Issue 55 of the CEU Weekly

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YAn independent newspaper by CEU students and alumni January 21, 2015, Year 5, Issue 55

This week’s issue has no cover.

Why? because we want to know how you think The CEU COMMUNITY Should approach the topics and issues that the Recent events in FRANCE have raised, Not only

in Europe, but Around The World.

we are asking you, the CEU Student Body, to take the floor and tell us your thoughts AND write up your opinions. This is your opportunity to Express your

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We will be publishing select pieces in our NEXT issue. SEND YOUR ARTicLES by January 30, 2015 TO:

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Hungarian News

Hungary News

Dear Police Department of Pécs,I am writing to you regarding your

botched rape prevention campaign from last November. Let me refresh your memory: your video series called Selfie and its slogan of “you are responsible for it, you can prevent it” tell women “to be more careful and pay more attention” when party-ing so as to reduce the instances of sexual violence perpetrated against them. I understand you originally wanted to screen the videos in high schools at Pécs but in the wake of the media shit-storm stirred up by the ill-informed campaign, you (very wisely) decided not do so...

Now, I applaud your recogni-tion that rape is a problem and I am pleased that you want to actively address this. However, you let me and every other woman and man down in Hungary. Your campaign is teaching me to fear lone men on the streets, while you suggest to them that if I am alone and maybe even a little tipsy, I am fair game. You are telling men that I am vulnerable and that whatever they do to me is my fault. You are teaching me to be afraid by implying that every man is a potential rapist – but what purpose could my fear serve when you fail to

teach others that they must not rape? Where are your videos about the im-portance of consent and the undeni-able responsibility of the offender?

Part of the problem, dear PD Pécs, is that you seem to be shockingly out of touch with social reality. You casti-gate women for dressing revealingly (whatever that means!) when society tells them that women’s worth and likability hinge on looking ‘sexy.’ You are telling women that what makes them victims is their drinking, while society and their peers tell them that non-drinkers are unwanted party-poopers.

Your arrogance is astonishing. There is decades of academic re-search on rape culture, libraries could be filled with studies on sexual violence. You decided not to consult any of it. There are hundreds of gen-der-conscious experts in Hungary whose job is to deal with rape and violence. You decided to stay insult-ingly uninformed. There are rape survivors all over this country who could have provided you with valu-able insights. Instead, you managed to simultaneously ignore, belittle, and victimise these people.

Unlike you, I cannot afford to

be arrogant about sexual violence so here is how you could help: learn from police forces of other countries. For example, the Scottish police aced their prevention campaign called We Can Stop It. Instead of victim blam-ing, they focused on educating people about consent and debunking myths around drinking, clothing, and ‘mixed signals.’ Unlike you, they recognised that nobody is ever “asking for it” and that responsibility for rape always lies with the rapist. They know that rape is not a women’s issue but a societal one – and this is what makes their cam-paign work. So please get off your high horse and start taking notes.

Yours,Tamara Szucs

Gender Studies

Information on Practices for Rape Prevention:

www.ThisIsNotAnInvitati-onToRapeMe.co.uk

www.notever.co.uk

www.WeCanStopIt.co.uk

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Student Life

Because of the principle of univer-sality of human rights, discussion

about the variety of issues interrelat-ed with them is equally important all over the world. Universities can offer an open, engaging, constructive and productive environment for groups of people or individuals who are ea-ger to engage in this discussion. The two conferences below were held in such atmosphere and thus provided an opportunity for a lively and fruit-ful debate.On International Protection of Human Rights in Wroclaw In Poland, there is a widespread tra-dition to organize student conferences on pressing issues of modern society. One of these conferences was held at the University of Wroclaw on Novem-ber 12 – 13, 2014. The English language sections includ-ed one expert and one student panel. Professor Valdemar Arroyo-Rojas from Puerto Rico introduced his own index of measuring the level of chil-dren’s rights around the globe called Childex. Professor Chris Harding from the University of Abserystwyth provided critical remarks about the framing of fundamental rights in the marketplace. Finally, Professor Anna Śledzińska-Simon – a graduate from CEU’s Department of Legal Studies, who currently teaches at the Universi-ty of Wroclaw, presented her ongoing research on fragmentation of human

