Yodelling rejected as university subject in Zurich

The Swiss canton of Zurich is not introducing yodelling as a university subject. On Monday the cantonal parliament voted against the individual initiative of a parliamentarian. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The individual initiative was supported by just one vote. It would have needed 60 votes. Parliamentarians from left to right emphasised the importance of yodelling and its deep roots in Swiss culture. However, Martina Novak from the centrist Liberal Green Party summarised that yodelling did not fit into a state-funded main subject. Thomas Forrer from the left-wing Greens said he had grown up with the Steiner Chilbi – "I like yodelling" – but he was surprised that the state was being called upon for a problem that had long since been solved. The offer already exists in Lucerne. "Why should Zurich compete with Lucerne in this matter?" he asked. There is no need for double funding, he added. In Lucerne, it has been possible to study yodelling as a ...