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Longest Physics Lecture in History? 262
gfrege writes "Perhaps you remember some long physics lectures from your days at school. But as part of a general strike of students at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin concerning cuts in funding for the city's universities, some physicists are in the middle of what could be the longest physics lecture in history. It started at noon on Monday, and is planned to run to noon on Thursday. Check out the topics, and if you're in Berlin, come on down. The Babelfish translations of the lecture titles make for some fun reading, too, if you can't make it there yourself."
Maybe if it were a single lecture... (Score:4, Interesting)
The most interesting parts.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Maybe if it were a single lecture... (Score:5, Funny)
about as coherent as a professor awake for 1 hour
Re:Maybe if it were a single lecture... (Score:5, Funny)
The real difference is, unlike a typical one hour lecture, students can't sleep through all 72 hours of this lecture.
Re:Maybe if it were a single lecture... (Score:3, Funny)
It can't be (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:It can't be (Score:3, Funny)
I've plagiarised that piece repeatedly.
Re:It can't be (Score:2)
Thats not that long... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thats not that long... (Score:2)
WELL KNOWN FOUR DAY PHYSICS LECTURES
The Physics of the Q-Tip
Ether and other ideas that seemed to make sense at the time (taught by this stoned guy they found in the park).
Physics models without any known application that are difficult to understand (as lectured by a well-k
Sorry, can't resist (Score:5, Funny)
Again sorry, but you know it's funny.
Re:Sorry, can't resist (Score:2)
Isn't quantum physics encompassed in the whole 'theoretical' subclass of physics?
Mr. Do is giving a theoretical physics lecture? Cool - I always wanted to know how that bicycle-pump weapon worked!
Re:Sorry, can't resist (Score:2)
Re:Sorry, can't resist (Score:3, Funny)
Look out for that bus! It's going really fast!
"That's not a bus. It's just an SUV that's stretched out because it's approaching c."
"Oh, thank goodness!"
*SPLAT!*
Re:Sorry, can't resist (Score:2)
Okay, better example:
Quantum physics for pedestrians:
"So how fast was the car going when it hit you?"
"I'm not sure, but I *do* know its position when it hit me!"
Actually, the flashing don't walk sign, during which time you both can and cannot cross a street, is a real-life example of Schroedinger's (sp?) cat.
and if you're a geek... (Score:2, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
students on strike??? (Score:2, Insightful)
now, they could be "demonstrating". but only WORKERS can "strike".
Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:2, Troll)
1) They get their entire education paid for FREE.
2) While studying they get retirement contributions paid for them by the government.
3) They can take their education as long as they would like. For example if it takes a student 20 years then it takes 20 years all the while the German taxpayer is funding the student.
What they are now trying to do is take away the retirement rights and make them pay a small fee. WELL GEE WHIZ welcome to the real world. Oh I forgot
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:5, Interesting)
Plus, there is a reason society should pay for students to go to school. Over the long run, the country will get back more money in taxes than they paid for the tuition. Think about it, if government paid $8000 a year for tuition and another $5000 for room and board, heck make it a cool $15,000 a year for the student, then that would be $60,000 for the 4 years. Now a college graduate will probably make at least $20,000 a year more than a non-college graduate on avarage, and probably much more later in life as they advance in their careers. If government taxed 20% of this extra $20,000 a year, then government would get $140,000 back over the next 35 years. And those are lowball estimates. Consider the extra money would probably push the person into a higher tax bracket (more than 20% taxes, probably closer to 40%), and they will probably be making $50,000/year more than non-graduates after 10 or 15 years of work.
I do not understand why country's do not offer free college education for all.
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:5, Insightful)
Simple. Because educated people are harder to control. Those in positions of power want those who are not to be easier to control, easier to turn into mindless consumer zombies, easier to get to vote for whoever puts out the best commercials rather than has the best platform, etc.
Universal education challenges the new aristocracy, who believe that you shouldn't get anything unless you can pay through the nose for it. Of course, they can afford to, but no one else can.
And the society goes to hell for it, with them leading the way. Gotta love it.
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:5, Interesting)
Indeed. In fact, the US public education system was designed to keep people uneducated and docile [thememoryhole.org].
