U.S. students build Obama-in doll.

Attention, blunders: Because a Sarah Palin doll in the U.S. election campaign dangles on a gallows, suddenly, two students and a figure Obama the noose around his neck. Just so that they repeatedly broke the law - and should have been smooth in prison can walk.

 

Repeatedly have two students from Kentucky broke the law - and all this fun just one simple reason. First broke B. Hunter, 21, and Joe F., 22, in a university building. Where they stole a black sport jacket, which she then a Barack Obama doll-attracted, it was the presidential campaign, and both believed that a great idea to have. This figure hung the students - and that is their main offense - with a rope around his neck to a tree.

In the worst case, the culprit for this macabre string to a prison term five to ten years imprisonment can be. But at the end, Hunter B. and Joe F. luck: A jury of Fayette county abandoned it, they adjudged. The defender of the young accuser was convinced that no racist motives behind the action stuck.

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"This was a purely political strings," said B. Hunter, a member of the Republicans. "We have not thought that we might hurt feelings." His defenders argued: "If they would have hanged Joe Biden, should they not be held responsible."

The students said that the symbolic execution is simply a reaction to it was that in California, the Republican candidate for the vice presidency, Sarah Palin, also a doll aufgeknüpft was. F. and B. showed, despite their success refined court and began a so-called awareness training, now they have to meet with black clergy and politicians seek.

Salam alaikum, hero of the poor.

Soft knee in Dhaka: Kerstin Humberg meets the Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. She has many questions. Benefit large corporations Social Business only to new markets? And equally important: what I just put on? Black consultants divide is not on.

 

Silently I mustered the young Bengal behind the sales counter. His face - a single question mark. Behind him are stacked meters high note pads, stapler, and envelopes. In a mixture of sign language, English and Bengali, I explain to him what I need: cards to learn vocabulary. At the end of next week we have our final examination in Bengali.

Checkered board is still before me, when my phone rings: unknown participants. Again. Almost daily I get anonymous calls. Choosing a random number combinations seem to be popular here, and have the third one hand caller identified as a foreigner, can not conform to a more calm. "I want to be your friend!", Then it sounds from the phone. My classmates in the school experience. Mostly we ignore therefore unknown numbers immediately.

20 hours until the meeting - the countdown has started

Because I'm expecting an important call, I still ran. Outside, the traffic noise, in the store schallt Bengali pop music. I hardly understand a word. Only so much: "Yunus ... tomorrow ... 16 clock." A joke? "Ke Bolch?" - He that saith, I know. Indeed, it is the office of Muhammad Yunus, the inventor of microcredit, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and "Social Business" visionary. Tomorrow he could meet with me, he gives me half an hour. A week ago until his office manager had me an appointment in prospect. That would work so quickly, I would have never imagined. For a moment, my heart slips into the trousers. Then I have to say.

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A counselor sets of: Kerstin Humberg flew from Hamburg two years as a consultant to the World. Now doctorate the 31 - year-old graduate geographer and wants for two months in Bangladesh entrepreneurial ideas to explore poverty reduction. They reported in Uniblogs of her life in the land of Bengal.

The countdown is running. Still 20 hours to our first meeting. What are the main points? How does the recording device? And what do I move on? My adviser's suits and blouses, I left home. In black Cordblazer I would perish from heat. My American Mitschülerin Liz pleads for a Traditional Salwar Kameez. Not a bad idea. Meanwhile, I have to these pajama-like combination of continued substance pants, long shirt and scarf accustomed. Furthermore, even Yunus himself prefers clothes "Made in Bangladesh".

The next afternoon I shower in the green moto-taxi through Dhaka. The traffic is unpredictable. Hopefully I am not too late. It goes well, a little later I stand in front of the Grameen Bank - with dusty clothes and zersausten hair. The Grameen Bank provides development assistance with no large sums of money, but awards for 25 years microcredit. One idea that its inventor Muhammad Yunus the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in revenue. Yunus office manager, a young lady in pale blue sari, leads me to his office on the fourth floor. The door is open. We are alone.

"Salam alaikum," I say. The friendly man with the silver-gray hair behind the desk smiles. Where I learn Bengali, he asks. What I like Bangladesh and how long I will remain. I answer obediently and see myself in his office. A wooden desk, a telephone, shelves that are under the weight of the collected books turn.

