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A<\/span>t the beginning of March, Flavio Saleh found himself at the centre of a public debate.<\/p>\n

A debate that started at the Department of Political Science, where he is writing his master’s thesis, and which quickly found its way on to Danish media.<\/p>\n

Management at the Department of Political Science had decided this year to ban a tradition of dividing new students into groups with themes named as countries. The decision was based partly on a featured comment that Flavio Saleh authored<\/a> back in 2018.<\/p>\n

The University Post met up with Flavio Saleh at the old municipal hospital building, the home of his department. Here he talks about how he himself has experienced the recent weeks\u2019 discussion about student culture at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

The land of opportunity<\/h3>\n

\u00bbWhen I started at the Department of Political Science myself, I was young. Only 18 years old.<\/p>\n

A couple of days before the deadline for university applications, I decided to study political science. When you study medicine, you become a doctor, and when you study law you become a lawyer. Political science was more like a land of opportunity. You could be anything, I thought.<\/p>\n

I was born in Denmark from refugee parents. My father is Kurdish from Iraq, and my mother is from Romania, and she fled the communist regime. They met in Copenhagen, fell in love and moved to Tingbjerg.<\/p>\n

I started at the Department of Political Science with the hope of becoming a part of the student community and enjoying myself. And that’s also how it was for the first couple of years. But I realised that this fun was at the expense of some of the students, and at the expense of a part of myself.<\/p>\n

I was quickly given nicknames and heard from several people of colour on the study programme that it was not always such fun to be there.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Lonely to have to say no<\/h3>\n

\u00bbI was \u2018Scotland\u2019 myself during the intro week game.<\/p>\n

When I thought about it afterwards, I found it strange. But not during the intro week, because here you just do what has always been done, and which has been planned for you.<\/p>\n

During my first year of study, I was called Saddam Hussein, a wog and an immigrant. I laughed at it, because I had to. It was my way of surviving. When you are a brand new student and would like to fit in, it is difficult to fight back. But this is not healthy in the long run, and all of a sudden you can find it too much. I found it too much in 2018.<\/p>\n

The change happened when I started reading up on post-colonial theories during my studies. I learned what people of colour have encountered in terms of racism through history. This made me aware of where I came from.<\/p>\n

I wrote a featured comment for the Danish media Information.dk and subsequently became part of a working group to foster more diversity at the political science department. I started to say no.<\/p>\n

I never advocated that the nation-themed games in intro week should be banned outright. It would be hilarious if we could portray all countries. Israel, Palestine, Somalia, Germany and China side by side.<\/p>\n

But this requires that we truly investigate what these peoples traditionally, and really, wear, what they are known for, and what they are good at. This could be a tribute. It has just turned out to be difficult to administer it in a proper, sober manner.<\/p>\n

When people dress up as ladyboys if Thailand is the theme, sing about eating dogs if they are in China, then things have gone too far.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Sleepless nights<\/h3>\n

\u00bbI don\u2019t like being on campus. I feel that people have some kind of assumption about what I am like and why.<\/p>\n

I know many friends of brown skin-colour here on city campus that feel the same way. The feeling that you are met with some kind of prejudice. That people already have an idea about how diligent, skilled or bad you are at something. That you are not considered Danish or just me, Flavio, or whatever you are called.<\/p>\n

But it’s difficult decision to say no, and I can understand that some people couldn\u2019t be bothered.<\/p>\n

After I wrote the featured comment, it was as if I was cold-shouldered out of all social life. I was not invited to parties any more, and I could feel that my fellow students pulled away from me.<\/p>\n

I have had many a sleepless night, troubled after having taken on this struggle. It has made me lonely, and has meant that I am just not \u2018in\u2019 to my degree programme in the same way that I used to be. It’s hard to feel excluded.<\/p>\n

I never wanted to be the face of this struggle.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Lacks subtlety<\/h3>\n

\u00bbPolitical science students have many opinions, and we are good at discussing it.
\nIt is healthy when arguments are countered with other arguments, but I find the debate quite unsophisticated.<\/p>\n

Those who defend the nation-themed games are labelled as racists, and those who want to get rid of them are labelled as oversensitive extremists. But none of these designations are right. None of the people I know who defend the country themes at intro week are racists. They’re nice, decent people. Just like those who want to ban the games are not extremists just waiting to take offence over something.<\/p>\n

But if there is an ethnic Danish majority who find that playing country-themed games is OK, should we not just say this is OK? What about new students who have Chinese or Algerian roots, who feel the pain of seeing their origins ridiculed?<\/p>\n

A white, ethnic Dane cannot comprehend this pain. Once in a while, someone tells me that they are from Jutland, so they also feel prejudice. But honestly, it’s not the same at all.<\/p>\n

If you have never felt racism on your own body, you have to listen to those who have felt it.\u00ab<\/p>\n

Danish humour<\/h3>\n

\u00bbThere is this idea, that it is somehow a quality to be thick-skinned, and to be able to cope with this particular Danish form of fun and \u2018hygge\u2019, where you tease each other a bit. I find that strange.<\/p>\n