rights protection. The dominant issue of the student panel was freedom of speech, which was approached from the perspec-tive of the European Court of Human Rights and its actual rulings on hate speech, the principle of proportion-ality and its role in deciding cases of freedom of speech conflicting with other fundamental rights, and the spread of the social media in contem-porary world. On Inclusion, Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Budapest This year’s Human Rights Forum was for the first time organized by the McDaniel College Budapest in coop-eration with Hungary’s Migrants Help Association. Its principal aim was to enable students with an interest in various human rights issues to present their ongoing research and discuss it in front of an engaged audience. The panels dealt with issues of inter and multiculturalism, migration or majorities and minorities in Visegrad countries with specific focus on Slova-kia, its minority policy and two largest minorities: Hungarian and Roma. All panel topics were approached from an interdisciplinary perspective with papers utilizing approaches from his-tory, law, international relations, polit-ical science and even biology. The pre-senters came from Hungary, Slovakia and the United States. The single expert panel in the after-

CONFERENCE REPORT

Max SteuerIRES

Slovakia

noon included two CEU professors, Tibor Várady from the Department of Legal Studies and Robert Sata from the Department of Political Science, Pro-fessor Dagmar Kusá from the Bratisla-va International School of Liberal Arts and Professor Christianna Leahy from the US campus of McDaniel College located in Westminster, Maryland. One key conclusion of this panel was the crucial importance of human rights education beginning at high school level for fulfilling the right to know one’s rights as well as understand and respect the rights of others. The full forum schedule with abstracts is available via http://raday.blogs.com/files/HRF-sched-abstracts.pdf. Information about the organizers can be found at http://mcdaniel.hu/, http://www.mighelp.hu/ and http://raday.blogs.com/. The main message of both conferences was that no matter which country we come from, the increase in human rights protection and the respect for the rights of others, including vulner-able groups such as minorities and migrants all over the world, is of our mutual concern and interest.

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Life at CEU

DEVELOPING A HEROIC IMAGINATION: JANUARY 27 WORKSHOP

- How can we understand better what holds us back in our own personal development?- What does “standing up” for someone in a difficult situa-tion have to do with becoming more creative and success-ful in your own work?- How can we help others develop compassion for people who aren’t in our normal circle?These questions will be addressed at an entertaining CEU event on Tuesday Jan. 27 by the team who created the Hungarian “Heroes Square” project. Their 90-minute free workshop of videos, discussion, a surprise element, and re-ception are open to all members of the CEU community, but you need to register in advance at [email protected]. This Heroes’ Square initiative, coming to CEU for the first time, was founded last year by a group of Hungarians who decided they would like to live in a world where we have the courage to stand up and act for others, where compas-sion is a social norm. Their initiative is based on the work of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, who will give a video introduction at the CEU event. His Heroic Imagination Project focuses on promoting everyday heroism, inspiring us to act for others and teaching us how. It also is about personal devel-opment; the first part of the workshop will focus on “grow-ing your mindset,” including issues of performance-related anxiety, fear of failure, self-fulfilling prophecies, and other syndromes that hold people back from fulfilling their po-tential.

The Hungarian Heroes Square group has been working for the past year with local teachers and students, and also at businesses, which sponsor the Heroes Square training in order to help their employees develop their capacities to think and act. Their motto is “You Are What You Do!” Their kickoff event last June featured a conference and public rally at Budapest’s Heroes Square. “Our initiative reached half of the population of Hungary through 85 online, ra-dio, and TV reports/articles. We also organized a festival for six thousand youngsters, one of our videos reached 350 thousand views, we gave social psychology trainings to 400 teachers, and to even more managers in major companies,” said Gabor Orosz, the ELTE social psychology assistant professor who will lead the CEU workshop.The CEU event, at 17:30 Jan. 27 in the TIGY room off the Nador 11 courtyard, will be as much an “edutainment” as it is a workshop, according to Orosz. There will be videos and informal discussion, followed by an amusing and informa-tive surprise element, and then refreshments. The work-shop is sponsored by the CEU Student Life Office, Human RightS Initiative, and Center for Arts and Culture. More information about the Heroes Square initiative is available at: http://www.hosoktere.org/#!heroes-square/c12fl

