Earthworms »squirming with pain« do not belong in the classroom, medical student Clara Turner wrote on Facebook. She got a ‘love storm’ from her fellow students, but a shitstorm from the press.

Elers' Kollegium is stacked with oil paintings of grey-haired men and dusty books with Latin titles. But between all this old stuff, a handful of happy residents cherish their lives within a strong community with traditions.

Marianne Stidsen is finished. She has quit her associate professor position at the University of Copenhagen after accusations of plagiarism, and she is now withdrawing from the public debate. But in what she calls her last interview, she says that she leaves in the same high spirits as when she arrived.

If politicians do not put a stop to the »extreme top-down management« at universities, Danish research will suffer damage that it will take decades to rectify. The stark warning is from Ole Wæver and several of his colleagues who now present six proposals to reverse the downward spiral.

Joachim Sutton won a bronze medal in rowing at the Tokyo Olympics. Now he is working on his master's thesis in anthropology. And thinking: should he put everything on hold again and go for gold in three years time? Or should he give up rowing altogether?