Photos unleash debate hazing – Dagblad van het Noorden

The board of the University of Groningen look at the pictures of hazing at Vindicat and Albertus no reason to call the student associations on the mat.

The University of Groningen newspaper UK they published this week photos are from almanacs of associations. Bart Beijer of staff fraction of the University describes them as “images of abuse.

Prospective members

It shows include how prospective members printed by older students with the head on the table, get a golf club against their throats, are showered with beer, wooden sticks in their mouths.

According to vice-president Wieke Stolwijk Albertus Magnus, the pictures are not representative for the launch time of the student. For example, a photograph of a student flat against the ground is pushed by a senior example is him taken during a play.

,, The almanac is designed for internal use. Our members laugh at those photos because they know what happened. To the outside world they give a distorted picture. We regret that they are so to come out. ”

What in the hazing all happens remains secret. ,, We are a private club, ” Stolwijk said.

The staff group believes that hazing practices damage the reputation of the university. The University would no fairs should provide longer directors of associations rag in this way.

Autonomous associations

Executive Board of the University are the pictures no reason to speak to organizations in the hazing practices. ,, They are independent, autonomous organizations, ” said board member Jan de Jeu yesterday at the university. ,, If there is a need we deal with them in conversation, but for that we have not heard any response or seen. ”

Both Vindicat as Albertus announced that the launch now, unlike previously, severely satisfies rules. So get prospective members no alcohol is drunk at least six hours of sleep, and there would be no physical contact between senior and aspiring members. ,, The latter is at variance with what is seen on the pictures, ” says Beijer.

The UK took the pictures Wednesday temporarily from the website by Vindicat protest against the publication. After legal advice leaving the university newspaper the pictures back again on Thursday.

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