LBG Rome

Once upon a time... there were two twins, Romulus and Remus, who drinking milk from a she-wolf, fighting (or rather, killing) each other and kidnapping women from the neighborhood, founded Rome, caput mundi (master of the world), and we all know how the all story was...
But do you, or do you not know, that after Roman Empire, the greatest achievement of Modern Age was the foundation of BEST Roma? Don't you? So, let's go a bit through it!!!

It was February 8th 1994: no twins this time, and no murders, but 8 brave boys looking for European girls to kidnap; they were: Franco Petrucci, Alfredo Gentili, Fabio Grossi Gondi, Luca Perugini, Fabrizio Romano, Andrea Masini, Fabrizio Monteleone, Rocco Laraia, our founder fathers.

Then came GA 1994 in Turin: in the same event BEST Roma became full member, and Michelangelo Calabresi, one of our guys, was elected President of the 7th Board of BEST.

After that, we run from success to success, always grounding on traditional good values: pasta and Italian culture.
A great exemple of how we apply those values is Winter course 2005: Speak as you eat! - A tasty introduction to EATalian language. It seems that all Europe appreciated: we received 762 applications!!!What a record!

During our history we have nursed LBG Tor Vergata and LBG Naples, and we have got 5 Boardies:

Michelangelo Calabresi, President of 7th Board
Alfredo Loreto, Treasurer of 8th Board
Andrea Casamassima, Minerva Coordinator of 13th Board
Carlo Spellucci, Treasurer of 14th Board
Giulio D'Aversa, VP for Local Group Support of 20th Board

Every year, we use to organize a Cultural Exchange or a LBG Exchange, besides a Spring course.

There is also a funny story about internal events: we proposed ourselves as candidate to organize GA 2001; we didn't success because after 3 voting rounds ended in a draw, a coin was tossed, electing Ljubljana.
As it usually is for the greatest cultures, we had our Midlle Age period: during 2004/05 BEST Rome almost died, because of a lack of members, but then a bright Renaissance came and now we are growing bigger and bigger, both in mumber of members and in new ideas. We are more or less 20 active members, but most of all we are a group of friends, and we are proud of it! We rely on cooperation between members and with other LBGs.
From this point of view, one of our biggest ongoing projects is iBEC, this year in its 2nd edition; in 2008 we hosted the final round and our Team won the competition, making us even prouder.

We have many traditions. For exemple we use to hand down strange objects for every charge in our Board of Administration: an axe for Presidents, a bottle for PR Responsibles, madness for Secretaries and so on.
We also act like a family: we have a mum, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts and nephews, but you can't immagine how complicated are the relationships between them!
To join BEST Roma is very easy: you just have to find a family relationship, and then undergo a baptism, that consists of several secret test, involving beer, imbutos, underwear...

Our office is a touristic attraction for foreign friends visiting us: it is a glass cube in a corridor in Engineering Faculty, and that's why we call it Gabbiotto (funny cage). It can host up to 2 people sitting on a chair, but we filled it with 27 people just to establish a record!

Last but not least, we have a mascot: Colossus, gift from Stockholm.
He is a truly Roman gladiator, who will protect and favour BEST Roma for the time being, giving us more and more events, fun, happiness and prosperity.