CCCCC AA RRRRR OOOO LL II NN N AA CC AA A RR R OO O LL II NNN N AA A CC AA A RRRRR OO O LL II NN N N AA A CC AAAAAA RR R OO O LL II NN NN AAAAAA CCCCC AA A RR R OOOO LLLLLL II NN N AA A 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 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* C A R O L I N A No 80, Wednesday, June 30, 1993. =*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==* 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. =*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==*=*==* 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. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- 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. 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