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Bart Verschaeren, who has been living in Dijkgraaf for two years, says that if he does not see somebody for a week, he makes remarks about it to others. ‘I have always done that, but with the current events I will do that more than ever.’ Another Dijkgraaf resident, Jan de Koeijer, reports that he also has a corridor mate that he rarely sees (a phenomenon often referred to by students as a “corridor ghost”). He says that his corridor mates now try to look out for this person a little more.
Four days after a dead body was discovered in a student room in Dijkgraaf, long-term tenant Annelies tells that this event is also a hot topic on her corridor. It affects her when she sees people making careless jokes about it on social media. ‘It is a terrible thing that happened. Of course our thoughts are with close friends and relatives.’ She tells that she lives in a social and active corridor, but that even there it happens that some house mates are not seen for weeks.
Tu, a PhD candidate in Animal Sciences, had moved into the building on the 15th of October and witnessed the transport of the body the next day. She was shocked that something like this could happen. Other tenants were a more indifferent about it, Tu noticed. People told her that every year there are a few cases of death in Wageningen student houses.
Many residents in Dijkgraaf told Resource that the death of a fellow flatmate didn’t stay a hotly debated topic for long. For those who had been out of town during the study week, the news was merely a rumour. They hadn’t heard many details and said there was not much gossip or people trying to find out more about the identity of the deceased.
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