CULT Edition
KUOPIOPOLITAN
Cooperative
non-Cheaters
CULT does not only have
excellent cooperation and
communication skills, but
would never even consider
cheating.
Being the Journalist of two Commit-
tees is rather difficult, as I never seem
to have enough time to spend with my
Delegates. However, double journoing
is a unique opportunity and it has its
advantages. I had to leave the Committe
on Culture and Education after about
an hour of Teambuilding. When I re-
turned after yet another hour I noticed
a major improvement and an evolution
of the team. The aim of Teambuilding
obviously is to form a team, to facilitate
cooperation and establish good com-
munication. What truly differentiates
CULT from the all other Committees
I have taken part in, are their awesome
cooperation skills.
Quite early during Teambuilding, the
Chairs decided to execute a round of
the Spider’s Web. At first, the Delegates
thought the task given to them was im-
possible to complete, that the holes were
too small and that there were too few of
them. Indeed, the web was among the
toughest ones I have seen. Nevertheless,
they gave it a try and managed to get
the entire Committee through within
the given time limit.
The successful round of Spider’s Web
brought the team spirit to even higher
levels. The next game to be carried out
was “Pass the orange”. CULT passed the
orange, or in this case the tennis ball,
around the circle without any prob-
lems. In order to make the game more
challenging, a bottle between the legs
and a time limit, which was shortened
for every round, were added. CULT
played “Pass the orange” for about 20
minutes without dropping the tennis
ball one single time. Furthermore, they
managed to pass the ball around the
Committee in 35 seconds – quite ob-
viously, the members of CULT are the
masters at this game. What needs to be
added, is that CULT never, and I have
to emphasise never, cheats – they would
not even consider it.
Katharina Warg
CULTURE AND EDUCATION

The reindeers
of Babylon
A myriad of causes, a com-
bined solution in a Babylo-
nian Europe? How can the
EU contribute to solving
the tension between inte-
gration of cultural or lan-
guage minorities and their
minority rights?
The core of this topic regards the prob-
lem of minorities in the EU being ne-
glected and forced to assimilate. The
focus lays upon how to enable them to
carry out their own culture and how to
use their own language, without creat-
ing a conflict with the majority popula-
tion.
The “Babylonian Europe” stated in
CULT’s topic stands for a multilingual
society. Almost every member state of
the EU has their own official language,
therefore European citizens do not nec-
essarily speak the same language nor do
all citizens of one country. In Northern
Europe, the Sami people form a cultural
minority. They have a long tradition of
farming freely moving reindeers. This
contradicts with the legal principles of
land owning. When applying this ex-
ample to the topic, the aim would be to
allow the Sami people to continue their
cultural traditions without inflicting
with the rights of the land owners.
Lingual minorities can also be found
here in Finland, a Swedish-speaking
minority have a rather prominent place
in Finnish society and have extensive
rights. There are complementing signs
in Swedish almost everywhere, most
Finns study Swedish in school and all
governmental information is provided
in Swedish. In other European coun-
tries, this is not always the case. In-
stead, minorities struggle for right to
education in their mother tongue and
to ensure the future existence of their
language. This is the question the Com-
mittee on Culture and Education will
debate and agree on.
Katharina Warg

The Kuopio’10 Press team

Journalists
Anni Marttinen
Anna Westerlund
Eoin O’Leary
Katarina Warg
Kati Pärn
Nikolas Rawlins
Sara Juricic

Editors
Elsa Horn af Rantzien
Konrad Staeger