CURIOUSCURIOUS

ISSUE NO. 3URIOS.ORG

U R I O S M A G A Z I N E

LUSTRUM EDITION – URIOS' 35TH BIRTHDAY!

The changing focus of lawstudents in Europe since

1981

Huub Audretsch gives aninterview on how he came

to found a studyassociation.

The vitality of achievingdignity for human life inpost-conflict societies

THE LEGALBACKDROP IN

EUROPE SINCE 1981THE DIGNIFIED

ROAD TO PEACEA TALK WITH

URIOS' FOUNDER

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

How the legal backdropchanged in 1981

Interview Huub Audretsch

5 Urios years

The dignified road to peace

Antwerp MUN

Career Event

10 things in 1981

Photos Symposium

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Roos BosE D I T O R - I N - C H I E F

Dear reader,

In 1981 Urios was founded, and 35 years later we are celebrating the 7th lustrum of theassociation! The last three decades students interested in international law have workedto raise Urios to greater heights; the society has become bigger and more diverse over

the years. We now have over 250 members and nine committees!The Lustrum week starts today and we are all very excited for this week full of

celebration, fun and excitement. We will provide you with an overview of all theactivities that are taking place in the lustrum week. From a beer pong evening to amoot court, from the dies celebration to a career event: the lustrum week has it all!In this issue we are looking back on what happened the past five years within Urios;

there has been a great variety of activities, trips and of course social events, so wethought it was about time to pick up some memories of the highlights!

In 35 years a lot can change; we never got to the shiny science fiction future somepeople expected, but three decades ago you wouldn’t be able to read this issue ofCurious on the Internet and you would have killed your time by reading a bookinstead of watching Netflix on your laptop. Not only in the field of science and

technology there have been tremendous changes, also international law has developedat an immense rate. For example: think of the amplification of human rights, the

foundation of various tribunals and the growing emphasis on the collaboration of theinternational community. If you browse further through this issue you will find an

overview of the legal developments of the past 35 years.You will find out that the world was a completely different place in the eighties; we

collected ten news headlines from Urios’ founding year 1981 that you might findinteresting! And last but not least; if you have always been curious about who foundedthe association and what the original intentions were behind the foundation, you now

have the chance to read an interview with the man we owe Urios to!

Hope you will enjoy our third edition of Curious!

URIOS MAGAZINE

PREFACE

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HOW THE LEGALBACKDROP HAS

CHANGED IN EUROPESINCE 1981

BY NATASHA MCARDLE - I SMAGU I LOVA

In terms of economics, one of the biggest

changes to affect the financial landscape was

the trend of financialization. At the beginning

of the 1980s, production and agriculture was in

decline in many countries around the world.

This marked the beginning of a system of

capitalism where money is made not by

imports and exports but by fiddling with stock

prices, leveraging and playing with numbers.

Many countries now rely on finance to

contribute to GDP including the UK, the U.S.

and many European countries.

Understandably, a comprehensive and

thorough body of law needed to be developed

to keep this in check. In just thirty years, the

area of law known as ‘capital markets’ has

grown immensely, which fuses knowledge

of economics with competence in law. It is

perhaps for this reason that multidisciplinary

Politically, the 1980s was a

turbulent time. Founded in 1981,

Urios was born on the cusp of

political change brought in by the

Cold War tensions, changing

economic times and the

emergence of the European Union.

What has been evident is how the

changing political landscape gave

rise to a whole host of legal

developments, debate and job

opportunities for law students that

we still see today.

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law courses are popping up all over Europe.

From Utrecht’s very own Law and Economics

programme to undergraduate degrees

everywhere that fuse an LLB with modules in

politics, business studies and languages, it

seems evident that the era of traditional law

study is over: students are now expected to be

more internationally-focused and

multidisciplinary. It is now not enough that you

are diligent and prepared to spend hours

working away in an office, law is now about

taking into account volatile markets and

international politics.

With regards to international politics, it is also

impossible to be a law student and ignore the

huge political force that is the European Union.

As well as changing the political and economic

makeup of Europe, it has also changed the

legal landscape completely.

