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EM International. Erasmus Magazine is the independent news magazine of Erasmus University Rotterdam. For the Dutch version, see the Erasmus Magazine page

22/04/2024

Are you attending the celebration of Feyenoord in the KNVB final cup in the Binnenrotte of Monday? Last week EM opened a discussion to know whether people are taking the day off from work or university to celebrate the festivities.

21/04/2024

The Student of the Year is not someone who gets high grades or excels in the lecture hall, but someone who selflessly works for others. One such student is Mahika Mohanan.

After witnessing the lives of children living below the poverty line in Myanmar, Mahika’s tireless initiatives in providing education opportunities for children led her to pursuing a degree in…

19/04/2024

Students from special education rarely find their way to university. But it is certainly not impossible – just ask Ivar Berkman (25), a Philosophy and Sociology student who defied the odds. Now, he’s eager to give guest lectures at his old high school, a mytyl school called De Brug, to show current students that it is possible. “If this helps even one other person, I’ll consider it a success!”

18/04/2024

In no particular order, these are the finalists for Student of the Year: Mahika Bisht Mohanan, Selda Sahin, Yasmine Haggui, Mohammed Shamallakh and a pair of joint nominees: Emma Verheggen and Fleur Wilbrink.

18/04/2024

Here at EM you can be honest about it: are you ‘sick’ on Monday? Sick with joy – or with sorrow, of course. Have you pushed back that one meeting to Tuesday? Sunday is the last chance for Feyenoord to win a prize this season.

18/04/2024

Last Monday, TU Delft ordered the editorial staff of Delta to take down a critical article about the work culture in the I&IC department. Today, the Executive Board expresses regret for its action. It remains uncertain whether the article at issue will reappear online.

18/04/2024

Onno is puppysitting, if only that goes well...

My younger brother and I have been asked to babysit the young dog of acquaintances for a small fee. We both have our doubts because we are busy. My brother has to study for a test, and I have a…

17/04/2024

Ruim 280 studenten en medewerkers van de Erasmus Universiteit hebben tijdens de Marathon van Rotterdam zo’n 23.000 euro opgehaald voor studiebeurzen. Het bedrag wordt verdubbeld door de organiserende partijen, de Erasmus Universiteit en het Erasmus Trustfonds.

17/04/2024

Ruim 280 studenten en medewerkers van de Erasmus Universiteit hebben tijdens de Marathon van Rotterdam zo'n 23.000 euro opgehaald voor studiebeurzen. Het bedrag wordt verdubbeld door de organiserende partijen, de Erasmus Universiteit en het Erasmus Trustfonds.

17/04/2024

More that 280 students and employees of Erasmus University managed to raise about 23,000 euros for scholarships during the Rotterdam Marathon. The amount will be doubled by the organising parties Erasmus University and Erasmus Trust Fund.

More that 280 students and employees of Erasmus University managed to raise about 23,000 euros for scholarships during the Rotterdam Marathon. The amount will be doubled by the organising parties…

17/04/2024

The editorial office of university magazine Delta has been forced to remove an article from the website. It detailed how a duty of confidentiality concerning a dysfunctional director imposed on staff members led to a breach of trust with the Delft University of Technology board.

16/04/2024

Mylou Miché will become the new Chair of the Dutch National Students’ Association (ISO) in June. Abdelkader Karbache is set to become the new Chair of the Dutch Student Union (LSVb) starting from the same time.

12/04/2024

Supermarket Spar recently started selling s*x toys on campus.

Supermarkt Spar verkoopt sinds kort seksspeeltjes op de campus.

11/04/2024

The Pieter Baan Centrum wants to investigate suspect Fouad L. longer. The public prosecutor said this during the second pro forma hearing in the trial of the attack on 28 september in Rotterdam. That day, three people were killed, including Erasmus MC lecturer Jurgen Damen.

11/04/2024

Outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf wants to get rid of terms like ‘lower’ and ‘higher’ education. Do you agree? Does the stigma change if we use different terms? Where do you think the problem actually lies? And how do we ensure more equal opportunities? Should the Dutch education system be completely different? We would love to hear your opinion!

Outgoing Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf wants to get rid of terms like 'lower' and 'higher' education. According to him, this use of language perpetuates inequality. He prefers to speak of…

11/04/2024

There will be a special committee of experts to review the university’s international ties. That is what President Ed Brinksma promises in a reply to the University Council, which had asked the Executive Board to ‘scrutinise’ ties with an Israeli university.

