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Have Your Hair Cut for Charity
Leuven – 11th of March 2010 – excited faces at Alma 2 anxiously await their turn in the hairdresser’s seat to have twenty centimeters of their hair cut for Pantene’s second edition of the ‘Geef om Haar’ campaign. A professional hairdresser’s salon is improvised at the venue for this special occasion. Not exactly the scene you would expect to see when queuing for your usual lunch with friends between classes. Eleven students chose to cut their hair to donate it to the Belgian Cancer Fund (Stichting Tegen Kanker) so cancer patients are given the chance to buy a wig.
Why We Should All Care: NSV! in LOKO or the Art of Disguising Intentions as Statutory Limitations
14th December 2009 could have simply been no more than one day in 2009 calendar, one day to welcome holidays and remember those special moments lived throughout the year, perhaps a good day to say goodbye to an intense decade and get ready to receive a new one. This day would however become especially different, particularly regretful, singularly shameful. This very day created a tendency amongst many Flemish students to let behind long years of tolerance and common sense. After years of vain struggle, last 14th of December saw the right-wing extremist student association NSV! enter the Political-Philosophical Convent of the University of Ghent. And then came Leuven.
Interview With Leuven's Student Cop
With over 30,000 students, Leuven has an unique outlook. In a way, it relieves the police forces; but at the same time, it brings about specific problems related to student life. The student cop of Leuven, Nick Vanden Bussche, makes sure those problems are handled in a student friendly way.
Tangled Up in Tradition
We’ve all been there: you’re in a bar on Oude Markt with your friends enjoying a few drinks, when suddenly a group of students, usually male, enters with lots of singing, cheering and shouting. They go straight for the bar, pour beers down their throats like there’s no tomorrow and simply take over the place. It doesn’t require a rocket scientist to understand that this is a social student organisation – also known as a student club – because of the similar sweaters or shirts they wear. But what is the meaning of those ribbons they wear?
Little Belgium (4)
After some months of filling this place by criticizing, mocking and provoking our Belgian fellows, I have to admit that I now truly feel sorry for them. Not for the crap with which I tend to fill this space –since it is probably hardly read by them at all- and it is all to be taken with a laugh and some grains of salt, but for the events that recently took place and shocked the country. Wallonia had her own version of the Haiti earthquakes and Flanders was horrified by several murders and the confessions of a cold-blooded serial killer.