1981 marked a landmark case for

human rights in Europe: Dudgeon v. United

Kingdom was the first case decided by the

European Court of Human Rights in favour of

LGBT rights. The ruling that UK law

criminalising homosexual acts and indeed any

Member State law that went against the

European Convention on Human Rights could

be set aside, set a precedent for Europe. The

European Convention on Human Rights now

began to be seen as protection for all European

citizens everywhere. We now see that human

rights law is one of the most competitive

and sought after areas of law for students to

enter.

As Huub Audretsch said in his interview (turn

to page 8 for the interview), Urios was founded

at a time of European idealism. The growth

from six to twenty-eight Member States has

had a huge impact on all areas of life, not least

the legal aspect. Now, as tensions bubble over

in the wake of the financial crisis and

unemployment rises, the European Union faces

new challenges from Member States who want

to leave. The UK has been one of the most

‘watched’ countries for this- it will hold a

referendum on whether to stay in or leave at

the end of June. If the UK votes to leave, critics

fear the ‘domino effect’ this will have on other

Member States who may also decide they have

had enough. The change in legislation will have

a huge knock-on effect, not just for the exiting

countries but the European Union as a whole.

And perhaps the doing away of the much-

disliked (at least in the UK) compulsory

modules of EU law will be welcomed by law

students, but they may not be so thrilled when

it gets replaced with a compulsory module on

restructuring and insolvency.

As we have seen, the focus of law students is

changing. There are now more opportunities to

travel, work abroad and work with colleagues

from many different countries. Law is

becoming an exciting and international career,

shaped by changing political and economic

changes. Urios recognised the necessity of

students to organise and socialise with student

organisations in other countries all the way

back in 1981 and it remains this way today, if

not more so. Perhaps the time of idealism is

gone, but the changes of the eighties remain

and continue to shape our student

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A talk with theUrios founderFor this Curious lustrum issue we had the chance totalk with the founder of Urios, Huub Audretsch. Hehad a lot to say about European idealism, the originsof Urios and study trips to the USA...

After a series of emails, Huub Audretsch

had told us we could come to his house

to talk to him a little more in-depth

about the founding years of Urios and his

role in starting the study organisation.

We knew Mr. Audretsch only as one of

the original founding members of Urios

and one who still took an active interest

in the running of Urios today, but we still

did not know much about his

experience and life: who was he? It was

not without some excitement, then, that

we found ourselves on the outskirts of

Utrecht on a Thursday afternoon,

walking up to a bright and cosy-looking

house, eager to learn more about the

origins of the study association we are

part of. After ringing the doorbell, his

friendly wife greeted us outside and let

us in through the back door (it is more

polite than letting guests in through the

front door, Mr. Audretsch joked later). A

few minutes later and we were both sat

down in their comfortable living-room

and presented with tea and delicious

biscuits. It was evident that this was an

exciting meeting for both paries. Looking

around the room, we took in our

surroundings.

We could not help but notice the

numerous books on US politics and

biographies of Henry Kissinger something

that would later make clear to us how

passionate Mr. Audretsch was about

international politics. So, with much to

discuss, we wasted no time in getting

down the interview.

Hi Mr. Audretsch! Can you tell us a littlebit about yourself, your life and yourcareer?

Okay. Well, in my career I started as a

junior academic at an accountancy

bureau. Actually, my accountancy was not

as they liked it, so I was eager to change

jobs. Then I saw an advertisement by Mr.

Kapitein in Utrecht for the Europa

Instituut. Professor Bos was there too, he

worked at the department of

‘Volkenrecht’ and Kapitein worked at the

Europa instituut. Around 100 law students

applied for prof. Bos and about 100 for

professor Kapitein. These law students

were mostly studying Public International

Law, unlike me, so I thought that the

chance of me getting picked was quite

low

However, at the end there was a second

and third round and at the third round

there were five students left. From these

five prof. Kapitein chose me. So, that’s

how it started in the late fifties or early

sixties. Professor Kapitein then went to

the United States and another professor

together with professor Bos were

interested in trips. I had already been to

Geneva as a student still, with professor

Bos. I must say that having visited the

United States as such and the Haute

Institute des études internationals in

Lausanne I saw that students were more

interested in the buildings and the

people there than learning from the

academic papers. So then I thought I

had to combine this job with RIO tours

to see how the institutions work. This

was how the idea for Urios came up.

Then for fifty years I have been Secretary

of the NGIZ.

And what were your ambitions at thattime?

