Oppressed Longings

By Sarah Gero · 0 Comments
The sixties were considered a time of sexual revolution and of hippies, communes, and free love. In some aspects, university life also echoes this sentiment. Campuses, especially ones like Jacobs, have many similarities to communes. After all, it is community living, with many students living and eating in the same building at dictated times. But does this mean a campus is also a place of free lo ...
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Letter from the Editors: Issue 9

By Executive Board · 0 Comments
Dear Readers, as Friedrich Nietzsche put it, “one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star” and surely there was enough chaos for us the last weeks. After discussions broke loose following the last issue and the radio interview, we did not only receive criticism but also support, in passive or active form, that helped us change and set up quite an array of things – our way ...
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BRIMUN2010

By Luciana Mihaela Nicoara · 0 Comments
After many difficulties related to organisational aspects—most notably generated by discussion on campus regarding the Monsato sponsorship—BRIMUN took off on Sunday, April 28th. The organising team, led by Wiebke Drews and Tariq Omarshah as Director General and Secretary General respectively, had reason to boast even before the event had its official opening. This year's BRIMUN promised to host a ...
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Vagina Monologues

By Falina Eldredge · 0 Comments
Last Thursday and Friday (8 and 9 April) approximately 200 students and Jacobs community members crowded into the East Wing of the IRC to attend a performance of the internationally-acclaimed Vagina Monologues. Originally written by US-American playwright Eve Ensler in 1996, the Monologues have since grown into the international V-Day movement (see vday.org for more information) and have been per ...
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A Night in the Life of Thorsten Behrens

By Carla Bleiker · 0 Comments
When asked about his official job title, Thorsten Behrens gets a little agitated: contrary to what everyone on campus thinks, it is not ‘porter’. The English word would translate to the German ‘Pförtner’, and this by far doesn’t cover the work he and his colleagues do. “We are security! We don’t just sit up front by the gate”, Thorsten Behrens states. The security personnel always checks whether ...
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Walking For The Brain

By Savannah Carr-Wilson · 0 Comments
After searching for the JCLL and walking up five floors in the gardening building, I finally find Claudia’s office. Opening the door, she greets me with a smile on her face, but also looks as if she’s quite busy. Savannah: Can you tell me a little bit about the research that is happening at the JCLL? I think so many students come here, and hear it is a research university, and then we are so out ...
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The Wall

By Oliver Barnstedt · 0 Comments
Not too long ago, I was lucky enough to be picked up by some car driver while I was on my tedious way to the pharmacy during a heavy storm. He was a very friendly, rather old man driving his old car and as he mentioned that he lived just near Jacobs University, I became curious and asked him what he thought about it and us students. “They can be a bit loud but actually they're quite nice. After a ...
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Comparing Professors’ Ideals (CPI)

By Anne Leiser · 0 Comments
This article is a comparative study of professors from both schools regarding the reasons behind teaching at Jacobs. It investigates the relationship between independent variables such as income, quality of students, research possibilities, professors' work load and the university's concept and the dependent variable of the professors' overall job satisfaction, suggesting that this might have a ...
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Football Update

By Haley Mischa Meidell · 0 Comments
Walking across campus on a sunny day, it's not uncommon to see students taking a break from their studies and looking for a little competition on the pitch. Whether it be football, rugby, Frisbee, or one of the other sports offered by the university, many students enjoy participation in athletic activities on campus. **** The Jacobs Men’s Football team, led by captain Angolwisye Mwakisu (Tanzan ...
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New Racing Boat!

By Lukas Friedemann · 0 Comments
The Jacobs University Rowing Team christens the new racing boat for the Eight Race at the Hanse Rowing Cup on May 12th It’s an integral part of the Rowing tradition that new boats are not simply used after their purchase, but that they are introduced to their new home in an official ceremony, which entails naming and presenting the boat and its crew. As a result of the great support from the Rowi ...
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Parliamentary Debates Become Heated

By Trevor Sloughter · 0 Comments
It‘s been some weeks since the heated debates on the funding of graduation ball and the referendum (and problems with it) than ensued. The Grad Ball Committee formed last semester and has been diligently working to achieve several goals: an event that as many students as possible will enjoy, total affordability, and accessibility. Last year‘s graduation ball was held on campus, and applied for €7 ...
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Fear of Donors Threatens Off Campus Housing

By Trevor Sloughter · 0 Comments
Parliament would like to reform the rules for off- campus housing. It is currently very difficult and rather discouraged to live off campus, despite the fact that many students come to Germany to live in Germany. Many students live a year on campus and would like to try something new and many students would benefit from a gradual transition into complete independent living instead of three years ...
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Questioning Community Standards

