Humanities: A pathway to unemployment By BADE ORDU | March 6, 2020 Before I started to study at the University of Amsterdam, people in high school knew me as the ‘artsy kid’. One to two – this was the art to science ratio in my class. Unwritten social rules divided people between the ‘serious physics problem solvers’ and those who were ‘only painting’. Despite this hierarchy, we all learned to live with it…
March 6, 2020 By ELISA MORAND The Light Festival “Nothing holding us”, an explosion of light by Ben Zamora. Elisa Morand / The Amsterdammer. With his installation “Atlantis”, Utskottet forced people to face the effects of climate change and what could become a frightening reality. Elisa Morand / The Amsterdammer. From November 28 2019 to January 19 2020, twenty installations from a variety of international artists were erected as part…
Thinking About Starting a Record Collection? By SEBASTIAN HEGMAR | March 1, 2020 Illustration by Rania Djojosugito There are tons of record stores in Amsterdam, where people of all ages are digging in the crates to find their favorite albums (myself included). You can attribute this to the vinyl revival, which started back in 2007. Maybe you also want to purchase a turntable and start your very own collection? Perhaps your life is…
Investigation: Dutch student media threatened to lose their independence By ISABEL BONNET | March 3, 2020 Ending its second year, The Amsterdammer seeks to understand the development of student journalism in the Netherlands by taking a look at the past. Since their inception in the beginning of the 19th century, student magazines quickly gained importance around the country and today, there are roughly 45 university publications in the Netherlands. The Amsterdammer…
The CSR’s Mission: Inter By ADELE MOLTEDO | March 2, 2020 Photo: The 2018 Student Council elections at Roeterseilandcampus. Isabel Bonnet / The Amsterdammer Since the last student council elections in May 2019, the student parties at the UvA have been up and running in various councils. The main council being the Central Student Council (CSR from Centrale Studentenraad in Dutch) comprised of 14 members. We met with one of the representatives…