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:2)
Private education results in education. Public education results in indoctrination.
Mistaken... (Score:2)
The problem with free education is that people abuse the system. Not a little bit, but a whole lot. The idea should not be free education, but education where you pay a bit. Not so much that it is impossible to attend, but enough to make sure people will treat it with respect. For those that do not have the money to attend the government then kicks in the rest.
Also flawed in Germany is the argument that everybody MUS
Re:Mistaken... (Score:5, Informative)
Not everybody can get a higher education - you have to earn it first by, you guessed it, getting good grades. This is called the "Hochschulreife". Without it, you are not eligible to even apply to a University. There's ALSO this thing called "Numerus Clausus", which basically says "only people with these grades or better get even LOOKED at" for degrees with a limited capacity. And furthermore, if you don't spend effort to study, you'll get kicked out - if you don't manage to pass the exams in the given time-limit (if there is one) or flunk twice, you'll lose your right to ever take another exam in that discipline again. Forever. For every University in Germany. This means, that if I manage to flunk twice in Mathematics, I'm not allowed to study anything where Mathematics is a part of the degree (Engineering, Computer Science,
There's also no studying forever: you get one and a half times the specified time of study for that particular degree (in BW at least). After that you'll have to pay tuition fees. But this is different from state to state.
Who told you that bullshit anyway? Take it from someone who actually studies in Germany...
Re:Mistaken...Not quite (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite, if I were to study mathematics and were to flunk a course, I could still study economics or business even though these include courses in algebra, finance mathematics and statistics. So, while it may apply to engineering or computer science, it wouldn't apply to other courses containing math lectures. And yes, flunking one single part of
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:2)
This is a fallacy - you're failing to see the wider picture. Graduates only earn more money because being a graduate enables them to rise to the top of the pile. If there were less graduates, the same positio
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:2, Insightful)
Now, is this ever going to happen anywhere in America or Canada (which is where I am)? Not bloody likely.
In fact, tuition is on the rise. In the particular province I live (Ontario), we were recently plagued by close to a decade of neo-con stupidity, masquerading under the name "Progressive Conservatives", that resulted in, among other things, tuition fees more than doubling.
An education is a right that is as fundamenta
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:2)
No beer.
No parties.
No spring break.
I get to pick your course of study.
I get to pick where you go.
You don't like those terms? Then quit whining for me to pay for your education.
Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability? (Score:5, Informative)
There is also something wrong with the idea that if someone comes out the right vagiana then they everything for free, while others have to struggle for the same oppertunity. Isn't education something everyone has a right to? It is the only thing I can think of which by itself can take a person and improve their quality of life, their job, the amount of money they make, and their happiness.
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
I've seen people work full time AND get a college education. In fact, that's why most colleges have 'part-time' students.
The reason I'm a bit more than upset is because I had to go through all the crap of working and going to school too, and it's not so bad! If I can do it, anyone can. I had no savings, no extra money coming from 'fami
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
That's a broad generalization based on your personal experiences.
You're seem very proud of your accomplishments, but that doesn't mean you can look down on your peers who haven't accomplished the same.
Count yourself lucky that you were able to find the jobs to suit your education, lucky that you're in strong enough health to work those hours and study.
And don't forget... it may or may not be your case, but I've heard your argument before... even if you had no money coming from your family, there's a h
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
Of course he can.
Now, the question is whether we want to force everyone to go through the large amount of work that he did.
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
Whats my point? That those friends of yours that dropped out because it was too difficult, might not have gotten very much out of college had they completed it.
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
I have 0$. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch.
Guess what? I'm in college.
Everything is paid for on federal loans, grants, and scholarships.
Those smart people must not have been that smart if they couldn't do the same. Yeah, I'm gonna graduate 30 grand in debt, but I'll pay it back sooner or later.
