Three top athletes from Delft have a chance of participating in the Olympic Games in Italy this coming February. Speed skater and master’s student in technical medicine Naomi Verkerk can earn a spot during the Olympic qualification tournament in December.
Three top athletes from Delft have a chance of participating in the Olympic Games in Italy this coming February. Speed skater and master’s student BioMechanical Design Tijmen Snel can earn a spot during the Olympic qualification tournament in December.
The Sustainability Core Team will cease to exist and the tasks will be taken over by the Climate Action Programme. Is TU Delft putting its green plans in the freezer? No, says Andy van den Dobbelsteen, the departing Sustainability Coordinator. “We have created systems that will not disappear just like that.”
Purple nail polish, free cupcakes, and drag queen bingo. On Purple Friday (12 December), Delft study associations are organising various activities to increase the visibility and acceptance of the queer community on campus. Jinny Wu, chair of the Delft queer youth association Outsite: “Recently, resistance to queer people has been increasing.”
On Tuesday morning, TU employees gathered at Delft station on their way to a new higher education demonstration. They try to forget for a moment that their work will pile up on this strike day. “If we continue like this, the TU will become a diploma factory.”
Three top athletes from Delft have a chance of participating in the Olympic Games in Italy this coming February. Master’s student in Computer Science Tobias van den Hurk can qualify with the Dutch curling team in Kelowna, Canada, over the next two weeks. They’ll play their first match against China on Saturday, December 6th. How are things looking?
The occupation of the roof of Mechanical Engineering is over. The police arrested the activists from Delft Student Intifada at 6:10 PM. They had wanted to spend the night on the roof, but TU Delft did not consider this safe.
‘Delft Student Intifada’ has occupied the roof of Mechanical Engineering. They are demanding an academic boycott of Israel and a public condemnation of the genocide in Palestine. They want to engage in dialogue with the Executive Board, but that has not yet made an appearance.
By early October, one in four TU Delft managers had completed the one-day course Leadership and Social Safety. Another quarter had signed up. The unions are calling for the training to be mandatory, but the Executive Board is sticking to persuasion rather than compulsion.
