LET THEM STUDY (September 19, 2008)

The Croatian television, radio, and newspapers are blaring today that a score of professors from the University of Zagreb have ended up in police custody after an unprecedented raid yesterday morning for exhorting bribes from students for admission, exams, and even diplomas. Two of them were caught on a police tape. One of them asks: “What shall we do with those students who do not have enough money?” “Let them study,” answers the other. Luckily for Croatia, the number of students who do not have enough money for bribery is growing at a clip ever since independence.