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Politics

Sigge Winther wants a revolution within the Danish state — and it all starts with the universities

A new class of entrepreneurial officials is to save the state from inertia and system failure. It requires a completely new university to educate these people — a kind of über-officials.

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Student life

»I've had many a sleepless night over whether I should take on this struggle«

Flavio Saleh is part of the reason why UCPH management has banned a controversial intro week tradition at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. This is how he experienced the subsequent debate and the consequences of saying no.

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Campus

Intro camp: At political science, students are looking for a culinary narrative

You’d better get your creative (gastric) juices flowing. At least if you want to be one of the chefs at a freshers' trip for new students at the Department of Political Science. Applications for the job have to present a ‘narrative’ for a 'culinary journey' for the tutors, new students and cooks.

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Politics

Fellow student: What would you prefer? Being called a ‘wog’ or an ‘immigrant’?

Student Flavio Sabah Saleh rejects the Danish so-called ‘hygge-racism’. But others see stereotypical jokes and expressions as a path to familiarity and friendship.

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Campus

This is why the University of Copenhagen has agreed to a visit from Puigdemont

Arrest warrant or not, the exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is welcome at UCPH so students can meet politics in all its real complexity. This is according to Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Head of the Department of Political Science.

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Campus

Political science department cuts student magazine funding

Due to cuts, the Department of Political Science is dropping all its support for the biannual student magazine 'Med Andre Ord'. The editors hope that the magazine can continue with funding from a UCPH study environment fund and from advertisers.

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