He has given notes on my concept paper made?

Much work in Yunus room reminds me of the office of my old geography professor in Hamburg. Not least of the missing computer. Almost trust my eyes when I make a printout of my promotional approach is directly in front Yunus see. Has some ER markers and comments made it?

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Muhammad Yunus was in 1940 in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh was born. He grew up as a third of a total of 14 children of a wealthy family, his father was a jeweler and goldsmith. Yunus studied economics in Bangladesh and the USA. In 2006, he and his Grameen Bank, founded by Nobel Peace Prize. "Previously, I had to scream, so few people listen to me," he said blogs ONLINE. "Now it is when I whisper, and the whole world listens to me."

About half an hour we will discuss about the "Social Business" approach - through entrepreneurial solutions to social problems, where the investors voluntarily to refrain from distribution of profits. Especially in the context of the current economic crisis were the reactions to his work is extremely positive, says Yunus. "Many people now have the feeling that the traditional profit-oriented economies is not the answer." At the same time growing the overall readiness, one's own knowledge, their creativity, contribute more to solving social and environmental challenges.

Yunus has cyclical approach: "In the future, 'Social Business' is an integral part of the World Economic Forum in Davos," explains the economist. The aim was to develop entrepreneurial prototypes. "It's about tiny seeds to develop. The rest is only a matter of replication - as we are in the micro-credits have seen." The first did it in a small village, then spread them in the whole world.

States and foundations could be with the "Social Business" approach to get away from mere charity towards social investment, says Yunus. Even though it often remains in the correct understanding of his approach the problem, set the recognition that "Social Business" profit-oriented companies do not replace but can complement it, where they are currently inactive, says the Nobel Peace Prize.

And the critic behind the social engagement of international companies only medium-term growth strategies suggest? What if the ultimate goal of these companies only the placement of its own brand in the living environment of the poor? Yunus smiles. "That perhaps the strategy of the company. My strategy is to establish the company for the solution of societal challenges to win. We use ourselves."

Uni students forced to intimate inquiry.

Her research interests of the Free University of Zacatecas extended very far: The Mexican College explores the intimate lives of their students. If you are applying, must have access cycle, abortion and sex-partner information.

 

It's about first and most intimate medical details. Women who were at the University of Zacatecas in Mexico for a place to apply, have an entire questionnaire answered by their intimate life fairly comprehensively ausgeforscht is: At what age the applicant had their first sexual contacts? How many partners they had already? When she has her menstruation? Is she pregnant, she has an abortion, she suffers under the effluent? All they have to specify.

However, the curiosity of the university purely medical grounds, says the head of the University Hospital, Juan Carlos Chávez Olivas. In Mexico, the risk in a venereal disease anzustecken, very high. The information served the hospital as the basis for the medical care of students.

None of the questions would be a decision criterion in the selection process used, he asserted. The head of the female students of the university service, Leticia Torres, on the other hand, criticized the action. It was a question of 'self-esteem, "to reject such questions, she said.

Zacatecas is a traditional Auswanderregion about 600 kilometers northwest of Mexico City. The State and the eponymous capital, depend heavily on the money from the Mexican emigrants from the United States in their ancient homeland send.

"Animation is more honest than television".

Where hot Oscar aspirants to learn their craft: the film "Waltz with Bashir" is also a success for the Bezalel art school in Jerusalem. The half-film crew made their final here - and "Animation" is a magic word in Israel.

 

"I want to put things in motion," said Yula Bolanov, 25 Then she laughs a little, a good comment it was because they spoke about their future as Animatorin - and what to do with this craft can be reached.

It is a Thursday during the semester break, the animation students of the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem, will meet in the basement of their school, lead to films and discuss. Some argue engaged with each other, so some sign out front. Everywhere in the room hatch small cartoon figures show: There's one on the backpack, because on the wall, on the table.

What is after university? Yula will be happy to produce animated films. So far, the future looked more than usually animated films from: Here is a promotional movie as a flash sequence for the advertising. But for the students of the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem has been at least in the early hours of this Monday opened a new world. Animation, which is currently a magic word in Israel.

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Short Film: "Nazid Adashim (Lentil Soup)"
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"Waltz with Bashir," an animated film that is, Israel has almost the first Oscar in the history of the country presented. Well, the film was acted as a favorite, had to end but "Departures" from Japan to beat. "Waltz with Bashir" did not come directly from the Bezalel School - but without them there would have been not given him so.

