“I did everything to meet your expectations in terms of mobbing and discrimination; I solved many very difficult cases. It cost us all a lot of effort. But I am proud of us! We have anti-mobbing procedures. I appointed ethics spokesmen. who could use their ‘position’ with impunity to ‘train’, and often even ‘humiliate’ their younger colleagues, ‘Segda wrote in a statement posted on the university’s website. She added that calling this phenomenon a tradition is, in her opinion, a misunderstanding:
Is “Wave” in the army a tradition or a crime? My personal memories from the first year of college related to this practice are traumatic. And I know many worse cases than mine …
Segda emphasized that the decision taken and implemented to ban the “fuchsia” is “a symbolic moment of transition to the light side of the Force” and that the tradition of the university should be admitting colleagues to studies, and then to the theater in friendship and cordiality. This message was warmly received by the Theater Academy. Aleksander Zelwerowicz in Warsaw – on social media they congratulated their Krakow colleagues and added: “We have not had this ‘tradition’ for a year now and we assure you – it’s great!”.
What is fuchsia?
Fuksówka is an initiation ritual, a kind of ritual that in the first weeks of each academic year, students of the first year of drama schools went through for many years. They often had to deal with humiliating tasks, and the university authorities turned a blind eye to these actions. In 2007, a student of the puppetry department in Białystok, who, as part of among others, he was deprived of sleep by his colleagues, he crashed in a car. Although some people still underestimate the importance of the fuchsia coin, considering it a harmless tradition, more and more often it is about its negative effects.
In one of the interviews, Joanna Pierzak mentioned that she paid for her “fluke” with her health. Krzysztof Zarzecki, who graduated from the PWST in Krakow, he spoke “Dwutygodnik”:
It works like a wave in the military, it is a source of violence. I gave up on mine after three minutes, when my older colleagues told me to stand at attention. During the fluke school, the elders order the younger ones to do something, the professors all the time order everyone and use their position. The school designs such situations, and then we are surprised that the theater is not very democratic.
– The whole thing is that you start your studies and are the so-called zero-year fluke for older students, so you have no rights as a student. You have responsibilities for that. For example, for a month you had to wear a large bright cardboard around your neck on a string with personal information. In addition, there was probably even some idiotic outfit that was also worn around the city. It seems to me that it is also bright – the actor Michał Czernecki told about “fuksówka” in the interview – “I have chosen life” by Monika Sobień.