Are you aware of what brown and black people have to face in Danish society? There are prejudices everywhere. And there is nothing \u2018fun\u2019 about it.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO<\/strong>:<\/strong> Fellow students: What would you prefer? Being called a wog or an immigrant?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Political science, and the university in general, should be a place where ethnic minorities can rise up the social ladder. A safe and secure place where there is space for everyone. But this is not the case when the first thing you meet when you start as a new student is ridicule.<\/p>\n

If a decision from management can make it feel more safe and comfortable to start at university for minorities, then I think it’s okay that this decision has been made.\u00ab
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class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>t the beginning of March, Flavio Saleh found himself at the centre of a public debate.<\/p>\n<p>A debate that started at the Department of Political Science, where he is writing his master’s thesis, and which quickly found its way on to Danish media.<\/p>\n<p>Management at the Department of Political Science had decided this year to ban a tradition of dividing new students into groups with themes named as countries. The decision was based partly on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.information.dk\/debat\/2018\/09\/kulturen-paa-statskundskab-viser-fremtidens-magthavere-dybt-privilegieblinde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured comment that Flavio Saleh authored<\/a> back in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post met up with Flavio Saleh at the old municipal hospital building, the home of his department. Here he talks about how he himself has experienced the recent weeks\u2019 discussion about student culture at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<h3>The land of opportunity<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbWhen I started at the Department of Political Science myself, I was young. Only 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days before the deadline for university applications, I decided to study political science. When you study medicine, you become a doctor, and when you study law you become a lawyer. Political science was more like a land of opportunity. You could be anything, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I was born in Denmark from refugee parents. My father is Kurdish from Iraq, and my mother is from Romania, and she fled the communist regime. They met in Copenhagen, fell in love and moved to Tingbjerg.<\/p>\n<p>I started at the Department of Political Science with the hope of becoming a part of the student community and enjoying myself. And that’s also how it was for the first couple of years. But I realised that this fun was at the expense of some of the students, and at the expense of a part of myself.<\/p>\n<p>I was quickly given nicknames and heard from several people of colour on the study programme that it was not always such fun to be there.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Lonely to have to say no<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbI was \u2018Scotland\u2019 myself during the intro week game.<\/p>\n<p>When I thought about it afterwards, I found it strange. But not during the intro week, because here you just do what has always been done, and which has been planned for you.<\/p>\n<p>During my first year of study, I was called Saddam Hussein, a wog and an immigrant. I laughed at it, because I had to. It was my way of surviving. When you are a brand new student and would like to fit in, it is difficult to fight back. But this is not healthy in the long run, and all of a sudden you can find it too much. I found it too much in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The change happened when I started reading up on post-colonial theories during my studies. I learned what people of colour have encountered in terms of racism through history. This made me aware of where I came from.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a featured comment for the Danish media Information.dk and subsequently became part of a working group to foster more diversity at the political science department. I started to say no.<\/p>\n<p>I never advocated that the nation-themed games in intro week should be banned outright. It would be hilarious if we could portray all countries. Israel, Palestine, Somalia, Germany and China side by side.<\/p>\n<p>But this requires that we truly investigate what these peoples traditionally, and really, wear, what they are known for, and what they are good at. This could be a tribute. It has just turned out to be difficult to administer it in a proper, sober manner.<\/p>\n<p>When people dress up as ladyboys if Thailand is the theme, sing about eating dogs if they are in China, then things have gone too far.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Sleepless nights<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbI don\u2019t like being on campus. I feel that people have some kind of assumption about what I am like and why.<\/p>\n<p>I know many friends of brown skin-colour here on city campus that feel the same way. The feeling that you are met with some kind of prejudice. That people already have an idea about how diligent, skilled or bad you are at something. That you are not considered Danish or just me, Flavio, or whatever you are called.<\/p>\n<p>But it’s difficult decision to say no, and I can understand that some people couldn\u2019t be bothered.<\/p>\n<p>After I wrote the featured comment, it was as if I was cold-shouldered out of all social life. I was not invited to parties any more, and I could feel that my fellow students pulled away from me.<\/p>\n<p>I have had many a sleepless night, troubled after having taken on this struggle. It has made me lonely, and has meant that I am just not \u2018in\u2019 to my degree programme in the same way that I used to be. It’s hard to feel excluded.<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted to be the face of this struggle.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Lacks subtlety<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbPolitical science students have many opinions, and we are good at discussing it.<br \/>\nIt is healthy when arguments are countered with other arguments, but I find the debate quite unsophisticated.