All male students' club at Teacher Training College Groenewoud
To make the Teacher Training College more attractive for male students, is the goal of the All Male Student’s club Groenwoud, which has just been set up. As already known, less and less male students study at the Teacher Training College. ‘When teachers have such a wonderful profession,’ Luc Raket, initiator, finds.
Attractive
Luc looked for some kindred spirits during the introduction, put them together and founded the debating society. Gradually, it became a serious action of a group of people who wanted to make the Teacher Training College more attractive for male students. ‘I am very proud and enthusiastic’, Luc says. And he is not alone; after a debate with the board of directors they received much support. The male club is of course for male students of the Teacher Training College only. The club has already twenty-five members.
A starting club
A student’s club, isn’t that a closed group of people within a students’ union? Luc: ‘Yes, that’s true, but we don’t take it too seriously. It sounds better than a society or union.’ The club is still at the start. Promotion, preservation and solidarity are aims. This can be worked out by arising promotion amongst potential male students and developing activities, by which the present students will be kept. The solidarity displays itself afterwards in the pubs.
Brainstorming-group
In short, a brainstorming-group with a lot of nice ideas and activities. ‘We could organize debate-afternoons about what we would like to change at the Teacher Training College, in order to make this College more attractive for men.’
Names
The committee consists of six men. Ruby de Haan is not on the photograph. The others are, clockwise from the man with glasses: Thijs Zwart, Luc Janssen, Sjoerd de Valk, Jeroen v.d. Berg en Luc Raket.
