Royal family Princess Elisabeth (22), the eldest daughter of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, will study at Harvard University in the US from this summer. The Palace has announced this. Princess Elisabeth recently passed the entrance tests for the master’s degree in Public Policy, the Palace said in a press release. “This two-year master’s degree … Read more
“Everyone is suddenly so interested in how we walk,” Ellen De Meuter (18) says laughing to a friend. Together with about a hundred other students, she walks through Jozef Plateaustraat on Monday afternoon. At the initiative of the action groups End Fossil and Students4Palestine, the students are on their way to a Ghent University building … Read more
War in Gaza As announced, a group of approximately a hundred students partially occupied ‘a building’ at Ghent University: it became the hall of the University Forum, better known as ‘the UFO’. They definitely want to stay there until Wednesday. The action in the building near the Vooruit is peaceful. The occupiers, both Dutch and … Read more
War in Gaza The planned occupation of a Ghent University building by students from Monday has the support of more than a hundred university employees, including professors. This is evident from an open letter addressed to the board of directors and rector Rik Van de Walle. In the open letter, the employees oppose the “backdoor … Read more
New York Mayor Eric Adams Under Fire for Misleading Statements on Campus Protests Eyewitnesses Contradict Mayor’s Denial of Violence In a recent press conference, New York Mayor Eric Adams claimed that there were no incidents of violence during the student-led protests at Columbia University. However, eyewitness accounts and media footage strongly contradict the mayor’s statements. … Read more
Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Citizen of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk Region Germany Vyatkin celebrates his 89th birthday on May 1. Today, by tradition, he receives congratulations on two festive events. For more than half a century, the life of German Platonovich has been inextricably linked with … Read more
A law professor at a prominent northern national university was involved in a sexual assault, and the murdered female college student handed in a report form. (Image / Reprinted from Dcard) The social media software Dcard recently circulated a PO post in which a male professor at a prominent northern university sexually assaulted a female … Read more
Re-opening a debate that seemed over: the birth of quality free public education has a couple of points that cannot be ignored. First, the suicide in December 1871 of the student Roberto Sánchez, a man from San Juan who studied law and was buried in the Recoleta cemetery. He had denied in a letter, before … Read more
Massacre at Columbine High School Remembered 25 Years Later Introduction 25 years ago, on a warm April day, the Columbine High School massacre shocked the United States. The tragic event, during which 12 students and one teacher lost their lives, remains a vivid and haunting memory even after a quarter of a century. The impact … Read more
The threat of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’ jumping to humans raises concerns Scientists are alarmed after two hunters who consumed deer meat infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD), also known as ‘zombie deer disease,’ were found to have developed neurological diseases similar to the aggressive form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). This worrying link has raised concerns … Read more