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
Same here. I went to a (highly rated) state school instead of an Ivy League college, but I can prove to employers that I have a bachelors in computer science. And despite the grandparent's naysaying, I worked 40 hours the whole time. Yep, literally. I spent the first two years as a night auditor in a motel, which was perfect for someone who wants to do homework while getting paid and without a lot of distractions. Afte
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
Re:Should it be tied to ability to pay, or ability (Score:2)
I finished my degree (with a 2nd major - magna cum laude) by working hard (19, 21, & 20 hours the last 3 semesters), sacrificing sleep and leasure, and maint
Re:Oh YES THEY ARE... (Score:3, Interesting)
Correlation not causation etc. etc., but the Universities must be doing something right.
PS: Australian higher education used to be free. Now
Statistical Hick-ups... (Score:2)
Consider the following URL: http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Disc u ssions/comp-ed.html. BTW This is a German website who wrote this.
Scroll down to the bottom and look at how Germany manages its education. Not pretty and clearly designed to be abused...
For example catch the statement people enter higher level schooling at 19-20 and leave at 25-30. Geewhiz what are they doing for all that time?
Re:Statistical Hick-ups... (Score:2)
I've attended some undergraduate-level courses at a (good) German University, and can honestly say that the pace and workload was much more demanding than the equivalent course in my (also 'good') Univeristy in Australia. This was actually a foreign language course, as regards mathematics I can only judge by the graduates
Re:students on strike??? (Score:5, Informative)
Also, since a student strike does not hurt as much as a worker strike, the students have to revert to more spectacular means. The one described in this article is one of them. Another media effective action was the demonstration at IKEA last week where many students occupied the beds there and "applied" for educational asylum in Sweden.
You could say it is a kind of demonstration, but a very specific one.
BTW: I am not a student, but work as assistant at a German university, so I am familiar with the current situation and the student protests.
Sebastian
Sir Isaac Newton (Score:2)
Students have feelings too.. (Score:2)
Re:students on strike??? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:students on strike??? (Score:2)
Thankfully, our deparment stepped in to save us from our evil union and supplimented our income to make up for the difference.
I'd love to go... (Score:3, Funny)
awesome (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be awesome if you could go to lectures for one 24-hour period per week! Then the rest of the week could be used for studying, and doing cool projects and shit. I figure that during the lecturing, you could take some cat naps for like, and hour at a time, and your friend could take notes for you. You could take turns. Ideally all the notes would be available online anyways, so if you took a 6 hour nap, you could get those notes.
Re:awesome (Score:2)
Nerd! ;-)
Re:awesome (Score:2)
secondly, 6 hours of material is approximately two weeks worth of lecture. think about how much missing even one lecture in the w
Re:awesome (Score:2)
I've had lots of boring lectures. I'd rather get them over with in one sitting. Of course if there were couches or beds, thi
Re:awesome (Score:3, Interesting)
My first reaction was "Heh?"
My next reaction (after teaching the class for one evening) was "Yey!"
We got to have a 20 minute break every hour (hey, it's a LONG lecture), and got to go home an hour (or sometimes two) early. Overall, it was a pretty enjoyable semester.
Re:awesome (Score:2)
3 day physics lectures are nothing new (Score:5, Funny)
Re:3 day physics lectures are nothing new (Score:2)
Favorite Toppic (Score:5, Funny)
This sheds new light on the old "look left, look right, look left again" rule when crossing the street: In quantum, by looking at the cars, you can affect their positions!
Doesn't apply to me (I tried, nearly got run over). Maybe it works if you're blond...?
Re:Favorite Toppic (Score:2)
My girlfriend's done one better, not being blonde--affecting their positions by _not_ looking at them. It's a great skirt, too.
Re:Favorite Toppic (Score:2, Funny)
Police officer: Do you know how fast you were going, sir?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am.
Re:Favorite Toppic (Score:2)
Or, perhaps more relevantly, by not looking you can make them both there and not there at the same time. So when you cross the road, there is a possibility that you will be killed and a possibility that you won't be. By arranging the situation so that you will only be observed once you reach the other side, you will get there.
Truly magnificent!
Re:Favorite Toppic (Score:2)
Unless you tunnel through them.
Wowza (Score:3, Funny)
Anyways, what will this accomplish? It seems to me like this will detract from their point, almost as if it's a lighthearted, happy little protest.
Re:Wowza (Score:2)
Anyways, what will this accomplish?
