The quality is now frightfully low. Most students came to the university from outside the city, including many from the neighboring republics of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Women now make up the majority of students, since most young men are fighting in the government army. The University of Sarajevo retains its multi-ethnic character. Although Muslims are now a majority, Serbs and Croats are represented at all levels of university life and experience no discrimination.
Educators say they intend to keep it that way.
Ten of its members are Muslims, five are Serbs, and two are Croats. The Academy is asking its younger members to return from abroad, and has just announced a competition for new members. Such activities, he says, help him through the grim days. Radovan Karadzic, the head of the Bosnian Serb regime, was a psychiatrist at Sarajevo's main Kosevo Hospital. The vice-president of the Bosnian Serbs, Nikola Koljevic, formerly taught Shakespeare at the university.