Under Dusken is the official student newspaper in

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, with a circulation of 10,000 copies. Founded in 1914, it is

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's oldest student newspaper, and the second largest student newspaper in Norway after

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's '' Universitas''. About 60 students work pro bono to produce a new edition of ''Under Dusken'' every second week. The newspaper is jointly owned by Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem and Studentsamskipnaden i Trondheim through the media

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Mediastud, which also is the publisher of ''Studentradioen i Trondheim'' (Norway's first

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) and ''Student-TV'' (Scandinavia's oldest student television station). The editor in chief is elected annually by the board of Mediastud. However, continuity has been ensured by electing candidates nominated by the editorial board of the newspaper.

Software development

Under Dusken has since the mid 90s developed many of their own utilities. The computer department in Under Dusken has developed two content management systems, Aranea and Pegadi.

Pegadi

Pegadi is written in Java and development was started in the beginning of 1999. The system works like a word processor with note field and gives the editors the ability to see how much has been written on each article.

Aranea

Aranea is written in Java and uses technologies like JPA, Spring og Velocity. This is the CMS that serves the newspaper's websit
underdusken.no

External links

Official website.
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