PRESIDENTS’ WELCOME
Dear Reader, Welcome back to Cambridge and to the Union for another term of speaking, watching and debating. Lent term can often feel like the slowest and longest term but we are here to fill your time with a jam-packed schedule of events. We hope to see you interrupting Jacob Rees-Mogg or Reverend Richard Coles with points of information in debates, asking James Blunt or Davina McCall about life in the public eye, and dancing your socks off at our famous Spring Ball. Union membership is more relevant now than ever before. Recent committees have upped their game to provide you with world-class speakers and thought-provoking debates. They have made sure there is something for everyone. Lent is going to be no different, and as we look beyond into the future, we are confident that the Union’s next few terms will keep getting better and better. It’s not just our famous speakers and debates that should entice you to come along to the Union - far from it! We are committed to making the Union a centre of Cambridge’s buzz. With weekly mindfulness, yoga, Zumba, debating workshops with some of the UK’s best young debaters, puppy therapy, and panels for all, there is no shortage of things happening here on Bridge Street. Beyond our
beautiful building, you can enjoy members’ discounts throughout Cambridge, from old favourites Fudge Kitchen to buzzy burritomasters Nanna Mexico. More than everything, the Union is here to defend free speech. We continue to live in an age where views and opinions are stamped out, blinded and left in the gutter. At the Union, we want to hear your voice. Come along to our debates, speakers and panels, and share your opinion. It’s just as important as ours, Katie Price’s, and even James Blunt’s. We look forward to you joining the debate. Jonah Surkes, Clare College
President, Lent 2018 Tom McArthur, Girton College
Vice President, 2017-18
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