Following the decision of the Learned Council and the Plan of Academic Development the Student Academic Society (SAS) was organized whose first action was to create the Student Debating Club which plans to make regular screenings of Russian and foreign films with their subsequent discussion. The Student Debating Club is going to analyze the essential artistic and cultural problems. And because on of the most important directions of the SAS is students' research work, active cooperation with student societies of other universities is intended which presupposes invitations to the screenings and discussions and realization of mutual creative projects. At present the plan for the next year is being worked out