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Contents A message from the Vice-Chancellor Review of the year

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Yearbook team Managing editor: Michael Derringer Editorial assistant: Louis Ashworth Editorial support: Georgina Plunkett Advertising: Mark Curtis Front and back cover images: Sir Cam, SImon Lock This page: John Kingsnorth Page 7: Louis Ashworth Page 33: Sir Cam This publication has been printed using paper which is elemental chlorine free and sourced from sustainable resources.

Christ’s College Churchill College Clare College Clare Hall Corpus Christi College Darwin College Downing College Emmanuel College Fitzwilliam College Girton College Gonville & Caius College Homerton College Hughes Hall Jesus College King’s College Lucy Cavendish College Magdalene College Murray Edwards College Newnham College Pembroke College Peterhouse Queens’ College Robinson College St Catharine’s College St Edmund’s College St John’s College Selwyn College Sidney Sussex College Trinity College Trinity Hall Wolfson College Honorary Graduates Keep in touch

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Dear World, The people who arrive in this city change Cambridge.

The ideas that leave this city change the world.

Yours, Cambridge

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A message from the Vice-Chancellor Congratulations on your graduation! Your graduation day is a celebration of everything you have achieved as a student here, the culmination of your hard work and determination. Today you are welcomed into a global community of 240,000 alumni from 192 countries; a vibrant and exciting world-wide union.

Today begins a new phase in your lifelong relationship with your College and the University.

It also marks the beginning of your contribution to your future professions and communities.

We hope you will look back on your time here as the place where you made enduring friendships and built the knowledge that will sustain and equip you for a lifetime.

At a time when the future can seem uncertain, the world needs individuals like you to make the difference. For 800 years scholars from Cambridge have made achievements which continue to benefit the world. We are incredibly proud of your accomplishments and wish you every success for the future.

Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor June 2017

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Punt touts continue to frequent King’s Parade, despite being banned from the street by Cambridge City Council a fortnight ago.

As part of their attempts to enforce the ban, the council are now proposing giving body cameras to its officers.

They’re not the first to resort to technology in the long running dispute, however – the Traditional Punting Company has already issued body cameras to its touts as they endeavour to prove that they are doing nothing wrong.

A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), which came into effect on 15th September, made it a criminal offence for punt tours in specified areas of the city centre, including King’s Parade. Under the PSPO, touts operating in the newly prohibited areas face a £75 fixed penalty notice.

The order sought to “limit touting for punting business to agree locations near authorised punting operations,” and end the “repeated interference in the lives of residents and tourists, wandering peacefully through the city centre.”

The area from which touts are banned under the new PSPO encompasses most of central Cambridge, extending from

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Highest increase in Firsts awarded in over fi�ty years Anna Menin Senior News Editor Ankur Desai Deputy News Editor The proportion of First Class results being achieved in Honours examinations has increased by the largest proportion in over 50 years.

Class results for exam Parts taken in 2016, which were released on Wednesday, reveal that 28.2 per cent of students achieved Firsts, a 2.1 per cent increase on the previous year. The proportion of Firsts attained has now risen every year since 2009.

These results reinforce a long-standing

trend of an increasing number of Firsts awarded, which has been steadily climbing in recent decades.

In 1960, the earliest year for which data are available, 10.3 per cent of Honours exam results were Firsts, 17.9 per cent less than in this year. However, the proportion of Thirds awarded in 1960 was far higher, at 22.1 per cent as opposed to 2016’s 2.2 per cent. Over the past 56 years, the proportion of 2:1s awarded has also increased dramatically, rising from 24.1 per cent in 1960 to 53.3 per cent this year. The proportion of 2:2s attained has fallen markedly, from 35.5 per cent to an all-time low of 10.3 per cent.

In classified Tripos examinations, men continued to do better than women when it comes to gaining the top marks: men gained approximately 62.4 per cent of the Firsts awarded this year.

Furthermore, of all the results achieved by men, 31.6 per cent were classed as Firsts, compared with 22.7 per cent for women. This was similar to the trend seen in 2015.

Men achieved a higher proportion of Firsts in all of the mixed colleges with the exception of the mature and grad colleges. This marked a changed compared with last year, when women beat men in some colleges.

There was also some variation when analysing by ethnicity. Comparing all undergraduate examination results, the highest percentage of Firsts as a percentage of all results for an ethnic group was among Chinese students, 28.6 per cent of whom gained Firsts.

The lowest proportion of Firsts for an ethnic group with over 100 students taking exams was among Black or Black British Africans, 12.3 per cent of whom got the top mark. They were also awarded the highest proportion of Thirds.

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October sees the highest number of bicycle the�ts in Cambridge of any month in the year, and it is predicted that this October could break the record for cycle crime.

The amount of bicycles stolen in October from the inner city last year was the highest ever recorded, and was almost double that of the number of offences in September 2015. Data reveals that bike the�ts have increased almost 20 per cent through May to July 2016 compared with the previous year. If the trend continues, over 100 bikes could be stolen in the next month. Cambridgeshire police are warning students to ensure their bikes are secured against the�t, and attribute the rise in cycle crime to the return of students to the city and the subsequent increase in bicycle use.

Sergeant Chris Horton, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, recommends that cyclists “secure their bikes with two decent D-locks and where possible use a proper rack which are [sic] designed to prevent the�t.” Horton also suggests that “cyclists can also make use of marking schemes and websites where property can be registered online.”

Area Commander James Sutherland from South Cambridgeshire police advises “using a really good lock or using two locks of different types. Most thieves only come equipped to target one type of lock.”

Police also attended a five-day cycle crime prevention series of events from 19th-23rd September, at stops along the guided busway in Cambridge, to offer services including bike registration on Immobilise, the security marking of bikes, general security advice to prevent the�t, and discounted D-locks.

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University Press caught in Delhi copyright clash ● Reprographics business battles with CUP and OUP over course texts a�ter court victory last month

Louis Ashworth Editor Graduate careers website Milkround abandoned Cambridge’s Freshers’ Fair last week, allegedly a�ter one of its stallholders was racially abused by an attendee, Varsity has learnt.

The incident took place early last Tuesday morning, on the first day of the fair. Milkround immediately le�t the fair a�terwards, and did not return for the second day. A spokesperson for the website, which allows students to apply for jobs, internships and graduate schemes, confirmed to Varsity that the incident had occurred, and said that Milkround is “currently in the process of filing a formal complaint” to the central University.

The nature of the abuse, or any details about the identity of the attacker, are currently unknown. The fair, at which societies and businesses advertise themselves to students, is attended by 15,000 people a year according to CUSU, which organises the event.

Amatey Doku, CUSU President, told Varsity he had not been made aware that the incident had taken place until a�ter the two-day event had finished.

“A�ter the fair, I was alerted to a complaint that CUSU had received about racist comments made to one of the corporate stall-holders by an attendee to the Freshers’ Fair,” he said.

He called for anyone with information to contact him, saying: “We have a zerotolerance approach to racism or discrimination of any kind and it completely goes against everything that CUSU stands for and we have communicated this to the affected party.”

There was controversy at the Freshers’ Fair in 2010 when some students criticised student radio station CamFM for accepting sponsorship from Nestle.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) and Oxford University Press (OUP) will appeal the verdict of Delhi High Court in the so-called ‘DU Photocopy Case’, it has been announced.

The case, filed against Rameshwari Photocopy Services, a small photocopy shop, operating under a licence from the University of Delhi (UoD) to reproduce course materials for university students, ended in victory for the defendants last month.

Mr Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, presiding, ruled that the packs, featuring between six and 65 pages of CUP and OUP publications fall within the “educational exception” clause of the Copyright Act 1957.

The ruling overturns an injunction from October 2012 which banned Rameshwari from photocopying chapters of copyrighted books to students.

The formal appeal accuses the UoD of “photocopying substantial portions (extending to ‘cover to cover’ copying) of copyrighted publications”, and claims that “unchecked unauthorised unfair copying for commercial gain has the potential of completely destroying the legitimate market for educational copyrighted publications”.

The wording of the appeal has been criticised by some observers, who note that so-called ‘cover to cover’ copying was not the issue put before the judge in the original case, which centred only on the reproduction of excerpts.

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The 2012 ruling drew mass condemnation from the academic community in India, and led to the formation of the Society for the Promotion of Educational Access and Knowledge (SPEAK), which acted as co-defendant in the case.

Speaking to Varsity, UoD spokesperson Professor Shamnad Basheer said: “The court agreed with us on this count and ruled that access to education is an important constitutional right that must not be narrowly interpreted.”

“Photocopying of course packs was always the norm in India prior to the 2012 injunction against Dehli University. CUP never went out of business, rather it went from strength to strength in India.”

“One can’t help but think that there is a bit of a colonial undertone to this narrative of how a university in a developed country with an inside understanding of academic publishing sues another university in a country with severe resource constraints particularly on the educational front.”

A group of postgraduate students from Oxford have called on students and academics to sign a petition calling for the University to withdraw from the appeal and “promote access to education in a fair and legitimate manner for students in India and more generally, across the world”.

In 2013, over 300 writers and academics, including 33 whose works are at the centre of the case, signed an open letter, calling on CUP and OUP to withdraw the suit, including Cambridge alumni...

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Revealed: CUSU national award entry filled with exaggerations Monty Fynn News Correspondent CUSU’s self-nomination for a National Union of Students award was riddled with factual errors and exaggerations, a Varsity investigation has found.

CUSU was a finalist in the ‘Small and Specialist Union’ category of the annual NUS Awards, which recognise the achievements of student unions across the country. However, analysis by Varsity showed that CUSU’s nomination for the award contained a number of factual

discrepancies.

The nomination was submitted in Lent Term 2016 by CUSU’s Chief Executive Officer, Mark McCormack, and aimed to summarise the achievements of the CUSU team lead by Priscilla Mensah, last year’s president.

At the top of its list of achievements is the “Abolition of ‘Class Lists’ and removal of the infamous Tompkins Table” which it said “publicly pitch[es] colleges against each other by the number of Firsts students at each college are awarded.”

At the time nominations closed in May 2016, not only were Class Lists not

abolished but the Grace proposing their abolition would not be submitted to Regent House for another two months. The Tompkins Table, which ranks Cambridge colleges on how their undergraduates perform in exams, was also published

by Varsity this July.

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Private-hire taxi companies in Cambridge have spoken out following the launch of Uber, the controversial vehicle hire service, in the city earlier this month.

Uber has been praised by enthusiasts of the so-called ‘sharing economy’, which is based on the principle that services should be purchased on an informal basis from peers rather than professionals.

But critics of the concept argue that, rather than replacing professional work, it simply reduces wages and makes work more casual, scrapping employment protections and rendering work more precarious.

Varsity spoke to CamCab, a privatehire company local to Cambridge, about the arrival of Uber in the city. CamCab’s principal concern was for the safety of customers, which it described as “allimportant” to them.

They queried Uber’s ability to enforce its own safety standards, pointing out that six of its drivers were recently convicted in Denmark for violating the country’s taxi laws. Similar cases have been brought up in France, Belgium and Germany.

CamCab stressed its own record on the safety of their passengers and par-

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ticularly of local students. Following the murder of an Anglia Ruskin student by a man masquerading as a taxi driver, they told Varsity, they wished to create a taxi firm which would “make safety the number one priority” and so developed a number of precautions for their own firm.

All of their taxis are black, and sport an unremovable sticker bearing their brand on the door, and all of their drivers wear an identifiable uniform. Every CamCab car can be located from their central offices and its entire route traced by computer. The company has also reached out to various JCRs to offer students who find themselves without any money a free ride to safety.

Without identifiable cars and uniforms, they argue, there is no certain way for a customer to confirm the identity of an individual claiming to be an Uber driver.

CamCab also criticised Uber for deciding not to link its fares to the prices set by the City Council, as CamCab does. It suggested that Uber’s long-term strategy is “to corner the market in Cambridge” in order to raise its fares when competition subsides.

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Monty Fynn News Correspondent Regent House members gathered on Tuesday to discuss the University’s investment policy, focusing on whether Cambridge should abstain from investments related to fossil fuels.

The Discussion, at Senate House, follows a report from the Working Group for Investment Responsibility, which recommended withdrawal from some carbon-related industries, but stopped short of calling for full divestment.

The report – published in June by the Advisory Committee on Benefactions and External and Legal Affairs (ACBELA) – drew criticism from the Cambridge Zero Carbon Society (ZC), who stated that the recommendations were “progress, but nowhere near enough”. 17 members of Regent House requested a Discussion in order to “consider the report of the ACBELA Working Group… and in particular consider a policy of divestment from fossil fuels”.

Figures from across the University gave speeches on the topic, including multiple heads of department and representatives from both ZC and Positive Investment Cambridge (PIC). Though student opinion was united, with all six speaking in favour of divesting, the rest Revd Jeremy Caddick is leading the drive for divestment

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Referendum fever grips Cambridge ● CUSU sets November date for Class Lists referendum Ankur Desai Deputy News Editor A referendum to change CUSU’s stance on abolishing Class Lists will run from the 1st - 3rd November, it has been announced.

All students who are members of CUSU will be allowed to vote in the election, presented with the question: “should CUSU campaign to keep the Class Lists, with an easier opt-out process?”

It is understood that the ‘Save the Class List’ campaign will become the main campaigning group in support of an opt-out system. A bidding process to become the official group for supporting the ‘No’ option will open shortly.

This is the third referendum of the calendar year, following a vote on CUSU’s affiliation to NUS and on the creation of a full-time Disabled Students’ Officer for CUSU. This vote will not formally decide whether the Class Lists will be abolished or not, which will be decided by a vote of the University’s Regent House – comprised of over 5,000 senior academics and staff members – towards the end of Michaelmas term. However, it has been suggested that the referendum held by

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Privacy laws threaten Class Lists The law will not come into effect until May next year – meaning that questions over Britain’s continued membership of the EU could now come into play. The University has sought legal advice, which indicated that the new rules may mean students have to give explicit permission for their results to be published.

“The University is currently considering the potential effects of this legislation,” a University spokesperson told Varsity, “including the possibility that the public display of class lists may change to an opt-in system – but no decisions have yet been made.”

Class Lists, bearing the names and grade classifications of students, are currently published at the end of the academic year – appearing both online, and on boards in front of Senate House.

They have been the subject of some controversy, following campaigns claiming they are damaging to student welfare.

In December, fellows and senior members voted to keep the Lists, overturning a motion for abolition which

was first revealed by Varsity in April. A student campaign, ‘Save The Class List’ also called a referendum of the student body, which took place in November. In it, students voted to keep the current system of publication, but called for a more simplified system for students to opt out from having their results displayed.

At present, there is an opt-out system in place for students who do not wish their results to appear to opt out, but it requires several stages of approval.

The student referendum’s demands were based on the possibility of there being a checkbox online, which exam candidates could untick should they not wish to have their results published. If the new EU rules come into effect, this could be replaced with a system in which students instead have to explicitly confirm they want their results to be seen publicly.

Roberta Huldisch, CUSU’s Education Officer, said the student union is “committed to supporting class lists with

an unconditional opt out system,” but added “we may need to rethink how we can honour this mandate while not breaking the law” if data protection rules change.

“Until the legal situation has been clarified,” she said, “I will keep pushing

for a review of the current opt out system to make it simpler and less restrictive for students this academic year.”

The legal issue at stake, however, is not entirely clear-cut: under the terms of the new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), “explicit consent” is required for handling “special categories of personal data”, but it is not clear whether exam data falls within

Students at Queens’ College have expressed their outrage over a change to the room balloting system at the College which has le�t second-years feeling disadvantaged.

Under the changes, students are no longer permitted to select other people to ballot with, meaning that they cannot be assured of living with their friends.

Previously, the students were allowed to ballot in groups of four, six, or eight students.

The new system has caused particular problems for second-years. Queens’ offers second-year students a certain number of walk-through rooms which function as shared sets with an en suite.

Previously, all those who applied to go into shared sets for their second year were placed in a priority group, meaning they came before everyone else in the ballot. This was intended to incentivise students to choose these rooms.

Those who did not receive a set were assured of a single room. As a result of the changes, however, students who apply for a shared set will be obliged to take one, regardless of its type and of who is living around it.

Many students are also unhappy with the arrangement of pairs in the room ballot. In the past, the ballot had operated by giving the pair consecutive numbers.

This meant that those who did not receive a shared set could still live near their friend, but now that numbers are allocated to each person at random, they may be hundreds of places apart.

Queens’ students attempting to live with their friends have also faced an additional hurdle since last year. The overall plan of room allocations is only available to view in the room when you choose, and will not be seen by students before they make their choice. No ‘running list’ of room choices made will be made public during the process.

Before last year, the room balloting system was supervised by the JCR. Now, however, a committee comprising the College staff supervises the choosing of the rooms.

The college warned students that

CUSU will give an indication to the way students feel about Class Lists, and so could influence the way members of Regent House vote.

CUSU initially voted to oppose public display of Class Lists at a council meeting in November last year, where there were 20 votes to zero in favour of abolition, with four abstentions. This came a�ter a petition by ‘Our Grade, Our Choice’, which called for the University to allow students to opt out from the Class Lists based solely on their preference for doing so. This petition was sent to the University, who then backed a review of the usage of Class Lists.

However, the move to abolish the Class Lists was opposed by the campaign group ‘Save the Class List’, who created a petition that gained more than the 350 signatures needed to trigger a CUSU referendum. The group supports an opt-out system, as opposed to complete abolition of the Lists.

In April, results from the University’s internal consultation on the future of the lists, revealed by a Varsity Freedom of Information request, revealed that none of the stake-holding bodies consulted supported the idea of an opt-out system.

Reasons for the lack of support have not been fully laid out, but may relate to extra costs which could be incurred.

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Sam Harrison and Aoife Hogan The Cambridge University Palestine Society (PalSoc) organised a candlelit vigil outside the Cambridge Union Society building on Wednesday evening as Mark Regev, the Israeli Ambassador to the UK, delivered a talk to the debating society.

The two groups have repeatedly clashed over the Union’s record of inviting Israeli officials to speak to their members without soliciting a representative from Palestine to contest them.

In Michaelmas term of last year, PalSoc protested against the invitation of Yi�tah Curiel, the head spokesperson of

the Israeli Embassy, to the Union, and in the year prior against the invitation of then-Ambassador Daniel Taub.

The vigil was attended by around 20 people. They laid a line of electronic candles along the edge of the pavement opposite the back entrance to the Union chamber, where security guards were checking the possessions of incomers.

A spokesperson for the vigil told Varsity that their demonstration was a “sign of solidarity with the Palestinian people” intended to “hold Regev to account for [Israel’s] continued policy of occupation and denial of human rights.”

They also commented that the Union “should have more Palestinian speakers”,

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Speaking exclusively to Varsity, the women’s captain, Gerda Bachrati said: “We felt that playing at Barnet would be riding on the coattails of the men.”

“We felt it would be really important to take that opportunity to play at a big stadium [Cambridge United] for the first time, get people interested in the women’s game.”

CUWAFC recognises that a doubleheader will bring more media attention, but saw a game on a separate occasion on a big stage as an essential precursor to a double-header: “Once you start making people realise that women’s football is actually good, people are more likely to be interested in a double-header in the future.”

The location of the matches is the most important concern for the Cambridge Women’s team as Bachrati argued that Cambridge United’s Abbey Stadium would be more accessible to students, meaning more spectators and attention.

“If Cambridge United had said okay for a double-header it would have been a completely different situation, I think for Oxford too, as both universities would have been more sure and secure of the fan base.”

This year it was Oxford’s turn to organise the men’s match and Cambridge’s turn to organise the women’s.

At the start of Michaelmas 2016, Cambridge United approached CUWAFC to invite them to play their Varsity match at their stadium, an offer the Cambridge women accepted.

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Cantabs march against Trump Charlotte Gifford Senior News Correspondent Protesters are set to rally in cities across the world today, as Donald Trump is sworn in as 45th president of the United States of America.

Cambridge is among over 20 UK cities where protest marches have been spurred on by Trump’s inauguration.

The marches are a response to the President-elect’s history of xenophobic and misogynistic remarks, which many fear will translate into policy once he takes office.

A rally to celebrate a diverse and multicultural Cambridge and stand up against racism will be held by Cambridge’s branch of the campaign group Stand Up to Racism in Market Square on Saturday at midday.

When asked about their reasons for protesting Trump’s inauguration, their co-ordinator Richard Rose told Varsity of his concerns about the negligence that anti-racists had shown recently, and spoke of the necessity of speaking out against Trump.

“One of the reasons racism in Cambridge may be lower than in surrounding areas is because anti-racists have been constantly vigilant, not letting any example of racism go unchallenged,” Rose explained. “That’s why we need to make a fuss about Trump here and in London.

Anti-racists have been on the back foot for a few months now – it’s time for us to go back on the offensive: we are the vast majority!”

The Cambridge rally will be attended by the MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner.

In a press release, Zeichner said: “As Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States on the back of a campaign which fractured the country and too o�ten descended into the politics of hate, I am proud to join this campaign in saying that Cambridge welcomes multiculturalism and diversity.

“Sadly, following the EU referendum, we have seen a rise in hate crime in Britain and it is important that Cambridge stands together as one, united behind the common values that make our city so great: tolerance, diversity and internationalism. We should be building bridges not walls.”

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Revealed: May Balls caught offering workers below the minimum wage ● Committees overlooked pay for training, and changes to the law ● Jesus changes advertised contract following investigation ● No May Week event currently offers above the Living Wage

Monty Fynn and Tom Richardson Investigations Editors A Varsity investigation has found that employment contracts advertised on both Jesus and Trinity May Ball websites would, in terms of real hours worked, pay below the National Minimum Wage of £5.60 per hour that will come into force this year.

May Balls take place at the end of Easter term and offer students a chance to enjoy themselves a�ter the stress of exams. They come with a he�ty price tag, with the most expensive tickets last year selling at £380 for a pair. But for many, they are an opportunity to earn some much-needed money at a University that normally discourages students from working during term-time.

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The football teams of Oxford and Cambridge Universities have sparked controversy a�ter a disagreement over the venue for this year’s women’s Varsity match.

Both the men’s and women’s Varsity football matches are set to take place on the same day this year at Barnet FC’s Hive Stadium, in the first ever Varsity double-header, but the decision has le�t the Cambridge women’s side feeling short changed.

However, contrary to reports that the match was under threat, on Wednesday this week it was announced to the public that the double-header is going ahead on 19th March at The Hive Stadium.

The men’s and women’s teams of the Cambridge University Association Football Club (CUAFC) and Oxford University Association Football Club (OUAFC), all seem to have had the objective of greater equality for the women’s Varsity match, but the teams disagreed on how this could best be achieved.

Oxford’s view was that a doubleheader would give the women’s match a share of the great attention that the men’s match draws. Cambridge felt that hosting the women’s match separately at the Cambridge United stadium would be the best option.

May Martin, Women’s President of OUWAFC told Varsity, “OUWAFC thought that a double header would be the best way to achieve the joint aim that we share with Cambridge, which was to promote equality in the sport.”

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members asked Regev about the integrity of Israeli democracy, the effects on the peace process of Israeli settlements, and the wall – which Regev countered is a “security barrier” rather than a wall – erected by the state in the West Bank.

Regev answered, respectively, that Israeli democracy is strong and consistently improving, that settlements are being established at a slower rate now than in the past, and that the “security barrier” is necessary to protect the lives of civilians. He also demanded that Palestinians “be held accountable for failing to respect the peace process”.

Varsity contacted the Union for comment, but received no response.

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and, while acknowledging that the Union has invited the Palestinian Ambassador to speak separately in November, argued that “an event in which [Regev] was directly challenged would be better”.

She emphasised that PalSoc was not contesting Regev’s right to speak, a sentiment echoed by others attending the vigil. One attendee told Varsity: “The message that the ambassador intends to give will be given – we just don’t want it to be a comfortable event”. He added that Israel, which he called a “settler colonial state”, needs to be challenged at such talks.

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���������� In what seems to be becoming something of a Michaelmas tradition, a Cambridge JCR will be asking its members whether or not they ought to remain affiliated to CUSU later this term.

This year it is the turn of Peterhouse’s JCR – the grandiosely named Sexcentenary Club (or, less grandiosely, the ‘Sex Club’ for short) – to decide whether their future lies with or away from the University-wide union, when they vote in a referendum on the matter in Week Four.

The referendum, which is scheduled to run between the 28th and 29th October, with a debate to be held on 26th October, comes on the heels of a letter sent to the Sex Club’s Committee in Easter term, claiming that CUSU had “let down Jewish students” in the way they had dealt with the furore over Malia Bouattia’s controversial election to the presidency of the National Union of Students (NUS).

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The number of EU students applying for places at Oxford and Cambridge has fallen in the wake of Brexit, according to statistics released by UCAS. The figures, which also include applications to study medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry at other UK universities, only apply to university courses with the earlier application deadline of 15th October.

Although the data only represents around 10 per cent of total applications to UK universities, this notable decline in EU applications will stoke fears as to the impact of Britain’s vote to leave the EU on its universities.

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said that the fall highlighted “the importance of ensuring that prospective European applicants are made fully aware of the fees and financial support arrangements well in advance of the applications window.”

She went on to suggest that “uncertainty” over whether EU students would continue to be entitled to the same fees and financial support as UK students for the duration of their degrees may have contributed to the decline in applications.

UCAS applications for courses beginning in 2017 opened on 6th September this year, but the government did not guarantee the funding situation for EU students until 11th October, only four days before the deadline.

Dandridge argued that “we need the government to extend these transitional arrangements now for EU students considering applying for courses starting in 2018.”

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A�ter long campaigns and two referendums in which Cambridge students and Fellows opted to save them, new privacy laws may mean that Class Lists disappear a�ter all.

EU data protection laws, which will come into effect in 2018, mean that Cambridge may have to introduce a system where students have to opt-in to having their exam results displayed.

Varsity has seen an excerpt from unconfirmed minutes of the General Board Education Committee. In it, Pro-ViceChancellor Graham Virgo, who led a review which called for the abolition of the Lists last year, said new rules “place greater emphasis on active consent being sought from data subjects for data collection and use, and it had been suggested that moving to an opt-in system for publication of Class Lists might consequently be necessary.”

with the potential for further increases depending on teaching quality. It is not yet known if this increase will apply to current Cambridge students, as will happen at the University of Exeter.

The open letter asks: “How can we expect students to be excited about and lend their voice to a model of excellence which is conditional on greater fees and greater debt?”

It also claims that the rise may alienate potential low-income applicants: “differential fee caps across universities, which TEF allows, will send a clear message to the most disadvantaged students that ‘excellence’ comes with an additional price tag and is not for them… academic potential, not the ability to pay more should determine who studies here.”

The government claims that the assessment process will explicitly take into account outcomes for disadvantaged groups.

