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nº1 European Edition | december 2003 / january 2004 S U R V I V A L   S T U D I E S Today’s students are the first to pay for the mess which the “living room revolutionaries” of the Seventies left us: Bureaucracy, slogans and a big financial bubble. Today’s students are addicted to cigarettes or alcohol, have no coal to heat or might burn in a hostel fire. How many have no money for books an no quiet place to study? How many haunted students sans papiers? How many work every day and yet it’s just not enough? And how many have to resign to study for tution fees — forgetting about those who don’t even get an adequate education in school? — More from day to day. All over Europe students are protesting today. But the results are poor; the belief reigns that street lamps must not be damaged; there’s still no united student movement in Europe that could fill a city like Florence with 500.000 people; they still have no powerful deputies in the European parliament. This paper is adressed to everyone who studies in a European city today. If — since Ulysses — trying to be godlike is what makes human beings human, the we must study. To find out the truth. To learn how to say no. Let’s work it out. all articles        pdf version    instead of an editorial