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Greetings, dear reader, and welcome to this WegWijzer.  Because of some recent developments in the Flemish media-landscape, this WegWijzer will be about Bart De Pauw. Many of you have probably never heard of him and might be wondering who he is, what he does or why on earth you should care about him.  Those who have heard about him (aka those who saw a newspaper or any Belgian website in the last 4 days)  are probably asking themselves the same questions.  I’m here to answer those questions with a mediocre amount of quality, detail and grace. Bart De Pauw is a Flemish actor, producer, tv-host, scriptwriter, and about any other profession related to television you can come up with.  Saying he’s a pretty big deal in Flanders would be an understatement. Recently, he became the item of controversy when he announced that the VRT, the Flemish public broadcast,  had broken all ties with him and his production company due to internal complaints of professional misconduct of a sexual nature.  Because De Pauw is well loved with the audience, because the complaints are allegedly filed by multiple known actresses but are alledgedly not about any physical boundary crossing behaviour and because the decision by the VRT is very sudden, it has as said generated a lot of controversy and the opinions about both the actions of him and VRT are split.  Anyways, of to the activities.

Monday, there are no activities.

Tuesday from 10am until 1pm there is a singing convent in the Raadzaal of the HIW (room 01.16). It’s a great opportunity for those who will come to the cantus on Thursday to practice their voice, for those who have never been to a cantus to learn the rules, habits and songs and for every member of NFK to hear the new NFK-song for the first time.  Be there, is the message!  In the evening, there’s the fakbar from 9pm until the early hours in the M-café.

Wednesday, NFK organizes a debate about the role of nationalistic sentiment in a liberal democracy. A theme that’s apparently still relevant.  I wouldn’t know, because the Flemish media doesn’t seem to care about Catalonia or Donald Trump now that Bart De Pauw has been accused. You know things are serious when the tweets of Donald Trump are not front page news anymore.  Anyways, the debate starts at 8.15pm in the Kardinaal Mercierzaal (HIW 01.01). Afterwarts, you can keep discussing during the free reception.

Thursday, NFK’s first cantus of the year will take place. This event will happen in the room above café Ambiorix (Old Market), from 8pm until about midnight.  If you want to participate, you can sign up in the list of the facebook event or sent an email to feest@nfk.be.  Drinking beer during the cantus will cost you 13 euro, drinking  water will cost you 5 euros.

On Friday, they will be a logic course organized by NFK. The course is free and obviousely not mandatory.  It’s primarily targeted at Dutch students but feel free to hop in if you have a question.  As far as I know, the English of the tutor is at least halfway decent.  The course is meant for first year students or those who have to retake the subject . This session will be about syllogisms. It will take place from 11am until 1pm at Aula B (room 00.14). Furthermore, there is like always the breadmeal on Friday from 12pm until 2pm in the lounge , where you can eat all the bread you want for one and a half euro in company that’s almost nice sometimes.

On Saturday, NFK organizes a trip to Bruges. We will meet at 8am in front of the train station in Leuven, from where we will travel to Bruges in group.  There’s a tour along the most important historic buildings planned, as well as some free time to visit and discover the city on your own. Around 5.30pm, we will travel back to Leuven.  If you have any questions, you can send an email to international@nfk.be.

So,  besides anything concerning Bart De Pauw, that was all the relevant news for this week. Goodbye, peace, and until next time, my dearest reader.

Greetings philosophers!

Are you ready for a week full of new activities? Starting now on we have a little extra for everyone who does not read our weekly literary masterpieces every week, year representatives who will announce our activities in class. Just like every week this week has a special theme: Disco swimming. In memory of everyone who had to go home disappointed with their glitter suits and disco wigs. We will make it up with you all. For real.

On Monday  we have a special victory party for our achievement at the 24-hourrun. To blast off the week, you can join in on the fun from 10PM @ fakbar letteren. There will be cocktails, free food and 3 free kegs of beer. Do you need any more reasons to come? Its open for everyone, yes, even the philosophers who were too lazy to run.

On Tuesday there is no reason to stop you from having a prolonged victory drink at our very own fakbar, but before that at 7PM @ the KBC-hall there will be the first Futsal match of the NFK-ladies team. NFK needs you! To participate or cheer them on. After we take our first win home we will have some spare time to have a small discussion about the concept of disco swimming, and what exactly defines it. We have already found an accurate analysis on Wikikids from which  we have deduced some sufficient conditions and necessary conditions. They are a great start but we need you to complete this analysis:

“Disco swimming is exactly the same as a dancehall, except the floor is water, and everyone is in the water. That is the only oddball out since the rest is just the same as a regular dancehall. There is a DJ with a DJ-set and speakers who provides the music while controlling the lights. While all that you can just enjoy a swim, in the dark.”

Wednesday is your day off of NFK activities, so maybe use it for reading a book or to listen to some ‘ We love the 90’s’™ records.

Thursday our very own NFK men’s basketball team will have their debut match against Pauscollege at 8PM @ KBC-hall. We all hope that LOKO does not cancel this match the day beforehand like they did last week. Our team had an extra day of training since then so we do have very high expectations.

As every Friday there will be an unlimited amount of free bread and platter for everyone who is willing to pay €1.50 from 12PM until 2PM @ NFK-lounge

When you are staying in the lively city of Leuven during the weekend, but still find to bore yourself, you are more than welcome to come to the NFK Aroha from 1PM until 6PM. Accompanied with the heavenly pleasures of coffee, tea and cake, you will be able to have a chat with other philosophy students. So the dispute about Disco swimming can be settled once and for all, after which you will be pleased to receive a new theme for the week after.