By Taylor Hartrick · 0 Comments
I am writing this article because we need your input. “In 2008, staff, faculty and students began to discuss the ethical principles of conduct for life in the Jacobs University community. This discussion aims to develop a Code of Community Standards with rules and recommendations for conduct with other people within and outside the community.” (Community Standard confluence page) This Wednesd ...
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Confessions from Backstage

By Falina Eldredge · 0 Comments
Dear Trevor, I looked for information on “back-alley” abortions still performed in the United States since 1973, and there are (unsurprisingly) no reliable numbers. Isolated incidents of death as a result of an unsafe abortion hint that they do occur at least in small numbers. Dear Everyone Else, Hi there. I was your impromptu host and unofficial information-finder for the Vagina Monologues this ...
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Vaginas - Yes, We Know You Have Them

By Sean Ames · 0 Comments
I have a penis. It is a very angry penis. I commune with it daily, and round this time of year he always has the same question— “Sean, boyo, why the hell do I have to put with all this angry VAGINA crap?” It’s not that he’s an anti-vagina penis. To the contrary, he’s one of their biggest fans. What he ISN’T a fan of, however, and what seem to always be out in force this time of year, is VAGINAS— ...
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Jacobs blog

By Anonymous · 0 Comments
I am an average Jacobs University student. I am not a very experienced writer but I will certainly give my best writing this blog—and I doubt you want to see perfect journalistic skills anyway. I am sure you will like reading what I am about to write. I will use this newspaper as a way in which I can convey my deepest thoughts, my experiences and my daily life at our lovely university. I chose to ...
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Our Seas Are Bloody

By Luciana Mihaela Nicoara · 0 Comments
The city of Taiji is located in the Higashimuro District, Wakayama, in Japan. It is a small town with only a few thousand inhabitants that lead relatively normal lives. From the outside, it might not seem like a sort of place that would generate much interest or concern, especially on an international level. Little fishing towns are common all over the globe. What makes Taiji “special” is its blo ...
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Reading Magic

By Anonymous · 0 Comments
Fortune tellers. They are everywhere. Different ways; different people; different theories. You have palm readings, dream interpretations, shaman rituals and coffee readings. Yup—coffee readings, otherwise known as “Tasseography”. This last one recently caught my attention. Think about it: the talent to give a person a glimpse into their near or far future of their life, just by looking into ...
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Two Different Sounds in Two Boy-Girl Bands

By Luciana Mihaela Nicoara · 0 Comments
When it comes to rock music and its many sub-genres, many of us envision a five-piece band with each member playing a different instrument, larger than life concerts with a large stage that’s never empty, and, of course, a frontman who gives the band their iconic image. While such bands are still around with us today, the level of versatility has increased in recent years where anything from a do ...
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A Visit to Zimbabwe

By Tariq Tobias Omarshah · 0 Comments
The room went dark. There was a second of silence as everyone adjusted; then the laughter and restaurant chit-chat resumed. The lights came back with a slight tremble. I was sitting in the Meikles Hotel restaurant on the 12th story in Harare. We were all quite used to the unreliable electricity. The waiter approached our table with well-practiced grace and a warm smile. Odd, I thought, to be smil ...
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Dead Flat

By Professor Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow · 0 Comments
In New Zealand we are supposed to have about 100 x 106 possums (Trichosaurus vulpecula). But if one asks some of the foreign visitors to New Zealand, if they had seen any possums in the wild, they will answer “Only some on the roads, run over by cars”. That reminds me of my stays in Australia, where the only spiny anteater (Tachyglossus aculeatus) outside a zoo, which I ever encountered, was a fl ...
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Leaders of Tomorrow

By Ivan Fartunov · 0 Comments
Dear all, I am not sure that this message will reach anyone as the webpage has not been updated since last year. Anyway I just want to give my opinion to you (POTW crew) because unlike a big part of our students I don't think my opinion is so important that I should waste everyone's time with spams. About the leaders for tomorrow - they are not going to be much different from the political leade ...
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Regarding BRIMUN

By Ludwig Schönenbach · 0 Comments
It seems like some remarks are appropriate in regards to the criticism towards the UN management game BRIMUN at the coffee university. For schools and events financially depending on business sponsors, a certain scepticism towards their ability to criticise basic questions of global economy seem fitting. With its Security Council, its permanent members and its veto right only for chosen nations, ...
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