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Newly offered by your favourite social action group this year is Dean’s Courseplanner. Still struggling with course prerequisites, time schedule clashes and other academic inconveniences? Dean’s Courseplanner, developed by Laurens Bogaardt, offers help with clear overviews of all courses, tracks and their respective prerequisites. The courseplanner also allows you to plan up to six semesters ahead. Rank your courses from must haves to lesser prioritised and you ‘ll never miss exchange opportunities and other fun activities because you still need to fulfil your requirements. Find the Courseplanner by clicking here.

UcDean’s amazingly successful Eastern Europe Trip 2008 will get a sequel. From June 15 to June 23, right after the graduation ceremony, Dean will take 15 lucky students on yet again an amazing journey to Eastern Europe. Although the exact programme and itinerary are still unknown, Dean’s Eastern Europe Trip 2009 will most probably focus on Poland and Ukraine. Expect meetings with high-profile politicians, leaders of notable NGO’s and social organisations and of course loads of fun in Warsaw, Kiev, Lviv and Krakow. The Eastern Europe Trip 2009 is a particular good option for third year students to celebrate their graduation, so don’t miss out this unique opportunity. Just as last year Dean aims to offer this experience at a reduced price of € 299, all transportation, accommodation and entrance fees included. Additional information about the route and the exact price will be published in spring 2009. The application procedure will open in March 2009. Keep the dates free in your agenda!

From September 1 onwards, Dean resumes its awarded daily free delivery of quality newspaper De Pers, directly to students’ postboxes. Signing up for this unique, free service is now possible by posting in the appropriate section on our webpage. Please note that subscriptions from last year are not valid anymore, so even when you received De Pers last year, you will have to sign up again for our free service. Please also consider volunteering in the deliverance of De Pers. We depend on your help, and only when at least 10 volunteers have been found before September 1, we will be able to offer this service again this year. Helping out will cost you only 15 minutes every two weeks, even less when more people sign up. Together we stand strong! This has been Dean’s motto from the start of our organisation.

Dear First years and other first time visitors,

UcDean, established in the fall of 2007, is UCU’s first and primary social action body. During the first year of its existence, UcDean became famous for its fantastic social events, its unrivalled campus services and the determination with which it fought for the improvement of campus life. Many students still clearly remember the Dean Food Service, which ran almost every weekday in the winter of 2007/2008, providing students with cheap, high quality food deliveries right to their dorms. Almost 100 students profitted from UcDean’s free newspaper delivery service, a service which will return in 2008/2009, and over 100 students attended UcDean’s Amazing ValentineFestivity in February 2008. Two of the biggest events in the history of University College Utrecht were hosted by Dean in May 2008. Dean’s first Wie is de Mol weekend became a tremendous success, with 15 participants fighting in 25 games, ranging from nocturnal droppings to aero gliding, from fire spitting to boat races on the Loosdrechtse Plassen. Just three weeks after this event, Dean took another 15 students on a incredible journey to Eastern Europe. Participants of UcDean’s Eastern Europe trip had meetings at the Latvian Ministry of Finance in Riga, in Tallinn with several high profile Estonian members of parliament, got a city bike tour through Berlin and engaged in crazy partying in Vilnius. Both of these events return in May/June 2009, even better and more spectacular than last year. At this webpage you can familiarise yourself with Dean’s mission and its activitities. Please note that due to exchange of the organisation’s General Secretary most of UcDean’s activities will only commence in February 2009. If you have any questions up until that moment, please do not hesitate to contact us: dean_uc@live.nl. If you want to become involved in UcDean, or run one of our many subgroups, send us a mail: dean_uc@live.nl.

Hans Hindriks

General Secretary

Dearest visitors,

Dean wants to thank all its members and visiters, and everybody who participated in the events of our organisation, for a fantastic year! Dean will be back in February 2009 for another three months full of action and incredible events, such as the biggest activity ever organised in university history: Dean’s Who is the Mole 2009 Gevecht in de Grensstreek. Ten days packed with action, in 5 different countries, from May 16 till May 25. The application window for this unique experience opens in January 2009. In the meanwhile, check http://hanshindriks.wordpress.com/for the USA weblog of the General Secretary, Hans Hindriks. Delivery of De Pers will also continue. More information about that service will be published at this page in August.

