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Saturday, 3rd August, 1996 |
MANAGEMENT TRAINEES IN PARADISE’S GARDEN300 students of economics from 45 countries dropped their clothes on a meeting in Copenhagen’s inner city
Dollar, yen, marks, francs, crowns and Oere.
Dreams of spacious office suites, company cars, private jetplanes, smart parties and trips to exotic corners of the world.
All this was gone and forgotten when 300 students of economics and trainees (manager-apprentices) from 45 countries yesterday ran amok and stripped their way through Copenhagen’s inner city.
They had a great time, the coming top leaders of some of the world’s biggest and most powerful companies.
In a year they can gather again for the get-together in Copenhagen. For starters to an intense three-days’ programme in the culture city 96 they were presented with an original Danish stripper for breakfast at Danmark’s Technical University, DTU, where they stayed overnight and from where they set out to more or less excentric city tours.
The style was thus laid, and people who had attended the previous year were able to foretell to the new participants that, after the mandatory company visit at Carlsberg, it was scarcely about being shy if one felt like it.
The worse, the better, and the more naked they got under way, the more points they scored on the whole.
15 men and women of ages between 20 and 30 moved from the King’s Garden to the Stork’s Spring and further on to the Dome, where they were to make the year’s most provoking/pervert picture.
Not much came out of this, but the computer genius of 27 years, Jens Fischer from Rostock, got the prize for demonstrating his opinion and baring his ass on the sides of the town court’s honourable columns.
The young streetworker some of the gang had dragged in for photographing hurried off when he realized where this was aiming at.
The gang only really got into stripping on arrival in H. C. Ørsted’s Park, and it dawned on them who of them could lay out the longest chain of clothes.
The more clothes were thrown, the longer the chain, and so it welled out into the lake with naked gentlemen and ladies who should swim over to the other bank and back again.
The water was ice-cold and muddy, but particularily the young men were not scared by that. As opposed to many of the girls, they were quite eager to present what else they were equipped with.
A couple of girls from Egypt who also participated in that wild yuppie-run looked discreetly the other way. Had they thrown off all the clothes they were wearing, the length of their clothes-chain would have won easily.
The city tour ended back in the King’s Garden, where they fought for who could build the highest tower of beer crates.
In the evenening and at night there was a party at the student’s union, where the prizes for the winners were distributed.
It is the Danish arm of the non-profit organization AIESEC that stood for the wild arrangement in Copenhagen.
With 55,000 members and 800 local committees in 85 countries, AIESEC is the world’s biggest student-run organization.
They exchange young students of business and economics for traineeships in foreign countries. Students can, because of their cultural background, give large effects to external internationalization, and many of AIESEC’s members have found leading positions in other countries since the organization started in 1948.
An AIESEC student is employed on a project basis, and his tasks can range from administration in a team to responsibility for exchange-related tasks that require deep, specialised insight.
BY CHRIS WAMMEN
PHOTO: JØRGEN SPERLING
TRANSLATION: THOMAS ARBS
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