<\/p>\n<p>Those who defend the nation-themed games are labelled as racists, and those who want to get rid of them are labelled as oversensitive extremists. But none of these designations are right. None of the people I know who defend the country themes at intro week are racists. They’re nice, decent people. Just like those who want to ban the games are not extremists just waiting to take offence over something.<\/p>\n<p>But if there is an ethnic Danish majority who find that playing country-themed games is OK, should we not just say this is OK? What about new students who have Chinese or Algerian roots, who feel the pain of seeing their origins ridiculed?<\/p>\n<p>A white, ethnic Dane cannot comprehend this pain. Once in a while, someone tells me that they are from Jutland, so they also feel prejudice. But honestly, it’s not the same at all.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never felt racism on your own body, you have to listen to those who have felt it.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h3>Danish humour<\/h3>\n<p>\u00bbThere is this idea, that it is somehow a quality to be thick-skinned, and to be able to cope with this particular Danish form of fun and \u2018hygge\u2019, where you tease each other a bit. I find that strange.<\/p>\n<p>Are you aware of what brown and black people have to face in Danish society? There are prejudices everywhere. And there is nothing \u2018fun\u2019 about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><em><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/fellow-students-what-would-you-prefer-being-a-wog-or-an-immigrant\/\">Fellow students: What would you prefer? Being called a wog or an immigrant?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Political science, and the university in general, should be a place where ethnic minorities can rise up the social ladder. A safe and secure place where there is space for everyone. But this is not the case when the first thing you meet when you start as a new student is ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>If a decision from management can make it feel more safe and comfortable to start at university for minorities, then I think it’s okay that this decision has been made.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get a bi-weekly email in your inbox","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":117303,"post_author":"79","post_date":"2021-03-08 12:41:24","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-08 11:41:24","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t keeps on happening: The University of Copenhagen ends up in the media under headlines about offensive behaviour and identity policy.\r\n\r\nThis time, it is the Department of Political Science that is the focal point of the debate, and once again the students' intro rituals are in focus. And if you get the feeling that you have read all this before, it's not you that is going nuts.\r\n\r\nThe discussion, again, is on whether you should dress up as other nationalities and cultivate stereotypes, or whether you should just, not, do it, at the intro camps.\r\n\r\nIf you yourself have lost your overview of all the positions in the debates about sombrero hats, obscene jokes and welcoming rituals, please read on.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nWe start right now at the present time.\r\n\r\nAt the Department of Political Science they have a tradition. <strong>In the first, introduction week, new students are divided into groups with countries as the names for themes<\/strong>, and most of the students have good fun making theme songs and dressing up as Chinese people or Swedes.\r\n\r\n<strong>But this tradition is now over<\/strong>, according to the student newspaper at the Department of Political Science<a href=\"http:\/\/medandreord.dk\/instituttet-afskaffer-lande-paa-statskundskab\/\"> \u2018Med Andre Ord\u2019.<\/a> The announcement from the department follows a complaint in the wake of the 2020 intro week.\r\n\r\n\u00bbAs inclusion and integration of all new students should be a top priority for the intro week, the Dean\u2019s Office and the department management team have decided that it is time to think again. All new students need to start their student life with a sense of belonging and under safe conditions,\u00ab write department head Nina Gr\u00e6ger and head of studies Anders Berg-S\u00f8rensen on the university intranet.\r\n\r\nAnd can't you just name the groups something else? Animals? Or planets? No, according to many current and former political science students.\r\n\r\nIn a featured comment <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/institutledelsen-skal-ikke-oedelaegge-vores-introforloeb\/\">on the Danish-language section of the University Post<\/a>, Christian Holst Vigilius, who is a political science student and national chairman of the Conservative Students group, writes that management at his department \u00bbis spineless.\u00ab\r\n\r\nHe does not think that the few students who have complained about the \u2018country\u2019 theme should spoil it for the rest, he writes.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThe solution, in other words, is not to completely ban a tradition that a clear majority is fond of, and which for many is a key part of a good start to their study programme.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThe same point is made by centre-right politicians on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlingske.dk\/politik\/konservative-ruller-med-oejnene-over-forbud-mod-tradition-paa-universitet\">the Berlingske news site.<\/a>\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\nIn 2019, offensive behaviour was on the agenda. At the start of 2019, the University\u2019s General Collaboration Committee HSU decided that the guidelines for handling offensive behaviour should be changed.\r\n\r\n13 June 2019, the University of Copenhagen sent a revised set of guidelines for consultation with employees. The controversial formulation on the employee's or student's subjective sense of being offended being central, was taken out. It now states that <strong>management at the university can assess that something is not offensive<\/strong>, even if a student or employee thinks otherwise. The university now refers to the Danish Working Environment Authority's general guidance on offensive behaviour. (Where it is still the subjective experience of being offended, which is central).