Although some committees are already done with their activities for this year, Dean continues its events till the very last day of the summer term! But before we announce the events that will take place during your summer courses, we present the four remaining highlights of the semester.

Wednesday April the 23rd: Baltic Film Festival: Forest of the Gods

Dean will screen the Lithuanian classic “Forest of the Gods” in Voltaire Lounge, starting at 22.00. The movie tells the story of a man- an artist and an intellectual- who was imprisoned by two brutal regimes, the Nazis and the Soviets. Living by his own personal version of the Ten Commandments and after miraculously surviving imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, he writes a memoir of his life, which becomes the target of the Soviet censors. The so-called “freedom” of Communism becomes just as oppressive as the German concentration camp.
Entrance is free, and non-members and non-participants of our eastern europe trip are also warmly welcomed. Drinks and snacks will be available! The movie is shown in the original Lithuanian language with English subtitles.

Friday April the 25th: Prom/Charity Ball + TrainTogetherTrip

Fully supported by Dean, the USCA Charity Ball. Tickets are still sold in the upcoming week, so join your friends and Dean in what is going to be an amazing party. You can join us to the festival by train. We meet at 22.00 at the Central Station and take the train of 22.10 to Amsterdam. Join us!

Friday May the 2nd till Sunday May the 4th: Dean’s Wie is de Mol

Certainly the most spectacular event ever held in the history of University College: Dean’s Wie is de Mol: Strijd der Elementen (Fight for the Elements) will take place at various locations in Utrecht and Flevoland. Both the opening ceremony (Friday at 15.00) and closing ceremony (Sunday at 20.30) are accessible to all students! Show up and support your friends or view how to prepare for and engage in great activities and games. On Saturday evening (from 18.00) you are also welcome to watch a sensational experience taking place on the FootballField. Of course, we cannot say anything yet about what’s going to happen, but certainly you have never seen this before!

Monday April the 28th & Wednesday May 7: Baltic Film Festival

Dean hosts a true Baltic Film Festival, showing the best ever documentaries and movies from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The movies are essential preparation material for participants to our Eastern Europe trip, but also very interesting to other students. On Monday April the 28th we show the excellent documentary The Singing Revolution, on Estonia’s road to independence. On Wednesday May the 7th we finish with You am I, a fascinating Lithuanian drama. All movies start at 22.00 in Voltaire Lounge.

Monday May the 19th till Monday May the 26th: Eastern Europe Trip

14 students join in an historic journey to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

With the USCA and ASIC elections coming up, I believe that it is time to think for a while about the future of your favourite social action body on campus, Dean! As most of you know, next semester I will be on exchange in Wisconsin and therefore not able to lead Dean. However, I do not think that I am irreplaceable. Indeed, I truly believe that there are other enthusiastic, determined, creative and approachable members, students of this college, who can take over the task of guiding and leading our social action group. <!--more-->

For next year, Dean’s tasks will be clearer defined and even more appealing. Over the past week we have spoken to some of the possible future chairs of the USCA, which has led us to conclude that Dean may well be expected to fulfil an official linkage function between USCA and ASIC in the next year. Considering the wish of many students to foster cooperation and coordination between USCA and ASIC and the need for a bridging role between these official students bodies, Dean wants to take up this task.

Dean thinks that the time of hostility between USCA and ASIC should be over and that the two organisations should reinforce each other, rather than compete amongst each other for attention and appreciation. USCA will guide social activities and events on campus –coming from the many committees, while ASIC is responsible for reflecting the opinion of the students’ body in College Hall. This has been the basic idea of the establishment of two separate institutions from the start of our college onwards. However, over the past years, it has proven to be difficult for ASIC to radically influence College Hall decisions, especially on high-profile issues. To improve its legitimacy, recognizability and accountability, ASIC has started to deliver some services to students, such as bike and oven rental. Nevertheless, the provision of these services has been beyond the initial mandate of the organisation.

