TU Delft student Sam de Jong on upcoming national student board

TU Delft mathematics student Sam de Jong (24) will become a board member of the Dutch National Student Association (ISO) next year. The organisation reported this in a press release (in Dutch) on Friday. Sam is currently active in the Delft Student Union (VSSD). He was also a student council member for Lijst Bèta.

Now he is making the move from Delft to national. The ISO is the largest national student organisation in the Netherlands and represents central participation councils, -factions and student unions. Within the board, Sam will soon have the position of political advocate. He plans to raise various views of the ISO with the Parlement, such as the major financial concerns students have.

Upcoming budget cuts

Sam is looking forward to it: “I expect a busy year. The position of students has not improved over the past year, for example due to the upcoming budget cuts. I will work hard with my board to improve this position.” His fellow board members are Sarah Evink (25, Groningen), Emma van Straten (22, Utrecht), Kevin Borges (24, Rotterdam) and Olmer Tutein Nolthenius (22, Wageningen).

The National Student Union (LSVb) also elected a new board last week. This does not include a TU Delft student. Current president Abdelkader Karbache, however, is a student at TU Delft. In the press release (in Dutch), he writes: ‘Last year, we as LSVb campaigned hard and successfully swept the slow-progress penalty off the table. […] We are confident that the new board will manage to sweep away all other cuts as well and we see a lot of motivation among them to make this happen!’