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

The U.S. Navy launched the world’s first nuclear-pow-ered submarine Nautilus on this very day in 1954. This

new submarine was likely named after the famous under-water vessel that appears throughout the work of Jules Verne. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 61 years ago today, symbolically christened the Nautilus by swiping a cham-pagne bottle against its broadside, which set the vessel out to sea. The Nautilus registered a number of nautical records, dur-ing its career, including being the first vessel to cross un-der the North Pole in 1958. This mission was one of the most successful in the vessel’s life. Nautilus went on to travel more than half a million miles between 1954 and its final operations in 1979. The Nautilus was finally de-commissioned in 1980, and in 1986 was unveiled to the public as part of the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. The construction and launching of the Nautilus is an im-portant marker in the history of nuclear technology, sinceit not only served to broaden the scale of nuclear power’s usage, but it also signaled the beginning of a new era in nuclear arms race between the United States and Soviet Union.

www.elementsunearthed.comEszter Katjár Public Policy

Hungary

Ellen HumeAnnenberg Fellow in Civic Media

Center for Media, Data and Society

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Life at CEU  

Travel Across the World at the SU’s Annual CEU Inter-cultural Festival!With Over 40 Cultures and Countries represented by your fellow students!

When: Saturday, January 24, 2014 from 4:30-7:30pm

Where: CEU Residence Center

Make sure to share your photos with us while your prepping or at the party by tagging #ICF2015

The CEU Weekly invites the CEU Community to participate in a Drawing and Doodling Contest! We know that CEU students are full of creative energy and we would like to provide an opportunity for all of you to express yourselves!

CATEGORIES: There are two categories to guide you: 1) Draw us ‘time’ – you can build off of any association that comes to mind! 2) CEU Doodles – show us the little art works that you have produced while taking notes in the library, during classes, or elsewhere in CEU!

HOW TO SUBMIT: (please follow all three steps): 1) Like the The CEU Weekly Facebook page; 2) Submit the original drawing/doodle to the box placed in the library or bring it to one of our Editorial Board meetings (consult about time and place by e-mail). Please, indicate your name and your contact information on any submitted works; 3) Send an electronic scanned version to us at: [email protected]

DEADLINE: 21 FEBRUARY, 2015

PRIZES: Our sponsors offered various gifts for the best drawings/doodles! We have two categories and we would like to reward the two works with the most votes per category!

1st prizes: CEU branded items - offered by the CEU Recruitment, Alumni and Career Services Office

2nd prizes: Lunch for two offered by the Central Bistro and Re-vintage bag or clothe offered by Pop Sick Vintage.

Note: the distribution of prizes can change depending on the submitted works.

VOTING: We will announce the details of the voting procedure after the February 21st deadline for submission ends. But the process will involve the whole CEU community!

NOW START DRAWING & DOODLING!

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Sports

I n September last year, I watched my home country of Northern Ire-

land (47th in the world) defeat Hun-gary (45th) in a qualifying match for Euro 2016, winning 2-1 in front of a crowd of just 20,000. Neither team have qualified for a major tourna-ment since 1986. With this in mind, it’s easy to forget that Hungary once gave rise to one of the greatest na-tional teams ever to play the game and one of football’s truly legend-ary players. But they belonged to the 1950s, a more romantic time in foot-ball. Their story was brought to a close on Sunday, January 11th when Jeno Buzanszky, the last surviving member of the team, died at age 89.

