A-Infos (en) Poland, FA: UAM CHANCELLOR STRESSES STUDENTS - WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

During the summer break, UAM Chancellor Marcin Wysocki is not idle: he 
sent a letter addressed to the Student Housing Initiative (to a private 
address). Through two law firms, he demands the removal of all posts 
regarding irregularities in connection with the plan to liquidate the 
Jowita public dormitory. He also demands a correction that he has 
nothing to do with these irregularities. Otherwise, Wysocki threatens 
students with civil lawsuits and even (!) criminal proceedings. ----- 
Wysocki's actions are a reaction to the text "Enough lies about Jowita! 
We are disclosing inconvenient facts in connection with the attempt to 
liquidate the UAM public dormitory. The Chancellor's call is an attempt 
to punish students defending a public property - the largest dormitory 
in the city center - for revealing these inconvenient facts. Vysotsky is 
trying to use his high social position to intimidate us. The facts are 
really inconvenient for him. The chancellor misled the public opinion by 
claiming that the renovation of Jowita was possible only with the 
consent of the neighbor - a private company registered in Cyprus, which 
torpedoes it. In this way, Wysocki, responsible for the property of UAM, 
ignored the fact that Polish law allows for renovation without the 
consent of the neighbor, after an application to the starost. Wysocki 
also did not reveal whether he ever made such a request.
In addition, for the need to justify the liquidation of Jowita and the 
possible privatization of the dormitory, the Chancellor used the opinion 
of "experts", which we agree as biased and strongly ideologically 
marked. In order to select such experts, Wysocki asked Rector Kaniewska 
to "resign from applying the rules of public procurement" to prepare an 
expert opinion on the future of Jowita. The opinion of the experts paid 
by the Adam Mickiewicz University contains strongly biased, neoliberal 
theses. The article after which Vysotsky is intimidating us quoted this 
opinion. The authors from the Estate Solution company claim, for 
example, that a public dormitory in the city center "performs an 
anachronistic function" because it "does not use the market potential". 
They add, however, that in city centers among businessmen ... 
"investments in student dormitories arouse particular interest" ... 
Experts confirm that "the actual purpose[i.e. cheap public dormitory - 
ed.]moves away from the optimal potential generating the highest ground 
rent[i.e. private roads academician - editor]".
Finally, Wysocki threatens punishment for raising concerns that we are 
dealing with a wild reprivatization process of Jowita.
Instead of rejecting a plan to liquidate a public dormitory, the 
authorities do not allow people to tell the truth about their 
shortcomings. Chancellor Wysocki, striving to close Jowita, acts in the 
interest of business, not students, just like the other authorities of 
the Adam Mickiewicz University. If profits are more important than 
people, then it's time to leave your job in the public sector and not 
scare students.
The fight to keep Jowita public continues, there are more and more of 
us. There is no consent to displace students from the center of Poznan!
Student Housing Initiative
www.rozbrat.org

https://federacja-anarchistyczna.pl/2023/08/17/kanclerz-uam-grozi-studentom-nie-damy-sie-zastraszyc/
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