COLUMN: From salsa to silence

16 June 2025 Opinion

The Danish preference for silence at first felt like a cold rejection, even anxiety-provoking, coming from a culture where salsa, laughter and vivid conversations make the soundtrack of your everyday life. Now, Sofía Pereira, an exchange student from Costa Rica, has learned to tame the urge to interrupt silence, and even to embrace it.

11 June 2025 Article

AU-students on new exam hall: "Cold and uninspiring"

The first exam season at the new AU Exam Hall in Lisbjerg is well underway. Students’ initial impressions highlight a contrast: while the building’s practical facilities are running smoothly, many describe the atmosphere as cold and uninspiring.

04 June 2025 Article

Siffos's Wake

On Friday, 23 May, Siffos – the student social committee for Public Health Sciences – was laid to rest at the semester’s final Friday bar. The degree programme is moving to Dalgas Avenue, and the board of Siffos saw no possibility of continuing as before. But maybe the committee is just playing dead ...

04 June 2025 Opinion

OPINION: AU's new exam hall is a concrete box that only accommodates the strongest students

With the new exam hall, AU is disregarding fundamental rights and prioritising logistics and finances over the students' legal security, writes Daniel Hjort, chair of the Student Council.

04 June 2025 Opinion

REPLY: We are building on the experiences with the Exam Hall

Of course, it's a huge shame that the exam hall hasn’t lived up to everyone's expectations, but it’s important that we get feedback from the students, as this is the only way we can improve the exam experience. This is what Anna Bak Maigaard, deputy director of AU Student Administration and Services, and Nikolaj Høncke Keldorff, team leader of the Educational Administrative Systems Management, write in their response to the criticism of the exam house from the Student Council's chair Daniel Hjort.

03 June 2025 Article

Man vs. Wild – AU-edition

Stefan Boldsen Hansen, team leader of AU’s Parks and Gardens Section, donned hearing protection and a silenced rifle in the early hours to free the human inhabitants of the University Park from the harmful cries of rooks. And yes, just like Bear Grylls in Man vs. Wild, he both whacks and eats the juvenile rooks.

30 May 2025 Article

Student protest outside the rector’s office building: "Pride is political? No shit"

A small group of students and other young people from Aarhus organised a protest outside the rector’s office building at Aarhus University on Friday. They are unhappy with AU’s decision to not participate in this year’s Pride.