\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n2018 was a crazy year for the University of Copenhagen in terms of the debate over giving, and taking, offence.\r\n\r\nIn February 2018, the Magisterbladet magazine looked into whether <strong>students had been subjected to sexism on their studies and on the student jobs<\/strong>. 11 per cent of female students reported unwanted touching, hugging, or kisses on the student job, 8 per cent on their study programmes in the course of the last year.\r\n\r\nOn 13 February 2018, a group claiming to be 48 anonymous female students from five universities, including the University of Copenhagen, submitted an open letter to their rectors through the newspaper Information. They appealed for a strong response to offensive behaviour from fellow students and staff.\r\n\r\n<strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ten-little-indians-and-then-there-were-none-how-do-you-do-intro-camp-without-giving-offence-in-2019\/\"> Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None: How do you do intro camp without causing offence in 2019?<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nOn 20 February 2018, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Employment submitted an official letter to managers, companies and public institutions in Denmark, where they called for sexual harassment in the workplace to be put on the agenda. It was all about civility and respect for others\u2019 boundaries.\r\n\r\nS\u00f8ren Pind, former Minister for Higher Education and Science, also joined in. On 11 April 2018 he sent a letter to the Danish universities and encouraged them to draw up \u00bbclear, well-informed and up-to-date guidelines for the handling of unacceptable behaviour\u00ab.\r\n\r\nAnd sexual harassment and civility came on the agenda at the University of Copenhagen, and people got ... upset. On 25 June 2018, <strong>the university published its new policy on offensive behaviour<\/strong>, which included that \u00bbit is the employee's or the student's experience of having been subjected to offensive behaviour that is the starting point.\u00ab This exact sentence, and a 'zero tolerance' formulation set off a debate.\r\n\r\nWhen the University Post on 13 September 2018 published an article about the new guidelines, with an angle that it was no longer possible to tell obscene jokes on campus, things went fast.\r\n\r\nOn 16 September Jacob Mchangama, director of the think tank Justitia, published an e-mail from the University of Copenhagen on his Facebook profile. The email was addressed to the tutors at the Faculty of Law and was about the themes for the parties in the intro week. Prior to this, management at the Faculty of Law had received three enquiries <strong>from students who experienced the theme parties as offensive<\/strong>, and they encouraged the tutors to reconsider them.\r\n\r\nThree days later on 19 September, the University Post wrote that the Faculty of Law were not allowed to hold their theme parties at the university. A tutor, Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen, said on behalf of all the law tutors, that this was \u00bbexercising prior censorship\u00ab. It was clear that the university's recommendation was a requirement.\r\n\r\nThe day after, on 20 September, the University Post followed up the case with a question from an anonymous employee at the University of Copenhagen, who was in doubt as to whether he would still be able to use the term \u2018academic erection\u2019 and be in accordance with the new guidelines. Both the trade unions Dj\u00f8f and the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) called for calm: Take it easy, both sides in a case have to be heard.\r\n\r\n<strong>READ ALSO<\/strong>:<em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/beatings-bombs-and-sex-with-a-pigs-head-the-universitys-crazy-initiation-rituals-through-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatings, bombs and sex with a pig's head: The university's crazy initiation rituals through time<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nA few months later, the debate flared up again. 14 December 2018 weekly newspaper Weekendavisen wrote that an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities had been called in for a disciplinary conversation, which he had no idea what was about, and that he was being scrutinised. A group of anonymous students had complained to the dean arguing that <strong>the associate professor's teaching was sexist, racist and eurocentric<\/strong>. The inquiry did not find that the associate professor had been racist or sexist, but \u2013 and there is a but \u2013 there had been a lack of sensitivity and understanding on his part for sensitive topics. The associate professor was not allowed to teach for the rest of the semester, and he was not allowed to supervise theses in the following semester. The debate was now about the extent to which the university's guidelines had reduced academic freedom at the university.\r\n\r\n20 December at an internal debate meeting, it was commonly agreed that <strong>the guidelines for dealing with offensive behaviour should be changed. <\/strong>\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\nBoth in 2015 and 2017, at various places at the University of Copenhagen, it was possible to participate in a so-called 'Bar Mitzvah' which played on <strong>stereotypes about Jews<\/strong> being stingy. In 2015, it was the Department of Anthropology that encouraged students to bring along their 'Jew gold' to the bar, and in 2017 it was the medicine students that advertised that they \u00bbswap and trade Kahlua at very favourable prices in the best Jewish style.\u00ab The bars were criticized by Associate Professor of Anthropology Karen Lisa Salamon. But even though the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Ulla Wewer, said that a limit had been transgressed in the bar descriptions, it did not lead to a major discussion.\r\n\r\nIt was also in September 2017 that students at the Department of Economics organised a <strong>'Men's Friday bar'<\/strong>, where men could be Rambo-macho and sling a girl (who was willing) over their shoulders. It was just meant as satire, the organisers said in their defence, but the party was not fun, but excluded people, said the critics.