The letter also criticises the metrics on which judgements will be based: “Measures like graduate employment outcomes and, to a lesser extent, the blunt NSS student satisfaction scores have absolutely nothing to do with innovative and challenging teaching. For example, we know that graduate destinations are largely informed by a student’s social background, race, gender and disability.”

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Staff and students at Cambridge have signed an open letter to the University Council and the General Board of Education voicing concerns about its participation in the second year of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), which will raise tuition fees to at least £9,250.

The TEF, described by the government as a “system of recognising excellent teaching in higher education”, links the funding of teaching, and therefore fees, to teaching quality.

This will be assessed by a panel of academics, employers and students, using metrics including National Student Survey (NSS) results, student retention rates, and the proportion of graduates in employment or further study.

The open letter, which claims “Cambridge has no obligation to participate in TEF” and “does not need” it, has been signed by 191 members of the University, including lecturers, a Director of Studies, CUSU sabbatical officers, alumni and current students.

The main concerns raised are tuition fee increases and its “spurious metrics” for measuring quality. The letter also claims that TEF encourages “competition” over collaboration and that the framework fails to consider other structural issues that devalue teaching such as low pay, pension cuts and gendered pay gaps.

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banking. One such event attracted an audience that was 72 per cent male, and high attendance from female students at events focused on lower paid sectors such as arts and heritage.

The Director of the Careers Service, Gordon Chesterman, told Varsity: “The female student has a greater interest in those career areas where salary numbers are not particularly high.”

Men make up 78 per cent of Cambridge graduates in the banking sector.

In part, this may be linked to highpaying employers heavily targeting subjects such as Mathematics, Natural Science, Engineering and Computer Science, subjects which are dominated by male students.

“The highly numerate subjects in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) areas which are sought-a�ter by employers tend to have a predominantly male population among the student cohort,” Chesterman said.

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The Careers Service report suggests that the salary discrepancy “can partly be attributed to the different career paths sought by our male and female students” – noting, in particular, high attendance from male students at events promoting highly paid employment sectors such as

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Trinity’s May Ball website advertised a lowest wage of £61.05 for eleven hours work, equivalent to £5.55 an hour, while Jesus offered £70 for a ten hour shi�t with two unpaid thirty minute breaks. As rest breaks are not legally included in working time, this was equivalent to £7.77 per hour for a nine-hour shi�t.

However, the employment description on Jesus’ May Ball’s website required workers to attend a two-hour training session, and arrive at the Ball three hours before their shi�t “for sign-in, a walk-through of the grounds, briefing, training, and to help in the final set-up for the ball”. When this time is included, the hourly rate offered would fall to £5 per hour.

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ers to arrive early for their shi�t.

Advice on the government website suggests time spent “training and travelling to training” must be paid for, as well as time spent “at work and required to be working, or on standby near the workplace. Under these terms Jesus’ contract would be in breach of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.

Trinity’s £5.55 wage is equivalent to the current minimum, but will not be in time for the Ball in June, even if contracts are signed before the rise to £5.60 coming into force in April.

Zoe Adams, a PhD candidate at Pembroke College specialising in labour law, told Varsity: “It is not legal or moral to pay them less than the April 2017 rate even if they sign the contract now”.

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Cambridge has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s recent travel bans, with approximately one thousand people taking to the streets in protest, and condemning statements issued by key figures in the city and University.

Last Friday, in an executive order, Trump issued immediate 90 day travel bans, preventing citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) from entering the US. The President also suspended the entire refugee admission system for 120 days and indefinitely suspended the US’s Syrian refugee programme.

There has been major national and international backlash against the response of the British government, as Theresa May has failed to openly criticise Trump and has not retracted Trump’s invitation for a state visit to the UK, despite an online petition which has already gained over 1.8 million signatories.

On Monday, crowds gathered around Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, with strong chanting and several speakers addressing the gathered group, there to protest Trump’s ban and the UK government’s reaction.

Protesters held banners with such slogans as “Respect existence or expect resistance”, “Build bridges not walls” and “Theresa the Appeaser, let go of his (tiny) hand”. Chants included “Refugees are here to stay, let’s deport Theresa May”, and “Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go!”.

Yesterday the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, issued a statement regarding Trump’s actions: “As the head of a university whose staff is actively engaged in research collaborations around the world, I cannot accept a policy that undermines academic freedom, disrupts partnerships, and blocks the pathways to understanding between peoples, faiths and nations.”

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Stephen Toope announced as new Vice-Chancellor Daniel Gayne & Jack Higgins September 30 2016 The University of Cambridge has nominated Professor Stephen Toope as its next Vice-Chancellor, due to succeed Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz in October 2017.

A formal Grace has been submitted by the University Council, and, subject to the Regent House’s approval, Toope will become the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University late next year.

The Canadian scholar completed his PhD at Trinity College, and was President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) between 2006 and 2014. During that time, Toope was the highest paid individual in British Columbia’s public sector.

A legal scholar and human rights lawyer as well as an administrator, Professor Toope was described as “a rare combination of somebody who is brilliant, humane, considerate, and fearless”.

Professor Toope, who is expected to receive £400k-450k for his new role, said that he “look[ed] forward to working with staff and students in the pursuit of academic excellence and tremendous international engagement – the very mark of Cambridge.”

As Vice-Chancellor, Professor Toope will chair the University Council, the General Board of the Faculties; and the Finance Committee of the Council.

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professor at UBC, described Toope as a “born leader” and a champion of investment in student’s mental health and quality of housing.

As well as being an advocate for undergraduates, Professor Toope has taken a nuanced line on free speech, saying that while “for a university, anything that detracts from the free expression of ideas is just not acceptable”, a line has been crossed when speech is designed to preclude any speech in response.

Professor Ian White, Master of Jesus College, led the search for Borysiewicz’s replacement and complimented Toope’s

“impeccable academic credentials, a longstanding involvement with higher education, strong leadership experience and an excellent academic background”.

He emphasised that the structural peculiarities of UBC, one being that Toope was the de-facto mayor of ‘UBC Town’, meant that the president could feel isolated from faculty colleagues. But given “the prevailing tradition of good scholarship at Cambridge”, Professor Ghoussoub imagined that Toope might feel more at home in Cambridge, where he “can focus on what’s dearest to his heart, and he will thrive”

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▼ Leszek Borysiewicz, the outgoing Vice-Chancellor

October 7 2016 The proportion of First Class results being achieved in Honours examinations has increased by the largest proportion in over 50 years.

Class results for exam Parts taken in 2016 reveal that 28.2 per cent of students achieved Firsts, a 2.1 per cent increase on the previous year. The proportion of Firsts attained has now risen every year since 2009. In 1960, the earliest year for which data is available, 10.3 per cent of Honours exam results were Firsts, 17.9 per cent less than in this year. However, the proportion of Thirds awarded in 1960 was far higher, at 22.1 per cent as opposed to 2016’s 2.2 per cent.

In classified Tripos examinations, men continued to do better than women when it comes to gaining the top marks: men gained approximately 62.4 per cent of the Firsts awarded this year.

Men achieved a higher proportion of Firsts in all of the mixed colleges with the exception of the mature and grad colleges. This marked a changed compared with last year, when women beat men in some colleges.

There was also some variation when analysing by ethnicity. Comparing all undergraduate examination results, the highest percentage of Firsts as a percentage of all results for an ethnic group was among Chinese students, 28.6 per cent of whom gained Firsts.

The lowest proportion of Firsts for an ethnic group with over 100 students taking exams was among Black or Black British Africans, 12.3 per cent of whom got the top mark. They were also awarded the highest proportion of Thirds.

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● A cocktail of crows, grubs, and the EU is causing a headache for Cambridge’s gardeners Sophie Penney

October 21 2016

Iconic Cambridge courts are being disfigured, as crows attack the lawns of at least seven colleges.

Jesus and Pembroke have had to re-turf entire lawns, and signs are up around colleges about the problem, while at least five other colleges, including St Catharine’s, Emmanuel, Murray Edwards, Selwyn and Clare, have had lawns destroyed as a battle is waged between gardeners and crows.

However, the birds are not the root of the problem. This year Cambridge has seen an large influx of chafer grubs, the soil-dwelling larvae of chafer beetles.

These grubs feed on the roots of the grass, making the lawn vulnerable to damage.

Crows like to feed on these grubs, and the weakened grass roots mean that when they do, they dig up the turf. The large number of grubs mean that the crows are constantly feeding on them, giving the turf little time to recover – creating the mess that we see in Cambridge today.

Many people are asking why some colleges are affected and not others. Paul Gallant, the head gardener of Selwyn, explained to Varsity that it all depends on the type of soil. “The grubs like light

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sandy soil like the soil at Selwyn. Wolfson and Robinson don’t have the problem because they’re on clay”.

Steve Elstub, the head gardener of Clare College, expanded on this, saying: “There are light soils around the River Cam because of the silts. This is an open, free draining soil that helps grubs to grow at a faster rate. This means that colleges closer to the river have been more affected by the grub.”

In terms of spreading from one college to the other, Gallant explained that the chafer beetle cannot fly very far or very high, so it is unlikely to travel from college to college.

Adding insult to injury is the fact that the main control measure for this problem has been outlawed by the EU. In April 2013, the EU enforced a Europewide ban of three bee-harming pesticides called neonicotinoids, including imidacloprid, which is the active ingredient in the insecticides previously used to get rid of the chafer grub.

Elstub said “this is part of a widespread protocol from the EU to reduce chemical use in general because of their possible damaging effects on wildlife and the potential for them getting into the water system”.

Instead, colleges are opting for the use of nematodes, which are microscopic,

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whitish-to-transparent worms that eat and destroy the chafer grubs. However, nematodes can only live in wet soil that isn’t too cold, which means that the soil needs to be irrigated. Large areas of turf are hard and expensive to irrigate, meaning that this natural, biological control measure can only be used to great effect on areas of 15 to 20m2.

Jesus College have had to re-turf their entire first court lawn as the area affected is too large for the use of nematodes.

A post on the College’s Facebook page said: “The situation has become quite severe over the last two to three weeks and large areas of lawn have suffered as a result, First Court in particular. The use of nematodes has proved unreliable. […] Our gardeners will apply topsoil and seed along with fertilizer (which the birds dislike) once the destructiveness has ceased”.

Clare College are also trying other methods including rolling the land to make it harder so that the grubs go deeper into the soil, out of range from crows

and birds. They have also tried covering the areas with netting as a deterrent to the crows, allowing the turf time to recover from the grub.

If noticed early, the threat can be reduced before it really sets in. Elstub said: “The egg laying takes place in June and July and at that time, if you spot the adult chafer beetles on the lawn, you can mow the lawns accordingly with a rotary mower and collect up the adults.

However, there is only about a two week window for this and sometimes it is difficult to spot them”.

The winter weather could temporarily help solve the problem as the cold weather will make the grubs go deeper into the soil and out of range of the crows. The chafer grub problem goes back 10 years or so and colleges have experienced the problem before. It is also a problem nationally.

“We’ll never be rid of the problem,” said Elstub, “it’s a case of managing it and dealing with it in the most appropriate way possible”.

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November 4 2016

A new centre based at the Faculty of Mathematics had been established by the University, aimed at countering the narrative of ‘post-truth’ politics.

The Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, established by a £5 million benefaction from Winton Charitable Foundation, seeks to promote the presentation of accurate, relevant, and transparent information on important issues.

Led by Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, the centre will seek to develop methods for analysing and distributing quantitative evidence driven by the needs of different audiences. This will be achieved through ensuring that risk, data, and evidence is presented in clear and unbiased forms.

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Cambridge student creates Sunlightbouncing robot October 14 2016 Diva Tommei, a Cambridge PhD student and entrepreneur, has invented a robot that reflects light to enable rooms to be naturally illuminated. The size and

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November 25 2016 An 11ft plant pot (below) has been installed in Jesus College’s Fellows’ Gardens. The pot, which was lowered in by crane, is an architect-designed potting shed, complete with a skylight, a door, and a hatch to pass normal-sized plant pots in and out. The metal exterior will appear terracotta-coloured as it weathers over time. The pot was designed by Cambridge architects DPA, who stated they were aiming for “something a little quirky” with its design.

October 14 2016 The President of King’s College Student Union (KCSU) yesterday circulated an e-mail to all King’s students to reaffirm their “unique” policy on exclusive societies within College, in reference to a “small minority of students” recently becoming involved with an exclusive College drinking society. This announcement reminded students that the KCSU constitution “stands against any society that encourages prejudice” and stated that exclusive drinking societies “damage the unity and inclusiveness” in the King’s community because “individuals are singled” as being the “right kind of person” for a society which is “off limits to others”. It also warned against encouraging “lad culture” and causing “individuals [to] feel unsafe” in College. The President further described the emergence of this kind of society as “relatively new” at King’s, and expressed “sad[ness] to see this kind of culture attempting to pervade the College”.

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mentaries Tails You Win: The Science of Chance and the award winning Climate Change by Numbers. Professor Spiegelhalter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, made an OBE in 2006, and knighted in 2014.

According to the centre’s aims, researchers will collaborate to ensure that “everyone has a right to balanced evidence on issues important to them; evidence presented in a transparent way, to inform but not persuade”. The centre’s first project will be to create a website to clearly display the benefits and harms of alternative treatments for women with early stage breast cancer.

shape of a beachball, the light-bot, which is named Lucy – after the Latin word lux, a unit of illuminance – contains a solar-tracking mirror and uses sensors and algorithms to reflect sun rays in the right direction. Owners of Lucy can place her in a sunny location and aim the reflected light in the direction they desire, and the bot will keep the space lit with the strength of 13 lightbulbs, which is enough to fill the space of a small apartment. Solenica, Tommei’s company, de-

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scribes Lucy as “[moving] sunlight from where it’s wasted to where it’s needed.

Lucy is a daylighting system that will let you turn off the artificial lights and see the world with sunlight.”

The device, which costs £162, also aims to help people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which affects two million people in Britain alone.

◀ One of the orbs

November 4 2016 A missing cat who went on a week-long adventure in Cambridge has been returned to his owners. Wally, a six-month old tabby cat, had become a frequent visitor to Trinity Hall and other colleges in the centre of Cambridge, where he became an instant favourite of students.

Once Wally had been identified as missing after posters appealing for his return went up around the city, he was swiftly caught and returned to his delighted owners.

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Brno University of Technology (est. 1899) → largest engineering university in the Czech Republic → excellent academic staff and university environment → state-of-the-art research and sports facilities (Olympic standards stadium) → 5 of its own research centres and participation in 2 centres of excellence → Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. programmes in English → research and development cooperation with IBM, FEI, Honeywell, Bosch, Siemens, Škoda AUTO, Red Hat, AVG Technologies, Avast Software, etc.

Brno (Czech Republic) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city with a student spirit thanks to its 100,000 students. Centrally located among 3 capitals (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava), Brno is known to be the centre of science and research.

One of Europe’s safest cities, it is a great place to start studies and career.

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John’s targets £100m bursary funding November 25 2016

St John’s College has announced a campaign which seeks to raise money for means-tested bursaries, in order to ensure that students from lower income backgrounds are not disadvantaged by the cost of a university education.

The Free Thinking campaign will count towards the University’s wider initiative to raise £2 billion, and aims to gather donations of £100 million from donors including alumni. The funds raised “will be used to expand the College’s existing programme of means-tested support for home students, and to provide further assistance to overseas scholars, graduates and researchers”, according to the college website.

The Master of St John’s College, Professor Christopher Dobson, discussed his experience on being the first in his family to attend Oxbridge, and the second to attend university, stating: “I remember the astonishment that I felt when I realised not only that I had been accepted, but that my education was completely free.”

He went on to note that the move away from free tuition had affected school leavers’ decisions on university, saying: “Whatever the rights and wrongs of today’s funding model, the fact is that many highly talented young people from less well-off backgrounds either go to their local university to keep costs down, or abandon higher education altogether.

I believe passionately, as does the College as a whole, that nobody should be denied – or indeed deny themselves – a place at Cambridge because of financial concerns.”

When contacted by Varsity, a spokesman for the College said that: “The College believes that every student who is capable of making the most of a place

▶ St John’s announced a programme for students from low-income households earlier this year

❝ Nobody should be denied a place at Cambridge because of financial concerns ❞

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Up to £700 snatched from Cambridge RAG office

at St John’s should be able to benefit from a complete educational experience regardless of their ability to pay. At a time when the cost of higher education has risen significantly, we are committed to doing everything we can to enable students to benefit from a Cambridge education in full.”

When asked about whether there was a timescale for raising the funding, the spokesman replied that “there is no firm deadline attached to the campaign, but we hope to reach the target within five years.” They also said, on the subject of how many students the campaign aimed to help, that the goal was to “ensure that every student who comes to St John’s can do so without having to worry about finances” and that they wanted to extend their existing schemes so that they could offer “every student appropriate support on a case-by-case, and meanstested, basis”.

In addition, scholarships for international students are being planned, as are funds for postgraduate studies

for all students. There is also hope for expansion of the Research Fellowships, to help academics focus on research, as well as Teaching Fellowships for academics who are keen to teach alongside their research.

The initiative follows the announcement of the Studentships campaign earlier this year, which provides undergraduate Home and EU students from households with an annual income of less than £25,000 with money to cover living costs. Students who benefit from the Studentships will receive up to £9,250 as an annual grant.

The Studentships campaign gained positive coverage in the media, including publication by The Telegraph as well as being tweeted by the Labour MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner. Tom Levinson, Head of Widening Participation at Cambridge, also tweeted, saying the scheme showed “Real demonstration of commitment towards low income students from @stjohnscam #wideningparticipation”.

Anna Menin and Louis Ashworth November 17 2016 Police are seeking witnesses after £700 belonging to Cambridge RAG was stolen from their offices on 17 Mill Lane.

The theft of three boxes containing the charity’s cash occurred at some point over the weekend, but it is not known exactly when the incident occurred.

The building, which is between Mill Lane and Silver Street, is managed jointly by CUSU and the Graduate Union. It houses both student unions.

RAG (which stands for ‘Raising and Giving’) is a student society which organises events to raise money for 10 local, national and international charities of students’ choosing. According to their Facebook page, the society raises “in the region of £100,000 each year”.

It has an Executive Committee of four student volunteers and one fulltime paid member of staff. Their most popular events include ‘Jailbreak’, in which participants are given 36 hours to get as far away from Cambridge as possible without spending any money, and ‘Blind Date’, which matches up students from both Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Speaking to Varsity, Cambridge RAG President Will McDermott confirmed that the theft had taken place, saying: “We reported the matter to the police and we are working with them.” He also appealed: “If anybody has any information please let us know.”

A police spokesperson said: “We are investigating a theft which occurred between 7:15pm on 11th November and 9:30am on 14th November in Mill Lane, Cambridge. Three charity boxes containing up to £700 were taken from the premises”. Varsity contacted CUSU and the University for comment.

▲ The door leading to RAG’s office at 17 Mill Lane

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Shocked Cantabs begin homelessness fundraising drive February 17 2017

Several colleges have voted to undertake official fundraising efforts for a homelessness charity based in Cambridge.

The campaigns came in the week following reports that Pembroke student Ronald Coyne was filmed burning a £20 note in front of a homeless man in the early hours of Thursday 2nd February.

A petition to expel Coyne from the University has since received over 23,000 signatures.

The response to the incident was immediate, with more than £4,000 raised within 24 hours for local homelessness charity Jimmy’s Night Shelter, a charity which offers accommodation and assistance to the city’s homeless and vulnerably housed residents, as well as the creation of a campaign by PhD researcher Richard Dent encouraging students to go and give £20 to the homeless.

St John’s, Queens’, Selwyn, Emmanuel, Pembroke, Peterhouse and Sidney Sussex College JCRs have all organised or are in the process of organising collections for and donating money to Jimmy’s.

Elsewhere, Girton College JCR have voted to give £100 to Jimmy’s Cambridge from their charity budget, and Christ’s College are running a series of themed formals, with the profits from ticket sales going to the same charity.

Girton’s JCR president, Joshua Peters, told Varsity: “We wanted to benefit local charities, or those that deal with issues faced by our own students, and so this year, in addition to donating 50 per cent of our budget to an as yet undecided mental health charity, we felt it would be appropriate, particularly in light of recent events, to donate to Jimmy’s.

With a lot of other JCRs and individual

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▲ Homelessness is a long-running problem in Cambridge

students, doing the same, it’s an opportunity to make a far larger impact as part of a wider movement within Cambridge than what could normally be achieved on our own. Donating to Jimmy’s also allows students to take an active role in turning a despicable act into something overwhelmingly positive.”

Ted Mackey, the president of Selwyn JCR, told Varsity that the student body were “outraged” by the incident: “We as a committee decided that due to the event itself and the recent press around it, notably from the tabloid press, and as Selwyn has one of the largest proportions of state school students, we wanted to show that students at Cambridge are kind, caring and conscientious – and that this incident is very much not the norm.” Selwyn College JCR were unable to donate directly from their charity

budget, as this money had already been donated to the charities Clic Sargent and Reading Matters.

However, the JCR’s Male Welfare Officer, Kenneth McHardy, who attended the same school as Coyne, has set up a JustGiving page for Jimmy’s Cambridge and has encouraged members of the college to donate: “We basically want to show that Coyne’s actions don’t reflect the views of students at Selwyn and Cambridge more widely.”

Pembroke College JPC have launched a ‘Cambridge £20 Homelessness Fundraiser,’ encouraging students to donate £20 to Jimmy’s Cambridge through another JustGiving page. In an email to undergraduate members of the college, Charities Officer Louis Slater said: “If we recognise our luck and come together, we can and will make a lasting positive

❝ We want to show that Coyne’s actions don’t reflect the views of students at Cambridge ❞

impact on our society.”

He also told Varsity that Cambridge students had in the past been guilty of inaction on the issue of homelessness: “Until the fundraiser was launched, people were doing very little. Now we are starting to get good responses and we hope this continues.”

In a statement on their website reacting to the note-burning incident, Jimmy’s Cambridge said: “Here at Jimmy’s we have many volunteers, friends and supporters throughout the University and colleges and we are proud of our association, not only with the student body, faculty and staff, but to all who donate by whatever means, to allow an opportunity for individuals to come in from the streets. This incident is an isolated event and it is, perhaps, more important to focus on the fact that £20 would have provided up to 20 meals for Jimmy’s guests on any given day – tangible support for those who need it most.”

Speaking to Varsity, Jimmy’s was eager to point out the positive contribution of Cambridge students to their charity in contrast with the negative image created by the Coyne incident: “We believe at Jimmy’s that the [note-burning] incident was an isolated event that is widely reported but rare in our experience of the student body. We would rather focus on the positive community action that has happened out of it.”

These are not the only student-led efforts to support Cambridge’s homeless community. Cambridge Streetbite is a project set up in 1999 by students concerned about the numbers of people living on the streets. Small groups of its volunteers distribute hot drinks and sandwiches to people living on the street.

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Human chain formed on King’s Parade in migrant solidarity LUCAS CHEBIB

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February 24 2017

Activists came together to form a ‘human chain’ on King’s Parade on Monday in solidarity with migrants in the UK and worldwide. The event, which involved individuals linking arms in front of the entrance to King’s, was organised to show support and sympathy for migrants in the UK, in response to the government’s increasingly restrictive attitude to immigration.

The human chain was linked to ‘One Day Without Us’, a national day of action organised to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK and to protest against increasing hostility.

This national campaign encouraged immigrants living in the UK to ‘boycott’ whatever activities they would normally be doing on Monday in order to demonstrate their value to society and the UK’s dependence on them. Events were held all over the country, including a protest outside the Houses of Parliament, and many like the one held in Cambridge.

One Day Without Us was also intended to coincide with the UN’s ‘World Day of Social Justice’. This aims to promote awareness of global social justice issues, such as gender inequality, a lack of workers’ rights and injustice, and encourage engagement with solutions to these problems. The theme this year is ‘Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work’.

Virginie Ganivet, who organised the protest in Cambridge, told Varsity that she had wanted to do something because she has “lots of friends who have been victims of hate crime” and it is “important to make a stand against it”.

❝ A positive antidote to the politics of hate ❞

Ganivet said protests like this are needed to pursue a “counter-narrative” to the current attitude to migrants, and especially refugees, in order to show that they are “regular people” and to send a message: “stop funding hate”. She cited organisations like ‘Migrants Organise’, which provides a platform for migrants and refugees to campaign for dignity and justice, as being vitally important for this.

Protests in the form of a ‘human chain’ are popular as demonstrations of political solidarity. On Monday they were organised all over the country, with One Day Without Us encouraging people to “link arms” in support of migrants.

Former Cambridge MP Dr Julian Hup-

pert was present at the human chain, and said of the event quite simply that “it matters”. He said that we have “a right to stand up for what we care about” and demonstrate the “huge contribution” that migrants make. Another attendee described the current situation as “appalling”, saying that it is “Britain that has caused the problem”.

The Cambridge human chain followed a protest in the city the previous day. Several individuals were invited to speak, including Huppert (who was unable to attend), Elisabeth Pope from Hope Not Hate, which describes its role as providing “a positive antidote to the politics of hate”, and Liesbeth Ten Ham from Amnesty International.

▲ The human chain assembled on King’s Parade

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May 21 2017

Dr Pippa Rogerson has been elected as the next Master of Gonville & Caius College, and will replace Sir Alan Fersht when he retires at the end of September 2018.

Rogerson, a Director of Studies in Law, will be the first female Master of Caius, raising the number of female masters at the University to 11 (provided there are no other changes before she takes up the post).

Many of Cambridge’s current female masters, such as Peterhouse incumbent Bridget Kendall, are the first women to have led their respective colleges.

Rogerson has been a fellow of Caius since her appointment in 1989, just ten years after the college began welcoming women into its fellowship. She is currently on the University Council, General Board, and committee on Cambridge’s student unions, among others.

In a statement released on the college’s intranet, Rogerson expressed her pleasure at being appointed. “I’m delighted and daunted in equal parts to have been elected Master of Caius,” she said. She paid tribute to Fersht, saying he “is a hard act to follow.”

“The college is in good shape and I’m looking forward to supporting its great tradition of excellence in education and research”, she added.

Fersht, a highly respected chemist, was also notable for his unusually high level of engagement with student politics, including opposing the abolition of Class Lists and humorously endorsing undergraduate Caian Jack Drury for CUSU presidency.

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Cambridge stands up to Trump’s travel ban

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Vice-Chancellor speaks out as 1,000 protest February 3 2017

Cambridge has spoken out against President Donald Trump’s recent travel bans, with approximately one thousand people taking to the streets in protest, and condemning statements issued by key figures in the city and University.

Last Friday, in an executive order, Trump issued immediate 90 day travel bans, preventing citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) from entering the US. The President also suspended the entire refugee admission system for 120 days and indefinitely suspended the US’s Syrian refugee programme.

