Polish Students

The Communist Party in Poland has begun a propaganda attack to counteract what one official called the "ideological alienation" of university students and other young people.

One of the chief targets is "Oasis," a Catholic youth organization established in the early 1960s to encourage religious activities among university students.

According to Waldemar Swirgon, a Communist Party youth worker recently promoted to the Party Secretariat, Oasis has been attempting to set up programs that exceed its role as a religious organization.

Extra-territorial

At a recent press conference for foreign reporters, Swirgon charged that agents from the West were attempting to turn the universities into "extra-territorial enclaves" that fostered anti-state activities.

In another effort to ensure ideological propriety on the campuses, the Ministry of Science, Higher Education, and Technology recently decreed that all college and university students, regardless of their field of study, must spend at least 300 hours a year on the study of party-approved programs in political science and economics. --The Chronicle of Higher Education