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INTERNATIONAL SHORT NEWS FULL STUDENT BOAT 40000 engineering students demonstrated on the 10th April in Helsinki. Boom technology is over in Finland and for this they ask to the government to close the access to the university. After the end of Nokia’s success, application for admission at the university has not stopped and therefore students don’t find a job after they are graduated. Unemployment is getting a political issue in Finland, country with the highest number of students. (ef) MORNING HAS BROKEN It’s over the time of the wrong good morning. A team of Rhode Island students discovered how to measure the sleeping phases, and how to wake you up on the right time. You just have to set the alarm, the machine will do the rest. SleepSmart will measure sleeping position, heart beats, breathing rhythm of the person who sleeps. The machine will know the rythms of the person, and will learn to wake up on the right time, at the end of each “rem” phase. That means sleep that will be never more fitful. (ef) ACADEMICAL BOYCOTT Members of the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) decided to suspend all links with Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. At the AUT conference, in Eastbourne, Haifa University was accused of mistreating politics lecturer Ilan Pappe for defending a graduate student’s research into controversial areas of Israeli history. Bar-Ilan is criticised for supporting a college in “an illegal settlement” in the West Bank while some first-year students from Gaza taking degrees in the West Bank had been “illegally deported” back to Gaza and could not complete their degrees. A boycott would involve not attending conferences at the two universities and an end to joint grant-funding applications. The Israeli Embassy in London said the resolutions were “perverse in their content (and) no AUT member who wanted to argue against this decision was allowed to speak (...). We are certain that the British Government and British university authorities will make it clear that no discrimination or bias on the grounds of nationality, race or religion will be tolerated in UK higher education.” (bbc/tb) RADICAL ENCOUNTER Groups of left and right wing Students of the University of Rome, Roma Tre, expressed their political dissent in an affray on Friday, 22nd April. The conflict began the day before with an aggression against left wing students who were placarding posters about the 25th April, the Italian anniversary of liberation from fascism. Police forces had to keep apart the partly masked and bludgeon-armed antagonists who were singing “Duce Duce” on one side and “Bella Ciao” on the other. The prinicpal of the university, Guido Fabiani, intervened in the afternoon and condemned in a meeting “every presence of unconstitutional character” inside the university, moreover he ordered a sign, dedidated to the values of antifascism, to be fixed at the entrance of every faculty. (tb)