The Delft city council adopted two motions on pick your housemate practices on Thursday evening, 5 March. The vote followed a forty five minute debate. “The horror stories and worst case scenarios aren’t really grounded in fact,” said councillor Simon de Rijk, one of the few opponents of the motions.
Odido provided incorrect information to TU Delft about the cyber attack in February. According to the telecom provider, TU business subscriptions were not affected, but it now appears that data from TU employees has been leaked after all. Odido announced this on Tuesday 10 March in an email to the affected TU employees. The university
A modular student housing complex containing eight hundred studios may be relocated from Amsterdam’s Zuidas district to the TU Delft campus.
With the municipal elections approaching, political parties met on Thursday evening with the VeRa, DUWO director Jelle van Kempen and students to discuss the new pick‑your‑housemate policy DUWO is developing. Right next to the town hall, a large group of Delft students demonstrated against the proposed changes.
PhD candidates at TU Delft sometimes have to wait so long for their defense that their visas expire or job applications are jeopardized. A simplified PhD ceremony and the addition of an extra beadle — both negotiated by the Works Council — are expected to ease the pressure. And not a moment too soon, because the real wave of PhD defenses is still to come.
To help reduce the housing shortage in the Netherlands, Chief Government Architect Francesco Veenstra wants to revive an old solution: dividing a single house into multiple residential units, a practice known as woningsplitsing (housing subdivision). This approach should provide short‑term relief for the housing market and create more living space for young people, he said
No data from end users of business accounts was leaked during the cyberattack on telecom provider Odido. This means that no staff data or user data belonging to TU Delft employees was affected, the university announced on its intranet. On Thursday, Odido announced that cybercriminals had gained access to a file containing the details of
As the death toll from the protests in Iran continues to rise, Iranian TU students and staff are unable to contact their loved ones in their home country, or can only do so with great difficulty. “The last I heard from my niece is that she went out onto the streets to demonstrate.”
On Monday, Iranian TU students and staff gathered in the Aula to commemorate Iranians who died during the recent protests in Iran. “We want the world to know that they fought for freedom,” says co-organiser Shima Rajabali.
