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In Requiem of Student Politics - A Case Against NovUM
The result of a three-year-long investigation into election fraud by NovUM and DOPE and the lack of actions by Maastricht University.
Jane Hilgert
Apr 20, 2024


University of Maastricht Student Council Elections
The University of Maastricht Student Council, a separate entity to the faculty-specific councils, is approaching re-election time. These...
Head Editor
May 10, 2021


DOPE: Large, Pragmatic and Dutch
Maastricht's biggest student party demands the best possible education, even in Covid times. When Rozemarijn Kahle (second year student...
Jan Haverman
Mar 28, 2021


NovUM: New and Unprecedented?
New, fresh, novel, unusual, and unprecedented; that is what Novum means in Latin. Would the party NovUM at UM represent the same values?...
Valentina Couceiro
Feb 17, 2021


MD gets to know the KAN Party
The Maastricht Diplomat recently interviewed Friederike Leppert, on behalf of KAN (Klimaat Actie Netwerk or Climate Action Network)...
Teresa Costa
Jan 30, 2021


Student Politics 101
Right now, as you are sipping your cup of tea, someone is out there in the bureaucratic wilderness representing you..
Peter Pelzer
Nov 11, 2020
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