Students of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University prepared an unusual gift for Putin. What about practice?
Of the more than 200 freshmen who wrote the paper, only a fifth of students completed 8 and fewer errors to a page of text. The rest of the class, including 15 “excellent” students who entered the journalism department with 100-point results in the Unified State Exam, made an average of 24-25 mistakes. There were also those who made 3-4 mistakes in one word, so it was impossible to understand the meaning.
Why did the future masters of the pen slip into mistakes like “over-the-top” and “patient”, the RG correspondent asked the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University Elena Vartanova.
Elena Vartanova: Students of the Faculty of Journalism always wrote so-called orientation dictations in the first semester, and this year was no exception. This is a long-term tradition of our department of Russian language stylistics, born under Dietmar Elyashevich Rosenthal himself. But the most important thing is that the faculty did not try to double-check Unified State Exam results, universities do not have such a right. It’s just time to evaluate students’ knowledge and their compliance with the department’s Russian language program in order to understand how to further build the educational process.
Russian newspaper: What will happen to the “losers”? Will you re-teach or expel?
Vartanova: Our university teachers are discouraged. The literacy rate was noticeably lower than before. There are a lot of mistakes! Some of the students' spelling gems have already been divided into quotations: "knight" (rummage), "patient", "general", "over-the-chur", "orrest". Both funny and sad. We will increase the level of literacy by adjusting curriculum and introducing additional classes. There is nothing else left for us. We are not planning any mass repressive measures such as deductions. Freshmen, in general, are not very guilty. It will be worse if they write the dictation just as poorly, for example, a year later.
RG: In this situation, they accuse the Unified State Exam, judging by the results of 100-point scores, of being biased.
Vartanova: The problem is not with the Unified State Exam. The Unified State Exam is both a test of school knowledge and a tool for selection into universities. But the literacy level of school graduates does not depend at all on what instrument was used - a test, a dictation or an essay. If the level is generally low, then it is low. The Unified State Exam certainly does not reduce the level of real knowledge. After all, those guys who came to us through the joint Olympiad of the Faculty of Journalism and “RG” “Become a Journalist!” wrote the orientation dictation normally. Their knowledge of the Russian language was tested by our teachers in the spring, and in the summer they, like all graduates, took the Unified State Exam.
RG: Then what's the reason?
Vartanova: Unfortunately, this trouble largely comes from secondary schools. Either children are taught the wrong way, or the wrong way. After all, mastery of a language is not only the ability to fill in missing letters and commas. You still need to be able to write words in their entirety, know their origin, and form sentences from words, create a style. Literacy is shaped by both the culture of reading and the culture of writing. Without this, a journalist has nothing to do in the profession. I don’t know exactly what is happening at school, but the result is visible - many young people do not know how to use their native language. There is also a second side to the coin. Where do these terrible erratisms like “knight” instead of “rummage” come from? After all, this is most likely a deliberate distortion of the word. But it was unconsciously picked up on the Internet, and then written in a dictation. Schoolchildren use the slang of blogs, chats, forums, and, surprisingly, they simply may not know that words are actually spelled differently. And they mutilate the language in the same way as is done on the Internet. It turns out that electronic newspeak, spontaneously invented one day by advanced adults, has emasculated the linguistic culture of subsequent generations. The problem is complex.
An example of a test dictation at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Lomonosov
“Lead - silver November 1918. Icy, cobblestone streets of Moscow, icy wind, hunger. These were the conditions in which the All-Russian Congress of Soviet Journalists was being prepared. On November 10, in the evening, three friends gathered in a small whitewashed room. They had to create a draft charter future association of journalists. Who were these three?
One was the well-known literary critic Mikhail Gershenzon at that time. The other is the ultra-refined and sophisticated poet Vladislav Khodasevich. The third is the initiator of the creation of the Union, publicist Mikhail Osorgin.
We need to attract as many of our brethren as possible,” Osorgin said, tapping a sheet of gray unlined paper with a wooden pencil.
