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Racist mural covered at University of Copenhagen Friday bar venue after complaints

Management at the Faculty of Science will now keep a 100-year-old mural by Danish cartoonist and humorist Storm P. covered up after more than 100 critical emails. According to students, the motif is racist and should not be in a Friday bar. After initially rejecting the complaints, the faculty director now supports covering the mural.

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Politics

Your guide to the 2023 university elections

You want to be a good university citizen. And you want to exercise your democratic right to vote. Here is a guide to the University of Copenhagen's elections.

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People

Neuroscientist and long distance runner had to quit Greenland challenge

Trine Lisberg Toft is one of 18 women on the television series Sled Patrol, fighting to prove that she is strong enough for the elite naval unit Sirius.

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Politics

Prorector welcomes prospect of more international students: »Let’s hope it can actually happen«

According to the Danish Minister for Higher Education, thousands of international students will be on their way to the Danish universities of the future. Prorector for Education at UCPH Kristian Cedervall Lauta likes the idea. But it does worry him a bit.

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Education

Associate professor: This is how you should show unpleasant images in class

A debate has been set off about instructors' use of language after a group of University of Copenhagen students walked out of a lecture in protest. But we should also discuss the display of violent images, according to an associate professor whose specialty is the visual documentation of violence.

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Politics

University elections 2023: Here are the candidates for the Board

It's time for this year's round of university elections. Here are this year's leading candidates for the positions on the UCPH Board.

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Student life

Here are the stats on student well-being, income, and grades at the University of Copenhagen

You hold yourself to a high standard. You sometimes feel lonely. And you do not complete your studies within the prescribed time. If this is you, then you are like many other students in Denmark. We have looked at the numbers.

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Student life

Student rebels at the University of Copenhagen. The last 500 years

In the dawn of time, Danish university students were men studying to become priests. Then they turned into exalted, rebellious youths reading poetry and wanting to overthrow society. But who are the students today? Some say they are self-absorbed and coddled. Others say they are critical and reflective.

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Opinion

International students need to know that Denmark is not the United States

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Culture

She went to Egypt and wrote a novel about »an orientalist self-absorbed bitch«

Martha Flyvholm Tode followed her University of Copenhagen programme while in Cairo. The city overwhelmed her, and now she has written a book about a young Dane's encounter with the Middle East. It is about knowing your privileges and being challenged on your view of the world and humanity.

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