Elvavrålet (Swedish: the eleven roar) is a
student
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tradition
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where students at universities and colleges at a certain time every night in student residential areas (22:00 or 23:00, on Lappkärrsberget only Tuesdays) open their windows, go out onto balconies or rooftops and scream to relieve
stress.
The roar is also called ''the Delphi roar'' (after the student residential area
Delphi
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in
Lund
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), ''the Flogsta roar'', (after the neighborhood
Flogsta
Flogsta is a neighbourhood in the west part of the Swedish city of Uppsala. Most of its inhabitants are students attending Uppsala University or the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Location
The neighbourhood is located approximatel ...
in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...
) ''the Lappkärr cry'' (after the neighborhood Lappkärrsberget in
Stockholm
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), ''the Ten cry'', ''the Tuesday scream'' or ''Anxiety scream''. The phenomenon has been known since the 1970s, and has been the subject of academic papers.
In the documentary Himmel över Flogsta, screened at the 2015 Gothenburg Film Festival, director Viktor Johansson chronicles the lives of students forced to live in Flogsta's gray skyscrapers for four years and scream in the night to vent their anxiety.
[{{cite news, author=Emma Williams, date=18 October 2015, language=sv, periodical=Upsala Nya Tidning, title="Kul driva på det dekadenta", url=http://www.unt.se/nyheter/uppsala/kul-driva-pa-det-dekadenta-3931269.aspx]
References
External links
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, 2013-01-13
''Livet i korridoren'' Upsala Nya Tidning, 2011-08-25
Student culture
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