German Universities are old and prestigous, they have served as models for universities in the United States and other countries around the world. Now they are under the same cost cutting pressure that most institutions in the western world are experiencing these days. After a decade of cost cutting the government now wants to shave a further $90 million and the students are not happy. They are nuding up and taking their protest to the streets as any reasonable person would.

Streaking through a Christmas market near the central west Berlin business district, 40 students, wearing nothing but sneakers and smiles, provided an educational alternative to the Christmas windows for the children in town who were out for a bit of festive shopping. On undressing their new Barbie and Ken dolls the young girls present will now be able to make a much more accurate assessment of the anatomical correctness, or otherwise, of their new Christmas toys.