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jaargang 42, 18 mei 2000 English page

“Student Sports Centre best in the Country” “We at TUE have one of the best sports accommodations in the country. That’s my considered opinion,” states managing director of TUE Student Sports Centre Jacques de Mooij. “We sell the highest percentage of student sports cards of any university in the Netherlands. Sixty per cent of all TUE students buy a card, which costs 90 guilders a year. The university in Groningen, which is of course much larger than ours, are second and sell sports cards to 42% of students. Also, it’s much more expensive to play sports at other universities. They all have additional charges for sports like tennis, which we don’t. Although we do have some additional fees: for example for archery or horseback riding. Our price/quality ratio is excellent, I would even say: better than what any other university is offering.” Jacques de Mooij and new art at sports centre. Photo: Bram Saeys Sports Card All students and staff at TUE and Fontys Hogescholen are eligible for a sports card. It is also possible to buy a card for a month or a few months. Only students are allowed to bring in guests. “Our primary target group are students,” says De Mooij. “But my goal is to get as many people at TUE playing sports as I can, including staff. Although I had to draw the line at staff bringing in their parents to play tennis, while students were kept waiting.” TUE Student Sports Centre consists of three large sports halls, two fully equipped cardio-fitness rooms, two squash courts, a dojo, gymnasium, fitness room, surfing house, 10 hectares of sports fields, an athletics track, eleven outside tennis courts, a hockey field (artificial turf), lighted training field, skate ramp and boathouse. Forty kinds of sports are on offer at or by TUE. The centre is open seven days a week from 8.00 a.m. to 00.30 a.m. A number of additional sports facilities are rented in or around Eindhoven by TUE. These additional sports include swimming, diving, ice-skating, gliding, riding etc. New Facilities The construction of a swimming pool at TUE starts next month. The pool should be finished next year and will utilise a chlorine alternative to keep the water clean. It will also have a moveable bottom, especially for students who are physically handicapped in some way. De Mooij is planning to offer this group the pool twice a week. There are also plans for new squash courts and larger fitness rooms. According to De Mooij these last are the only facilities not quite up to scratch – much too cramped for the number of people using them. TUE Student Sports Centre employ 40 sports teachers, of whom seven also train national sports teams. Volleyball coach Wim Koch is a good example. He will accompany the Dutch volleyball team to the Sydney Olympic Games this summer. “The high quality of our staff is another reason our sports program is really excellent,” says De Mooij. English Jacques de Mooij has been managing director of TUE’s Student Sports Centre since 1994, but has worked there since 1967. “I’ve made a few changes. Mainly just getting my staff to treat students as clients. Their intelligent questions or complaints should be treated seriously. Complaining about something shouldn’t get a student a name for making trouble.” “I’ve also sent all my staff to English courses, because we have increasing numbers of foreign students and staff. We need to be able to answer their questions, some of my staff had trouble with this. I myself decided to learn Spanish, because we also get a lot of Spanish speakers. I learnt English well during my time at the Sunny State University of New York.” De Mooij played basketball at his college in the US and eventually worked as an assistant coach. A modern, American atmosphere is what he’s aiming for at the Student Sports Centre. Besides keeping the facilities up-to-date, one of his latest changes is to hang art throughout the building, “to give students sweating at repetitive exercise something to look at”. TUE Student Sports Centre was designed by the famous Dutch architect Rietveld and built in 1967. “The big indoor halls are still a pleasure to work in,” says De Mooij./.

