By Hilde van den Berg By now, the Gender in the Blender party is known to most students as a yearly occurrence. In the past couple of years, however, there had never been a workshop related to this event. Students were always left to search the web for tips and tricks, unless they had friends…
Infamous football evil destroyed by unexpected superhero?
A summary of recent events concerning FIFA By Amir Pliev This year, on the 2nd of June 2015, Sepp Blatter resigned his position as president of FIFA. The resignation followed a series of events that drew a lot of attention from the worldwide media. Why the attention? Well, what happens to FIFA can have far…
“Spectre” (2015)
Bond with the latest and (perhaps) best installment of the franchise By Eden van der Moere I’m not really a true James Bond fan. I’m more a “new” James Bond fan. Ever since Sam Mendes rebooted the franchise in 2006 with “Casino Royale”, I have immensely enjoyed Bond films. Daniel Craig in a suit, truly…
‘Das Auto.’ or ‘Das Auto?’
Volkswagen’s betrayal of our eco-friendly diesel fairy tale by Corine Fontijn WHEN thinking about the Volkswagen group, thoughts used to go in many directions, to the reliable family car that one will own in 20 years or the classic hippie bus. Last month, that changed. Volkswagen has been manipulating tests measuring their diesel engine’s nitrogen…
Research Into RASA Spirit
by Maaike Oosterling RASA Spirit is a term we are all familiar with, yet it appears to remain undefined. To get some clarity about this concept that dictates our so-cial lives, I decided to conduct a small research into what it exactly is. But as the word ‘spirit’ already implies, it is not as material…
Sweetening Up The Tax System
Why Jamie Oliver wants to impose a sugar tax By Indya Duivenbode It is commonly known that consuming extensive amounts of sugar is unhealthy. People become more and more aware of this and try to spread their knowledge, under which one finds British cook and television-star Jamie Oliver, who has been active promoting healthy nutrition…
Paris – its prequel, its aftermath and different opinions
This picture was taken at the march on 15th of November at Market Square which was organised by UCR students By Corine Fontijn & Rebecca Fobbe Friday night, Paris. Young and old are attacked and taken hostage while attending a concert at the Bataclan theatre. A second attack – a drive by shooting- on a…
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark And Their Spectacular Legacy
by Merlijn Veltman ELECTRONIC music is everywhere these days. Young com-posers and songwriters rather pick up a Casio MIDI-keyboard than the guitar or piano, and the constant increase in possibilities of computerized music gives everyone the ability to compose, produce and master their own tracks. Hence, a complete shift in the musical landscape is slowly…
Murder Mystery Dinner
by Kim Smulders & Rosa Zwaal AFTER a long day of UCR class-es, twelve students gathered in the Bachtensteene common room. Lit-tle did they know a murder would take place later that night. Maybe they did, as they had come to the Murder Mystery Dinner! GamesCo and Cooking Society were collaborating to organize an activ-ity…
We Still Want The Truth
by Ishany C. Balder and Aimah Moiz SINCE the 1980s, there have been an estimated 80,000 cases of en-forced disappearances in Sri Lanka. This is 0.4% of the current population, making Sri Lanka the country with the second highest number of disappeared people in the world after Iraq. Disap-pearances became the modus operandi during the…
“The Scorch Trials” (2015)
A-maze-ing or a total crank? by Kirsten Kapteijns AFTER a year of waiting, the time was here; the second instalment of “The Maze Runner” series was re-leased. Cinematically, the success they achieved with “The Maze Runner” is seen through the quality of the set of “The Scorch Trials”. The film is visually appealing and stylized…
Arts & Design Practice
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…
Puerto Rico
The Black Sheep of America’s Family by Anton Moggré WHILE Europe’s news outlets mainly talk about the never-ending fi nancial crisis of Greece, in the United States a similar situation has arisen. The country in question here: Puerto Rico. The tropical island, located in the Caribbean and a commonwealth of the United States, is currently…
EDITORS’ “In Dream”
Perfectly minimalistic and incredibly complex by Eden van der Moere September and October were some very fruitful months for my music collection. Almost every week, a new album that I had been waiting for was released, such as Ryan Adams’ 1989, CHVRCHES’ Every Open Eye and Lana Del Rey’s Honeymoon. But this album, is an…
Ode To Bikes in New York City
by Tsjalline Boorsma I LOVE bikes. They help humanity to transport itself. What would we do without bikes? Take a car and get stuck in traffic jams? Take a train and be forced to get out halfway through? (I am sure enough students know the agony). Walking is great, but in a big city it…
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…
The Waters of Mars
by Sanne Tol LAST year NASA celebrated its 10-year anniversary of Mars explora-tions by Mars rovers Spirit and Oppor-tunity, that were sent to Mars to search its surfaces for evidence of past water. This month NASA could report that there is not only evidence for past wa-ter, but also for present water. Humans haven been…
Getting Trashed At Festivals
The aftermath on the ‘Island of Freedom’ by Becci Fobbe IT is 8am, I am dragging my-self, my hiking backpack and my low motivation down a narrow path amongst hundreds of other young peo-ple who look as demotivated as me. For about two kilometers (that feel like a whole marathon) we walk past plastic cups,…
The Elliott Food Team
How fridges and Chilling Chickens became part of daily life by Tessa van Hoorn “CHILLING Chicken”, “Healthy Hummus”, “Mag-nificent Mozzarella” and more; these are not ways to teach children some-thing about either food or linguistics (alliteration awesomeness), but are some of the heroes of the Elliott Food Team. They have become part of my daily…