Larissa: They don’t give him a degree for 150 euros – A senior student from Pelion is being held hostage due to debt in the student residence

No degree is in danger of remaining a final year student of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Thessaly, as according to what he claims, he has a debt of 150 euros in the Larissa student residence.

His adventure was made known by the student Lavrentis Kourelas himself, who sent a letter of protest to the Rector of the University of Thessaly.

According to the newspaper “Postman” of Volos in which the student from Zagora Pelion spoke during his studies, he stayed in the hostel, where the rent is 150 euros a year for a double room and 400 for a single.

In his letter to the rector, he states: “with all due respect, I ask you, Mr. Rector, why you, who as you claim to be next to the students practicing “social policy”, allow the existence of this unacceptable term, which in fact constitutes a nationwide negative originality.

I ask you, Mr. Rector, do you not know that Msoverwhelming majority of students residing in the outdated residences of P.Th., resides there because he has no other choice due to low to zero income.

I am asking you Mr. Rector, how do you think you will deal with the hundreds of cases that will arise like mine in the future, especially in a condition like the current one where things are even more difficult for families like mine.

I ask you Mr. Rector, what do you intend to do even more “special categories – vulnerable groups” students who are in an even more dire situation as they are either protective families like me, or the people in their family circle are in a helpless situation, like me who had the misfortune to pay both these dramatic conditions as well as I lost my father during my studies and my mother has been hospitalized for months in a very difficult condition with the possibility of disability for the rest of her life after laborious work in her field.

I am sure Mr. Rector that your institutional position as Rector in one of the largest institutions in the country and also your social experience is not very well known that no student, no parent would choose to live in the residences of the University of Thessaly if they could do otherwise .

No student he would not choose not to pay any debts if he could do otherwise but we cannot.

That is why I consistently fought throughout my years of studies for the focus students to have rights, I joined this struggle together with dozens of others, through the organized structures of the focus students or as the president of the Board of Directors of the focus students’ association either as a member of the administration of the student association, in any capacity.

And first of all with my capacity as a person who fights to live with dignity, who fights for his studies and his life. Because you know and I know well that neither you would be a rector nor I a student if these institutions had not been built through the taxation of Greek citizens among my parents and thousands of other people.

That is why I am asking for this humiliating provision to be abolished in practice by proving in practice that your “social policy” as you say really has a goal and content, that is, it is not empty chatter, of which they have had enough. My decision to address you and the possibility of publicizing my problem to the society of Larissa concerns my own direct rights in the labor market as well as those of all those who follow in their or similar positions. I await your immediate reply.

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