About three years ago hired the professors Yoni Goodman, 32, and Tal Gadon, 35, Bezalel graduates themselves, directly from the school a handful of animators for a curious project: an animated documentary.

Documentary, but painted? That should work? After an exciting project, better than boring advertising movies. Goodman and Gadon brought her into an apartment in Tel Aviv, there were six computers, a shelf with sweets, a soccer table. "Just everything you need," says Gadon.

What is really happening in Lebanon?

"Waltz with Bashir" is the story of a veteran of the first Lebanon war, which tries to recover his memory. It is an animated film, one could also say: a comic. Ari Folman, director and main character in the movie, wants to learn from what he massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Schatila in September 1982 has noticed. And what his role was.

Christian Falangisten then executed a previously unknown number of Palestinians as revenge for the assassination of their leader Bashir Gemayel. With the Israeli army, the Christian militia allies. What the Israeli soldiers knew could never be resolved.

The budget for "Waltz with Bashir" was tiny, the team also. Yoni Goodman expects that: "On an average Disney film 200 animators are working and it will cost around 170 million U.S. dollars. We had 1.7 million." All ten animators came from the Bezalel school or had studied there.

It was clear that this small group for 90 minutes, as a feature film about time, not frame by frame could draw.

Dream and reality in the same language

"I have no idea until today, for example, this scene was built," says Goldwasser Dotan, 24, and shows one of his two big screens. on the screen flickers a scene from "Waltz with Bashir."

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The animation Dotan student learns at the Bezalel in the third year. He sits in his room in Jerusalem District Nachlaot hip, before his computer on his knees Zeichenpad. "Yoni Goodman has given us some of the scenes presented in the classroom, but in this setting here, I do not look through." The movements of the characters are too liquid, just with flash programmed to be fully subscribed, but they can not be - "they would have for the movie is not four, but eight years," said Dotan.

The animators had to improvise: as much as possible, they worked in Flash, a computer program for such complicated things like an animated film does not really thought, but rather for a short and simple animations on web pages, for example, advertising in movies. A feature length story in order to program a little, as you would try, with a toothbrush, a Rembrandt nachzumalen.

For the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe and all the other prizes, the "Waltz with Bashir" won interested Dotan not quite, but animation, that's his thing: "Only with this technique you can dream and reality in the same language to describe, but with this technique you can make films in which you have a figure for just the stress, what they should be. "

And this is still a documentary? "For me animation is honest and true than the image that a camera produces," said Dotan. But the truth speaks "Waltz with Bashir" then? The fact that the Israeli army complicity in the massacre of Sabra and Schatila had, because they are not prevented.

"Not funny, to be a soldier"

David Polonsky, the art director of the film, the BBC said: "I want these young men film which conveys an idea that it is not funny, to be a soldier."

That is "Waltz with Bashir" is no classic anti-war film. He is the documentation of the personal search, to which director Ari Folman goes. Folman was at war and is looking for his trauma. In the same moment it is the history of the State of Israel, since it is always only in the period between the wars can be expected.

At the beginning of the film Ari Folman knows only that he was there, in Lebanon and that he was 19 years old. It begins, according to the comrades of that time to look, he keeps them out pictures: Do you understand me? Am I that? What have we done? What blame me? And you?

The film shows what all Israelis know

Slowly the memories come back in dream images, and flashbacks. "It is precisely the strength of this film that he can be reflective," says Daniella Koffler, 28, Bezalel student in second year. "Sure - the drawn figures are more abstract than real people, they are more ideas than real life. But just so they can have a content much better transport than an actor or a person in an interview. I honestly does not matter whether a Documentation in the classic sense, "she says. "This film shows something that all Israelis know," says Daniella - the military, feel the need to defend itself. And what happens when a society displaces the question of what the permanent state of war in the human causes.

This movie just had to be made, says the fast-Chefanimator of Oscar-winner Yoni Goodman. "Had we not done that, it would have made someone else soon. All the soldiers who were at war, dragging them with him."

