Student Society in Trondheim

[citation needed] Besides housing a café, a restaurant, several bars and frequently hosting concerts and other activities (among them Norway's biggest culture festival, UKA), it is an independent organization for all students and teachers in Trondheim, owned fully by its members.

[citation needed] Every other year world figures attend The Student Society through its festival ISFiT[3] and past speakers include the Dalai Lama,[4] former Director-General of WHO Gro Harlem Brundtland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates José Ramos-Horta and Wangari Maathai.

Although Cirkus was abandoned, the old traditions were carried through by architect Eystein Michaelsen; Storsalen (the main concert hall) still looks very much like a circus.

The building still stands, with active maintenance on a day-to-day basis and bigger projects taking place every two years (related to UKA).

Most people get lost at least a few times, and the shortest path between two given places can easily involve fifteen or twenty turns and rooms.

[citation needed] Samfundet is mostly run by its members, more precisely people volunteering for jobs in one of its twenty or so committees (so-called gangs).