If the Union is massive, and the matter is well organized, the authorities will have to take us into account,” Osorgin began passionately.
The work dragged on well past midnight. We parted when a light pink streak of dawn shone through the frosted glass.
Osorgin's real name is Ilyin. He was born in Perm into an intelligent family. He studied at the Faculty of Law at Moscow University and very early began to actively collaborate with various newspapers and magazines. At the same time, he became involved in revolutionary activities, about which he later wrote somewhat skeptically: “My rather large two-story apartment, where all sorts of people gathered, took part in the revolution more than I did.”
Arrest in 1905, emigration. During the ten years of exile, Osorgin achieved a lot in journalism, became a regular correspondent for Russian Vedomosti, and became involved in fiction: he published a book about his life in Italy. Finally he returned to Moscow semi-legally.
And here are the October days of the revolutionary coup. Within a few months, the private periodical press was liquidated, and hundreds of journalists were thrown out into the streets. Osorgin and his friends decided to come to their aid. This is how the first professional association of journalists in Soviet Russia arose.
And after the creation of the Union, Osorgin continued his social activities. He began working for the Famine Relief Committee. The Soviet government perceived this as a blow to its own prestige. The Committee had not even existed for five weeks before all its members were arrested on Lenin’s personal orders. And then the journalist was given a choice: expulsion from the country or execution. At parting, the investigator suggested filling out a questionnaire, and to its first question: “How do you feel about the Soviet regime?” - Osorgin replied: “With surprise.”
He died on November 27, 1942 in France. Mikhail Andreevich’s books have returned to Russia only now. Let the memory of this extraordinary man return, who did so much for those who until recently were called writers.
(Journalists of the 20th century: people and destinies. - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 2003.)
Errors:
did not exist - did not exist
for half a night - for midnight
notorious - notorious
two-tier - two-tier
paved - paved (with cobblestones)
lekved - liquidated
Sofetsky - Soviet
super refined - super refined
The day before, the press secretary of the “Nashi” movement, Kristina Potupchik, published on her blog an erotic calendar with students of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, in their underwear, congratulating Vladimir Putin on his birthday. It photographed students and graduates of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. All of them are depicted in underwear and perform under their real names.
Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that this is the first time he has heard about such a calendar. “We can treat this as a private initiative of this lady (Kristina Potupchik). As for matters of taste, that’s her personal matter,” Putin’s representative said. The press service of the pro-Kremlin movement “Nashi” also said that they had nothing to do with the creation of this calendar and purchased it for free sale at the Auchan hypermarket.
Meanwhile, the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Elena Vartanova, said that she considers the act of the students who prepared a gift in the form of an erotic calendar for the birthday of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to be incorrect. This was reported by the Russian News Service.
Vartanova emphasized that, in her opinion, every Russian citizen has the right to congratulate a high-ranking official on his birthday. However, according to the dean, the students should not have used the name of the Moscow State University journalism department to advertise their gift. “They hid behind a brand that does not belong to them personally,” Vartanova said.
However, the dean said that the girls would not be punished for their actions. “Why punish them? This is only a matter of upbringing, taste and ethics,” she explained.
The producer of the calendar, Vladimir Tabak, told the BBC Russian Service that the publishing house that published the calendar was created by graduates of the Moscow State University journalism department who “have never been members of any youth political organizations.”
“Naturally, we all have sympathy for Vladimir Vladimirovich - otherwise we would not have dedicated this to him - but we do not call on absolutely anyone to do anything. We just made this a bright project and we hope that Vladimir Vladimirovich will like it,” says Tabak.
The BBC Russian Service contacted one of the students depicted on the calendar, third-year student Katya Sakharova, whose photograph is accompanied by the question “Well, who if not you?” According to Sakharova, “it was just a gift to Vladimir Putin. This project has nothing to do with politics.” Sakharova also said that she “immediately agreed” to participate in the project: “This is just a beautiful shoot for a man I like.”
