Editing Chalmers Students' Union

{{Short description|Student union at Chalmers University of Technology}}
{{Primary sources|date=October 2009}}
'''Chalmers Student Union''' (''Chalmers Studentkår'' or ChS) is the [[students' union|student union]] at [[Chalmers University of Technology]] in [[Gothenburg]], [[Sweden]].  Its primary purpose is to look after the interests of the students of the university in questions regarding the education. The student union also arranges one of [[Europe]]'s largest labour market days, [[CHARM]].

The social committee of ChS, consisting of 6 members, is called FestU. It was founded in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://festu.se/|title=Festkommittén FestU|website=festu.se}}</ref> FestU's primary job is to arrange big parties for the student union members, their biggest event of the year is [[Valborgskalaset]] which is held April 30 every year.

== 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|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 inaugurated in 2001. The building was drawn by [[Gert Wingårdh]] and won the [[Kasper Salin Prize]] that year.

== Notable pranks ==

In 1955, a student at the university, Rickard Wilson, held a fake [[disputation]] on fatilary calculus, witnessed by many of the larger [[newspaper]]s 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, a committee at the union, [[Chalmersspexet]], donated 64 [[öre]]&ndash;corresponding to around 4.5 [[United States dollar|USD]] of today&ndash;to the Swedish state to "even out the national debt to a whole number of [[Swedish krona|kronor]]". In 1968, when the [[Stockholm University Student Union]] occupied their union building, ChS decided to occupy the [[brewery]] [[Pripps]]. Before the [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong]] to [[People's Republic of China|China]] from the [[United Kingdom]] in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] asking if they could hire the whole of [[Hong Kong]] for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.

== See also ==
* [[Institute of Technology Students' Union]]
* [[The Cortège]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.chs.chalmers.se/en Chalmers Studentkår] - official site
* [http://www.circ.chalmers.se Chalmers International Reception Committee] (CIRC)
* [http://www.best.chs.chalmers.se BEST]

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