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10 July 2025
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Campus 1 July 2025

Iranian researchers feel alone

How do Iranian students and staff feel about the recent outbreak of war in their country, and how are their families and friends doing? Three Iranian researchers from VU are disappointed that so far, nobody has asked them these questions.
Opinion 1 July 2025

When students challenge institutional ethics

The VU presents itself as a socially responsible institution, but recent student-led movements show there is a growing gap between institutional promises and structural change, a group of sociology students claims.
Campus 26 June 2025

‘My mom doesn’t want me to fight for Palestinian rights’

VU for Palestine is fighting for justice for the Palestinian people, but not everybody takes kindly to the way they do it. ‘I would say that 80 to 90 percent supports our actions.’
Campus 26 June 2025

‘A large faculty is a more robust discussion partner’

Gregor Halff is the dean of the new faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, a merger of the three faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Religion and Theology. ‘I like bringing people together.’
Money 23 June 2025

Students demand unpaid wages from job agency ViaOns

Sixteen VU and UvA students say they’ve not been paid for their work by the job agency that linked them to hospitality jobs. ‘You have to beg and chase them every day while they toy with you.’
Events 16 June 2025

‘No sustainable development without peace’

Last week’s sustainability summit featured topics that most people might not expect from a sustainability event, including the war in Ukraine and the Middle East as well as student encampments on campus.
Campus 11 June 2025

‘Bold’ students terrorize campus

The right-wing conservative student party VSP has been partying hard during the student council elections, according to a report by the election committee of the university student council. The report speaks of a ‘very disturbing pattern of increasing aggression, intimidation…
Opinion 27 May 2025

Fellow students, don’t remain silent about Gaza

Many students stay silent about Gaza because they are afraid or because they think it is useless to speak out. But silence is not an option according to the activists of VU for Palestine.
Science 22 May 2025

Bach versus bot: who strikes the right chord?

Can music generated by AI evoke the same emotions as music composed by humans? “Music has always been able to manipulate our mood.”
Debate 22 May 2025

‘If people don’t want you, you should just leave’

Jews don’t need the universities, says American activist Shabbos Kestenbaum. “When all the Jews are gone, they’ll come begging us on their knees to come back.”