Roads Closed for Virus Because of construction in connection with the annual Virus festival at TUE, a number of roads and areas will be closed as of Friday May 19. The E-hoog parking lot at Lampendriesen will be closed on Friday from 6.00 a.m. to Tuesday 8.00 a.m. The following roads/areas will be closed from Saturday May 20 6.00 a.m. to Monday 8.00 a.m.: the North Auditorium parking lot; Den Dolech (from Kennedylaan to foot bridge between Auditorium and main building); Lismortel (from parking lot E-hoog to Het Eeuwsel Crossing; De Zaale (from crossing at Den Dolech to crossing Het Veken); the road north of Laplace building. Lampendriessen has already been closed. TUimelaar Manager Dismissed Tineke Linssen, manager of the TUE day-care centre TUimelaar, has been dismissed. Linssen will receive 90 thousand guilders as a compensation for the loss of her job, this was recently decided in court. Both parties, the TUimelaar board and Linssen saw no possibility of reconciliation, whereupon the judge decided that 90 thousand guilders should be paid to the dismissed manager. The judge said he thought the problems the board brought up were not serious enough to fire Linssen. The TUimelaar board are now looking for a new day-care manager. Fire at Chemistry The third and fourth floor the of Chemical Engineering building were evacuated last Thursday by BedrijfsHulpVerlening because of a fire alarm. The fire brigade was quickly on location, only to find that the fire was already extinguished. The cause was found in a lab on level four west. A controlled test was being done there, and all safety precautions had been taken. Ignition of a substance took place, which caused some smoke development. The lab was closed and ventilated. Company Fitness TUE staff can now get to know ‘company fitness’. Anyone who buys a (company) sports card, can take part in fitness and cardio-fitness, yoga and moving-to-music classes until the end of summer vacation. The classes are geared to normal office hours (from 12-1 p.m. and after 5 p.m.) Classes will be held in the Student Sports Centre. More information: 2473232. Anti RSI Software Anti RSI software will be made available to all TUE students and staff at the end of this month. The program, called WorkPace, builds in small and large breaks for users spending a certain amount of time at their PCcs. Computers cannot be used during these breaks. The software can be downloaded via Outlook using the folder Folder List/Public Folders/All Public Folders/Software/Standaard Software. This is followed by various groups of software, under Utilities ‘WorkPace van ErgoDirect’ appears. The program can also be collected at the ICTS depot. Virus 2000 Breaks Loose A whole day of music, theatre, film, dance, literature and art for an unbelievably low price. This is, in short, what cultural festival Virus will offer visitors this coming Sunday. The cultural festival organised annually by TUE students attracts an estimated eight to nine thousand visitors. Spread over fourteen locations on campus, festival-goers can enjoy a large number of performances, films and exhibitions. A few musical highlights: Keith Caputo, Kane, New Cool Collective Big Band, Tech-9 and U.N.I.Q. Apart from this, leading dance company Scapino will do two performances. Tickets for the festival will be sold at various places on campus this week. A ticket costs 15 guilders. A ticket on the day itself costs 20 guilders. Light Project in T-Hoog Tomorrow light architect ir. Harrie Holland, who has an architecture degree from TUE, presents his light project ‘Lux agitat molem’ to the press in a stripped T-hoog. The Latin translates as something like ‘light moves matter’. The light installation will be on view for the public every evening after 10 p.m.from May 21 to June 4. T-hoog was previously the stage for another striking cultural project. On September 15 of last year, Studium Generale showed the silent movie ‘Faust’ (1926) and French avant-garde rock band Art Zoyd put music to the film. The project was a great success, despite the rain. On fifteen nights, the sixty meter high building will appear to move, an effect created by a light installation consisting of 114 lamps of 1000 Watt each. According to the press release, T-hoog will grow, turn, bounce, silhouette or collapse, as the case may be. “In effect, light becomes an immaterial construction material”. The effects are best viewed from the streets close to TUE campus. From Fellenoord, Prof.dr. Dorgololaan, John F. Kennedylaan and Stationsweg. Other projects set-up by Hollands in the past were light installations at the KPN head office in The Hague and at the Nike head office in Hilversum. This year he also did a project at the Abu Simbel temple in Egypt. The English pagen in Cursor is written by Paula van de Riet: 4441, engcur@stud.tue.nl

