in an altruistic gesture, within the scope of the practices, freshmen and veterans of ESTIG from IPBeja offered liquid and food products to firefighters. Initiative organizers do not talk about the action.
“Drilling” those that are the traditional practices, with eggs, flour, push-ups or shouting, about two dozen freshmen and seniors from the Higher School of Technology and Management (evening) the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja), offered to the Volunteer Firefighters of Beja (BVBeja), half liter and half liter water packs, and non-perishable foodstuffs, like pasta, cans and cookies.
Pedro Barahona, BVBeja commander, justified that “within the practices there is also the solidarity aspect. It is a beautiful gesture and an important action that we gratefully receive.”, concluded. On social media, the corporation recorded the action with photographs and thanked the gesture, wishing “the new animals and veterans of ESTIG the greatest success for the future”.
Lidador NotĂcias contacted IPBeja's Communication and Image Office for an interview with those responsible for ESTIG for organizing the action, it was said that “are not available to speak”.
It is recalled that the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education appealed to higher education students and leaders to start the new academic year with “an inclusive academic environment, inspiring and safe”, repudiating the practices. Elvira Fortunato said that “support for alternative activities to academic practices” and more social support measures for students will be announced..
Initiative of ESTIG em 2008 (publicized in the media)
More than a hundred freshmen accompanied by senior students planted eight trees next to the student residence, located next to the Escola Superior Agrária. After planting trees, this year's calories, equipped with gloves, plastic masks and bags, cleaned the municipal forest of Beja.
“It is an example of the constructive spirit of the practices of the IPB, what, far from humiliating new students, always seek to have a civic component and insert freshmen into academic life and in the city”, said at the time CĂ©sar Correia, of the Student Association of ESTIG.
“The practices at the IPB aim to stimulate cooperation and fraternity between freshmen and veterans”, said CĂ©sar Correia, stressing that “students are only trained if they want to”.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