Over the past year, Dean has proven to be the true linking body between our student organisations. As an independent social action body, on the one hand, Dean has organised unrivalled events on campus, which do not fit in with the existing committee structure – considering the great variety of events (Who is the Mole weekend, Blockbuster Movie Night, Eastern Europe Trip), yet fall under the scope of USCA as a body stimulating and funding social initiatives and activities on campus. On the other hand, Dean has provided services to students (newspapers, food, dvd exchange) and represented students’ opinion (smoking ban), which complement, and in the case of student representation overlap, with ASIC’s mandate.

Dean believes that its unique, strong position on campus makes it a particularly attractive party to be engaged in the future cooperation and coordination between ASIC and USCA. Dean will not longer directly engage in activities of student representation, but let those to ASIC. With our independent character and strong roots in the student population we will assist ASIC in performing this task of representation and lobbying. However, our new, redefined focus will be on two new, unique pillars: big, unrivalled events (linking with USCA), and providing services (linking with ASIC). Dean will remain independent as we will not be allocated a fixed budget. Instead, we can ask, on a project basis, for funding for some of our great events. To this end, Dean proposes the establishment of a Social Action Fund of some 1000 euros annually from which Dean, but also individual students or groups of students, can apply for funding when they have ideas for a great, original, once-only event with students of University College Utrecht. This fund would make it more easy for students who are not affiliated to a committee to get individual projects funded and contribute to college life.

In relation to ASIC, Dean foresees a new impetus for the services that ASIC currently offers and a merging with Dean’s most successful services. Together we will stand strong. Proposing an increased budget for ASIC as provider of essential student services, the establishment and expansion of (new) services will be a joint effort of ASIC and Dean, whilst Dean will be in charge of the final implementation, considering our experience and expertise in doing so. This would also relieve ASIC from final responsibility of their side-activities, which draw away their focus from their primary task: representing students, monitoring working groups and delivering concrete enrichments to academic life and housing/dining hall.

Having an intermediary, independent role between ASIC and USCA, Dean will propose regular meetings with representatives of both organisation to reflect on their strategies, priorities and performances and to bring ASIC and USCA closer together in Triangular Meetings, reflecting Activities (USCA), Services (Dean) and Representation (ASIC). According to Dean, this structure will provide the base of a more decisive, energetic and dynamic functioning of our college’s student organisations. Considering Dean’s determination, dynamism and creativity, strongly rooted in our independence and insistence, a new impetus for both USCA and ASIC is to emerge!

Dean. Writing History, Designing the Future, Today, is now a motto that holds more truth than ever. But before we can take this historic step in the evolution of Dean, we need you! From September 2008 onwards, there is a vacancy for the position of General Secretary. Dean is now looking for an enthusiastic person, or a determined couple, to take over the job of leading campus’ biggest and most popular independent social action body! You will stay in close contact with the current General Secretary, but will also have the freedom to steer the progressive and enthusiastic course you belief to be in the spirit of Dean. Applications for this position are now accepted in the form of a motivation letter, of not more than 650 words. The best applicants will be invited for an interview in the very near future. So, if you love Dean, if you want our initiative to continue into the future, take your responsibility, seize your opportunity and give your life a new dimension, give our college a new impetus. Do it! Be it! Be Keen on Dean!

From today onwards, Dean helps you through this stressful period full of exams and papers. Our Wallmarket has been completely restocked and now has more delicious snacks than ever before. We work daily, often till as late as 02.30 am! Also check our daily offers which are unbeatable! In need of something hot? We have daily pasta offers, freshly prepared for less than 3 euros! Our daily offers and opening hours can be find here. Read the rest of this entry »

Dean’s NewsService, which is in charge of delivering quality newspaper De Pers every weekday to the postboxes of our subscribers, now offers a sensational new service. From today onwards, members can order the saturday edition of De Volkskrant, the most complete and best readable Dutch quality newspaper, directly delivered to their postboxes, every saturday before 13.00. De Volkskrant on Saturday consists of 8 supplements about economics, sports, interviews and background stories, opinion, science, applied psychology and travel, as well as the renowned Volkskrant Magazine!

Dean delivers De Volkskrant op Zaterdag for the incredible price of only € 1,90 per copy, as opposed to € 2,40 in the stores. If you want to sign up for this new service, send us a message (dean_uc@live.nl) and we will start deliveries as soon as possible.