Not to be a professor, but to be a worker

interested in doing international affairs. I

wanted to work at the university but also

wanted the knowledge of being there at

the place where it all happens: Geneva,

Brussels or Strasbourg.

Do you think you have fulfilled yourambitions?

I think so, yes. I should say that when

you’re a professor, you should not have

free time for looking at paintings or

gardening. A professor should always be

busy on Saturday and Sunday. He has to

give lectures, so he is always busy.

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Interviewed by Natasha McArdle-Ismaguilova and Sofia van Dijk

Why did you want to start a studyassociation like Urios?

I wanted to start a study association that

focused on European law because it was

a time of idealism. In those years people

were still thinking of Europe and the EU

as a unity. Of course it started as six

Member States and it ended with over

twenty. (Twenty-eight!) In that time we

thought it was easy to create a European

union, but of course it wasn’t. I found out

that in the United States and the UK

students were often part of study

associations. So I thought about the fact

that we didn’t have this kind of thing

here. We did have student organisations,

but not really study associations. There

was the Utrecht Student Corps for

example, which were social associations;-

study associations did not exist. So I

wanted to create one myself. The name

was inspired by a Greek twist on Europe.

It also meant ‘Utrechtse RIO studenten’,

the Utrecht RIO Students.

What were the RIO students?

It means ‘Recht van Internationale

Organisaties’, Law of International

Organisations. I thought by creating a

study organisation, it would be a better

platform for students to collaborate with

others. So when the USA for example

needed students of International Law, it

would be easier to find them. It would be

more effective.

And did it work out the way you wantedit to?

Yes, well, we did it for about a year after

being accepted. Then we went on a tour

through the USA, this was our starting

point. I remember we had a brown bus

and a blue bus, one for

smokers and the other one for non-smokers.

There were only ten to twelve of us, because

it was a long and expensive trip. I also

remember almost every student on the trip

getting ill at some point –- the only person

who didn’t get ill was me. It was a big culture

shock for the Dutch students;- the Americans

worked from 8am to 8pm and we were not

used to that.

So this was your first activity as Urios?

Yes. It was the first study trip with Urios.

And where did you go in the USA?

New York and Harvard and then to

Washington, to visit the government

institutions.

That sounds like it was fun! And how didthings grow and develop after that?

Well –- I don’t know if it is still a “study

association”, but it did continue to make and

have activities! As for me, I studied Dutch Law

but did not do any study after as it was not so

common at the time. I tried working as a

lawyer, but that was not for me.

How was student life in Utrecht 35 yearsago?

Utrecht was then a provincial town then and

really old fashioned. In the weekends there

was nothing to do, because all the students

left in the weekends for home –- taking their

laundry with them!

We still do that today! If every student leftfor home in the weekends, was theresomething to do during the week?

I’m not so sure, as I wasn’t a member of a

social association. There were lectures

during the week, but at the weekends the

city was mostly deserted… Times were

different. Indeed, I started with 100

students and ended with only five to ten

students graduating in Law. Many girls

had to stop their studies, as they got

married. These days there are many more

students in the university. In those days

going to university meant that you had a

lot of money or capability. It is not like that

anymore.

And was there already such a thing as abeer culture?

Actually, the first year was completely

thrown away by drinking beer.

What were the overall highlights of yourUrios years?

Well, I think that the trip to the USA was a

highlight, because we had a long time to

prepare it.

Finally, what advice do you have forcurrent Urios members?

Try to go on a trip to organisations in the

world (hint: check the Urios calendar on

our website to see when our next trip is!),

as it is useful to be in these places just to

see the surroundings. I think that if

possible you should start at Brussels. If

you’re studying international law, you

should definitely see one of these

countries and places.

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5Highlights of the

past five Urios

years

It is about time that we look back on the past fivesuccessful years of the association, full of activities,trips and social events! There are so many warmmemories, and luckily we have the chance torelive some of those beautiful moments in thisLustrum issue of Curious!

In 2012, Urios organised a lecture on the Londonriots. In August 2011 thousands of people gatheredin the streets of London and started rioting; theriots soon got very violent, which resulted in totalchaos. The cause of the initial peaceful protest andthe later violent conflict between police andcivilians was the shooting of Mark Duggan. Thelocal youth was mainly unemployed and the gapbetween rich and poor quickly became bigger. It isinteresting to see that similar issues are still veryrelevant a few years later, for example think of theFerguson unrest in Missouri.