Many Bezalel students dare not, films or other art to produce the political, the opinion. "It goes so far, Dotan said," that many of my friends just make films in English. Once something in Hebrew, it is political. I believe that some of it are afraid their own language to use. This movie shows exactly that is what we have to do. "

Each performance is sold out

Jerusalem, Cinematheque, in December 2008. Outside it is dark and cold, on the cinema screen end credits of "Waltz with Bashir." The hall is packed to the rafters. Nobody comes in, nobody speaks. On the ceiling go gently the lamps. A pair of sneaks to the exit, most of them remain seated. Somewhere someone is crying.

The film is already in Israel for months, but still is almost sold out every idea. The film takes the people who presses them into the chair - they sit there and not move anymore. After an animated film.

"The trend towards creationism is undiminished".

A teacher-trainer is alert. One in eight Lehramt student doubts the evolution - and future bio-teacher warns Dittmar Graf von der TU Dortmund in an interview. In two studies, he found out: not just blame the religion.

 

blogs ONLINE: Mr. Graf, nearly 15 percent of prospective teachers at the University of Dortmund doubt evolutionary theory. That gives you two years ago
with a study found. Now you have again demanded. What came out?

Dittmar Graf: The trend is confirmed. We evaluate the data is still pending, but the trend is clear.

blogs ONLINE: The University of Dortmund is a hotbed of creationists?

Count: That would have to get after the first study can be accused. But now we have first in victories and Hildesheim surveyed total of 1200 future teachers.

blogs ONLINE: And doubt the students of evolution?

Graf: In any event, many alarmingly indicate they did not believe that humans and chimpanzees have common ancestors. You do not want to know that all living beings to common ancestors to look back. And there are many who doubt that life before 3.6 billion years ago. Even among those who study biology at Lehramt.

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Dittmar Graf, 53, formed since 1992, Bio-teachers. He is a professor at the TU Dortmund and spokesman of biology teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia. For two studies, he had more than 1000 student teachers in the first semester question. The result: Every Eighth doubts about Darwin's evolutionary doctrine, the most important theory of biology.

Graf: When more than 80 percent of the questions answers, which are not consistent with the theory of evolution law.

blogs ONLINE: Are all religious zealots?

Graf: No, no. While religious beliefs and are skeptical of evolution. But much more does a naive image of science. Nearly 15 percent of the surveyed first have no idea how science works. As is said: "Science is just dogmatic." Many present themselves, we would stone pebbles for a large mosaic of the truth together. They simply do not know that all scientific knowledge is always provisional, and each statement must be verifiable.

blogs ONLINE: Why is that?

Graf: When someone under 13 years of schooling or even an idea of how science works, then there is something wrong. Often focuses on the school science theory does not. It must be the subject of extensive evolutionary approach - and especially the past, not only in the 9th and 10 Class.

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Long rages, especially in the U.S., a cultural battle between researchers and cautious: The creationists want the Bible story of creation literally understood. They argue against the grounds of Charles Darwin evolution doctrine and call for anchoring the creation story in school - in biology, not religion. Their main argument: Certain characteristics of living organisms are so complex that it is compatible with evolution alone can not explain that. The most radical fundamental Christians ( "Flat Earth") even believe that the earth is a disc.

Fundamentalism in Tarnkleid: Representatives of the academic version Intelligent Design are not talking about God, but by a supernatural intelligence behind all things. The creationism by his followers in the U.S. primarily for legal reasons in Intelligent Design renamed as U.S. courts repeatedly religious teachings in public schools were prohibited. Under the new label supporters praise her faith as an equivalent theory. The scientists, however, leaves the hair stand - for a theory it would eventually form the basis of research, evidence and scientific publications.

In 31 U.S. states quarreling parents to court if their children in Biology besides teaching the theory of evolution, the concept of a divine creator learn. The judgments are not clear: It had to be creationists around in Pennsylvania and California defeats some flak, but in Kansas, the biblical story of creation in addition to the equivalent theory of evolution is. According to opinion polls that already 57 percent of Americans and 22 percent of Britons to creationism.

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Some critics tackle creationism and intelligent design with a sense of humor. Sun was founded as a separate religion, attached to the body of God a flying spaghetti monster sets, and took a satirical campaign ball rolling. The requirement of "Pastafarians" If intelligent design has a religious outlook will spread to schools, then should the theory of a noodle monster as creator of all life to be.

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blogs ONLINE: Should primary school students are already employed with Darwin before they are properly read and write?

