Austrians Overcrowded

"We are heading for a catastrophe," said the chairman of the National Union of Austrian Students of the overcrowding in the Universities He asked for a doubling of the amounts available for scholarships, staff, an endowment a cultural building, grants for student welfare, and requested that ten times the present amount be set aside for accommodation.

He referred to the overcrowding and poor conditions in the universities, and pointed out that some faculties have one professor for a thousand students. Some lecture halls with a capacity of 400 were being used for classes with an enrolment list of 2,000. There was a waiting list for reservations of scientific books of up to three months.