In May 2012 Urios made a study trip to ‘’the bigapple’’. Besides all the touristic sightings of thecity, it has so much more to offer – especially forthe students interested in International Law. Theheadquarters of the United Nations is situated inNew York. A fun fact: all though the office islocated in the U.S, the land occupied by theheadquarters is under the sole administration ofThe United Nations!

In 2013 Urios visited another continent, namelyAsia! The lucky members who joined the trip flewall the way to Bangkok. One of the many activitiesthe committee organised was a visit to the UnitedNations Economic and social commission for Asiaand the Pacific. The ESCAP’s main regional focus ismanaging globalization through programs thathave focal points like sustainability, human rightsand trade.

This year, Urios also made a trip a bit closer tohome; a two-day visit to Luxembourg wasscheduled. Luxembourg is the place to be whenyou want to pursue a career in European law. Thecourt of justice of the European Union is situatedin Luxembourg, just as the EuropeanOmbudsman, and there are offices of theEuropean Commission and the EuropeanParliament.

By Roos Bos

URIOS YEARS

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In 2014 Urios organised a symposium on NSA-Spying.

In 2013 Edward Snowden blew the whistle on theNSA’s massive data collection program PRISM. TheU.S. government, the NSA and other intelligenceagencies claimed that their intentions wereprotecting citizens from terrorist attacks, while theAmerican public felt that their privacy was seriouslyimpaired.

On the 14th of February the association paid a visit tothe Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Many Dutchstudents who complete a master in the field ofInternational law end up working for the DutchMinistry of foreign affairs. So what is more alluringthan an interactive visit to a ministry that might beyour future employer?

In 2015 a symposium on MH17 was held. On the 17thof July 2014 the Boeing 777-200ER of MalaysiaAirlines crashed in the Ukraine, after being shotdown. All the 283 passengers on board died. Soonallegations came from the American and Germanintelligence services that the plane was shot down byRussian insurgents. Russia replied by saying that theUkraine government was responsible for the incident,because the plane crashed while being in theUkrainian airspace. In 2016 the investigation is stillongoing and highly criticised.

On the 16th of November a lecture was held by theRed Cross. The Red Cross helps in emergencysituations in the Netherlands and in disasters andconflicts worldwide. In an emergency situation theRed Cross immediately grants assistance on theground. In a conflict they never choose sides, whichenables them to give the needed help to the mostvulnerable people in the situation.

2016 has just started, but we already made somegood memories; in the last issue we reported on theshort exchange to Lisbon and last week we had a verysuccessful symposium on the Dutch referendumabout the EU/ Ukraine association agreement.GeenPeil (a coalition of a few smaller organisations)decided to organise a referendum about the treatybetween the EU and the Ukraine that focuses oneconomic cooperation and free trade.

After looking back on these amazing past few years, Ithink we all got a little more excited about thecoming five Urios years!! STUDY TRIP

LUXEMBOURG

MH17SYMPOSIUM

STUDY TRIPBANGKOK

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BY ANDREA MARILYNUTRECHT JOURNAL BOARD

The foremost reason for the creation of the United Nations Organization is for the promotion of

peace as is stated in the Preamble of the U.N. Charter, i.e., “to save succeeding generations from the

scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.” Despite this,

after 1945, conflicts have mushroomed throughout the world, ranging from civil wars to inter-state

armed conflicts. Although these conflicts may not be on a large scale as the two world wars, the

devastation and ruin caused by these conflicts have brought untold suffering to millions and peace

has remained a far cry. Such conflicts hamper peace and destroy societies, affect the vulnerable and,

most of the time, push the society into economic and social problems.

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THE DIGNIFIED ROADTO PEACE

Human dignity encompasses the spectrum of human

rights such as civil and political rights and economic,

social and cultural rights. It is the underlying notion on

which international human rights law is built.

Promotion and restoration of human dignity,

therefore, would mean the promotion and observance

of human rights. Human dignity and human rights are

the prime elements that get attacked when a society

is plagued with conflicts. Some conflicts involve hate

crimes against a group of people while others involve

forced displacement of people in general. Certain

conflicts results in persecution and eventually refugee

outflows into other states. The common thread

connecting all these atrocities is the fact that human

dignity is violated. In fact, conflicts are caused in the

first place due to violation of human rights and human

dignity such as discrimination, suppression of a

particular group, need for survival and the want for

identity. In order to achieve lasting peace, human

dignity in its widest terms must inform all peace

building processes.

