With new student council elections looming, the student party leaders held a debate. The audience, however, remained unconvinced.”I’m in favour of a blacklist for teachers who don’t correct exams on time,” declares Frederik de Wit, chairman of his one-man party, KSD.
Students passing by slow down, looking curiously at the stage, but only one or two stop, the others continuing their journey to the canteen, leaving the three party leaders behind.
The election debate, held in the Aula during lunch last Thursday, opened by proposing that teachers should be punished for failing to correct exams on time. AAG proposed a fine, KSD called for a blacklist, and Oras said teachers should be reprimanded during their performance-evaluation talks. ”A fine would only dishearten,” Oras party leader Janneke Bik says.
De Wit accuses AAG and Oras of meekly accepting the TU executive board’s plans. With indignant faces, stumbling over their words and finishing each other’s sentences, Bik and AAG party leader Bram Gille disagree, claiming that the student council does indeed lodge protests. ”Actually, I don’t understand why you started the KSD,” Gille snaps at De Wit. ”I can’t see any supplementary value to the existing parties.”
Benefit
The discussion flares up again as De Wit considers the proposition ‘Phoning with your mobile should be free within the TU campus’ as unimportant. ”No,” Bik says, clarifying the Oras proposition, ”Oras wants students to be proud of the TU. That can be achieved when the TU leads the way technologically.” Gille objects: ”Students won’t be proud of the TU until education standards are high and the lectures are taught by highly qualified teachers.”
Nearby, a student takes the floor: ”If the KSD considers free mobile phoning as unimportant, then what exactly is important to the KSD?” she asks. De Wit: ”KSD refuses to get bogged down by considering small issues like that, wanting instead to focus on quality.” ”But how?” the student responds. ”I hear nothing concrete.” With phrases like ”a protest party” and ”I’ve just begun”, De Wit valiantly tries to save himself and his party.
As the official debate ends, it lingers on in the audience. The majority of students remain unconvinced; however, some students plan to give newcomer KSD the benefit of the doubt, as an alternative to abstaining from voting. An undeserved vote, AAG and Oras members complain.
With new student council elections looming, the student party leaders held a debate. The audience, however, remained unconvinced.
”I’m in favour of a blacklist for teachers who don’t correct exams on time,” declares Frederik de Wit, chairman of his one-man party, KSD. Students passing by slow down, looking curiously at the stage, but only one or two stop, the others continuing their journey to the canteen, leaving the three party leaders behind.
The election debate, held in the Aula during lunch last Thursday, opened by proposing that teachers should be punished for failing to correct exams on time. AAG proposed a fine, KSD called for a blacklist, and Oras said teachers should be reprimanded during their performance-evaluation talks. ”A fine would only dishearten,” Oras party leader Janneke Bik says.
De Wit accuses AAG and Oras of meekly accepting the TU executive board’s plans. With indignant faces, stumbling over their words and finishing each other’s sentences, Bik and AAG party leader Bram Gille disagree, claiming that the student council does indeed lodge protests. ”Actually, I don’t understand why you started the KSD,” Gille snaps at De Wit. ”I can’t see any supplementary value to the existing parties.”
Benefit
The discussion flares up again as De Wit considers the proposition ‘Phoning with your mobile should be free within the TU campus’ as unimportant. ”No,” Bik says, clarifying the Oras proposition, ”Oras wants students to be proud of the TU. That can be achieved when the TU leads the way technologically.” Gille objects: ”Students won’t be proud of the TU until education standards are high and the lectures are taught by highly qualified teachers.”
Nearby, a student takes the floor: ”If the KSD considers free mobile phoning as unimportant, then what exactly is important to the KSD?” she asks. De Wit: ”KSD refuses to get bogged down by considering small issues like that, wanting instead to focus on quality.” ”But how?” the student responds. ”I hear nothing concrete.” With phrases like ”a protest party” and ”I’ve just begun”, De Wit valiantly tries to save himself and his party.
As the official debate ends, it lingers on in the audience. The majority of students remain unconvinced; however, some students plan to give newcomer KSD the benefit of the doubt, as an alternative to abstaining from voting. An undeserved vote, AAG and Oras members complain.
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