New Experimental HomeContainer-housing perhaps seemed an ingenious idea at the time, a good solution for guaranteeing the growing influx of foreign students a temporary home in Delft.
FreedAn Iranian-American lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley who had been detained in Iran for nearly four months on espionage charges was released on Sunday on bail of approximately $250,000.
A man detonated a firebomb at the Turkish Embassy in Den Haag, causing a small fire but no injuries. The suspect fled the scene and was later arrested.
Ramadan can present extra challenges for the TU%s Muslim students. Three Muslim students who are fasting from sunrise to sunset talk about the difficulties of combining Ramadan and university life.
US downA new study found the number of foreign students enrolling in US colleges increased by only 0.6 percent in 2002-03 % the lowest growth rate in seven years.
Last week, the Delft International Neighbor Group arranged an excursion to a cheese farm near Gouda. It was a great way to explore the Dutch countryside.
As the days grow shorter, Holland%s national cultural events program gets longer. Crossing Border Festival and Museum Night are a great start to a winter of cultural content.
FireNo, it wasn’t like the whole center of Delft was on fire last Tuesday: one didn’t see a %%lurid tower, visible a hundred miles away, reddening the sky, darkening the day and filling the land with smoke%%, to quote Jack London’s description of the Great Fire of San Francisco.
For Peter Rothbart, a visiting American researcher at the TU’s Aerospace Engineering faculty, being unable to follow conversations in Dutch has allowed him to emphasize with his mother’s deafness and her struggle to ‘live outside the language barrier, waiting like a beggar at the gate.’