There has been major national and international backlash against the response of the British government, as Theresa May has failed to openly criticise Trump and has not retracted Trump’s invitation for a state visit to the UK, despite an online petition which has already gained over 1.8 million signatories.

On Monday, crowds gathered around Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, with strong chanting and several speakers addressing the gathered group, there to protest against Trump’s ban and the UK government’s reaction.

Protesters held banners with such slogans as “Respect existence or expect resistance”, “Build bridges not walls” and “Theresa the Appeaser, let go of his (tiny) hand”. Chants included “Refugees are here to stay, let’s deport Theresa May”, and “Palestine to Mexico, all the walls

have got to go!”.

Yesterday the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, issued a statement regarding Trump’s actions: “As the head of a university whose staff is actively engaged in research collaborations around the world, I cannot accept a policy that undermines academic freedom, disrupts partnerships, and blocks the pathways to understanding between peoples, faiths and nations.”

He added, “This ban is fundamentally at odds with the values of openness, tolerance and evidence-based decisionmaking that the University of Cambridge stands for.”

He said that the ban may “curtail some of our researchers’ ability to attend academic events, work with col-

❝ I cannot accept a policy that undermines academic freedom ❞

leagues”, and insisted that Cambridge would provide guidance and support to any students or members of staff affected by the travel ban.

The MP for Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner also spoke out against Trump and Theresa May’s actions, “The travel ban is insulting and unacceptable, and there should be no question of any presidential visit to the UK while this remains in place.

“Trump’s reckless behaviour within hours of the British Prime Minister’s visit shows that the early visit by Theresa May was poorly judged. Other, more experienced leaders, who were also not so desperate to curry favour, were more sensible.”

Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat

▲▼ Protesters brandished a variety of signs as crowds gathered outside Great St Mary’s Church

politician and former MP for Cambridge, made his complaints heard at the march: “Cambridge will not stand for this. It is so alien to our values. It is unacceptable.”

He advised people to take action and openly protest Trump: “People look back on history and think, “If I were there I would have done something.” This is history and we are in it. Do something, say something, make a difference.”

A ‘Cambridge Day of Action Against Trump’, organised by Stand Up to Racism, is to be held in Market Square. It will be held on Monday 20th February, the day parliament is set to debate the petition to prevent Trump from making a state visit to the UK. On the Facebook event the organisers wrote: “We want to show loud and clear that his racist, sexist, homophobic ideology is not welcome here. Join Cambridge Stand Up to Racism in showing Theresa May what we think of her invitation to Trump.”

Several colleges sent round emails to their students with a message from the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro-Vice Chancellors of the University saying that the University has not yet identified any graduate student with permission for leave to work away, or any undergraduate student on exchange at MIT to be directly affected by the ban.

However in the email they emphasised that they are still keen to show support for anyone who is worried or otherwise impacted: “The University of Cambridge actively engages in research collaborations around the world to address global challenges. If you are concerned about the potential impact on your travel plans of new restrictions on entry to the United States please contact the International Student Team.”

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Cambridge lit up by e-Luminate festival February 17 2017

Central Cambridge has been lit up in dazzling colour for the e-Luminate Cambridge Festival.

E-Luminate, which ran from 10-15th February, was a celebration of light and the intersection between art and science. Iconic buildings, such as the Senate House and King’s Chapel, have been lit up each evening.

The festival’s theme this year was ‘Play’. The Festival Director, Alessandra Caggiano said “I am particularly excited about the theme of ‘Play’ as it allows us to shine a light onto two very important aspects of Cambridge which we had not yet fully engaged with in previous editions: gaming and sports.”

Caggiano is curating the festival with the writer Pat Kane, whose book ‘The Play Ethic’ emphasises the power and potential of play in business, culture and society.

The festival centred around a series of light installations, involving projections on to many of the historic buildings in the centre of the city.

The scale of these installations varied from small works, such as a tribute to John Venn in the entrance to Gonville & Caius College, to displays lighting up entire buildings, including St Mary’s Church and King’s Chapel. There were also special events run all over the city centre, with a concert titled ‘Dark and Light’ being held on the opening night at the Corn Exchange.

Perhaps most impressive was the installation on Senate House and the Old Schools. Named ‘Spiritus’, it involved a complex, animated visual display projected on to both buildings to create a two-sided light show. The installation also used original music.

Corpus historian wins non-fiction prize Photographs by Lucas Chebib, Qiuying Giulia Lai, Lefteris Paparounas

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February 24 2017 Corpus Christi fellow Dr Christopher de Hamel has been awarded the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016. His work ‘Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts’ claimed the prize, which rewards the best non-fiction writing. The Times Literary Supplement said of the book “the prose crackles with excitement; the descriptions are vivid, the judgements sharp and incisive.” Corpus alumnus Philippe Sands was also nominated for his East West Street.

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University history sells for £2,400 February 24 2017 A two-volume copy of A History of the University of Cambridge, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings has sold for £2,400 this week.

Estimated to have a worth between £3,000-£5,000, the books dating from 1815, were sold at Cheffins, an auctioneer.

Cheffins described the books as “rather special”, saying that they “illustrate a rare view of the University.”

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Spectators braved the rain to watch the mesmerising displays The ‘Spiritus’ piece was the work of ‘The Projection Studio’, a company that specializes in providing large-format projections. The leading artists behind it, Ross Ashton and Karen Monid, said it was a ‘fusion of the medieval and modern views of cosmology’.

According to the pair, their display is the product of a collaboration with the ‘Ordered Universe Project’, an interdisciplinary initiative that is investigating the work of medieval scientist Robert

Grosseteste. Grosseteste put forward a theory of physics in which light played a fundamental role. The artists wanted to “reflect the way the medieval mind was looking at the universe” and combine this with the imagery of modern cosmological simulations.

A particularly striking aspect of the installation is the music that accompanies the visuals. Karen Monid, who was responsible for producing this original soundtrack, said that she aimed to re-

flect this fusion of medieval and modern by combining Gregorian Chant melodies with a synthesised backdrop. She wanted people to not only see the display but be ‘able to feel it’ and ‘enjoy it for what it is’.

The festival promotes the use of ‘green’ technology and aims to showcase recent advances in photonics (the science of light), an industry which contributes £10.5 billion to the national economy.

Trinity hires hawk to clear off pests February 24 2017 Trinity College has adopted an unusual form of pest control – a Harris Hawk named Quinn. According to the Trinity website, Quinn is being used to scare away pigeons and seagulls, thus helping to keep Great Court free of excrement.

Paul Thompson, Quinn’s owner, said on the website: “The idea is to remind the pigeons that there is a bird of prey in the area, so they go somewhere else.” It has not all been plain sailing however – last week Quinn, pursuing a pigeon, stopped Trinity’s clock, requiring it to be re-set.

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After hours

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February 24 2017

The University of Cambridge Powerlifting Club (CUPLC) extended their dominant run over Oxford to record their 5th consecutive Varsity victory in front of a fervent crowd on Sunday at the University Sports Centre. Cambridge comfortably out-lifted Oxford throughout the day to claim the trophy, with the top six lifters scoring a combined 2458.92 Wilks points to Oxford’s 2316.42.

The Wilks Formula is a coefficient that can be used to measure the strength of a powerlifter against other powerlifters despite the different weights of the lifters. It creates an even playing field between light and heavyweight lifters – the lighter lifters tend to have a higher relative strength level in comparison to the heavyweight lifters, who tend to have a greater amount of absolute strength.

Cambridge’s dominance was clear from the outset with Dennis Mubaiwa, Salman Khan, and Frank Sanders all putting in impressive performances on the squat rack. Mubaiwa’s crowd-teasing antics provided the undoubted highlight of the opening round: seemingly struggling to lift 207.5kg, he admirably recovered to effortlessly complete his squat with a knowing smile and nod to the crowd, setting the tone for what would be a series of emphatic lifts for the Wolfsonian. Sanders comfortably squatted the most, displaying Herculean strength to register 242.5kg on his first lift and 262.5 on his second, beating his previous Varsity record of 260kg set last

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Cambridge win Women’s Boat Race in record time

year and setting a new club record in the process.

Club captain Salman Khan again showed his dominance once again on the deadlift where, with a casual brush of his hair behind his ears, and while talking to the judges, managed to lift 272.5kg with seemingly minimal effort.

Once again it was Frank Sanders who lifted the most overall with a 310kg deadlift. Much to the crowd’s amazement, he attempted to break his previous record of 320kg by attempting a 325kg deadlift – and using most of the plates in the process – he was, however, unsuccessful in his final lift of the day although his efforts elicited the loudest response of the afternoon.

Elsewhere, Suzanne Goulder put in an outstanding overall performance, besting her previous competition record by an astounding 17.5kg with a 112.5kg squat, 65kg bench press, and a 140kg deadlift for a 317.5kg total and 347.3 Wilks points to achieve a half-Blue, while three new athletes, Zakir Khokher, Giovanni Braghieri and Kevin Tan, managed to achieve full Blues with Wilks scores of over 375.

▲ Dennis Mubaiwa’s performance lit up a winning outing for the Cambridge Powerlifting Club

Speaking exclusively to Varsity, Dennis Mubaiwa expressed his frustration at his own personal performance: “I thought I made incredible progress with my bench-press during training, I only managed to legally press 140kg. Based on my training, I should have managed at least 155kg.” He continued: “it would have been nice for Cambridge to lockout the top three for Cambridge, but the Oxford captain [Jamie Vickers] just beat me out so I ranked 3rd in the team behind Frank ‘The Tank’ Sanders and Sal ‘King’ Khan”.

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April 2 2017

For the first time since 2012 Cambridge have won the Women’s Boat Race, having set a record time of 18 minutes and 33 seconds on the Thames this afternoon.

Oxford were left trailing behind by some 20 lengths after a dreadful start in which Rebecca Esselstein caught a crab on the first stroke.

Perhaps taking some by surprise, Cambridge won the toss and chose the Surrey bend that had brought Oxford so much joy in the inaugural double-header in 2016. The Middlesex bend is a popular choice for crews who want to start and finish the race on the front foot, and the starting advantage that Cambridge had handed their rivals suddenly turned into a dead weight when Esselstein dragged her oar deep through the Thames right on the starting flag. Cambridge’s start, in contrast, could hardly have been better, and within a minute they found themselves an unassailable three lengths ahead.

It was a far cry from last year, which ended with the umpires ordering Cambridge to stop the race. On the Thames this afternoon they were flawless, leaving an admittedly hamstrung Oxford team a blip on the horizon of the London tideway.

Unlike Oxford, Cambridge put out a crew with previous

experience in this event, and they put that know-how to the best possible use to open a ten second lead within four and a half minutes. Heading under the Hammersmith Bridge seven minutes in, there was already no way back for an Oxford crew whose race ended before it even began.

After Hammersmith, Cambridge were free to pick their spot and row their own race, drifting over to the easier waters of the north bank, guided there by the excellent coxing of 19 year old Matthew Holland. The Westminster alumnus had guided his crew to a ten-length lead by Barnes Bridge. And so to victory under Chiswick Bridge, one thoroughly deserved after a performance as imperious as this. Last year’s monkey was well and truly off the back, and for the very first time, CUWBC stepped onto the banks of the Thames as champions of the Boat Race.

Cambridge’s Anna Dawson spoke about the joy of the second-breaking result, telling Varsity: “That is just the icing on the cake! That is fabulous, we’ve had an amazing season, we’ve got a great group of girls, and to be honest it’s just an incredible experience all round. There’s so much history, just being a part of it is just amazing, and topping it off with a win is just the perfect end to this amazing campaign”

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Review of the year

Interview Amatey Doku

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t’s an interesting time for Amatey Doku. He is in the twilight of his CUSU career; a president-elect (and college daughter in the Doku dynasty) hovers in the wings; and a senior post in the NUS awaits. However, as he observes wryly, “my job is firefighting 90 per cent of the time”.

Presently, the fires show no sign of abating. The NUS remains discredited after the débâcle of the Bouattia presidency. Closer to home, CUSU is in a financial crisis, having recently voted to run at a deficit of £75,000 for the next financial year – the first time that the Union has ever opted to run at a loss.

Before considering the challenges which lie ahead, I ask him to identify his presidency’s successes. “With this job, it can be very difficult to find everyday successes,” he explains, “because many of the changes you make only bear fruit a year or two down the line.”

“In terms of union development, our new constitution and standing orders are the biggest things I can take responsibility for. They lay the foundations for what CUSU can do.” He is also proud of Cambridge’s progress on the Race Equality Charter: “to hear senior member of the university confronting these issues, saying there are problems, has been a real highlight of my time”.

Picking out regrets is a harder task. After a long pause, he says slowly: “I regret not taking more time, before I started, to set down more concretely things I wanted to do. The reality is, though, it doesn’t matter what you put down, it will have

to change.” Take note, Daisy Eyre.

Irrespective of Doku’s regrets – or lack of them – his presidency has resulted in a huge promotion of CUSU’s public profile, through new Facebook profiles, spamming college groups and adventures in AmateyLive. I put it to him that he has inspired a ‘cult of Amatey’.

He laughs: “I’m not sure I would describe it as a cult! And I certainly cannot take credit for the meme-ification of Cambridge this year. Memebridge isn’t an organisation funded by CUSU to promote the CUSU president. It’s just been a very weird aspect of my year, although it does no harm.”

It certainly hasn’t done any harm.

In fact, Doku’s public image management is indicative of his abilities as a consummate politician. His delivery is

excellent and he has mastered his brief better than certain members of the Labour front bench; he certainly does better interviews. He deploys politicians’ commonplaces with ease: “let me be very clear” and “if we knuckle down to it” are his favourites.

As the incoming NUS Vice President for Higher Education, Doku will soon have a national platform for those skills. Given that this position will coincide with the opening of the Brexit negotiations and progress on Higher Education reform, I ask him what his priorities are.

The answer is “damage control”. Although, as he points out, the Higher Education and Research Bill has passed into legislation, he wants to “make strategic alliances across the sector to mitigate the worst aspects of the Bill.”

“There’s also going to be an independent review into the TEF and whether it should be linked to fees. [The NUS] needs to be at the forefront of that.”

On Brexit, Doku wants government assurances against “any dramatic rise in fees for EU students who have been admitted in last few years” and further guarantees on the funding for future research collaborations.

More broadly, he advocates “reaching out” to student unions across Europe.

Doku’s internationalist pitch suggests that all is quiet on the NUS’ domestic front. The only hint of criticism in his reply is a passing observation that the previous leadership team was “distracted”.

Pressing him on the issue, I ask whether “distracted” is the polite term for “disastrous”, courtesy of the contentious nature of the outgoing president and the Union’s penchant for attracting news attention for all the wrong reasons.

“Yes…” he begins, very slowly. “I think it’s good that we have fresh leadership.

I did not support Malia Bouattia’s presidency. She’s struggled to shift attention away from herself and concerns about anti-Semitism, leaving the NUS unable to talk about wider issues. That said, she has not necessarily been supported in the best way either.” He points to the “huge infighting in the top team” and press “exposés” to explain why the “reputation of the Union is suffering.”

Then he begins the counter-attack: “despite those concerns, there is a narrative about students which is very unhelpful which has allowed the government

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to make changes to higher education without significant challenge.”

He cites a number of problems: “students fees are going through the roof; there are huge welfare concerns; the impact of Brexit; a 26 per cent black attainment gap”.

“But whenever students come in the news, it’s about no-platforming and safe spaces,” he argues. “This is an unhelpful, entirely irrelevant narrative about students which delegitimises all their other concerns.”

The final topic for discussion is the sticky issue of CUSU’s finances and organisation.

Rather than discussing the present funding difficulties directly, Doku instead argues that the University needs to give CUSU more money. “The really important thing is that the university is not giving students the student union it deserves. If you compare the amount of money that other universities of our size and reputation give to their unions, Cambridge is right at the bottom.”

Drawing the interview to a close, Doku adds a final comment. “I just want to pay tribute to the other sabbatical officers.

This job can take quite a significant toll on those officers personally. Because CUSU doesn’t have an army of support staff, we have to deal with an awful lot ourselves… This job is much harder than doing a Cambridge degree.”

No doubt Doku’s new job in the NUS will be even more challenging. As he smiles and sees me out, though, I sense that he is quite ready for it.

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Review of the year

spotlight on race

Microcosm or alma mater?

the way that they were.” accuracy” as a justification for his 2015 The representation of ethnic minoriall-white cast of the Wars of the Roses. ties and culturally diverse stories is perHad he done a quick search for the Aftinent for Stephanie. She tells me about rican people in British society as early her experience acting in Behind the Beau- Emperor Hadrian (though why not start tiful Forevers in 2014, a play adapted by with Saint Adrian, Berber abbot in CanDavid Hare (a Cambridge graduate, of terbury in 710AD), maybe he would have course) from Katherine Boo’s book of learnt a bit about Britain. the same name, set in Mumbai. “From During our conversation we talked the outset they did a very aggressive often about the ‘institutions’ and the marketing campaign to the Asian press, ‘establishment’ that she had felt cut inviting them to rehearsals and lots of off from, referring to both London and lots of interviews. Rufus [Norris] knew Cambridge. She has great motivation for that because it was a new play by David invoking this terminological bridge. “UnHare, it would be from the outset an surprisingly, the people who presided audience of people who wanted to see over those [Cambridge theatre] instituDavid Hare’s new play.” tions are running the big institutions out This admirable perseverance to in the real world now. You know, Josie achieve diversity on stage and in the Rourke was president of the ADC in my seats certainly had a demonstrable ef- year, Simon Godwin was president of the fect. “It started out with the ADC when I was a first-year. white Hampstead middleYou kind of watch that path class audience who were asto becoming a leading light tounded that the stage was There were more in the real world.” full of brown people and that It would surprise me, f ****** dead though, if anybody involved none of the play at any point transferred to North West people than in Cambridge theatre right London, you could tell. Lots now would describe thembrown people selves as part of the ‘estabmore people left the show at the interval in the early half lishment’. That is perhaps of the run, not many, but it why the lack of BME reprewas really tangible.” sentation has been so hard Despite the eventual success at diver- to budge for good – no individual stusifying this particular national audience, dent really believes that they are part there is a demonstrable lack of continof the problem. The problem, however, ued interest in, and understanding of, is tangible. And so it’s on the Camdiversity from influential figures. The bridge stage that I’d like you to join me writer Sir David Hare is the same man next week – where not only does exwho only a few days ago claimed that porting Cambridge theatre buoyed by European practices were “infecting” Brit- those who’ve come before cause issues ish theatre. of accessibility, but importing profesLasting change is not likely to come sional London’s standards and from men adapting stories of culstories, with all their problems, tures they know about from afar plays a role in the discouraging as a token gesture to those who scene many students of colour have not been supported by experience today. the system as luckily as they ◀ Cantabs have. Sir Trevor Nunn, of a Josie Rourke similar influential theatre and ▶Tom standing, uses the perenHiddleston nial claim of “historical

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ere we go again, right? I make no mistake in thinking I’m the first to write in Varsity about race and Cambridge theatre. At some point, while going through the archives, I stopped wondering about all the things that need to change, and started thinking about how to change them. This series of articles aims to get to those answers, and I propose to begin on the professional London stage. It’s 2015 at the Olivier, all plush purple seats and circular stage, in the National Thea-

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tre. We’re at the Act For Change Project debate: actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is grilling NT artistic director Rufus Norris on diversity quotas, and it’s the first time I’m in a theatre audience that features people who look like me.

Stephanie Street, the co-founder of this movement, set out to address growing dissatisfaction with the scarce opportunities for BME actors, LGBTQ actors, actors with disabilities and older actors, on stage and screen. I spoke to Stephanie, actor, writer and Cambridge graduate, about her professional theatre

▲ The 2014 production of ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’

experience, the Cambridge stage, and what prompted her to start this campaign. “It was one thing in particular that really got us all together”, she tells me.

“Danny [Lee Wynter, fellow actor and co-founder] posted on Facebook having seen this ITV drama trailer, which featured not a single actor of a colour, but two dead actors. There were more fucking dead people than brown people.

He reached out to a few people in the industry and it kind of built from that really. We had no agenda apart from the fact that things absolutely could not stay

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rriving at Christ’s is something we will never forget. It is amazing how quickly College became home, with friendships that lasted through the tentative first chatter and the terrible nights out. These were cemented pretty fast

by Freshers’ activities, including a trip to Funky Fun House (a children’s play area, essentially) and an Assassins tournament across the year group. Time moves fast in Cambridge – an 8 week term passes in a blur, before rushing your last deadline, heading to bop and going home a few days later to catch up on sleep. It is unbelievable to think that we have completed nine of those eight-week rushes, and now for most of us our time here is over.

We’ve worked hard, but done so many amazing things. In sport CCAFC were plate winners in 2015–16, and the Netball team made a rapid ascendancy from Division 3 to Division 1. The Cricket team won Cuppers 2015 in an unexpected victory, and the Women’s Boat Club won Bumps in 2015, taking headship of the river and making history with a boat-burning ceremony in Third Court. Our Chapel Choir have had amazing tours to Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, as well as releasing their Christmas from Christ’s CD and recording another disc for release soon. CCMS have also been central to college life, boasting record attendance at their concerts and recitals, as well as a change of vibe for Voices who ventured into David Bowie and Queen. CADS have been astonishingly successful, delivering outrageous pantomimes year on year, as well as a booked-out A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Fellows’ Garden and The Tempest, the first play in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre to use a full set.

Our time at Christ’s has seen students driving for change on issues they are passionate about. The re-founding of the

Lady Margaret Society, which aims to raise the profile of female alumni and students of Christ’s and discuss women’s issues in general, has resulted in discussion groups, dinners and a concert of music by female composers. Students have also fought for the fair representation of gender and ethnicity throughout College in portraiture.

In Upper Hall, Szeming Sze (co-founder of the World Health Organisation) and Mary Redmond (our first female Fellow) are now represented. Furthermore, the apartheid legacy of famed Christ’s alumnus Jan Smuts has been discussed and critiqued, and steps are being taken to represent in portrait Davidson Nicol, the first black African Fellow at the University; a poet, medic and high level UN diplomat are amongst his numerous positions. Historical awareness throughout the student body at Christ’s has resulted in hugely positive changes being made, and change also extends as far as the kitchens. A particularly memorable early formal with a vegetarian option of mushrooms on toast, has now been replaced with a delicious variety of options.

Long may it continue.

Of course, alongside all of this work, we have also had an enormous amount of fun.

Sunbathing in the Fellows’ Garden, jumping in the pool (including the incredible Chaplain’s Teas during exam term!), running to Life en masse in the colder months, and barbecues on Jesus Lane will always be remembered. Bop costumes have unfailingly delivered pretty bizarre but imaginative results. The May Ball in 2016 was an incredible effort from an inspiring student committee, boasting headline act The Hoosiers, and was a really amazing night. After three years of essays, bops, formals and Lola’s, many of us feel ready to try something new; but we will never forget our time at Christ’s.

Maisie Hulbert

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D.Elias Rabling J.T.K.Adams D.Adeyemi S.J.Andersson Y.A.Aslam A.C.Atkinson A.B.Bahram A.J.Bailey S.Bansal S.J.Bates S.Benham B.S.Beresford-Jones V.Berg V.M.Bird Ruiz-Benitez De Lugo L.R.Blake S.B.Bodanis A.G.Boulton F.G.L.Brown P.K.Chatterjee M.M.X.Cheah G.J.Cheuk C.J.E.Clarke C.C.Cliff W.A.Crosby T.J.Cruickshank H.C.Dallas J.R.Davies T.Dean A.Dent K.N.Dodhia J.P.Duluc S.J.Dunbavin F.T.Egan S.K.M.Fardin E.A.Farrow O.P.B.Faust C.G.Ferguson K.R.M.Fisher A.S.Ghelani H.A.R.Giles T.P.Gordon S.Graeff Buhl-Nielsen J.K.Graham E.J.Gray R.N.Green W.Hajee-Adam X.Hao C.A.Hard G.W.Harding-Perrott G.Harker C.Holm M.Hoskinson M.E.Hulbert G.S.Hurst A.J.Ioannou J.Jarvis B.Jin B.Kang K.Kapoor K.Kulathevanayagam M.Y.Lai Z.Lakota-Baldwin R.C.Last M.Latinis M.V.Lisboa de Paula S.L.Love V.K.Markeviciute C.Marsh A.E.Marshall K.Matsumoto H.McTernan V.G.Midha I.E.J.Mifsud R.Miller D.Morar M.A.Morrison R.Murray-Watson T.R.Neill P.Nyame-Satterthwaite C.O’Neill L.Pallett A.F.Palmer-Newton S.L.Pedersen A.Piatt V.Popa-Nimigean H.C.M.Preedy F.Rahman A.Reeds P.K.Rennert D.A.Robertson C.Robinson J.Ross A.W.Sage O.H.B.Sayeed L.N.C.Scully Y.M.Shin G.Shiralagi M.M.Sholaya E.Silberbrandt J.Smith D.Snoek J.S.Snowden K.M.J.Sørensen T.O.P.Stone L.D.Stuart-Bourne M.Sugiyama M.Y.Tan A.R.Tanna R.Taylor-Davies R.A.Tilley T.P.Tiplea H.Tippell C.Tong H.E.Turnbull R.P.Tynan T.Weatherley V.Wong Kah Ong Y.Wu D.R.Yates S.J.C.Agnew S.J.Aitken N.Amin-Wetzel L.Arffa C.J.Bagge E.Balmas A.Barry G.Battistoni R.Bielik S.R.Burke D.S.H.Chan X.Chee Wezen E.D.Chen Y.Chung M.C.De Ridder S.Engelke X.Fernández-Real Girona A.Feylessoufi G.W.Foot J.V.Garrido Escobar Y.Gong R.Guan I.T.Harrison Louth E.A.Hayward H.C.J.Ho J.E.J.Holm H.B.Hopkin J.T.Jacques P.A.Jiminez Etcheverria C.G.Kleynhans E.T.M.Lanteri D.R.Lesner S.Lin N.E.D.Lyons W.Mak B.McKenna-Wang M.McMillan J.Montali K.Nechayeva T.F.Niven J.Payne J.A.Pollock M.T.Z.Recalde D.J.Reutter M.O.W.Robinson A.Rossouw G.G.Rutledge A.N.Schaffman T.M.G.Schepers V.E.Stewart-Jolley M.Storgaard M.G.Stovell R.L.Stroud J.H.B.Sturge J.Sui S.K.Tadesse R.E.C.Turvey E.Vigorito D.Vogt Rev.Dr.B.C.Randall Dr.R.E.Hunt Prof.F.P.Kelly Dr.A.T.Winter Mr.K.Cash S.Wang T.J.Wells D.C.Wirthensohn J.Wynn Y.Xu J.Zakrzewski M.Zhang Y.Zhang M.Zhao M.Zhu

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clearly remember two things about that fateful first Saturday. The first was offering Millie Foy help with her luggage, as she bravely entered the barren expanse of South Court for the first time. She was alright; but her parents still ask about ‘that nice boy from Churchill’ every time she goes home. Karma point to Robert. The second was sharing a large jug of extremely blue liquid with Cat Weston in Spoons. A less wise decision. Minus one point.