11/04/2024

How does racism manifest itself in sport, and what can we do about it? Researcher Jacco van Sterkenburg has been researching this issue for 25 years. On Friday 5 April, he gave his inaugural address as an endowed professor.

11/04/2024

EM asked people about the situation of their office pantries. It turned out, pantries in the Mandeville building are the talk of the town.

10/04/2024

Even the most seasoned musician can struggle with a new melody. As a researcher, Hanan El Marroun knows the feeling of rejection and critique all too well.

10/04/2024

Philosopher Sophie van B***n is fine with reality clouding theory. The more detail the better. The same applies to her PhD research on air pollution at the Erasmus School of Philosophy. It is also the reason she is enthusiastic about the book Ons soort mensen (Our Kind of People) by Juli Zeh.

10/04/2024

Two days before the end of this year’s ramadan, about thirty students come together for an iftar event in the EUR living room. With a presentation, organiser Rania hoped the students will learn more about islamic culture and most of all that the international students can feel a sense of community when they all break their fast together.

10/04/2024

Two days before the end of this year’s Ramadan, about thirty students come together for an Iftar event in the EUR living room. The event is a collaboration between the Persons of Colour Committee and the Cultural Cooking Committee of the Erasmus University College.

09/04/2024

Things didn’t go as they should, Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf thinks. But he’s no longer resisting the VVD amendment that allows for limiting international student numbers. This is what he told the Senate.

09/04/2024

As a journalist, you don’t always realise that you’re asking quite a bit of someone when you request an interview. Whether that person is willing to open up, answer personal questions and give their opinion on sometimes contentious issues. So, it was good that the student we asked to be interviewed asked beforehand.

How does journalism actually work? What does an interview involve, and can I review it before it goes public? These were the questions raised by a student we approached for an interview. The…

08/04/2024

Universities have promised to introduce a Dutch-language track into all 35 major Bachelor’s programmes. Another four programmes will be taught entirely in Dutch.

08/04/2024

XIOR Student Housing has been reproached by the rental assessment committee for excessive service charges on hundreds of occasions. Students renting from other landlords also often pay too much, NOSop3 observes.

08/04/2024

In how many workplaces across the country can you spot notes with ‘dishes are allowed in the dishwasher, thanks from your colleagues’-type notes? It’s something that keeps us preoccupied, but how do you deal with it? We’d love to hear how a clean or not so clean study/work environment affects you, and what you do about it.

Do the dishes at your pantry always pile up while the dishwasher remains mysteriously empty? Is the coffee at that one coffee corner dripping over the sides because someone keeps knocking the cup…

06/04/2024

Bottles of acrylic paint, pencils in every colour of the rainbow and twelve plant pots are set up on table waiting to be used. Every week in the Mandeville building the Open HeArt Café takes place. Here, students can work on either an assignment like painting a flowerpot or freestyle with all the available materials.

Bottles of acrylic paint, pencils in every colour of the rainbow and twelve plant pots are set up on table waiting to be used. Every week in the Mandeville building the Open HeArt Café. Here,…

06/04/2024

Six months before he started his two-year pre-Master’s programme in September 2020, the student had informed the university that he had PTSD, Crohn’s disease, ADD and dyslexia.

Delft University of Technology was too slow in granting an extension to a pre-Master’s student with physical and mental disabilities, the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights has ruled. The student…

05/04/2024

Three weeks ago, news broke that members of the Utrechtsch Studenten Corps (USC) were circulating a ‘slut list’. On it were revealing photos of female students, their phone numbers and comments on their appearance and performance in bed. The Public Prosecution Service is investigating the case.

The VVD party wants student associations to be punished more severely if members misbehave. For example, if they distribute a ‘banga list’, a malicious list of allegedly promiscuous girls, the…

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Art on campus: The ‘illegible letters’ of Mick la Rock

In the hallway from Theil to the Aula one can find the Erasmus Gallery, a space that currently shows the work of Mick la Rock, one of the first women to paint graffiti in the Netherlands. “She is a very interesting artist. She developed this abstract way of designing letters. What if the letters do not have to be legible anymore? What are the possibilities of the shapes then?”

Stereotypes of different nationalities: ‘As long as she doesn’t support the wrong team, I’m happy’

Students tell about popular stereotypes about their nationalities, and their dating life.

