{"id":80956,"date":"2017-10-11T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=80956"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:52","slug":"many-new-members-for-mixed-rscrvsv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/10\/11\/many-new-members-for-mixed-rscrvsv\/","title":{"rendered":"Many new members for mixed RSC\/RVSV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First-year members of RSC-RVSV at the opening of the academic year.<\/span><\/p>

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Most of the Rotterdam student associations have seen a slight fall in the number of new members. RSC\/RVSV is the only association to have attracted many more new members than the total who joined the two segregated fraternities last year. This is thanks to the merger, says the fraternity.<\/p>\n

After the government abolished the basic student grant and Erasmus University introduced the \u2018nominal is normal\u2019 regulation, the associations were concerned about a possible decline in their memberships. This has not yet materialised: there has been a very slight fall in the number of members, but due to the big increase at RSC\/RVSV, the total number of members of fraternities in Rotterdam has risen by 2 percent.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve had a record number of registrations, says Nathalie Morales Campo, vice-president elect of RSC\/RVSV. \u201cOur goal was at least 300 members.\u201d That was the average intake (130 women, 170 men) per year in the fraternities in previous years. This year, we have 343 (160 women, 183 men). This is the first mixed year since the merger. \u201cWe feel that this has added to the appeal of our association,\u201d Morales Campo explains.<\/p>\n

The vice-preses of the Rotterdam Student Fraternity (Rotterdamsch Studenten Gezelschap (RSG)), Maud van den Eijnden, is delighted with their 114 new members: \u201cA great number.\u201d Navigators Student Association Rotterdam (NSR) has 81 new members this year. \u201cThis is the maximum number we could take this year in terms of capacity,\u201d says preses Peter Jos Lock. The merger between the RSC and the RVSV hasn\u2019t affected Laurentius as yet. The association is happy with its 195 new members, ten fewer than last year.<\/p>\n