The most spectacular trip ever organised in the history of University College Utrecht will take a limited number of students to Berlin, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius from Monday May the 19th till Monday May the 26th. A record number of applications has reached Dean and emotions ran very high when Dean had to pick 12 lucky participants over the past night. These students have been accepted on our incredible journey for the price of only € 279,99, all transportation, accommodation, guided tours, entrance fees included!

Dean is sorry for all those people who we had to disappoint. However, there is still a chance to join! Although we do not anymore apply for the extremely low fares which were on offer to our first applicants, Dean will accept another 3 highly motivated students for this life-time experience for the total price of only € 349,00! If you have any questions about the programme, or just want to apply straight away, please send us a mail (dean_uc@live.nl). People who were not accepted in the first round can still try again. The final lucky 3 participants will be announced in the course of next week!

Dean has improved its Eastern Europe trip and now promises a truly astonishing experience into the soul of our new Eastern European neighbours. To cater for students who still have exams on Monday the 19th of May, we will now leave only after the exams have finished, to return just before the summer courses start, on Sunday the 25th of May.

Dean’s improved Eastern Europe itinerary will bring you from the starting point of the Cold War, the symbolic nucleus in the East-West division, Berlin, all the way up to Estonia’s lovely capital Tallinn, after which we will delve into the Russian-European clash of civilisations in Riga, Latvia, just to finish off in Vilnius, the charming capital of bustling Lithuania.

In spite of this even more sensational route off the beaten track and into the hidden gems of new Europe, the costs for our trip are still only € 249, all transportation, accommodation, guided tours and entrace fees included! This price is subject to minor changes. We will book on Tuesday the 4th of March, so sign up as quickly as possible to secure yourself a spot on this unforgettable journey, which is surely the best way to finish your semester at UC.

From today onwards, Dean launches a determined and committed campaign to provide campus with wireless internet as from the start of the new academic year onwards. We will continuously exert pressure on the people and institutions involved to finally implement wireless internet on campus. We will first focus on the Academic Buildings, after which we will turn to all residential buildings on campus. In the upcoming days, Dean will launch a signature campaign in Dining Hall. The signatures will be delivered to the persons in charge, notably College Hall (implementation) and ASIC. Together we will stand strong!

We have heard about them, the new member states of the European Union, but four years after their accession into the European Union still hardly anyone has visited the Eastern European countries. It’s grey, its old, its boring, we often hear. But aren’t those qualifications things from the past? They definitely are, because the hippest, most modern part of Europe is now really in the East, where completely new cities are built and old cities are being transformed, without losing the heritage of an often very violent past. Celebrate four years of Europe for Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia during Dean’s unique ‘Discover the East’ fieldtrip. We will see how the old and the new are interwoven, and how Europe is given shape and meaning in some of the most remarkable and interesting Eastern European countries. Under professional guidance of a true Eastern Europe specialist, who has lived himself in Lithuania and travelled all across Eastern Europe, we will visit the places where history is written, the future designed, as well as we will speak to the people that are currently in charge of managing the overheated economies of the East. Meetings with high-profile national and local politicians, NGO’s and businesspeople are all scheduled.

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Dean has launched a new subgroup, specialising in the art of cooking and good food. Dean’s Cook&Co will be campus’ only group of students who actually like to cook and feel frustrated with Dining Hall and the lausy unit kitchens. Dean’s Cook&Co will organise haute-cuisine dinners, workshops, excursions and lectures about healthy living, slow food, environmentally conscious consumption patterns, the latest cooking techniques, trends and much more. Furthermore, one of the important projects of Cook&Co during for this semester will be to draft a proposal for the USCA demanding the creation of a creative cooking place somewhere on campus. This place should be equipped with a fully professional kitchen where students can cook for bigger groups and experiment with exotic cooking styles, trying out new ingredients. If you want to become involved in this new subgroup, send a mail to dean_uc@live.nl. In the very near future, Cook&Co will organise its first event, to which all Dean-members will be cordially invited.

Over the past week, Dean has been overwhelmed with applications and information requests about our ‘Who is the Mole’ weekend. By now we can proudly announce the full name of our competition: Dean’s Wie is de Mol: Strijd der Elementen.

