Have you ever wondered who deals with your exchange/IRP/additional semester requests? Who is responsible for all tuition fee payments? Who makes sure that broken lights are being changed? It’s the UCR staff! We don’t always realize it, but UCR consists of more than just students and faculty. Without its staff this place could not function….
The Flash #5: Poison, Rising Temperatures, And Less Intelligence
Somehow, we have already arrived at week 6. This means midterms, papers, presentation – the stuff of nightmares. Luckily, TR is there to provide the news, so that you can keep on studying. VX poison Source: The Guardian Kim Jong-Nam, half-brother of North Korea’s leader, died of a high dose of XV poison. Malaysian health…
Tabula Rasa Spring I Print Edition: Diversity
At Tabula Rasa, we decided we wanted to do things just a tiny bit different this Spring semester. That’s why we’re releasing not one, but two full-blown print editions this semester! The first, themed ‘diversity’, will be released in just a few days, while the second is coming your way after the Spring break, featuring…
Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies – A Reader’s Review
John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) may not be new, but this has in no way infringed on its ability to ring true. Through the format of a multi-generational saga, Updike tells the story of a changing America. While an accurate historical timeline of events is interspersed throughout the text, the dramas…
UCR Votes: An Experiment
Bringing Dutch Parliament Elections Closer to You The past year was a political hurricane, to say the least. England is now making concrete steps to leave the European Union, and we are being confronted with US President Trump’s shenanigans every day again. But buckle up everybody, there is much more to come! Germany, France and…
An Interview With Wouter Meijer: “Sports, royalty and a little bit of sex before the weather”
By Mijke van Leersum On the 22nd of February, Professor Luscombe’s students in the Capstone-course Comparative Media (CAP 317) got to conduct a skype-interview with Wouter Meijer, a reporter with the NOS (the Dutch public broadcast corporation) who was stationed as a foreign correspondent in Berlin from 2008 until 2014. Ever since he moved back,…
Nine Instagram Grid Worthy Places in Middelburg
By Yonna Kuipers As liberal millennial snowflakes we only communicate online, if at all. Our filtered sheltered lives are filled with difficult dilemmas: whether to recycle or not when the paper bins are full, whether to walk across the bridge near Roggeveen or break the law and bike across it anyway. It is hard being…
“Abstract”: A Realist Insight Into Design
By Yonna Kuipers There are two things that unite a nation more than anything: sports, and a new (Netflix) hit series. So if your country is not playing in the Six Nations, you might as well get behind this new documentary: Abstract (2017). It is an eight-part documentary focusing on different aspects of design. From…
The Flash Week 4: Deals, Coral, and Grexit
By Annick Wijnstra The first four weeks of the semester have passed and we’re completely back into the game that’s called UCR. Essay deadlines, midterm exams and the release of our very own first print edition of the Spring semester are drawing near. So much to do, and so little time to catch up with…
Stukafest Middelburg 2017 – A Festival Review
On a grim Tuesday night every year in February, artists from all over the world find their way towards the student dorms of Middelburg. For one night only, the entire town transforms into the vibrant festival heart of Stukafest, a national initiative organizing performances in student dorm rooms. The performances are spread throughout the town…
A Penny-Pinching Student’s Guide to Buying Art
In the process of glitzing up your space, two main factors come into play – taste, and budget. You: a sense of style classier than Buckingham palace, your budget: little to nonexistent. Nonetheless, with a few creative solutions, you can get your abode up and running. Now if only you could figure out where that…
Upcoming Event: Swan Market Rotterdam
If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, especially since it’s early in the semester and you can still allow yourself to leave the confines of Middelburg, why not head on over to the Swan Market in the Van Nellefabriek in Rotterdam this Sunday. For some any opportunity to leave Middelburg is enough,…
Brainstorming on the Future of the Netherlands: A Generational Blueprint
As students of UCR, we pride ourselves on being highly opinionated, cosmopolitan academics in the making. During the American elections, there was no end to the discussions, the shared Facebook posts and links to TrumpDonald.org – which is still a solid piece of gold. Even now, President Trump is an almost unavoidable topic, although I…
The Flash #3: Michelle Obama, Smog, and Yale
The first three weeks of the Spring semester have vanished like the snow in Middelburg. Stats exams, election GA’s and regular UCR life might get in the way of keeping up to date with current affairs. Luckily, section editor Annick is there to provide you with some of the most important news stories of the…
La La Leaks: An Honest Review
Admittedly, the husky voice of the minor key song that is so prominent in the trailer had me whistling to the movies; but much to my regret, the melody flattened out along with its melancholia throughout the screen performance. By the time the film had ended, I knew that all these mourning tones and gaudy…
What does DeVos say? A Look At Trump’s New Secretary of Education
Looking at Trump’s cabinet so far, the appointments haven’t gone smoothly. Protests and outrage sparked after the appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, Michael Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor after just a month in office, and nominee for Secretary of Labor has just withdrawn his nomination after at least six Republican Senators said…
Get your Stuka-feest on!
By now you have probably heard of Stukafest, or at least seen that logo with the two stinky socks on it. Here’s the spiel one last time: on the evening of February 21st, you’ll be able to listen to bands, enjoy theater, and view performance art in cosy living rooms across Middelburg. Too cultured in…
When Worldviews Collide: Courageous Conversations at The Veritas Forum 2017
The yearly Veritas Forum is an almost established phenomenon at UCR, but for the few who have not been around that long, an introduction is appropriate. The Veritas-forum is an international organisation concerned with hosting forums on college campuses about life’s hardest questions. The first forum was organised by students and faculty at Harvard University…
Matthijs van Lindonk for RASA CAO
Dear fellow RASA students, With the start of the new semester, we have sadly seen several of the RASA board members leave their position. However, RASA policy dictates that these positions are to be filled again until the board is relieved after the next election cycle. And as such, I am excited to announce that I will be running for the…
The Flash Week 2: Fires, Fake News and Courts
By Annick Wijnstra Tabula Rasa is back with your weekly fix of news that you may have missed during your second week back at UCR. Scottish independence 2.0? Scottish lawmakers are looking into the viability of a new referendum into Scottish independence if the UK triggers article 50. Read more here. Facebook, Google, and France…