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Statement
“The University Council condemns, without reservation, and in the strongest possible terms, the criminal cyber attack on the Observant”
Statement University Council
Opinion
Duma on the Maas?
"There is no difference between threatening a journalist with clenched fists (or worse) and shutting down a website"
Opinion
What kind of university do we want to be?
Opinion Jan Smits: "Especially at university you need to hear opinions you disagree with"
Opinion
Has the University Council forgotten that democracy requires a free press?
"The silence has been deafening lately after miscreants had blocked access to Observant’s online publications by launching a DDoS attack"
Opinion
Breaking the bonds with Russian researchers extinguishes the sparks of change
More than 7000 of Russian scientists and science journalists are against the war
Opinion
Why should we as (international) students care about municipality elections?
"Local politicians are largely ignoring our interests"
Opinion
"There is a total lack of historic and reality sense"
Fred Grunfeld’s opinion about the WOB request of The Rights Forum
Opinion
Spoken from the heart
Ellen Krijnen about the bilingual UM
Opinion
Why I am anonymous
December 19 was #gendercriticalcomingoutday on Twitter, and GC people were invited to break anonymity. I refrained.
Opinion
Anger is often counterproductive for the promotion of an inclusive climate
Expert by experience and student Kyran Kuijpers on ‘women menstruate’
Opinion
The louder the screams for freedom of speech, the less some people are being heard
Philosopher Maarten Doorman about woke, cancel culture and various voices
Opinion
‘Evidence based’ policy is in fact ‘value based’
Does a mask reduce corona virus transmission?
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Submitted letters
Submitted letter
An expensive introduction
The fee for a stall at the INKOM market is too high, according to Maastricht grassroots organisations
Letter
Cultural war at the UM
At least eighty per cent of the people can live with diversity, but allow themselves to be intimidated by ideological extremists
Submitted letter
The Executive Board should hang its head in shame for blindly participating in this
Jan Willems’ opinion about the WOB request of The Rights Forum
Submitted letter
Inclusive language in Observant
Feminists of Maastricht: "We advocate an inclusive understanding of gender"
Columns
Column
Monday Notes
What UM can learn from NASA
Column
Over the Rainbow(-washing)
No one will ever love and support you as much as corporations will during Pride Month
Column
Four hundred million
The gun culture of my youth is not the same as that in America today
Column
#MenToo!
"My daughter and her female classmates were asked not to wear skirts, because it might be a provocation to the men in the streets"
Column
There’s a paradox at the heart of Dutch language policy
Maastricht University’s language policy was devised by common sense.
Column
The Beach
In my solitude, instead of diving into crashing waves, I dived into novels.
Column
#whataboutism
"We are simply more inclined to like and to care about the things and people that resemble us"
Column
Why we need to fail
"Sitting in front of me, head bowed and staring at the floor, I calm her down"
Column
How to survive Exam Week
It is the perfect time to start searching for top paying jobs for college dropouts
Column
Quantifying balance
All my colleagues work overtime to meet the demands placed on us
Column
Living with my hand brain
"Now, I am in a full-blown nightmare"
Column
An able environment
In my effort to do better, I generally not only lost the participant that is deaf but some other ones as well
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Letter from the editor
Editorial
Observant finally has a student columnist again
But first, summer. I hope you’ll have a wonderful time
Editorial
No referral bonus
Even though the job market for journalists has been poor for years, moving to South Limburg has turned out to be a deal-breaker for many
Editorial
A last farewell
The floating coffin that had made me laugh out loud four years earlier now seemed like a macabre foreshadowing.
Editorial
Always that deadline
Now, this has little to do with inspiration. It has more to do with perfectionism
Editorial
A worried email
With some trepidation, I asked if I could review the text for factual inaccuracies
Editorial
The benefit of the doubt
It wasn’t a moment of “functional anger”; no, I genuinely lost my temper
Editorial
How a discussion went off the rails
The DDoS attack that hit our website around 12 January had only one goal: to silence Observant
Editorial
All other news pales in comparison to the war
One Ukranian student understandably let us know a week later that he wasn’t up for an interview
Editorial
And then our website went down
Who was behind the attack? We have no idea
Editorial
See you next year
I signed out of my email, put my phone on silent
Editorial
“Feel the fear, and go for it anyway!”
They prefer to remain anonymous. They’re afraid of being called racist, sexist, transphobic and whatnot
Editorial
Change the article, or else…
We clearly disagree, which is fine. But using aggressive language and threats to make your point is unacceptable
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Blog Konrad
Blog
My boss called me to make sure I was fine
Messages started coming in: there was a shooting in the center of Tel Aviv
Blog
It feels years and years ago that I was celebrating Carnival in Maastricht
From Tel Aviv from Konrad von Klitzing