{"id":89526,"date":"2018-09-11T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=89526"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:05","slug":"bilnaad-adje-afgeschaft-de-tijden-veranderen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/09\/11\/bilnaad-adje-afgeschaft-de-tijden-veranderen\/","title":{"rendered":"Last call for \u2018arsecrack ad fundum\u2019: things have changed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In some Minerva debating societies and student houses, first-year students are required to swig jenever<\/em> (Dutch gin) when they show up too late at a social. And occasionally they\u2019re even expected to down a bilnaad-adje<\/em>: gin poured along another member\u2019s arsecrack.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the examples extracted<\/a> by NRC Handelsblad <\/em>from a recent study into Minerva\u2019s association culture. Another excess to make the papers is that some year clubs force first-year students to run stark naked through their society hall.<\/p>\n

The Minerva board wants to break free from this culture, according to an internal email sent out to its members. That\u2019s why they advocate redrafting the association\u2019s \u2018corps byelaws\u2019. The Leiden fraternity\/sorority isn\u2019t the first association to commit to some serious introspection. Some corps<\/em> associations have actually been forced to do so by the administrators of universities or universities of applied sciences.<\/p>\n

Hierarchy<\/h2>