The UNR is building a Documentary Archive of the Student Movement with the aim of preserving its history and becoming a source of academic and journalistic works.

106 years after the University Reform, every June 15 the words of Deodoro Roca, editor of the Liminar Manifesto, resonate again: “The secret of great transformations lies in universities. “Go to our Universities to live, not to go through them.” Since that moment, with interruptions during military coups, organized students have been part of the co-government of the University. Therefore, “reconstructing its history is also reconstructing the history of the University,” says the director of the Archive and Professor of History at UNR, Alex Ratto.

This safeguarding space, which did not exist, began to take shape two years ago and is part of the projects of the Reform Institute, which depends on the Vice-Rector's Office. For the teacher, all student activists, with their political differences, are seeking to improve the University and with that objective they generate dynamism in the institution and drive many debates. “From cafeterias, free admission, unrestricted admission, to current gender and human rights issues, these are issues that make up university life and it is generally the student organizations that promote them,” he highlights.

The researcher is interested in the registry of all groups, including the UPAU, a liberal movement from the 90s, which is interesting because today there are libertarian students who are counselors. “This tells us about freedom of thought at the University, where these political expressions coexist alongside other ultra-left ones and even several have changed throughout history.”

On the other hand, the University trains those who will later become political, institutional or business leaders. “It is no coincidence that many have been student activists because there is an interest in solving problems from very early on,” he reflects.

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