If you belong to a sexual minority you might want to put a big rainbow-coloured cross on every 'Tuesday' in your calendar. Events include free muffins and a host of other activities.
BLUS, the organisation for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and queer) students, is the host every Tuesday at the Studenterhuset (Student Café) this Autumn.
The University Post wanted to know more about it, so we met up with Daniel Noesgaard Rasmussen, the head of BLUS.
»In the past, BLUS members were primarily Danish students from the Copenhagen area, but because we, among other things, have chosen to communicate exclusively in English, we now have a lot of international students who actively participate in our events. We used to host separate intro nights for Danish and international students, but as of this year we’ve put the two together.«
»Some students, especially from the Third World, get opportunities in BLUS, that they couldn’t have had in their home countries. We have also been an ideal place for new students from the suburbs to network, which hasn’t been possible for them in the past.«
BLUS is soon to host an event in collaboration with Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, an electoral meeting for the Danish National Association of Gays and Lesbians (LBL) prior to the local elections, and a large Autumn party and Christmas lunch.
There are between 30,000 and 50,000 animals at the Faculty of Health Sciences, all used for experiments. Our Danish colleagues in the Universitetsavisen were given an exclusive tour of the facilities
Gallery: February Orientation Meeting
Gallery: Department of Experimental Medicine
Gallery: War of the Wardrobes, the new international students
Gallery: New international students at Science
Gallery: Exam day at Biology
Gallery: Quantum Optics Laboratory
Gallery: Lego model of Hadron Collider's Atlas detector
Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs
Gallery: Copenhagen Competition Finals
Gallery: Intercultural Christmas at LIFE
Gallery: Commemoration 2011
Gallery: War of the Wardrobes from Wageningen, Holland
War of the Wardrobes: Faculty of Law
Gallery: The dancing cleaning staff
Gallery: Culture Night 2011
Gallery: Tree planting ceremony for environmentalist
Gallery: DHL ceremony 2011
Gallery: Æbelholt skeletons 1
Gallery: Æbelholt skeletons 2
War of the Wardrobes: CBS New international students are our troops, defending Copenhagen's honour against a US challenge. See them square up in our fashion contest War of the Wardrobes
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