He and his fabled team, the Mighty Magyars, were the Hungarian na-tional team which went undefeated from 1950-1956, apart from a single 3-2 loss to West Germany in the 1954 World Cup Final. That match came to be known as the Miracle of Berne, and not without good reason. Hungary had already beaten West Germany 8-3 in the same tournament and one year previously had begun a revolution in football by becoming the first foreign team to beat England in England, win-ning the Match of the Century 6-3 at Wembley Stadium in London. This was not just any victory. The English were the game’s inventors and cus-todians of the classic ‘W M’ forma-tion. The Hungarians introduced a new 4-2-4 system and demonstrated incredible levels of skill, positional sense, and fitness in the victory. A superb and very large mural tribute

to the game can be found on Rum-bach Sebestyén utca in Budapest’s District VII. And then, just for good measure, six months later in Hungary they beat England again, this time 7-1.

Much of the credit for the success of the Aranycsapat (the ‘Golden Team’, as they are also referred to) should go to manager Gusztav Sebes. His most significant innovation was that every player was required to learn every po-sition, pre-empting the Netherlands’ famous ‘Total Football’ by 20 years. A former labour organiser, Sebes once called it “socialist football”. The Mighty Magyars achieved the highest Elo ranking in history before being surpassed by last year’s World Cup-winning Germany team. Their defeat in the 1954 final marks the Golden Team as probably the best ever na-tional side not to win a World Cup

Before that landmark game at Wem-bley, one of the Hungarian players was singled out by the English as a “fat little chap.” That was Ferenc Puskás, and the English soon realised that the stocky Budapest native was a foot-balling genius. The Galloping General (a reference to Puskás’ military ca-reer) scored 84 goals in 85 games for his country while winning five league titles with Budapest Honvéd FC. Un-fortunately, like many of his team-mates, his fate was bound up with the tragic fate of his city. The failure of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising led much of the Honvéd team, who were playing away in Europe at the time, to stay away from Hungary. Puskás would never play for the national team

THE MIGHTY MAGYARS: A REVOLUTION IN FOOTBALL

again. His career continued in Spain with Real Madrid where, known as Pancho, he joined forces with Di Ste-fano in one of history’s legendary club sides. Most famously, he became the only player to score four goals in a European Cup Final during Madrid’s 7-3 victory over Eintracht Frank-furt in 1960, regarded as one of the greatest football matches of all time.

His legacy can still be seen around you today. The stop and the stadium on metro line M2 are named after him, as is a street in District XIX. If you ever want to pay tribute to the man known locally as Öcsi (‘Buddy’ in Hungarian), you need only pop into Szent István-bazilika over lunch, where he was buried in 2006. Most no-ticeably, the Puskás Award is given by FIFA to the most ‘aesthetically signifi-cant’ or beautiful goal scored in world football the previous year. Fittingly, it was awarded at the Ballon d’Or ceremony on 12th January this year, the day after Buzanszky passed away, serving as a reminder that, though the team may be gone, their influence on world football continues to live on.

John McLeanPublic Policy

United Kingdom

mno.hu

footballspeak.com

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Volunteer and Promote CEU

Volunteer

Did you know that 30% of our ap-plicants last year heard about

CEU from a current student or grad-uate? Would you like to help shape CEU’s next generation of students and share the University’s mission beyond our campus? Then join the Student Recruitment Office’s Vol-unteer Program and get involved in spreading the word about the Uni-versity!Running since September 2013, the Student Recruitment Office’s Volun-teer Program aims to further expand the potential of student engagement in recruitment activities by bringing together a group of current students, committed to CEU’s mission, who would like to get involved in finding suitable candidates for the university. In the pilot year (2013-2014), a group of 13 active CEU students participat-ed in the program.The participants, also known as Stu-dent Recruitment Contacts/Volun-teers, can join in various events and outreach activities on and off cam-pus, including fair participation in Hungary, campus tours and presen-tations as well as networking with Hungarian youth organizations. The Student Recruitment Contact/Volunteer acts as a country and department-specific representative, working closely together with stu-dents, faculty and the Student Re-cruitment Office to promote CEU’s programs, services and mission. In addition to assisting with different events throughout the current re-cruitment cycle, the volunteers may also carry on as CEU ambassadors in recruitment efforts after graduation.

