Student
IN THE NEWS
Student makes it to town council after all
15:22u 8 March 2010 - A student will be a member of the Wageningen town council. Peter Veldman takes over for Democrats66 from Froukje Pechtold who had said no to the seat.
IN THE NEWS
No students on the town council
13:50u 4 March 2010 - There are no students on Wageningen's new municipal council. None of the seven candidates for various different parties were directly elected or got enough personal votes.
STUDENT LIFE
Home away from home
11:45u 3 March 2010 - Three Wageningen student societies turn their backs to the international character of Wageningen UR, while they highlight only their own regional traits.
COLUMN
Mild sex
11:42u 3 March 2010 - It happened on a cold winter evening. My street-mate took a guest to his student house. The young lady (I'll call her X) was to sleep in an unoccupied room. Another house-mate (Y) eyed her arrival with extraordinary interest
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT
Bring back the gallows, say VHL students
22:30u 1 March 2010 - In the bad old days there was a gallows hill in the Sysselt woods between Bennekom and Ede. Four VHL Velp students have some idea where it was. They have advised Geldersch Landschap to bring back the gallows. For educational and entertainment purposes.
Punched and plundered in Malawi
16:43u 25 February 2010 - Third year student of international land and water management Diederick Koetsier (20) encountered both generosity and hostility during his internship in Malawi. He had helped to construct and renovate irrigation systems for the local farming community.
EDUCATION
Game drives, proposals and big tips
16:22u 25 February 2010 - Student Joost Besijn is going to be a ranger in South Africa in the exclusive wild animal park Sabi Sabi which boasts clients such as the Hilton family and Elton John.
IN THE NEWS
Coffee in the morning again in the Forum
16:43u 24 February 2010 - The grand café in the Forum will open in the morning again from 1 March. This is the result of actions taken by the Student Council to enable students to have sandwiches and a cuppa coffee in the café in the morning.
SPORT
Van der Burgt pleased with his first race
9:45u 18 February 2010 - He's still a long way off the form he was in a year ago but even so, Ate van der Burgt was quite pleased with his three-kilometre race at the Dutch indoor championships.
EDUCATION
Cramer put on the spot
9:42u 18 February 2010 - Minister for the Environment Jacqueline Cramer is touring Dutch universities with a glitzy show in which students are invited to shape 'the green future'. It was Cramer herself who was called upon to act in Wageningen: student Christopher Baan put her on the spot with a statement of intent for sustainable education.
