The UMU and the UPCT have no complaints or claims, although the parties have returned after the restriction courses
The pandemic and the associated restrictions have curbed hazing at the two public universities in the Region, the UMU and the UPCT, which for at least three courses have not received any complaint or complaint associated with these practices. “Since the pandemic I have not received a single complaint. Before, we did process some, but social distancing, added to the campaigns against hazing that we have developed in recent years, have tackled the issue, ”says the UMU University Ombudsman, Juan José Vera. The same feeling is shared by the Vice-Rector for Students, Alicia Rubio. «They are strictly prohibited by our rules of coexistence, and it is very strict in the application. Another thing is that outside the campus parties are held, but that is beyond our control, “says the vice-rector.
At the Polytechnic of Cartagena, Rectorate sources agree that hazing “does not pose a problem nor have they generated complaints in recent years.”
However, the end of the sanitary limitations has meant the return of the rookie parties, which are not held on campus, but which bring together the first-year students with the ‘veterans’. «Of those yes there are; They started last year and continue. Another thing is that they are soft and the thing is that the new ones dress as ‘chicken’ and things like that, ”Miguel and José, Economics students, admitted yesterday at the end of class on the Espinardo campus. With them, other students agreed with them and made an appointment for the welcome parties that are celebrated this week and the next. Nothing to do, they insisted, with the events that occurred in Madrid, where the Prosecutor’s Office will investigate whether the shouts and sexist insults uttered by residents of the Elías Ahuja Residence Hall in the capital against students from another center constitute a hate crime.
The Colegio Mayor Azarbe de Murcia has been practicing ‘zero tolerance’ with this type of behavior for years
In the only college of the UMU, the Azarbe, mixed, there have been no incidents in recent years. The university residence displays the practice of “zero tolerance” for hazing. Not even the typical gesture of freshmen having to tell veterans about you is allowed. According to data from the rector of the UMU, José Luján, there have been no complaints or complaints for years.
The person in charge of Sustainability of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), Manuel Pérez, who participated yesterday in Murcia in the presentation of the second edition of ODSesiones, yesterday condemned events such as the one that occurred in Madrid: «There are other ways of integrating to new students. Hazing always involves mistreatment and harassment, values that cannot be integrated into the university spirit,” Pérez claimed.
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