Graf: Obviously it is difficult. Evolution is more abstract than a creation story. Nevertheless, we must start sooner, otherwise solidifies quickly unscientific idea of where we come from.

blogs ONLINE: You have said at that time, you feared there was a trend creationists.

Graf: The trend is thought to be creationists unabated. Take only the number of such groups, forums and websites. Only at the University of outing the creationists rare. We have this trend until the polls found. But even in my seminars, I meet students who for religious reasons to reject evolution. Recently, two students of Muslim background openly.

blogs ONLINE: How did the fellow's response?

Graf: With fierce headwind - which calmed me.

Horror in the Rübli School.

Grabs the teeth rattle when you first Lehrämtler school use - rightly so. Are you still in school in Rübli problems of all Problemkieze, helps only Durschlagskraft, white grains Thomas aka © TOM. As a result 44 of "Good Times, Uni-times": scary times quite tame students.

 

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Astrid falls purely on fraudsters.

Four numbers, type, amount, and then the machine spits out no money. BWL student Astrid Langer has let trick, for the first time the Uniblogs reveals how it feels when you just give away 1100 Euros - and long remembers nothing of it.

 

"Please enter PIN concealed carry - this call to EC machines I've found quite exaggerated. But I notice when someone is trying to secretly to me over the shoulder to see me or any other spy.

You notice it does not, I had the painful note.

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Astrid, 23: "I noticed it when someone looks over your shoulder, or not?"

Last August I was in Boston with friends on the way to dinner, but soon needed more money. In the bank lobby pushed my debit card into the machine, a card that I only use abroad because the Postbank thus ten times free cash withdrawals per year allowed.

Four key point later, after, as ever, only half-hidden pin input happened - nothing. No money. Only the first sentence: "Your request can not currently be processed." New test: Pin, $ 200 selection - and again nothing.

If the secret number? Yes, I was safe. I tried it with a smaller amount, $ 100. Again nothing. Postbank card had to be broken, what else? A friend lent me money for food, and for the rest of the holiday, I used a debit card.

Back in Germany I tried Postbank card again at the local machines - with success. But I knew not that it was not up to me was still on my card.

I was unaware, for months. What I had spent on holiday, which I knew, yes. So I used a long way from the pay phone banking at Postbank. And account statements can I get only twice a year.

More than 1000 Euro away, my stomach to form clumps

Only in January told me the electronic telebanking voice that my account balance drastically lower than I had expected: about $ 1,000 less. My stomach is shaped into a lump. I chose the option "View Account". The Electro-Voice read as follows: "Einhundertvierunddreissig sixty-three euros and cents," aloof, in a bar She said it again. And again. I thought the computer would have been hanged. But after eight times "Einhundertvierunddreissig sixty-three euros and cents," said the voice, "sixty-seven euro and thirty-two cents." I am expecting. 1149.60 euros.

Eight times two hundred dollars, and all in a day? That was sure I had not. That night in Boston, someone had tampered with the machines and the data in my card and my secret number ergaunert. Fraudsters use to readers and mini cameras.

Panic, help, what now? What do you do when everything is almost half a year ago? I chose the phone banking option "Talk to a customer advisor." But now the human voice at the other end of the line was very sober. "Then you can just do nothing, we'll take that and that's but. As someone has probably served to your account." Yes, that I've also noticed, thanks to re-hearing.

138 hours Student-work hours lost

Elfhundert euro, two vacation tickets or 138 hours Hiwi job that I expected. That surely can not be: I am a victim of fraud! Again, I called at the bank. Another employee told me the damage I must report to the headquarters of the bank, when, where and exactly describe. Then you check and see and maybe I would get back the money. Could also be that I should be liable.

Let's see.

I wrote a letter to the bank, described everything so well I find it after four months still remembered. Read the letter from the examining attorney, then quickly to the post, once registered with a reply. And then wait.

Whether I get back my money, and if so how much, is still completely unclear. First, it's gone.

But at least I learned one. Before I am now EC-money machine, I look closely at the machines, jolt the reader and enter the PIN, as if each waiting customer in the bank a potential fraudster. "

Not without my suit.

Spinning the Finns? The Nordic student life knows strange rituals: first be dipped in ice water, then allowed them back into their overalls with patches slip. When parties can be seen on the piece of study. Güldene rule: never wash.

