{"id":166417,"date":"2024-04-11T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=166417"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T13:32:41","slug":"stuur-members-asked-to-leave-theil-building-during-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/04\/11\/stuur-members-asked-to-leave-theil-building-during-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"STUUR members asked to leave Theil building during protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two board members of the Rotterdam student union STUUR were sent away from the Theil building on Wednesday 3 April. They were protesting in the hall against the reduction of the basic grant. They were sent away because they were not given permission for an action.<\/p>\n

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Two board members of STUUR, Martino (left) and Jasper, after being sent away from the Theil building.<\/span><\/p>

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Together with fellow board member, STUUR president Jasper Schut stood in the Theil building with a banner on Wednesday afternoon, 3 April. The banner featured a graph on the rise in students\u2019 living costs versus the reduction in the basic grant. The union is not satisfied with the current basic scholarship and wanted to draw attention to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut within ten minutes the security guards were already approaching us,\u201d Schut says. They were kindly asked to leave the building. \u201cOtherwise they were going to call the police. We didn\u2019t want to make a fuss about it, so we obediently left the building,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Request rejected<\/h2>

According to a university spokesperson, STUUR had submitted a request, but it had been rejected. \u201cFor this kind of meeting, an official location has to be booked. The request for this can only be submitted by an internal organisation from within the EUR,\u201d the spokesperson says. So as an external organisation, STUUR does not meet the requirements.<\/p>\n

The EUR then suggested organising the protest just outside the campus grounds. \u201cThere they would have had a lot of reach, both from Erasmus and Hogeschool students,\u201d says the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Schut knew the application had been rejected. According to him, the university is referring to permission for meetings or events and not protests. \u201cMy understanding is that you don\u2019t need permission for a protest. We had submitted a request, just to inform that we were going to hold an action,\u201d he says. He decided to stage a protest after the rejection anyway. \u201cWe wanted to go and see if it worked out. Unfortunately, it was not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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