Für gute Verhältnisse an Campus II!:

Kein Campus zweiter Klass! Endlich gleiche Bedingungen an Campus II!

Seit Jahren ein leidiges Thema und dennoch besteht an Campus 2 weiterhin der Bedarf an Verbesserung und bessere Eingliederung in und an den Hauptcampus. Nach wie vor fällt ein Platzmangel in der Mensa ins Gewicht, daher fordern wir die Freigabe des Raumes F54 als Speiseraum, besonders an hoch frequentierten Tagen. Zusätzlich ist festzustellen, dass es am Campus 2, außerhalb der Bibliothek an Räumen und Plätzen für Studierende mangelt. Eine mögliche Lösung dafür wäre es, einen Studihaus-ähnlichen Aufenthaltsraum einzurichten, wo Menschen gemütlich zusammenfinden und sich austauschen können, die wenigen Arbeitsplätze in den Gebäuden F und HZ sind wenig einladend und bieten keine geeignete Atmosphäre. Des Weiteren wäre eine Anpassung der Campus 2 Bibliothek Öffnungszeiten an die vom Campus 2 angemessen, da diese andere Literatur beinhaltet. 

Zu Beginn des Semesters wurde eine der Drehtüren durch eine normale Tür ersetzt, jedoch sorgen die Drehtüren im Hörsaalzentrum immer noch für Staus nach den Vorlesungen. Diese könnten durch einen Austausch der Türen verhindert werden. Auch weist der Weg zwischen den Campus Mängel auf. Wir fordern eine bessere Ausleuchtung, damit sich Menschen insbesondere im Dunkeln sicherer fühlen und mehr Möglichkeiten, Müll zu entsorgen.

Um Campus 2 gemeinsam infrastrukturell zu verbessern, damit Studierende sich wohler fühlen, bitten wir euch am 2. – 4. Dezember die Linke Liste zu wählen.

Gegen Militarismus, für eine Zivilklausel!:

Keine Forschung für Aufrüstung! Zivilklausel an der Uni Trier!

Wehrpflicht. Wehrtüchtigkeit. Verteidigungsfähigkeit. A1 Lückenschluss für Panzer. 100 Milliarden Sondervermögen. 70 Gründe für die Bundeswehr. STOPP MAL!

Nicht mit uns! Nicht an unserer Uni!

Deshalb fordern wir eine Zivilklausel! 

Aber was ist das eigentlich? 

Eine Zivilklausel ist eine selbstverpflichtende Regelung, die in manchen Universitäten, Forschungseinrichtungen oder Organisationen festlegt, dass wissenschaftliche Forschung, Lehre und Entwicklung nicht für militärische Zwecke oder die Herstellung von Rüstungsgütern verwendet werden dürfen.

Wir fordern weiterhin und vehementer denn je, diese ausschließlich für emanzipatorische und zivile Zwecke zu nutzen und zu fördern! 

So kann gegen Missbrauch von Forschung durch militärische Interessen, wie etwa die der Waffenindustrie, präventiv vorgegangen werden. 

Was bedeutet das Fehlen einer Zivilklausel? 

• Potenzielle Abzüge von Ressourcen bei zivilen und gemeinschaftsfördernden Bedürfnissen und Forschungen.
• Auswahl von hauptsächlich oder zumindest Fokus auf Forschung mit militärischer Verwertbarkeit und Nützlichkeit.
• Stärkere Präsenz und Mitsprache von Bundeswehr, Verteidigungsministerium und militärischen Privatunternehmen an Universitäten. 

Unsere Universität soll ein Ort bleiben, an dem Forschungsfreiheit großgeschrieben wird — mehr noch, sie soll ein Ort werden, an dem der Fokus in Forschung klar auf Emanzipatorisches, Zivilgesellschaftliches und internationalistisches soziales Miteinander gerichtet ist!

Für eine Uni ohne Bundeswehr und Militär — wählt Linke Liste!

The Linke Liste is a non-partisan and cross-movement electoral list for the student parliament and senate elections at the University of Trier, which unites members of various left-wing groups and movements under its banner.

As every year, we are running in this year's student parliament elections with a strong and motivated team and important issues. With your help, we want to continue fighting for your interests with a strong voice and initiate important changes in the coming year. Our goal is to create a more equitable university for everyone and to encourage students to critically question social conditions outside of university as well!

Our topics

This year, we are focusing primarily on the following topics:

For good university funding!:

Stop the austerity measures! More money from Mainz for our education!

Leaky ceilings, mould, falling windows at Campus II or lamps in the B building. The desolate condition of the university buildings can hardly be hidden anymore. At the same time, people are celebrating the newly opened Staff Club, with wine coolers, sparkling water from the tap and bright yellow designer furnishings.

So while the professors chill their wine in the Staff Club, students are desperately searching for workspaces with power sockets, despairing over broken revolving doors or having to live with Wi-Fi or Outlook failures. Students who come here for their master's degrees often resign themselves to the fact that not much has changed since the university was built in the 1970s.

