“It was a tumor and it was right here.” When 45,000 students at Ghent University kick off the new academic year on Monday, Rik van de Walle will be counting again. His seventh year as rector. And the seventeenth since he last relapsed from his illness. “I have lost my rock-solid belief that this is a turning page.”
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INTERVIEW. Rector Rik Van de Walle: “I relapsed twice. That time thirteen years later: that was the toughest”