What does the program entail?Event support:

Participating in on-campus events: Open House, Welcome Afternoon, Graduation sale, Welcome Afternoon sale, lead-ing campus tours and connect-ing with prospective students on campusAssisting incoming students during and after Pre-Departure Orientation sessions (PDOs): meeting students in Budapest before Zero Week and Orienta-tion WeekParticipating in off-campus re-cruitment efforts such as fairs, university group visits, etc.

Outreach work:Sharing promotional materials within your personal network and through social media chan-nels in your country Getting involved in external events and projects with recruit-ment potential (university visits, presentations, internships, ex-change programs)Responding to email inquiries

Administrative work:Assisting with clerical and ad-ministrative tasks Connecting us with home uni-versities and contacts, forging potential university partner-ships

Why get involved?Take advantage of professional training that could be helpful for future jobs

Experience networking op-portunities: with institutions, NGOs, student organizations, people from different academic backgroundsBuild your CV (additional work/voluntary experience for your CV)Receive a CEU-branded T-shirtBe acknowledged for your ser-vice via our social media chan-nels (mostly on our Recruitment FB Page)Gain valuable experience to pre-pare you to apply for the CEU Student Ambassador program after graduation

Our requirementsTo apply, you need to:

be enrolled as a CEU studenthave excellent communication skillswork effectively in a teamshow initiativepossess a positive attitude about University life and CEU’s mis-sion and values

To learn more about how you can get involved, contact us at: [email protected].

Alexandra Zontea Student Recruitment Office

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The Infinite genius of Yann TiersenA well-known French composer, author of soundtracks for Amelie and Goodbye Lenin arrives to Budapest in February; it is a part of musician’s world tour presenting his new album Infinity. There is a month still left until the concert, but the tickets are running out fast! When: February 24, 2015Where: Akvarium klub (Erzsébet tér 12).Costs: HUF 5400 (early bird fee)More information: http://akvariumklub.hu

Budapest Safari“In a city like Budapest you can witness anything from the plain hilarious to the weird and macabre in a matter of minutes on the same street” - that is how Marcus Goldston, the artist who moved to Budapest 20 years ago from the UK, explains the idea of his new exhibition called Budapest Safari. The watercolors and prints presented at the exhibition, humorous or grotesque, are all about the streets and situations which are so familiar to many of us. When: Ongoing until February 14, 2015Where: Brody ArtYard (Vasvari Pal Utca 8) More information: http://www.brodyartyard.com/3122-budapest-safari-marcus-goldson/

Mangalica FestivalA whole weekend of February will be devoted to the curly-haired mangalica pig, a famous Hungarian heri-tage breed. The festival will presents many products made of mangalica meat; by the way, it is considered to be a bit healthier than the regular pork. The entrance is free!When: February 6-8, 2015Where: Szabadság térMore information: http://www.mangalicafesztival.hu/

Carnival Time!Farsang - the carnival season - has started in Hungary. One of the most interesting events of the carnival season is the Buso festival (Busójárás) in the town of Mohács. Buso is a traditional mask worn during the carnival; according to a local legend, during the Otto-man times these masks helped the population of Mohács to chase Turkish troops from their territory. The festival will include food-tasting, dancing, concerts, performances, and, of course, the color-ful and noisy Buso procession. It’s a great opportunity to see more of Hungary and to have fun at the same time. When: February 17, 2015Where: main street of Mohács (Baranya county, close to the border with Croatia).More info: http://www.mohacs.hu/en/info/buso-carnival/buso-carnival-2015.html

Hungarian Expressionof the week

A Szküllába ütközöl, amikor el akarod kerülni a Kharübdiszt.

Running from Charybdis he rushed upon Scylla.

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--Anna Varfolomeeva, Department of Environmental Sciences, Russia