The Senate declares war on university novatadas
The novatadas arrive at the Senate to discuss a motion that aims to end that practice in which veteran students submit rookies to jokes, often vexatious, and that are made at the beginning of the course.The first serious incidents have already occurred, when only a few days ago a student was admitted to a hospital after having ingested a lot of alcohol and being diabetic.
Threatening with battery tweezers, drinking an entire bottle of alcohol or subjecting future university students to all kinds of humiliations.Fernando Torres Pérez, former director of a major school, acknowledges that university students "have a hard time denouncing these practices because for everyone it would be to put the chivato poster."
These are very widespread practices that the Senate wants to stop.In the words of Luis Aznar Fernández, of the Popular Senate Group, the ride "has less and less funny, festive and integrative and more and more habit of harassment and abuse."
Psychological aid, protection of victims and police support, although sometimes the presence of agents is not enough to prevent this type of acts.Loreto González, a member of the Association no more newbirds, explains that "in some countries people who are witnesses, who do not act and consent to abuse, are considered accomplices."
Of the 160 major schools in Spain, 125 signed a manifesto requesting the eradication of the newbad.José Ignacio Bielsa, university, affirms that there is some "passivity in universities with the hazing."
Habits that in Salamanca ended with a young man admitted to the emergency room, being diabetic suffered a severe drop in blood sugar after ingesting a large amount of alcohol.