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Fraudsters are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways on the housing market, the student union LSVb observes, and international students in particular are the victims. “Educational institutions must warn people better,” says chair Evy Kras.
What do you do when your student association is celebrating its anniversary and is based in a 90-metre-high building? You go abseiling. On 8 June, the big day finally arrived for twenty members of the Elektrotechnische Vereeiniging, after first the weather and then the hands of the EEMCS clock had thrown a spanner in the works.
The seat allocated to Dé Partij on the Central Student Council goes to Lijst Bèta. This brings the party’s total to four seats, whilst ORAS remains the largest party with six seats. At the same time, voter turnout has fallen.
One in four young people is an informal carer. That is not always easy, says lecturer-researcher Hinke van der Werf: “Do I go to a lecture or take my mother to the hospital?”
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.
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