Still, lots of professors were against it. Not all, but one in particular, whose name I need not to mention, was strongly against this
method. It was a general opinion that it is unfair that most must pass
though the four years of traditional high-school education, whereas
few could skip it, so the criteria for my taking the exam were by far
stricter. That was the most difficult exam of my life. I had to take the
exam of all the lyceum subjects for all the four years all together.
For example, as I took the exam of history, I had to take it from “Noj
to Avnoj”, that is from the origins to the most recent history. Same
level of difficulty for psychology, philosophy, logics…. And if I was to
fail just one of the subjects, I would have to start all over again. One
couldn’t take one subject at a time, so I was an extremely vast exam.
What do you remember of your university period?
Well, I will remember the university for my friendships and
for some of my professors. My memory will always go to Radmila
Mihajlovic, Momcilo Spremic, Slobodan Mijuskovic, Mladen Kozomara, Voja Djuric and, of course, Lazar Trifunovic. It is interesting
to mention that the assistants were also Mladen Kozomara and
Aljosa Mimica. They were teaching Marxism, but I heard from them
for the first time about Marina Abramovic and other conceptual
artists. Since they were all friends, they knew better than anyone
what were Marina, Rasa, Nesa and Zoran working on. I found out
more things about them from Mladen than from anyone else. They
were philosophers, so they understood what the conceptualists
were doing, and their wives were friends with Jasna Tijardovic, Dragica Vukadinovic and Dunja Blazevic, that were already part of SCK
(Student Cultural Centre).
Lazar Trifunovic was the most popular professor. Differently
from other students, I never went with Laza to the pub (kafana), to
his office or to excursions, occasions where he would entertain himself with students. I had no private acquaintance with