Student columnist Mirte Brouwer is concerned that new student housing building plans consist mostly of studios. She thinks student welfare should outweigh financial profit in new construction projects.

In the brief period that Joan Muysken was Rector of the then TH Delft (TU Delft’s predecessor) during the war, he defied his superiors, an action that cost him his life. On 3 May, TU Delft’s historian Abel Streefland remembered his courage and his humanity in the lecture below.

During one of the meetings on social safety, columnist Dap Hartmann heard that the Executive Board stood at -20. ‘I agreed that the Executive Board was indeed way behind. But I do not have the impression that it is aware of this.’

The academic community at TU Delft does not get enough practice in carrying out critical, well-argued and respectful debates. Academic freedom is thus wasting away, argues columnist Bob van Vliet. He calls on professors and others in high positions to take the lead.

The climate crisis is so important that sustainability must be included in every single decision, writes Otto Kaaij, our new student columnist. While he believes that TU Delft is making good progress, it is not there yet and an advertising hoarding is the crazy proof of this.

It is concerning that TU Delft hires so many consultants to solve its problems, writes Delta’s new student columnist Alex Nedelcu in his first piece. It hinders us from actually solving problems, he argues.

The media storm around the new Rutger Bregman book also got columnist Birgit van Driel thinking. She now wonders if she is wasting her talent.

Let us not allow our academic community to be forced into silence by lawyers, argues Professor Richard Goossens (Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering) in connection with the legal pressure put on Delta. Address the culture of fear and self-censorship by learning from our mistakes and restarting the open debate.

Our new student columnist Mirte Brouwer asks why Delta looked for a columnist made of flesh-and-blood if AI could also do the job.

Just over a month after the Education Inspectorate report came out, columnist Dap Hartmann gives the Executive Board some free advice: come clean, be accountable and quit window dressing.