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Students and workers complain

Law School Students suffer dog attacks

Claudiu Ludoşan

Aggressive wild dogs attack people in the Law School campus of the University of Bucharest almost every week and nobody in the university leadership seems willing to take action to solve the problem, students and workers complain.

First year student Nistor Lung Alexandra was a recent victim. She was bitten on the leg while running during a sports class on October 25. Even though her injury was not serious, Dr. Elena Drăcea of the university clinic took precautions and sent her to the hospital for checks.

“This is not the first time that a student has been bitten by a dog and until they move them from here, I don’t think it will be the last time either,” Drăcea said. The doctor said she has been trying to attract the attention of university authorities for more than three years. “I have written at least three reports for the university’s leadership in which I especially underlined this problem. They have taken some measures; the dogs have been sterilized and now they are fewer, but the problem isn’t resolved and students get bitten all the time,” she said.

A custodian at the Mihail Kogălniceanu students hostel, who asked not to be named, said: “When night comes, students are scared to go directly to the Pârvan tram station. They have to go around the university to get there.” The shortest way to the station is through the grassy area at the back of the Law School where some of the dogs hang out. “You never know from where they will spring out and bite you when you go that way,” she said.

Asked if he was aware of the problem, Marian Cilibiu, the university’s general administrative director, said that he knew about it. He said the dogs were locked during the day but some managed to get free from time to time. “All the dogs are locked up in a pen but somehow they escaped,” he said.

A reporter checked the pen and found a handful of dogs behind a wire mesh. But there were more wandering around the campus and students said several slept on the Law School stairs every day. Cilibiu said he hoped measures would soon be taken and that “the dogs will be locked up for good.” Law students are anxious awaiting that day.

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