The university now has an absolutely deterrent character; school pupils tend to make fun of the university rather than consider enrolling, and visiting scholars are happy when their stay here comes to an end.

All this is reflected in declining student numbers, but good staff are also increasingly leaving the university.

The reason for this lies in misplaced priorities, both in Mainz and locally. Increasing state funding for universities is not even worth mentioning as an election campaign gift for the state government, while at the same time the federal government is leaving students in financial distress out in the cold. And the little money that is available to the university is mostly used to equip dozens of seminar rooms with flat screens that do not work.

In addition to a general cash injection for (higher) education, the university needs to distribute funds from the bottom up. Only when students can study properly and secretaries and young academics are paid and employed decently can we consider tackling PR and flagship projects.

For a decent financing policy on campus – vote for the Linke Liste!

Effective help against psychosocial stress:

Reduce psychosocial stress! Create support services, prevent pressure!

The pressure on students has been growing steadily for years: rising rents, fewer places in halls of residence, high pressure to perform, lack of places to retreat to and precarious part-time jobs due to widespread poverty among students. All this and more contributes to the pressure continuing to mount, so that those affected even suffer from illnesses/impairments.

As a left-wing university group, we are committed to ensuring that studying does not make students ill. That is why we are calling for more psychological counselling centres, parent-independent and cost-covering BAföG, more quiet and retreat areas on campus, better working conditions for student assistants and genuine relief in everyday student life. We understand that good learning usually does not succeed under such circumstances and constant pressure from all sides, but above all requires security, time and support. 

We are currently represented as a list in the AStA, including in the social affairs department. You are welcome to discuss your everyday student problems with us during office hours – we are happy to help with issues such as BAföG or refer you to other departments that are better equipped to help you with other problems.

If you want to continue supporting us in our fight for a better and more social university, vote for the Linke Liste from 2 to 4 December!

For decent housing!:

Broken dormitory, apartment too expensive? Affordable student housing now!

Housing is always a difficult issue for students. Since many cannot afford a car, they need to find accommodation that is both affordable and not too far away, or at least well connected. Student dormitories do offer a cheaper alternative, but rooms are often snapped up quickly. And even those who manage to secure a room in one of Trier’s dormitories frequently find themselves living in unacceptable conditions. Widespread mold, crumbling building structures, and collapsing ceilings force students to look for new housing options.

What makes the situation even worse is that this year two of the formerly seven dormitory complexes are being closed—despite the fact that they were already only able to house a fraction of the students at the university and the university of applied sciences. The situation is especially critical for international students, who often find it difficult or nearly impossible to obtain housing in Germany. High rents, required documents, language barriers, prejudice from landlords, and much more mean that many rely on the accommodation provided by the student services (Studiwerk).

The housing situation in Trier is becoming increasingly precarious for students, and no solutions have been presented so far.
We demand clarity and action to solve this housing crisis! The university and the state must ensure that their students have a roof over their heads and can live in dignified conditions. We want to bring this and many other concerns to the relevant decision-making bodies of the university to give students a voice.

Therefore, vote for Linke Liste from December 2nd to 4th!

Against the right wing – on campus too!:

No room for fascists! Consistent anti-fascism at the university!

Torn down or even torched posters. Scratched off, pasted over or peeled off stickers with content that can clearly be attributed to left-wing, progressive politics and attitudes — or simply celebrating queerness. This has become everyday life.

Some posters don't even last 24 hours.

On the other hand, there are waves of sticker and graffiti campaigns with clearly right-wing statements and slogans covering the entire spectrum from nationalism to patriotism, racism, queer* hostility, etc. etc. to anti-Semitic content.

Behind all this are often partially organised to organised groups of right-wing actors. These include right-wing reading circles, remnants of former right-wing extremist groups such as IB and Revolte Rheinland, and even the now dissolved AfD youth organisation, JA.

They all know each other and are sometimes well connected.

Actors such as the so-called GegenUni (Counter-University) are particularly active at universities. In recent years, they have repeatedly tried to gain a foothold on our campus by attempting to engage students in conversation. Fortunately, they have not had any significant or visible success so far.

All this is not happening in a vacuum, but in a society, in a system that is falling prey to an international shift to the right year after year.

All right-wing actors, whoever they may be, have a few things in common. They are all:

(partially) authoritarian

anti-democratic

elitist

unscientific in their actions

anti-women* and anti-queer*

racist

anti-Semitic

For us, it is therefore clear:

We must keep our environment clean and sweep away the brown filth — at our university too, of course!

We therefore demand that the university make a clear commitment to free, critical science and support all progressive emancipatory approaches at our university!

We also demand that the university deal appropriately with all right-wing actors at our university!

¡No pasarán!

Therefore, vote for the Linke Liste from 2 to 4 December!

Financial relief for students!:

Money worries instead of BAföG or a job? Affordable studies for all!

The abolition of rent caps, rising inflation, a pitiful increase in BAföG grants last year – these are just a few examples of the dire financial conditions for studying in Germany.

