Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung

By Anne Leiser · 0 Comments
A beautifully long, typically German word which means “attestation of being unable to work.” This is the yellow piece of paper you receive when you go to a doctor and he signs you off sick. The Jacobs University administration has recently decided not to accept any more sick notes from Dr. Schmidtmann, also known as “Dr. Holiday.” This is because during finals time last semester, roughly a fifth ...
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Letter from the Editors: Issue 10

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Dear readers, It is our pleasure to bring you the last issue of the Pulse of the World for the Academic Year 2009-2010. It has been a steep learning curve since taking over the Pulse of the World in the beginning of the Spring Semester, but for all the members of the Pulse team I think it has also been an interesting and fun creative process. With each issue we see the Pulse developing even furth ...
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Hot and Heavy Is Back!

By Luciana Mihaela Nicoara · 0 Comments
Campus life is, by and large, dictated by the students, and it's their “job” to make it what it is. Sometimes, however, it proves difficult to maintain certain activities because of issues outside of the control of students. Even crowd pleasers such as the Red Light District Party fail to be re-organised due to internal difficulties, squabbles with the people in charge of okaying the event, and g ...
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Democratic Innovation at Jacobs

By Sebastian Blümmert · 0 Comments
Have you ever been upset with decisions taken by your student parliament? Or have you felt that choices in referendums on campus are influenced by gut feeling rather than knowledge? Very soon, the campus will undergo a democratic experiment with the potential to solve these issues. On May 9, or Deliberation Day, 35 undergraduates will engage in a Deliberative Referendum. Some of you may already ...
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Challenging Questions at the Undergraduate Student Assembly

By Christopher Kausch · 0 Comments
The sun was shining resplendently. The mild spring air and slight breeze were beckoning everyone to venture outside of their rooms. But instead of the campus green or Knoops Park, their final destination would be the West Wing of the Information Resource Center, where students and faculty assembled for the Spring Semester Undergraduate Student Assembly 2010. ...
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120 Kilometres of Human Chain Reaction

By Oliver Barnstedt · 0 Comments
On the 26th of April 1986, the average temperature was 16°C in Chernobyl - at least outside the reactor. It was at this particular day that a global rethinking happened due to the catastrophic events following the meltdown of reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine where 336,000 people had to be evacuated, thousands died due to immediate radiation and hundreds of thous ...
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Africa, Much More to Discover

By Valentina Uribe · 0 Comments
It has happened to me more than once, that people have told me “Yes, my continent is called Africa, but I am Kenyan.” Admittedly, sometimes I think of Africa as one country, without realizing that it is actually composed of 54 independent nations sharing similar cultural traits, yet vastly different traditions. Jacobs University flatters itself for its international environment and in fact 7.0% ...
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Make People Happy - CTS Eventim

By Carmen Kong · 0 Comments
CTS Eventim is the leader in ticketing and life entertainment in the European market. Having its headquarters in Bremen, CTS Eventim consists of 500 employees in Germany alone. Recently, Dr. Stefan Mette, HR Director of CTS Eventim, met second- and third-year students and talked about his work, personal goals and occupation opportunities. Summer is approaching and many students are still looking ...
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Event Calendar

By Shailen Sobhee · 0 Comments
Event Calendar Shailen Sobhee ...
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University Sports Updates

By Haley Mischa Meidell · 0 Comments
ICFT Results For the past couple of weeks, the university community has been involved in playing, watching, and cheering for the Intercontinental Football Tournament which pitted football teams from each continent against each other in friendly competition. The tournament began with qualifying games between the six teams: Asia, Africa, Americas, Europe Pink, Europe Orange, and Europe Yellow. Afte ...
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Sports Proposal and Constitutional Changes

By Trevor Sloughter · 0 Comments
Two large proposals stand before the USG Amid a plethora of major issues facing the Parliament in the past and coming weeks are two potentially very long term changes: those concerning sports facilities and team support and those concerning the Constitution, a tricky and vague document of short, ambiguous sentences lettered, numbered, and lettered again. The sports proposal seeks to bring up the standard of team sports and all common facilities, allocating more resources to teams – enough for coaches, official equipment for all team members, and whatever else is required to make the team fit for official games against other teams. ...
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Reflections

By Sarah Gero and Amy Hinkel · 0 Comments
This article didn’t get finished until approximately two hours before we got on a train to catch our flight to Russia. In other words, we meant to begin writing this about two weeks ago, but put it off until 2:19 am before a 5:57 am train. Our procrastination was not due to laziness, however. Jacobs is a place where we have been able to form unique bonds with people from all over the world, and ...
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Thesisaurus

By Valentina Uribe · 0 Comments
Elizabeth Zeller: 28th... you have one day less to live! Sali Dumbadze :'(( Thesis Sali Dumbadze 34 hours and 35 minutes until thesis submission...panic or not to panic yet? Sali Dumbadze 26:01 hours, 3372 words :S Lara Fleischer who wants to proofread my thesissss Yonca Dege Okay, brain. You don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's get through this thing and then I can continue killing you ...
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Don't Poop Where You Eat

By Anne Leiser · 0 Comments
Dear Readers, I wrote this article out of tidbits I picked up in conversations around campus. It is highly exaggerated and does not necessarily portray my personal opinion but I thought it was worth writing to give a strong opinion on the topic. Please keep this in mind when reading. -Anne Leiser “I hate that everything at this university is about the money,” she said to me. “What do you mean? ...
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What's in a name?

By Gwen Michael-Jones · 0 Comments
The marketing scheme put in place for the Red Light Party is nothing short of brilliant. Simply put, there is no reason to market something when it can sell itself. It could be the stories told by previous years' party-goers, or just as likely, the vivid (or some would say explicit) imagery conjured up by the name. Although there is a marked lack of the word 'district' in the name, it is impossib ...
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Exploring Religious Beliefs Among Students

By Haley Michaela Meidell · 0 Comments
Jacobs University has the unique identity of being an international university with students from all reaches of the globe. No one denies that this diversity is a major asset to the university environment and contributes greatly to the overall education Jacobs offers its students. However, there is another aspect to this diversity that is often overlooked: faith. Students come not only from a di ...
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Get Cultured in Hamburg and Bremen

By Luciana Mihaela Nicoara · 0 Comments
For many non-German speakers, it isn't always the easiest thing to find a play or performance in and around Bremen. Even the Shakespeare Company in Bremen, despite its misleading name, does not produce or stage plays in English. Add to that the creative licence some directors might take with even beloved and well-known plays, and you come to realise there are few opportunities outside of campus t ...
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Poland: the Aftermath

By Christopher Kausch · 0 Comments
As students and staff of Jacobs University, maintaining a sense of national identity remains a daily endeavor in an international environment such as the one in which we live and study. Beyond the campus, however, a more global examination of national identity in Poland thrives. Following a week of debriefing from the Easter holidays, Poland experienced an unprecedented tragedy involving the political elite of the country. ...
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A Wave of Violence

By Savannah Carr-Wilson and Meerim Topchubaeva · 0 Comments
In April 2010, a wave of violence and riots swept across the country of Kyrgystan. The stimulus of the protests was growing outrage against the government of President Bakiyev, resulting in a series of riots in the capital city of Bishkek, and the President subsequently fleeing the country. Pulse of the World interviewed Kyrgyz student Meerim Topchubaeva to find out more about the political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan. ...
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