The
Groninger Studenten Corps Vindicat atque Polit (
Latin for
Maintain and Refine) is the oldest
Dutch student association and was founded on February the 4th, 1815 as a reaction to attacks on students from local citizens. The first rector of the senate was B.J. Winter. Nowadays Vindicat is the largest student organization in
Groningen, a city in the North of The Netherlands, with nearly 2500 members.