\r\n\r\nAnd then something happened off campus and outside Denmark's borders. In the autumn of 2017 <strong>the global #metoo wave surged like a virtual tsunami<\/strong>. All over the world, women talked about their sexual abuse experiences. The many testimonies changed fundamentally the way we talked about giving offence in the public debate.\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\nThe theme party was not the first time we talked about where the limits are for fun intro weeks at the University of Copenhagen. As early as 2014, the University of Copenhagen and, in particular, the Department of Political Science, got bad press when the University Post wrote about <strong>sexism, drinking and stark initiation rituals<\/strong> on the intro camps. (It included something about closing your eyes and burying your fingers in a fist of Nutella, and caressing the mouth of a cut-off sheep\u2019s head, because it felt like labia.) But the Danish word for offence, \u2018kr\u00e6nkelse\u2019 had not yet become a buzzword. At the time, we talked more about a culture of sexism and drinking.\r\n\r\n<em>This article was first published in August 2019. We have re-released this article as a result of the new debate over intro courses at the Department of Political Science. You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/how-the-university-of-copenhagen-became-a-centre-of-the-offensive-behaviour-debate\/\">original article here.<\/a><\/em>\n<!-- end of module 6 -->\n","post_title":"Timeline: Offensive behaviour and identity politics at the University of Copenhagen","post_excerpt":"It keeps on happening: Stories of sexism and crazy initiation rituals, the global #metoo movement, and guidelines on offensive behaviour keep the University of Copenhagen at the centre of a stormy debate.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"how-the-university-of-copenhagen-became-a-centre-of-the-offensive-behaviour-debate-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-08 12:50:18","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-08 11:50:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=117303","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":91984,"post_author":"71","post_date":"2019-09-02 11:05:32","post_date_gmt":"2019-09-02 09:05:32","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>rom the foundation of university in 1479 and the next 200-300 years, the new students had to turn up in the university courtyard in the inner city with a horn on their forehead, a hump on their back, with blackened faces, anything that would make them look like brutes. They represented the uneducated and boorish.\r\n\r\nThen they were brought into a room, examined by an older student, insulted and thrashed (they were, actually, beaten up). The students were whipped with a cane and pinched with a tong so their horns fell off. The pleasure of participating even cost the young freshmen four shillings if they were poor, and eight if they were rich.\r\n\r\nOne of the purposes of the old initiation rites was that the new students could win the others\u2019 respect by enduring the torments. In a university statute from 1539 it is stated that it is useful for students to go through such rituals, because they all need to get used to the fact that life as an academic will lead to mockery and ridicule from the surrounding community.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ten-little-indians-and-then-there-were-none-how-do-you-do-intro-camp-without-giving-offence-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None: How do you do intro camp without causing offence in 2019?<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nThe Danish university initiations took place within a closed academic setting, and if things went too far, it would lead to internal disciplinary proceedings and perhaps even a spell in the university prison \u2013 but not, like today, featured comments from distraught parents in the daily press.\r\n\r\nAt the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the initiation of the new students moved away from the university\u2019s central yard and out of the history books, and now they took place around the city and in the dormitories.\r\n\r\nRight up to the 1960s and 1970s, however, the Danish university was a closed system, and the surrounding community was not alarmed by went on in academia. In the wake of the 60-70\u2019s student protests, the university became more democratic, and the ideology of equality came into the study programmes.\r\n<h3>Students made bombs<\/h3>\r\nWhich brings us to the present when the media, every September, report on the start of the academic year with greater or lesser consternation. In 1993 the daily newspaper Politiken had a number of stories about how students of engineering made bombs in the different Copenhagen residence halls, and several of them said that they had learned it all on an intro camp for freshmen. In 1998, critics said that the entire intro camp was a drinking spree, and in 2001, several camp venues refused to lease them to the thirsty young students.\r\n\r\n\u00bbWe'd rather go bankrupt than say yes to having them again,\u00ab said a landlord from Sams\u00f8.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nIt was also in 2001 that the newspaper Politiken wrote about fresher camps at the Roskilde University, where \u00bbinsanely drunk freshmen\u00ab the previous year had organized communal shaving of genitals, and a student reportedly had had sexual intercourse with the head of a pig.\r\n\r\nIn 2004, the Centre for Rape Victims warned against games involving nudity with sexual undertones, because they had received enquiries from women who had felt harassed on Danish fresher camps. And in 2007, the University of Copenhagen decided that there was to be no more drinking the alcoholic \u2018Gammel Dansk\u2019 beverage at breakfasts on intro trips \u2013 now the camps had to comply with the university's drinking and smoking policies.\r\n<h3>Dildos and curried herring<\/h3>\r\nDrinking and sexual excesses were the overall theme of the media's intro camp coverage in the 00s, but this did not seem to change what happened at the camps. A communications student certainly told the daily newspaper Berlingske in 2009 how they on an intro camp played games with a strap-on dildo and had drunk heavily.\r\n\r\nIn 2014, the debate over intro camps trips exploded after it emerged on the student podcast MONO, and subsequently in The University Post, that students at a Political Science intro camp had been made to play sexist games where they were divided into boys' and girls' groups. The male students were told to recount their sexual fantasies about the female students, caress the lips on a sheep's head, and put pork in their underwear to strengthen their libido.