Teekkari
[1] The term is also used for students of technical subjects in general universities and Bachelors of Science in Technology.
First-year students known as "fuksis" collect attendance points from these events in their score sheets.
After reaching a set number of points, a fuksi is entitled to wear a teekkari student cap on the next International Workers' Day on 1 May.
Students who fail to reach the set number of points can only wear the cap on the Monday following Mother's Day.
In Oulu first-year students swim in the side branch of the Oulujoki river at Åströminpuisto.
The cockade of the cap represents the student body at institutes of technology and the teekkari association or guild at general universities.
The student body in Otaniemi also has its own song book named Teekkarien punainen laulukirja.
The University of Oulu also has the smaller song book Tasku-Teppo published by the teekkari association Droit.
[citation needed] During the last few decades the communities have included at least Just Pure Iron (JPI), Ryttylän visa, 51 cl and Solukyttääjät.
Many companies also give away free promotional badges to students at technology fairs and corporate excursions.
Students taking place in the coup wore a middle brown cotton boilersuit.
Contemporary critics thought "the obscene songs would spread disgust and horror in serious thinking circles".
On the other hand, the comical singer Affu Tanner has claimed to have written the lyrics during a drinking event in 1912.
one, two, three, four, five.The first line of the original version of the hymn was "Yö kuin sielu neekerin on pimiä", meaning "The night is like the soul of a negro".
Nowadays the start of the hymn varies by city: Tampere, Turku and Otaniemi use the version "yö kuin sielu teekkarin on pimiä", Lappeenranta uses "yö jo Saimaan ylle alkaa hiipiä" ("the night already starts to creep over Lake Saimaa") and Oulu uses "yö kuin kaamos pohjoisen on pimiä" ("the night is dark like the polar night in the north").
