{"id":11657,"date":"2025-08-28T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:34:01","slug":"no-students-of-the-faculty-of-philosophy-in-novi-sad-were-not-performing-sect-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/no-students-of-the-faculty-of-philosophy-in-novi-sad-were-not-performing-sect-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad Were Not Performing Sect Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/em><\/a> (in Serbian) was published on 27\/8\/2025; Author: Teodora Koledin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Portal Informer <\/a>reported that students participating in the blockade of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad were \u201cperforming sect rituals<\/strong>\u201d in the building, drawing this conclusion based on an interior photograph that supposedly \u201cstrikes fear into the bones.\u201d The photo shows various banners, a large black magnifying glass, and a cardboard coffin. These, however, are protest props<\/strong>. The article also claims that \u201cmany sect symbols\u201d were found at the faculty, but out of all those \u201cmany,\u201d Informer does not list a single one<\/strong>. The entire body of evidence thus comes down to the mentioned photograph, labeled as a \u201cprint screen.\u201d Let\u2019s take a closer look at what appears in the picture<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the large magnifying glass<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The large black magnifying glass was used in February during the protest action \u201cSearch for the Rector\u201d, organized by the Academic Network \u201cFree University\u201d in Novi Sad. The local news portal 021.rs<\/a> also covered the event, and the same object can be seen in two photos from their gallery (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Photo:<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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On the coffin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Traga\u010d editorial team contacted the students blocking the Faculty of Philosophy to establish the purpose of the improvised cardboard coffin. They explained that it was a prop created for the performance \u201cCompetition for the Worst Institution,\u201d held in front of the courthouse, with the aim of illustrating election fraud mechanisms. Using the coffin, students wanted to demonstrate how \u201cthe dead vote.<\/strong>\u201d In the end, however, they abandoned the idea<\/strong> because they considered it \u201ctoo morbid.\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA girl from the faculty made the coffin, and we felt bad about destroying it,\u201d they added in their response. It should also be noted that speculation regarding the coffin and supposed \u201csect symbols\u201d at the Faculty of Philosophy was also spread by Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the \u201cideologues of the blockaders\u201d who allegedly changed their minds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The claims about \u201csect rituals\u201d are not the only media manipulation regarding yesterday\u2019s events. In a longer article commenting on events at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Informer<\/a> states that \u201ceven their ideologues and those who had strongly supported them have now had enough, since no one wants to put up with idleness, loafing around, and the destruction of everything someone touches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Informer presents this as evidence that professors have switched sides, none of the professors who entered the Faculty of Philosophy building with Dean Milivoje Alanovi\u0107 were among the signatories of the initial letter of support for the students in blockade, a letter backed <\/a>by more than 5,000 university teachers, associates, and researchers across Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 27\/8\/2025; Author: Teodora Koledin Portal Informer reported that students participating in the blockade of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad were \u201cperforming sect rituals\u201d in the building, drawing this conclusion based on an interior photograph that supposedly \u201cstrikes fear into the bones.\u201d The photo shows various banners, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[10,277,28,548],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-checks","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-serbia","tag-students"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11661,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}