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Spanish university welcomes new students with very messy initiation

Medical students at the University of Granada have been taking part in their annual tradition to welcome new students... an epic food fight.

Published: 16 October 2015 13:15 CEST
Spanish university welcomes new students with very messy initiation
Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

During the tradition, known as San Lucas, older students submit their new young classmates to a massive food fight. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

Important food fight provisions included flour and eggs.


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

To the chants of “uno, dos, tres, cuatro queremos sangre de novato” (“one, two, three, four, we want the blood of the newbies”) new students were pelted with ketchup, mayonnaise and beans, among other messy foods. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero 

Some students dressed up as their favourite film characters, here is Woody from Toy Story about to catch Buzz Lightyear. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

The ritual is banned from inside university buildings so students take the fight to the streets. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

The fight started in the Plaza de San Lázaro then made its way up the Avenida de la Constitución towards University Square. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

After the fight, students were set to embark on a huge botellón or outdoor drinking session. 


Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP

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Huff-in-chief to speak on ‘new media’ in Geneva

Arianna Huffington, the Greek-American author and media entrepreneur, is heading to Geneva later this month to speak about new media.

Published: 5 November 2013 14:52 CET
Huff-in-chief to speak on ‘new media’ in Geneva
Arianna Huffington. Photo: David Shankbone

The University of Geneva said on Tuesday that Huffington, 63, was invited as a guest speaker at the 2013 Latsis prize ceremonies, which honour bright post-graduate students.

She is best known as the creator and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post news website, launched in 2005 in the US.

This site subsequently spawned others based in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan, along with one in French aimed at North African (Maghreb) countries.

But Huffington, the former spouse of onetime Republican congressman Michael Huffington, has carved out an illustrious career in other media, as a blogger, tweeter, writer and broadcaster.

She’s also dabbled in politics, veering from the right wing to the centre-left, and ran as an independent candidate for governor in California ten years ago.

Educated at Cambridge University, she wrote a book 40 years ago that attacked the women’s liberation movement and was a supporter of Republican politicians in the US such as Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole before shifting her support to the Democrats.

Huffington is set to give a talk in English entitled: The Brave New World of the “New media”: how social media has revolutionized the communications landscape.

Huffington is set to give her analysis of what works on the web.

“The media have a tendency to focus on what doesn’t work,” she said in a statement relayed by the University of geneva.

“Our priority at the Huffington Post is to highlight also what works.”

The event is set for November 19th at the Piaget auditorium in the Uni Dufour building, starting at 6pm.

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