In order to promote human dignity and human rights,

rule of law must inform state activities in post-conflict

societies. Rule of law could manifest in the form of

reparations and compensation for victims, restitution

or even the exposure of the truth so victims can find

healing and reconciliation. This is why truth

reconciliation commissions, criminal courts and

reparations programme are propagated in such

societies. Although this seems to be victim-oriented, it

would do well to remember that even the perpetrators

of violence and inhuman acts have to be accorded

basic human rights and human dignity since

reconciliation would be redundant without such

human rights being accorded to the accused and

treating the perpetrator as human. Furthermore, if the

supporters of the perpetrators during the conflict have

to be integrated with the rest of the population in a

post-conflict society, fair trial rights have to be

accorded to the perpetrators.

Human rights should also inform the rebuilding of

state institutions and structures. States have to ensure

that social and economic problems such as poverty

and lack of resources do not hinder reconciliation and

also do not trigger again such conflicts.

Peace building in post-conflict societies require the

observance and respect of human rights. Peace sought

without such respect may not be lasting. In fact, the

U.N., recognizing the importance of promoting human

dignity for achieving peace proposed the theme of the

International Peace Day of 2015 as “Partnerships for

Peace – Dignity for all”. The U.N. could not have

highlighted the link between human dignity and

peace at a better time owing to the number of

conflicts presently continuing in the world. If states

can build structures to ensure this connection

between human dignity and peace, the road to peace

would not be a distant dream.

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One of the highlights of the trip was the delegate´s ball

saturday night; after all the hard work of the past few

days it was great to do some dancing with all the

delegates.

After the previous late night, getting up the next

morning was rough but with the resolutions passed

and a lot of new friends made it was all worth it. It was

a great Model United Nations experience!

Kind regards,

Maxime Voorbraak

h.t. MUN Commissioner

Very early on 25th of February we set off to our second

Model United Nations adventure of this year,

AntwerpMUN. We went by car and left Utrecht at 7 in

the morning. Despite our early departure time we hit

traffic around Rotterdam and at the outskirts of

Antwerp, which unfortunately made us miss the

Opening Ceremony.

We did make it in time for lunch, so we were able to

enjoy some tasty sandwiches while meeting the other

delegates. After taking committee pictures it was time

for the first committee sessions. For all our

participating delegates it was the first time, but they

were off to a great start. The second day, our

diplomatic first- timers were speaking and negotiating

as if they had been doing MUN´s for years. They were

working overtime, making resolutions and convincing

other delegates over a cold beer at the socials. For one

of our delegates, Vidette Adjorlolo, this payed off in

particular. She won the award for Most

Distinguished Delegate, a great achievement which is

even more admirable since it was her first MUN.

THE ANTWERP MUNSHORT STUDY TR IP REPORT

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Starting with our President Elisabeth Beijnen, second yearBachelor student, Vice President Juliette Damen, also inher second year, Treasurer Anke Meijerink, Master studentPublic International Law and Secretary Else Meinders,Master student European Law. However, the real boss isWouter Stroeve, Board Member of URIOS andCommissioner of External Affairs. As we started inNovember with our first meetings, we quickly decided tostart approaching law firms, NGO’s and otherinternational institutions as soon as possible, and thatpaid off. Week after week we received several e-mails andphone calls of highly prominent lawyers, partners,entrepreneurs who all were very interested in attendingthe 17th. In the beginning, we expected around 10speakers for the Career Event, but we soon have had toadd more rooms, since we are now welcoming 16speakers, including the opening speech of the formerchair of Amnesty International Bart Stapert.

It all sounds quite interesting of course, but why shouldyou attend our Career Event? Well in the first place, it isthe best way to get orientated and prepare yourself foryour future career. Besides, a Career Event offers you thepossibility to boost your own application skills and torefine your resume. And perhaps you would like toarrange an internship and the best way to do that is tolearn more about the law firms in person, than just fromtheir websites. Therefore, law firm Brisdet offers anexclusive recruitment lunch since it is looking formotivated law students, adequate in the English andFrench language. However, there are several other lawfirms attending the 17th! Students interested in workingat a law firm can eat their heart out, since we offer 7workshops from law firms.

