SummerfestThe line-up for TU Delft’s Summer Festival is taking shape. The popular Dutch rap group ‘De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig’ will be one of the festival’s headline acts.
The rap group enjoyed a number one hit back in 2005 called Watskeburt. This year’s Summerfest, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of TU Delft’s Sports Center, will be held on June 5, from 16:00 to 4:00. Earlier that week, on June 2-3, the Sport’s Centre will also host a student sports tournament.
,Best migrant
At the recent ECHO Awards, Ahmad Bakkar, a Lebanese-born aerospace engineering student at TU Delft, was awarded the 2009 WO Beta Technology Award. The ECHO Awards are an annual event honoring the best non-ethnic Dutch (allochtone) students in higher education and technological education in the Netherlands. This year, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ronald Plasterk, was on hand to present the awards. Plasterk was joined by fellow Dutch politicians, John Leerdam (PvdA) and Mark Rutte (VVD). All 15 students nominated for one of the ECHO awards were present at the event, which is organized by the ECHO Foundation. The students were honored for their academic performance and social contributions. The award winners will now participate in a summer course at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bakkar impressed the jury with his “passion for technology and writing.” As a child, Bakkar dreamed of working for NASA, and he is now pursuing that dream through his studies at TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
,Web woes
TU Delft’s new website continues to malfunction. The faculty home pages and student and staff portals have been off-line a few times and content pages are slow to load. Apparently there are various reasons for these problems. The TU homepage and staff and student portals recently changed to a new system, resulting in some teething problems. Additionally, the new house style templates place a heavy burden on the server, which causes the website to respond slowly and show the ‘503 error’ sign.
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De DSSF heeft van eind april tot half september gezocht naar een nieuw bestuur, maar vond niet meer dan twee kandidaten. Dat is zo weinig, dat het erop lijkt dat de federatie in ieder geval dit studiejaar in ruste gaat. Het oude bestuur doet binnenkort nog een laatste oproep aan de sportverenigingen om mensen naar voren te schuiven, maar het verwacht daar weinig van. Dezelfde mensen zijn namelijk al eerder benaderd.
Oud-voorzitter Arnoud Haffmans vindt het ‘zeer triest’ dat zijn werk het komende jaar niet wordt voortgezet. “Lukt het niet alsnog drie of vier man te vinden, dat komen alle taken stil te liggen. Dan is er geen algemene controle meer van de dagelijkse gang van zaken op het sportcentrum. En de belangen van de individuele sporter worden dan niet meer behartigd.”
De sportverenigingen zijn wel nog vertegenwoordigd in het vorig jaar opgerichte Delftsch Studenten Sport Overleg. Dat moet zich nu ook bezinnen op de toekomst, omdat de DSSF fungeerde als het dagelijks bestuur van de DSSO.
Het hoofd van het sport- en cultuurcentrum, Raymond Browne, vindt dat de belangenbehartigers het daarmee ook wel heel ingewikkeld hebben gemaakt. “DSSF, DSSO, studentenraad. Heb je zoveel vertegenwoordigers, dan versterkt dat hun positie niet.”
Browne vindt het tijd om na te denken over een omvorming van de DSSF tot een platform dat ook de cultuurverenigingen vertegenwoordigt. Dat worden er namelijk steeds mee. “Ik heb daar volgende week een gesprek over met de studentenraad. De keuze van hoe de vertegenwoordigers zich organiseren is niet aan mij. Maar ik vind wel dat er iets van belangenbehartiging op het sport- en cultuurcentrum zelf moet zijn. We hechten immers erg aan studentenbetrokkenheid. En evenementen als de Batavierenrace en het GNSK moeten gewoon door blijven gaan.”
Los daarvan is en blijft de studentenraad (sr) voor Browne de eerste gesprekspartner. “De DSSF voerde het mandaat van de sr uit. Ik denk: dat kon eigenlijk niet. De sr is gekozen en heeft als taak zich hiermee bezig te houden.”
Browne is het niet eens met de opmerking van Haffmans dat met het verdwijnen van de DSSF de individuele sporters niet meer zijn vertegenwoordigd. “Dat zijn ze wel, via de sr. Die vertegenwoordigt zelfs de niet-sporter. Dat is wat ik nodig heb.”
Summerfest
The line-up for TU Delft’s Summer Festival is taking shape. The popular Dutch rap group ‘De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig’ will be one of the festival’s headline acts. The rap group enjoyed a number one hit back in 2005 called Watskeburt. This year’s Summerfest, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of TU Delft’s Sports Center, will be held on June 5, from 16:00 to 4:00. Earlier that week, on June 2-3, the Sport’s Centre will also host a student sports tournament.
Best migrant
At the recent ECHO Awards, Ahmad Bakkar, a Lebanese-born aerospace engineering student at TU Delft, was awarded the 2009 WO Beta Technology Award. The ECHO Awards are an annual event honoring the best non-ethnic Dutch (allochtone) students in higher education and technological education in the Netherlands. This year, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ronald Plasterk, was on hand to present the awards. Plasterk was joined by fellow Dutch politicians, John Leerdam (PvdA) and Mark Rutte (VVD). All 15 students nominated for one of the ECHO awards were present at the event, which is organized by the ECHO Foundation. The students were honored for their academic performance and social contributions. The award winners will now participate in a summer course at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bakkar impressed the jury with his “passion for technology and writing.” As a child, Bakkar dreamed of working for NASA, and he is now pursuing that dream through his studies at TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.
Web woes
TU Delft’s new website continues to malfunction. The faculty home pages and student and staff portals have been off-line a few times and content pages are slow to load. Apparently there are various reasons for these problems. The TU homepage and staff and student portals recently changed to a new system, resulting in some teething problems. Additionally, the new house style templates place a heavy burden on the server, which causes the website to respond slowly and show the ‘503 error’ sign.
Feedback
If you’d like to comment on anything appearing on the English Page or on a university-related matter, or if you have a question or suggestion for us, send your emails to d.mcmullin@tudelft.nl. We welcome all feedback from our readers. Letters intended for publication should include your name and be no longer than 350 words. This edition of Delta is also available online at www.delta.tudelft.nl, where you can also access the English Page archive.
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