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The Municipality of Delft will carry out additional checks this summer on illegal sex work in student housing complexes, hotels and holiday accommodation. According to the municipality, the number of reports increases during the summer months because many students are temporarily absent, while demand for sex work grows with the arrival of tourists.
As many as one in four young people is a caregiver, a role that can sometimes be extremely demanding. That is also the story of TU alumnus Simon Loose. He was a first-year student and not yet 18 when his mother suffered a brain haemorrhage. His carefree student life came to an abrupt end: “From that day on, it was all about survival: I alternated lectures with visits to the hospital and the rehabilitation centre.”
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.”
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