By Zoë Goldsborough It was a dark, gloomy and depressing night when 25 UCR students braved the cold to cycle all the way to Vlissingen. Their incentive? To go to the premiere of the newest Marvel film: Deadpool. The trip was organized by Film Society, and yours truly was there as their representative. I personally…
The Campus Life Fee
The Story Behind a Structural Reorganization By Marijn Thijs In the evening of the 9th of March, a General Assembly was held to discuss a major organizational breakthrough that would change UCR on many levels. After earlier developments with regards to the opening and maintaining of our Common House Elliott, and the purchase of a…
Don’t Use This Fight For Your Agenda!
More reasons for why the aftermath of Cologne matters to German women By Becci Fobbe While the majority of people all over the world celebrated the beginning of the New Year, Cologne experienced an unsettling turn of the year on the 1st of January. Hundreds of women were sexually harassed, a few raped – most…
Catwalk exposition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
By Eden van der Moere It is a strange thought: dresses, coats and skirts from different centuries stored neatly in archives. No one has seen these items for decades and no one has worn them for perhaps even centuries. For the exposition “Catwalk”, the Rijksmuseum brushed off an impressive collection of fashion items, which can now…
Surfing the Gravitational Waves
By Steven van de Graaf On February 11 2016, after weeks of rumors and speculation, physicists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the discovery of gravitational waves. This announcement prompted a lot of excitement from the scientific community, as the discovery was the result of a century of speculation, and also 50 years…
The Sexiest Survey of the Year
By Hilde van den Berg & Marijn Thijs Foreplay Sex is and remains a hot topic. This year too, students were eager to fill in the Sex Survey. With a response rate of 356 out of 581 (the number of students according to the UCR Educational Report in 2014), a whopping 61% of students filled…