The Roosevelt Group
The Roosevelt Group is a society at the prestigious University of St Andrews[1].
The club was founded by Laurent Bélanger-Lowe and serves three external sources: Events, Publications, and charity. In these ways it acts in a similar fashion to The Lafayette Club.[2] and The Carnegie Club[3]. In October 2019 they held their first public event, The Future of Energy which was a panel discussion between Ian Funnell, UK Managing Director of Fortune 500 company ABB Ltd, Iain Todd, former renewable energy engineer and current PhD candidate, and Robin Höher, member of the World Energy Council[4][5][6]. This inaugural event was put on in collaboration with the school's Sustainable Development Society and Environmental Subcommittee[7] and led by Roosevelt's Director of Events Dain Rohtla[8]. They also held a private dinner event to raise money, The Teddy Roosevelt Dinner, a dinner of 150 students to raise money and awareness for conservation which has been a theme throughout the year.[9]
The group publishes articles in two formats, quick-takes and the semesterly journal New Annales[10]. Quick Takes are ~700 word articles written by their members, associates, and ambassadors and topics largely deal with climate change. New Annales, the only publication of its kind, has a theme each semester.
Name
Roosevelt takes its name from the Roosevelt clan: Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor. Franklin and Eleanor were a dynamic duo whose democratic policy aided the less advantaged and is something the eponymous group aims to do[11]. Theodore's conservation efforts have inspired their climate change writing in addition to their Teddy Roosevelt Dinner.
St Andrews Social Scene
Social clubs at St Andrews are frequently called elitist yet serve an important function of bringing people together such as The Kensington Club which lacks at St Andrews due to having no Greek life. Similarly, none of these clubs are technically affiliated with the University which is typical for British dining clubs like Bullingdon Club and Piers Gaveston Society. Clubs have faced criticism, such as ousting the apparent £100,000 NDAs one club makes members sign[12]. Even The Sunday Times has documented the clubs[13]
Clubs like Roosevelt, Lafayette, and Carnegie have escaped criticism. Some clubs at St Andrews are some of the most successful in the UK if not the world. Don't Walk Charity Fashion Show, a student run show, earned over £150,000 in 2018[14]. Welly Ball is a black tie and welly party in St Andrews that welcomes 2,000 guests and raised £27,000 in 2017 alone.
International Reach
St Andrews boasts an international student rate of 40%[15] and Roosevelt Group capitalises on this unique internationalism. They are currently expanding to Ambassadors from other elite universities[16].
References
- ↑ "University League Tables 2020". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Lafayette Club". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Carnegie Club". The Carnegie Club. 22/12/19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ "Recap: The Future of Energy". The Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Horne, Lyle. "Green Week 2019". standrewsyear. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "St Andrews Sustainable Development Society". Facebook. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Future of Energy". Facebook. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Our People". The Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Launch". The Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Publications". The Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Our Name". Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Davies, Georgia. "Inside St Andrews' secret Societies where you have to pay £100,000 if you tell anyone about it". The Tab. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mararike, Shingi. "Revealed: secret drinking rituals shame St Andrews University". The Sunday Times. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Charity Details". OSCR. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Undergraduate Prospectus" (PDF). University of St Andrews. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Our People". The Roosevelt Group. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)
This article "The Roosevelt Group" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:The Roosevelt Group. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
