The partial abolition of the autonomy of Polish Universities, to enable police to enter the University campuses in the event of disturbances, was forecast here by semi-official sources.
Under the new regulations projected, the following innovations are to be introduced: Police are to be permitted to enter University buildings in the event of disturbances; appointments of professors to the faculties are to be vested in the hands of the president of the Polish republic; student rioters are to be placed on trial in the ordinary criminal courts instead of in the University disciplinary courts as at present; student organizations are to be under the direct supervision of the Minister of Education; all student meetings will require the sanction of the Rector and will be allowed to take place on the University campus only, while discussions of political questions will be prohibited.
The changes contemplated are believed to be the result of the protests aroused by the recurrence of anti-Semitic student riots, which had their beginnings in the Universities, and which in the past have not been checked at the outset because the police had no authority to enter the University buildings.
University autonomy is general throughout Europe and in Germany and Austria in particular, the blood of Jewish students has been shed in recent months because the police were not permitted to enter University buildings when disturbances broke out.
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