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The elections for the coming academic year’s Student Council are in full swing. Voting remains open until Thursday. There are two parties on the ballot paper: ORAS and Lijst Bèta. What are their plans? Party leaders Aleksandra Pawlik (Lijst Bèta) and Anemoon Schroten (ORAS) explain.
For three years, Koos Meesters was a Student Council member representing Dé Partij. Now that he has obtained his bachelor’s degree, he is calling it a day. He will not be running in the elections in early June. Nevertheless, developments at TU continue to concern him. “The Executive Board makes policy, but each Dean is a sort of king of their own little kingdom, interpreting that policy in their own way.”
An association for TU members interested in artificial intelligence — that was still missing in Delft, thought a group of seven students from different faculties. And so they set up Delft AI Hub. The first lecture is next Wednesday at EEMCS. “We want to reach as many people as possible.”
The giant robot chessboard, built to honour the anniversary of the student association Electrotechnische Vereeniging (EVT) attracted much attention at the Markt on Saturday afternoon. However, the robots refused to work so the electrical engineers had to move the parts by hand.
This week the national council of student associations LKvV sent an urgent letter to DUWO, the housing association, about the pick your housemate-policy. That’s more than one-and-a-half months after the Delft and Leiden municipal councils adopted motions about the proposed system. What was written in the motions and what will DUWO do next?
Apart from well-known actors, another 40 or so extras are on stage in the ‘Willem van Oranje’ musical in Delft. TU Delft student Jesse Vleeschdraager is one of them. “I pretend to hang a monk, it’s fun.”
Renting a room above a shop or café? The National Students’ Union (LSVb) wants to make it easier. “Some local authorities are going overboard with regulations,” says chairperson Maaike Krom after an investigation.
The government believes landlords should be able to offer students short-term tenancy agreements. It also proposes allowing rents for properties in the city centre to rise. The Woonbond has criticised the plans.
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