JEWISH UNIVERSITY

In the summer of 1980, I received at my home two guests with whom I had not been previously acquainted — Valera Senderov and Borya Kanevsky, both not yet in prison at that time. They came to me to make the arrangements concerning my participation in the endeavor, which proved to be quite successful for the last two years: parallel lecture courses to the MekhMat curriculum for young people who had been unfairly denied admission by the Moscow University Admission Committee. The names "Jewish University," "Jewish People's University," and even the acronym ENU^b appeared later,^c although what is true is true: The majority of the victims of the scoundrels from the examination and the Admission Committee in Moscow University were sinful in the fifth point.^d (Actually, the students selected in 1980, whom I taught, were victims only peripherally: this was the year of the Olympic Games, and the privilege of taking July exams for early admission to the University and MIFF^e was canceled, thereby depriving potential victims of a "safety net" provided by "reserve" institutes where they could apply following the flunking of exams at MekhMat. In the absence of the safety net, they, circumventing the University, sought admission to various institutes of the "kerosinka" type.^f No one wished to risk the possibility of being drafted and sent to Afghanistan…