After the last few tumultuous years the association has started to steer a new course in collaboration with the academic institutes, the board says.‘We’ve started to make a cultural change and we’ve truly seen its effects. ‘We can’t go on like this’, thought the stammering brothers Hille (27) and RUG student Sjoerd Stellingwerf (23). The rowing club has The consternation concerning Aegir arose when local blog The accreditation committee, founded by the university, the Hanze University, and Vindicat last year was instated to do something about the hazing culture prevalent among student associations. People also wrote that I ‘could be had for a pack of cigarettes and a Smirnoff’. To that end, the RUG is introducing a voluntary code of conduct.By Peter Keizer / Translation by Sarah van SteenderenA 24-year-old member of student association Vindicat will be prosecuted for aggravated assault. But that was the day that the New York Times informed much of the world in a two-paragraph story that RUG philosophy professor and Dutch Jewish intellectual Leonard Polak was gone.Beadle Reinie Kesimaat has overseen hundreds of PhD ceremonies. While getting back into the swing of studies and work in the first weeks of 2017, the UK looks back at the top stories and videos of the past 12 months.Student associations that commit excesses during initiations will see part of their funding cut. The committee only elaborates on the media attention that the abuse led to. The academic year will begin on 3 September.Initially, the report was supposed to be published late this month, but the committee has not succeeded in this. A 24-year-old member of Groningen student association Vindicat will be prosecuted for aggravated assault during hazing, the Public prosecutor announced. ‘Inclusion and fun are the focus.’‘We do know that Vindicat and Albertus have made drastic changes to the plans for their upcoming introduction periods in the summer’, says Van Dijk. The municipality and SSH will join the committee, among others.The new activity week for foreign students will take place during the same week as the introduction week and initiation period for the student associations.
Those goals are stated in a memo from the Board of Directors to the University Council.Because their rooms through SSH are typically only available at the end of August, many foreign students do not come to the city before that time. The committee was founded in the late nineties after Reinout Pfeiffer, a first-year Vindicat member, died after being forced to drink a litre of gin. This activity week would take place after the KEI week.
Immediately afterwards, the Board of Directors announced that hazing in Groningen would be abolished. The commission informs the board of the university if they receive any such reports.Deekens says that the matter is now in the hands of the police.
‘We will therefore not be awarding them with accreditation’, says Accreditation Committee chair Martin Sitalsing.Vindicat became the talk of the town in 2016 after several violent incidents during the initiation period and their publication of a ‘bang list’ of female of association members that included pictures, telephone numbers, and degrading commentary.The RUG and the Hanze responded by creating the Accreditation Committee. We will not and cannot share email addresses or any other personal data provided by our subscribers with any third parties, nor will we use this information for any purposes other than providing the newsletter.
Vindicat made that deadline, chair Martin Sitalsing recently told the UK.After the committee finishes the report on Vindicat, it is Albertus Magnus’ turn.Vindicat had to submit a critical self-reflection to the accreditation committee by 1 March, and the student association met the deadline, says committee president Martin Sitalsing. The master, which turned ten last year, is the only one in the world that focuses on communicating with people who are deaf and blind.Treatment and years of speech therapy did not help. ‘This procedure is time-consuming, but we needed it to be able to apprehend the suspect and confront him with the medical information’, the OM says.The 24-year-old suspect was interrogated in March. These changes will be published in a timely manner on The Northern Times’ website.
They also claim that the programme that the student associations handed in with the supervisor does not represent what actually went on during the introduction camp in August. If the association shows improvement, they will be eligible for accreditation for the next academic year.The RUG and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences announced the news on Monday morning. Photographs were found in which young students were roughly pushed down onto a table by three men as part of a hazing ritual. is an English-language news site for internationals and anyone interested in news and activities in the three northern Dutch provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe.
On the day that the fraternity was informed that the universities would be Danique Vreeburg, a member of the board of Vindicat, told the newspaper that the members involved in the altercation are in good condition.
Interestingly enough, signing this code will not be mandatory.