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26. International text Esra van der Wolk photography Jan van Eijndhoven/PVE Univers 7 februari 2013 Carnaval and Valentine’s Day lost between lust & love This year, Carnaval and Valentine’s Day are only a few days apart. Confusing at the least since it are two completely opposing worlds. Whereas Carnaval mainly consist of drinking and partying, Valentine’s Day requires waking up your inner poet. This culture clash of love is like Jekyll and Hyde. Prince Charming Two days later. It’s Valentine’s Day (Valentijnsdag), your hangover is hopefully gone and you’re getting ready for your Valentine date. If your relationship survived Carnaval, you know this is the girl to marry. Forget everything that happened during Carnaval, or at least don’t mention it to her. Take your girlfriend (to be) out for dinner, buy here roses and read her a poem. All the old time clichés are welcomed on this day of love, even by the most coldhearted and rebellious women. Deep down all women hope their prince charming comes driving along on a snow white horse to sweep them of their feet. This is your chance to be that prince charming. But remember that Valentine’s Day in the Netherlands is not celebrated as outrageous as in other countries, like the United States. A simple postcard, some chocolates or jewelry and a kiss on the lips is enough for most. Are you secretly in love but too afraid to confess it? Valentine’s Day is the right time to send her an anonymous message with a time and place to meet. Every girl dreams of having a secret admirer. And no, not the ones hiding behind their masks during Carnaval.. Carnaval: probably you’ve heard of it. The famous Dutch version of the festivity is celebrated mainly in the southern part of the country. This year, it takes place from the 8th until the 12th of February. Imagine a town full of crazy dressed people who are too drunk to remember their own name, let alone their girlfriends’. A society in which normal rules don’t apply. Where you usually find yourself struggling to get a conversation going with that pretty lady, during Carnaval the girls will – literally – fall before your feet. Sex, alcohol and embarrassing behavior are at the order of the day. Don’t be surprised by the songs with names like ‘Er staat een paard in de gang’ (There’s a horse standing in the hallway) and ‘Weet je wat ik wel zou willen zijn, een bloemetjesgordijn’ (You know what I would like to be, a flower curtain). It is an unwritten rule that what happens during these four days is never mentioned again. Intoxication and sometimes even cheating is tolerated. Under group pressure, bing drinking is obliged. Rumor has it even that a lot of couples break up during, or after Carnaval as a consequence of excessive drinking, cheating or any other thinkable embarrassing act (like dancing half naked on the streets). Alcohol will pour in larger quantities than you ever imagined. Sexy students dressed up as nurses, devils, stewardesses and angels parade from bar to bar. An excellent opportunity to catch some fish as even the most corny pick-up lines are tolerated. So try your best at Carnaval (or not, it doesn’t really matter) and you’ll probably get lucky. But beware: don’t expect to find a date for Valentine’s Day.
Marly Controversy Device vice, baby? Ruud: I think making notes on a tablet or laptop is great. You can store your notes in a cloud and you can get to them anytime, anywhere. This way, if you want to study at your parents’ you have your notes right there. You can also add nice graphs. Marly: You might be right, but I made the deliberate choice not to use a laptop in class. It would be too tempting to do other stuff. I make my notes on paper and that works for me. I put them neatly in a folder. Ruud: Okay, but you can also look up anything you don’t understand during class. You don’t have this advantage when you only use paper. Marly: If I don’t get something, I ask my neighbor or I check my phone. Ac- Thrown out of the Window(s)? It was supposed to be finished in December: Windows 7. However the new interface still doesn’t work because of bugs. Meanwhile, new student printers are collecting dust. Seems like a waste of money. Maybe we should close windows to make sure no bugs can come in? Overheard on campus Ruud Some lecturers don’t mind students making notes on their tablets, laptops or even cell phones. Others make no secret of their rage against the machine. They would love to take it out on your laptop or phone. Ruud Couwenberg (Information management) and Marly Brons (Marketing management) discuss whether making electronic notes during lectures is a good idea. tually, when I think about it, my phone is a whole new source of distraction! So should professors protect you from yourself by banning cell phones? Ruud: No, I don’t see why. As long as it doesn’t affect me, playing with your phone during class is everyone’s own responsibility. Of course, if you don’t want to come to class to pay attention, you might as well stay away. And you can use your phone to make notes. It probably won’t be very useful, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. Marly: I agree, if it doesn’t bother me, I don’t mind others using their phones. As long as they don’t whisper or chuckle about it, it’s fine by me. They should be left to their own devices. Column Queens Shitty meal? Talking about wastes. Professors of the University of Amsterdam became ill after a dinner celebrating the 381th anniversary of their university. A research of their faeces couldn’t identify the cause, so we still don’t know what was eating them. What’s in the world .27 edited by Puck van Tilburg Queens abdicate. Children (often not ‘sharp tools’ yet ‘nice’) inherit. Queens, publicly suffering yet managing, lisping, in-bred, down-to-planet European regents, formal yet modern, divide subsequent time between: 1) global projects (Luis Morago’s campaign to end bee-poisoning); 2) re-enactments of imagist poems involving red objects, chickens and precipitation glaze; and 3) vaguely (undoubtedly unintentionally) pornographic photographs of banana skins atop broken umbrellas. Queens finally get new hairstyles. And give away cash. Queens done well in unasked-for, onerous, dull dutieth 1 . Andrew Cartwright teaches English at the Language Center. __________ 1. duties with a lisp Spotted! Tuesday 22 January 2013 - Kitchen Midden Brabant College Enactus Tilburg University, who? SIFE recently changed their name into Enactus. On the 22th of January they organized a dinner and together with Asset First managed to cook for over fifty volunteers at the huge kitchen of restaurant Rhapsody of Midden Brabant College. Each course had its own workstation. Turkish Börek was one of the starters. Do you have a funny photo or overheard something on campus? Send it to univers@uvt.nl. Or post it on our facebook page facebook.com/ universonline Univers 7 februari 2013
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