Yerevan University Professor Decides to Conduct Class’ Exam in Church

The Armenian Language and Literature professor at the Russian-Armenian University in Yerevan has told her students that she would conduct their midterm exam in a church, where female students had to go with their heads covered. Those opposed would not pass the exam, she promised.

According to the students, this is not the only case of religious inflection on the part of the professor: she once told a student to leave the classroom when he said he was an atheist; for another test, she told them the learn the prayer Our Father by heart in ancient Armenian.

When reading Derenik Demirchyan’s The Odd One, she promised to invite a priest to talk to the class and then phoned a cleric and told the students: “Listen and learn how you should greet a priest.”