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jaargang 42, 9 maart 2000 English page

“I was in the Land of Poetry…” Foreigners and notherners don’t understand carnival. Or at least that’s what many people in the southern provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg think. However, every year more foreigners and northerners are joining in. Cursor was out there finding out what you think of this annual southern-Dutch masquerade and drinking fest. “I put on a blue wig and some strange clothes and went out with a group of friends to some cafes. If I arrived at my home town looking like that, the police would be very interested. For that matter: if someone arrives in Eindhoven during carnival not expecting anything, they might be quite shocked. I myself have never seen something like this, it was very unusual. You should know that mathematicians like me are serious people!” Maxim Ivashkov from White Russia, post-doc TUE. “I’m very tired, but it was amazing. I don’t know how Dutch people can keep this up for four days. I noticed that quite a few people took time off, probably to sleep after the party. I was in Eindhoven and Maastricht with friends from TUE for the parades. The streets were full of people dressed up as the strangest things and all with a glass of beer in their hands. I enjoyed the small bands going round the bars playing.” Andrea Silva from Portugal, Philips Market Research. “The beer is still working, I think it’s inspiring me. I’m sober now though. This is one thing I shouldn’t do very often, but I thought it was great. I noticed that I understood everything, beer helps me speak all languages. I was in the land of poetry yesterday… I remember this song that goes ‘sha la la la la’ and the train song. I sent my wife a short message by e-mail when I got home, I hope she understood.” Florin Mezei from Rumania, post-doc TUE. “I was impressed by the way Dutch people are able to combine work and entertainment. You people know how to party! I saw a lot of interesting costumes and had a really good time. I liked the parade, and strangely enough I only saw a few policemen. Back home, a parade like this would have had a large police escort. But I also think Russia and Holland have a lot in common. We have similar cultural roots and the connections are interesting to see. In Russia we have a spring fest called ‘Maslenitza’. We dress in rags and masks, have bonfires to symbolically get rid of our old stuff and cook special pancakes.” Lena Belitskaya from White Russia, post-doc TUE. “This was the best carnival in ages, I went out with a group of foreigners and Dutch post-docs from Mathematics for Industry department. I was surprised that everyone had taken so much trouble with their costumes. I took a group of people to a café, and then went off on an errand. When I came back they had all joined in the dancing and singing. We were out really late.” Nicole Ketelaars from Helmond, post-doc TUE./. Photo’s: Bart van Overbeeke

Lunch with Organ Music On the Wednesdays of March 15, April 12, May 17 and June 21 there will be lunch concerts in the Auditorium on the TUE organ. These concerts are sponsored by Faculty Club. The TUE organ (built by the Pels en van Leeuwen firm in 1966) has a striking design, with a plexi-glass case, and was specially made for the high-tech environment at TUE. The concerts will start at 12.45 p.m. and will each take half an hour. Ruud Huijbregts, an organ teacher at Eindhovens Centrum voor de Kunsten, will play the instru-ment. Each concert will feature works by Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of this death. There will also be room for works by other composers with the B-A-C-H note-scheme as their theme. No-Smoking Signs No-smoking rules at TUE have been in force for a while now. There is no smoking in public places at the university, some examples are conference rooms, halls, canteens and toilets. Smoking is allowed in rooms if others don’t object. However, the rule is apparently enforced only sporadically. Building managers are responsible for enforcing the rules and may take action against people who do not comply. In order to make it quite clear that smoking is not allowed, standard no-smoking signs have been affixed to entry doors. Professor Wijnen Fears for OGO Professor dr. Wynand Wijnen, specially hired by TUE to implement design-oriented education (Ontwerpgericht Onderwijs or OGO), fears for the continued existence of this teaching method at TUE if the Onderwijs Service Centrum (OSC) is closed. This measure was one of the proposals made by Bureau Berenschot in their report on the Added Value Analysis. AVA is to reallocate 25 to 30 million guilders now spent on internal services to teaching and research. “Without teaching support, such as OSC offers, the introduction of OGO at TUE will at the very least be much delayed,” said Wijnen in an interview.

AVA and Internationalisation The Added Value Analysis operation will probably lead to the closing of the Bureau for International Activities. TUEers need not worry that this will also mean internationalisation policy will be scrapped, say the Board of Executives (College van Bestuur or CvB) in an interview on pages 8 and 9 of this Cursor. Closing a department does not mean discontinuing a function. “You could also reason: we want more internationalisation, so now it’s the faculties’ turn,” says De Wilt, chairman of CvB. CvB want the faculties themselves to carry responsibility for internationalisation rather than a central bureau. Faculties should indicate what kind of services they need. Service companies can then go to work on these requests. Kim’s Bedroom Kim Gordan, guitar player and singer with Sonic Youth, has set-up a project called ‘Kim’s Bedroom’ for the Mu Art Foundation in the Witte Dame. The project will start next Friday and consists of four parts: an exposition, a publication, a cd and a musical performance. All this will give listeners an idea of relevant developments in American art, photography, film/video, fashion, design and music. In an interview in lifestyle magazine ‘Blvd’ Gordon stated that her project is not meant to give a general overview of the subject. “On the contrary, I want to keep it small and intimate. The project is a reaction to the large-scale ‘corporate’ art that is currently being produced. Not only in America, but also for example in England.” Gordon sees her exposition as a personal answer to the commercial development of commissioning increasingly large scale work. The English page in Cursor is written by journalist Paula van de Riet. She can be reached at extension 4441. Email: engcur@stud.tue.nl