BWLer ride pub in the bankruptcy.

Sometimes, the practice every theory. In Winterthur, a group of business students build their own bar and lead - and the project versemmelte terrific. 150,000 euros burned Edelkneipe the "break even" until the bankruptcy judge concluded it.

 

Swiss managers are available for success - but business students in Winterthur failed thoroughly with their university project, the bar "Break Even". A meaningful name burdensome: "Break Even" is the point that any self-employed and any newly created companies yearns - it is the profit threshold, the point at which the revenue expenditure on the first climb, the expected black zero.

Edelbar as a student project at the end of the liquidity, Empty Bottle

In Switzerland, the group of management students from the Fachhochschule Winterthur this point is not reached. They contributed with bar corded tracks in the Pleite - 150,000 euro debt they had accumulated.

Markus Prandini, professor of Pleite student and President of the break-even AG, announced on Tuesday in a letter to the bankruptcy of the university project known student pub. The bankruptcy judge had closed the bar immediately, the "break even" was indebted and had no more money to maintain the operation.

"Business rules flouted"

The idea for the bar amounted to an institution of the faculty on a tour of England. A real, modern pub with an English beer should arise in Winterthur, reported the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" on the opening of two years - but because the young entrepreneur schrammten clearly over.

Pictures on the web page www.break-even.ch show inside the bar, a Soul-less furniture and decorative mix with a rod of money is likely to have. And the drink list is almost endless, expensive, but without recognizable lineage. English is the only local one: the directions to the bar in the Internet.

With the "break even" wanted the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur, its students the opportunity to the pub with their theoretical knowledge in practice. That was totally wrong.

In a painful way, the students have learned their lesson in management and marketing learned. "There were numerous business rules flouted," said professor blogs Prandini ONLINE. We have already at the beginning of the beautiful interior invested too much - and then "when purchasing and staff costs had not in view."

If you have nothing, will host?

Because the "Break Even" Prandini loud as a stock corporation under Swiss law was founded, was the capital of the 120 investors, now sadly gone. Most were students and alumni of the university, the university had purchased shares and a loan given.

The teacher puts the loss at 225,000 Swiss francs, or about 150,000 euros. The Swiss Business teachers regretted the losses on behalf of the operator. Literally Prandini said: "This is ugly."

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Just one year after the opening of 2007, the budding economists already 150,000 francs in losses aufgehäuft. A year later, is now concluded. After all, the whole thing was very instructive for its students had said Heinz Knecht, head of the Management Institute at the university.

Tutor Prandini also pointed out that the project was not in vain. "They have learned what it means to be a start-up company on its feet and to collaborate across disciplines on. They have had many unforeseen events and could thereby circumvent the dynamics and complexity of economic life, up close experience."

The hospitality was just a difficult business, said the lecturer. The students, who most recently operated the bar, are currently in the third semester - they have still some time before they are in real life companies and steer advice.

The annoying Mitreferenten.

For Uni-units, there are often two teams. Well, if you can pick the Mitreferenten. Quite bad, if the lecturer mitleidslos over the division. Then the partner threatens Plage - the five worst types of Showmaster to hand trembling.

 

The show master-apprentice

The conference room is his (or her) stage, the 14 present, his future fellow fans. This is his day! Therefore, it is unfortunately not your day. He presents you as his "lovely assistant" or as his "Sidekick." To take this unit to be perceived, should your clothes at least as much glitter as his share. Only if you have him shortly before the presentation of ten of his twelve klaust moderation cards, you have opportunities, even to speak to come.

Dieter Thomas Heck example: Melodies for melons

The lecture launches the entertainer in training with: "Good evening, also to the viewers in Austria and Switzerland!" Moreover, he laughs and persistent rancid, while the audience wonder whether he is more likely in the wake of Florian Silbereisen or by Dieter Thomas Heck looks.

Actually wanted your Mitreferent a dialogical choreography rehearsal with you. Because you have refused, schnipst, winking and interprets it even more vigorously in the supposed highlights. Some accents he goes even slightly in the knee.

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When he wants to write to email address ( "for more info and fan mail"), he asks you to wipe the blackboard. Off Revenge advantageous if you wet the sponge on his autograph cards. For the finale of the performance of the lights show master-apprentice fireworks a table to deflect attention from the lack of applause.

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Welcome to proseminar goal shooting.

The University of Dortmund wins TV celebrities into the house: Michael Steinbrecher, Lockenhaus miracles from the "gym" is now moderating journalism seminars. After failure of first double pass between science and practice tailored to his deft professor on a television bodice.

 

They called him "Stoni". And also some "bone crusher". Then, in the eighties, when Michael Steinbrecher still waving Main Haars kicks, right outer rail or defense. First, he was youth players in the Dortmunder Borussen, then went to the Gladbacher Borussen, last played in the amateur regional team at Westfalia Herne, a club with great tradition and ambition - almost had in the 1985/86 season, the climb in the second Bundesliga geklappt.

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But then Steinbrecher received the offer, at the ZDF to Volontiers and the moderation of youth program "colon" to take over. For him, a clear decision against the football: "At 21 I have from one to the other day stopped. Both did not work together."

That was long ago, now plays the German TV presenter ( "The current gym) Bundesliga, at least scientifically. To Sommersemester returns the 43-year-old back to the university at which he referred to the ones used to be his school-diploma made ones, and over a Professor. Only once. Because if everything runs smoothly, Steinbrecher is solid in the winter professor at the Institute of Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund.

All theory is gray, green lawn of life

Surprisingly, this is not. Already in the past year had Steinbrecher then promoted to a professorship and also kept a sample lecture. Shortly before one of the four candidates of the final round should be appointed, the university broke the application procedures. The reason: They've found that the call for "too wide" was created, it was back then.

