Student Dies After Accidentally Blasting Music This is a public service announcement: remember to always shut off your music before closing your laptop. 28 November 2018
New design for the UKrant The UKrant website will get a small facelift over the next few weeks. We’ll do this in small increments, so you won’t even notice. 20 November 2018
Rumours Abound After de Jong’s Departure Herman de Jong, dean of the FEB, has stepped down. Only someone named ‘Staff' knows why, and he’s not saying anything. 14 November 2018
PhD candidates are professionals Martijn Wieling argues in favor of a doctoral system with PhD students instead of PhD employees. According to the PhD candidate Network of the Netherlands this would lead to a race to the bottom. 02 November 2018
RUG Announces Scary Tests for Halloween In the spirit of Halloween, the university announced this week that many students are to be subjected to exams that could be worth up to 100 percent of their grade. 31 October 2018
Towards a more equitable PhD system It's understandable that PhD scholarship students oppose unequal pay. But they aren't second-rate PhD's, says former bursary student Martijn Wieling. 29 October 2018
Container Homes Shipped to Germany International students furious after nearly a dozen container homes were loaded onto trucks and shipped to Bremen during the night. 17 October 2018
‘Old hags unbefitting to university’ History teacher Barbara Henkes says universities should take a critical stance towards images. Why did the cafeterias suddenly feature pictures of elderly women, accompanied by the text ‘Old hag’? 04 October 2018
Recovering The Missing Yantai Money Late on Wednesday the now ex-president of the board of directors donned a cloak, loaded his revolver, and disappeared into the night. 03 October 2018
RUG should be proud of critical students When one hundred students occupied the Academy building last week, they managed to achieve what the university council could not. 11 September 2018
No Drinking Fountains, no Bathrooms The RUG administration has finally come to their senses, and decided to stop offering anything that can be provided by the free market. 04 September 2018
It’s easy to look down from a pedestal The op-ed of Pieter Polhuis on the housing crisis contains a series of misshapen thoughts, says Thomas Ansell. ‘He could at least try to substantiate his claims.’ 30 August 2018
