thousand-year
old national and cultural tradition.

>    Svoje stanoviska posielajte na adresu :

  Send letters of your stand to:

>                                                 a nam na vedomie:
>
>      Narodna rada SR                            Nitrianska univerzita
>                                                 (byvala Pedagogicka fakulta)
>      Zupne nam. 3                               trieda A.Hlinku 1,
>      810 00 Bratislava                          949 74 Nitra
>      fax: 07/315 460                            fax: 087/411243
>                                                 e-mail: jhv@unitra.cs
>                                                         jga@unitra.cs
>
>   v Nitre, 10.11.1992
>
>                               Pracovnici a studenti Nitrianskej univerzity
>
> --- End of forwarded message from Jozef Hvorecky <jhv@unitra.cs>


       Frankly, this looks to me like an internal problem with none of
the possible political/social implications of the Trnava quarrel.
Unless There is more to it than I think.

     The second posting I have seen in English somewhere else. If it
is already a posting from this list I will not bother. Let me check
and if not I will try to translate that one as well.



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