It proves beyond a reasonable doubt that there are stringed patterns of acoustic energy in the universe that when they hit the optic nerve produce a sedative like effect in biological organisms.
In other words, it's novocaine for the eyes.
My favorite Lecture (Score:5, Funny)
I am worried... (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe I am way off in thinking from the status quo, but I believe universities have a responsibility to inspire students, not just "sell a product". I believe this because what happens to people during their college time effects all of society, not just the student. The imagination and creativity of these graduates will determine how much we advance with space exploration, computers, and all sorts of technologies. These new graduates just have to dream it. Just look at the past 40 years, and what graduates have accomplished. Good for the physics faculty to have this lecture marithon. I bet they will be helping themselves recruit more students.
Re:I am worried... (Score:2)
Fortunately for you, things will change by the time you graduate. ALL the CS and Engineering jobs will be located in India or some highly populated eastern country. There will be no telemarketing jobs due to the do not call registry to help people with degrees pay for going back to school for another degree. And lastly we are going to have rolling blackouts crossing our country every few hours due to PITA wanting US to suffer, not the helpless
Re:I am worried... (Score:2)
In the USA, college and university are basically synonyms - although university has a connotation of being bigger.
In many European countries a university is basically any school analagous to a US college or university. A college is more like a technical or trade school.
Background (Score:5, Informative)
1.) Here in Germany, higher education comes mostly for free, including attending University. This is paid for by state taxes, mostly.
2.) There is a huge financial crunch in local communities and the states (Laender), of which Berlin is one, due to prolonged blissful ignorance of reality (tax revenue down) in crazy public spending. Berlin is one of the worst candidates with huge debt, kind of like CA in the US, even suing federal gvt. to bail them out and unfortunately winning.
3.) Berlin has three full universities plus N colleges and such, sucking up money.
4.) what's an avg. politician to do? Slash university funding big style, amongst other things, potentially closing one of them down for good
5.) what's a university student to do? go on strike (IMO not very creative either, but I digress....) and generally raise awareness that higher education is worth its money.
6.) what's a prof to do? help students out (after all they're in the same boat), by e.g. holding a 3 day continuous physics lecture in the middle of Berlin, for everybody to attend.
That's why they're doing it. If you or I agree with it, is another question...
Similar events in Hong Kong (Score:2, Informative)
We are getting round to step 4 and 5 recently, too bad our professors are probably not creative enough to try step 6.
too simple (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm sure most students don't realize that when they're still in university and many will never for the rest of their lives, but having lived and worked in differeny countries with the full range from completely free over subsidized to full
Re:Background (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, yes, but plans are to introduce fees for studying. IIRC, 1000 Euro per semester. There are higher fees in the US, for example, but the two systems are quite different so the fees are not comparable. Whether the fee is a good thing or a bad thing is debatable.
2.) There is a huge financial crunch in local communities and the states
Berlin has to save money. True. And again the debate is whether cutting down the financing of universities is smart. Consider that human capital (knowledge) is basically the only ressource Germany has. And universities are generally not well funded. The point "everyone has to save money, so it's fair that universitites have to, too" is certainly valid.
3.) Berlin has three full universities
Each has, AFAIK, a different emphasis. And colleges (Fachhochschulen) are inherently different from universities.
I agree that events like these raise the awareness of the problem. But given the current political climate, I doubt anything will change. BTW, it's not just Berlin. The cuts affect all universities in Germany.
comments from a physicist (Score:4, Interesting)
All I remeber... (Score:2, Interesting)
Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:4, Interesting)
The story as I recall it, describes a brilliant but eccentric German physics lecturer. It described an antiquated German grammar structure, now obsolete, but still used by this lecturer due to his advanced age. It was described as "pushing and popping the stack," each sentence was left incomplete, quickly shifting to a new sentence fragment, but omitting all the verbs. Each time you came to the place where the verb belonged, you just "pushed" it onto your mental stack, and moved on to the next sentence. Then when you got to the conclusion, you'd "pop" all those verbs off the stack and speak the sentence endings in order. So hypothetically it might go something like this:
Mary little lamb, fleece white as snow, everywhere Mary, the lamb; had, was, went, sure to go.
