Students Suffer When Professors Are Not Held Accountable

By Jocelyn Pearce · 0 Comments
Frustrated students have been refreshing their CampusNet pages repeatedly for the past month, searching in vain for their grades since the deadline for professors to submit them on January 11th. However, a week after the deadline, seventy-six instructors still hadn't submitted grades; two weeks after the deadline, forty-four had to be re-reminded. As of February 5th, five SES and eleven SHSS instructors still hadn't submitted grades. ...
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Letter from the Editors: Issue 6

By EB · 0 Comments
Dear Reader, Welcome back! Second semester is here, drop and add period is over and courses are getting serious again. We hope you enjoy a brief escape by sifting through the following pages. This issue starts with a special report on the late grade submissions by professors that have caused great inconvenience to students. In Internal Affairs we continue with an article on Sponsorship at Jacobs ...
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Taking Responsibility For The Community

By Jocelyn Pearce · 0 Comments
There are students on campus who are visible in everything: they join teams, go to conferences, and organize events. Other students are not so visible, some of them because they have difficulty affording not only extracurricular activities, but also basic academic supplies and costs of living in Germany, which can be substantially higher than at home. Last semester, a need was identified through ...
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Wrap-Up

By Jocelyn Pearce · 0 Comments
While the bursary fund issue has been prominent in parliamentary discussions so far this semester, that's not all that's been discussed. The Environmental Affairs Committee, headed by Franziska Landes and Tariq Omarshah, is organizing the Green Team Award, a competition by block for the lowest electricity usage. It's estimated that this could reduce electricity consumption by ten percent; unfortu ...
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A Day in the Life of Iris Villa-Lobos

By Carla Bleiker · 0 Comments
So you know about semiotics, the three waves of democratization, and Putnam’s definition of social capital. You have the periodic table memorized, can solve huge mathematical problems in the blink of an eye, and are aware of all the plate tectonics that have interacted in Earth’s history. And still - there are little everyday wonders that you can only learn about in kindergarten. Iris Villa Lobos is showing one of these to a group of six little kids and one amazed Jacobs student on a Wednesday morning: There is a star inside of an apple! When the fruit is cut in half, the shape is visible, as if holding the apple seeds. “I didn’t know this either before I became a kindergartner”, Iris admits, laughing. ...
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Exchange Students Versus Jacobs University Bremen

By Valentina Ramona de Jesus Uribe · 0 Comments
These are the stories and impressions of some of the exchange students Jacobs has this year. Voices that are not heard sometimes because the are shattered by the label of “Exchange Students”, instead of calling them by their names. ...
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Poison, Patents and Peace

By Oliver Barnstedt · 0 Comments
Monsanto.imagine – that's what it says on one of the images one can find looking up the sponsors of this year's BRIMUN. Imagine. That reminds me of John Lennon's song: „Imagine all the people living life in peace“. Beautiful. And actually in line with Monsanto's promises of „helping farmers to produce more while conserving more“ and „to make the world a better place for future generations.“ (source: www.monsanto.com). So how come another group of musicians, namely the American political punk rock band Anti-Flag, is actually singing „(Stand Up! Resist!) Monsanto are killers, k-k-k-k-killers“? Where do these harsh words come from? ...
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Money Talks

By Jocelyn Pearce · 0 Comments
"Anything on campus can be bought," says Imke Sonnenberg, Assistant to the Director of Resource Development. An individual or group with money can buy anything from a tree to a building and get their name on it. ...
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Pulse Express: A Convenience with Heavy Costs

By Christopher Kausch · 0 Comments
It is a little after 11 p.m. After reading page after page of my weekly assignments, it occurs to me that I need a little fuel to keep me awake. Having run out of food in my room, and with the off-campus shops well beyond closed, it occurs to me that I can avoid the expensive vending machines and run over to Pulse Express and stock up. Does this convenience seem to have a catch? It does. ...
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From Copenhagen, Without Love

By Trevor Sloughter · 0 Comments
Over 150 years ago, John Tyndall conducted a thorough, intensive, and quantitative study to finally prove the long presumed theory of a global, atmospheric greenhouse effect. Tyndall treated the very thermal properties of the now infamous carbon dioxide (among other gases) and the wavelengths of light which they absorbed, radiated, or were utterly neurtal to. ...
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A World Without Nuclear Weapons

By Marion Doßner · 0 Comments
At the beginning of this month more than 200 world leaders including Queen Noor of Jordan, Ambassador Richard Burt, former President Mary Robinson, George Shultz, Malcolm Rifkind, Wolfgang Ischinger and Hans Blix met in Paris at the Global Zero world summit to discuss the next steps and strategies to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide. As selected student representative I had the unique opportunity - together with 30 other students from around the globe - to attend this event and to participate in trainings for further participation in the Global Zero Campaign. ...
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Buenos Aires Rich in Contrast

By Lea Frehse · 0 Comments
During rush hour, the porteños (as the inhabitants of Buenos Aires proudly call themselves) swarm the subway of Argentina’s capital. Depending on which neighborhood the subway line comes from, it is white collars or shabby t-shirts that crowd the wagons on the morning journey to the city center. In Buenos Aires poverty and luxury are close neighbors separated by bullet-proof walls. When it is les ...
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Whom to Blame for Groundhog Day

By Trevor Sloughter · 0 Comments
Are groundhogs really afraid of their own shadows? Where did Groundhog Day come from? The simplest answer is to blame the bears, as usual, and this isn't far from the truth. ...
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It's Too Late for Pessimism!

By Shinta Harsana · 0 Comments
Creativity isn't really something that is usually demanded from you in a lab. But the Grameen Creative Lab isn't the kind of lab you are used to: It is about mixing up people of different age, gender, cultural and professional backgrounds, confronting them with the most pressing social problems, implanting a new approach to solve them into their heads and … getting surprised! ...
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A Prof’s Diary

By R. Talkalot · 0 Comments
The following piece is an anonymous submission by a Professor at Jacobs University. The experiences are all real - only the names have been altered. ...
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The Dilemma Gardener

By Juan Merlo · 0 Comments
Over 150 years ago, John Tyndall conducted a thorough, intensive, and quantitative study to finally prove the long presumed theory of a global, atmospheric greenhouse effect. Tyndall treated the very thermal properties of the now infamous carbon dioxide (among other gases) and the wavelengths of light that they absorbed, radiated, or were utterly neutral to. The Earth's atmosphere, then, was in f ...
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Why Do You Cover Your Hair?

By A. Büsra Todil · 0 Comments
It is interesting being on a campus as the only undergraduate who covers her hair. I am not, however, the only Muslim girl at Jacobs who has grown up in Germany, I am also not from the most conservative environment. Questions like "Why do you cover your hair?", "Can you show your hair to anyone?" or "Can you decide whom to marry?" are not unusual and I actually don’t mind them. I think it shows that people are actually interested in getting to know me; they want to know more about my way of dressing, my attitude and worldviews; in other words: my way of thinking. And I see this as a challenge. ...
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