 

Thomas Olsson, 26, poses with proud breast geschwellter on the campus of the Technical University of Tampere (TUT). The arms in the hips gestemmt, he blinks with raised head in the sun. For the photo, the Ph.D. student herausgeputzt: Instead of a suit he wears a dazzling white suit.

Does the university about a new coat? Olsson grins and shakes his head, on which he makes a kind of conductor hat bear dangles from an excessively large tassel. "That," he says, "is the typical Finnish students divide."

Coveralls are available at nearly all Finnish universities. Each student and each student club has its own color, full body suits are on the campus identifier and identity. At the University of Tampere, in southwest Finland, there are 13 colors for Studienrichtungen and a few more on-campus clubs. Olsson has two overalls, a white from the club that organizes trips abroad and the black students of computer science.

Sweden invented the Saubär overalls

Students from Tampere allegedly led the tradition as the first mid-sixties in Finland. Juha Suvanto by the Student Union knows where the custom is: "The first overalls, there was the early sixties in Sweden at the Stockholm Royal Technical College." The Swedes, so Suvanto, allegedly searched a functional clothes for their wild parties. Soon swashes fashion at the Scandinavian neighbors over.

The overalls are not included in the official Uni-label and are not a form of a Nordic-Hörsaal uniform. On the contrary. The different colored blue men to act as a comfortable overcoat over the normal clothing, especially at parties. The university is still adorned with the student tradition. On posters, to study in Tampere promote students wear the typical white and black hats with the tassel.

"At first I thought this would be a kind of fraternity," says Benjamin Söllner, 21 The student of the TU Dresden spend two semesters abroad in Tampere. Especially the hats fueled his suspicion. As in the introduction week at the TUT everyone voluntarily wore overalls, had the German student will soon be one. Benjamin is now in the color of his computer science studies media: gray in gray.

Only one cap is missing Benjamin on genuine Finnish Unikluft. Nearly 100 euros then we need to make berappen, pretty much for a chronically empty wallet students. The overalls, however, are usually free for first. Made possible by a sophisticated sponsorship of companies that fit the respective course. So emblazoned on Benjamins gray piece in large letters of the Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia.

Pimp my overalls - with needle and thread

But is not the same overalls overalls - the patch is what counts. The students attending parties gather at sports events for their club memberships, from other universities or companies. Two to ten euros substance such patches, often they are also tickets. Then it says "Pimp my overalls, with needle and thread.

In his Benjamin Coverall looks like a Formula-1-pilot on the level of its advertising contracts. One-year Finnish student life persuade a good 20 Patches. A normal yield, but Finnish students deliver ever Races to most patches. "The more you have, the higher the prestige," says Thomas Olsson. One of his fellow students contributes to the overall now have a complete cloak - he had just too many patches.

The business students with the tradition flourishes. Some companies have focused on the manufacture of specialized coveralls, including print advertising, says student representatives Suvanto. No wonder: Finland has some 300,000 students, all potential carriers overall. However, students only buy almost a full overcoat, which has been part of his life.

"A good student is also a good drinker"

For the voluntary standardization group, the Finns have no explanation. "Actually, we are individualists, like all Scandinavians," said Olsson. A practical benefit is in the nature of overalls as Strainers - less for oil than for alcohol. In Finland, belong to the drinking culture, not only on campus, says Benjamin. In public, the overalls so often associated with alcohol use. PhD student Olsson says it this way: "A good student is also a good drinker."

Biggest test for students and their overalls is the Finnish folk Vappu on 1 May. For two weeks, the students vote in Tampere on the matter. The climax at midnight they put a woman's statue, a huge student cap on, then pop the champagne corks. Already a few hours before the draw students celebrating in their overalls and with homemade figures throughout the city. Their goal: the rapids between the two lakes in the city center.

Here, the first baptized in the icy water. The Krankorb remains in the water, "to no longer screams" assure observers. The ritual is popular, now takes two cranes to the masses to immerse. Even the old Rector and his successor, last year took a bath in the river.

For the baptism, the first off their overalls. Because there is an unwritten law: A suit should never be washed.

Benjamin would be solid stain devil nevertheless alert to the detergent draw. "A bit crazy's all here already," said German student. But the Finns were so flat, more or less quiet and restrained in order to surprise and not worry about what others think about it. "As the band
Lordi at the Grand Prix. "

VW Beetle students can plop into the fjord.

