Not every international student can or wants to go home for the Christmas holidays. That’s why the international student association BEST came up with the idea of a cookie baking evening. “You experience the Christmas spirit differently when your friends and family are far away.”
An open letter from TU Delft student associations about DUWO’s new intended pick-your-housemate-policy got a lot of attention in the local media. Why did they send this letter? “We are worried that the effects of the policy is already decided,” says VeRa (the Association Council) Board Member Lucas van Krimpen.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office wants to send a clear message to students about the importance of mutual consent in sexual relations. It is demanding a 20-month prison sentence for a member of the Utrecht Student Corps.
Thursday marks three months that Alexander Pechtold has been mayor of the student city of Delft. We must guard against the city losing its student atmosphere, he warns. “You only realise what that means once it is gone.”
Single glazing, centimetre-wide gaps and poorly insulated walls: many student houses are facing a cold winter. With a free insulation service, the students at Holy Folie step in where landlords fail. “The landlord doesn’t feel the cold.”
Red faces, heavy panting and regret. For the second time, the tallest building at TU Delft was the setting of a stair climbing competition on Friday evening. This year it was also open for non-athletes. “It was a lot worse than I expected.”
Residents of the X-Ray student flat are concerned about a new parking policy that will take effect on 1 December. Anyone who wants to park their car will now have to pay an hourly rate or take out a monthly subscription. The cost of such a subscription? Sixty euros per month. ‘Absurdly expensive,’ say the tenants.
Students are doing better than four years ago. Even so, four out of five still experience moments of anxiety or depression, and their consumption of alcohol and drugs has not decreased.
How long does it take to run up 20 floors? At least one minute and 49 seconds. This was the speed of the winner of the Dutch tower running student championship that Dodeka, the Student Athletics Association of Delft, held last year in the EEMCS highrise. On Friday evening, 28 November, the match returns to campus.