\r\n\r\nThe following year, Dj\u00f8f-bladet magazine could reveal that female students at CBS at one of the year's fresher camps were made to simulate oral sex on male students who had juggled a banana between their legs. During a gender-segregated warm-up to celebrations the male students had to \u2013 as an echo of the 2014 scandal from political science \u2013 call the female students sluts and state who they would like to have sex with.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/overblik-saadan-endte-koebenhavns-universitet-midt-i-kraenkelsesdebatten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overview: This is how the University of Copenhagen became the centre of the debate on offensive behavior<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nThe following year, CBS was once again the subject of media attention, when Berlingske described how students had complained that they had to suck wine out of a tampon, make chains of their clothes, and recount private details about their sex life at intro camp.\r\n\r\nAccording to a reliable source, some social science University of Copenhagen departments have been banned from all the camp venues on Zealand.\r\n\r\nAnd in 2018, there was the debate on the theme parties on the University of Copenhagen law programme. It was a featured comment on the daily newspaper Politiken that set off the debate \u2013 here, a student recounted how she on an intro camp had to eat a pack of yeast, suck whisky out of a smelly sock, and lick curried herring off one of her fellow students.\r\n\r\nWill 2019 be free of all this?\r\n\r\n<em>Sources: Morten Fink-Jensen, university historian, University of Copenhagen, Saxo Institute, newspaper articles from Infomedia.<\/em>\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n","post_title":"Beatings, bombs and sex with a pig's head: The university's crazy initiation rituals through the ages","post_excerpt":"You probably know the hullabaloo: Every year, just around the start of the academic year, the traditional intro camps for freshmen are up for debate. There is too much drinking. Then it\u2019s all about sex. Then the themes are inappropriate. But it is actually a new phenomenon that society outside the university holds an opinion at all about what happens among students. ","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"beatings-bombs-and-sex-with-a-pigs-head-the-universitys-crazy-initiation-rituals-through-time","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-08 12:10:57","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-08 11:10:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=91984\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":117861,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-03-15 22:12:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-15 21:12:19","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his has been a time of reckoning for many. Especially, for those like myself, who come from privileged backgrounds. I grew up in a wealthy American suburb approximately 25 minutes outside inner-city Boston, Massachusetts. Here the grass is green. Classrooms are kitted out with the latest technology. And the people, for the most part, are very white.\r\n\r\nWhile growing up I learned not to question the area\u2019s wealth or whiteness. Wealth which funneled the fair skin of myself and peers into higher education. The same wealth which bought up plots of land to \u2018protect\u2019 my scenic town from low-income public housing.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Debate<\/p>\r\nThis is a featured comment. It expresses the author's own opinion.\r\n\r\nWe encourage everyone to read the whole featured comment before commenting on social media, so that we only get constructive contributions.\r\n\r\nDisagreement is good, but remember to uphold a civil and respectful tone.\r\n\r\nThe University Post reserves the right to delete comments that break the rules.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nAfter the murder of George Floyd on May 25 2020, a visible shift occurred in this sheltered hometown of mine. Black Lives Matter signs were posted beside idyllic driveways. White moms fundraised on Facebook while high school alumni petitioned for anti-racism courses and a diversity committee.\r\n\r\nThese gestures from a few well-off white Democrats obviously does not mean that we have reached Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s 'Promised Land'. Nor are we anywhere near close to reconciling America\u2019s history of racial injustice. Income inequality still runs rampant in the Boston Greater Area with the average wealth of white households coming in at USD 247,500 while Black households have an average of USD 8. Boston remains notorious for its segregated school system. And white supremacy continues to work itself out of the woodwork even in the deeply blue state of Massachusetts.\r\n\r\nDespite this, there are a few small \u2018buts\u2019 in the America I know today. Consciousness has grown. Even those who benefit from structural inequalities are waking up to their role in America\u2019s tortured history. And representation of people of colour has grown substantially in Massachusetts media, commerce and governance.\r\n\r\nMoving from one privileged bubble to the next, I was interested to see how the Black Lives Matter movement permeated into the similar context of a largely white and wealthy Denmark. At its onset, the movement produced prominent media coverage and well attended demonstrations. Including a protest, organized by Black Lives Matter Denmark, of approximately 16,000 people outside the US Embassy back in June 2020.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/researchers-want-university-of-copenhagen-to-commit-to-anti-racism-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At a university level, this shift took the form of an open letter from two University of Copenhagen (UCPH) researchers.<\/a> In this letter, which has been signed by about 150 staff members, Francois Questiaux and Sofie Mortensen asked the university to align themselves with the anti-racist movement and collect data on the experience of racial and ethnic minorities on campus.