During the protest action today, YSU Faculty of Mathematics Department Associate Professor Karen Saghatelyan called for opening the closed doors of the Faculty of Physics and allow students to take part in a strike. “I’m against the abolition of the academic procrastination. I think that instead of postgraduates and students, all this “cops” should serve in the army.”
On the question how the eliminaton of academic procrastination would affect students, Karen Saghatelyan said: “It is a case of statistics, one part will be able to continue their studies, and the other part will not. There are people who are not students anymore, after finishing serving in the army. Some manage to get the lowest mark and continue their studies. But it does not mean that everyone should be sent to army.”
As to the suggestion of the lecturer to send “cops” to the army, Ashot Aharonyan, Chief of the Police Public Relations Department commented on it.
“Not only young people who have raised the problem, but also some propagandists, participate in the protest against the draft law on compulsory military service. During the polluted water this is common, but irresponsibility must also have boundaries. For example, a person namend Saghatelyan, representing the Department of Mathematics told journalists that instead of the students, it would be right to send cops to serve in the army.An associate professor, who also is a pedagogue, at his age should know that they are not called “cops” but police. Second: he had to be aware that the officer in the police was obliged to have served in the army.Third: these police officers took part in the Artsakh war, then the four-day war, and they are prepared and ready for the first reserve to go to the front every moment. Fourth: many of these police officers not only returned from military and serve in pilice but also study in higher education institutions, in parallel with serving.I emphasize “service” and “learning” so that a professional and citizen educator understands that service and study are not antonyms but often synonyms. Eignteen years’ old, given to emotions, may consider it ahrd to understand this, but I think the Docent, especially of the pragmatic mathematics sphere, is obliged to perceive, otherwise how and where the scientific areas lead his students…”