When asked about the use of the Moscow State University brand, the calendar producer Vladimir Tabak replied that he and his colleagues did not want to “neither pull any political movements, nor discredit the journalism department of Moscow State University. This is our project with the girls.” “It seems to us that any man will be pleased when 12 beautiful girls send him congratulations,” Tabak added in the conversation.
The journalism students who posed for the scandalous presentation were preparing a whole promotion campaign for their creation.
“We have prepared a video with an appeal from one of the project participants,” the producer and part-time author of the idea of creating an erotic gift for the prime minister told Life News. — The project is purely commercial, and of course it needs advertising.
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The Faculty of Journalism of BSU will be missing at least seven teachers by the new academic year. It is known that Professor Tatyana Orlova, a famous theater critic, was fired - euroradio.fm wrote about this. How the remaining teachers “left” is still unknown. KYKY has compiled a list of “lost” ones.
Let us remind you that in the spring the Institute of Journalism of BSU was reorganized into a faculty, in early April the dean was Sergei Dubovik - there have been rumors about this since October. His place is Olga Samusevich.
Tatyana Orlova, professor
Tatyana worked at the journalism department for 46 years and, at 83, wanted to continue working. But her contract was not renewed. She was one of the few practicing teachers at the faculty - for last year She published 47 scientific and journalistic articles, mainly reviews of performances - she is considered one of the best theater critics in Belarus. Students call Tatyana “an extremely adequate teacher” with interesting lectures. Despite her age, she remains very active - she goes to all the premieres and goes to scientific conferences.
The professor cannot explain his dismissal other than his age. “But it’s not old teachers who should be fired – all of them indiscriminately – but those who don’t work well. Do those who do this now think that they will never be old and age discrimination will not affect them?” – asks Tatyana Orlova.
Alexander Kudinovich, 60 years old, responsible for mass sports work
Alexander Kudinovich - Master of Sports of the USSR in athletics, champion of the BSSR in 1981 in pole vaulting. He worked at BSU since 1997 as a senior physical education teacher, responsible for mass sports work at the journalism department. Alexander loved to joke with his students, for example, he said that if they did not work out all the gaps, he would not be allowed to attend the session. Therefore, he forced many to come to the pool at eight in the morning on Saturday, although he had already completed the tests a long time ago. But no one was offended by him; on the contrary, everyone loved Alexander. The football players will remember for a long time how he asked the guys to bring a heavy bathtub.
His departure was announced in the journalism department's football team group. Alexander supervised this sport at the faculty - it was he who decided whether journalism faculty football tournaments would be held.
Angelina Rudenko, Russian language teacher
Perhaps this is the strictest teacher of all times at the Faculty of Journalism: first-year students often thought that in front of them was the kindest woman in the world, but literally in the first minute of the first class, Rudenko felt a chill run through his body. Before her exams, students drank sedatives, and everyone went to Angelina Alexandrovna’s classes, even the most zealous truants - they understood that it was very easy to fly out of the university with Russian language passes. But overall, he was one of the coolest teachers in the department. “It’s better if they say about me that I’m strict. But fair. A student should not be offended casually. Giving bad grades “out of anger” is not about me,” Angelina Rudenko said in an interview with Sovetskaya Belorussia three years ago.
Angelina Aleksandrovna was born in Novorossiysk in 1935. In 1960 she graduated from the Gorky Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, next year I came to work at BSU - and only recently graduated, having worked for 58 years. For more than twenty years she was deputy dean of the Faculty of Journalism. Author of three educational and methodological complexes on the modern Russian language, participant in many republican scientific conferences. About her, like about Tatyana Orlova, they say “an era has passed.”
Ivan Sachenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
For three years, from 1942 to 1945, Ivan was a prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. In 1965 he graduated from the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Philology of BSU, worked for five years in newspapers and came to work at the Faculty of Journalism - he worked there for 48 years. For a quarter of those years he was associate dean. He headed the “Minsk City Association of Former Juvenile Prisoners of Fascism.”