What else can read: The tender would not simply on the desire candidates Steinbrecher fit. For there to be cross-media developments in journalism go, ie, the network of traditional media newspaper, radio and television through the Internet. This requires scientific expertise with theoretical grounding. This, however, had little stone crusher hat on. He is a television man, moderator ( "Yes, you can now quietly clap"), Torwandwart ( "firing at our guest").

Also new was announced, officially. And this time the same two places. Again, one for cross-media developments and another for just: TV and video journalism - with a requirement profile for Steinbrecher as written. Why it grumbled behind the scenes, especially Steinbrecher is no designated researchers.

Previous research, notably in the stadium

Ph.D., he has until 2008, so to speak, just in time and also in Dortmund (Theme: "TV programming at the Olympics in the Olympic network dependencies"). And despite a few guest lectures at his old university - research, Prof. Stoni mainly in football stadiums. Even scientific expertise but will be sent to the prestigious Dortmund Institute capitalized. Actually.

Now the procedure is as good as through. The reputation for cross-media agency, the Technical University of Dortmund to Klaus Meier granted, now journalism professor in Darmstadt. And Steinbrecher be as his doctoral supervisor Professor Günther Rager inherit and also head of the new "TV Lernsenders.NRW", where above all practical experience counts.

The public has the legal Lockenhaus miracles en masse: For over 20 years he has been seen on television. In 1992 he was with 26 years of recent moderator of the "current sports", he worked for the ZDF-political magazine "frontal", filmed reports, received several prizes, including the Grimme Prize.

Stoni's coming home

In Dortmund jubilates therefore on the transfer. Local Patriot Steinbrecher pleased about the return to a hometown. And praise rather unaufgeregt that he would be "at full strength and energy of the new mission at the Institute are dedicated." The University will "continue my work in journalism ZDF benefit, because science and practice are simply put together." But now we speak first about "what conditions are needed, so that we can really achieve something for the students, but also for the institution."

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In short: They are all happy. Even the earliest entkernerte ZDF: "I am pleased for Michael Steinbrecher and am sure that it both challenges successfully engaged, as usual," says ZDF sports chief Dieter Gruschwitz.

As might initiate a conflict. After all, there is a full-time professor, not a part or a teaching. And with prominent heads, the universities, sometimes in search of flagship hire, make the students not only good experiences presence is important for teaching.

Steinbrecher, also the side of the production company Stone Breaker TV GmbH operates will continue to remain on the screen. Can the double pass between theory and practice, between campus and Lerchenberg truly succeed? Holger Wormer from the Institute of Journalism has already announced that Stone crusher main job at the university would be: "For television, he could then only have a limited scope of activities."

44 days on skis to the university.

It is 900 kilometers from Augsburg to Grenoble. Christoph Ebert loves adventure and is crazy about snow and ice. The geography student made an arrival to the university an extreme-skiing - 40 Alpine peaks in 44 days, with heavy climbs and rapid descents.

 

I lie in a sleeping bag and BIBB, I always tear the tent entrance, and hand over to me. My head glows from high fever, and I entertain myself with a travel partner, it does not exist.

It is only the second day on my way to the university in Grenoble, I'm 60 kilometers from my home town of Augsburg away. I was started to just the Western Alps to cross, but the water of the river Bavarian Wertach me niedergestreckt. Now I lie here and talking about the cold and pain under the tent wall. I have to give up - for now.

Three days later, find myself back on my journey towards the southwest. On skis, I prefer going to my university town of Grenoble in France, walking in the plane, climb in and go from all this alone. More than 40 peaks are on the way, 35,000 meters of altitude, I must up and down, 900 kilometers is the distance.

Chamois flee before the avalanche

A flight over the Alps takes nearly an hour and a half. Because my geography expert, but my heart is and the nature and the ice one, I will run an estimated 40 days. My rules: Allow only snowshoes, skis and poles, gas cooker, signal rockets, GPS, sleeping bag plus a one-man tent.

Already behind Oberstdorf im Allgäu meters of snow is high. I obey my way until shortly before noon, then I must repent. The avalanche danger is too great. The next day, I try it again. A large avalanche has my track from the previous day partially buried. As a group chamois before fleeing an avalanche, and they just missed me, I go back to.

The third attempt, I am a clock frozen at night in my tracks. At sunrise I reach the Haldenwang head across the border to Austria and finally to Warth depart.

The avalanche danger in this extreme winter forcing me to a painful concession. Engine should actually help taboo, but I Siedle security higher than my ambition. Once I have a bus and a lift used to dangerous slopes to circumvent.

Frisch verliebt in Graubünden

Only when I finally Davos, Switzerland, and thus the reach, it will be better. Although this year even more snow than usual, but the white masses are becoming increasingly resistant. Now the fun begins: rapid descents deep, colorful sunsets, impressive snow worlds. The days I am completely alone. Chamois, ibex and jackdaws are my only company, before I started the evening in the valleys and to the people back.

From Safiental in the eastern canton of Grisons in Switzerland, other skiers on the tour, but there remain few. While I was struggling, flay me and constantly make new plans to ensure progress, winning the Alpine slowly back their dignity, they in elevators, tunnels, highways have lost.

But I'm not just fall into the magnificent mountain world Grisons, but especially in its inhabitants. I meet farmers, their runaway goat through the snow behind stomp, and children, with the skis to glide school. The center of the villages is still the post office, or La Posta and finally La Poste. Nobody cares, because there are already all the languages spoken - albeit not properly. There is little modern, people are still happy.

Ask Willi.

For 25 years, there is the German edition of the knowledge game "Trivial Pursuit". A man knows almost all the questions: Willi Andresen has around 150,000 of them out. In the case of quiz shows on TV grabs him of ambition - but he would never be invited.

 

Willi Andresen not read the morning newspaper. He reads four, sometimes five. Every morning he leaves his apartment, goes to the kiosk, and it comes with a stack of newspapers published. What then follows at the breakfast table, called the 56-year-old "scan": He is looking into the articles for answers to questions that have yet to be made. Namely, from him.

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Andresen is the author of the German Trivial Pursuit output. While quiz shows such as
"Who wants to be a Millionaire?" All editorial work, he writes, since 1986 alone, all questions and answers for the German edition.

He had advertised initially as a writer of questions about music. After studying journalism Andresen had as a music critic for magazines and newspapers work. But he missed the deadline of the sample questions - "I had too much to do," he remembers. Nevertheless, he sent ten questions go. And the makers of Trivial Pursuit were thrilled.

But not boring questions

Approximately 150,000 questions have been written, he estimates Andresen, without the unpublished "because you can once again beat out 20 percent." Every one to two years, Trivial Pursuit will be renewed, times, half of the 3600 questions was exchanged, the next time it's all the questions. In addition, special editions, such as "Eating and Drinking" or the Olympic Edition.

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Initially worked as a journalist continues Andresen and incidentally as a game writer, "then I noticed that the search for questions about time-intensive." Eight to ten hours a day, he works and creates up to 30 questions. Previously it had been longer, sometimes 100, when the deadline approached. But now Andresen encounters again and again in his search for facts on which he has already asked.

The selection is a balancing act: The questions should not be too difficult, but not too easy, too obvious. "By the time one develops a sense of this." Whether he is the right mix has taken then checks his proofreader, he also tests the new questions to Quizabenden with friends.

The Tutor is otherwise, but especially for the language. It was a little art, a question to the right. "They should not be boring, for example, I would not ask: 'Who was Goethe Forenames with' but 'What Goethe Forenames received from his parents'."

Rumsurfen, through newspapers, television

Some mistakes unterliefen him despite Tutor and test rounds: "A question aimed at the first set, seemingly deaf to the Indians in the movie 'One flew over Kuckucksnest' says." Andresen wrote: "Hmm, tastes good." Not true. On the day when the game came on the market, fell to him on the error - too late. Today he smiles when he tells them, but the moments in which he notes mistakes, he describes with Hanseatic temperament: "Not good."

What the Indians really says Andresen know no more from the head (the big Bromden spoke, see
Video at YouTube: "Thank you" and then "Mmmm, Juicy Fruit"). He could by far not remember all the answers, so good his memory was not. And yet, the one who asked if, in conversations with friends, a knowledge question in the room. Often he can make the motion to Google or save Brockhaus.

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Andresen worked at home, he lives with his wife in a beautiful apartment in the upmarket suburb of Hamburg Harvestehude. In his study are twelve shelves high on the walls, is thousands of CDs, DVDs and reference works such as the Brockhaus encyclopaedia or Kindlers literature. It was a lonely job, he says. Previously, Andresen visited libraries more often, "then the search was much harder." But he came out more often, among people.

The Internet had the books and magazines are not completely replaced, but the main search today to find the net instead. "I communicate most of the time only with the computer," says Andresen. He says this is not negative, on the contrary - "that's the beauty of the Job: rumsurfen and access to all sorts of issues get."

Author meetings in Barbados - sadly passé

Two sources must Andresen its clients at any question. Since last year, one of which must
His wikipedia. Andresen was with authors from other countries joined together and the Internet as a source lexicon enforced. Ever Maintain the 15 Schreiber, contact and meet in free intervals. "The colleague in England, for example, presents many questions about the royal family, which is of course not," says Andresen. If you have questions, they could hardly benefit from one another, spending the differed significantly from each other in part.

Until a year ago found the meeting the issue poets sometimes take on Barbados, where was the seat of the company, the two Trivial Pursuit inventor had founded. But then, bought the American toy manufacturer Hasbro the license good for 80 million U.S. dollars. The inventors can now finally be millionaires to retire, Andresen and his colleagues need to be paid to Caribbean travel renounce the last meeting was held in Essen.

Never mind, there Andresen. A holiday without a laptop is unthinkable for him anyway. "When traveling, watching television, reading the newspaper - I always think whether what I see or read may be recoverable." If he
Shows knowledge and even watch the answer to a question did not know he beat them immediately, "the ambition always grabs me." But even attend the event, which he would not. Anyway, he is sure: "The would never invite me anyway."

One called him a man who should pay for his appearance on "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" prepared. Andresen should phone Deuce. He decided against it, "the man I was not geheuer". He would simply cancel it, but he made him an offer: He would be there when they share the profit, "fifty-fifty." "The man put it on course," recalls Andresen and pleased today thievish: No. Just to be a simple answer was.

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The sex life of Gummibären.

A bit of fun should be - even in the more humor-free world of science. Who investigates curious things, and plays like albert, psychologists believe. Why else accomplished researchers deal with the sexual fantasies of gummy bears?

 

It was one of those days on which the researchers pitch like a storm dräuendes raise. The psychologist Joachim Funke and his colleague Heike Gerdes miesepetrig squatted in the laboratory of the University of Bonn. No experiment had worked, the subjects played with wrong.

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"Before we futterten frustration louder jelly babies," recalls Sparks, now a professor of General and Theoretical Psychology at the University of Heidelberg. "Eventually we started herumzuspinnen: gummy bears are certainly much nicer attempt objects. The taste and still hold good."

"Like a Stoßlüftung for the brain '

That was the birth of Gummibären research on a rainy November day 13 years ago. What followed is Gaga research at its best: In the beginning there were only a few psychologists colleagues, but then came the Internet portal Gummibaerenforschung.de over the years more and more contributions from anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, media researchers and physicists together dealing with social behavior, communication, sexual preferences and impact velocities of gum employed (Excerpts from the findings about the sexual fantasies and the communication of gummy bears
there is here).

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The lyrics are serious scientific treatises confusingly similar, and one can well imagine how the author when writing kichernd in the Gummibärchentüte access. "Pity," said Funke, "so that some colleagues do not understand fun. I have quite a few angry e-mails received: I would with my silliness my profession into disrepute and bring tax money verschleudern."

Complete nonsense, will spark. Finally, the pass-nonsense research in leisure. And it fulfills an important purpose: "You get through the little fun in between a healthy self-distance for your own guild and to their own work. It's like a brain for Stoßlüftung. Then I can return with fresh look at my actual work place. "

The fun of science Guerilla

Sometimes it is scientists who invented afloat with specialist knowledge of the world neatly heimzuleuchten. A particularly nice example is the "Cello testicles": The British physician Elaine Murphy 1974 published a contribution in the renowned magazine "British Medical Journal." Accordingly, should play the cello allegedly testicular trigger irritation. Only 34 years later
Murphy confessed that she had the disease, together with her husband invented - and was inspired by a report on a "guitar nipple", the friction of the instrument to be created at the nipples.

This effect of the humorous, the contemplative is scientifically proven, like Rainer Holm-Hadulla, creative researcher and director of psychological counseling at the University of Heidelberg, is confirmed. And historically, it is also demonstrated. "Goethe saw the stragglers and dreams to be very stimulating. And from Schiller comes to saying: The man is only as man, where he plays. This also applies to scientists. Who besides all of the concentrated work permits Playful and the distance to be itself, will experience how this can be creative, "says Holm-Hadulla.

What Albert Einstein to relax his violin, is nonsensical, the other scientist's research. Holm-Hadulla believes that researchers particularly susceptible to the appropriate free fun. Because even basic research is so relevant in some sense free: "It is about exploring, discovering and Sichfreuen on the results, although not immediately apparent is where and how to apply the results to come."

Dräcker, nail man, Dölle - all lie

Particularly popular seems to be the
Scientists inventing personalities to be. The constitutional Dr. Friedrich Gottlob nail man and the psychologist Prof. Dr. Ernst-August Dölle Although you can easily google and Wikipedia, among others, a lot about her life after moving researchers read.

Both are born but the imaginative brain researchers are just invented and how the Loriotsche Steinlaus, however, even the entrance into the medical manual Pschyrembel found. Such phantoms designed the Hamburg design student Stefan Schröter a few years
remarkable thesis.

"Good scientists are nerds, specialists, the researchers in their own world. In essence, they remain untouched by the growing and often playful, and good sense in the strange world," says Dr. Mark Benecke. The crime is the author biologist popular science books (including "Lachende Science"), reported on radio and TV over bizarre research and sits on the jury of the "Ig Nobel Prize".

Mood as the birthday party

"Ig" stands for "ignoble" (English for "unworthy"). The prize is awarded since 1991 every year in October by Harvard University for weird and useless research work. The most often arise in the sphere of "serious" research, and should laugh, but also to stimulate thought. Like, for example, the finding that a penguin pupsender produces so much pressure that it thus could inflate tires. A Brüller at the award ceremony.

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Germans are still scarce at the fun-Nobel laureates. Perhaps because they are still the reputation of humor loose Teutones ahead. 2002 allowed the physicist Arnd Leik - then research fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Physics Prize einzuheimsen: for the demonstration that beer foam with the laws of the exponential decay subject. This is not as funny as a penguin pupsender, but still very funny and enlightening for the beer drinker in the jury.

Mark Benecke is happy in any event every year at the awards ceremony: The mood at the ceremony, he says, always assigned to a same birthday. The researchers are in crazy costumes are dead and laugh about their own guild. "Only the colleagues from Asia have a small problem. For instance, if Asiate is ridiculed, he loses his face."

The world of phantoms.

Loriot Steinlaus legendary, indestructible Members of the Jacob Mierscheid or the ancient game of football Apopudobalia - so bespaßen politicians and scientists themselves and the rest of the world. A visit to the most beautiful phenomena and phantoms.

 

The Steinlaus, a shy and hungry rodents

Loriot's invention of the general Steinlaus aka Petrophaga lorioti "is a true classic and a prime example of academic joke. Even before the fourth century, well-managed to the animal, virtually removed related to the Bavarian Wolpertinger mythical creatures in the Pschyrembel, a well-known medical dictionary. Meanwhile, the editorial team repaid the note, the fictional rodent rehabilitated but immediately in the next edition - the reader protests were great.

Steinlaus: The website of a classic

Had started it with a Loriot-parody of the animal filmmaker Bernhard Grzimek, who in the seventies, the immensely popular series' A Place for Animals "moderated. 1976 Loriot described in an ARD-Sketch Steinlaus as the shy rodents, the stones of nutrition - with a daily consumption of 28 kilograms of concrete and bricks, pregnant females have significantly more.

When Wissenschaftsverlag de Gruyter, the Pschyrembel out there, has apparently a large Steinlaus friends. On a separate
Steinlaus website started the publishing company a few months before a competition. Authors were looking for scientific articles to rodents: "The contribution should be the medical aspect of the research focus Steinlaus and articles for Glossary our medical dictionary, the Pschyrembel, be drafted."

In February, won the Steinlaus researchers Peter A. Brauch. Title of his text: "New mutations of Steinlaus Petrophaga lorioti for therapeutic purposes is discovered: Petrophaga cervans and Petrophaga nasus foratrex". In addition to the "good and multidisciplinary reasoning" the jury especially praised the "beautiful drawings of the new mutations Steinlaus".

"Lascivious Bear einheizen properly".

The fact that scientists are generally lacking in humor, rebut the professors Wolfgang Hoeppner and Nicola Döring. You know everything about the bag of small elastic Gesellen lives - two examples from their favorite curious discipline Gummibärchen research.

 

The sexual fantasies of the gummy bears explored Nicola Döring. This one would not suspect, as the Professor of Media, Design and Media Psychology at the TU Ilmenau are very cautious about themselves and their passion for the bears information. Your "normal" research priorities in different variants highlight the relationship between man and the World Wide Web.

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Why might the Döring Gummibären research? Intelligent humor is often hard in science and university life is an important place, "says Doering who like their lectures with jokes and cartoons nice flavor.

And what are gummy bears erotic dreams at night, when silence reigns in the bag? A small sampling of works Döring: "The bears typically surprisingly close connection between sexuality and spirituality, the research Gummibärchen long time puzzling. So hinted Gerdes (1996) for the typical Gummibären dreams, clear glue on the bag facing upward libidinous quest as a profane 'serious non-floating in space', while Ratzinger (1990) for the oral Bärgehren 'association in prayer' shortened. (...)

Some Gummi Bear confessed to masturbating in the teeth (sometimes: dental prostheses) to think. Others delight in the image and eating people introduce themselves, even verspeist them. Also playing with fire is no stranger to gummy bears. Again and again you meet in the beary fantasy scenarios to prepare functional toasters, stoves and microwave ovens, just waiting, a lascivious Bear einzuheizen properly. "

And yet they communicate! The varieties of the language investigated Gummibären Wolfgang Hoeppner, 57 That fits, because he is a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then deals with information extraction from unstructured data. Gummibären Hoeppner sees research as "nonsense, and a nice wonderful valve, if you once again to three clock morning papers has corrected".

The scientist is in some TV talk shows occurred. From the Haribo company, he was then promptly sent a packet. Hoeppner said: "One must be careful that the people who do not end up with only Gummibären associate."

After numerous experiments with groups of bears here now initial findings: "A very preliminary evaluation of our research enterprise suggests that there is a correlation between linguistic behavior and the colors of the VGen [experimental Gummibären] might (?) White VGen entertain to prefer over cauliflower and kohlrabi (?) Yellow VGen read like the phone book industry (?) Green VGen are mostly getting annoyed (type 'whiners'). Orange VG communicate most frequently on the body-soul problem. This seems the most complicated VGen to be, and we consider this topic to a special area of research is to initiate. (??)"

Man cooperating, the report continues, with colleagues at Stanford University, the mole-studied languages. Are the bears - evolutionsbiologisch of view - perhaps a kind of "rubber discards? Asks Hoeppner.

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Rabatz to Rauschebart.

In the Great Depression discover new student Karl Marx. In Trier wants Asta of the university even after the Ur-Communists nominate. The university management considers them nothing, the Junge Union is outraged righteous - a strange deep controversy in the West.

 

On the campus of the University of Trier, Karl Marx is in vogue. On T-shirts bear the portrait of the students rauschebärtigen philosophers, surrounded by the words "Karl Marx University of Trier.

So far, the university without a name that means simply University of Trier. But the General Student Committee (Asta) wants to change that propagates and the baptism in the name of Marx. It is still the most famous son of the city, before Schlager bard Guildo horn. This notion is not met anywhere in enthusiasm. Between supporters and opponents is turbulent bickering erupted.

Especially as a souvenir when students were the Marx T-shirts very popular, says Asta member Florian Kaiser. Also cups and pens with the image of born 1818 in Trier, there are philosophers. In December, the parliament of the university students a decision to rename the university taken. The law is irrelevant, the Asta trades but still has time on its letterhead as "Asta the Karl Marx University. From the University of pipe would be writing this letter is ignored, however, says student representatives Kaiser, at least "officially".

Junge Union fears for the CVs

While students from the sphere of the Left Party
Marx Lesekreise up for Dirk Louy, the district chairman of the Junge Union (JU), the call for the renaming of a nuisance. He called it "incomprehensible and unacceptable", it was a "historical ignorance." That he had also written to the University Leadership. Sure, Louy admits that Marx was one of the most important scientists of the century vorvergangenen "been. With the call for the university to name after him, imagine the Asta but "voluntarily in the traditions of a democratic dictatorship."

The JU-chief sees a "serious danger" that "would have to accept future employers, the University will glorifies a communist dictatorship." Louy also refers to the University of Leipzig, 1953 from the GDR regime in Karl-Marx-University "was renamed, but this name in 1991 has passed.

Defend against such accusations, the proponents of renaming Asta in the "historical figure Karl Marx" in a five replica as "most citizens of the city of Trier. The later crimes of communist states were not attributed to Marx, but went on ideologically motivated "narrowing and reinterpretations" of his thoughts. Who the reasoning of the Junge Union folge, donors have many names of public institutions proscriptions in "falsified contexts and Zwangsideologisierungen" were used, the opposite Asta and cites as examples of Charles Darwin and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Even with the Trierer Hadern Charly

Even University President Peter Schwenkmezger has turned into the debate: The live discussion in a more or less regular intervals, always on, he saw "no reason to change the name of the University of Trier to change." Anyway, this would be the responsibility of the state government concerned.

Trier is certainly not the only city in which it occasionally misunderstandings by the name of the cartridge
Universities and schools. The serious alternative was for example in Munster to Wilhelm II as a patron, in Oldenburg to Carl von Ossietzky in Dusseldorf and at Heinrich Heine and at schools around
Nazis names as sponsors. But the guerrilla student fun mixed with the University of Duisburg wanted students to nominate Horst Schimanski, the University of Kiel after Hans Albers and the University of Augsburg after Jim Knopf.

At the Trierer population renaming debate according to estimates by Beatrix Bouvier, director of the local Karl Marx Museum, largely over: "It is for the citizens of no more than a newspaper." Yet for many schwinge probably also the memory of "the Umbennungspraxis in the GDR, from Chemnitz to Karl-Marx-Stadt and back again."

In Leipzig, the Asta a relief dust

Ever certifies the museum director to focus a more ambivalent relationship to the famous son of the city. "For a long time was the relationship to the Trier Karl Marx is not just heartfelt," says Bouvier. Today it is "increasingly laid."

A relaxed-ironic relation to Marx, the philosopher, former Bishop Reinhard Marx of Trier. His last autumn published book on questions of economic order and social justice of the church titled man suddenly inspired by the classic name of his cousin "Das Kapital".

The University of Leipzig, the GDR times indeed as the thinker with the Rauschebart called, has
their elongated Marx dispute settlement last October. University of Leipzig in disputed East German civil rights and the relief on "Karl Marx and the revolutionary nature and weltverändernde his teachings," the GDR times on the facade of the former Karl Marx University emblazoned. After some back and forth was the 33-ton, 14 meters wide bronze sculpture in the autumn then on the campus of Sport Leipziger Uni landed.

Maybe if you had the time to simply Trumm Asta the University of Trier offer - and the problem of Marx in Leipzig so elegantly from East to West disposed of.

An issue that remains stuck.

He pappt, looks ugly, pulls threads - chewing gum on pavements. Design student Marcus Sunday wishes to see a stain-free environment and was designed as a final campaign against the sticky mass on the pavement. The first cities have already inquired.

 

The topic with which Marcus Sunday in his thesis at the University of Wuppertal has referred the matter is really on the road. More precisely: It sticks there. The communications designer continues in its 380-page dissertation tackled the issue of how citizens can be brought to their chewing gum on the street auszuspucken, but in the bins to dispose of.

"In cities such as Cologne and Wuppertal you can see the problem immediately, if one looks on the streets - especially at bus stops, school yards, in restaurants or cinemas are a lot of chewing gum," explains the 28-year-olds. These are not only unsightly, but also lasting contamination. Finally, it takes good "five years until a chewing gum by itself disappears."

For the distance calculations may be the magazine "New Scientist" up to three euros to beat Beech - per gum. The cost to local authorities in Germany to search from Sunday around 900 million euros.

With the whip against chewing gum eaters

"There is perhaps something save," said the Sunday and developed a communications strategy to inform citizens on the problem. Total 105 communication concepts with 163 posters, twelve concepts for the road surface and 22 drafts to the design of bins made it.

Sun designed pictograms Sunday for example, on the zebra stripes and can be a male show, which is chewing gum in a garbage basket raises. In the posters, he developed many different forms: time, chewing gum pressed flat in close-up showed little appearance, sometimes outweighs the proportion of text with information on the impact of the scourge of chewing gum. On a poster is a woman with a whip to see, explaining: "I was against chewing gum eaters."

Sunday hoping for an early test of its practical strategies. With the cities of Wuppertal and Berlin had reached already in contact, he says. This was also confirmed by Michael Drecker, Wuppertal plant manager at the city cleaning Eigenbetrieb: "Chewing gum removal is a bottomless pit. This is a very laborious work." That's why he wanted to meet Sunday to discuss possible actions.

The designer chews itself, but disposed of properly

Whether, however, are successful, it has the head of the city by cleaning his doubts. "We have been in the nineties, several communication campaigns to prevent waste mileage. True sustainability but we have not reached," said Drecker.

Sunday is still convinced that his concepts can make a difference. Witzig and surprise to the posters: "I like to experiment with means of expression. The poster must be particularly attention-grabbing." In so doing, the communication itself is not disturbed designers relative to chewing gum. He regularly chew, dispose of, however, then expertly.

After his university degree in the last year working the 28-year-olds in an agency. His thesis is in April as exemplary project in the Chair of Visual Communication in book form. Moreover, it was of Type Directors Club New York with the "Certificate of Typographic Excellence" award.

The completely destitute Ãlbaron.

Creative protest against new oil fields: U.S. student Tim DeChristopher offered with summarily, when companies in an auction promotion rights in the vicinity of nature wanted to secure. He got the contract for 1.7 million U.S. dollars - which he did not have. Now the threat of eco-heroes a penalty.

 

He is a law-breakers - from the prosecutor's office.

He is a rebel - from the perspective of the U.S. environmental movement.

DeChristopher Tim is a business student, with a lot Chuzpe against the interests of a powerful industry aufbegehrt: He has an auction to profitable corporations vied country. And so that drilling for oil and gas in the vicinity of nature prevented.

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In a highly controversial all-must-get-action had George W. Bush's government shortly before the elections of 2008 pristine areas for drilling for oil and gas released. Specifically, it was a matter from the perspective of environmentalists very ecologically fragile region in the southeast of the state of Utah, between Arches National Park and Canyon Country. On 19 December, the auction for leases for the land instead. Tim DeChristopher came around to protest. Then he followed a spontaneous inspiration, as he put it in a
Posted television said: The student gave himself out as a bidder, grabbed one of the paddle with which their bids auctioneers show - and with increased wacker.

In fact, he had neither the intention nor the means to acquire the land. Finally, he was awarded the contract for about 9000 hectares of land - 13 parcels for 1.7 million U.S. dollars. A sum over the course the student does not have. When it became clear at the auction broke from chaos.

The end of last week, three months after the coup, the now 27-year-old from the grand jury in Salt Lake City indicted. Accused of a federal auction disruption and deception in the auction. On 28 April needs to be before the District responsibility.

Million-dollar spreads for nature

"I wanted something about the exploitative nature of the business," said DeChristopher, "I wanted to the lack of transparency and democratic participation in this auction out." The student of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City does not belong to any major environmental organization, but acted on their own. And drove in the auction as a bidder and the price of another country, without in the end awarded the contract.

In the vicinity of the area to the early promotion of oil and gas was provided, there are natural wonders such as the Nine Mile Canyon and Arches National Park. Conservationists feared the sandstone formations, the holes could be damaged. Already in advance environmental activists had therefore voted against the auction and brought before the court exemptions for some areas was obtained.

In interviews DeChristopher justifies his actions. In his eyes it was an act of civil disobedience: "This auction was a fraud on the American people and a threat to our future." His behavior in the auction, he does not regret - it was a legitimate form of protest have been.

Many Americans seem to see the same. On the Internet sympathizers have a fund-raising platform and collect money for legal fees. According to DeChristopher are already about $ 100,000 came together.

Exact penalty is still pending

Financial support is DeChristopher need for him to come to significant exposures. The U.S. Agency for Land Management calls $ 81,000 from him - and this is only the civil part. Criminal law, it could come much harder.

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Arches National Park in Utah: Environmentalists fear of the sensitive nature

In the case of a conviction is the discretion of the judge, according to prosecutor Brett Tolman large. So while DeChristopher could get away with impunity - but also ten years imprisonment or a fine of $ 750,000 would be possible. Tolman was implying that he could hardly demand the maximum punishment, but rather a procedural arrangement is interested. In such deals, the defendants committed often one less serious offense guilty and receives a correspondingly lesser punishment.

The auction was organized by the U.S. Agency for Land Management, the Ministry of Interior - and specifically its former director Patrick Shea represents DeChristopher legally. He also said that the prosecutor had already signaled a willingness to close the case as misconduct and not as an offense worthy. DeChristopher would be to get round a prison sentence. Finally, nobody was injured and no property has been destroyed, so Shea.

Reversal of the Obama Administration

Daniel Gunnell sees it differently. The managing partner of the Twilight Resources, LLC, one of the exploitation of the country seriously interested company, is "angry. DeChristopher Tim comes into the auction, driving without a penny to have high prices and costs our company $ 600,000."

7.2 million U.S. dollars, the auction brought a total, 116 lots were auctioned off - for 13 of them were DeChristopher the maximum bid. Especially hard-liners of the energy industry would like to use his case to an example statuieren.

Meanwhile, however, the oil companies have very different concerns. After Bush
Last-minute regulations Barack Obama took a U-turn quickly, the new U.S. Interior Ken Salazar to its authority, the controversial leases for 77 of the 116 parcels auctioned unacceptable. Reason: They were too close to the National Park and had never been offered for sale may be.

This gives rise to new litigation. The successful auction of the lessees have to imply that they want to challenge Salazar thrust.

For DeChristopher should it be a triumph, that he is aware of the new US-backed government gets.

Filling up and stagger.

Where can guide already lunchtime tipple with the guests? During Spring Break in the sun coasts of Mexico and the United States. Thorsten Neumann party has a job in Cancun - he bemuttert feierwütige young Germans and information, watchdogs and Club Guide at the same time.

 

With baseball cap, sunglasses and a drink in his hand looks Thorsten Neumann, 29, some distance from the everyday Spring Break excesses on the stage of a crowded hotel in Cancun in Mexico.

Long he knows the process inside and out: At eleven clock to open the all-inclusive bars of the hotel, an hour later to start a DJ and entertainer with music and club competitions versaute her program. At the latest by 14 clock are thousands of students grölend offense in front of the stage, by 20 bikini girls dancing to "Show your tits!" Voice choirs to Linux.

The Spring Break is an American tradition for decades often break else brave, protected students in the spring sun on the beaches of the United States and Mexico on. They let all their inhibitions go and turn the driving control to automatic pilot - now includes only Babewatch, alcohol, sex. In the U.S. tourist centers is mostly Drink
only from age 21 to work in Cancun are the laws loose.

Long Iceland icetea for breakfast

For six weeks Thorsten Neumann worked for a German student tour operator in the party stronghold of Cancun in the Caribbean coast. He manages over a hundred German students feierwütige, young banker or even pizza driver. You pay for two weeks, and sunshine Delirium 1600 Euro, including flight.

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"And where's the party tonight from?" Asks Andrew, when he was on his tour zuschlingert. The student, 22, bears swimming shorts, a slight sunburn on the face and has since breakfast several Long icetea Iceland plastered. With iced tea cocktail, the only color common - Cola quarter and three quarters of rum, vodka, gin and tequila. "The Daddy O 'says Neumann. "If we have enough people, I'm still fast a VIP table."

Andreas makes the thumbs-up sign and disappears into the raging erwartungsfroh mass, because scene animator Carlos has the next "gossip-Ass Contest" announced: Four girls versohlen their random partners on the stage as long as the bare ass until every large cans of beer history . The redder ass wins, the winner gets a T-shirt of the beer sponsor.

"Preferring cheap as much fun"

All should be "as favorable as possible get as much fun," says Neumann job. It is information, watchdogs and club guide in one. After checking in, he explains his guests, "as the Spring Break of their full cost", and organized tours with yachts, snorkeling and especially by bars and clubs.

A typical day begins Thorsten morning to ten at the desk in the small office of a cooperating agency checks he new arrival and departure lists of its clients, negotiated over the phone with a day trip yacht owners on terms and concern tickets for the Greater discos. Closing date for him is almost always deep in the night if his party tourists on the table dancing club.

"For me, here each day such as assembly and Saturday at the same time," says the guide and grins. A pause treat it only noon, when he is in the hotel complex is waiting on new arrivals, and occasionally with a beer overtired guests to the pool sets.

The dream of weather with 30 degrees in the shade and the prospect of countless young women enjoying semi-Neumann, albeit limited. Again and again he uses the phone and negotiate with the clubs managers on current prices for VIP tables. Ten guys in the evening to his recommendation for the "Daddy O" will follow. BWL-Student Thomas, 22, from Aachen pleased about the all-inclusive party: "If you do not know, you'll come for a lot of money quickly in a club or boring must be an eternity before the trendy disco made."

Drinking aside until

Thorsten Neumann prevents - not just for fun. With the addition of packages to improve his basic fee of just under 300 euros per week. If his guests a lump sum for a boat trip over, is always a commission for the well-tempered with agents there.

Until work on the beach in Cancun Münsteraners worked in a marketing agency. Last year, he was still a guest at the Spring Break. Due to a surprising "career change", he then suddenly time for the Zwischenjob this season. He made the "really happy," he says. "I have every day with new people to do and am on the working environment and my guests do not complain uncomplicated."

Whimsical PARTY GAMES

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Spring Break: ass clapping and Bootyshake Contest

The late evening when
Spring Break is part of the metropolitan clubs in the five kilometers away from Cancun Club Zone. In the period after the beach drink the passengers in the crowded hotel bar further. The girls have their bikinis against XXS often semi-mini skirts, traded their top lengths with push-up bras in shape. The guys in jeans and shirt, with pearls and behängt appalling XXL Christmas balls, stay at the best program: stagger and refuel, and watch swallow.

Punctually clock by 22 tugs his guests Neumann direction bus stop, or else in the disco the tables with the best view on the dance floor forgiven. 40 euros is the entrance fee per nose, as in the hotel facilities is also all inclusive. Extra pay is only the ordinary waiter with a tip of almost 150 euros, the vodka he brings the same bottles, to the table.

"No Job for eternity"

Thorsten Neumann must pay attention to his inexperienced Spring Breaker is: in spite of the already lush tip, the waiter's hand later on and wants the group dropped from her place distribute. Neumann, however, good wires, and invites one of the disco manager, the waiter for the German exchange group.

With far greater problems repeatedly Neumanns American tour colleagues. Regularly they need people from the prison of the Tourist Police loseisen - not because of fights, it's in spite of constant binge drinking during Spring Break barely. Usually it is Wildpinkler, against a deposit of 150 euro back on free foot. "I was lucky because so far," says Neumann.

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Although he repeatedly stressed that the party-time job "is exactly my thing," he is now, just before the season finale at the end of March, tired: "Without a lot of perseverance, talent and organization, and at times a little distance from the events can be this does not hold out. I also benefit from the experience abroad, but it is not a job for eternity. "

If Neumann in the next few days, returning to Germany, he has the next week long party in sight: the end of May opening in the beach resorts on Ibiza hotels and clubs for the same excessive
Baccalaureate degree rides. His employer would like him there as a party committed Guide.

Head grades for university graduates.

What NRW wurmt students, now also on Bochumer students: head notes with a diploma. The Ruhr-University aims, inter alia, "team spirit" and "performance" rate - and blue letters to parents to send students Bachelor sluggish.

 

"Bochum, 1.4.2009 No. 98 the

Five additional notes for the successful job search: New meaningful certificates for graduates - leading RUB "head notes", in BA / MA certification a

Ruhr-University Bochum
New testimony: University of Bochum is based on head grades

Employers tend to choose those candidates that are reliable and on social skills. Against this background, the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) as the first German university from the 1.4. new product forms. They include five additional fields for "head notes". The teachers are using the RUB rectorate decision now obliged to so-called "soft skills" to evaluate their students. This pilot project, funded by the contributions of the study and with explicit vote of the students will be funded, is the re-RUB as pioneer of higher education.

New forms, trained instructors

In the competition for the best national and international jobs to the students of the RUB to stay ahead.

Secure analysis of job advertisements for graduates is well known that employers in particular, their children according to the following criteria: "ability," "team player", "dedication," "achievement motivation" and "learn". These criteria, the RUB in their new forms of testimony. At the same time, it has the extra training for teachers to give them the basis of the criteria students with grades 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. evaluate.

"Head-notes commissions" in the faculties

The CAD will not only improve the chances of their graduates, and employers should make sure that the scores for reliable findings have been. To an inflation good head notes, in some schools as usual, to avoid the RUB has therefore decided, in each faculty so-called "head-notes commissions" to form, in which both professors, teachers and representatives of the students are represented.

They supervise, inter alia, that the head grades of at least five teachers, including at least two professors, were jointly awarded. At the same time, the RUB controlling for the award of the head-note and makes the performance-based allocation of funds to the faculties and subjects also depends on how transparent the head grades were achieved.

Blue Letters "to warn parents

A follow-up project has the rectorate now in sight, it should at least be tested starting in 2010. After the great success of parents' last semester will double before the Abitur Jahrgang 2012/13 so-called Blue Letters parents of students in bachelor degree programs through poor performance of their junior warn. Background of these considerations is the fact that the shortening of the school in the future, much younger students in the universities are the universities and thus not only an education, but increasingly also an educational contract is established.

Dr. Josef König, Ruhr-University Bochum, Pressestelle

Can this be true? It's not - but it is very nice zurechtgeflunkert. As an inmate of the Ruhr-University Bochum indulged spokesman Joseph King for many years, his passion, students, professors and professional journalists in April to send. Often he chooses for his
April Fools issues haar sharply at the border between absurdity and reality.

This is the elegantly succeeded: The head note of alarm (the picture is obviously a fake photo) fits fine with the extra marks, the North Rhine-Westphalia for schoolchildren has already been introduced, despite furious
Protests. And also to the many complaints about the strong "fault" of the
Bachelor's degree. A "parents" for prospective students and their families, the Ruhr University in January actually offered to other universities to organize "family afternoon" - but the blue letters are still entirely fictitious.