When the going gets tough... - Wageningen UR

COVER PHOTO: MANON BRUININGA>>CONTENTSno 11 – 7th Volume>> 4‘CHERISH THE DISSIDENTS’Outgoing education director: ‘Weshould be more open to criticalreflection.’>> 20THE LONELY HALFHow do partners of international stafffare? ‘Wageningen is not very lively.’>> 27VERA COMES HOME‘Well, you’ve had one Tripel too many,’said Willem-Jan.AND MORE...2 Labour of loveblues4 News and opinion8 Science11 Resource.wur.nl12 Leading lights16 In the picturegoose game18 Sustainability20 The lonelier half22 IMObasic grant24 Student29 Column32 Typical DutchDutch doctorNO CHOICESo that’s how it goes when a merger is unscrambled. This is the last Resource tobe distributed to VHL. There will be no more stories about the solar boat Sinnfretter,student research on barn fires or war relics in Mariëndaal, or lack ofconfidence between the VHL board and the staff council.That’s it, folks. Over and out. We have no choice, and that is how it feels too. Wehave built up relations with student reporters, administrators, teachers and theparticipatory bodies. Take Emma Holmes, for example. She lives in the Bennekomresidence Beringhem. She knows the Wageningen pubs and the internationalstudent community. She cycles around the campus, attends lectures in theForum. She is a columnist for Resource (see page 29) and writes with humour –often directed at herself – and verve. But she’s out of a job now. Because Emmais a VHL student.Emma, as far as we are concerned, you are welcome to pick up a copy of Resourcein the Forum. But keep it under your hat!Gaby van Caulil>> And the goose gets away again. A reconstruction of Hollandas a goose heaven – in the form of a goose game. | p. 1631 January 2013 — RESOURCE