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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.
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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.
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7 februari 2013