Police clamp down on college bribes for grades

Police have arrested a lecturer at the Czestochowa technical university for accepting home theater equipment from his students in exchange for passing one of the college's toughest exams. Officers from the Anti-Corruption Department had had the man under surveillance for a longer period, as they had received earlier indications of his corrupt practices. According to Grzegorz Olejniczak, a spokesman from the voivodship police headquarters in Katowice, the man was arrested in an electronics shop while choosing equipment worth zl. 3,000, accompanied by his students. He faces up to eight years in prison. (www.polskieradio.pl) M.M.