Bolshy Bursar
ROGER BODEN, THE Bursar of Keble College, was confronted by a packed JCR last week regarding what students have seen as a heavy-handed approach to vehicle access to college at the beginning and end of term.
The Bursar came under fire following an email he sent out last term, in which students were curtly informed that if cars remained within college for longer than the hour allowed for unloading, the offending undergraduate would be fined £20. If cars remained for more than two hours, the guilty student would be permanently denied vehicle access, a penalty that two students incurred when leaving college last term. Access has additionally been limited to a single day.
Reacting to the Bursar's heavy-handed posturing, the JCR summoned Boden to Sunday's meeting. The Bursar defended his attempts to "stop the college looking like a parking lot" but refused to budge from his compromise position, which was to offer a single hour of access on four other days in 0th Week, rejecting alternatives proposed by students. Speaking to The OxStu, he said he felt that the meeting was "an exercise in democracy at work."
Chris Tod, JCR President, told OxStu: "We came to a compromise, which is not ideal, but is better than the situation we were in previously."
6th Feb 2003