Pride rather than party is on the agenda of this year’s FNB Eastern Cape Inter-Varsity sporting activities.
Rhodes students, or self-titled "rhodents", have previously taken this multi-university event as an invitation to don their purple overalls, drink and party.
Last year the Students Representative Council (SRC) made attempts to change this perception.
Marc Lecwidi, SRC project manager referred to these attempts as the “Rhodent Pride Renaissance”.
The aim was to associate wearing their overalls with “Rhodent pride – being proud of the university, not partying and drinking”.
This year, they launched “Purple Thursdays”, says Lecwidi, which is about resurrecting this pride. “We understand that Inter-Varsity is about having fun and we don’t want to take that away from the students,” he says.
Inter-Varsity is nigh and will take place over the weekend of 13 and 14 August. It’s a sporting event, from rugby to chess, which includes Rhodes University, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Walter Sisulu University and Fort Hare University.
This year, it’s going to be hosted by the latter.
Lecwidi says “It’s about sports and bringing the different universities together.”
He is optimistic that Rhodes students will “bring varsity back into Inter-Varsity”.
Pride rather than party is on the agenda of this year’s FNB Eastern Cape Inter-Varsity sporting activities.
Rhodes students, or self-titled "rhodents", have previously taken this multi-university event as an invitation to don their purple overalls, drink and party.
Last year the Students Representative Council (SRC) made attempts to change this perception.
Marc Lecwidi, SRC project manager referred to these attempts as the “Rhodent Pride Renaissance”.
The aim was to associate wearing their overalls with “Rhodent pride – being proud of the university, not partying and drinking”.
This year, they launched “Purple Thursdays”, says Lecwidi, which is about resurrecting this pride. “We understand that Inter-Varsity is about having fun and we don’t want to take that away from the students,” he says.
Inter-Varsity is nigh and will take place over the weekend of 13 and 14 August. It’s a sporting event, from rugby to chess, which includes Rhodes University, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Walter Sisulu University and Fort Hare University.
This year, it’s going to be hosted by the latter.
Lecwidi says “It’s about sports and bringing the different universities together.”
He is optimistic that Rhodes students will “bring varsity back into Inter-Varsity”.
