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(Lehti nimellä DASSENS NYHETER)

14/June 2000

Muita otsikoita:
Seriously having fun
Interview

15/June 2000

Memorable Moment of the Day:
Professor Valery Petrosyan offered an interesting choice: Stay in and work hard or go outside and get skin cancer.

Muita otsikoita:
Comments on the Plenaries
An Ethical Pledge
Join us for a drink!
Students run pub in "Sing-Sing"
We want socially responsible scientists
Bike up your life!
Genetic Angelneering

Kansanmusiikkiyhtye viihdytti eräänä iltana konferenssin osanottajia opiskelijoiden järjestämässä PubPugwashissa.

16/June 2000

Workshop Moments

At the workshop on transdiciplinary, a honourable thing happened. Ana Maria Cetto delivered half of her speech, she stopped. Then she said: 'I see so many students here, and I really want to hear the view of the students.' So she finished her presentation and started a discussion with the students. What a difference to the workshop on globalised economy, which after lunch turned into a technical discussion on energy issues. A dsicussion which de facto encouraged all female participants to disappear, either physically or mentally. Were there any men at the gender session?

A perception among some of the students, is lack of self-conciousness persistent among the participants. We all need to be more aware on who we are: mostly white, middleclass, middleage, western males. Lets face it.

First of all we have to keep this inequal distribution in mind in our discussions. Secondly we have to give our best to improve the situation for future gatherings.

We have been discussing lots of good ideas, but how about applying them in our own life? I f we are not able to do this as persons, how would anyone else for example governments, communities and corporations manage to do it? Can we ever be trusted if we not practice what we preach?

Every change starts from within yourself. Non-action is also action - it is also something to be responsible for. The personal is political!

So our suggestions, not only for the remaining three days, but for the remaining days of your life, is to

• eat vegetarian food (at least once a week)
• donate a tenth (at least) of your income for good purposes
• organise conferences and seminars with ecological and fair-trade food
• go by collective transports or walk or bike and do not take the polluting aeroplane if it is possible to take the train
• support environmentally or socially concerned student groups at your university or institution
• the last principle you may figure out something by yourself.

Muita otsikoita:

Bikes beat buses!

Meating at the City Hall

Cold war, anyone?

On corporate responsibility

17/June 2000

Muita otsikoita:
Can you teach old fish new tricks?
What a buck is 'sustainability'?
Look, we are not afraid

(Lehti nimellä Seniors@INES)

18/June 2035

Seniors with Bigger Ears and Smaller Mouths

Doing an investigation at the INES conference in 2035 it was established that the seniors of today have actually developed smaller mouths and bigger ears. Our reporter measured the sizes of the mouths and ears of a representative part of the senior participants at this INES2035 conference and demonstrated that the mouth to ear ratio has decreased by 30 % since similar measurements were performed at the INES conference in the year 2000. The wish for this development was started already during the students pre-conference at INES2000 and during the main conference the need for such a change in the senior anatomy was clearly visible. For example at the so-called panel debate on Saturday. Until the welcomed interruption by a member of the audience this 'debate' mostly consisted of (very interesting but also very long) presentations from the panel members and the moderator, leaving very little room for actual panel DISCUSSION not to mention involvement of the interested and competent audience.

Muita otsikoita:
Direct Sustainability Experiments
INES 2035-conference: Senile-participants are calling for responsible students!