Now I never heard anything so preposterous in my life. That was, UNTIL I read the rest of the anecdote about this lecturer. Apparently he was prone to using run-on sentences that would last nearly half an hour, which he only realized as the allotted time for the lecture was coming to a close. As the story told it, students would listen to the first half-hour of the run-on sentence, baffled by most of what he was saying, and not taking many notes because none of the sentences were complete or even sensible. Then near the end of the lecture, he'd suddenly have to wrap things up so he'd just spit out 15 minutes worth of verbs, popping them off his stack in the correct order, and all the students would frantically try to copy them all down in their notes, moving backwards from the bottom to the top of the pages, to fill in all the gaps in the notes.
I don't speak German so I don't have any evidence pro or con about this grammar structure. And I'm skeptical because it would take a genius to remember the last 30 minutes of your extemporaneous lecturing, let alone all those verbs you used in the correct order. But it wouldn't be completely implausible since the German physicists of that era were some of the greatest minds of all time. The story seemed to be told out of respect for his prodigious feat of eccentric speechmaking, as much as it was told as poking fun at the absentminded idiot-savant professor.
So does this story sound like complete B.S.? Or is it vaguely plausible, if someone straightens out the errors I probably made due to it being about 25 years since I heard this? And if anyone else has heard this anecdote, would you happen to know just WHO it was?
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2)
I have never heard of this, but under German the verb does come at the end of the sentence; so I would put it down as a joke.
A: It was D. R. Hofstadter (Score:4, Informative)
"The proverbial German phenomenon of the "verb-at-the-end", about which droll tales of absent-minded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherance, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic pushing and popping. The confusion among the audience that out-of-order popping from from the stack onto which the professor's verbs had been pushed, is amusing to imagine, could engender."
Re:A: It was D. R. Hofstadter (Score:2)
But still, I'd like to hear the original "droll tales" because I think Hofstadter is generally full of shit. And we still have no confirmation from native German speakers that this story is plausible.
Re:A: It was D. R. Hofstadter (Score:2)
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2, Informative)
My guess is that the story is simply an urban legend, concocted by some frustrated student of german.
German is nominally SVO, but in subordinate clauses, and after certain conjunctions, it because SOV. So for example, ich habe den Mann gesehen means 'I have the man seen', which is a typical past tense construction in German. Now, if you make it a subordinate clause, watch what happens: ich denke dass ich den Mann gesehen habe. (I think that I the man seen have).
As sentences get more complex, you c
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2)
A: Schachtelsatze (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not used much, and if it is, it's generally in literature. Probably 95% of its useage is simply to show off, I'd assume.
It works basically more or less like this: you start a sentence, and at some word, where you'd like to add additional information about it, you start a subclause. In that one, you can do the same again. Effectively, you're embedding sentences within sentences. Since in German, the verb often comes at the end, once you're through, you must clean up by adding all the verbs at the end. So it's a bit like pushing and popping indeed.
An artificial, exaggerated example was taken from here [rhetorik-netz.de]:
german:
Schon immer mal wollte ich einen Satz, der zwar grammatikalisch richtig gebildet, jedoch durch die Anfugung von Nebensatzen, die durch ein Komma, welches das Verb bzw. das Hilfsverb, das dieserart jeweils erst nach dem Schachtelsatz, der eigentlich den Zusammenhang, der ebenfalls im Nebensatz, der kurz vor dem Verb, welches das Satzende, das das Verb bzw. das Hilfsverb, das durch das bereits genannte Komma, das ja die Nebensatze, die eingeschachtelt worden sind, abschachtelt, ineinander verschachtelt wurde, endlich bringt, wieder entschachtelt, verschachtelt worden ist, erklart wird, erklaren sollte, genannt wird, somit einschachtelt, getrennt werden, verschachtelt wird, ist, formulieren.
english, (almost) german word order:
I always wanted a sentence, which however gramatically corrently formed, but through the addition of subclauses, that are with a comma, which the verb or the auxiliary verb, which in this way each time only after the nested clause, that actually the context, that also in the subclause, that shortly before the verb, which the end of sentence, which the verb or the auxiliary verb, which through the previously mentioned comma, which now the the subclauses, which have been nested, nests in, has been nested in each other, finally mentions, de-nests again, has been nested in, is explained, should explain, is mentioned, therefore nests in, are separated, is nested in, is, to formulate.