\r\n\r\n<strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/researchers-want-university-of-copenhagen-to-commit-to-anti-racism-struggle\/\"><em>Researchers want University of Copenhagen to commit to anti-racism struggle<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\nTo date, the university\u2019s response to this call for action has been lackluster. In terms of mobilization, I have seen a tepid statement from Rector Henrik C. Wegener that notes [secrettext face=\"\u00bbthe university will take a closer look at this,\u00ab\" text=\"\u00bbDue to Danish legislation, UCPH cannot register ethnicity and several other parameters among staff and students. This means that there are challenges in creating the data that they are looking for. That\u2019s why we need to find other ways to do this. The university will take a closer look at this.\u00ab\"] and cites data collection challenges due to [secrettext face=\"colourblind legislation.\" text=\"In this case. ideals of colourblindness in Danish law seem to interfere, rather than ensure, equality. At the same time, these ideals have been thrown out the window in Denmark\u2019s 'ghetto packages.' A controversial governmental initiative that targets neighborhoods with high non-Western populations for re-development. Also known as gentrification and dispossession.\"]\r\n\r\nAlthough this response is not particularly urgent, it <em>is<\/em> a step above the broader status of racial inequality in Denmark. Where media coverage of racial injustice has faded since the summer and many people,<a href=\"https:\/\/cphpost.dk\/?p=115186\"> including prominent politicians, say that racism is a non-issue<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe circulation and persistence of this denial to racial inequality can partially be attributed to an evolving understanding of social cohesion in Denmark. Recently, there has been a rise in rhetorics positioning diversity as a threat to the country\u2019s touted high levels of trust, happiness and success as a welfare state. This line of thinking has been used to bolster \u2018Denmark for Danes\u2019 assertions and anti-multiculturalism policies from both left and right leaning political parties according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.3366\/j.ctt20q22fw.15?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Nils Holtug\u2019s Danish Multiculturalism, Where Art Thou?<\/a>\r\n\r\nWhile mulling over the ins and outs of Danish nationalism, I talked after class with my friend, Lea Bro, who is a white Danish second-year Geography and Geoinformatics masters student at The University of Copenhagen. She suggested the profuse \u2018idea that everyone is equal in Denmark and has equal possibilities\u2019 allows many Danes to distance themselves from concerns over racism despite strong undertones in their politics, colonial history, education and day-to-day life.\r\n<h3>The experience of being treated \u2018sm\u00e5racistisk\u2019 in Copenhagen<\/h3>\r\nIn an attempt to kickstart the research Francois and Sofie petitioned for, I sat down with students Brynton L. Johnson and Sabrina Benmessaoud to begin scratching the surface of what it means to be a minority in Denmark on and off campus.\r\n\r\nFor Johnson, a Black Bahamian pursuing a MSc in Environment and Development, \u00bbracism in Denmark is low-key.\u00ab He is more likely to experience micro aggressions such as \u00bblittle things under the breath, the side eye or a side comment,\u00ab he says rather than confrontational acts.\r\n\r\nBenmessaoud, a second year Danish Algerian Muslim bachelor student studying Food and Nutrition, wholeheartedly agreed with Brynton L. Johnson by explaining to me \u2018sm\u00e5racistisk.\u2019 A term used to describe those who are a \u00bblittle bit racist\u00ab and \u00bbuse racism as a joke or compliment.\u00ab\r\n\r\nWhat is frustrating about this particular flavor of racism, according to Sabrina Benmessaoud, is that you never know where you stand. Whether someone, be it a stranger, professor or supposed friend, is with you or against you.\r\n\r\nFor instance, she recounted her attempt to buy shoes from a thrift store while two older store attendants repeatedly \u00bblooked at her as if she wasn\u2019t speaking Danish\u00ab and kept asking \u2018what?\u2019 while speaking Danish to themselves. Since \u00bbthey saw someone from outside and they wanted to hear something else,\u00ab Sabrina felt forced to leave without a purchase and brushed off the instance as \u00bbweird.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAlthough some might write off Sabrina\u2019s uncomfortable experience as a miscommunication, Oda-Kange Midtv\u00e5ge Diallo\u2019s piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/333221717_At_the_Margins_of_Institutional_Whiteness_Black_Women_in_Danish_Academia\"><em>At the Margins of Institutional Whiteness: Black Women in Danish Academia<\/em><\/a> could bring to focus a less naive interpretation of events. Diallo\u2019s research on Black women in academia shows that \u00bbthe assumption a Black woman who speaks Danish fluently is adopted is another way of erasing Black citizens as an independent part of the Danish narrative.\u00ab\r\n\r\nExtending this notion of erasure beyond Diallo\u2019s context, it is clear the store attendants could not fathom a curly dark-haired young women within their notions of Denmark and Danes.\r\n\r\nBrynton L. Johnson\u2019s experiences reaffirm this differential treatment of those falling outside the expectations of white and blonde in Denmark. Neighbours have suspiciously watched him take out the trash and enter his building, he says. Similarly, he was typecasted when grabbing the metro on his early days in Denmark. Here he was fined while the white man sitting next to him, who also clearly rushed onto the train ticketless, remained of no interest to the ticket attendant. Johnson noted his frustration of being placed into a lose-lose situation where speaking up could only position him into \u2018the angry black guy\u2019 stereotype. This stereotype was originally a fear-mongering tactic used to justify the lynching of thousands of Black Americans. Today, the stereotype persists in the form of police brutality, the criminalization of people of color and racial profiling.\r\n\r\nContradictory to the smiling minorities placed throughout UCPH promotion material, feelings of otherness are rarely left behind upon entering campus for Brynton and Sabrina. While discussing how the university narrowly defines diversity in terms of gender and sexual orientation, Sabrina jokingly jumped in to say \u00bb\u2014but your color, we\u2019ll definitely discriminate on that!