Three years ago, we walked through the courtyards of this brutalist college for the first time, wondering if we’d ever call it home. Sure, it boasted about its ‘community’ feel on the website. But would we make friends? Would we form bonds?

Would we find our place here?

Even in our first week we faced trials, as we were grossly misled about the popularity of PAV. As it morphed into a strange heavy metal night (that was a scary walk to the bar at 10pm), we began to work like never before, gradually realising what we’d gotten ourselves into. They say time flies when you’re having fun. It breaks the sound barrier when you’re knee-deep in reading and your essay deadline was three hours ago.

But we endured, arriving at our first exam term. There are few better ways to create mutual bonds than being cooped up in a library together, collectively trying to defend our books from the librarian’s 10am prowl. It’s only through solidarity that you survive a Cambridge exam term; that and the biscuits that appeared twice daily outside the library.

Second year arrived, as we naively told ourselves we wouldn’t repeat the mistakes of last year (lol). For most of us, formals and the bar provided the greatest refuge from work. Though the former rarely provided a chocolate based desert (why not?) and the latter was frequently packed with rowdy

conference guests, it was in these places that we began to find our closest friends.

Together, we attended a second Spring Ball, which included the unique and unnerving experience of a roaming Basshunter, with a drunken, sleep-deprived Edward George trying to keep him in check. Swedish companionship at its finest.

Second year also featured the appearance of the fabled Crepe Bar. For seven glorious weeks during exam term, every lunch was accompanied with the option of either a savoury or sweet packet of pure, unequivocal joy. Compared to the normal standard of hall, where a meal was accompanied by a gallon of oil, copious amounts of cheese, or a dreaded Turkey Escalope, we were truly blessed to have experienced this luxury.

With third year, our friendships strengthened and our degrees tried to finish us off. We all know how stressful Cambridge is; every one of us has stumbled at some point. And this is what I think Churchill has taught us above all, in a way that I cannot sum up in a few hundred words. No matter how much you love what you do, no matter how good you are at it, and no matter how ‘fine’ any one person may seem, everyone has a moment where they’re not sure if they can go on. The only way to persevere is through the support of others; through our fellow Churchillians, peers, and friends. When we look back on our memories of Churchill, we see hard times for sure. But we also see experiences forged with friends, happy occasions when we laughed for hours on end for no reason at all. It is not the place, subject or work that we will remember. It’s the people.

Robert Smyth

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V.Aggarwal J.Allford P.Amin S.Amin A.Archer N.Ash J.Atkinson I.Bica A.bin Ma’arouf J.S.Bland E.K.Bouttell H.Bowstead S.Bradford T.Broatch S.Brown M-P.Brunet D.Buglass J.Cammack S.Carlotti H.Cassidy W.Che M-H.Chiang D.Chouchena C.Y.Chua P.Ciezarek M.Copot W.Crabtree R.Croft P.Cuthbert A.Devereux J.Dexter C.Djali K.Dodds N.Doshi R.Driscoll H.Duherich K.Edwards S.Emge M.Evagora-Campbell J.Evans E.Farrar N.Fernandez Lojo C.Fong E.Foy A.Garner M.Gillow A.Girach T.Gittings L.Gledhill-Flynn A.Gorbatch L.Gray J.Grogan M.Gupta F.Hamilton S.Herniman J.Hiorns M.Hollands H.Holt A.Howarth S.Huang M.Ioannou C.Irving S.Johnson L.Jones M.Jones-Casey I.Kang B.Kemp N.Kertesz A.Komber A.Kotta H.Lau J.Lee S.Lee J.Lewis M.Li J.Mainwaring N.Malky S.Mann S.Martin J.Mash J.Mathieson W.Meikle S.Metcalf N.Michael Z.Mitha J.Morell L.Morgan O.Morlaas B.Naccarato D.Nagy N.Neggatu I.Nikolaev L.Novovic T.Nuttall M.Oades S.Oakley J.Patchett I.Petcu T.Petrides T.Phillips R.Platts H.Poon I.Rosa J.Qureshi L.Sappa Cohen R.Savadia C.Sayers J.Scarth N.Seetaloo M.Seete A.Sekaran D.Shah E.Sharples L.Shillaber H-H.Shin R.Smyth D.Stanley C.Sun K.Surman J.Talas N.Taylor A.Terki-Mignot E.Thorfinn George H.Tidd L.Tomlinson A.Tong D.Warburton E.Ward M.Weber C.Welsh C.Weston J.Westwood P.Wickerson O.Wilkins E.Wolverson T.Woodman L.Wren P.Wulff A.Yala L.Yates Y.Zhang

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eing at Clare is not the same experience for everyone. The crack of dawn illustrates this, as, across College, boaties getting up for the day bump into arts students going to bed, both groups filled with horror after briefly considering the others’ lifestyle. In the lumpen darkness of the sleeping world the names above students’ doors are just readable. Names of mathmos and englings, names of choral scholars and people from state schools, names of Lobsters and Crabs and Bears and those who managed to get through three years without succumbing to the call of the hoon. The students of Clare are vibrantly distinct. But we are all united in one glorious achievement: we were Lord Grabiner’s first.

The sun rising on Clare College reveals many things: the flowers of Fellows’ Garden, the nutant willow dipping its branches into the river, the “emissaries from the outside world” walking straight into students’ bedrooms as though we were a particularly academic petting zoo. Of course, for the light to actually be shining on Old Court means it’s already midday, as King’s Chapel blocks the sun till then, and you’ve slept through your 9am again.

A day at Clare is full of the noises of student life. Friends bump into each other on the bridge. First years politely ask if they can come into the LCR. The publishing press for Clareification whirrs. Oh, wait, it’s stopped. No, it’s going again. Oars clack on the river as our rowers leave Bumps with their very own oar, and meaty thwacks resonate from the playing fields as the girls win football cuppers, and the rugby players take down Johns on the route to the finals.

The College is almost 700 years old, but it’s a young 700. The evening is when it comes to life. Clare Ents is the best beginning to any night, but no more than 250 in Cellars at a time please or the College

will self-destruct, and be out by midnight, or the carriage will turn back into a pumpkin, while cellars will revert to a slum.

Because we have one of the only student run college bars, the stone colds are served to friends from friends, while the bar staff make soberish observations about college life, such as ‘No one sings as badly while drunk as choir members’, ‘at least 1/3 of the answers to the Freshers’ Quiz have to be ‘David Attenborough’’, or debating whether Callum Wheeler’s three year domination of Pie & Pint is the College’s greatest athletic achievement.

As the waters of the Cam turn from typhoid brown to shimmering black, the faded light shows the sun has set on our time at Clare. Unless you’re doing a long degree or postgrad, in which case, have fun and try not to become Andy Wedlake (6 years at Clare and counting). But Clare isn’t just the time you’ve spent here; it’s the effect of that time. Some years in the future, when we are big shot lawyers, and corrupt politicians, and penniless artists living off the taxes of the big shot lawyers, I hope we have the time to look back, and recognise the significance of the smallest of actions.

The society introduction that became a passion. The friend who made you tea. The supervisor who changed your way of seeing things one thought at a time. Rubbing David Attenborough’s nose.

Looking forward, it seems that there are many choices to be made. There is really just one: all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Per ardua ad astra. – Lady Elizabeth de Clare Alex King

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S.Corcoran A.Peel K.P.O.Emden C.R.Clark L.Wills S.Wang R.E.Hamer R.A.Boxall O.J.Brenner C.K.Dunn H.Wang E.J.Warner M.Lonngren Sampaio S.Bharmal A.M.Krzak A.C.E.Popescu T.O.Mendel B.Delaney S.Ingledew A.J.Price J.J.L.Cao A.W.S.Carmichael H.Spiro A.C.Hull C.Hu J.K.Spence A.R.Brown F.de Falbe J.Ward-Zinski A.M.Turay J.Hughes-Nind T.A.Rossberg M.Z.L.Wong C.A.C.Mallin Martin O.Dutton M.McCann A.Singh A.McKeever R.Liu T.Tavares de Wand Q.Marrou A.T.Harrison Z.D.Hardman M.J.Wood C.Hill M.J.G.Coates S.Whitby H.Richardson L.Connolly I.C.Johnston C.K.Calver A.Porteous T.Anwar T.Kambil E.Dunstone E.G.Chapman N.K.Wittig C.B.Warke B.Hickman L.Rogers I.Schmartz H.H.Holms B.Lindsay C.E.Bradshaw I.Iago L.F.Popplewell C.S.Hooper J.E.Higson A.Vasenin G.E.Pinder S.Mishra E.M.Pulver M.L.R.English T.Storey M.J.G.Mordaunt A.E.Tlalim G.Barber A.Veerappan J.Cowie S.Newby L.Nart L.Monahan E.Farinre G.M.Steele A.King O.E.Webster L.H.Jacobs J.H.Johnston J.Adams D.Massey G.Lennox S.H.K.Swan A.Daly J.Penaliggon F.Haghighi-Daly M.J.I.K.Jami Y.Hemrich J.P.Henderson M.M.Simpson G.F.Isbister A.Kelly C.M.Johansen M.C.Li H.B.E.Newman R.Taylor F.J.Benham-Crosswell O.J.P.Erogbogbo J.Riley J.R.Shah G.G.Brown T.M.Begum E.Fawcett O.Taylor A.C.Tindall E.R.Boldron C.E.Morrallee I.Mellor A.Clark S.X.Gatzionis J.L.Lindley E.Hegarty J.F.Newman K.A.Wilkinson S.Hallamasek E.E.Lewis Y.Zhang Y.Lu E.Strudley R.A.Newhouse H.Musgrave R.A.R.Vince A.M.F.E.Tolentino S.H.Needleman I.McEwen E.Smith J.E.Gard U.Zahid C.McGarry T.L.Waters M.Nixon A.Fieldgate Dr.A.Stillman Dr.A.Preston Dr.T.Chesters Ms.J.Wyburd Dr.P.Fara Lord.T.Grabiner Dr.C.Weiss Dr.R.Harris Mr.A.Johnston Revd.Dr.G.Seach Dr F. Parker L.G.Evans J.C.Parham R.A.Young C.Wheeler J.Landman M.P.A.Mehta A.B.Phillips

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Clare Hall

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t doesn’t take long to realise that Clare Hall is a little different to other colleges. It also doesn’t take long to notice that Clare Hall is a pretty special community.

We are a small but incredibly close knit group and not just within our student population. Here at Clare Hall, students, Fellows, Life Members and staff are actively encouraged to learn from each other.

Whether this is at a seminars or one of our many student-fellows events (who can say no to whiskey tasting?) or even just because you were lucky enough to be sat together at formal dinner – we’re constantly interacting and socialising.

Each year we are represented by a fantastic GSB; who go above and beyond to make every year as unforgettable as the last. We’ve had many memorable (or not so memorable) parties in the infamous ALB, with games of beer pong aplenty and decorations galore. ‘Werewolves’ has become a staple of Clare Hall life, studentfellow dinners are a must and we’ve even navigated a few impressive quiz nights. This year has also been the start of a renewed relationship with our sister college from the other place - St Cross College, Oxford.

It’s not just the events that are put on that make our GSB special each year but the dedication to improve the college and the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Whether it’s to make the college a greener or more inclusive place, or to be a better place to come for welfare advice – each year the students of Clare Hall pull out all the stops and this year has been no different.

We are so privileged to have met so many amazing people here at Clare Hall and, while it is a terrible cliché, it really is the people that make a place. There are the Fellows who have taught us so much and shared their life experiences with us (a real-life witchcraft trial must be a highlight). The friendly Porters who are

always there to say hello and let us back in when we’ve locked ourselves out. The staff who work so hard to maintain the wonderful environment here at Clare Hall and always make us smile (Pat – we’re looking at you!). Then there’s you – our fellow students. Students who have become friends for life, who have supported each other through the challenge of post-graduate studies and who have each brought something unique to our college.

Whether you’ve only been a part of the Clare Hall family for a Master’s year or been one of the lucky few to have an extended stay as a PhD student, we hope that you know that you have been part of what makes the place very special. As you start your next chapters, we hope that you will look back at your time here with fondness.

Thank you for being part of Clare Hall.

Fiona Allcock and Sophie Calvert

2016 MATRICULATION/Lafayette Photography

Y.Huang A.Alici H.Nakamura J.R.Peck R.A.Jones A.M.Stock T.Xie J.M.Miller J.Regan J.Womack E.Urban S.Agrawal R.Alexander C.P.Morgan M.J.Aznar-Gómez J.C.Burton R.Ricciuti D.S.Ou J.Jaykka D.A.Street A.Brewer Y.Burstein H.Jung A.M.Bolea M.Menashe S.Kurdi M.Balajanov H.G.Park N.Law N.Guigui Y.L.Huang N.Nuseibeh A.Jones L.Ng J.Rivest D.Mukherjee A.Datta P.P.Masina M.C.Chiapero F.Spalding L.Engelmann N.Iwata C.Taltavull C.N.Schlaffner N.Huguenin-Dezot A.Fernandez A.Barclay L.Butti J.M.Cavalcante De Albuquerque X.Wang R.Pakbaz H.Ding A.S.Guimaraes C.Reigadas L.Tantardini D.A.Jolowicz M.S.Zarepour T.Street A.D.Mitchell D.Zaring M.Cekic L.R.D.Souza S.D.Svikovic K.Jahanshahi C.Pelló A.Gomulkiewicz L.Basaguren H.Mogstad E.Kneuss N.T.Jessen D.L.Gosling M.J.Evans W.P.McClanahan III E.J.Fleming T.Coorens L.Tang E.Collins G.M.Dimitri A.Fakeeh A.Chaouch Y.J.Khong G.M.Sechrist L.Brassington A.Herrmann K.A.Anderson R.S.Wells E.J.Ramsden I.A.Hills A.Motrescu-Mayes R.M.Luff J.D.Barrow C.A.Short J.A.Walker G.Cass S.R.R.Bourne D.J.Ibbeston I.S.Black P.Wadhams E.W.Garnsey S.Kar-Narayan G.T.G.Byng H.Pennant J.D.Mortenson C.H.Müller M.Janson A.M.Greenaway

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Corpus Christi College

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hen the 2015 Corpus Freshers’ Play acquired the name ‘Life Is A Roller-Ghoster’, there could hardly have been a more fitting name to reflect the ups and the downs that three (or four) years at Corpus would bring. It is impossible to do justice to everyone’s varied experiences in such a small amount of space, but there are a number of things worth reminiscing about.

The bonding experience of Freshers’ Week is now a distant memory. We have buried the nervous panic from seeing the older years leaning out of their Old Court windows by doing the exact same thing ourselves. Long forgotten is the awkward mingling in the Master’s Lodge as the JCR committee tried to force small-talk out of us and sandwiches into us. Unfortunately, however, that first, sweat-filled trip to Sunday Life will remain etched on our memories for years to come.

We have come a long way since all the Saturday Dominoes in Michaelmas where too many of us crowded into one person’s room in a desperate bid to find our next BFFs. We have witnessed the first Gender Equalities Officer, the first flying of the LGBT+ flag, the first picture of a woman to go up in Hall, the first Bop-Swap, the first Marriage Formal and, most importantly, Anindya Sharma’s first experience of snow.

Meanwhile, we almost saw the last of the Pelican’t.

More recently, when Memebridge deemed us ‘irrelevant’, we gasped with outrage and made every effort we could to change this.

Elinor Lipman and Micha Frazer-Carroll fought their way onto the Tab’s Top 100 BNOCs. Some of us even got a few shoutouts on Crushbridge. But then came the cherry on top, when our ‘ridiculous’ guest policy made front page news and people from other colleges actually remembered we existed for a whole weekend.

Corpus is certainly a unique and special place, as is befitting the only college eccentric enough to stick a grasshopper, sorry, chronophage, on top of a light up clock. ‘Bops’ are too mainstream, and so is CUSU. Other special attractions include the marvellous ‘bin-man’: he seemed really cool for a week, or maybe even a fortnight, but it did not take long for his ‘music’ to start to grate.

But despite, or maybe because of, all its quirks, our years at Corpus have given us heaps of fond memories. The college has been a picturesque backdrop for forming what will hopefully be life-long friendships, and for many it has been a place we can call home.

Now it is time to stride, or perhaps shuffle hesitantly, into the outside world.

We must congratulate ourselves on timing our graduation so impeccably, leaving just before all the disruption of refurbishing the kitchens. When we come back for reunions, we will receive all the benefits of the brand new equipment, without having experienced any of the disadvantages. I look forward to seeing many of you again at these reunions, if not before.

Flis O’Toole

Lafayette Photography

S.Bekker R.E.Best T.P.M.Bevan B.Blayney E.J.Bodger C.Booth R.J.Bowman B.T.Brown L.C.Busby E.Butt O.P.J.Canessa M.Chaldecott T.A.Chalklen D.H.Christopher J.A.Congdon I.D.W.Cowan D-E.Cozma J.O.Cross-Zamirski L.E.Crowe K.Curran S.E.H.Dickson T.Ekeh J.P.Emery G.Erskine R.Evans D.I.Fernando M-A.Filip C.Fourmaux M.Frazer-Carroll M.Galbraith C.Gifford S.O.C.Glanfield E.R.Graham E.W.L.Grogan I.C.I.Hadjisavvas A.Hammond J.J.S.Hanlon B.Hanson T.Hartnett E.A.Hawkins F.Ho G.Hopes J.J.Hoyle L.L.Hulsroj C.J.Jenner S.A.H.Johns H.Jones S.Kannan J.E.Kenyon M.M.Khadem H.Khalid K.R.Kini E.Y.H.Kok C.A.L.Leach M.K.Lewis H.K.Lim E.Lipman Y.Liu B.Mackworth A.Mainzer J.J.Masehi-Lano A.P.Matthews E.G.Z.McKelvey L.McKeown Z.E.Morris A.Nagpal R.H.Newton P.A.Newton-Jackson F.S.O’Toole C.S.Olver R.Oreffo E.E.Page M.E.Parkin V.Parmar A.Patel H.Prasad M.T.Prindezis G.H.Ransome A.Rees I.M.Richardson D.Rowlands I.Ryan I.S.Savova B.Seddon C.O.Seymour A.Sharma F.R.Skakel R.A.Speed L.C.Stevenson-Jones S.Subramonian I.Turney Mr.S.Laing Dr.M.Frasca-Spada P.B.Vo Z.Wang B.Waters M.C.Welsh E.Wheatcroft S.Wilson K.Wong Y.Zhu

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Darwin College

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y now you will know this to be true: Darwin College is the first and best graduate college in Cambridge. Darwin is known to be one of the friendliest colleges with some 680 students from over 80 countries, so even if you did not meet everyone you will surely have met quite a diverse group of people. Whether you are graduating after being here since October or after having been here a few years (clearly to prolong your stay at Darwin), there will undoubtedly be a few standout memories you will agree need to be documented.

There was the time a cow ventured onto the first island. Yes, the same island where we hold BBQs. The question as to how it got there remains unanswered. Some claim it simply had a death wish, a little like the pheasant that flew through the Dining Hall window, but it was more likely that the bird was trying to sample some of Darwin’s tasty food (which it ironically became when taken away by a certain someone…). Don’t worry, the cow made it away unscathed.

There have also been some incredible events organised in College that need to be noted. A highlight of the year was the 2016 Freshers’ BOP including the ceilidh and the iconic Darwin Band. Lent Term witnessed the establishment of Darwin’s newest boy band who broke out their dance moves at another classic open mic night. Burn’s Night Formal, the many BOPs, and the annual Sports Day with our sister college in Oxford are events we will always remember. The beloved Darwin punts will always have a special place in our hearts, but trips into the Cam less so. There have been some incredible May Weeks the last few years, always ending the year in style. 2016 saw the Garden Party and Punt Race reach newfound levels of ridiculous fun, resulting in THAT video now archived forever, thanks to YouTube. Darwin May Ball is always one to treasure and often marks the end of the

year for many and a good reason to party before people go their separate ways after graduation.

I am sure you will look back fondly on the times you spent in the Dining Hall and at Formal, in the Parlour getting your daily fix of caffeine, in the TV room watching GoT, in the study centre working on your thesis, and walking through the grounds admiring the gardens and the river. But perhaps the fondest memories are in DarBar. This is where you probably met many people, made many friends, celebrated, commiserated, passed away the boredom, and complained about your thesis. DarBar is the thing that really does make Darwin special and you will probably agree, life would have been very different without it.

It is true what they say: at Darwin you will make friends for life. Getting your degree was the aim of being here, but the people you have met, the things you have learnt, and the Cambridge experience really is something to be cherished. So now you are at the end of your time at Darwin and about to embark on a new path in life, but you know that you will always be welcome back. In future years you and your friends will be reunited at a college reunion, reminiscing about college life and all of the wonderful things that happened during your time at Darwin College. Until then, you can try to figure out what the cow and pheasant were up to.

Elaine Gray

“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”

Charles Darwin

2016 MATRICULATION/Lafayette Photography

A.J.Wijaya A.Patharagulpong K.L.Lee J.R.Dobbin B.F.Manley J.Walsh A.Kasimatis R.Bugliesi S.Lashkarighouchani C.C.Davis D.M.L.Storisteanu D.J.Dennis N.Forcellini B.Tsiang E.Lignieres E.Zlamalova C.Wilkes K.Hakobyan M.L-C.Choi D.Qaddumi R.M.Drews R.P.Sivapalan L.Grinham H.Tabbara C.Esparxa Lopez M.Tahir O.Jones X.Liu H.Muwonge F.Akhlaghi-Ghaffarokh G.Cano T.A.Vlaicu D.Kaiser Olhagaray H.W.Fu K.Ekoru L.D.Lai M.Layer B.Suwanto M.Fielding J.Roozenbeek S.Seah B.Gharagozli E.Agapali B.Ritter R.Conceicao Y.Tian H.He R.Ma A.Casalis de Pury I.Kizilaslan T.Alexandrov C.Jubb M.Apudo-Achola C.J.Court D.S.B.K.Raaja O.A.Taherzadeh C.C.Cangea C.Jauset M.Munafo D.Kos H.C.Cubaynes L.T.T.Phyong G.Chia B.O’Sullivan R.M.DuChanois R.A.Divanji G.I.Burchell M.Felske R.J.Gajek-Leonard A.H.Partridge S.Winzeck E.G.Ponti G.Tamcke J.Costa O.Fleck O.Crook C.R.Dunlop B.Geytenbeek D.Aspri Shahab Binbin J.Shik A.Giesche M.D.A.Rahman S.Ní Mhuimhneacháin C.Krakow R.Adelman K.L.Bussiere A.A.M.Collins J.J.Villalobos J.A.Macksoud C.J.Davis M.Kelemen J.Wheatley P.Chokhani I.Shumailou T.Sell X.Ou B.Brown M.M.Knighton J.Luis J.M.Berndt B.Bénézit V.McKay N.Ahmad J.Landt A.C.C.Petrakis C.Tumescheit C-Y.Huang A.M.Li J.De Groot M.P.Greenwood J.D.Evans R.Franze M.A.Sorg G.M.Rubin H.E.Aviomoh B.S.Probst J.I.Clarkson M.T.Baumann C.Aztekin T.Dahms L.H.T.Wong A.Turk A.Teevan H.Eiriksson J.S.Klimavicz A.Streeter L.Renaud P.Poshtov S.Guy R.Woodhard M.Tediani F.Novianti I.Pozas Franco Z.Zeng X.Zhou M.Mur Y.Liu L.Xu A.Sarma S.Agarwal M.Fox I.Awah T.Su R.Deighton A.Aboulatta E.Dupere-Tremblay E.A.Charalampidou X.Cai W.Zong F.H.S.Choi H.Furukawa-Hamaba N.Steiner M.Wylot I.Felandro D.Shan Y.Wang L.J.Linares H.Street I.G.Thornton A.W.Phillips F.Zhao F.K.Mangwanya C.Soto Vargas P.M.Wong M.Jones P.Antoniou D.Needham M.Fowler J.T.Dix M.S.Edwards Dr.C.White T.N.Milner T.J.Maguire J.F.W.Weitzdoerfer J.Zhao A.D.Dudney L.Tharchen J.Tafilaku Y.Hu M.Booth

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Downing College

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owning is not a well-known college. Easily left off the Tab’s “Which X is your college?”; easily passed by on the way to the station. Yet going beyond the unimposing entrance, the noise of busy streets recedes. You find yourself in a hidden sanctuary of wide green spaces and columned buildings of clean stone. Another year passes and many of those who matriculated in October 2014 prepare to graduate. As ever, the graduating students are a varied bunch of many talents and diverse interests, so I could never do justice to all their achievements and endeavours.

Academically, our year has done quite well and we have many brilliant minds who will no doubt go further in academia.

Yet, closeness of the library to our bar is almost a subtle architectural reminder that there’s more to life than studying. You’ll find members of our year on the river vying for the headship; doing us proud on the rugby pitch, the netball court and beyond.

Where you find our sports people, you might well find their frenzied supporters decked out in magenta, perhaps waving the impressive “We love you Downing” banner.

If not defending Downing’s name in sport, you might find some of our year rehearsing for another play. The Howard Theatre has been the training ground for those talents on the stage and behind the scenes. Our Freshers Play, “The Acrington Pals”, saw the debut in Cambridge theatre of, in retrospect, an unexpected mix of people. From those humble beginnings, grandees of DDS have flown the nest to dabble at the ADC and the Corpus Playroom.

We have our fair share of musical talents too. Some can be found in the more traditional Chapel Choir and Big Band.

Others have formed their own bands – who could forget the Dark Sass trio playing at

Downing May Ball 2015? We have been fortunate to have had Dan Duffy organising successful music nights attracting musicians from across the University to perform to appreciative crowds in Downing Bar. Despite the varied paths that our students have taken in their Cambridge careers, there are certain shared experiences which I think give an idea of what our three years at Downing have been like. Every day there was that great social unifier of slops, the hall bubbling with conversation and gossip of the day. We were fortunate to have fine formals, yet we shudder at those ancient days before Upay Chilli where we had to queue up in the plodge to buy tickets. We’ll miss the weekly ritual of Keith’s Cafe where we perfected the art of eating jam doughnuts one-handed in a socially acceptable fashion, whilst trying to forget about impending deadlines. Who could forget the yearly JCR election hype; slightly drunk people crammed downstairs in the bar for hustings and the occasional electoral controversy.

