What is happening in E11? by Marijn Thijs WEDNESDAY afternoon, after a long and tiring class, I walked into what is at this point maybe even the most mysterious room in UCR – Eleanor 11. A room which was stripped of literally everything at the be-ginning of the semester, with windows on which one could…
Temporary Campus Locations
Their Ups and Their Downs by Marit Versteeg “WHERE do you live?” is without a doubt one of the most frequently asked questions you will get as a fresh and innocent IntRoweek kiddie. For me, this usually resulted in a long story about Villex, 7th semester overflow and my moving date. Together with about thirty…
Unite For Children!
The UNICEF Student Team by Sam Halkes & Mary Weaver FROM the Fall Semester of 2015 onwards, Middelburg has its own UNICEF Student Team. Split into three branches – fundraising, educa-tion, and promotion – UNICEF will be becoming a strong presence around UCR, with promotional events and volunteer opportunities in the coming years. The fundamental…
“Going Glocal” in Middelburg’s ASC
by Alina Achenbach and Hannah Nonnenberg ON a Monday evening some-where in the West of Middel-burg, after an hour behind closed doors a dozen women and girls step out of the room where they usually learn Dutch. Laughing and chatting, three friends from Eritrea slip back into their flip-flops; a woman from Albania carries her…
King of the Channel 2015 – The Viking Title Prolonged?
By Shanice Harmon On the 25th of September the annual ‘King of The Channel’ (KotC) race took place. At around 17:00, three schools gathered its students and faculty to compete in a dragon-boat race. Scalda, Hogeschool Zeeland (HZ), and University College Roosevelt (UCR) were the institutes participating in the event. It occurred in the canal…
Things I Wish I Knew as a UCR Freshman
By Debby-Esmeé de Vlugt If you are a freshman, chances are that you have just changed your whole life around. After graduating from high school, you had to move away from home, make new friends, learn how to live on your own, and study at a much higher level than before. This can be quite…
Pubcrawl
By Zoë Goldsborough After spending most of the afternoon in the pouring rain during the Beach Walk, I for one was looking forward to the pubcrawl. A nice warm bar, free snacks with every round and just a general dry atmosphere. The kids still had to face the elements every twenty minutes or so when it…
HAC – Campus Dinner
By Jillis Jansen Traditionally the HAC Campus Dinner is the one IntRoWeek event that shows all new students the UCR campus locations: the people who just moved into Bagijnhof get a chance to see what Koestraat is like, or show the students from Bachtensteene how to find Roggeveen and give new students the opportunity to…
Opening Sports Center Nassaulaan
By Eva Versteeg The 27th of August 2015 was a happy day for the entire UCR community. With a spectacular ceremony the Sports Center Nassaulaan was opened as the new sports complex for RASA. The gym hall, which was doomed for destruction, was rescued by UCR at the last minute. Now, the UCR community has…
Hunt of Mythical Creatures
By Mr. Fox Introweek is the opportunity for new students to explore what it is like to be a member of the social community of RASA. There are the societies portraying themselves in their events, the teams and fraternity/sororities during the beach walk, and generally there is the great interaction with fellow students. However, this…
42 introduction GA’s next semester
By Kirsten Kapteijns Wednesday morning all the students gathered for their hangover tutor breakfast. After a few hours, with a full stomach, having met their tutor, and received their brand new schedules, all of them walked together to the Hofpleinkerk for their very first General Assembly. Slowly the flock of yellow shirts moved inside, to…
Dodgeball – a testimony to IntRoweek’s power
By Eva Versteeg On Friday afternoon, buckets full of water and sponges were awaiting the by then exhausted IntRoweek children on the Market Square. The weather had finally taken a turn for the better and the sun was shining happily over the kids’ faces. And it could not have come at a better time, because…
Battle of the Boards: Clash of the Titans meets Hunger Games
By Becci Fobbe The annual battle of the boards for this semester’s Introweek can only be described as the following: Clash of the Titans meets Hunger Games. Not being able to pull of a Professor McGonagoll this time, but easily being able to star as Effie Trinket in her sparkly evening dress and her witty,…
Trial of the Gods
By Kirsten Kapteijns The last day of a great, but also exhausting IntRoweek had come. Families had gathered in Toorenvliedt Park to commence the final battle for medals. The gods decided to make the last day count and the sun was shining bright. Ontbijtkoek was hanging from rope, ready to be eaten, helmets were laying…
The Dangers of Being Online – Tips and Tricks by UCR’s own ICT-desk
By Stan Faver Vendaged and Ine Roos Mast-Bjall The Internet: It is Everywhere Over 3 billion people in the world have access to the Internet. To put this in perspective, at the start of the 1960s, there were only about 3 billion people alive. In general it is great to have such a vast…
Teaching about a whole new world: the Internet
by King Peter The Just & Little Miss Sunshine How do you teach 11 year olds about the web? Do they know what cookies are? Are they on Facebook? Is online gaming still the hype? And how do you go about a project with a group of people who cannot be part of the UCR…
Ajax In Iraq: The Brave Choice of THEATRA’s Spring Play
By Eden van der Moere After 12 weeks of rehearsing, practicing, working and studying lines, THEATRA is ready to present its newest masterpiece. In this long-awaited Spring Play, two worlds collide. Based on a piece by Ellen McLaughlin, the play is a mixture of Sophocles classic tragedy Ajax and the modern-day war in Iraq. Set…
The UCSRN Tournament: A Day of Unity and Rivalry
By Marijn Thijs A regular Saturday morning, 7 AM, in Middelburg. It may have seemed like a regular Saturday morning to the untrained eye, but in reality, it was one of the most exciting Saturday mornings of the year. Around 80 RASA Vikings boarded a bus in the early hours to defend UCR’s honor in…
Tribes, Totems And Bubbles
By Zoë Goldsborough As someone who moved from one middle of nowhere to the next, I am used to hearing the question of what one could possibly do where I live. When I still lived in Friesland, I simply answered with “nothing but cows.” Now, here at UCR, I usually try to justify my answer…
The Annual UCR Student Film Festival: A Night to Remember
By Merlijn Veltman The opportunities for film-enthusiasts to explore the film scene in Middelburg are usually limited to the Middelburg Cinema, where one can enjoy art-house and commercial movies for a low price. However, during the last week of April, the Annual Film Festival held by CameRA gently reminds the film-enthusiasts that there are aspiring…