Student Press in Europe

Student issues in the election
With the general election coming up in mid September, Lundagård investigates the opinions of the political parties in student and university issues. In broad outline the parties to the left want to expand the higher education while those to the right want to improve the quality.

Every tenth student not allowed to vote
2 000 students, or two percent of the inhabitants of Lund, are not allowed to vote in the local government election. The reason is that they are not registered in the city, either because they are new in town or because they choose to be registered elsewhere, even though it is against the law.

The future of film in Lund
The scene for cultural film in Lund is shaking, with video stores going bankrupt and the local film club throwing crisis meetings.
Illegal downloading – as usual – seems to be one of the reasons.

International:
Indian students against university quotas
Hunger strikes, riots and demonstrations.
Indian students fight the government’s proposal to reserve even more places at the universities to applicants from lower castes.
– Using quotas in this way only makes society even more parted according to the obsolete caste system, an Indian student says to Lundagård.

Hello Guys, let me inaugurate the new academic year!
The current issue of ‘Gazeta Studencka’ is a very special one. This is our 100 edition. We did our best to prepare something special for our readers. We were lucky enough to get two exclusive interviews.
We managed to interview John Irving, a bestselling American writer. We talked with him about his books, but also about his past, his longing for his father. This interview, carried out in a Finnish sauna, is full of unpredictable statements and its atmosphere is a very unique one.
Our second interlocutor was Mr Donald Tusk, the leader of the Polish opposition. We discussed the current situation in Poland, trying to find some constructive solutions for what is going on in our country.
Moreover, our two journalists who are currently enrolled in a scientific mission in the Antarctic sent us some amazing pictures from their voyage. It looks like we will be publishing materials from there on a regular basis. In this issue we focused on the animals - seals, walruses and many others whose names sounds strange to me even in Polish
As usual, we dedicated many articles to students and their problems. In this issue we present a few articles on PhD students, the Socrates-Erasmus program and on how the Polish universities are prepared for the needs of disabled students.
As a magazine dedicated to students of all levels of the education system, we also discuss more general social problems. This edition brings amongst others an important article on the problems of emigration. Many of our new graduates, our student elite, leave the country to work in London’s supermarkets. ‘What is going on with Poland?’ - the title of this article asks the same crucial question we want to be answered by our politicians.
As always, we are filling this edition with dozens of reviews, critiques and essays on the latest on our cultural scene, the newest books, the hottest CD-s, the most inspiring cinema…