Five Canadian students wanted a car from a bridge and refreshing - but it fell into the water. The breakdown should Ulk the young engineers with a delicate penalty involved. Worse: You are now a mockery of the whole department.

 

Five aspiring engineers wanted in Canada earlier this week their technical skills to the test - and failed miserably. The police caught the quintet in Vancouver when trying to get a VW Beetle from a bridge to dangle.

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The police informed the students of the University of British Columbia, after the body with ropes on a bridge had to depend on, said police spokeswoman Lindsey Houghton. When the students the cover of the cars just the 30-meter high Ironworkers Bridge herabließen, tore one of the steel, and the beetles clapped into the water of Burrard fjord.

Regarding the arrest was for the five buffoons nor ignominy: Despite their discipline they could not do it, the car after all the rules of engineering at the bridge up. This guarantees them the peers of Häme.

In North America, and mechanically sophisticated planning engineer jokes tradition. For nearly 30 years are the students of the University of British Columbia each year, the shell of a VW Beetle said bridge - and the most successful ever.

Dean ashamed for his students

Such pranks called Pranks, shall be construed as evidence of technical skills courses. Famous are on the east coast of the USA the daring actions of deco students at the Massachusetts Institue of Technology, the regular cars and houses on
representative Unigebäude plant.

The five engineering students unhappy Vancouver still had to bargain from the local police can mock. A spokesman mocked the young students "should be perhaps the lectures on winches through again."

Bruce Dunwoody, Vice-Dean of Engineering, was embarrassed by the action of his students: "The whole thing is an embarrassing story, and the fact that their attempt failed, making it not much better." The students would see such a painting in "a way of growing their talents on technically difficult area to show" - or the lack of talent.

Dunwoody said that he was much relieved that the action failed nobody was hurt. The police put the students back on free foot, initiated investigations into rough but nonsense and recommended a penalty of 5000 Canadian dollars. The University will investigate the case.

In slippers on scholarship.

Streber round, elite club, know-Club - clichés about Germany's talented conveyors, there are plenty. It is on the selection of seminars to be quite relaxed, as Benjamin Loy perplexed noted, as he fought with the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes presented.

 

"Good evening," I wish the young lady in the pant suit, the smile in the foyer of the hostel is Speyer. "Will you also to the selection of the study seminar Foundation?" While I am cautiously nod and yet unknown whether it might be the seminar leader, she says even with artificial enthusiasm, as "terribly interesting" her medical studies, and how they relate to this "great weekend so many smart people" look.

Louise Heymans
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First, it seems to me like the
Personification of all the fellows clichés. But fortunately, remains an exception during this weekend selection of Germany's largest and most well-known talented conveyor. The German National Academic Foundation invites you to a further 180 of these nationwide events per year are 48 candidates and examine their suitability.

Even the invitation must be understood as a small markup. Because of the Scholarship Foundation can be, unlike the big party and church-based support works by the Ebert Foundation to Cusanuswerk, (still) do not apply, but needs a proposal by the director of a high school or a professor.

Everything stresses playfully

It's not all. This is the seminar director in her welcoming speech the same time clear: "Even if our
Financial situation at the moment is very good, we will after this weekend, unfortunately, only about every third of the foundation you can absorb. "Excessive competition sparked this announcement in the majority of participants are not.

"I see the whole thing rather playful. When it works, great, if not, then it is not bad," says Paul. With its history of academic subjects and sports zähllt it apart from the many would-be doctors, physicists and engineers to the mocked exotic, just like I do with Spanish and German

Anyway, the pub crawl, which is a large part of the group meets on the first evening, in a surprisingly relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. Almost everyone has a few interesting stories from his life away from school or university to tell - whether civilian service in Nicaragua, internship in Beijing or two years in a senior international school in western India. Most of the participants are good partners and fit well into the profile of the Scholarship Foundation, which by their fellows in addition to excellent grades a good deal of commitment and openness to the world expected.

"Isch escht but loosely here, gell?"

The night in a quad room is short, only out of consideration for my application, I oust Meuchelgedanken because of snoring office colleagues. The selection marathon begins early Saturday morning: six plus two group discussions individual interviews with members of the selection committee, each candidate according to a complicated time and space key at the weekend training. Especially on the two 40-minute talks on the eve of rounds already numerous stories of sadistic philosophy professors or questions to the gross domestic product of Montenegro.

