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Liebe Kommiliton*innen, liebe Erstis und Langzeitstudis,

wir vom Allgemeinen Studierendenausschuss (AStA) heißen euch ganz herzlich im neuen Semester an der sogenannten "Freien Universität" willkommen.

Dear students,

We would like to comment on the new contract for the Deutschlandsemesterticket. As representatives of the student body, we have decided to sign the contract presented to us for the winter semester 2024/2025. This means that there will continue to be a jointly financed semester ticket valid throughout Germany for all FU students, and the price of 29.40 per month will remain unchanged.

Das Studierendenparlament hat auf seiner Sitzung vom 26. April 2024 eine Kommission zur Evaluation und Reform der studentischen Satzungen und Strukturen (Reformkommission) eingesetzt, welche sich mit diversen Satzungen und Ordnungen der Studierendenschaft, insbesondere der Satzung der Studierendenschaft, der Geschäftsordnung des Studierendenparlaments und der Wahlordnung zur Wahl des Studierendenparlaments der Freien Universität Berlin, beschäftigen soll.

Die erste Sitzung der Reformkommission findet statt am

Mittwoch, den 17. Juli 2024 um 10 Uhr.

On May 13, many student council initiatives received an invitation to support the organization of the summer festival by agreeing to collect the bottle deposit on the afternoon of the summer festival. The money collected (the amount was estimated at 2-500 euros in the email) was to be kept by the first student council that volunteered to collect the deposits.

First of all, we would like to emphasize that we do not condemn any student council initiative for accepting this offer and participating in the implementation of the summer festival in this way.

The AStA grieves for its former coworker Andreas Aschaber, known as Fonse / Fonsi. Fonse passed away on 2024-06-19 due to illness. Fonse was a dedicated part of the AStA office from November 2017 to July 2022. We remember Fonse as a particularly amicable and solidary coworker and colleague in the fight for a free and just society. It was especially important to him to aid students who came to the AStA with their worries in any way possible.

Our thoughts are with Fonses family and friends. We wish them lots of strength for this difficult time.

On May 7, a protest camp of groups in solidarity with Palestine at the FU got evicted by the police. Over the last few days, we have held numerous discussions to reconstruct what exactly happened on that day and what we think the consequences should be.

This morning, the theater courtyard in the Rost- and Silberlaube at the FU was occupied by activists in solidarity with palestine. As far as we know, the university ordered a police eviction within a very short time without giving any notice. A massive police force then evicted those involved in the occupation, also using physical violence. Outside students and observers also experienced police violence in front of and inside the university buildings.

Am 6. März jährte sich zum 34. Mal der Todestag von Mahmud Azhar, der an den Folgen eines rassistischen Angriffs auf ihn am 07.01.1990 auf dem Campus der Freien Universität (FU) verstarb. Anlässlich des Todestages haben wir am heutigen Standort des Instituts für Biochemie (Hahn-Meitner-Bau, Thielallee 63) eine Gedenkveranstaltung organisiert, um an den pakistanischen Promotionsstudenten und wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter der FU zu erinnern.

On February 21, the Referent*innenrat (AStA) of Humboldt University published a statement, which you can find here: https://astafu.de/node/595