Roads Closed for Virus Because of construction in connection with the annual Virus festival at TUE, a number of roads and areas will be closed as of Friday May 19. The E-hoog parking lot at Lampendriesen will be closed on Friday from 6.00 a.m. to Tuesday 8.00 a.m. The following roads/areas will be closed from Saturday May 20 6.00 a.m. to Monday 8.00 a.m.: the North Auditorium parking lot; Den Dolech (from Kennedylaan to foot bridge between Auditorium and main building); Lismortel (from parking lot E-hoog to Het Eeuwsel Crossing; De Zaale (from crossing at Den Dolech to crossing Het Veken); the road north of Laplace building. Lampendriessen has already been closed. TUimelaar Manager Dismissed Tineke Linssen, manager of the TUE day-care centre TUimelaar, has been dismissed. Linssen will receive 90 thousand guilders as a compensation for the loss of her job, this was recently decided in court. Both parties, the TUimelaar board and Linssen saw no possibility of reconciliation, whereupon the judge decided that 90 thousand guilders should be paid to the dismissed manager. The judge said he thought the problems the board brought up were not serious enough to fire Linssen. The TUimelaar board are now looking for a new day-care manager. Fire at Chemistry The third and fourth floor the of Chemical Engineering building were evacuated last Thursday by BedrijfsHulpVerlening because of a fire alarm. The fire brigade was quickly on location, only to find that the fire was already extinguished. The cause was found in a lab on level four west. A controlled test was being done there, and all safety precautions had been taken. Ignition of a substance took place, which caused some smoke development. The lab was closed and ventilated. Company Fitness TUE staff can now get to know ‘company fitness’. Anyone who buys a (company) sports card, can take part in fitness and cardio-fitness, yoga and moving-to-music classes until the end of summer vacation. The classes are geared to normal office hours (from 12-1 p.m. and after 5 p.m.) Classes will be held in the Student Sports Centre. More information: 2473232. Anti RSI Software Anti RSI software will be made available to all TUE students and staff at the end of this month. The program, called WorkPace, builds in small and large breaks for users spending a certain amount of time at their PCcs. Computers cannot be used during these breaks. The software can be downloaded via Outlook using the folder Folder List/Public Folders/All Public Folders/Software/Standaard Software. This is followed by various groups of software, under Utilities ‘WorkPace van ErgoDirect’ appears. The program can also be collected at the ICTS depot. Virus 2000 Breaks Loose A whole day of music, theatre, film, dance, literature and art for an unbelievably low price. This is, in short, what cultural festival Virus will offer visitors this coming Sunday. The cultural festival organised annually by TUE students attracts an estimated eight to nine thousand visitors. Spread over fourteen locations on campus, festival-goers can enjoy a large number of performances, films and exhibitions. A few musical highlights: Keith Caputo, Kane, New Cool Collective Big Band, Tech-9 and U.N.I.Q. Apart from this, leading dance company Scapino will do two performances. Tickets for the festival will be sold at various places on campus this week. A ticket costs 15 guilders. A ticket on the day itself costs 20 guilders. Light Project in T-Hoog Tomorrow light architect ir. Harrie Holland, who has an architecture degree from TUE, presents his light project ‘Lux agitat molem’ to the press in a stripped T-hoog. The Latin translates as something like ‘light moves matter’. The light installation will be on view for the public every evening after 10 p.m.from May 21 to June 4. T-hoog was previously the stage for another striking cultural project. On September 15 of last year, Studium Generale showed the silent movie ‘Faust’ (1926) and French avant-garde rock band Art Zoyd put music to the film. The project was a great success, despite the rain. On fifteen nights, the sixty meter high building will appear to move, an effect created by a light installation consisting of 114 lamps of 1000 Watt each. According to the press release, T-hoog will grow, turn, bounce, silhouette or collapse, as the case may be. “In effect, light becomes an immaterial construction material”. The effects are best viewed from the streets close to TUE campus. From Fellenoord, Prof.dr. Dorgololaan, John F. Kennedylaan and Stationsweg. Other projects set-up by Hollands in the past were light installations at the KPN head office in The Hague and at the Nike head office in Hilversum. This year he also did a project at the Abu Simbel temple in Egypt. The English pagen in Cursor is written by Paula van de Riet: 4441, engcur@stud.tue.nl