{"id":67686,"date":"2017-03-07T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/2017\/03\/07\/je-herkent-ze-aan-een-frikandelbroodje-en-een-red-bull\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:39","slug":"frikandel-buns-and-redbulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/03\/07\/frikandel-buns-and-redbulls\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You recognise them by their \u2018frikandel\u2019 buns and Red Bulls\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018You recognise them by their \u2018frikandel\u2019 buns and Red Bulls\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

\u2018Why can\u2019t the twats just following courses simply keep out of the UL? Even if you aren\u2019t serious about your own future, you could at least try not to disturb other people who are.\u2019 In the film clip, the students chuckle at this, but the Facebook page EUR Confessions, where EUR students can anonymously pour out their feelings, is full of such statements: complaints and irritations about HR students who make use of the study facilities available on the Woudestein campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou recognise them by their \u2018frikandel\u2019 buns [a sort of minced-meat hot dog] and Red Bulls,\u201d said one of the students. But not all the students feel that their neighbours from the University of Applied Sciences are the cause of the problem. \u201cIt\u2019s mainly because the university library\u2019s being renovated and there\u2019s no suitable replacement,\u201d another student commented.<\/p>\n

Now that the university library has been shut for a year and a half, the competition for study places is certainly fiercer than ever. The question increasingly being posed is: shouldn\u2019t HR students be excluded (whether or not temporarily) from the campus, so that the few available study places are kept free for EUR students?<\/p>\n

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No checking of student cards<\/h3>

No, was the emphatic response from an Erasmus University spokesperson. \u201cWe have no plans to actively exclude HR students. To do so, we would have to introduce control measures, such as checking student cards. And this would impact negatively on our own students as well, nor does it fit in with the way we want to interact with one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that no measures are to be introduced, Erasmus and Rotterdam\u2019s University of Applied Sciences are definitely in contact about the influx of HR students. \u201cThere is contact with HR about improving the study facilities on both sides. If these were of the same standard, the HR students would have less cause to come to EUR.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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The Polak building<\/h3>

At Rotterdam\u2019s University of Applied Sciences, they are well aware of the sentiments prevailing on the Erasmus campus. \u201cEUR students notice the HR students and we know HR students make use of EUR facilities,\u201d said Martijn Baarendse, a policy advisor for HR\u2019s FIT department [Facilities and Information Technology]. \u201cHowever, we don\u2019t know how many. Why do they go there? On the one hand because there is less space here due to the new building, on the other because the facilities in the Polak building meet the students\u2019 needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baarendse expects the \u2018problems\u2019 will be solved in the near future. Currently, HR is having a new building constructed next to the campus. \u201cOur own new building will cater for our students\u2019 needs. It\u2019ll provide more spaces where students can work on their laptops. Moreover, the Wi-Fi will work efficiently and there\u2019ll be sufficient power points.\u201d The building is expected to be ready by September.<\/p>\n\n\t

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