Teekkari made a Nazi greeting at a student event Hs.fi

Student Made a Nazi greeting at a major IT student event, says those who participated in the event, studying information technology Elias Khabbal.

In mid -March, a traditional Tiventi Taistot event was held in Lappeenranta, attended by over 400 students. At the event, student organizations from different universities are competing in information technology sports.

On the second day of the competition, the students had gathered in the Lappeenranta campus lecture hall in a quiz. There were two competitors per organization in the front of the lecture hall.

Competitors tried to inspire the audience to encourage. Then a member of the Oulu Information Teachers Association made a Nazi greeting, Khabbal says.

Audience Bug for a Nazi greeting.

However, according to Khabbal, the organizers did not intervene, but the competition began as usual. After the quiz, the Telegram channel of the event announced that the Oulu Information Teams should not participate in the last race of the event due to poor behavior.

According to Khabbal, the students present were shocked. He suspects that the author of a Nazi greeting had tried to imitate a joke Elon Muskin in January a stunning Nazi greeting.

« With neo -Nazism, flirting is not right, » Khabbal says.

The event was organized by Cluster of the IT Student Association of Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT University).

Cluster Janni Timoskainen tells us by email that due to the Nazi greeting, the Oulu information themes were excluded from the competition.

According to him, Nazi greeting also caused great resentment among other students.

According to Timoskainen, a greeting student has regretted his actions and this team apologized to all participants.

Oulu Chairman Salla Rissanen tells us by email that it was a guild member’s ill -mission that was intended for a joke. According to Rissanen, making a Nazi greeting does not represent the values ​​of the guild or greeting.

According to him, the matter was immediately reacted. Rissanen writes that the Guild’s Board of Directors has taken internal disciplinary measures.

Khabbal says, however, that the participants were not informed of the consequences and as a participant, he had not had a picture that he was not seriously treated.

Nazi greetings The act also continued with the official follow -up of the event.

Participed in Turku, a student of information technology Aaron Aaltonen Some students involved Nazi greetings and, for example, used the n-word.

According to Aaltonen, inappropriate students were members of Cluster ry and one of the Nazi greetings belongs to the association’s board.

In his view, the use of racist words or Nazi greetings are not acceptable.

« All sequels should have the principles of safe space. Subject organizations should follow them in all Student Union premises and events under the Student Union organizations. »

The sequels were held in the Student House, owned by the LUT University Student Union and in its basement.

According to Janni Timoskainen, chairman of the Cluster, the subject organization has gone through the matter in its government and made the « necessary actions ». According to him, individuals are responsible for their own behavior with continuation

« Under no circumstances should inappropriate behavior been approved, and therefore we do not accept it in our events, » he writes by email.

Inappropriate behavior of the members of the Cluster Association was also announced in the Telegram Group of the event. Picture: Screenshot