Warsaw University honors Vaclav Havel

He was saluted with a standing ovation. "Havel is an example of a righteous, kind, modest and friendly man. A politician not acting for his own glory but for the common good," said the History faculty Professor Henryk Samsonowicz. President Aleksander Kwaśnewski, present at the event, stated that he was a bit jealous about Havel as, "No Polish politician will ever hear so many warm words from a dean of a history faculty of any Polish university." Havel stated that he had come to Poland as a pilgrim not a tourist and expressed his great respect for the traditions of freedom of Warsaw University, which, as he put it, was on numerous occasions "a heart of resistance against totalitarianism, deceit, and slavery." (Rzeczpospolita, p. A2; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) E.B.