Any form of anti-social behaviour, no matter how small, deserves immediate attention, writes columnist Ali Vahidi. “Passivity gives people who exploit the system the signal that they can do whatever they want without consequences.”
Many student associations have a communal meal. At student columnist Mirte Brouwer’s association, members cook for each other. She too does this regularly. She is surprised every time by how much 100 people can eat in one evening.
Technicians too should be concerned about the decline of the humanities in the Netherlands, writes TU student Koos Goudswaard. “We need national and international collaboration to deal with worldwide problems and to do this, we need to have knowledge about people and the world.”
Dap Hartmann gets caught up in a seven-step menu to obtain a list of names. Are his expectations of a support system too high?
It is noisy, dark, there is no privacy and there is no second screen. Still, Otto Kaaij swears by his regular study space on the second floor of Building 28. Studying at home does not work for him.
Responding to the Executive Board’s call for deans and directors to be ‘more aware’ of their incomes and expenditures, Fabio Luelmo expresses concern about how to do this. He recommends modernising systems and automating processes.
Make sure that a new Vice Rector has no ties to the fossil fuel industry, writes master student Jen Jacobs. “It is clear that whoever takes decisions on collaboration with fossil fuel companies should not be associated with that industry.”
Columnist Jan van Neerven is a proponent of English-language education at TU Delft. He already had issues with certain aspects of the proposed political Bill, which aims to better manage the influx of international students. And now, the recent additional measures to tighten that law go too far in his view.
Alex Nedelcu believes that he’s lucky to live in a city like Delft. However, he sees that it’s not an option for every TU Delft student. It seems to him that very few new housing developments are actually geared towards students.
