Tofsen is the Student Union’s member magazine at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, with a circulation of 3 500 copies. It is issued six times per year and it is entirely financed by advertisements.

Gösta Lagermalm who had the idea to create a forum for debates and information within the Student Union founded Tofsen in 1944. According to Gösta, the management was moderately delighted by the idea and they replied that the magazine would not last long. Against all odds, the magazine is still alive and kicking. In the fifth edition of Tofsen, in the year1944, Gösta stated that the aim for the magazine is:

* to be a link between Chalmers students at all levels and disciplines

* to offer space for free discussions of topics that affect the entire Student Union

* to work for changes in the current mismanagement of the university through positive criticism

* to publish interesting articles about technical things and also about more general topics

* to give all Chalmers students an opportunity to effectively spread good ideas

* to amuse its readers

The above given statements are still the goal of the editorial staff. We want to be independent of the Student Union’s politics and dare to question traditions and organizations around us. Tofsen should be financially independent so that the students don’t get the impression that the Student Union fees fund the magazine.

The editorial staff consists of a paid full-time editor-in-chief, a paid part-time advertisement coordinator and a bunch of voluntary students, who write, illustrate, take pictures and do layout work together. Tofsen reach all Chalmers students and it is also distributed in some departments at University of Göteborg.