News in Brief
Ex-convict and convert Jonathan Aitken will be speaking at the Theology Society this Thursday at 8.30 in the Roy Griffiths Room, Keble.
The former Tory MP is now studying Theology at Wycliffe Hall after his conversion while imprisoned for perjury. He will relate his experiences in power and in prison to his beliefs in God.
Free food and wine will be available at the event; the Society hope that it will attract an audience interested in theology and politics.
The University Police are asking for anyone who was in either Little Clarendon Street or Mansfield Road at around 2pm on Saturday 19 January to help them with enquiries after a Japanese student was tricked into handing over money to strangers.
A female student was walking along Mansfield Road when she was approached by what appeared to be an Irish family in a car. They explained that they required money in order to get their two young children back to London, and enticed the student into the car after she agreed to give them a loan. She was driven to a cash point in Little Clarendon Street, where she withdrew £350 and gave them her address to send the repayment to. The student was provided with a false London address as security.
Anyone who has any information should contact the University Police on (2)77223 or the Security Service Control room on (2)72944.
Trinity JCR passed a motion on Sunday evening condemning any JCR member who 'reveals details of the private lives of any present or prospective JCR member to the press.'
The motion, which was proposed by Graham Webber, was hoped to address the large amounts of attention focused on celebrity students such as Chelsea Clinton and in anticipation of the arrival of the Prime Minister's son, Euan Blair, at Trinity next Michaelmas term.
Webber said that "the JCR takes a low view of those who gossip about other members of the college to the press" and remains hopeful that the motion will enable all members of the college to be free of press harrassment.
24th Jan 2002