Also after the official closing of the application deadline many requests have reached us about whether applications can still be submitted. The answer to this questions is YES. For all aspiring mole hunters and mole players, your final opportunity to sign up for what promises to be the greatest event ever organised in the history of Dean and University College Utrecht is now! If you want more information: check our previous posts on this topic and browse to the news archive of subgroup GAY, which is in charge of this event. If you want to sign up, send an e-mail to dean_uc@live.nl and we will guide you through the application process. Late applicants should consider the following:

• ‘Who is the Mole’ will be held in Dutch. This has been decided after last week, when only Dutch speaking candidates had applied.
• For late applicants a non-refundable administration fee of 7 euros applies. Information about the payment of this fee will be send to you after signing up.
• Dean’s Wie is de Mol weekend still costs  only 49 euros (all games, food, accommodation and a price for the winner included) for applications received before February the 22th. This is excluding the adminstration fee.

Dean Food Service is back and celebrates this with all its loyal customers! Tonight, from 22.15 till 23.30 Dean offers all its awarded cheesburger/hamburger menu’s, with baked potatoes, bacon, onion and cheese (on request) and sauces for just € 2,-. Also on offer tonight: all our asian, italian and pancake menu’s, for just € 3,00! Add us to your skype account to order and see when we work: dean.food.service

Yesterday at 00.00 the application deadline for Dean’s Wie is the Mole passed and the first phase of the application procedure ended. Simultaneously, the organisation has send out our 10-page selection document, which applicants are required to fill in before Friday February the 22th, sending or delivering it to:

Organisatie Wie is de Mol

t.a.v. Hans Hindriks

Postbus 81-525

3508BM Utrecht

New Blogpost by Hans Hindriks, addressing sexuality and morality. Including an erotic poem by Horatius! Read the rest of this entry »

No people crossing the quad, the academic buildings almost completely deserted. Dean’s movie night attracted more than 100 students to a fully packed Auditorium for what turned out to be one of the most moving and memorable evenings of the year. From 22.00 till after midnight, Dean’s screening of ‘Alles is Liefde’ electrified the ecstatic members, who enjoyed a smooth show of picture, light, sound and good food. Dean wants to cordially thank all people who showed up and who thus made this evening possible. Special thanks to the board of Dean’s movie subgroup, DeanOnScreen, Floor Hoekstra, Erwin Wiering and Thys Hoekman.

The Audience During the Break

Dean hopes to see you soon again at one of our other events. Don’t forget to sign up for our ‘Who is the Mole’- weekend, which is going to be another blast. We want to conclude by stating that yesterday our webpage broke once again a visitor record . We noted almost 500 pageviews. Thanks again and see you soon! Keen on Dean!

Closing Credits Enlightened by a Warm Heart of DEAN

Dean’s Food Service is coming back! While we are waiting for the final settlement of the disputes which restrained us from operating over the past ten days, we can tell that we currently aim at a relaunch next week. On Wednesday 19/02 we will be fully operational again. Remain ordering with us. Also check our restocked Wallmarket, every day at Wall37 from 22.00 till 00.00

An absolutely unique event in the history of University College and the biggest event ever to be organised by Dean, will take place in the province of Utrecht, at various locations, between Friday the 25th and Sunday the 27th of April. Then, Dean, in cooperation with its subgroups GAY and Geo, will organise an exciting Who is the Mole? competition, modelled after the extremely popular Dutch television series ‘Wie is de Mol’.

During three days, a maximum of 15 participants plays original, exciting, funny, scary, strange and spectacular games at different locations to earn money for a common moneybox. However, one of the candidates, secretely chosen to be the mole, will try to spoil as many games as possible, without revealing his/her true identity as the mole. Each day a test will disclose which partcipants know least about the identity of the mole. They will have to leave the game. In the sensational final on Sunday, the 5 best participants fight in a spectacular (air)race through Het Gooi for the last money and bits of information about the mole. The candidate who scores best at the final test wins the money box and – even more important – ever lasting fame. Read the rest of this entry »

Dean is sad to inform its members that the valentine dinner – scheduled for Friday 15/02 – will not take place due to lack of interest. In the future, Dean will host many other great events in which you will be able to participate.Join us in our great ValentineFestivity of 14/02, when we show ‘Alles is Liefde’ on the big screen of the Auditorium. Dean’s Wallmarket will provide you with an incredible range of cheap snacks and drinks to make your evening a memorable one! Alles is Liefde starts at 22.00, the Auditorium will be open from 21.40 onwards.

