Student Press in Europe

COVER: LSD
Inspired the social revolution in sixties. Today, this accidental discovery of Albert Hofmann still stimulates and gives joy…

STUDENTS: European Affairs Faculty
Expected to be a great opportunity, it seems to only disappoint. The Faculty of European Affairs offers a very general education. Is it enough nowadays?

STUDENTS: USOS
A detailed report on the integrated education-management software (USOS) used in most major Polish universities. This text (another version of this article was published in ‘UnivPécs’ in Hungary) has had a great impact on our readers. Some of them liked and supported our criticism, many tried to discuss it with us. To be continued…

A few other topics…
LIFESTYLE: pros and cons of modern technologies: we discuss this problem with Miroslaw Peczak, a Polish journalist and sociologist…
TRAVELS: Cambodia: we visit Angkor and its magical temples…
FILM: ‘Tarnation’ – this amateur film wins professional international festivals…
MUSIC: ‘We are better than Radiohead!’ – states Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai) interviewed by our journalist

Women sicker than men
70 percent of the PhD students who are on the sick-list at Lund University are women. At the faculty of social sciences the situation is even worse: the female PhD students are reported ill twelve times more than the male ones.

The university is looking into the problem, but so far they do not have any explanations to the difference between the sexes. However, the PhD ombudsman from the student union says that one cannot rule out patriarcal structures at the university as a cause.

Local student party
A student party has been born in Lund, just in time for the election in september. Its main goal is to force the local politicians to care more about the students, who constitute one third of the population in Lund. The party hope for at least two seats in the municipal council.

How to mingle properly
Our reporter has been attending a mingle class, organized by the student union for economists. He learnt that everyone is a company, ”I Ltd.”, with the responsibility to market one’s own trademark. One way of doing that is to present one’s name with a strange spelling, as in ’my name is Leena with to e:s’.

Abroad:
> We report on the situation in France and the student protests against the CPE law, but also on the students who want to go back to university.

> In the United States young people go to war in Iraq in order to get a free education at college. But critics claim the sum of money is too small even for the cheapest education, and some of the former soldiers have found it difficult to get any money at all.