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The kids grew up ...

March 14, 2008 Natella Boltyanskaya

The case of the four students who were expelled from the faculty of sociology, from the point of view of the radio and well -wishers of the current government, the eggs are not worth a vacation. Discharged for poor performance. True, Svetlana Erpyleva, one of the expelled, said on the air of "Echo of Moscow" that all four were excellent students. Thus, we have a shameless lies in the eyes of the whole light. Excellent excellent students are not expelled for poor performance. I believe that students have the opportunity to confirm that there is a not standard procedure for moving offspring. In any case, I can report to you, dear readers, I called Oleg Zhuravlev, one of the participants of OD Group, and asked to provide evidence that all the expelled ones completely managed to study. Mr. Zhuravlev promised me in the near future to hang out photos of their tests on the OD Group website.

True, at a meeting of the student council, students were informed that the problem is their unethical behavior. The conflict between the students of the faculty and the dean began not yesterday. By the way, the mess on the battleship "Potemkin" began about the same way - people were dissatisfied with the quality of food. Then I can imagine how events developed. Probably (here - only my attempt to build a chronology), the leadership of the faculty tried to droit “eat, which they give, at the prices that are”, crushing their own authority. And it turns out that there were also questions to authority - about its presence. Students in open text explained that the quality of teaching and the level, in fact, the dean are far from the ideal. And it was all in March 2007. In April 2007, the rector's commission officially recognized the requirements of students of the sociological faculty of Moscow State University with reasonable.

According to the results of the work of the commission, an order was issued by the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, in which he agreed with the main thesis of the initiative group of students and indicated the need to improve the quality of education at the faculty. Then the Public Chamber entered history. A working group was created in the Public Chamber with the involvement of experts. Here are the conclusions of the working group: the level of training of specialists at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University does not meet the world level, labor market needs, employers' needs, areas for the development of sociological theory, as well as the status of the faculty of Moscow University. A number of textbooks, including Dean Dobrenkov, are completely unsatisfactory. Plagiarism is reliably installed. Among the graduation works of students recommended by the departments for familiarization, along with quite professional ones, there are deeply ideologized in the spirit of intolerance to other cultures. Questions for the final exam do not imply knowledge of the current state of discipline either in the field of theory or in the methodology. Students in the exam were not able to name any works and names of world famous scientists. The state of self -isolation of the faculty was recorded from contacts with prominent sociologists - domestic and foreign, there is no practice of invitation with lectures of specialists from the outside. The conclusions of the working group saw the light in December 2007. And all the time has passed, a little less than three months. By the standards of Russian long -term construction - a moment.

On February 14, at a meeting with OD Group participants, the rector of Moscow State University Sadovnichi publicly stated that there would be issues on the requirements of students ... Dean Dobrenkov (if you remember, students were dissatisfied with his activities). "Who wrote to me the complaints? Not you? Yes, I read them!" However, the students were not as naive as it might seem. Many of them believed that the rector is not able to influence the social faculty administration, and in connection with this they began to prepare documents for transfer to another university. The documents necessary for the transfer by the deduction were prepared and submitted to the dean’s office in time. However, Dobrenkov hastened to sign orders for deductions, thereby closing the possibility of transfer for students. In a personal conversation with expelled students, he once again confirmed that he would not change his decision, as well as the fact that the reason for the deduction was the activist activities of students, qualified by him as “immoral behavior”. That is, no one has forgotten anything to anyone.

Dobrenkova can absolutely understand in one thing - it is very difficult to lead the faculty at which people study, who have accused you of plagiarism, not without reason. I understand that he can no longer train these students. But there was an opportunity to give them a translation and forget who they are. And here, before the eyes of Dobrenkov, a graduate Natalya Morar stood. More precisely, events in Domodedovo. If the Russian government allows himself to spit on the laws, dealing with objectionable and disagreement, then why should he, Dobralinov, be a model of morality? Shish to you, not sociology! What is the whole fairy tale about? It’s not about the good, but the impotent rector of Moscow State University, not about the fair, but the powerless Public Chamber, and, of course, not about the evil, but the omnipotent dean of the social faculty. This is a fairy tale about the children of perestroika. About those very children who grew up with a sense of their own freedom. 70 years of Soviet citizens were trained to endure in the name of the Great Motherland, in the name of future accomplishments, in the name of the brightest ideals. Teached very hard. Atrophied self -esteem and a sense of the highest value of a person. So these children were born precisely when the stunned Soviet citizens suddenly realized that the most enormous value in the country was not loud construction sites and not a total self -sacrifice in the name of other people's awards. The most valuable is human dignity.

And today it’s somehow embarrassing to these children, since the dignity and sense of freedom in today's Russia is the rudimentary feelings that are destined to die. Unless, of course, we do not catch up right now.