Time in Cambridge goes so fast, and yet so slow. It does not seem that long ago, and yet it does, that we arrived on that rainy October day as freshers. As graduation looms before us, time marches ever onwards and no doubt our year will go to do great and varied things. Through the relationships we have formed and the experiences we have had, Downing will remain fondly remembered as our home from October 2014 to June 2017.

Sam Pulman-Slater

Lafayette Photography

T.Adams A.Andreani D.F.Armstrong L.Asman O.Ather D.Balfour E.J.Belfield S.O.Bennett H.Bhadelia R.Bhundia J.H.Bradford R.Braggins S.M.T.Cafoor-Camps E.M.Campbell J.R.Carter K.R.Chadda P.Chaudhuri Vayalambrone W.Chi H.C.A.Chong C.B.Church R.M.Clarke T.Corry E.L.Davies P.Devbhandari M.Dew-Veal K.P.Dharma D.L.Duffy D.Duggal I.Edwards C.S.Egbujor L.Ekasastr A.P.Fellows C.J.Fernando L.I.Ferrari N.Fisk B.T.E.Flook A.J.Fountain R.H.Fox G.C.Frater S.Galley M.Gillespie M.A.Gilson L.A.Gledhill S.Gnanarajah E.G.W.Godbold S.Goss M.L.Green C.W.S.Griggs J.M.Guest G.Hope O.J.Hunt T.Ingham A.E.Jones I.Jordan A.Keating Fitzpatrick J.King O.W.J.Large A.E.Larsen F.Lawrenson J.K.Lee E.Loh T.J.Lornie K.M.Lukasik H.Machover R.Mangiavacchi L.I.Marelus K.G.McArdle J.McClure T.Meadows Z.A.Millar R.M-M.Mumford C.Naik H.Norbury L.Orme R.F.L.J.Otter Z.Patel J.C.Pearce J.T.N.Pham O.Probert M.Rayner-Philipson T.Read-Cutting J.Reynolds B.Rowlands M.Rumun M.Sacranie A.Serov D.Mahony B.E.Shapiro S.Sharma-Saul T.Sheat S.S.J.Sim C.E.Simmons M.G.Singer O.Singh C.I.Slater N.Smith A.Sonthalia W.Sorflaten S.Sriharan N.G.Sucharitakul D.Sydenham D.Szamozvancev G.Tate M.Taylor-Laidler V.U.Thakrar O.F.Thomas D.Thorpe K.J.Tidd A.D.Toft R.Tourenne T.D’Angelico R.P.Tyler-Clark G.M.Vale A.Van Loggerenberg M.J.Vetzo W.H.Visick R.Wang E.M.Watkins L.E.Whiteley E.A.Wilson A.Wright Dr.G.Williams Prof.G.Grimmett Rev’d.Dr.K.Eyeons Dr.P.Millett S.W.Wu T.Xie L.Xu Y.Xu P.M.Young T.S.Zabell A.S.Zacharia M.Y.S.Zhao I.Ziyat

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Emmanuel College

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atriculants of Emmanuel College arrived in October 2014 to a whirlwind of ducks, accusations of fraudulent behaviour, and what is still believed to be the longest pub quiz of all time.

Undergraduates took to college life with a bang, as future CUSU Presidential candidate Keir Murison quickly thrust himself upon the social scene, and Ruggero Chicco and Sarah Roche showed flagrant disregard for the Law. Before long, tensions brewed in Old South as M2 and U staircases sought to monopolise the year’s quota of organised fun, before students realised that all they wanted for Christmas was Q. The second half of the year was marked by innovative culinary tendencies: most notably, an increased penchant for Cadbury’s chocolate, avant-garde use of Heinz beef broth, and Josh Breedon’s unparalleled commitment to Hall [sic].

Year One ended in a dreamy haze of poolside lounging, battered shrimp, and the distant memory of Tripos exams. As thoughts drew towards the upcoming May Ball, students were uneasy at the prospect of being exiled out of College. The process failed to be captured by #BallotLive, and so talk of rats in Warkworth and the Blantyre Time Zone ran riot – doing nothing to assuage their fears. Will Shaw’s new fashion line took Emmanuel by storm. First year had come to an end. Omar Mohamed was everywhere. Pete Welch built a bridge.

Second year taught Emmanuel students to be Champions, until Harry Curtis’ spinelessness had us brewing Tetley’s instead. With Lister and Shamekh at the helm, the cobalt leather of Emma Bar navigated unchartered waters, from the infamous New Year New Me Bar Ex to the Junction medical zone, where Emmanuelites struck up a valuable relationship with the staff of the St John’s

ambulance. Chateaux chatted. Richard Johnson struggled with basic anatomy. We choked on our alibis. EKSU (Emmanuel Katie’s Student Union) scaled dizzying heights and Halfway Hall was haunted by the spectre of Amy Duff ’s billowing gown.

As second year came to a close, so did Mill Road’s glorious Kohinoor, which had housed many an Emmanuel swap. ECTFC disbanded in protest. Stunningly, ECRFC emerged victorious in the face of the eternal question: who are CCK? Pete Welch built a bridge.

Final year loomed with the shadow of Matt Bradley’s hammerhead. Most MMLers fled the country: Rob Ley slithered. Gee Kim and Monica Lindsay-Perez truly established the Fane as their Turf, Joe Powell dominated Venn diagrams across Emmanuel, and The Exhibition bred exhibitionism in Lola’s. Musab sacrificed a lamb upon the altar of chat. Rooms functioned. Outings to Cindies and Life became less frequent as students sought (too publicly) to Excel in their finals. As third-years became irrelevant ghosts of their former selves, the depletion of the grass in Front Court somehow became a legitimate avenue of conversation. Leopold Lansing was spotted begging for petty cash in Emma Bar. Brewers withered from the Sidge. Geese descended on the paddock. Exams were taken. No birds sang.

As third year draws to an end, there’s only one question left to answer: will Pete Welch build another bridge? Stay tuned, Emmanuelites. Destiny is calling us.

Until MA dinner.

Joanna Lee (ft. Harry Curtis)

Lafayette Photography

P.Achakulwisut E.Al-Jibury L.C.Allen A.Attlee O.A.Baines B.S.Barton-Singer S.Bauernfreund T.Bennett A.C.C.Bird I.Boxman D.Bradbury M.Bradley J.R.Breedon S.G.J.Bryan H.Bryson-Jones H.A.Butcher Y.Cai J.D.Calow E.Charlton F.E.Chatt R.F.Chicco M.Clifford E.M.Cox K.L.Craven H.Curtis A-Z.Damji J.Davis S.J.Deans J.J.M.Degenhardt C.Del Rio A.Dobney A.R.Duff M.Duff M.Elango M.Elbahnasawi A.M.Elliott V.Féraud B.Fowler S.A.S.T.Francis E.D.W.Frayn H.French A.George A.Ghose H.L.Gillard R.Goldring S.Grigg Z.Gu S.G.Hadjineophytou H.L.Hall M.B.Hannay-Young H.Hardstaff J.Higgins T.Hill E.L.Holliday E.L.B.Hopgood L.Huang F.C.Illingworth T.Isazawa N.Jackson R.D.Jacob-Owens R.A.Johnson I.Johnston M.Kainth R.A.Kemp G.H.Kim E.Kisz A-L.Koerling F.L.Kreyssig S.H.Kung N.C.Kurian A.J.Lamb L.Lansing J.Larman A.I.Latcham-Ford J.B.Lee R.L.Lewis R.J.Ley S.W.Li S.Lieng M.Lindsay-Perez J.Lister S.A.M.Lockey K.E.Lodge E.J.Maishman D.Manetta-Jones C.G.Martin E.J.McDowell O.Mohamed O.J.Morley E.A.Mullens-Burgess K.H.Murison F.R.Y.Myatt S.J.Naylor I.Nettleton L.Nunez-Mulder E.O’Hanlon E.T.Okada E.Paparounas A.Paris A.N.Patwardhan D.A.Pefkou O.H.E.Philcox E.L.Philips M.W.Philips A.E.Popple J.E.D.Powell D.Rasbash R.Rebis J.W.Reynolds E.I.Roberts J.P.Robinson S.E.Roche J.J.Rowan H.Sandford L.Schubert K.H.Schwarzmann L.Schymyck L.Scott Lintott K.B.Shah M.Shamekh W.P.Shaw J.Shepherd H.Shu R.J.G.Simon F.E.Smith L.A.M.Smith T.St John-Stevens A.E.Spackman A.R.Y.L.Tan H.B.Thorne E.Thuey C.E.G.Thwaites I.Timmins R.Tinn E.Valla E.E.Venberget Mr.D.Glover Dr.R.Henderson Dame.F.Reynolds Rev.J.Caddick A.J.R.Wade-Smith R.A.Walshe P.Welch F.Wesby K-S.N.Wetherall C.J.D.Whitehead P.L.Williams K.Y.J.Wong C.E.J.Wyman N.Zamvar

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The Colleges

Fitzwilliam College

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n October 2014, crammed into the buttery still awkwardly discussing our icebreaker stories, we were thrown into the whirlwind of an activity which was ‘speed-mateing’.

Frantically exchanging the ‘Holy Trinity’ of subject, block and hometown, awkward silences and overly enthusiastic greetings were common. Despite this, new friendships were made and the start of our time at Fitz was marked. Over the coming week groups bonded as corridors, staircases and subjects.

Thrown in the deep end with a three-legged pub and pool crawl, wined and dined at the Matriculation Dinner, wowed with the talent of our very own at Fitz sessions and ‘Welfare-ed’ with a night in with Great British Bake Off, Freshers’ was just a taste of what was to come from Fitz life.

Having got to grips with the weekly essays, lectures and labs and survived an ‘inter-block’ meal, we began to find our feet. We discovered that the Matriculation Dinner only initiated fine-dining experiences, with Formal Halls becoming regular fixtures to celebrate birthdays and special occasions. Many of you donned your best fancy dress for the assorted Superhalls, swiftly followed by proudly showcasing your costumes in the college bar for Adam’s admiration, along with a cringe-musicand-dancing-but-you-wouldn’t-have-itany-other-way Bop. With a busy Ents team we were never short of in-college events: Fitz sessions; Fitz of Laughter; and Fitz Up became staples from year one with many memories made at each.

Lucky for us we experienced two Winter Balls during our time here, with the committee of ‘Suspect’ strongly made up of many of our very own cohort, it was incredible to see how far we’d all come along since ‘Saturnalia’. The performance of the committee was just one example of the many amazing achievements so many of you have accomplished over the

past three years. Whether representing the University in sport, music, drama, debating or otherwise, Fitz is never short of talent.

It is also great to see these many talents being shared at a college level. Football and Cricket Cuppers wins were just two of the many highlights shared by players and spectators alike. So many of you have also given back through access initiatives and college roles (heading a society, sport or belonging to the JCR), all have added to our lives here. Although perhaps the highlight for many would be the genesis of a free pool table.

Although generally smooth sailing, we’ve had to overcome a few hurdles during our three years, particularly the infamous housing ballot and Fitzmas ticketing system.

Despite some tense times, we survived, all coming together at the end of each Michaelmas to sing the annual rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas (obviously morphing into remixes, including the wonderful ‘Fitzwilliam is glorious’).

Fitz’s DNA reflects our wonderful Porters, Tuesday Theme nights and hub - the Fitz café. With Atilla and Magda serving our unique selection of paninis, many hours have been spent by all working, chatting and chilling. The Olisa Library is another constant in many lives, with Chris Roberts-Lewis being everyone’s low-key hero of exam term with 3:45pm squash and biscuit breaks.

Fitz has provided everyone with an environment to excel. And if the past three years are anything to go by we will continue to excel in the varied fields we enter.

Although graduation day will be filled with goodbyes, I am certain they will be shortlived. Soon enough we’ll be right back in the Fitz Café discussing the Reunion Weekend or the highlights of the next Winter Ball.

So until then, goodbye, good luck and remember your roots on the top of the hill...

Until next time Fitzbillies.

Fenella Keevil

Jet Photographic

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The Colleges

Girton College

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t’s that time of year when everything has a vaguely terrifying (and occasionally exciting) sense of finality to it. For Girtonians, that means a lot of mixed emotions.

Whilst our last Sunday brunch (and Life for that matter) or final Formal Hall will be met with sadness, the final cycle to lectures seems more likely to produce intense celebration and relief.

Girton’s unparalleled sense of community has thankfully continued this year. From an incredibly action-packed (exhausting) Freshers’ Week, consisting of some 40 events in under a week, onwards, Girton life never lets up. Our terms are packed with countless sports matches, ents, Election/Bake Off/ Game of Thrones/ Football/ TOWIE JCR TV sessions, speakers and welfare parties, (and the occasional satirical political musical from GADS).

As our community looks to expand into North West Cambridge (an impressive 500 metres closer to town), attempts to keep our community as close as possible can only result in even more exciting events for future years.

Girton has a rich history of promoting equality and progressiveness, and this year Girton’s JCR has endeavoured to make the college as warm and accepting a space as possible for all. Our JCR Equalities Team have hosted countless discussion groups and socials and for Black History Month, we welcomed Sogo Akintaro, founder of Limitless Generation, a social enterprise that assists students from under-privileged backgrounds, to discuss navigating Cambridge as a BME student. The JCR also began providing VAT free sanitary supplies and introduced LGBT + Welfare hours to the weekly JCR schedule.

The 2014 intake have had tremendous sporting success. This year Girton’s Rugby Cuppers team came second place, Girton’s II’s Football Squad were runners up for the

Shield, and with one game remaining at the time of writing, Girton’s I’s Footballers may well win the League. This follows the women’s team coming second in the 2016 Cuppers. The College Cross Country Club has had its most successful year ever, thanks to a talented team of runners. The men’s team, under Will Tupman, gained first position with a score of 60, a massive 27 points above Jesus in second place, and the women’s team under Ruby Woolfe came joint first with a score of 21. In the world of rowing, for the second consecutive year two Girtonians, Ellie Hopgood (as Captain) and Sam Philpott raced with the winning lightweight Varsity Teams, and at Lent Bumps Girton M1 bumped three times, M2 twice, and W1 came back from the brink (a bump from Medwards) to bump Pembroke and restore their place.

These achievements were celebrated at the inaugural College Sports Award ceremony along with the special contribution to College and university sport by two students, Tom Wilson and Kate Read.

Cambridge is not always easy, and Girtonians have experienced particularly tough circumstances, with the tragic loss of two students to our community last year.

Watching our cohort helping one another through everything has been an enormous source of pride. I know the support of fellow students has been essential to many Girtonians in overcoming the challenges that have arisen for us. However difficult Cambridge can become, Girton, as a community is continually the source of joy for so many.

Josh Peters

Jet Photographic

L.Adamson R.Aird S.Ambadkar B.Austin R.Baines V.Bajpai A.Barker G.Barrow K.Beech L.Beidas K.Bickley E.Bilclough E.Bishop J.Blendow E.Bransden R.Bride F.Brown K.Bucher J.Burdett T.Carey C.Carlisle C.Champelovier Q.Cheah S.Cheli S.E.Chen A.Clowes M.Coley C.Cooper R.Copeland S.Cowgill E.Craddock D.Crowfoot A.Dawson L.D’Costa E.Derbyshire S.Dolton Z.Donohoe M.Dowbenko S.Eastman D.Eliad J.Ellis T.Elmhirst P.Emmanuel E.Y.Eom C.Faith J.Farley D.Fischer M.Fereday W.Fuest O.Gaunt T.Geliot S.Gouia S.K.Granderath R.L.Graves M.Grzeskiewicz T.Guilliatt-Griggs C.Gwinn E.L.S.Hallworth E.H.J.Handscombe L.M.R.Harvey M.P.Hattam P.Hecher H.Hicks R.Hoggmascall E.Hopgood T.D.Hordle R.I.Horne C.C.R.A.B.Hugot S.B.Janota M.O.Jervis L.Jones T.W.Kane S.C.Keane P.K.T.Koh M.Kolade A.Kulesza R.E.Kusztos O.Kwasnicka R.G.S.Lane K.R.Lang M.A.G.Lausch J.H.Lee M.Lehmkuehler A.Liaudanskas W.P.Lohrmann B.C.F.Lundy W.J.A.Lyon Tupman E.K.L.Lythgoe A.Magré O.J.Male D.M.L.Malgapo K.McGaughey D.P.McGough D.McGregor C.F.Milne R.H.Moscrop G.E.Murray J.N.Myland J.J.Naik V.Naik H.W.L.Nurick S.Patel S.Patelmaster K.Pavlyuk A.Persianis J.Peters M.Peychev S.D.Philpott J.M.Piotrowska H.J.Pitts D.H.C.Poos J.Ruibys D.Ryan M.N.Rye Carriegas S.Saji M.Schönle R.T.A.Scrace R.A.Shah K.E.Shaw Z.Stavrinou M.R.Steele N.A.Tam K.R.Teh D.R.Thomas N.D.Trifunovic A.Ulianova T.Ungerer R.Vieira Ribeiro da Costa S.von Einsiedel I.Watkin D.Watson C.Webster E.West J.Slater S.Smith S.Fulton B.Wigmore R.Williams P.Wilson T.Wilson E.Wilson P.Wongprasert H.Woodland A.Woolf R.Woolfe C.Yong

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Gonville & Caius College

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o think that our University career is nearly at an end is unbelievable. Three years have passed in the blink of an eye – it doesn’t seem all that long ago that we, the Gonville and Caius Freshers of 2014, were gathering in the Harvey Court JCR to meet each other for the first time.

Friendships formed immediately and the cheerful, enthusiastic atmosphere in the room that day certainly set the tone for our time at Caius.

Freshers’ Week was a whirlwind 3 days and it is crazy to think it has been over two and a half years since that awful 6am wakeup for Matriculation, the morning after the Sunday night… We were introduced to the phenomenon of College bops that week, and since then these evenings have been a great social part of our time here. They have embodied some of the best aspects of Caius: the tight-knit friendships, the unparalleled sense of community, and the ability of everyone to let their hair down and have a great time, even in the dinge of the JCR. We won’t forget the inventive themes and ingenuity of costumes that came with them.

Our second year saw us leave the intimacy of Harvey Court and the Stephen Hawking building and head our separate ways into town or Morty, but MDR meant we still rallied together for Hall most nights (Dime Bar Pie and Mexican nights a particular draw). We definitely had a love-hate relationship with MDR; despite its inconvenience, hall was a great opportunity to socialise, and bonds among friends only became stronger. Hall has only improved since we started at Caius and I think we can safely say that the rumour that ‘Caius food is bad’ is no longer quite as justified.

The end of our second year was marked by our first May Ball at Caius, with the theme ‘Praeternaturalia’ epitomising the wonderfully weird and eccentric diversity

of the college community. Seeing the College transformed that night is a memory we will cherish.

Our year has had the opportunity to see a number of sports teams excel. Our rowers dominate the river and football, netball, hockey, badminton and squash teams also continue to go from strength to strength.

The rugby club reaching the Cuppers final this year was definitely a highlight. The thought of so many people running out of Mike’s, Old Courts or Harvey Court on a weekend morning, off to represent Caius, as well as the university, in some way is something that many of us will look back on fondly.

Being at the University of Cambridge has meant a lot of work, and yes, countless hours have been spent slaving away. However, without a doubt, what will remain with all of us is the knowledge that being at Gonville and Caius has been one of the most unique and greatest experiences of our lives. We shall all go on to do wonderful things but Caius stash will be worn for years to come and our memories shall remain with us forever. Stay Caian everyone.

Paige Walker

Lafayette Photography

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Homerton College

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triding down King’s Parade at General Admission, a feeling of disbelief creeps over you as you remember how simple life was on West House Second Floor Long – how far you have come!

By third year, the swivel-eyed horror of realising your parents have abandoned you to your essays dissipates in mere moments.

You no longer need advice on where to find the toilets, lodge, library, or bar – of that much I am sure. In three years you have learned to ignore the procrastination aid of the library’s archive displays, not to mention the skeleton (the Librarians ate the rest of him), and beyond that the ready opportunity for a chat with Andy the Porter about how the Rugby team are performing. You have become pros. Not just at work though. You also specialise in treating caffeine withdrawal with PAT dog de-stressing techniques, and can offer a rendition of New York, New York with which Frank himself would be pleased.

Don’t think of your graduation as the end. It is surely just the beginning. Many of you will be leaving Homerton and we will have to wait for the first alumni reunion to become reacquainted, but what Homerton has taught you will never leave you. Not least how to survive without bops for six months. The overarching contribution, however, is one of huge personal development and instils a modest, self-respecting confidence which puts our students on track to attaining the highest employment statistics in the university.

The 2017 graduating cohort have also made their mark(s) on Homerton, certainly, and in more ways than one, which I won’t go into here. But there is one element of commonality experienced by all Homertonians that shapes their time in

Cambridge: its diversity.

Understandably, in Cambridge’s largest College, the number and variety of people, personalities, humour, loyalty and love is tremendous. But you have also been a uniquely active group across Collegiate Cambridge, leading almost every sport, society, play, and charity imaginable. Try contributing to every non-profit event led by a Homertonian and you quickly become a very ragged-trousered philanthropist indeed.

Intrepid fundraisers you are, entrepreneurs too, and everything in-between. Only at Homerton could a college maintain a reputation for grungefusion as effectively as Sportz Team ensured. Only at Homerton could our legendary bops become literally mythical.

This cohort overflows with character, as does our governing College. We understand, acutely so, that the privilege to be at a Cambridge College with real spirit and care is a piece of unmatched good fortune.

On a day requiring Esquire Bedells, Proctors, Pro-Proctors, and countless Latin utterances, remember a simple retort to any fears you might have: you earned this. Homerton’s graduates are now at the peak of the College’s educational history. You have all earned your place at the forefront of a legacy of educational diversity, opportunity, and academic rigour dating back a quarter-millennium. Of that I suggest you take a quiet moment to be extremely proud.

William Hewstone

Lafayette Photography

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Hughes Hall

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uring Matriculation Dinners, our President Anthony Freeling chooses a theme that he thinks is topical and relevant to the diversity of subjects that Hughes students pursue.

When I arrived, the subject was Big Data.

I couldn’t help feeling a little sceptical – it sounded too idealistic, too structured to think that I would happen across a group of Hughes students who would each want to sit down and consider the legal, business, educational, medical, or sociological perspectives on the topic.

And yet a year later, we found ourselves doing exactly that. We – an Australian law student, an American studying European politics, an English French teacher, a Canadian Engineer, and an Indian studying English Literature – spent Thanksgiving spontaneously debating the implications of Big Data on our privacy well into the night.

But really, that was just a typical Thursday evening at Hughes Hall.

What then, would a typical day look like? It starts early – in the winter, well before sunrise – with our sports men and women rising for training. The early starts have certainly paid off. Of the nine men representing Cambridge in the Boat Race, five were from Hughes. The winning try-scorer at Varsity Rugby, the captain of the victorious sailing team, fencers, dancers, footballers… all were Hughesians.

At the college level, the netball team moved up a division, and rowers won the Michell Cup. While we still can’t start early enough to catch the PGCEs or Medics before they dash off to placements, for those of us who ‘only’ have 9am lectures, breakfast at Hall has been a much-loved addition to college life.

We really are spoilt, with a mouth-watering selection of smoked salmon and poached eggs on sourdough, freshly baked pastries and homemade yoghurt as regular features

on the menu. In the spring, the view from Hall to our superb new accommodation block, Gresham Court, is broken only by the flash of white and red of cricketers bowling on Fenner’s.

Throughout the day of lab work or lectures, the college bustles. With the library window open, you can frequently hear the tinkling of a piano or the sigh of an erg (or even both at once). The Pfeiffer room transforms by the hour – a staff tea switches into a supervision, a business group project becomes a boardgame evening, an MCR meeting melds into a movie night. Tea and Cakes is still firmly entrenched in the rhythm of the college – so much so, that a Fresher has insisted Sunday be renamed ‘Cake-day’.

By evening, it is time to dress up for Formal. In previous years, I have struggled to choose a favourite themed event, as the college puts on a fantastic spread for St Patrick’s Day, Burns Night and Halloween, to name but a few. Then there are the annual dinners (Charnley Law, Boat Club, Zimmern Medical …), which are such lovely opportunities to welcome alumni and guests back to Hughes. But this year, the LGBT Formal was easily the highlight.

Technically, we are mature students, but a Harry Potter theme was truly magical for those of us still kids at heart!

These evenings illustrate that Hughes truly is a community, and one that I’m immensely proud to be a part of. We work with and serve each other – sometimes literally, when the catering staff who have served students dinner then come to a bop, and are served by those same students working behind the bar. I have cherished my time at Hughes as a student, and look forward to our reunions as alumni – wherever in the world they may be!

