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How the University of Copenhagen became a centre of the offensive behaviour debate

Stories of sexism, drinking and crazy initiation rituals, a global #metoo movement and a set of guidelines on how to deal with offensive behaviour made the University of Copenhagen the centre of a stormy debate last year.

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Campus

Anne doesn't know who has been stalking and harassing her: »I feel like I have been blindfolded«

For several months, a man called Anne up and shared his sexual fantasies about what he and Anne's male colleagues at the University of Copenhagen would do to her. And it did not stop there.

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Academic life

At the intro party: We asked new students what it felt like. Any wardrobe panic?

»I have been in a little bit of a wardrobe panic, but it ended up being what was at the top of the cupboard, because I thought there was really no reason to think too much about it.«

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Campus

Crazy parsley sauce paninis and weak coffee at Hav a Java

South Campus has three cafés run by Hav a Java: Mødestedet at KUA 2, Hav a Java at KUA 1, and Hav a Java at KUA 3. We had lunch twice in one day and tested out meat, vegetarian, and vegan options at the cafés.

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Campus

A psychedelic landscape in pristine condition: Photos from Karen Blixens Plads

The new square on South Campus is best described as a perfect, trash and graffiti free love child between Teletubbie Land and a computer-generated architect’s model.

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Campus

8 things you should know about your Danish co-workers

At University of Copenhagen more than a third of all researchers and faculty members come from abroad. University Post spoke to a handful of them to find out what they see as their Danish co-workers’ defining features.

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Science

Danish research amongst world’s most cited

Even though few Danes know it, the research being carried out at their universities punches above its weight internationally, new figures from the Higher Education and Science Ministry show

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Opinion

A level-headed review of South Campus

A theology student philosophizes over his meeting with the glass walls, open spaces and automatic lighting of South Campus.

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Science

“The existence of gravity should not be open to political debate”

On 22 April, scientists all over the globe will march in co-ordinated protests in 394 cities. Ian Bearden, a physicist and professor at UCPH, is organising the march in Copenhagen because he wants his children to inherit a liveable planet.

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Campus

The keys, please

Ralf Hemmingsen takes stock of 11 years of ups and downs as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. One thing still bugs him. It's not Penkowa. It's about the keys.

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