Chalmers Students' Union

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Chalmers Students' Union (Chalmers Studentkår or ChS) is the students' union at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its primary purpuse is to look after and the interrests of the students of the university in questions regarding the education. ChS is a member of the umbrella organisation for students' unions in Sweden, the Swedish National Union of Students. The students' union also arranges one of Europe's largest labour market days, CHARM.

1 History
2 Notable pranks
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The union was founded in 1904, and the first charter of the organisation was adopted in 1906. In 1911 a proposal to start The Cortège, an annual carnival parade now seen by 250,000 people each year, was accepted. The union's own magazine Tofsen was first published in 1944, and ChS obtained its first union building Lopphuset that same year. A new union building was opened in 1952. The union owns several corporations, including Cremona, a bookstore which became an aktiebolag in 1988. A new union building was inagurated in 2001. The building was drawn by Gert Wingårdh and won the Kasper Salin Prize that year.

[edit] Notable pranks

In 1955, a student at the university, Richard Wilson, held a fake disputation on fatilary calculus, witnessed by many of the larger newspapers in Sweden, fooling many of the journalists, who the day after produced a number of serious articles on the disputation. Three years later, in 1958, the union donated 64 öre–corresponding to around 4.5 USD of today–to the Swedish state to "even out the national debt to a whole number of kronor". In 1968, when the Stockholm University Student Union occupied their union building, ChS decided to occupy the brewery Pripps. Before the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.