Student Press in Europe

Report after the semester
(on the cover) Members of the University Senate and the Financial Council held their last meeting in the semester, chose the University’s Wine 2006 and Lénárd László, rector of the University of Pécs also gives an interview to UnivPécs. He states that the UP has stabilised its budget, enlarged international cooperation in the region and talks about plans of dormitory renovations and plans connected to Pécs 2010 - European Capital of Culture.

Summertime supplement
In its 4-page supplement our paper gives a quick look at Hungarian and European music festivals (as alternatives to Budapest’s Sziget). We have a quick look at some European cities (Paris, London, Primosten [Croatia], Warsaw, etc.) give tips about discount-flights, railway trips.

Next one please
Two engineer-to-be students from Pécs spend time acting as Clown-doctors. The visit children in hospitals and cheer them up with quite an appealing show. Kaufmann Balázs reports our paper on them.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
(on the cover) they are still spicy!

The exam period
It is approaching again. We advise our readers what to do to survive it in one piece.

Let’s buy a thesis
Students today have no time to write their thesis. But there are people who willingly help them. You pay, you demand. And you can buy absolutely everything – all subjects are available. How can we change this situation?

Studies in Hungary
Peter Radics from ‘Univ Pecs’ wrote for us about the specifics of studying in his country. Thank you, Peter

Our libraries
We describe the state of the libraries at some Polish universities. Are they well supplied? What are their main problems?

Plus:
Travels: Our journalist visits Thailand and its mysterious temples;
Interview: Chris Cleave – the writer whose book on terrorism was coincidentally published on July 7th 2005 in the UK. This man predicted the Apocalypse…;
And many others…

University Theatres’ Festival
(on the cover) University actors and actresses improvise a play by the current issue of a local daily newspaper. Festival prize is awarded to the group from the city of Debrecen.

The Hardest Part
UnivPécs collected the hardest exams and the “most cruel” examiners from all over the university’s faculties and departments and asked Ferenc Gyetván (teaching mathematics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) and János Jusztinger (a teacher of Roman Private Law at the Faculty of Law) for their thorough opinions.

Darwin to the world
Two people of opposite opinion about the interpretation of Darwin and the Evolution-theory are asked to give their explanations: Miklós Kellermayer from the Faculty of Medicine and Tamás Bereczkei, a scholar of psychology.