Students get to know each other at Eat and Greet: ‘I was named after Ryan Gosling’s character in The Notebook’

At the Eat and Greet at the Binnenrotte, EM lets Eurekaweek participants choose: single or in a relationship? Camping or glamping? Barbie or Oppenheimer? They have to guess the preferences of their new friends. “I think you’re a Barbie guy.”

On Monday, the Eurekaweek will spectacularly open in Ahoy and students will meet their groups. Feba Sukmana explains how the day will go.

How hard can it be? Making tiramisu ‘with love’

The Erasmus Italian Society hosted a cooking workshop to make a homemade tiramisu. Adinda joined to see what it takes to make a good tiramisu.

Chatterbox: What do you deserve a medal for?

This week, EM and Studium Generale award the Student of the Year. There are six amazing nominees who have done great things for others, therefore they each deserve a medal. How about you, what do you deserve a medal for?

How hard can it be? Gardening to reconnect with the nature

In this episode of How hard can it be? Adinda joins the gardening session of the Erasmus Sustainability Hub.

Rotterdam’s most randomly decorated house: ‘We are bad at putting things away, so things find their home this way’

What happens when three people who come from different places all over the world, have different hobbies and study different subjects move in together? This time, reporter Agnieszka Mańke visits students who claim to live in the most randomly decorated apartment.

How Hard Can It Be? EUR-Roadrunners take on Rotterdam Marathon

In this episode of How Hard Can It Be? Adinda joins EUR Roadrunners’ weekly practice for the highly anticipated Rotterdam Marathon.

Campus Poet Will Makin: The sun is coming up but I’m going home

Will Makin writes a poem for Erasmus Magazine every month. This time about the contrast between the gruelling and torturous end of the academic term and the freedom of a holiday.

How hard can it be? A Sunday afternoon with Scottish dance: ‘It’s a hell of a lot of cardio’

ESN Rotterdam always comes up with fun activities every week. This time, Adinda Khairunnisa joined their Scottish dance workshop. For a gloomy Sunday afternoon, it was quite surprising to see a lot of people joining the workshop.

Chatterbox: When do you turn off your phone?

Smartphones… For some of us, they’re more important than oxygen. But some secondary schools are banning them from class. That means that pupils have to turn off their phones or leave them in their locker. We wonder, when do you turn off your phone?

Rotterdam’s cosiest house: ‘We have a lot of couches, lovely fishies, an art corner and a book collection’

This time, reporter Agnieszka Mańke is going to find out whether the house who claims to be ‘the cosiest one’ in Rotterdam is actually cosy.

Campus Poet Will Makin: How do I explain

Campus poet Will Makin writes a poem for Erasmus Magazine every month. This time, he has written a ‘villanelle’ full of anger, confusion and passion.

EM TV: Handing out envelopes in Turkey and evacuation from student house due to danger of collapse

In this episode of EM TV, medical student Süheyl Uyar talks about his trip to Turkey to help earthquake survivors and communication student Hazem Omran had to leave his house on 1e Middellandstraat in the middle of the night due to acute danger of collapse.

Campus Talk: ‘Not everyone will be happy with a vegan diet’

In this episode of Campus Talk, reporter Agnieszka Mańke tries to find out what staff and students think about the plan for a vegan campus in 2030 and EUR’s actions to address the climate crisis.

How Hard Can It Be? Trying new flavours through Syrian delicacies

Our reporter Adinda joined a Syrian cooking workshop, organised by Erasmus Sustainability Hub to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Syria.

Campus Poet Will Makin: Valentine’s Poem

Will Makin writes a poem for Erasmus Magazine every month. This time an ode to love on Valentine’s Day.

Chatterbox: What is an absolute red flag for you?

Valentine’s day is all about love. We see red hearts, red cheeks, red roses everywhere, but red is also the colour of red flags! So we want to know: what is an absolute red flag for you?

Cramped at the Sports building: ‘Maybe they can re-open the old one?’

It was a regular Tuesday afternoon for students to finish off their day by spending the time at the gym. Some students were heading to their sports classes and others were just enjoying meals at the Erasmus Sports cafe. The sports building opened four months ago now, how are students enjoying the new facilities?

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Erasmus Magazine (EM) is the independent magazine of Erasmus University Rotterdam. EM is a bilingual digital platform.

EM's core editorial team consists of six professional journalists. Together with a network of freelance journalists, designers and writers, and a group of freelance writing students, we edit Erasmus Magazine, Erasmus Magazine's website and EM's social media channels.

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