The last year of Ivan Sachenko’s work was marred by a scandal that began with Katerina Karpitskaya’s January 2018 text in Nasha Nina about sexual harassment. She cited as an example the story of Adarya Gushtyn, who studied at the journalism department, that Sachenko ranked students according to breast size: “A good share of his activities are vulgar jokes and harassment of female students. He allows himself to be told: “If you’re wearing trousers, I won’t take the exam,” “Your skirt is too long,” “And your neckline could be bigger.”
The story ended in nothing, and six months later Ivan Sachenko left. Or he was fired - this is unknown.
Tatyana Konyushkevich, Russian language teacher
Tatyana graduated from the Faculty of Philology of BSU with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. She remained devoted to her direction all this time. Before finishing her work at the journalism department, Tatyana taught Russian not only to Belarusians, but also to foreigners - for example, the Chinese, who recent years At the journalism department, as part of an exchange with a Chinese university, there was quite a lot.
Olga Desyukevich, Candidate of Philological Sciences
She graduated from BSU with a degree in Belarusian and Russian language and literature, but at the journalism department she taught only Russian. There were no prerequisites for her leaving - she did not mention the desire to finish her work at the faculty, and due to her age it was too early to fire her. Olga was a very intelligent teacher - she never raised her voice and addressed herself exclusively as “you”. It seemed that almost nothing could anger her - not even the worst truants. Olga calmly gave the student who came unprepared a bad mark and continued the seminar.
She became known to many Belarusians during the story about the expulsion of the head of the “Youth of the Belarusian Popular Front” Anna Smilevich from the journalism department - Desyukevich was one of the teachers who gave Anna failing grades for the exams. Olga herself later commented on this episode: “I gave Anna a three. This is a failing grade. The fact is that on the theoretical issue she examined everything very poorly, at the school level, and not at the university level. In addition, mistakes were made: the word “parallel” with one “l” was written “coincides”, there was another such mistake... The first task was completed very, very poorly. The second, practical one, was done better. Not very high quality, but still better. That’s why I gave the girl not a “2”, but a “3”.
Vladimir Kasko, Candidate of Philological Sciences
Born in Fanipol in 1938. In 1964 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of BSU, in 1982 from the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow, and in the same year he began working at BSU. He taught “Fundamentals of Journalism”, “Fundamentals of the Creative Skills of a Journalist”, “Book Science”. Vladimir is the author of over 150 scientific works, including monographs on various aspects of the theory of journalism, national and Slavic culture, literature and language. According to the students, he himself would not have left the journalism department. As with all other teachers, except Orlova, the real reason for his departure is unknown.
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Students of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University made an original congratulations to Vladimir Putin in the form of a calendar with erotic content. Chairman's birthday Russian government Today is October 7 – Vladimir Putin turns 58 years old.
The calendar itself has created a stir around itself and is in great demand among buyers. The circulation of the calendar for 2011 is called Gift Calendar “We LOVE You!” amounted to 50,000 copies, which can be purchased at the Auchan hypermarket chain.
This fact of the PR initiative is also widely covered in the media. According to the Russian News Service, according to the press secretary of the Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov, the “hero of the holiday” himself, Vladimir Vladimirovich, has not yet seen this calendar.
Who is behind this “calendar for Putin” writes Regions.RU: “Students of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow state university They said that the release of the calendar was organized by a graduate of the faculty, Vladimir Tabakov, and an employee of the Russia.Ru TV channel, Maxim Perlin.”
At the university where the girls study, they were criticized a little, either out of envy or for some unknown reason. But as the Kommersant newspaper reports, Elena Vartanova, dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, said that she considers the act of the students who prepared a gift in the form of an erotic calendar for the birthday of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to be incorrect.
However, the calendar is on sale and we admire the photos:
