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The University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2022 was marked by a strange combination of ceremony and activism.
Christian Ramon went into student politics to fight for his own rights and for the growing minority of fellow students with special needs
Free Forum made gains at the last university elections. Now its leading candidate Kasper Stisen hopes that a focus on inequality, climate, and degree programmes that are better oriented towards the labour market will get him a place on the Board of the University of Copenhagen.
»We have a student counsellor called Karen. She is a legend.« We heard this from a law student, and so we looked for Karen. Meet Karen Riskær Jørgensen, student and career guidance counsellor at the Faculty of Law
The science adventurer Eske Willerslev went to Cambridge as a high-profile, yet browbeaten Copenhagener. Now he returns with a clarion call: We should bring the pride back to UCPH. And it starts with ceremonies, rituals and gilded diplomas.
Mette Frederiksen appeals directly to the general (white) population. And she is a skilled rhetorician. But she also re-hashes the use of myths. And this mythmaking will increase as the election campaign progresses. This is what professor of rhetoric Lisa Storm Villadsen reads out of the Danish Prime Minister's address at the opening of parliament.
Eske Willerslev wants to bring back the sense of pride to the University of Copenhagen. He wants to reintroduce rituals and ceremonies to heighten students and staff job satisfaction.