From the school blows about your declining birth rate? A 25,000 euros fine – REUTERS

The Groningen student group Vindicat has this summer, all prospective members will sign a contract in which they have to promise anything about the declining birth rate, to bring out, on penalty of a fine of 25,000 euros.

Also, the prospective members agree to Vindicat not be liable for damages. The contract (.pdf), that is in the possession of the NIS, is already three years on new members submitted. Several other student associations also have contracts, but who go to their to say far less.

The past few days came Vindicat two times in the news because of incidents with new members. A prospective member was during the declining birth rate, so hard his head struck that he with brain injury is admitted to the hospital, writes NRC Handelsblad today.

Last week, via the Groningen weblog Sikkom known that members of Vindicat a ‘bangalijst’ have spread, with names and phone numbers of 22 new female members. That are in the list, rated on their sexual performance using a star rating system.

Immediately payable penalty

In the contract, explain prospective members “no publicity will give it to his/her experiences with respect to the introduction time" in any medium. When the offense receives Vindicat "immediately payable penalty of € 25,000″.

According to rector Stijn Derksen of Vindicat does not mean that prospective members are not with the press are allowed to talk. "I understand that you read, for example, but I myself never limited felt."

According to the rector of the contract is mainly intended to prevent journalists undercover to a declining birth rate, join. However, he is considering for next year the wording to suit.

Approval of directors

That the student has on his head, is beaten, not with the media want to talk to, has, according to Derksen nothing to do with the contract. "We have been in conversation with the boy and his parents indicated that they free feel to report or with the press to talk to if they want to. They give themselves to the media to want to stay."

From a tour of studentencorpora shows that other associations and their new members much less extensive contracts to sign. Also at the Amsterdam Student Corps and the Leiden Minerva may, without the consent of the board, not with the press are spoken, but the associations say that they have no fines.

The Delft Student Corps says that only a fine is imposed on journalists who participate in a declining birth rate, not to participants who are working with journalists to talk to. The Wageningen Student Association Ceres has in his contract, nothing about talking with the press.