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United NationsLenneke Kuijer, a TU Industrial Design student, will be a member of the United Netherlands delegation to the 51st edition of the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN), which takes place from February 17-20.

This, the largest and most prestigious simulation of the United Nations, attracts around 2,000 students from the world’s best universities. The United Netherlands delegation has 30 members. The Model United Nations meeting consists of four days of debates, meetings and lobbying in order to win votes for various proposed resolutions. The United Netherlands team began preparing for the event back in October with weekly meetings, in which the members studied geo-politics. At Harvard, the United Netherlands will be partnered with Japan and Benin. Being part of a delegation with Benin is interesting, Kuijer says, because Benin has a seat on the UN Security Council. Kuijer, who spent a semester in Japan in 2003, has no plans to enter Dutch politics when he graduates. “I would however be interested in combining my professional work with developmental aid work,” Kuijer says.
Famous architects

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, two famous protagonists of architecture and urban planning will visit the Netherlands for the first time in their long careers of almost half a century. They will give a lecture on 17 February 2005 at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University and enter into debate on 18 February 2005 at the NAI in Rotterdam. Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown rose to fame in the early sixties with their critique on Modernist abstraction in post-war architecture. They advocated a meaningful architecture, Architecture as Sign. Their early housing designs, the Vanna Venturi House, the Trubek and Wislocki Houses and others, have become world famous icons. Their stunning, analytical study ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ (1972), continues to have great influence and their ideas on ordinariness and inclusiveness, on context, on the city as a layered system of communication, of social, cultural and economic activities, are still as topical as ever.

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Camera systems

A camera system will be installed in various places in Delft in order to study the traffic flows in the city. These cameras will be placed at traffic lights at various places throughout Delft, including at the traffic lights on the east side of the Irene Tunnel. This system does not monitor speeding or the running of red lights, however. Researchers from TU Delft will study the data produced from this system in the hope of gaining a better understanding of how traffic flow is effected by traffic jams and other temporary disruptions of traffic flow. In the long term, researchers hope the data will help city planners gain a better understanding of the effect closed roads and new residential areas have on the overall traffic flow in Delft.
Salaries

At least 159 top administrators in Dutch high education earn more than 60,000 euro per year. Of these top administrators, 60 of them earn more than 130,000 euro per year. 36 of these high earners are employed by universities. This is 8,000 euro more than a Dutch government minister earns. Although these university administrators earn a good wage, they are second to administrators of academic hospitals, who earn an average of 197,586 euro per year.
Free drugs

In response to the large numbers of faculty dying from AIDS in recent years, the University of Zambia will provide free anti-AIDS drugs to HIV-positive faculty and students, as well as local residents and other university workers. Approximately 16.5 percent of Zambia’s population is HIV-positive, one of the lowest infection rates in the region. The university hopes that many more people will be tested for HIV as a result of the program.

United Nations

Lenneke Kuijer, a TU Industrial Design student, will be a member of the United Netherlands delegation to the 51st edition of the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN), which takes place from February 17-20. This, the largest and most prestigious simulation of the United Nations, attracts around 2,000 students from the world’s best universities. The United Netherlands delegation has 30 members. The Model United Nations meeting consists of four days of debates, meetings and lobbying in order to win votes for various proposed resolutions. The United Netherlands team began preparing for the event back in October with weekly meetings, in which the members studied geo-politics. At Harvard, the United Netherlands will be partnered with Japan and Benin. Being part of a delegation with Benin is interesting, Kuijer says, because Benin has a seat on the UN Security Council. Kuijer, who spent a semester in Japan in 2003, has no plans to enter Dutch politics when he graduates. “I would however be interested in combining my professional work with developmental aid work,” Kuijer says.
Famous architects

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, two famous protagonists of architecture and urban planning will visit the Netherlands for the first time in their long careers of almost half a century. They will give a lecture on 17 February 2005 at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University and enter into debate on 18 February 2005 at the NAI in Rotterdam. Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown rose to fame in the early sixties with their critique on Modernist abstraction in post-war architecture. They advocated a meaningful architecture, Architecture as Sign. Their early housing designs, the Vanna Venturi House, the Trubek and Wislocki Houses and others, have become world famous icons. Their stunning, analytical study ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ (1972), continues to have great influence and their ideas on ordinariness and inclusiveness, on context, on the city as a layered system of communication, of social, cultural and economic activities, are still as topical as ever.

www.bk.tudelft.nl/dsd
Camera systems

A camera system will be installed in various places in Delft in order to study the traffic flows in the city. These cameras will be placed at traffic lights at various places throughout Delft, including at the traffic lights on the east side of the Irene Tunnel. This system does not monitor speeding or the running of red lights, however. Researchers from TU Delft will study the data produced from this system in the hope of gaining a better understanding of how traffic flow is effected by traffic jams and other temporary disruptions of traffic flow. In the long term, researchers hope the data will help city planners gain a better understanding of the effect closed roads and new residential areas have on the overall traffic flow in Delft.
Salaries

At least 159 top administrators in Dutch high education earn more than 60,000 euro per year. Of these top administrators, 60 of them earn more than 130,000 euro per year. 36 of these high earners are employed by universities. This is 8,000 euro more than a Dutch government minister earns. Although these university administrators earn a good wage, they are second to administrators of academic hospitals, who earn an average of 197,586 euro per year.
Free drugs

In response to the large numbers of faculty dying from AIDS in recent years, the University of Zambia will provide free anti-AIDS drugs to HIV-positive faculty and students, as well as local residents and other university workers. Approximately 16.5 percent of Zambia’s population is HIV-positive, one of the lowest infection rates in the region. The university hopes that many more people will be tested for HIV as a result of the program.

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