In Trier, halls of residence are closing, the average room in a shared flat (and you have to find one first) costs €400, which is more than the BAföG flat rate for accommodation, the student services organisation is once again secretly increasing canteen prices, and the semester fee is skyrocketing, not least due to the spiral of inflation caused by the Deutschlandticket.

If child benefit is then discontinued, the KfW loan has to be repaid, the pub where you work part-time closes down or the workload at university no longer allows you to have a part-time job, students are driven into enormous financial precariousness and the university, state and federal government look the other way.

Children from low-income families are constantly faced with the question of whether they can afford a higher education. So far, we have had an absolutely elitist system from kindergarten to university. Education should no longer depend on the parents' wallet; we need a change of system now.

In higher education, we now need a genuine reform of the BAföG student loan system, moving towards a financing model that is independent of parents and actually covers costs, without the obligation to repay, so that no student is forced into obscure loans or has to choose between a part-time job and their studies.

In Trier, the city, university and student services organisation must work together seriously to secure the financial situation of students and remove obstacles in the long term.

Student representatives and associations across Germany have long been calling for a rethink in how the financial situation of students is handled. If federal and state politicians continue to look the other way, demonstrations and education strikes will be necessary!

For a university where everyone can study – vote for the Linke Liste

For a feminist university!:

Destroy patriarchal structures! Live feminism at university!

Gender equality remains a goal at university that must be fought for and defended. Even universities, which see themselves as places of progress where the pursuit of knowledge is paramount, still remain places where patriarchal structures are reproduced and reinforced in many areas. 

This is particularly evident in the gender ratios at university. The professoriate is still predominantly male, even though men are in the minority among the students at our university. So at the top, things remain very homogeneous. But where there is a lack of diversity, there is a lack of perspective, and where there is a lack of perspective, opportunities for new insights are lost.

But this is not the only space where patriarchal dominance is perpetuated. Anti-feminist backlashes do not stop at universities; sexist, misogynistic or transphobic attitudes and statements are unfortunately also commonplace here. The increasing amount of far-right tags on campus also highlights how prevalent anti-feminist attitudes are. And the issue of sexual harassment remains a major problem across all status groups.

So while old role patterns are defended, gender identities are denied and violent fantasies are openly expressed, FLINTA*s are expected to continue studying unperturbed? While everyone is suffering from ever-increasing stress, marginalised students are doubly affected by sexism, transphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, ableism and other forms of group-focused hostility. These are not isolated cases; the problem is structural and must be addressed as such.

We therefore call for a consistent fight for equality at all levels, comprehensive support measures aimed at compensating for disadvantages, a loud voice against discrimination, and the creation of spaces for solidarity and exchange, even across status groups.

For a university that wants to realise a feminist utopia – from 2 to 4 December, vote for the Linke Liste!

For good conditions at Campus II!:

No second-class campus! Finally, equal conditions at Campus II!

This has been a tiresome issue for years, yet there is still a need for improvement and better integration into and around the main campus at Campus II. The lack of space in the canteen continues to be a significant problem, which is why we are calling for room F54 to be made available as a dining room, especially on busy days. In addition, it should be noted that there is a lack of rooms and spaces for students at Campus 2 outside the library. One possible solution would be to set up a student lounge-like common room where people can comfortably get together and exchange ideas. The few workspaces in buildings F and HZ are not very inviting and do not offer a suitable atmosphere. Furthermore, the opening hours of the Campus 2 library should be adjusted to those of Campus 2, as it contains different literature. 

At the beginning of the semester, one of the revolving doors was replaced by a normal door, but the revolving doors in the lecture hall centre still cause congestion after lectures. This could be prevented by replacing the doors. There are also shortcomings in the route between the campuses. We are calling for better lighting so that people feel safer, especially in the dark, and more opportunities to dispose of rubbish.

In order to improve the infrastructure of Campus 2 together so that students feel more comfortable, we ask you to vote for the Linke Liste on 2–4 December.

Against militarism, for a civil clause!:

No research for armament! Civil clause at the University of Trier!

Conscription. Military fitness. Defence capability. A1 gap closure for tanks. 100 billion special funds. 70 reasons for the Bundeswehr. STOP!

Not with us! Not at our university!

That is why we are calling for a civil clause! 

But what exactly is that? 

A civil clause is a voluntary regulation that stipulates in some universities, research institutions or organisations that scientific research, teaching and development may not be used for military purposes or the manufacture of armaments.

We continue to demand, more vehemently than ever, that it be used and promoted exclusively for emancipatory and civilian purposes! 

This will enable preventive action to be taken against the misuse of research by military interests, such as those of the arms industry. 

What does the absence of a civil clause mean?

•    Potential reductions in resources for civil and community-promoting needs and research.

•    Selection of research that is primarily or at least primarily focused on military applicability and usefulness.

• Greater presence and influence of the Bundeswehr, the Ministry of Defence and private military companies at universities. 

Our university should remain a place where freedom of research is paramount — even more than that, it should become a place where the focus of research is clearly on emancipation, civil society and internationalist social coexistence!

For a university without the Bundeswehr and the military — vote for the Linke Liste!