Peta Blundell

2016 MATRICULATION/Jet Photographic

H.Alireza P.A.Lockwood C.N.Holness T.R.M.Rowland D.Wing H.C.Mak B.M.Kaufman C.P.Evans F.Viti T.G.R.Andrews L.Pontiggia P.Mühlbacher M.G.M.Elghor A.G.Hagwood Y.M.K.Law M.D.Luya S.S.Kolli C.S.J.Kong J.L.Che J.P.Greenwood P.Gut C.K.L.Yap Y.W.B.Lim B.Wang L.M.Villa S.Kechyn R.D.Grover S.L.Black H.Wang R.Hidayat J.Kollara M.F.Hassan C.C.Ng A.O.I.Omisore K.R.H.Farrag I.Mindlina M.J.Smith D.Lao C.L.Kierath N.Janzow H.Barsham S.Barnes R.Wattis C.McColl A.Turner H.Åhl I.Humoud J.I.Cacace J.M.Yu A.Randall A.M.S.Beazley B.Rajalingam G.Ureta C.Murphy W.R.L.Stanger B.Ogunbayo V.Giridhar Gopal C.H.Yip M.Bull T.Lloyd Davies R.M.Kulik T.S.Balaji E.Lostis X.Zhu Y.Kishi K.Hoffman D.Wright B.Greef A.Waterhouse D.A.B.Walsh A.Shah S.Leavitt J.Kamal Z.Lederman A.Thornton J.H.Williams K.Harris S.Sen K.Cunningham K.Graham A.F.Renzullo A.Wan M.A.Upenke H.A.Somers M.Calabrese K.K.W.Lui C.C.Ma K.J.Vyas N.W.Cian B.T.Allen G.Mourtzis L.Mulderrig A.Nagar J.Montes D.Patterson G.X.Charlebois C.V.Valettas Y.Ohashi P.Singh R.C.Bray A.Guha Y.K.Jiang N.Bonsteel E.A.S.Moussa J.T.Chen A.Volfova K.Aggarwal P.Ahluwalia K.M.Lee L.Taylor T.Nielsen S.Shallow M.Lam M.B.C.Ramos C.Beyreuther T.Bittar D.Ortiz de Lanzagorta J.R.McMahon M.Iqbal Y.Li H.D.Nakib S.Makula G.Afonja R.C.Triniman A.Al Kindi M.Assem F.M.Lorisch D.Antón García A.H.A.Barbar A.D’Cruz C.L.Canary G.D.Chhekar A.Shareef J.Todić N.Marauka S.Ortega A.Pandit J.Sun F.Du Z.Nurzhanova T.Bhatkal A.Hogfeldt R.Joshi C.Trentin M.Bigg E.Bidash J.Sanger H.Walker J.Merritt Z.M.Anderson D.Cheeseman V.Jordan Y.R.Im H.M.Ng S.Mansour J.Moss S.Gurrib M.Bastille-Parent N.Côté L.Barbour-Mercer T.Busolo M.Schaefer J.Sypniewski C.Chang L.Dai Y.Li S. Krzysiak J.Osborne H.Elliott K.Lee S.Gabra G.Trojani C.Boldt A.Gupta Z.Aziz R.Verma C.Luu L.A.Jackson L.Bazzy N.L.Andriamiseza R.Gilling H.Hughes J.Silver G.Beevor A.Bystrov S.Gaikwad R.Chua S.L.Chee C.Bell A.Schachner D.Thesingarajah N.S.Walther K.Asadi E.J.Clough J.A.Little B.Liu O.Salman J.R.Williams H.Tepe M.Napitupulu A.Pallis P.Christodoulou K.F.Lai K.Li N.V.Lau K.W.Cheung A.Asraf J.Fong J.A.Sivakumar N.H.Nguyen A.J.Stranks P.R.Ward T.Leontidou A.Hobson-Garcia H.Falkner G.Mathukumar J.Wennersbusch M.Rodin L.McCluskey E.Owens J.Hunt N.Croix S.Lungu E.Turner V.Proud A.McLachlan J.Sanchez G.Boes W.Ang G.García-Arenas P.Wangel V.Ahuja S.Mohammad T.Förster K.Steenson D.Richardson A.Charara P.Nguyen A.Santoso P.A.Gunnarsson M.D.Kuvshinov Y.Liu B.Liu N.E.Chan C.Sharma C.Boulin V.Pereira Bravo J.Cooper P.Ferrara J.Wells J.van Dalen M.Mabbott A.Khaliq S.Leong L.Speelmans H.Meek P.Eble S.Williams S.Pfitzner D.Wales L.Keeble T.Moses J.Letten M.Grochowski M.Garrigues J.Nye J.Sardeson K.Voong S.Wiegrebe T.Satyarama A.Gamble T.Latham A.Larsson J.Wardiman P.P.M.Chatagnon T.Hoskins A.Naveen L.Palacios M.Alvarez H.Stacey F.Spencer E.Reavley F.Sargeson E.Morris I.Sandhu M.Maalouf G.Machado S.Nath J.Liu H.Yang X.Zheng J.Wang S.Wang A.Kirschbaum S.Bird N.Robertson A.Nicholson L.Mayor N.Lawton L.Lee E.Davies A.Karassayeva M.A.I.Anuar J.Gu J.Teeraranjana D.Peng M.Urbischek N.Raman S.Khanijow W.S.Yiu M.Siu M.Li R.Banerjee A.Ciccone W.Yong A.Ross T.Edden L.Lan H.Z.Ng L.L.S.Pereira J.S.Chalmers N.J.W.Langford P.Blundell K.Hlavata S.L.Rough J.F.Lambert S.D.Turner A.K.N.Parlikad D.J.James N.A.Affara P.S.Johnston R.T.J.Berg Rust A.N.S.Freeling V.A.Espley C.F.Roughley A.S.Lockhart M.H.Steinfeld M.A.K.Campbell K.A.I.Schulze H.O.Holkham Y.L.Wong M.C.James L.R.Saric M.Pandit J.A.Richman G.S.Gill C.H.Jantanalikhit F.A.Abdul Majid C.Y.Hung W.Y.Wong

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Jesus College

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hat to say about our year group at Jesus College?

A lot has happened since we joined in 2014.

We arrived, fresh-faced and nervous to be greeted by a JCSU who seemed the height of sophistication to our eyes. After sitting (or sleeping) through the 9am talks in Chapel, we had the whole of Freshers’ Week ahead of us, from the sophistication of Matriculation Dinner, down to the frankly dangerous human pyramid on the pub crawl. Some people made more effort than others at the freshers’ bops – “Out of this World” and “Circus” themed. The “egg” and “ghost of napoleon” costumes stand out in my mind.

Once we had settled in, freshers’ term was characterised by lounging around in the Marshall Room and being the biggest contingent out on Tuesday Cindies . Over the course of the term, we scrambled to “marry” the right person – there were 7 proposals in one night at the Chapel 6 Halloween party. By Christmas Formal we felt like part of Jesus College, singing along to carols and stuffing ourselves – as we would for the next two years.

More difficult to capture is the general atmosphere of our year. I guess that in years to come we will look back on these as formative years and at the heart of them will be the friendships we have made.

Birthday formals were an absolute staple of our time here, and there have been some hilarious moments – for instance involving singing Codeko’s “Crest”. We were a year who got involved with college life, contributing to some fantastic sporting wins (rowing and football stand out) and filling up the college bar. Halfway Hall was a chance to celebrate our friendships and was a really magical evening, organised

by JCSU Vice President Ellen Parker. Being halfway through was surprising enough, so it’s bizarre to be writing this with most of

our graduations looming.

The JCSU 2016 was dominated by our year – an enthusiastic bunch from Harrison and Niall’s comedic hustings speech onwards. We kept up the traditions of huge amounts of welfare cake and highly bureaucratic AGMs, and also innovated the creation of the welfare phone and the campaign on caff prices. Shout out to Ron Mulvey, who may not have been a JCSU exec member but whose caff mockumentary was an (admittedly controversial) highlight for the whole year.

I write this before exam term begins.

Graduation is the culmination of three years of hard work, and I know that our degrees have shaped us over our time here.

As in previous years, we will pack out the lib (competition for booths is real) and start queuing for caff at 11.55 (or earlier). All of this will be made worth it by May Week, and especially Jesus May Ball: we’ve seen Wildcard, The Uninhabitable, and now finally Between the Lines.

I am so excited to see the amazing things our group of Jesuans go on to do, a talented, funny and kind group of people – good luck!

Daisy Eyre

Lafayette Photography

R.Abbott L.C.Abell A.Abrams L.Adams J.A.Ajebon A.M.Alam R.E.Armfield S.F.Armitage E.Ashcroft E.S.Axelrod E.P.M.Baptista G.E.M.Baron S.B.Bastian E.Ben-Shlomo A.Bergara Egiguren J.Bradbury A.Brightman G.T.Brill D.L.Browne A.J.O.Burgess J.D.Bushrod A.F.Butterworth N.Cerutti Y-L.C.Chia R.Clamp E.A.J.Clark J.Collick E.Collinson L.M.N.Conlon S.Constantine E.L.Conway P.Dennis N.B.Devlin M.H.Ding J.S.Dunne H.S.Eade D.Eburne A.Ellerman A.Else O.J.D.Erogbogbo D.E.Eyre V.Fidenzi X.Fuller P.Gharfalkar A.Gonzalez G.M.P.Gould J.Guille J.Hamilton R.Harris C.O.Hedderwick Turner F.M.Houghton J.A.Hoyle B.F.Hundleby B.Jackson E.Jeans C.Jenkinson L.M-H.Jin L.Johnson B.Joseph J.Kendall M.A.King L.S.R.Kirby M.Kouta J.S.N.M.Kung S.A.Laing R.E.J.Law M.E.Lazenbury T.D.Lennox R.E.Lewis H.W.Lo J.Lopez Asensio R.Loveridge I.MacAuslan H.J.B.MacNeill S.Madad S.M.Mariathasan M.J.Mazhar J.McCartney E.McDonald M.H.L.Miller A.J.Mitchell C.Moodie J.Morland R.Mulvey A.V.Oakley J.J.Ong J.Osborn J.F.R.Osborne E.Parker D.J.Patton N.Pearson G.Pitt R.Pomery J.M.Porter E.L.Preston R.Preston E.R.Prince S.Rausing Koerner N.F.Reeve E.G.Reeves E.M.Riley D.Robertson A.K.Robson E.M.Robson G.C.Rushton J.R.Sandall L-C.Schaefer J.Shamir I.Shannon A.K.Sharma R.E.Shaw B.G.Shepherd J.Sherwood E.Singh Y.Singh E.W.Slater J.C.A.Slim A.E.Smith B.Smith J.Soper T.Stebbing A.E.Stewart O.Stubbs L.C.E.Sullivan M.Talhoui A.Tang J.C.H.Theron S.J.Thomas G.Thompson W.Thurlwell T.H.To N.A.Tubbs E.A.V.Veares W.Vernon J.Vincent R.Walker R.Willett R.J.Williams M.Wilson R.J.Wilson C.Y.Wong Dr.G.T.Parks Prof.I.H.White J.M.Wood T.J.Wordsworth G.A.Wort J.J.Wright T.T.Xia Y.Xie A.Yates B.Yong R.Young S.L.Young M.M.M.Zaki

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ing’s isn’t a college that likes to do things in half measures - this was obvious from our very first day here back in October 2014.

Instead of being greeted by an introductory welcome, the Matriculants of the college were treated to a private chapel service in which the new members were accepted by the college. Our names, printed and placed in every window of the Gibb’s building, were within sight as we left the grandeur that is King’s Chapel and walked towards our college parents and new, independent life.

The first few days at King’s were a whirlwind of learning, but probably not of the kind all of us were anticipating.

Whether this was through being invited to what was probably your first cheese and port party with the Chaplain on the first night; realising that, yes, whilst it had been said that it was compulsory, many of your friends hadn’t read ‘Feral’ before arriving; or trying to comprehend the fact that a card you’d been given paid for everything in College without you ever handing over cash (EPOS money is not real money) - new experiences were around every corner.

With being a fresher comes making friends. After collectively navigating the dilapidated maze that is Spalding across our first week, the common room soon became a favourite spot for pre-dinner drinks.

Soon a WhatsApp group, the ‘King’s First Massive’, was created in order to cement our friendship in social media history (this was later abandoned as we slowly actually began to start studying…).

One aspect of college life that will surely remain in everyone’s memory long after leaving College is formal hall. While other colleges may brag about their ability to take in any old bottle of wine, nobody can deny that walking into the pantry and receiving a recommendation from Mark made the event seem just that little bit more special.

Christmas Formal was a particular highlight – especially for those who were incapable of operating the online ticketing system KiFoMaSy, which sold out at lightning speed, and were permitted instead to camp around College to secure a ticket.

Formals have continued to be a focal point of college life to this day, with Randeep’s implementation of free entry to Lola’s ensuring that no third year could make their Thursday 9ams.

BOPS at King’s were a bit different to other colleges, we had the amazing termly party that is Mingle! Fancy dress, live bands, and decorations all over the college (including tin-foiling Keynes’ Hall), it was the perfect warm-up for King’s Affair! Admittedly, Mingle was maybe a bit TOO cool which may be why other colleges eventually got wind of it… Nonetheless it was definitely a stand-out event bookending each busy term.

Spring and Summer at King’s were particularly enjoyable. Other than manoeuvring through the multitude of tourists gathered outside the college, we were able to relax and play croquet in the Fellows’ garden, just seconds away from most of us living in Garden Hostel in 2nd year.

The work of KCSU this year should not go unnoticed. This year alone they successfully managed to de-gender the main college toilets, extend the hours of access to the coffee shop and fly the LGBT flag above Gibb’s for the second year running. This year also marked the first Welfare Day where we were able to take time from our busy student lifestyle with the many activities, quite notably, playing with the puppies!

Our degrees definitely won’t be the only defining memories of our time at Cambridge; the outstanding times we’ve shared together at King’s will stay with us for many years to come.

Abigail Le Marquand-Brown & Ife Adepegba

Lafayette Photography

M.Smoragiewicz S.Abbasov I.Adepegba N.Alcock M.Almond A.Amer P.A.Aralepo T.Archer V.Atta-Darkua M.R.L.Baines R.W.Barber M-S.Beil F.Belais G.Bernink E.A.Berry E.N.Bhasin T.S.Biller E.C.Birch B.Birner C.S.Bowring P.Brennan M.Broom R.Brown Z.Brüggen S.Butterworth E.M.Byrne Z.Case S.Cespedes A.Chai A.L.S.Clark C.I.Clark A.R.E.Clarke J.Clough M.Colla W.L.Collins S.Crayton F.Dainelli T.F.C.Davidson M.Deng T.M.Di Castri J.Ding J.du Plooy M.Dunne E.R.Eide O.M.Farchy J.P.Flynn H.Furberg M.Gabbott J.L.Gaffney H.Gardiner M.Gavigan N.K.Glabinski R.Gowers H.S.Grewal J.J.Gurney W.Haddadin S.Harding-Miller J.Haswell C.A.Hickman J.K.Holgate C.A.Holmes J.Hotson C.M.Hughes A.Hui S.Iftikhar D.Jackson J.A.Jenkins C.R.A.Jones M.Kapur S.P.Kaur E.J.Kerr S.Khoshnaw N.Kinariwalla A.D.King A.H.King S.Kissler M.A.Laali J.E.M.Laulainen M.Lavery A.Le Marquand-Brown L.Lentati J.Li S.Li K.Lin M.Lindhorst A.Lomas C.Lorenz D.Lúcke T.M.Lynn-Jones J.Maluck A.Mariani R.Marron N.Masih-Hanneghan E.Maunders C.McCabe W.P.McCloskey S.B.McGrory R.Moola A.Mehrotra M.Meyer H.Mohamoud M.Montagnese M.Monti E.L.Morris G.Morris P.Mukherjee R.E.Mumford M.Murton C.E.R.Naseby B.Nieuwenhuis M.Norton Saunders R.Nunn P.Parekh A.Parker R.K.Patel A.Pearce K.Poon A.Quach C.Quigley N.M.Rarity P.Ratchachittapong G.Reeves S.Rizvi I.Gray S.C.Robarts R.T.Scarratt H.Schilgen L.Seaton Y.Seo V.Shumaylova S.Singla A.Sivanandam C.A.Sligo B.Soergel H.Soper S.C.Steenkamp H.F.Strauss A.Strege J.Syed P.R.Thomson M.Tigchelaar J.Toop-Rose A.T.Townson E.Tuan G.Turner R.Vaa S.Vijayakumar A.P.G.Walters Z.Wang L.Warner R.Whipp H.C.Wilkinson C.Y.K.Williams M.Williams S.I.R.Wilson Prof.R.Harrison Prof.N.Bullock Dr.R.Omitowoju Dr.B.Vaux Dr.G.Weiss-Sussex Prof.M.Proctor Dr.P.Mody Dr.E.Nanopoulos Dr.T.Flack Dr.J.Griffin Rev.Richard Lloyd Morgan A.Wood T.Wraight M.Xiao S.Yao C.Yun S.Zimmer C.Zuckert

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Lucy Cavendish College

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ear fellow Lucians. Well I’m sure you’ll agree what a rollercoaster ride the last three years have been. From Matriculation to late-night essay crises, to May Balls, and now to graduation… we’ve travelled together on a memorable, action-packed, and special journey.

Back in those Fresher days when words such as Plodge and DoS eluded us, people often looked at me blankly when I said I went to Lucy Cavendish College.

Thankfully that reaction is now no longer the norm. The college has a much stronger presence both inside and outside of the Cambridge bubble. The Hucy Come What May Ball and our increasingly successful bops consolidated Lucy within the wider Cambridge student community. Events such as the Where Are The Women conference alongside new Honorary Fellows Martina Navratilova and Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, further testifies to Lucy’s vital role in Cambridge and beyond.

I’m sure you’ll echo my sentiments in treasuring the informality of our college.

When bringing guests to Formal Hall, I still relish telling them (over an always delicious dinner) how we have no top table, and yes you can walk on the grass and amongst the beautiful wild flowers. I feel our distinctive Lucy approach is reflected in the vibrant portrait of John and Neil, two out of our many beloved Porters, which now proudly hangs in the Warburton Hall entrance.

This is just one of the many physical transformations to College over the last three years. We nervously arrived to sparkly new accommodation at Histon Road, which was helpfully close to both Aldi and Dominoes. Just this year the library foyer and basement, alongside the student bar, underwent a Scandinavian style transformation, making more open spaces in which to work and play.

On the subject of play, a personal highlight has been singing as part of the Cavendish Chorale, which has provided consistent sources of joy and relaxation. Whether working on the SU, participating in subject, arts, sporting, or drinking societies, I’m sure these activities likewise provided many with a welcome diversion from academic study and occupy a key place in our memories of our time in Cambridge. Formal Halls also stand out for me. Still in my third year, I continue to be astounded by the wonderful women from across the world which I have the honour of meeting. It’s around the dinner table and in societies that we have forged friendships that will last a lifetime.

As we’ve progressed on our journeys, we’ve shared in some key events in the college’s history. Back in our first year, we celebrated Janet Todd’s presidency and welcomed Jackie Ashley into our community. We celebrated the college’s 50th Birthday and the work of our founders whose famous words still resound with us today: we are not ladies who lunch!

Each and every one of us has benefited from this founding ethos, giving intelligent and strong-minded women the chance to flourish, whatever their chosen path.

I hope some of the above has captured what has made the college a place we all came to call home over the last three years.

As we go our separate ways, Lucy will always occupy a special place in our hearts.

I can’t speak for your memories, but I am confident in saying that you would have had funny, heart-warming, and amazing experiences that will last a lifetime.

Whether a mind-blowing supervision, an eventful bop, or rowing for the college – Lucy has changed us all, empowering us to be the women WE want to be. We Lucians are independent, resilient, and inspiring women who can make a difference to whatever we put our minds to…

Cherish Watton

Lafayette Photography

C.Chen M.Fejzula K.F.Brecht Y.Wan R.Pataki J.Phillips A.Mehra K.Ostapenko T.Dong L.E.Jones M.Hashimoto Y.Yang H.Cantrell M.Weeks A.Hamed Z.Huang L.Shan N.Creasey A.Saleh I.M.Bonachera Martin K.E.Lebe S.N.Bolten M.A.Schacker S.Libkind A.Child E.Salgarella S.Lohiya S.Mikhaylova T.C.Brown J.Lubel F.Louvier V.Chonn Ching O.Stretcu E.Kendall A.K.Coulton A.Varney L.Li C.Harris M.P.Cao A.Bilous S.B.Guy S.A.Raneri S.Heppner P.Frangou A.L.Miller A.Carlill J.Nielsen L.I.Wehning A.Michael B.C.L.Charmley J.Shi T.Jakuszeit C.Aposkiti I.Tariq D.Dabbous Z.Zhao C.Akers Dunphy J.Lau N.Krumnau B.Bollig C.Gamlin E.L.Gardner J.M.Lawrence L.Novak I.Simpson N.Murashko A.G.Baciu S.Searle A.Kurczynska L.Cao A.Middleton S.Hirosue A.S.Crosetti L.Linares A.Moreau K.Oliver L.Gibson L.T.L.Brandt F.C.Berner J.T.Vollkommer C.L.Watton M.Sveidahl I.Reljanovic K.Janssen E.R.Barnett D.K.Olesen A.Ryle K.Womersley T.Obiakor A.Paus T.Hurrell A.Ryan E.T.Y.Fan T.E.T.Knudsen M.C.Brooker A.Nierobisch D.C.Pham I.Miele R.Medhi A.Claret D.Aguilar Garza A.Charbonneau H.Kondo X.Wang E.Walter O.Rath Spivack J.Todd M.L.Rodrigues K.Ripullone N.Tsang J.Ahn G.Miswardi E.Glider E.Georges W.Y.Wong Y.Gao S-C.Chih

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utting fairy lights up in your college room will inevitably lead you to be engulfed in flames wearing a sheep costume. If I’ve learned anything during my time at Magdalene, this is it. It seemed just yesterday that these pearls of Pepysian wisdom were imparted to us, yet three years down the line we stand on the precipice of entering The Real World. A terrifying place by all accounts: where Sunday nights are not spent in nightclubs, losing your house key cannot be solved by a quick visit to the Plodge, and people won’t supply you with food on presentation of a CamCard.

Our Freshers’ Week was a blur of new faces, the Pickerel Inn, Teriyaki, and that early morning Matriculation photo. For many, the highlight of the week was gathering in a dimly lit room to enjoy a world-class gastronomical experience on family night, although Matriculation Dinner wasn’t bad either! Some of us were captured by the Boat Club in those early days… few escaped!

Bridgemas was merry, or Wherry, depending on who you ask! Anna Lambert and others skilfully cooked a Christmas feast for 20 in the Basing gyp room and the John’s Porters were serenaded with carols.

The annual room ballot was a lesson in both friendship and cunning. The elegance of May Week just about made up for the weeks of exams we’d endured and the year was brought to a phenomenal end by our very own Magdalene May Ball. We spent the summer that followed eagerly awaiting college parenthood.

Then we did it all over again! But we were all better at it the second time around.

We knew the trick to getting extra veg in formal. We knew how to time our library breaks so as to avoid those dreaded yellow slips. We knew dolphins didn’t really swim in the Cam. Most of us crossed the halfway

point of our degrees, whilst the MMLers devised a cunning plan to flee the country.

Bops remained a staple of college life and we’ll look back on happy Bop-juice infused memories for years to come. No matter how extravagant the night before, brunch was there to solve it all; we’d tuck into a hearty five (or 10) items in the same room where we’d been doing the can-can to New York, New York just hours earlier.

Third year came around and Charlie the cat became a regular visitor to College. By this point, we’d all realised that our famous mantra “We may be small, We may be shy” is nothing but false modesty. Amongst our talented cohort we can count Blues, thesps, journalists, scholars, DJs, Union hacks and even a Raven warrior. We’ve been delighted by three fantastic MMPS productions: Guys and Dolls, Godspell, and Anything Goes. The College Choir, VoxSoc and MMS stunned us with their musical talents. The Liquid Netball team break all the rules yet remain one of College’s most popular clubs. The Rugby team gained momentum, cheered on by their superhero mascot. The Boat Club continued to perform strongly, as did the Lacrosse and Ladies Football teams.

The Netball, Hockey, Football and Rugby teams put in a stellar performance in the inaugural sports day against Magdalen, Oxford. The JCR shook off takeover attempts

by Emperor Caesar, a trainspotter and The Donald.

On coming to Cambridge, one couldn’t find a more truly accepting, uniquely talented, and altogether lovely group of people than we have at Magdalene. Our time here may have seemed more fleeting than an Eduroam data allowance, yet we’ll treasure these memories for many years to come.

James Antell

Lafayette Photography

A.W.Coladangelo M.Armstrong K.Ball J.M.Bennett V.Beranek A.Binder B.H.Brunt J.O.Buckley S.Chen A.J.Clart R.C.Clayton C.Clegg M.M.Cleminson W.J.Coleman-Smith A.Y.D.V.M.Descombes P.G.Fraioli R.Fu M.H.W.Goetz T.A.Goncharova Z.Guo M.Hartstein T.Karolewicz H.C.L.Law Y.Liu J.Martin E.Martinache Y.Ou A.L.Schooneveld A.F.Schubert N.Serri H.Solberg Økland W.H.Sterling L.Vastakas A.M.Webster J.Wurman Rodrich N.Adukia A.Ali A.Ali Khan A.Allen J.Antell C.Armengaud I.Ayles J.O.Benda C.Bennett P.J.Bennett E.Blakey A.M.A.Boyd J.S.Brassington E.Bresnett B.Brown E.M.Brown S.Burgess R.I.Causer A.Cave L.Chebib S.W.P.Cheng E.C-F.Cheung A.M.H.Choo C.Y.C.Chung J.N.Coltman S.Congdon H.E.M.Cooper F.S.Coutts M.K.Cummins L.Desplanques L.F.Didymus J.Downey K.Dunbar A.R.Dupuis M.D.Evans S.Fernandes J.M.Gan B.Z.Ghazi-Torbati P.Goodman M.Greenhill R.Halbach C.R.Hamilton T.H.Han B.Hegedüs Y.Huang Y.F.Hui T.Ingledew J.E.Jackson E.L.Jillings C.Jones N.Y.Kahn I.S.Kara M.K.Khatib V.King A.Kirby K.Kumar S.Lamba A.Lambert C.L.Liew-Cain I.J.Maloney L.Y.V.Man E.Molloy Y.Ni E.Olcott D.I.Palmer A.I.S.Pearse L.Peplow C.Phillips R.E.Phillips Z.K.Pong Y.P.G.Poon J.W.J.Rachman S.Rahman L.J.Rantala J.Riordan C.H.Rogers M.Rogers J.Rose E.Ruane G.Ryan R. Santiago Miguel A.J.R.Satow S.A.Schusman K.Shah S.Shishkov A.M.G.Smith R.Solomons M.Speed S.C.Summers R.H.M.Tan B.Tan Wei Jie E.J.Thicknesse S.Y.T.Tsang H.Turner A.Uddin G.Wallace Dr.N.G.Jones Lord.Williams Dr.S.Martin P.Walton D.Wang A.J.Weaving W.Z.Wei A.R.Wilkinson X.Yao J.X.Yeoh S.Y.Yeung S.Yin S.Yuchi Y.Zhao K.Zhu

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Murray Edwards College

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fter graduation we will depart on an exciting new journey, but one thing we will always have in common is that for all of us, Dome is Home. A home full of world-class art by women and inspirational people at every corner.

The epitome of the Medwards experience is discussing your day with the Porters as you’re waiting for your parcel, dancing alongside the Senior Tutor and The President at International Women’s Day, and having hour-long lunches in Dome.

We have all been in a position when we could not wait for skive@5 or when the MECSU Facebook page saved our day. The college library with inspirational posters from the librarians, fresh flowers, and workshops always made us smile on the way to the IT suite.

Medwards Brunch is officially the best in Cambridge, which is evident in long queues every Saturday – you know you’ve been here for 3 years when you strategically plan your brunch timings…

‘La Plage’ created by the gardeners at the back of Pearl House probably is the most Instagram-able spot in the whole of Cambridge. And let’s not forget about the gardeners’ Instagram account and that time they made a nest on the lawn behind the library. Where else in Cambridge would you be able to pick different types of mint, spinach, and flowers on your way back from lectures? Where else would you see Tracy Emin’s You Inspire Me With Your Determination on your way to Cindies.

