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Image description: Jessica Searle, Merton Gender Equality rep Jessica Searle is a 2nd year Mertonian studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She was voted Gender Equality Representative by the JCR, a role made especially interesting by Merton celebrating 40 years since women were introduced into the college. Speaking to Jessica about what her role includes and […]
Continue ReadingImage Credit: Matt Brown Merton JCR is currently riven with division over the potential proposal to introduce vegetarian Wednesdays in hall. The “Veggie Wednesday” scheme was approved by the college MCR on 30th October, with the JCR Environment Rep then approached to see if undergraduates would consider a vote on the same motion. Conflict immediately […]
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Image Credit: Alex Kumar Today at 5pm, a number of homeless people are set to be evicted from a site owned by Merton College, Oxford. The field, which is claimed to be overgrown and unused, has been a place several homeless people have been using as a place to sleep. A photo of the sign […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Irene Tracey, head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, has been chosen as Merton’s new warden, the college has announced. Professor Tracey will be Merton’s second female warden after Dame Jessica Rawson, who held the position from 1994 until 2010. She will succeed Sir Martin Taylor in September 2018. An alumna of the […]
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Oriel JCR will henceforth refer to Corpus Christi College as 0th Quad in all correspondences, including in minutes and in meetings. The motion was passed just days before Merton JCR declared war on the college. Corpus Arts page issued a Facebook post inviting students to enter material for a propaganda war against their neighbour, stating […]
Continue ReadingMerton students had to be evacuated from their accommodation blocks last Thursday as a result of a gas leak.
Continue ReadingMerton has reestablished its reputation as Oxford’s brainiest college by taking the top spot in this year’s Norrington Table. St John’s moved into second up from third last year and Worcester jumped eight places from 11th to third. New, last year’s table toppers, were demoted to fourth. At the bottom of the table Somerville, Teddy […]
Continue ReadingThe city of Oxford has maintained its reputation as a popular location for film and television, with popular BBC soap EastEnders filming in Oxford during the Easter vacation. James Kent’s film Testament of Youth also used Oxford as a filming location in early April. EastEnders actors Diane Parish and Belinda Owusu, who play characters Denise […]
Continue ReadingMerton Fellow Dr Kate Blackmon yesterday celebrated being made Senior Proctor of Oxford University with a “selfie”. The photo captures her predecessor Professor Jonathan Mallinson of Trinity College, along with the Warden, Sir Martin Taylor, and the University Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton. Dr Blackmon is Merton’s first ever female Proctor. Her admission also coincides with the college’s […]
Continue ReadingMerton JCR has passed a motion to stop purchasing The Sun newspaper until its “Page 3” is removed. The motion noted that the page, which features a different topless woman each day, was both “archaic and inappropriate for a family newspaper”. Proposer Hamish Forbes, the JCR Gender Equality officer, further stated in the proposal that […]
Continue ReadingA number of Merton students arrived to sit collections last week to find no exam or, in some cases, the wrong paper. The collections were due to be taken on Thursday of 0th week, but some papers did not arrive due to a misunderstanding between College and external tutors. Tom Dyer, a second-year studying Classics […]
Continue ReadingAn email has been sent to Merton’s JCR by their LGBTQ rep, condemning the use of the terms ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ as insults. The JCR exec member, second year English student Alex Beecham, said in the email: “Recently, I have personally heard or been told by others about Mertonians using ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ as an […]
Continue ReadingMerton’s effort to preserve the space time continuum in their annual “Time Ceremony” this weekend has been deemed a success. Students at the college spent an hour walking backwards around the historic Fellows’ Quad while the clocks went back on Saturday night, whilst dressed in full sub fusc. According to experts at the college, to […]
Continue ReadingOxford was rocked with two stories of tortoise woe this week after it was announced that one College’s mascot had passed away, while another’s has gone missing. Wadham’s tortoise, Theo, was reported to have left his companion, Archie, and broken out of his enclosure by burrowing under the wire. However, Wadham tortoise officer Joe Williamson was […]
Continue ReadingCharley Turton is Not Afraid to speak about Marshalling her side through their quarter-final clash
Continue ReadingStudents from Merton have defied claims that ‘fun goes to die’ at their college by creating a naked calendar for charity. The calendar for 2013 was created in Trinity Term of last year as a fundraising initiative for the JCR’s nominated charities. It features photographs of fully nude students with various props placed in tactical […]
Continue ReadingPart-time Special Constable discovers more than 60 cannabis plants in suburban house
Continue ReadingIf England makes it to the final of next summer’s Euro 2012 football tournament it could mean a dip in GCSE results, according to recent research by an Economics Fellow at Merton. Dr Robert Metcalfe was part of a team of Oxford and Bristol academics who studied 3.5 million pupils between 2002 and 2008 and […]
Continue ReadingMerton have forced MedSoc to relocate after their dissection drinks was ‘a bit too much’
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