Dean keeps you informed about the biggest event ever that we are going to organize, from Friday the 25th till Sunday the 27th of April 2007. In this update, we share the latest developments with you Read the rest of this entry »

Het was aan het eind van die voor mij nu al gedenkwaardige valentijnsdag. Nee, een spannende vlam of een nieuwe liefde heb ik niet te vieren gehad (wel een roos gekregen, maar dat was zoals al een aantal keren eerder vooral een goedbedoelde grap van een goede vriend om het ondraaglijk lijden van de sippe single te verzachten); maar één van de ruim 100 aanwezigen bij de Dean filmavond vroeg me: ‘waarom doe je dit toch allemaal? Hoe heb je er tijd voor?’ Het was niet de origineelste vraag, dat geef ik meteen toe, want hij is me vaker gesteld in de afgelopen maanden. Nog nooit echter kon ik er zo makkelijk een antwoord op geven. Vanavond wist ik precies waarom ik drie maanden geleden Dean oprichtte, namelijk met de wens iets wezenlijks toe te voegen aan campus, het gevoel dat je mensen kunt raken met een ontwapenend initiatief, dat niets anders nodig heeft dan enthousiasme, daadkracht en creativiteit. Dean heeft geen budget, we hebben geen board, geen verkiezingscircus in april, geen eigen ruimte in Dining Hall, en toch doen we ertoe. Dat raakt mij dan weer.

Ik heb ‘Alles is Liefde’ in redelijk geëmotioneerde toestand aanschouwd. Een vol Auditorium, een soepel lopende presentatie; het toonde mij dat Dean geaccepteerd is en dat het inmiddels een plek heeft weten te veroveren in de harten van jullie, de leden en sympathisanten voor wie ik het allemaal doe. Het gaat uiteraard niet alleen maar om liefdadigheid, misschien speelt een stukje aandachtsgeilheid evengoed mee. Soms voel ik me trouwens best een beetje ongemakkelijk bij de versmelting van Dean – de organisatie – met mij als persoon. Ik heb niets tegen aandacht – dat lijkt me alom bekend -, maar Dean heeft veel te danken aan een klein groepje trouwe leden. Onze gevierde website bijvoorbeeld heb ik niet zelf gemaakt, maar is tijdens de kerstvakantie door Erwin Wiering in elkaar gezet. Het is fijn dat ik word gecomplimenteerd met de vrolijke designpakketjes die we te koop aanbieden, maar het is een idee van Floor Hoekstra, die op zaterdagmiddagen de stad doorloopt om de bestellingen bij elkaar te krijgen. Belangeloos, want voor het geld doen we het niet, echt niet. We doen het voor avonden zoals die van de veertiende februari. We doen het voor jullie, en ook een beetje voor onszelf dus.

Succes smaakt zoet, en zoet is verslavend. Dean wordt langzaam een verslaving, die steeds meer tijd kost, maar langzaam ook steeds meer voldoening geeft. Het geeft ook steeds meer energie, die ik vervolgens weer kan steken in onder andere mijn vakken; want ja, ik ga nog gewoon naar mijn lessen, en zorgen over mijn resultaten zijn niet nodig. Alleen die ene liefde lijkt dan nog te ontbreken, maar wat is liefde? Alles is liefde, en alles kan liefde zijn. Zo voelde de waardering van jullie na afloop van de film als een warme deken waar geen vriendin tegenop lijkt te kunnen. Toch?

The distribution problems of De Pers have been solved and your favourite free newspaper is now delivered again to your postbox, every day before 12.00. If you want to receive De Pers and if you don’t have a subscription yet, then go to our subscription section, clicking here. 

From 08/02/2008 onwards, Dean hosts a weblog service. If you want to share anything, please respond in this section. The General Secretary will regularly give an insight in his life and the most popular students action body on campus, Dean Social Action Group. Keep checking this page. Contributions in Dutch, German, French, English, Spanish and Italian are all accepted.

