{"id":2381,"date":"2016-09-28T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/09\/28\/aspirant-lid-groningse-vindicat-in-ziekenhuis-na-ontgroening\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:09","slug":"aspirant-lid-groningse-vindicat-in-ziekenhuis-na-ontgroening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2016\/09\/28\/aspirant-lid-groningse-vindicat-in-ziekenhuis-na-ontgroening\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective member of Groningen student society hospitalised after hazing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Student association Vindicat on the Grote Markt in Groningen.<\/span><\/p>

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A prospective member of Groningen student society Vindicat was beaten so hard during a hazing incident that took place last month that he had to be hospitalised due to a head injury.<\/p>\n

Parties involved in the incident told NRC Handelsblad<\/em> that\u00a0the student suffered a cerebral oedema<\/a>, which is a dangerous swelling of the brain due to an accumulation of fluid. It is not yet known whether the male student has suffered permanent brain damage.<\/p>\n

Suspension<\/h3>

Vindicat President Stijn Derksen regrets the incident, he told NRC Handelsblad <\/em>the day before yesterday. The student society is still trying to determine what happened exactly. The six senior students involved in the incident were suspended during freshers\u2019 week.<\/p>\n

Vindicat also attracted some negative headlines last week because society members had disseminated a so-called \u201cslut list\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in which 23 female first-year students, whose names and photos were included, had their skills in the sack marked.<\/p>\n

Groningen University does not consider the incidents a ground for severing its ties with the student society. A university spokesperson told NRC Handelsblad<\/em> that it was an \u201cinternal affair for Vindicat student society. They will have to deal with and resolve this situation themselves.\u201d The university does not intend to report the incident to the police either. It is up to the victim himself to do so.<\/p>\n

In Groningen University\u2019s newspaper, three academic staff members who are on the University Council called on<\/a>\u00a0students not to join student societies that have hazing rituals, calling it \u201ca perverse mechanism that does not belong at a university, or anywhere else for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

More Vindicat-trouble<\/h2>