Purple nail polish, free cupcakes, and drag queen bingo. On Purple Friday (12 December), Delft study associations are organising various activities to increase the visibility and acceptance of the queer community on campus. Jinny Wu, chair of the Delft queer youth association Outsite: “Recently, resistance to queer people has been increasing.”
Students who work full time on Dream Team projects now pay tuition fees while they do not follow any courses. The Dream Teams and Student Council party ORAS believe that this makes participation too elitist. It also leads to fake registrations which seriously distort the inflow and dropout rates of some degree programmes. The students thus argue for a tuition fee waiver.
A survey shows that expanding TU Delft to Rotterdam is garnering mixed reactions. Maaike Kleinsmann and Han Derkx of the Rotterdam Campus programme team, talk about the plans for the new Health and Techology bachelor, cooperation with the Municipality of Rotterdam, and financing.
Being admitted to the prestigious Harvard University was a dream come true for TU Delft student Coen Visser (Aerospace Engineering). But the Trump administration’s new rules are making studying at the American university almost impossible for international students.
TU Delft students can vote for the Student Council for the next academic year on Wednesday and Thursday. There are four parties on the voting slip: ORAS, Lijst Bèta, Dé Partij and TU ResQ. What are their plans? The party candidates speak.
Language use divides the Student Council: Dutch for effectiveness, English for inclusion. An open letter from former Council member Albaraa Khalil has reignited the debate. During his year on the Council, he felt excluded as the only non-Dutch speaking student. The other parties on the Council have expressed shock, but also point to existing agreements and practical limitations.