Prince Claus died and the TU was shut down. Foreign students and employees were generally sympathetic, but with lectures and assignments being pushed back to next week, which was originally scheduled as a free study week prior to exams, many students were grumbling.
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“I have sympathy that the TU is closed,” says Vikash Badal, an ITS student from Suriname, “but on the other hand, why was the TU closed all day? Because the funeral procession passes by? It doesn’t go up and down the whole day, does it? Anyway I’ll go to a Den Haag library to study for my upcoming exams.” Badal’s study friend, Tessa, who’s also from Suriname, but won’t give her full name, says it’s difficult for her that her lectures are cancelled. “For me, all lectures are important, but they won’t be replaced.”
Raymond Sondak, who’s studying Media & Knowledge technology (ITS), adds: “We have exams in two weeks, and it’s a lot to keep up with.” This Indonesian student is therefore going to study at home. He suspects the TU of earning a lot of money from the ceremony. “I think that’s the reason why I see a lot of people here working to get everything clean and secured on time,” he says, pointing at a little van and people working outside.
Claudia, an exchange student from Italy, would have liked to study at the TU library. “I don’t have a computer in my room. With the library closed, I’m obliged to stay at home and do nothing. And going out to watch isn’t an option, I’m too short for that!”
For PhD student Greg Georgalli, from South Africa, it was also a day of mandatory rest. “It’s nice to have a day off work,” he says, “only there’s nothing to do. I can’t go anywhere, because I’m afraid that if I leave Delft, I can’t come back in again because everything is blocked off.” And Georgali won’t be following the show on television either, because he doesn’t have one.
A more enthusiastic viewer of the spectacle is Cheryl Budiman: “What time does it start?” This Indonesian IO student’s courses were cancelled and pushed back to next week, which should have been a free study week. “But for me it’s no problem,” she says. Maureen Wijngaarden, an electro-engineering student, signed the condolence book in Rotterdam. She’s lived in Holland for ten years: “My father said Claus is really cool. I think he was interesting, that’s why I showed my sympathy.” Garance Bundel, a chemical engineering research assistant from Suriname, will slyly try to watch the procession with some friends: “We’ll be dressed in black and see how far we come.” Christian Hahn, from Germany, isn’t really bothered: “I didn’t know Claus was German. But I’m not at all interested in high society people, which is probably why I had never heard of him.” Hahn thinks all the commotion is appropriate. But still he doesn’t yet know what he’s going to do on the day: “I’m going to bring my girlfriend to the station and then sleep.”
Prince Claus died and the TU was shut down. Foreign students and employees were generally sympathetic, but with lectures and assignments being pushed back to next week, which was originally scheduled as a free study week prior to exams, many students were grumbling.
“I have sympathy that the TU is closed,” says Vikash Badal, an ITS student from Suriname, “but on the other hand, why was the TU closed all day? Because the funeral procession passes by? It doesn’t go up and down the whole day, does it? Anyway I’ll go to a Den Haag library to study for my upcoming exams.” Badal’s study friend, Tessa, who’s also from Suriname, but won’t give her full name, says it’s difficult for her that her lectures are cancelled. “For me, all lectures are important, but they won’t be replaced.”
Raymond Sondak, who’s studying Media & Knowledge technology (ITS), adds: “We have exams in two weeks, and it’s a lot to keep up with.” This Indonesian student is therefore going to study at home. He suspects the TU of earning a lot of money from the ceremony. “I think that’s the reason why I see a lot of people here working to get everything clean and secured on time,” he says, pointing at a little van and people working outside.
Claudia, an exchange student from Italy, would have liked to study at the TU library. “I don’t have a computer in my room. With the library closed, I’m obliged to stay at home and do nothing. And going out to watch isn’t an option, I’m too short for that!”
For PhD student Greg Georgalli, from South Africa, it was also a day of mandatory rest. “It’s nice to have a day off work,” he says, “only there’s nothing to do. I can’t go anywhere, because I’m afraid that if I leave Delft, I can’t come back in again because everything is blocked off.” And Georgali won’t be following the show on television either, because he doesn’t have one.
A more enthusiastic viewer of the spectacle is Cheryl Budiman: “What time does it start?” This Indonesian IO student’s courses were cancelled and pushed back to next week, which should have been a free study week. “But for me it’s no problem,” she says. Maureen Wijngaarden, an electro-engineering student, signed the condolence book in Rotterdam. She’s lived in Holland for ten years: “My father said Claus is really cool. I think he was interesting, that’s why I showed my sympathy.” Garance Bundel, a chemical engineering research assistant from Suriname, will slyly try to watch the procession with some friends: “We’ll be dressed in black and see how far we come.” Christian Hahn, from Germany, isn’t really bothered: “I didn’t know Claus was German. But I’m not at all interested in high society people, which is probably why I had never heard of him.” Hahn thinks all the commotion is appropriate. But still he doesn’t yet know what he’s going to do on the day: “I’m going to bring my girlfriend to the station and then sleep.”

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