\u00ab We snickered over this, shrugging \u00bbat least they\u2019re being honest.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThis exclusion of people of colour in the university\u2019s diversity rhetoric, unfortunately becomes all too real in the classroom. Where Sabrina says she feels a sense of loneliness and finds it difficult \u00bbto speak up when you\u2019re in a group of people that all think alike and you\u2019re the only one who has experienced the other thing.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIn more specific terms, Sabrina says she feels her classmates ask questions and make comments from a western\/white\/atheist perspective that often positions her Brown\/Muslim perspective as inferior. In Brynton\u2019s courses, where he is the only person of color, he explains the stress of being \u00bbunder a lens all the time\u00ab and the pressure of his appointment into the impossible role of \u00bbthe spokesperson for being Black.\u00ab\r\n<blockquote>\u00bbBlack is not a monolith. We are not all the same. You can\u2019t put an idea on all of us and expect us to represent it.\u00ab\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Brynton L. Johnson<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nIn this role he is constantly combatting one-dimensional assumptions that he must be African American or should have playlists filled with rap music rather than dancehall and afrobeat. Similarly, when whiteness is the norm he finds himself often justifying his existence by explaining how the histories of Black people in the Bahamas are distinct from Black people in North America. The mental toll of this daily necessity to prove oneself as a fully fleshed human with contradictions like anyone else should not be understated.\r\n\r\n\u00bbBlack is not a monolith. We are not all the same. You can\u2019t put an idea on all of us and expect us to represent it,\u00ab he says.\r\n<h3>What Can the University Do?<\/h3>\r\nLike all western institutions and privileged bubbles, it turns out the university can do a lot. And I recommend asking Brynton and Sabrina for advice.\r\n\r\nFor starters, a clear commitment to racial and ethnic minority students in the university\u2019s \u2018diversity and equality\u2019 statement would be nice. Backing up this symbolic gesture with systemic actions would be icing on the cake.\r\n\r\nTo create \u00bba place where minorities can come and speak up, speak together and feel seen\u00ab Brynton calls on the university to support community organization for students of colour. As an active member of his undergraduate university\u2019s Black Student Association and Caribbean Student Association, Brynton is keen to see these kinds of spaces connect students of colour while bringing ease and a greater sense of belonging onto campus.\r\n\r\nSo far, we have had approximately two white men teach about feminist research approaches, three white men teach about intersectionality and an overwhelming majority of white professors lecture on everywhere from Tanzania to Malaysia.\r\n\r\nTo further prioritize minority students, a serious look at both course curriculums and university staffing is required. In Brynton\u2019s and my own studies there are ample opportunities to incorporate diversity into the classroom with far reaching benefits.\r\n\r\nI want to emphasize this is not a critique on the staff themselves, who have ample experience, expertise and passion in their respective areas, rather the system in which they teach in. A system which leaves Brynton feeling that \u00bbteachers will not understand what [he] is going through.\u00ab\r\n\r\nEven while exploring study abroad options, where one would hope to find a splash of multiculturalism, Sabrina found a heavy handed Eurocentric bias remained. And was disappointed to find South Africa and Israel as her only options to study outside of the western world. Not only would Sabrina like to see wider options for herself to experience a new culture, but she also believes it would benefit the student body to be encouraged outside of their white dominated academic bubbles.\r\n\r\nThis is just the starting point of a long list of interventions the university can take inspiration from to align with the anti-racist movement. I look forward to seeing this progress take place in Denmark, my hometown and other privilege bubbles. Finally, I would like to thank the brave bodies and voices like Brynton, Sabrina and the many inspiring authors of colour I came across while writing this featured comment. Who pursue what is rightfully theirs with acuity and compassion.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n<em>References<\/em>\r\n\r\nDiallo, O. M. (2019). At the Margins of Institutional Whiteness: Black Women in Danish Academia. In A. Emejulu & F. Sobande (Authors), To exist is to resist: Black feminism in Europe (pp. 219-228). London: Pluto Press.\r\n\r\nElton, C. (2020, December 8). How Has Boston Gotten Away with Being Segregated for So Long? Boston Magazine.\r\n\r\nFottrell, Q. (2020, June 3). How America perfected the \u2018art of demonizing Black men\u2019. MarketWatch.\r\n\r\nFriis, R. (2020, September 28). Researchers want University of Copenhagen to commit to anti-racism struggle. University Post.\r\n\r\nHansen, N. K. L., & Su\u00e1rez-Krabbe, J. (2018). Introduction: Taking Racism Seriously. KULT. Postkolonial Temaserie.\r\n\r\nHoltug, N. (2013). Danish Multiculturalism, Where Art Thou? In Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity (pp. 190-215). Edinburgh University Press.\r\n\r\nMacaraig, A. (2020, June 12). Half of Danes say racism not a problem in Denmark \u2013 survey. CPH Post.\r\n\r\nMacaraig, A. (2020, June 23). Danish News Round-Up: No racism in Denmark, contends Pia Kj\u00e6rsgaard. CPH Post.\r\n\r\nOvergaard, S. (Writer). (2020, August 15). Facing Eviction, Residents Of Denmark's 'Ghettos' Are Suing The Government [Transcript, Radio broadcast]. In All Things Considered. NPR.\r\n\r\nQuestiaux, F. & Mortensen, S. (2020, September 17). Open Letter to The University of Copenhagen to Address Racism in Academia. University Post.\r\n\r\nSemuels, A. (2019, April 11). The Utter Inadequacy of America\u2019s Efforts to Desegregate Schools. The Atlantic.\r\n\r\nUniversity of Copenhagen. Diversity and equality. 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