Check our previous post about this seven course Meditteranean-style dinner. The dinner is scheduled for Wednesday 13/02, but we have received proposals by students who have a master-studies-event on the same evening and would prefer the dinner to take place on Friday. If you have a preference, please tell us. The final date will be picked tomorrow (tuesday) at 23.00. All participants will receive a mail by then. Meet your Deanfriends and maybe find yourself someone willing to order you a romantic breakfast-to-bed-package the following day. More info about this dinner here.

DeanOnScreen, Dean’s moviesubcommittee regularly invites its members to free movie screenings in the Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht’s best and biggest arthouse. This upcoming saturday night we invite two of our members to ‘Lust Caution’, starting at 21.30h. Check http://www.louishartloopercomplex.nl for more information. If you want to make use of this service, respond as quickly as possible through dean_uc@live.nl. Only the first two applicants get a ticket. Only one ticket per person.

From today onwards, Dean will be even more visible on campus. Today we start putting up two different posters, the first ones in a series of specially designed and easily recognisable Dean Posters. Check Dining Hall and the Academic Buildings and find our DeanDesignDreamTeam and DeanNewsService posters. Later this week DeanDatingService, DeanWebpage and DeanFoodService posters will follow. Do you want a personal copy to decorate your room or for other purposes? This is possible! Order through dean_uc@live.nl and get your a3-sized posters for 1 euro each within 3 working days in your mailbox.

Dean proudly presents a unique Valentine Festivity on Wednesday the 13th of February. In cooperation with Dean’s Dating Service, Dean will host a unique, romantic DeanDinner from 19.30 onwards in Wall37, and offers an overwhelming breakfast-to-bed service in the early hours. Surprise your lover or friends with the most luxurious and most extensive breakfast ever. Delivery – which is free – to any unit, between 7.30 and 11.30. We are looking for volunteers to help us out preparing and delivering breakfasts.

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Dean is currently thinking of improving and changing its Food Service. Pivotal in this is that we are looking for enthusiastic members who want to help us out, once every week or less frequently, by cooking and delivering food, from their own units. So do you have a nice kitchen, or good cooking skills and do you want to assure the existence of Dean’s most popular service, please respond. Read the rest of this entry »

To all those who did not receive, or read, Dean’s weekly update of 03/02/2008, on the future of our organisation.

Dearest members,

Last Friday, Dean celebrated once again a great success in the history of our social action body. By now, the strong ties between our members, and the loyalty to our organisation, rooted in mutual respect and appreciation, seem to have created a winning team of determined students which is difficult to defeat. However, with sadness Dean has to inform its members that beyond the façade of utter successes, Dean, its leader, members and organisation are increasingly coming under attack. Although Dean still feels strongly supported by a wide coalition of enthusiastic members, our presence at campus, interventions in and enrichments to college life and the determination that our leader and its members express, increasingly provoke non-members, students of UCU, to hinder our campaigns, blackmail and threaten us. Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight, the General Assembly once again confirmed the smoking ban on tuesday, wednesday and friday nights in the USCA College Bar. This means that from now onwards, and hopefully till at least the end of this semester, smoking will not be allowed inside the bar on the beforementioned nights. Dean cordially thanks its members for their support and is proud that we again made the difference. Keen on Clean and Proud on Dean is now – more than ever before – a motto we can stand for.

Our new Dean webpage has noted almost 1000 pageviews over the past days! Within a week, www.ucdean.nl has become the primary source of reliable information to students of University College Utrecht. Dean’s webpage is updated several times a day, so keep checking for the latest news, events and updates.

On average, each visitor to our page viewed 5 different pages. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support!

From today, Wednesday 30/01/2008, Dean’s Food Service is fully operational again, with now more dishes than ever before. Check out the menu (click the ‘Food Service button at the top of the page) and order!

Just added to our already 100+ dishes assortment are TACO’s, Vegetarian Risotto dishes and Fussilli pasta dishes. Also try our improved penne green pesto, this week for just € 2,80! The Food Service works on work days from about 22.00 till 00.00. Add us to your skype (dean.food.service) and see when we work!