english, understandable (sort-of):
I always wanted to formulate a sentence, that is formed gramatically correct, but that is nested in through the addition of subclauses. These subclauses are separated by a comma, which nests in the verb or auxiliary verb, which then gets only mentioned after the nested clause. The nested clause should explain the context, which also is explained in the subclause that has been nested in shortly before the verb, which de-nests (the sentence) again before the end of the sentence. The subclause thus relates to the verb or auxiliary verb.
The verb nests sentences through the use of a comma, which marks the nesting of the subclauses that were nested in.
Hope that helps or at least doesn't confuse more than before...
Re:A: Schachtelsatze (Score:5, Funny)
Oh my God. I ran that through Babelfish twice and got the EULA to Visual Studio. Suddenly, the world became a little clearer...
Re:A: Schachtelsatze (Score:2)
Re:A: Schachtelsatze (Score:2)
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2)
There likely wasn't an actual person who did such a thing. My father (who is Austrian) told me the story of the absent-minded german professor as he heard it fifty years ago and his understanding of it was as a joke. He and his friends would some
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2)
Re:Q: for native German speakers or physics geeks (Score:2)
Student strikes in Australia (Score:4, Interesting)
So even though students are not paid to attend university, their union has legally the same weight as all other trade unions.
In my city the local representatives have been active organising various protests against proposed government regulation changes (effectively govt. wants to reduce spending on education and force universities to obtain funding through research avenues AND raise student fees - in Australia we have a deferred payment scheme called HECS that partially offsets tuition fees).
Some of the recent protests have been a day strike, culminating in a lunchtime rally, storming the state Parliament house. How effective? Who knows but the proposed reform bill has been stymied.
Re:Student strikes in Australia (Score:5, Informative)
In Western Australia, for example, university student's can not be forced to join a union. They actually have freedom of association and aren't forced to pay large amounts of money to an organisation they do not support.
They also have *better* student services, but simple economics would tell you that would be the case.
Re:Student strikes in Australia (Score:2)
It was my understanding that though it is called a student union, it's not really a union in the same way a trade union is a union.
Such things as laws against compulsatory unionization and the like don't apply, for this sort of reason. Also (mainly because it's not exactly relevant I guess) they don't set pay awards, etc.
which I believe they hav
Student power (Score:3, Funny)
Kids these days just don't understand that the true point of university is to explore your alcoholic limits and avoid working for 3 years.
Quantum mechanics for pedestrians (Score:3, Funny)
Schoell (DO) quantum mechanics for pedestrians
Are we going to hear something like the following:
"If you need to cross a busy street with cars going in both directions, go to a spot where the cars' wavefunctions form a standing wave. Then you can cross safely at the nodes, since the probability of any car being there will be very low."
Not sure if I'm understanding this but... (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like everyone wins.
We should get this on pay-per-view... (Score:2)
Re:I don't get it. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I don't get it. (Score:4, Informative)
You might get some more information on indymedia germany (http://de.indymedia.org), but until now the whole movement is not too much related to social movements in general, more about academics getting a bad future like everyone else does.
Re:I don't get it. (Score:2)
The City of Berlin has inherited both Eastern and Western Berlin Universities, and simply cant finance them any more. Berlins is, for othert reasons, utterly bankrupt anyway (they managed to ruin their own state bank by corruption a few years ago and they never got over losing all those subsidies they got when they still were "insulated" West-Berlin).
Berlin now runs (= finances; there are no University endowments in G
Americans Students Let Everyone walk all over them (Score:5, Insightful)
American workers now work more hours per year than any other country, and our pay just keeps going down.
Brainwashed and politically isolated by the media, we are each like baby wildebeest stranded midstream in an African river, while the investors, business owners and corporations feast on our carcasses.....
Re:Americans Students Let Everyone walk all over t (Score:2)
The "sekrit Kucinich Kabal" is OPENSOURCE, dude! (Score:2)