If you are interested in European law, Sarah Beeston(Partner at van Doorne) is specialized in Competition lawand she has worked at the European Commission. Hercolleague Arnout Stroeve (Partner at van Doorne) will givea workshop about European legal entities, cross-bordermergers and seat transfers. .

Allard Knook (Attorney at Pels Rijcken &Droogleever Fortuijn) gives a workshop about thedaily practice at his firm. Mrs Laura Parret(Partner at Houthoff Buruma) shares herexperience about working in a large law firm andEU & competition practice. Hans van Meerten(associate at Clifford Chance) will give aworkshop about EU regulations. And last, but notleast, Fanny-Marie Brisdet (Partner at Brisdet) isvery experienced in competition and financiallaw, but also French law. Students who areinterested in International law and politics havealso various workshops to choose about.Greenpeace campaigner Faiza Oulahsen willshare her experience of her impressive politicalcareer. Noortje van Rijssen (Ministry of ForeignAffairs) will discuss human rights cases. KatherineVersteegen (REBO Career Officer) will give aworkshop about a career in internationalhumanitarian law and the Red Cross. Wilco deJonge is the Director of Human Rights Policy atAmnesty and he will share his experiences withinvarious NGO’s. And last, but not least, AlexiaSolomou works at the International Court ofJustice as an associate legal officer and she willgive a workshop about working at the ICJ andpresent a case study.

Fortunately you do not have to choose betweenEuropean and International law, since the CareerEvent also offers workshops to improve your ownskills. Martijn Schreuder Goedheijt (Entrepreneurfor CrossOver) will give a workshop aboutpersonal leadership and recruiters ElisabethMatthes and Tessa van de Loo (Pels Rijcken) willgive you some practical tips for drafting yourresume and how to prepare your job interview.Paul Hendrix is a training and research fellow atthe Clingendael Institute and he will discuss theprojects carried out by the Clingendael Institute.We kick-off with coffee and tea before theopenings speech of Bart Stapert, but you can alsojoin the lunch between the rounds and the drinksafterwards, all for free! So sign up for the CareerEvent at www.careerevent.urios.org, where moreinformation about the workshops can be found.You can sign up per workshop, so you can chooseyour favourites. We hope to see you at the CareerEvent on Thursday the 17th of March!

ON THE 17TH OF MARCH, THE CAREER EVENT COMMITTEE WILL ORGANIZE THE ANNUALCAREER EVENT AND THIS YEAR IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN EVER BECAUSE OF URIOS' 35TH

ANNIVERSARY AND THE COLLABORATION WITH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PUBLICINTERNATIONAL LAW, MACHIKO KANETAKE. FIRSTLY AN INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMITTEE

MEMBERS, WHO ARE ORGANIZING THIS ALL FOR YOU!

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10 THINGS THATHAPPENED IN

1First of all: on January 1st, Greece becomes the 10th memberof the European Community. The European Community wouldlater evolve to be the European Union as we know it now. TheSchengen Agreement came in 1985 and in 1995 the EU wasformally established with the Maastricht Treaty.

3F IRST FL IGHT COLUMB IA SPACESHUTTLE

GREECE BECOMES EU MEMBER

On April 12th, the NASA space shuttle Columbia had its first flight, orbiting theearth. Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttlefleet. It is also the shuttle that made the longest journey on a mission, being 17days and almost 16 hours. Unfortunately, the shuttle crashed while returningfrom a mission in 2003.

5MAN CL IMBS SEARS TOWER

On May 25th, a 25-year-old stunt man dressed in a bright blue-and-orangeSpiderman outfit climbed the west face of the Sears Tower, the world's tallestbuilding back then. It took him more than seven hours and when he finallyreached the top he was immediately arrested, but it nevertheless was animpressive thing to do. He became a trendsetter for climbing buildings.

LAST GAME FC UTRECHT IN OLDSTAD IUMA Utrecht related happening: on May 22nd, FC Utrecht played their lastgame in the old stadium Galgenwaard. It was a very special day then, andmany of the FC Utrecht supporters broke down the stadium to take homesome ‘souvernirs’. The new stadium opened in 1982 and has been in useever since.

