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Hoping to fetch a better price at the auction, students told education minister `C`mon already` during their performance.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb held a performance on Friday in the city`s main square, called “Let Us Buy Students”. The students drew bar codes on their foreheads and lied down on the floor, while their colleague headed the auction. With their performance, the students told Croatian Education Minister Dragan Primorac: “C`mon already”.

The students believe that if knowledge was reduced to sheer commodity, then they themselves are commodity. Zagreb students were supported by their colleagues from Rijeka, while the citizens displayed their support to their campaign for free education, signing a petition.

- We have not achieved anything so far. It will be a success of a pillar at the market turns around – one of the students said, who took part in the protest.

Frustrated with the fact that none of their previous attempts of annulling scholarships yielded results, the students decided to hold the performance in Ban Jelacic Square.

- This is the first such block after 1968 and 1971, therefore we were not well organised. I think Minister Primorac should have taken this more seriously – a student said, who raised signatures for the petition.

The citizens who gathered and watched the performance loudly provided support.

- Now, politicians wonder what sort of experts would students be if they don`t pay for their education, while they had free education until 1990 – Bozica Funtak (61) told us, a pensioner, who has grandchildren who are just about to start their university education.

The students will submit a petition to the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at 15 hours, asking him not to introduce sanctions for students who did not attend lectures. The sanctions might result in them not being allowed to take exams. Also, they will agree on temporarily lifting the faculty bloc so that they can meet their university obligations until the end of the academic year, however, they warn that unless their demands are met, the bloc will be continued in the autumn.

Take a look at the attached photo gallery: Auction: Let Us Buy Croatian Students.

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