Rosio Pavoris

I didn’t get anything. ;____;
I did, however, skip class to help my mom set up the Christmas tree. It’s made of blinky lights and tastelessness.

And then it turned out classes were cancelled anyway because of some student demonstration (well, not officially cancelled, but the “we won’t punish you if you don’t show up” type of cancelled, which is the same thing in a hogeschool) against some proposed law that would fund higher education based on the number of credits students acquire each year.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out this is a fucking retarded idea, but apparently only 800 1,500 students (from all over Flanders) showed up to protest. I’m guessing the weather had something to do with that. And maybe the fact that although it was announced well in advance and there were posters all over our building, nobody actually knew what they were supposed to be protesting.

And of course, since the twit proposing it (Frank Vandenbroucke) is a member of the SP.a (the Flemish socialist party, which I voted for), the socialist education union didn’t support the manifestation, because obviously party loyalty comes before common sense, and even fucking party principles.
Neither did the KUL student council, by the way, though the KHL student council, which is technically subservient to said council, did. Of course, the problem with the KHL is that very few people there care about politics, what with the brain damage and everything.

Anyway, it’s just a proposal at this point. With luck it’ll get shot down in January.

(Side note: annual government funding for the entire Flemish higher education system is about a thirtieth of the endowment of Harvard University alone, even with the 10% increase in funding over the past decade or so.)

Edit: Okay, the Standaard said 800 students, VRT Nieuws said 1,500. I’m more inclined to trust the VRT.
1,500 still isn’t an enormous number, given the fact that there are nearly a hundred thousand students in just the five Flemish universities, and presumably considerably more than that in the hogescholen, but it’s better, at least.