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Polish professor
gives impressions
By JOYCE BOLES
Of the Emerald
“Polack jokes. Americans
know about Poland only Polack
jokes. That makes me sick. It is
impossible to understwnd if you
are Polish citizen. I am not
nationalistic, but how can you
make these stupid jokes about a
country that is the center of
Europe ?”
Jan S. Wieczorek, a chemistry
professor from the Politechnika
Wroclawska in Wroclaw, Poland,
expressed his feelings about
America and the American
people in an interview with the
Emerald Wieczorek said he has
visited -many countries — the
U S S R.. England, Denmark,
France, and others — and that
nowhere but in the United States
do Polack jokes enjoy a vogue.
Wieczorek believes the jokes are
born of ignorance about Poland,
and he hopes the exchange
program of which he is a part will
do something to further un
derstanding between the United
States and Poland, and that then
perhaps these racist jokes will
disappear.
Wieczorek is visiting the
Oregon campus as part of an
exchange program which has two
University faculty at Wroclaw
this year and next. Other
University faculty also visit
Wroclaw regularly to help
establish a research program
there in physical organic
chemistry. The exchange
program began in 1971 and was
the first to be financed through
counterpart funds — Polish non
monetary payments to the United
States for agricultural com
modities. The program is
sponsored by the National
Science Foundation.
Wieczorek studied in the United
States for 16 months in 1966 and
19r7. and when he returned to
Poland he began plans for the
exchange. He was then vice
president for international
relations at Wroclaw.
Wieczorek says chemistry in
the United States is the “best in
the world, better in some
respects than in the Soviet
Union.” He says most people at
the University here do not realize
the reputation the University has
in Europe, and the international
renown of some University
chemistry professors Wieczorek
is working with a photoelectron
spectroscope, and hopes to obtain
a similar piece of equipment for
his laboratory in Poland.
Asked what he sees as the
differences between Polish and
American students, Wieczorek
said there is a “big difference.
Students in Poland know much
more about other countries.” He
went on to say that in Poland
education is free, and further that
the children of blue collar
workers and farmers are given
special advantages in their
competition with students from
the families of the intelligentsia.
He was also surprised to see the
way American students dress
and the way they behave. There
is no smoking or drinking Cokes
in Polish university classrooms
Wieczorek has been a member
of the Communist Party in
Poland since 1955 because “I
think their idea is the best.” He
went on to say “we are doing
many mistakes, but anyway we
have progress.” He said that
under capitalism in Poland
before World War II, his father
was unemployed for eight years
His mother, who is living in
Poland, is a member of the
Catholic church, which is very
strong in Poland Hitler's Ger
many killed all the rest of his
family.
Wieczorek told the Emerald
that he saw his first American in
1943 when he saw American pilots
who had been captured by the
Nazis. Also during the war he
found an old biography of
Abraham Lincoln, written in
Polish, and that he promised
himself that “maybe someday I
will go this country” of this
“ureat man.”
Asked how he would compare
the United States and the Soviet
Union. Wieczorek said many
people don't realize how similar
the two countries are. “Russians
are beautiful people. They treat
you like me here.” He said
Poland also has exchange
programs with the Soviet Union
In response to a question about
the attitude of Americans toward
communism. Wieczorek said.
“Sometimes people are too
sensitive about communism
There is nothing v/rong with it.”
At the suggestion that
Americans might be “sensitive”
about communism because of
Soviet excesses in Hungary in
1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Wieczorek said. “What about the
United States in Vietnam? What
about in Latin America?” He
believes governments
everywhere have made
mistakes, and he quoted Lenin:
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