Most importantly, Medwards is about the people we all met here, people who made us better, supported us through essay crises, paid for our late-night Deliveroo orders and shared the joys of May Week. #MTID. Kat Karpenko

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I.N.Abdul ‘Aziz H.Adams L.Adler C.Anastassiadou E.Anderson M.Ansar N.A.Arnold R.F.Beddow G.M.Benson M.L.Black N.I.Blackshaw M.L.Böttcher K.Brocklehurst C.L.Burke H.Burrows E.M.Busvine D.Cai G.Carton S.M.Carvalho S.J.Cassidy B.S.Chambers H.Y.E.Cheah E.S.Chen V.Cheung A.Chilcott M.Christie J.R.Clifton R.H.Coombe E.Cousin E.Craig-Geen O.Crawley L.A.de Salis L.Dean K.L.Draper H.Dudley L.Elekova M.S.Fairclough J.M.Falconer Hall M.Frisoli E-R.M.Garnett E.M.Gell L.González Salmerón K.Goodwin S.Goulder C.Grall M.E.Green M.Hamburger A.A.Helmy I.Herschmann D.Ho En Huei H.R.Holt J.L.Hosie Read M.O.Huckle B.Jamal E.F.Jeffery M.Johnston-Jones F.Kehinde E.Kettle N.Khan K.Kyprianou I.H.Laidler A.H.T.Lam A.Law C.Legard H.M.Leighton T.Lerebours W.S.Leung Z.Liu Y.Lu Z.Ma N.Malik K.McCalla L.M.McCrae A.Milne E.Modise A.E.Mottram J.A.Murphy E.Odysseos L.X.Ong E.Otira Q.Pan S.C.Peden F.Pentz C.S.R.Petter A.N.Picton P.Popat S.Rajeswari T.Ranaghan M.K.Rees E.E.D.Regazzoni J.K.Rigley L.A.Robinson C.Schuett I.F.Scowen O.A.L.M.Simon J.Simon C.A.Sinclair N.Siriwardena P.Smeaton M.Smith J.Stadnik Dr.J.Foster Dame.B.Stocking Dr.P.Forster A.K.Tetlow J.J.Visuri C.H.Wallace J.Wardley K.L.Whitall J.Whitehurst N.Williams C.E.Willoughby J.Yung

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Newnham College

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ur first day as the 2014 Freshers intake feels like a lifetime ago. I don’t know about the rest of you but I had a pretty tumultuous start to college life, namely because of one particularly awkward interaction with my Director of Studies at Matriculation. At this point, DoS was a term I had only mused over whilst reading the ‘Cambridge slang vocabulary’ in our Freshers Handbook. Still foggy from too few hours’ sleep and a Newnham bar crawl, glancing at the name on her sticky label I zealously greeted ‘Emily’ with a string of questions: ‘hi I’m Katie, what are you studying? How are you finding Freshers’ Week? Are you hungover too?’ To my horror, her bemused reply confirmed that she was in fact my DoS, and a Dr, who would be teaching me at least twice a week for the next three years, not an intrepid first year finding her footing at the start of a Cambridge undergraduate degree. Laughing it off, but secretly crying inside, I assured myself that it could only get better from here.

Nine terms later and I can vouch for many more mistakes made, countless challenges along the way, but even more lasting memories of our brief time at Newnham. I will miss spending the end of Easter Term lounging around in the gardens, doused in prosecco, after many weeks of hibernation in the beautiful library. I will miss the Newnham Porters, whose presence has had such a positive impact on college life. I will even miss waking up two minutes before a lecture starts, confident in the knowledge that I will be able to arrive on time, albeit still in my pyjamas. Whether you dabbled in Newnham netball, helped put on the Newnham June Event in May Week, sat on the JCR committee, performed in lunchtime recitals or spent all your time wiling away hours with friends in the Buttery (the home

of the ultimate crispy cubed potatoes), I hope you all leave Cambridge today feeling proud to have been a Newnhamite. At the very least, when else are you going to have a fireplace and chaise longue in your bedroom?!

As we now transition from student to alumna and look back wistfully on three years spent working, playing, and making friends for years to come, I recall my time on the Newnham Telephone Campaign. As a student caller, the most rewarding task was asking alumnae for their favourite memory or funniest anecdote about their time at College. Past students laughed to themselves as they recalled ‘secretly smuggling men into College at night over the Pfeiffer Arch gate’ some 40 years ago, and I’m sure many of you will fondly recall Newnham’s suddenly mixed college policy at early morning fire alarms. In a few years’ time, it will be you on the other end, imparting wisdom to eager-eyed Freshers, recounting memories of Strachey and Purple Paul, and feeling an odd combination of excitement and jealousy upon hearing that Newnham now does bops.

Happy graduation, you fabulous bunch.

Katie Hind

Lafayette Photography

E.Collard F.Cao A.R.Bishop E.A.Champion E.F.Bar J.Li A.Hassan S.E.Russell M.M.Tait L.Parry-Hughes J.Liu O.F.Y.Howard A.Iles E.A.L.Birch J.S.Collins K.S.Eer W.C.Lai T.E.S.Thwaites M.F.Foster N.Church F.Hall D.Ramiah A.G.Susnick I.V.Lowe-Zinola K.Hind E.Baycroft E.Clapson L.Tu G.Kama G.Lowe C.M.Chapiro Bernal H.E.Young L.J.R.McLean E.J.Barker C.P.Watson Brown J.A.Münch C.J.Lyon E.N.Wood E.Essina L.Nechita L.Y.Wong R.E.Brennan L.Roxburgh L.Dales N.L.Miles E.A.Karastie E.Y.L.Tsui A.Murphy C.M.E.Pearce A.H.C.McDougall H.G.Rapley A.P.Jones S.Duck E.J.B.Galvin L.A.Bishop A.Scourfield L.M.D.Holt A.I.Pîrvan E.G.Ferguson K.G.R.Scorer M.I.Gutiérrez E.S.L.Nairac J.Matheret A.D.Trifonova H.Asad L.Shao S.Hunt R.Ayling Y.Ogunjimi C.Clements J.Hack I.C.Shaw E.A.Dommett M.J.Longman A.E.Pavey T.Burden J.Y.Ng B.E.Hollingbery A.Mitchell-Gears H.M.D.C.Herath I.G.Morris A.Z.Chowdhury K.R.Phillips Z.Ali

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Pembroke College

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remember being baffled by the amount of cutlery surrounding me at Matriculation Dinner, and even more baffled by the strange glass jug thing full of port. And baffled by the gown, and baffled by pretty much every essay title I was given until about half way through second year.

I remember being shocked at learning how late women were admitted to the University, and impressed and encouraged by celebrating Pemwomen@30, and being constantly surrounded by the fantastic network of supportive, intelligent Valencian women.

I remember my first brunch, my first boptail (that’s not true, I don’t remember that at all), my first encounter with the John Spelzini’s northern mick-taking.

My first May Ball, my first swap, my first warning against no ‘penny games’ and the constant repeats of 80s music in the café at lunch, which I pretended to hate but would linger in my head for hours. I remember the disembowelling of Paddy Pembroke and the parts of him which lingered for days in the flowerbeds.

My time as the president of the JPC was challenging, and at times incredibly stressful, but somehow immeasurably rewarding. Having the opportunity to work with enthusiastic and dedicated students on the committee, alongside senior staff, was an amazing opportunity that I am forever grateful for. Seeing how committed and responsive the college’s senior staff can be to students’ needs and concerns is a credit to the college as an institution.

Pembroke has had a real talent for making national news in recent history, and not always for the best of reasons.

But it is our community response that shines through. Following the actions of one Pembroke student, a fundraiser was launched by the JPC, raising over £1,500 for local homelessness charities. The actions of

one person will never outdo the altruism of the college.

Last June saw the tragic death of an incredible Valencian, Labour MP Jo Cox. A committed humanitarian campaigner, her death shook the college. I remember reading the beautiful messages left in a book in the Chapel for her family members, and being both distraught, but also moved by the response of her husband Brendan, and the great work the Jo Cox foundation have been doing since her passing.

Her legacy will inspire Valencians for generations.

Jo, and myself come from ‘non-traditional Cambridge backgrounds’. This can mean a lot of things in terms of access, but one thing that Pembroke staff and students do especially well is promoting access initiatives. Cambridge can seem like an alien concept to many people. At times it still does. But the work the college does in supporting young people from underrepresented backgrounds is fantastic, and I am proud to have been part of it.

‘The time and the place’ campaign for the new site is an exciting insight into the future of the college, not least in the rumours of Tom Hiddlestone’s attendance at the launch event. But for all the new buildings, I have faith that the character of the college and all of its members will remain. I can barely remember not being a Valencian, and my time at Pembroke has shaped me in ways I never thought possible. For that I am incredibly grateful.

Clo Ryan

Lafayette Photography

B.Parsons D.Alexander B.Ashraf J.Ashton N.Aylward C.Bartlett T.Baxter Z.Berenson-Barros B.A.Bilovolschi O.Bel N.Brice Z.Butt C.P.M.Burchett S.Burke H.H.Chetwood J.Chen A.Chia A.H.Y.Chua J.Cooper O.L.Cochrane R.Cohn J.F.W.Curran K.S.Daly O.D.H.O.Darby S.J.de Graaf J.A.de Gromoboy Dabrowicki D.D.Dhoru E.C.Dormand Bean K.Duff O.J.Dunkley A.Dyas B.D.Edwards C.J.Ellis M.Elsner M.Ewen B.G.Findley S.Flaherty J.L.Flavell J.Fox K.M.Fox H.Francis W.J.Glennerster M.Gordon N.S.Grant S.Gupta M.A.Harrison D.L.Hart E.R.Heikel A.Hayler J.Herczeg S.Hogan C.F.Hong S.Hoshyar I.Husband O.D.Ifere T.J.Jackson J.D.Jakubovic R.Jones A.Karet V.A.Z.K.Kashian-Smith M.Kaye H.Kerrison F.Ketteman A.A.Khalid S.Kharabanda C.Kiesel H.Kirby A.I.Kirkpatrick Q.Langley-Coleman J.G.Leech S.J.Lee S.A.Lim E.Limb A.F.H.Limb I-V.K.Lipsius A.J.R.Lyszkowski A.J.Mackie L.Mani Lundie C.V.McCarthy E.McMcluskey P.McClean J.M.Mellor E.Mitchell M.Morgan S.J.Murray A.W.R.Murray Brown B.K.Nagy E.F.Neville M.Odiase J.B.Oldfield M.Patel V.Patel B.C.Perera A.Petherick T.J.Petkovic K.L.Pringle W.V.Power J.S.Rane S.Ren A-P.M.Reponen S.C.Riley S.Ringer H.S.Roberts J.Roberts I.Rodol G.Rowbottom B.Rowell E.Russell C.H.M.Ryan T.C.Schute N.Shah K.Smith R.T.H.Southern W.Spence T.Surrall H.G.S.Tao E.Thamo A.W.C.Thomas A.Thompson J.A.Thornton C.H.J.Ting C.E.Tubman J.K.Tumba T.M.Upham I.K.van Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh A.Waghorn S.F.O.Walsh B.J.Walton C.L.Welbourn-Green J.A.B.Wells A.Westin-Hardy J.Whitby G.T-M.Wong E.Woodward J.Xu G.Zemsky G.Zhang L.Chlon T.Carey R.J.Doig E.Mlodik N.L.Fitzpatrick D.Purdie A.E.Dedonato M.C.Blommestijn S.Azzarello R.J.C.Bagnall P.M.Baquero S.Chadha E.Csorba T.Cullen II E.C.Durham O.J.Finnegan V.S.Herrmann S.Hu X.Jiang Y.Jin D.K.R.Kinsey R.Kumnertsena L.H.B.M.de la Verpillière S.Lin S.G.Lopez F.C.Mitchell S.J.Moore H.Morgan N.Morelli S.Nestorowa A.Nikpur A.Njagulj S.E.Noll J.M.Nowicka V.Pappas Sir.R.Dearlove T.Meissner A.G.Pecchia-Bekkum S.N.Perera K.Prater K.K.Reising D.Ritter V.U.Rohde E.Rtishcheva K.Szuchnik R.Wang J.F.Watson D.Winters T.Young Z.Yuan S.Zheng

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Peterhouse

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hen people from other colleges learn that you are from Peterhouse, the common responses are, “Oh, Peterhouse, isn’t that the smallest/oldest college?” To which we respond with our best known piece of trivia “Our hall is the oldest secular building in Europe still used for its original purpose”.

Sometimes you’ll also hear “I’m not sure I know anyone from Peterhouse” or “I know ‘so-and-so’ from Peterhouse, do you?” The answer to this is, more often than not, a yes. Our size means that everyone knows everyone; this can be both a blessing and a curse. Whilst all news seems to travel fast, it does mean that you’re never far from a friendly face.

Also as a result of our size, or perhaps as a result of the highly competitive room points system, you never get far in Cambridge without seeing a fellow Petrean. Whether this be in sports, theatre (did somebody say Bugsy Malone?), music, the Union, student journalism, or University societies, us Petreans have infiltrated everywhere.

We’re not just big on the University scene, we’re all heavily involved in college life. We’ve had many successes too, despite our size. We saw the women’s football team win Cuppers, and not only were there two Peterhouse teams on University Challenge during our time here, but we even had a winning team. Finally, (success may be a strong word) our very own Whittle Building was a runner up for the Carbuncle Cup, an architecture prize awarded annually for ‘the ugliest building in the UK completed in the last 12 months’.

There have been many other significant events during our time here. Perhaps the most important was College flying the rainbow flag for LGBT+ history month, something which we hope College will continue after we’re gone. We had a hugely successful Women’s Dinner to celebrate

30 years of women being admitted to college, in a year which was capped off by welcoming our first female master, Bridget Kendall.

Other, more controversial events should also be noted. In the year that brought us Brexit, we had an onslaught of referenda, kicked off by the university-wide NUS Referendum, and concluded by our very own, appropriately named, ‘Pexit’ referendum. This left the question on everybody’s lips “who are the mysterious Peterhouse 17?”

Change is not something common to Peterhouse, and is often joked about, but we saw our fair share during our time here. There were big changes - we’re lucky enough to have two May Balls in our three years, and we had a brand new JCR and bar. The bar has had many events over the years, such as the Open Mic nights, Gin & Jazz, and various bops. We were also witness to the eventual demise of Miss Peterhouse. Perhaps the most significant change was when our famed ‘sign-out’ system was reformed to include lunch (and more importantly, brunch). The food also improved, although there were still some more *interesting* menu combinations, when the side for a pasta bake was fries, or the seasonal veg to accompany meat and potatoes was more potatoes.

But if there weren’t all these quirks, which I’m sure from an outside perspective seem rather odd, we wouldn’t be Peterhouse. I hope that we’ll look back on our time here fondly, but for now it’s time to look to the future. I wish you all the best for the experiences to come!

Frances Hawker

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D.H.Stockwell P.L.H.Stuurman J.P.Sutcliffe T.L.Sutton O.P.Sweetenham M.F.Taufiq N.B.D.Than R.Thompson V.E.Upton I.Urbonavicius J.N.F.W.Utterson L.I.Uziell-Hamilton N.C.Voake J.J.Waldren B.B.Walker M.B.Warman T.S.Williams G.B.Wilsenach S.Zhang I.R.Mulliner A.L.C.Muston M.C.Nadarajah N.E.P.Obeng J.O.Oyelese L.J.Phea A.R.Ramalho Tome H.J.Raraty H.J.Rix A.C.Rogers C.J.Saunders A.Y.Scruby M.Segel J.A.J.C.Sheppard E.G.Simmons N.W.Smith S.C.Smith M.P.Steadman Jones M.F.Steiner A.M.Katzaros E.J.Kirkby R.K.Kishor K.H.A.Lai R.Lakshman Z.Lebari E.J.J.Levinson Q.Li X.Lin C.A.Lloyd E.M.Lloyd H.S.Lotay A.R.S.Maroof H.Martin C.J.Masterman O.F.Mayeux J.P.K.Meiklejohn C.Miliotis D.Z.Mincheva D.Moatazed-Keivani S.M.Flynn J.W.Fry P.A.Ginsbach G.R.Girdwood R.V.Griffin L.Gumusdis K.R.A.Gunawardena A.A.Guy E.O.Hamida F.E.Hawker R.M.S.Hirst S.A.J.Hobson J.C.Hopkin A.Hrušková M.L.Hrušková L.Huthmacher P.J.Jackson A.P.Jayasekara E.M.Johnson D.N.Johnstone V.B.J.S.Jones G.K.Y.Chiu H.R.Codd S.A.Collister Hertz G.M.Compagnoni T.Cremer T.Daniele R.Day E.S.Day-Collins G.De Canio S.J.W.Deeble M.Delmans S.D.Dimmock H.B.Dukes O.L.Elder M.T.Ellis P.Farres Antunez A.J.Fenemore P.Fitzgerald R.C.Flint C.Florentin A.G.E.H.Loh T.O.Adelani E.D.Aines A.Z.Akhabaev J.C.Allum-Gruselle D.J.Ang F.Anselmetti D.J.Anstey Dr M.C.Jones Dr J.N.B.Carleton Paget Revd Dr S.W.P.Hampton Dr S.M.Murk Jansen P.Astarina J.J.Beesley S.C.Bill A.C.Bockmuehl S.G.Brown F.E.Cary Y.Chen

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ueens’ has certainly lived up to its reputation as a friendly and warm place to call home for the past three years. Even though those first few weeks of gowns, bops and formals all seemed a little disorientating, and we have all lived through the trauma of the college literally falling into the Cam, it’s been a blast and it’s over all too quickly.

There is a lot to look back on and reminisce about. QCAFC, fresh from promotion from division 2 in 2015, went on to win the league last year and reach cuppers semi-finals. Queens’ Women also secured promotion to division 1, won the prestigious battle of the apostrophes with Queen’s, Oxford, and narrowly lost out in cuppers finals.

The newly revived Candle Club, run by QAmnesty, brought mellow music and spoken word to QBar, raised over £600 and sent thousands of letters to authoritarian regimes and supportive cards to imprisoned dissidents.

In drama, Queens’ thespians directed the Lent Term Musical and the European Theatre Group Tour. Four of us performed in the Marlowe Showcase (more than any other college) and four more toured Europe performing Hamlet.

Outstanding artistic and musical talent has been on show throughout our time at the college, whether that’s meant MagSoc performances, the Chapel Choir or the extraordinary arts festival exhibition in Old Hall last year. The May Ball in 2015 relegated St John’s to “only the second best ticket in town on Tuesday” according to the Tab, and provided memorable performances and loads of fun – bring on 2017’s! Despite several ‘misfires’, College bops have on the whole been outstanding (when they haven’t been cancelled…), and whether it’s been ‘tripos-bop’ or ‘life’s a beach’ costumes have been on point.

Greasy weekend brunches and the opportunity to catch up on last night’s drama will be sorely missed, along with spontaneous pub trips to the Granta or the Anchor. QSki trips, Bounce, birthday formals and subject Mahals all also deserve a mention.

Then there are those things that nobody will miss: Cripps’ horrendously sensitive fire alarms, running out of 20p coins during the fortnightly wash and buttery’s half-baked, gone-wrong culinary experiments. A special mention must also go to College’s interminable building works, whether that has meant Dokett building renovations, Old Court re-tiling or most recently, valiantly reclaiming the Round from the river Cam. Luckily, reunions in the next few years will allow us to catch up on the exciting directions different people are going in.

Despite the fact that our time here has passed so quickly, memories were made which will last a lifetime! Good luck to everyone, and Floreat Domus – may this house flourish!

Joseph Levin

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Y.Liu D.Adamson A.Adolph N.Alam E.R.Aldersey-Williams M.Allan C.Anderson U.M.Andersson B.Arendarczyk H.Banks V.R.A.Barker S.Baylis J.A.Benedyk A.J.Benger A.E.Bennett A.Bennett M.A.Z.Bin Daim R.Bircher E.Blacklay-Piech S.Booth V.Boreikaite A.Boslam S.Bower-Brown H.J.Boyle S.Brown D.A.Buckley E.G.Bunn Y.Cao E.F.J.Carr C.A.L.Casey R.J.H.Chandler S.Y.Chang X.Cheng L.Glucksmann Cheslaw L.H.L.Cheung A.Coombs E.A.V.Coote W.A.Corbyn D.J.Corner H.E.Cunnison J.A.Curtis J.E.Cuss C.Davies A.P.Day W.A.K.de Falbe S.D.De Soysa B.O.Devoy H.M.Dickie L.J.Dickson S.Dixon L.F.Donnelly A.M.I.Draycott R.J.Eady C.L.Eardley T.Ellis J.Ellis C.Elwes T.N.K.Eriksson I.J.R.Everingham B.G.Farrar D.H.Fernandez M.F.Ferry-Swainson M.J.Ford J.E.Fossey S.Gao A.J.S.Gemmell J.N.Gibbs K.D.Gilday Z.J.Gilmore C.J.Gladstone A.M.Gruszczynska B.C.Hardy C.L.Harrop B.B.He L.Heppenstall-West S.Y.Ho G.A.Holmes N.A.Hope J.D.Hope H.Huang S.N.Hunter F.Islam T.Ivonchyk S.J.Jackett C.A.G.James J.J.Jamieson E.Jou T.Kanwar F.P.Kozera A.T.Langtry J.T.Levin A.L-T.Li F.J-Y.Lin H.Liu M.Lo G.Long F.C.M.Mace C.J.Macintosh S.J.A.Mackey C.T.L.R.Macnaughton A.E.Malone A.Marshall F.Martin C.Mathews S.Mavrakou E.P.H.Mead W.M.Moody G.A.Moore E.R.Moore D.Morgan J.F.H.Morris M-C.Nasioutzik K.B.K.Nevile D.L.Noel D.D.A.Oakes S.F.Oakley S.I.M.O’Connor L.B.K.Ong H.Patel A.J.Patel D.Plecko R.K.V.C.S.Popat M.Powell E.M.Radley N.Ranjakunalan E.A.M.Reeve S.Riccio C.Robinson K.Rolph J.E.F.Scott L.Sefton D.Shah J.C.Sinclair-Williams S.J.H.Snyder L.H.Sober A.Sobnack I.J.Spiro P.Stevens T.Taiwo-Ashaju A.M.Tanaka W.H.G.Tyen A.Varghese D.B.Varley M.G.N.J.T.Violet-Vianello J.A.Wall A.J.Ward L.J.C.Warway E.I.Wax T.D.Webster P.H.C.Weller A.S.E.Wells J.White M.Wickham F.Williams A.M.S.Williamson E.R.Wood A.Yousaf A.H.Y.Zhao

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Robinson College

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he laid back atmosphere of Robinson has been for many of us a sanctuary from the busy hum of Cambridge life. It may not look like Hogwarts, but the Red Brick Castle has a certain charm that quite possibly only us who live here can understand. No one else could truly appreciate the Pac-Man style architecture, the beautiful gardens and of course the Garden Restaurant that has provided many with their sole source of nutrition for the last 3 years. We have witnessed the glow-up of the Red Brick Café and the introduction of new washing machines and bike racks, that will far outlast our fleeting time here as students. Our days working under the technicolour lighting in the cafe turned into nights in the bar, which many insist houses the cheapest pints and friendliest bar staff in Cambridge. On top of this, we have all been able to sleep easy knowing that we’ve lived in the most fire-retardant college in Cambridge, under the dutiful watch of the Porters.

However, it is not just the architecture, culinary delights and spotless fire-safety record that makes Robinson such a great place to have been undergrads. Arriving as a nervous fresher I couldn’t have imagined that I would get to know such a brilliantly fun, talented and creative group of people who would go on to achieve so much during our short time here.

Our year group has enjoyed unprecedented success in college sport. Last year saw Robinson Men’s 1stXI Football team, led by our own Antonio Marino, win Cuppers for the first time in Robinson history in a match reminiscent, in both score-line and excitement levels, of the 1966 World Cup Final. Our footballing success has endured this year with the Women’s team topping the First Division and our 2nd Men’s team being promoted to the dizzying heights of Division 3. Robinson

Women’s W1 Boat, containing many of our classmates also earned double blades at Bumps last year in a triumphant display.

Although, the Men’s Rugby team did not make the Cuppers final this year, the impressive turnout of supporters at the semi-final showed once again the strength of Pegasus Pride and the College’s fondness for enthusiastic and sometimes ‘colourful’ chanting.

Robinson students have also been highly successful in theatre and music, not only within Cambridge but also at the Edinburgh Fringe and beyond, with resident ‘thesp’ and future addition to the Wikipedia Alumni page, Toby Marlow™ representing Robinson on tours across America, Japan and Europe. Closer to home our own Brickhouse Theatre Company has gone from strength to strength under the vision and leadership of president Samantha Benson, putting Robinson on the map for theatre in Cambridge.

It is humbling to be part of a group who’ve managed to not only widely enjoy their time here, but also excel in so many areas. We have produced, among many other exceptional individuals: a Footlight, a fashion show designer, TEDx organisers, a netball Blue, a varsity-winning karate Half-Blue, a varsity-winning basketball captain, a CUSU Sabb, Calais volunteers, fundraising überchefs, an ADC superstar (who somehow still failed to make the BNOC top 100) and very nearly a squash Half-Blue!

It’s an impossible job to try to summarise an experience that has felt at times impossibly difficult and stressful for all of us, but at others joyous and rewarding. I hope that everybody can look back on their time at Robinson with the fondness that I will, and I am excited to see how our cohort will add to the existing legacy of Blue Peter presenters and almost-Prime Ministers our college is (almost) famous for.

Martha Krish

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St Catharine’s College

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atz is a college that by most measures is distinctly modest: our college would fit into some colleges’ main court, our endowment is nothing to shout about and - despite our Senior Tutor’s pleas – we remain in the middle of the Tompkins table. Our famous formal cheese course takes place in perhaps the ‘least-Cambridge’ hall and our accommodation is known for its obsessive octagonal shapes. Despite this, Catz students are very proud of their identity and ironically it is precisely the modesty of our college which brings this out.

The common claim that ‘Catz is the friendliest college’ stems in part from the fact that walking around our only sizeable court, you cannot help but bump into everyone. Some call it suffocating, we call it inclusive. Overcompensating for our lack of space, co-curricular life is flourishing with the choir performing across Europe; the more relaxed ‘Chill in the Chapel’ bringing funky jazz to brighten up students’ lives; our University Challenge team facing up to our alumnus Mr. Paxman; numerous sumptuous John Ray post-talk displays and a Smoothie Society helping everyone get their kale-intake. Our JCR committee completed several projects including new gender neutral toilets, the removal of the Scholars Ballot and a Catz Garden Party – despite cries to overthrow the “dictator” JCR President and subsequently no-one wanting to replace him!

Outside of College, Cam FM seems to be partly run by Catz with as many as five students running their own show, and in the theatre scene, many actors are following in the footsteps of Sir Ian McKellen. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to form a Catz clique, in the later parts of Wednesday and Sunday evenings the call to ‘Catz Corridor’ or ‘Corner’ maintains the ‘work-hard play hard’ mentality around

College. Inevitably, many of these moments were caught on camera by our Tab TV celebrities.