THE AUTHOR

In Saarbrücken studied Benjamin Loy, 21, Spanish and German - if it is not just as a freelance journalist working in South America or to travel.

The reality of this morning: An old mathematics professor notes with sphinx-like face questions about my previously submitted CV and otherwise limited to a few notes and quietly to himself, to growl. Here's a little discussion about education policy - and I stand again in front of the door and I'm so clever as as before.

Information on their evaluation, the examiner may not exist. This makes the procedure is not transparent, but leads to the most speculation among the candidates. The interview atmosphere describe almost all of them as "very relaxed", that Christian, a long happy Alemann, the relaxation in the same half Birkenstock into the next room talking marches: "Isch escht but loosely here, gell?"

Polite to hypocrisy

During the discussions in groups of six participants, each ten minute presentation on any topic, then the substance is still for 20 minutes most controversial debate hergeben aims. The examiner observed, we have a SAP Manager, rated less the content of the units rather than the overall behavior. So give all participants politely and committed to the limits of hypocrisy: "Alex, do not you also want something to say?"

It is about artificial intelligence, the NATO mission in Afghanistan, pre-implantation diagnosis. Since then it has to happen courtesy of some participants. "You would not donate organs because your body is not a spare parts warehouse, but the breeding of embryos, you will find okay? That's really the last one, Frank," is ereifert medical student Julia. Frightened about as much criticism suggests they open their hands in front of the mouth and looks over to grummelnden cheerful and eager kritzelnden auditors.

SEVEN STEPS ON SCHOLARSHIP

Show tips on running

"A preparation for the competition is neither possible nor desired," it is said in the German National Academic Foundation. That is something we do not see it. Seven tips on how to pave the way for the scholarship may be somewhat more relaxed approach.

1. The Unit Theme

In extreme cases, sit in the discussion group six people from six different courses. Therefore, necessarily choose a topic that is also for laymen to understand and to which everyone can contribute something. Nothing is worse than a debate, when after five minutes no one knows what they say.

2. The group discussion

Each unit only one sixth of the total score in the group represents, as are the other five group discussions of great importance. The basic rule for their own interview behavior: polite, but determined. And if you really must also take a break the other participants. Who just sits there and nods politely, then the investigator from his person to convince.

3. Current Events

Both in the individual discussions as well as in the papers is often topical issues of politics, economy and science. Regular newspaper reading and the formation of a separate position on the main themes harm than preparation not quite sure.

4. CV

Most examiners are oriented during the individual interviews mainly on previously submitted CV. So: Just look at what information there is - and what possible questions could be!

5. Margins may happen

Nobody is perfect, and nobody should try to pretend as if he's. On a question not answered in the interview to know, is no disgrace if you admit this and other topics can score points.

6. Organization

The time and space key, after the talks to be is a little science in itself. Therefore, the best even on the eve of all times and room numbers note to the next day do not walk or even to miss a call.

7. Dress Code

To hardly an issue in advance is made so much wind. Is allowed, what you like and what feels comfortable, as long as one hand, the examiner does not have a confused hobo. And: suit and tie can stay at home, which comes in a youth hostel but being fairly ridiculous.

"Scheiß drauf, at least it's authentic," she says grinning afterwards. Most are again sitting in the joint beer and are glad that after all the discussions initiated at the really important things in life is: "Age, Hoffenheim has already won, but there's not."

On Sunday, follows a group discussion the last second individual interview. This time I do it with a specific examiner. The German professor is quite young, the refreshing opposite of something venerable mathematician from the previous day.

Feeling positive, evaluation impossible

However, it brings me to some rather bizarre questions slightly out of balance: "I see one of your hobbies is fencing. There is in Kleist's' puppet show 'a scene in which a bear with a human is challenging and the bear wins. Hold you because of your own experience to be realistic? " Puzzled, I look at them: "No idea, I have never been against a Bears ment under." And we need both losprusten.

Feeling ten minutes later, this interview is over, it goes back to me like all the other participants: feeling positive, objective assessment is impossible. After the last common lunch dissolves within the group, email addresses are exchanged - and all drive in the hope of a thick white envelope, "the host would mean.

"When they came for me after the weekend, then they do not deserve me," says Paul Student Sports farewell and grins. That, I do five days later, when I got out of the mailbox a thick white envelope out fishes. Very playful.