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2 YORKSH IRE R IPPER ARRESTED

Something different: Januari 4th, the infamous Yorkshire Ripper wasarrested. He is a serial killer that brutally killed at least 13 women, mostlyprostitutes. He was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of lifeimprisonment, and the High Court decided in 2010 that he would indeednever leave prison. If you are like me, a sucker for murder cases, it mightbe nice to look up his story online.

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By Judith Bel

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6 A IDS DISCOVERED

On the 5th of June, Michael Gottlieb described a new, mysterious disease:Aids. This was the first time that Aids was discussed in that sense. On the5th of June they actually described some strange cases of lung disease inpreviously healthy men, that indicated immunodefiency. Luckily, a lot ofresearch has been done since then and HIV is now a lifelong disease ratherthan a death sentence.

8 INDEPENDENCE BEL IZEThe last British Colony on the American Continent, Belize, was granted fullindependence on September 21st. Their neighboring country Guatemala,however, claimed much of the territory. The official language in Belize is stillEnglish; they’re actually the only country in Central America to have Englishas their official language.

10 DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT VO IDLast but not least: on an unknown date in 1981, the astronomer RobertKrishner discovered The Boötes void or the Great Void. (Sorry, anotherspace-related one, can you tell I’m a science nerd?). This is a region of spacewhere there are almost no galaxies; is is incredibly empty. For example: inthe milky way there are 4 million stars per cubic light year, in the Great Voidthere are 240. That’s quite different, isn’t it?

MART IAL LAW POLAND

On the 13th of december martial law was introduced in Poland. Thecommunist government did this, as is said, to crush the opposition. Theyjailed many opposition activists without charge. Martial law is usuallyapplied in emergency situations, when it is needed to put more power in thehands of the military. In Today's age, martial law is used in France sinceNovember 2015. This is due to the Paris attacks; the government wanted tohave access to more substantial ways to fight terrorism.

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7F IRST LONG -DISTANCESOLAR POWERED PLANE

The Challenger was the first solar powered plane of his kind thatwas able to fly long distances. On the 7th of July, it was able to fly262 km, from France to England. There were 16,128 solar cells onthe airplane’s wings, yielding a maximum solar power of 3,800watts. Technology has impoved even more since then: in 2015, asolar powered airplance flew 5,663 km in 80 hours! Let’s hope thatin the future even passenger airplanes will be that environmentallyfriendly.

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1 98 1 . . .

. . . CAN BE FOUND HERE ON TH IS PAGE . TH IS YEAR I STHE WONDERFUL B IRTH YEAR OF UR IOS , AND I T I S ALSOQUITE AN INTEREST ING YEAR IN HISTORY . THROUGHTH IS L I ST WE ’RE TRY ING TO LOOK BACK INTO OURYOUTH AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR B IRTHYEAR .SO HERE YOU GO : SOME FUN FACTS ABOUT TH INGSTHAT HAPPENED 35 YEARS AGO , WHEN YOU AND IWERE (PROBABLY ) NOT EVEN BORN YET .

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SYMPOSIUMDUTCH EU REFERENDUM

Meet Vidette Adjorlolo, member of the MUN Committee who iscurrently studying law in Utrecht as part of her Erasmus exchangeprogram. She heard about Urios during the orientation day for thenewly arrived international students. Apparently the board did agood job introducing the association, as Vidette immediatelydecided to join due to the range of services Urios provided. Shehad always been interested in Model United Nations, but back athome it was hard to find any time to gain some experience. Oncein Utrecht she decided to take the chance to join the MUNCommittee with both hands. Finally in February Videtteexperienced her very first MUN, which was in Antwerp (see thereport in p. 13). Surrounded by many more experienced delegateswith excellent skills, she nevertheless showed us how hard workcan pay off by winning the award for most distinguisheddelegate. This award has meant much more to her than peoplewould think, she says. “It marked an epiphany in my life and itmade me realize how passionate I am about diplomacy andhuman rights.” This being said, her ambition in life is working withhuman rights; possibly one day in the diplomacy field? As for herpersonal life, Vidette spends a lot of time singing and she enjoyswriting poems and blogging. “I love words and expressions.”

FEATURED INCURIOUS: VIDETTE ADJORLOLO

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