JCR Rents
Balliol JCR obtained significant concessions from college authorities over proposed rent increases last week.
The Bursars planned to introduce an overall increase of 50 per cent by 2008/9. However, following JCR negotiations with the Governing Body, the committee agreed not to make a decision on the increase until a working party consisting of JCR, MCR and SCR members had investigated alternative sources of revenue or other savings.
JCR President Adam Turnball told the OxStu: "This result is tremendously pleasing. We put our worries to the College and they responded by agreeing that our concerns were not frivolous."
However he did express concern that many Oxford bursars were not being open with students. He said, "If there is some particular reason motivating the recommendations of the Estates and Bursars Committee that subsidies to rents be phased out, then the rationale should be subjected to scrutiny; if there is not, then its findings are surely arbitrary and illegitimate. Students simply stand to lose too much by these proposals to accept flimsy justifications."
12th Jun 2003