Home Bertha de Vriese, the university's youngest Home, is located on campus de Sterre. The rooms are studios, after all, a little more luxury and peace and quiet is allowed already ;) The fact that this is the Benjamin of homes does not stop our students from having a good time from time to time. The praesidium aims to make life at Home Bertha pleasant for the residents by offering various small activities. These can range from a quiz to a bar night or a start-to-run, a movie or series night or museum activity, a board game night or a pool or poker tournament, and so on. Every semester there is also invariably the Bertha party, which gets more famous among students every year and makes for night-to-remember (and a lot of hangovers) time and again. The praesidium also looks after the interests of the residents and acts as a means of communication between UGent and the students. The coat of arms has the colours of the rooms: salmon pink and green. The cat is there because - especially at sunset - there are more cats around the building than students in it. Furthermore, the cat can also be seen as a reference to the reputation of our parties. The two stars symbolise the two blocks located on campus de Sterre.