Prospective law students use force instead of reason to enter Gdansk University

Several hundred candidates tried to shove their way into law school at Gdansk University, which was admitting candidates based on the order in which applications were placed. The first potential candidates came a week early and slept in cars or in sleeping bags in front of the door to the building. On Monday morning, when the University began accepting applications, pushing and shouting began, as nearly 500 candidates were vying for only 250 places. "It was a mistake to assume such a recruitment system. The organizers lacked imagination," said Gdansk University spokesman Tomasz Jozwiak. Meanwhile, Wojcich Adamczak, deputy dean of the law faculty said that the same system had been applied in the past two years and all willing candidates had been accepted. (Rzeczpospolita, page A2) T.J.