Not obsessed with academics, our sports prowess shapes the lives of many students: our hockey teams dominate, winning both men’s and women’s, the men’s football team reached the semi-finals last year, the men’s rugby won the Plate final and women winning the Cuppers final, rowing continues as an ever-growing presence and umpteen amounts of claret and pink coloured sports stash is displayed around College. One of the best aspects of Catz is that those less athletically gifted garner the same sporting fame for partaking. This sporting commitment means your fellow teammate can be any year, subject or quite often staff as well – sometimes louder than the students themselves. In many ways, what epitomizes the Catz environment is that even when we have truly abysmal teams competing, however rare this may be, Catz will have the most support. With a cat-bat outfit, loud student and staff supporters and the persistent battle cry “For the Wheel”– it is this support for often distinctly mediocre sporting performances that captures the Catz spirit!

Of course, our college would not be as special as it is without our incredibly helpful Bedders, talented Kitchen staff, very responsive Maintenance staff, warm Librarians and patient and caring Fellows.

As the front of College, our Porters are perhaps the friendliest faces of all. Entering College is always a joy with the equally balding and charming Simons or memories of our Head Porter, Dom Mulcrone, ‘boogeying’ to ABBA at the May Ball. When you look through our main gates, Catz may look modest but in truth it is far from it – “For the Wheel”!

Arnav Kapur

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estled away at the top of Castle Hill, you have to look quite hard to find St Edmund’s. For those that do, they find a community of work-hard-play-hard people housed within a friendly atmosphere, championing diversity and inclusivity. With the total number of students pushing on 600, from over 60 countries, what continues to make this place so special is the sharing of stories and life perspectives each member brings from their life prior to Cambridge. With a student body dominated by one-year Master’s students, each year has a different pace and flow which affects the culture of the CR. Yet year on year, the people of Eddies continue to show incoming students how to get the most out of their time here.

When you hear the phrase ‘mature college’, an image comes to mind of washed-up geriatrics, coming here to just get a degree, having no fun. You couldn’t be more wrong. We throw some of the best bops across the university, and the accompanying burgeoning reputation means we now attract students from both the graduate and undergraduate communities. The same can be said for our now bi-weekly Formal Halls, where tickets continue to sell like hot cakes! For the first time, last year, we hosted a super successful May Ball in partnership with Wolfson. Internally, we have introduced many more clubs and societies especially of the non-sport variety; a gardening society, book club and chess club just to name a few. Yoga and dance lessons are now a weekly fixture! Not to discount our sporting achievements this year. One of the major highlights is the rugby team (in collaboration with Hughes) achieving promotion to Division 2, only three years since their inception.

The CR Committee continues to work wonders for the student body. This year we

again hosted a workshop on alcoholism, played host to a thrift shop charity event and our gym has recently been blessed with a new erg. This year our amazing Welfare officer put on massage sessions, tea tasting, pet a puppy, board-games nights and movie nights.

The college continues to evolve and adapt to the demands of the modern world. The expansion of the college recently obtained approval from the council so in a couple of years time, many more students will hopefully be able to call Eddies their home in the adjacent Mount Pleasant Halls.

The international demographic means you all will continue to traverse the world to make a global impact. To the class of 2017, I wish you future success in whatever path you choose to take. Remember, wherever you are, someone in another country is thinking of you. It’s been an absolute pleasure!

“Bottom of the Tompkins, Top of the hill.”

Ming Wang-Koh

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n October 2014, we arrived at St John’s. Laden with bags, buzzing with anticipation and proud to have finally made it here we watched as our families departed and our life as Johnians began. With barely a second to unpack we started settling in.

Countless cups of tea were drunk and names exchanged as we got to know our course mates, neighbours and others who would go on to make the next three years such an unforgettable experience. We came together, uniting in the traditions of Matriculation. We made our way onto the backs – carefully sidestepping impressive quantities of goose poo – for a photo, marvelling at the number of names and faces we would never remember by the end of the week. We proceeded into the Chapel for a beautiful Matriculation service, and joined the Fellows in hall for an unforgettable Matriculation Dinner. We began our time here in style, sharing in our appreciation for the college we’ve been so lucky to be part of.

From here we diverged. Drawn by our degrees and inspired by the rich opportunities now available, we soon settled in and discovered how much was now possible. We joined sports teams, formed societies, and signed up to more mailing lists than any inbox can feasibly handle – and despite all this we somehow found time to study for our degrees.

Sometimes.

And what we achieved was staggering.

In our first year, Johnian athletics, football and rugby teams won cuppers. Inspired by their victory, the Red Boys went on to win the league in all three years and at the time of writing are tantalisingly close to another cuppers victory. In our third year, the netball team won both league and cuppers in a stunning set of victories, and many of our other teams have seen similar successes. For the first time in many

years, LMBC men finished head of the river in May Bumps 2016, Lent Bumps 2017 and beat Oxford in the 2017 intercollegiate boat race – achievements indicative of the commitment and success which has defined all of our times here.

Others went on to perform in impressive theatrical and musical performances; some edited papers; others ran our worldrenowned May Ball. As a group, we’ve achieved more than I could ever hope to list here.

But the results of our time here are not only seen in personal or team successes – we’ve left our mark on an ancient and traditional institution. We helped to ensure we were the first students who, in our second year, could enjoy the privilege of sharing a double set regardless of gender.

Following the unrivalled drama of our JCR election (sorry all – my bad!) we kickstarted the process of room ballot reform to create a fairer system for future students, and we ran and enjoyed some of the best Ents this college has ever seen. We even got £2 pints in the college bar.

So we come together once again at our graduation, leaving in our wake a trail of successes from our time at St John’s. While these past three years may have flown past in a blur of lectures, events and new experiences, this is just the beginning. We now proceed to follow the Johnians who came before us, going out into the world with the experiences, opportunities and ambition acquired throughout our time here, leaving behind an even better college than the one we arrived at three years ago. We may be moving on from our time studying here, but this is by no means the end. Once a Johnian, always a Johnian.

Ben Whitby

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often felt with Selwyn that we were seen as a college without a niche. For while we were variously described as the ‘friendly college’ by our admirers, appreciated rightly as a hidden gem, student journos routinely dismissed us as run-of-the-mill; the “Cadbury’s Classic Egg” (The Tab, Which Easter Egg is Your College?).

How wrong they were. For while we were friendly, Selwyn’s Class of 2017 had a unique selling point that separated us from the rest: our unfaltering keenness.

Nowhere was this starker than on the sports pitches. Our men and women’s football teams ended with silverware, and so would many other teams if our best players weren’t always poached for blues teams. Did Jacob Lange mention he was a blue? Even when faced with defeat, the pain was quickly forgotten at the legendary Hermes/Sirens Dinners (which, curiously, many of us seemed to forget too…).

Our year was full of talented thesps, as ‘The Mighty Players’ lived up to their namesake. Gaia Lambert showcased our talent at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (making a quite unprecedented profit), and there were standout performances of two Shakespeare plays in our beautiful gardens.

Our year was the first to write and stage a full-length pantomime in Selwyn. “It was okay”, reflects President Steph Friend. In any case, the Players made Selwyn and Cambridge a more creative and passionate place.

As did our musicians. Under the stewardship of Becky Sturge, Roc Fargas Castells and Rob Turnbull, we hosted Jazz Evenings and May Week Concerts, which concluded with a Phantom of the Opera medley for organ duet, with cheeky interjections of Bach’s well-known Toccata and Fugue. Let it be known we were cultural innovators. In a highlight of our final year, Roc proved himself to be an outstanding conductor in his concert at

West Road Concert Hall.

We also used to our keenness to raise money for some wonderful causes. Take RAG. Selwyn dominated the Committees, raised more in street collections than any other college, and flocked to Bar Nights in support – well, if it’s for charity we had no choice! Here, Charlotte Owens, Ben Wood, Michaela Hine and Kitty Kenyon (to name a few) embodied the Selwyn enthusiasm.

Some of us applied our enthusiasm to an equally important cause: putting Tuesday Cindies on the map. We were its most loyal (and perhaps its only regular) patrons. Despite Will Hurrell’s notorious dance moves, crowds from other colleges just didn’t flock in, not that this bothered us one bit. We were never complacent, and thanks to Ellen McPherson, always turned up half-an-hour before opening to be sure of getting in. But if all else failed, we knew we had the hottest club in town on our doorstep: Selwyn Diamond.

Our JCR Committee was the keenest in living history. We packed out every Halloween Bop, Teashop, and JCR Dinner there was. We got so carried away as freshers we nearly got those dinners banned altogether. We worked with College to put mental health at the top of the agenda, we flew the rainbow flag over Selwyn for the first time in its history (prompting many other colleges to take the leap) and, of course, Eleanor Cavill won her tireless campaign for jacket potatoes in Hall. We certainly left a legacy for future Selwynites.

All this twinned with those lazy Sunday brunches, those fiery JCR debates, those late night library sessions in solidarity.

We had a blast. We were, in a word we shamelessly coined for ourselves, ‘Selwinners’. The Tab got it wrong; we were the Cadbury’s Crème Egg. Lee Robertson

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D.A.Katalanos F.L.Hiesmayr A.Azizi R.G.Beck E.K.Burley L.Cilloni H.Doyle S.Z.U.H.Gilani E.Graham N.B.Gokhale N.M.Greenfield S.L.Gursahani C.F.Howland Y-J.Hur E.Ioannou R.B.Jamieson A.R.Jitendra M.Kelly V.O.Kim C.Klein Q.Liu M.Maurer S.A.Metcalf M.E.Moore A.K.Nicholas H.G.Roweth M.A.Sherman J.J.E.Soendermann X.Tang M.J.Vaughan S-J.Wang D.B.West M.M.C.Aitken N.J.Ashurst C.M.L.Ayriss K.T.Baker K.M.Barrowman E.N.Bassey S.A.Bell B.M.J.Beltrami F.J.Berger P.E.Boothroyd E.C.Bottomley S.M.Brackley V.A.Braid R.P.Bryon D.W.Cadman C.R.Carson C.E.Casey E.F.Cavill B.M.Chan L.Y.Chan J.J.Cleary G.R.Cole B.L.Cook E.D.Cornaro M.L.Daley R.Delahunty A.S.Dhillon L.V.Diana M.Duchardt A.Duckworth O.I.Elhakeem A.F.Ellis-Rees J.Erhard R.Fargas i Castells S.L.S.Fox S.E.Friend J.S.Fuge J.Gao A.Ghassemieh A.S.J.Goldin Z.Gong A.Granville-Willett E.L.Grapes T.H.J.Griesbach S.M.Hart H.C.F.Hesselgren F.Higgs M.M.Hine B.J.Hogan A.B.R.Hunter-Craig W.R.Hurrell R.J.Jenkins A.E.N.Johnson H.P.Johnson J.S.Johnson J.N.Jones K.Kang K.S.H.Kenyon S.Y.W.Koh E.M.Kosse K.Krishnamurti G.F.Lambert H.C.Lamotte J.A.Lange F.M.Lee-Barber N.Y.Lesniarek-Hamid E.M.K.Macnab L.C.Malone E.McPherson F.Miles B.W.Miller H.W.Miller A-S.Monck L.D.Moscrop C.D.Moylan M.Nikodemou O.M.Olufemi C.V.Owens J.D.Palmer H.M.Pardoe A.Parkins S.Pattanayak S.G.Pawar Y.Peng A.R.Peters J.A.N.Pitts B.Y.Poh H.T.Prudden O.J.H.Purnell H.J.Reilly L.Robertson E.H.Rochford A.S.Rousseau M.J.Ruiz T.A.Rutter P.D.Sansom P.D.Shah S.A.Shah C.T.Sheene A.H.I.Sheikh H.J.Shi J.D.Shipton L.A.Simister D.A.Snowden W.R.Stephenson R.J.P.Sturge T.A.M.Taplin E.L.Teal A.D.A.Thompson R.G.Turnball S.E.Usher X.M.Wang C.R.Watts L.F.Weston Miss.H.Stephens Dr.D.J.Chivers Mr.R.Mosey Dr.J.H.Keeler Canon.H.D.Shilson-Thomas H.Whitworth B.S.Wickrama M.G.Wilson E.M.L.Wood B.W.Wood M.D.Worssam S.J.Wride E.T.Wright Y.Zhang Z.Zhuang

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Sidney Sussex College

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hen dragging our bags up the stairs of Blundell, Sussex House and Cromwell Court in the dreary October of 2014, most of us had given little thought to life beyond Sidney. Over three years later, with the world somewhat transformed in the meantime, life beyond Sidney is suddenly all too real.

We’ve all shared some great memories in our time within Sidney’s rather compact walls, but as ever, it’s always the little things you miss most. I for one will look back fondly in years to come on the ability of Sidney Hall to accompany each and every meal, no matter how exotic, with some variety of potato. And no doubt, in twenty years time when most of us are in more financially secure positions than today, we’ll feel nostalgic for the time when we learnt just how easy it was to run up an overdraft in Sainsbury’s over the course of 8 short weeks. As naïve 17 year olds, the convenience of Sidney seemed like such a no-brainer, but I for one can’t help wondering if our bank balances might have thanked us for an application to Girton or Selwyn…

That said, for those of us who lived in Sidney House, no doubt many a pound was saved thanks to Kuda’s state-of-the-art speaker system that really provided that authentic nightclub experience without even having to leave your bed…

So for the highlights. Who could forget the May Ball? Alternating between drunken water-zorbing and stuffing one’s face with Aromi’s finest at 5am may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but I suppose we’ve been truly institutionalised.

Halfway hall surely warrants a mention.

Keith Willox told me that it’s the night that seems to cause him the most trouble each year, and well, we didn’t exactly fail to live up to his low expectations…

Contrary to popular myth, deciding to run for JCR President is about a lot more than points on the CV. As President for 2016, I was able to gain an insight into a whole variety of college life and took a huge amount of pride in all that various committee members achieved. In all seriousness, our cohort has truly left its mark on Sidney. We took a stand on the environment, becoming the first Cambridge college to introduce ‘Sustainable Mondays’ in Hall. We established an annual ‘Women’s and Non-Binary’ Formal to celebrate International Women’s Day. And as our hangovers attest, we put on the inaugural ‘Sidney Sussex June Event’, that I’m sure will become something of an institution in the years to come.

Over the three years, many of us have contributed to College and University life in unique and special ways. Among our cohort we can boast Blues, Society Presidents and committee members, musicians, student politicians, newspaper editors and contributors and the rest. Who knows where we’ll all be by the time we gather for a reunion in a decade or so, but let’s hope that within whatever field we find ourselves, at least some of us will come to rival Carol Vorderman for pop culture appeal…

Olly Hudson

Gillman and Soame

Shweta Shewale. Charlotte Rowan. Jennings Mong Si Yu. Arjun Sharath. Julia Laskowska. Helen Huang. Sarthak Bagaria. Dorothy Zhong. John Loner.

Hannah Yiu. Ciara Mahon. Jodie Beverley. Graziella Crezegut. Martina Cheadle. Xiaoya Li. Elliot Ford. Anna Lawrence. Rebecca Zhang. Joyce Law Kazufumi Aoki. William Fotherby. Manuela Di Franco. Joana Ferreira. Corin Smith. Gina Dawson. Talin Tahajian. Alex Darby. Emma Flint. Zoe Adler.

Abi Turner. Evie Butcher. Sophie Lewis. Darcy Levison. Shin Yin Ong. Niamh Sauter-Cooke. Sophie Russell. Katie Pearce Amanda Karlsson. William Tai. Thomas Lawson. Denesh Omkararuban. Anju Gaston. Will Roberts. Gabriel Lim. Gillian Sandford. Nataliya Langburd.

Insa Buchmann. Isabella Inzani. Ben Anson. Kayleigh Skene. Kratu Goel. Timothy Rudnicki. Gustavo Paez. Jade Wong. Faizan Gul. Lucy Mahon Fengyuan Shi. James Houston. Eleanor Cornes. Lottie Arnold. William Lyon. Claire Burridge. Lara San Gil Perez. Dimitrios Georgiou. Edmund MacKeith.

Bo Luan. Matt Arnold. Joanna Lobl. Xueqi Qin. Isobel Roberts. Chloe Hayes. Anna Scriven. Jennifer Shaw. Lauren Broadfield Rachel McCallister. Emily Vale. Joe Isaacs. Miruna Lungu. William Deacon. Bradley Franks. Ethan Ezra. Harry Garnett Sammons. Giles Howdle. Jacques Elliott.

Stephen Lennstrom. Alexey Grabarnik. Luxx Creed. Chuanlong Xiang. Thomas Penfold. Jonty Leibowitz. Alec Reade. Shayan Iranipour. Trina Seal Peter Browning. Isabel Kasdin. Thomas Goodsir. Justin Wilkinson. Jake Seal. Olly Hudson. Rosa Verity. Corinna Cherrie. Oliver Pickard. Michael Davin.

Filippo Colonna. Amirul Bin Adnan Merican. Mia Hanlon. Janosz Dewberry. Erik Paemurru. Matija Franklin. Nuno Reis Goncalves. Isobel Burton Tom Hughes. Ben Cowley. Yusuke Kobayashi. Theodore Weiss. Alex Harris. Jiawen Dong. Karen Liu. Jack Fraser. Claus Buckert. Maura Lightfoot. Aleksandra Kamienska.

Edward Tsui. Jake Jaroszewski. Kai Hugtenburg. Sidney Berthier. Nicholas Hoffman. Fergus Powell. Joseph Gregory. Jenny Lomax Sam Parker. Angus Hanley. Horatio Cox. Tom Jameson. Johnny Hugill. Siu Hong Alfred Yu. Christian Hermann. Michael Sinnott. James Delaney.

Philipp Hirsch. Ruben Treurniet. Paul Kelly. Yevgeniy Kogan. Ramgopal Rajan. Emily Carroll. Jeffery Torosian. Sam Ellwood. Anna Mouskis Dennis Chinnow. Henry Makings. Conor Sheehan. Omar Wagih. Dmitri Tuchapsky. Timothy Slack. David Earnshaw. Luke Upton. Charlie Jordan. James Moore.

Sam Kitson-Platt. Gabriel Arruda Chueke. Tristan Griffin. Max Stewart. Michael Chronias. Michael Travers. Aakash Kotak. Alex Bogomil. Benoit Williatte Rafail Koumarianos. Stephen Colbrook. Romilde Kotze. Claire Rosenberg. Beatrice Chetard. Kate Shaw. Becky Leech. Mr M Beber. Mr C Maxted. Prof R Penty.

Dr D Skinner. David Sookias. Jovia Gao. Perlie Mong. Tom Fisher. Aline Ferreira de Carvalho da Silva. Elizabeth Prior. Charlotte Dent-Brown

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Trinity College

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emper eadem, ‘always the same’, claims the motto that stares down at you at every meal, but from our perspective tempus fugit, ‘time flies’, might be more apt.

Some things changed quite a lot during our time at Trinity: a whole ‘New’ Court re-opened; Henry VIII gave way briefly to Elizabeth I; formals changed beyond recognition; we gained: a new Dean, a new Senior Tutor, a new and utterly bizarre portrait of the Master in Hall, a more sociable bar and countless new friends.

Some of the quintessential experiences of university life are not unique to our year. Late nights of essay writing, six-hour practicals, explaining to leading academics why our own workload was simply impossible to manage are ones we’re likely to leave behind. But College was home to warmer, fonder moments. Belting out carols after Christmas Formal, or walking through the courts after exams when the air still smelt of popped champagne.

We’ll all remember the ringing of our footsteps on the checkered floor of the Wren and the excitement and sheer wonder of the May Ball. In our minds, we’ve memorised the way the lavender crocuses sprout up all along the Avenue, the tree in the Hall at Christmas, and how beautiful Great Court looks at sunset.

The rituals of losing our keys, leaving our bins outside our doors, or wandering into the bar in the hope of some distraction from work will stay with us. We’ll remember each other and the memories we made, and also those who matriculated with us, but didn’t make it to the end. We miss you, and think about you every day.

The graduating class of 2017 made wide and varied contributions to Cambridge at large. Whether as fashion editors at Varsity, presenters at CU-TV or on Cam FM, Cambridge certainly heard our voices.

Sporting prowess proved a little more

a mixed bag. Christ Church were sent packing back to O*ford twice with no silverware, though they returned the favour in between. The river has also proved an unwieldy mistress, though the spirit of the boat club has certainly been undaunted. We even ventured into pastures new with the advent of both darts and croquet teams!

Yet it is the friends with whom we shared the spoils of victory and the agony of defeat that we will surely remember Trinity for. Their laughter accompanied the trickle of water from the fountain, their smiles were equal to the bursts of sunlight that crept across the Backs. We’ve partied with them from the depths of the WPR to the top floor of Lola’s. Each of us has our own special memories, whether they began at a formal or just a chilled out night in our rooms in Trinity, putting the world to rights!

Much can of course be written about the community of support that has been with us every step of the way. Our DoSs, Tutors, Porters, Bedders, kitchen staff, librarians, maintenance staff and countless others deserve endless expressions of gratitude. They gave us countless smiles in the courtyards, kind words, and the encouragement to keep going and making the most of our time here.

Trinity has changed us, as it always does, and left us with unforgettable memories and friendships, as it always must. Maybe semper eadem is not so inappropriate after all.

Claudia Feng & Rahul Dev

Jet Photographic

A.Bouzoucos J.E.B.Coombs P-G.Musca E.Agolli S.Alberman Z.Alipranti D.A.M.Amphlett F.A.R.B.Anderson G.P.Apel K.Apley K.K.Ashford-Stow M.Askins J.Auger A.A.Awodele F.R.Barber M.A.Belcher M.Bhandari O.Binns C.Blake M.Blazonis E.G.Bloch L.Bojovic C.M.Bowring P.Bradbury R.R.Brooks L.R.Brown E.W.Bryant C-D.Calin S.N.C.Carter T.Chamberlain I.Cheung M.Chomthong J.R.T.Clarke B.A.Cloughton C.J.Coulter T.T.Dao N.Day R.R.Dev T.de la Hunty N.del Ser A.de Vivenot M.E.Dick S.Ding O.D.Eales A.Easwaran T.L.Edirisinghe C.H.Edwards B.J.Eyre J.M.Farid N.K.Feher C.D.Feng M.E.Ferreira Bruco M.D.Foley G.T.Fortune E.Franklin M.Freimüller T.H.Fung J.Gahir H.M.C.Garner F.Garrahan L.A.T.Gast G.S.L.Gendler P.G.M.Gerlagh S-A.M.Giles V.Giri O.Godwin C.A.Gothard C.E.Grace I.Grant R.E.B.Grewcock J.Groom Y.Gupta C.R.Hale-Thomson M.Hassall A.Heath G.R.Heath-Whyte L.Hepsaydir N.Hess L.S.C.Hildt I.U.N.Hill S.A.Hodgson T.C.Hodson X.Hou N.Ibata A.Ivaskovic B.E.Jarman T.J.Pogoda T.Jing P.Juhasz E.Kabos K.Kadeena-Miller C.Kakoutas P.Kasas N.Kateris K.Katwa I.E.Kent A.J.N.Khalfaoui T.A.King M.K.Kingston B.Kovacova J.Z.Kwong A.Latyntsev S.M.P.Lau M.Lavelle E.G.Lee T.Li X.Y.Lim T.Liu M.M.Lloyd F.Loh D.C.Makwana V.Malenko B.Z.Mallard P.E.Marshall P.S.Marway A.Michaelides A.Miller L.Mitchell D.Morris J.Nagrodzki K.Naydenova J.Neirami V.M.Nelmes Q.A.D.Nguyen I.L.M.Nicolson W.J.Noble J.Ondras L.Pajovic S.R.S.Patel V.Perovic A.Perrin L.A.Porritt I.Poryazov E.M.Poulton A.Prada T.Prayer F.Priest R.D.H.Pyper R.F.Qureshi A.Raghu L.Ralph K.J.Ram-Prasad O.I.O.Ramadan H.Ramambason Z.Randelovic Y.Raykov M.J.Rees C.R.Rees-Zimmerman K.F.A.Richards J.E.Riseley V.Rollando A.Ronan E.Roskach Tsymbal J.Rowe E.Rragami H.Sachs P.Sae-Ung K.F.Saeed A.K.Sathishkumar K.Savvas F.Schlichter J.A.Shah Foridi T.Shanbhag R.J.Shearme J.Shehata E.Shepherd B.A.Sillence M.Smith L.Springbett M.Stanojevic J.Stivanicevic J.Supel M.J.M.Sweering G.Szarka I.Tanasijevic M.A.Tirlea E.L.Tobin M.Todd G.Topaloglou M.C.Tran Ringrose M.E.F.Trevelyan-Davis C.Troyas Martinez N.Trueman P.Turzák J.Tyler A.A.Vaghela B.Varga-Elmiyeh B.S.Vuong S.Wahab M.M.Wajs D.Wang K.K.Wang P.Wang Y.Wang K.L.P.Warburton S.A.A.Wasti R.W.Willder E.C.Withers A.M.Wittchen N.Wong R.H.Y.Wong J.Wrazen R.Z.Xu F.Yang Y.Yang J.Yoo D.Zhang Y.Zheng J.J.Ziegler Hunts

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he Tab’s “Which Harry Potter character is your college?” article identified Trinity Hall as the house elf Dobby: ‘no real place to call home and an obsession with socks’. I can’t speak for the sock remark (though it’s probably true), but the question of where we call home is interesting. Life at Tit Hall is largely defined by our division into three sites. Many were aghast to realise, on arrival in 2014, that we wouldn’t be spending the three years cooped up on Central with Tit Wall a step away. But in fact, the collective movement of the year from one home to another is what grants our community its particular strength. Living ‘up the hill’ might have been considered a fate worse than death for some, but it rendered our return to civilisation in third year something of a rite of passage.

This dynamic is what has made centralised events so important to Tit Hallers; our June Events, cramped and glorious, edgy beyond compare; Superhalls, supplanting ‘formal’ dining for themes, and providing even more reason to stand on the chairs and take our shoes off; our comical Vivas, recently usurped by the intense trendiness of The Crescent Room; but perhaps, more humbly, it was the mass migration to the lawn for lunch and dinner on the warmest days of exam term that made us feel most like a unit.

From the moment one 2014 Matriculator all but failed to turn up to the group photo, our year’s contributions to this small world have only got stronger and more iconic; the women’s netball team maintained a ‘distinctly average’ performance (to quote their captain)...and we won’t mention men’s football...But meanwhile, Lucy Pike participated in the winning Blondie boat for the 2016 Boat Races and the women’s football team finished third in the 1st division, both managing to restore some

order to Tit Hall’s sporting reputation.

We are lucky enough to be graduating in the year of the 40th anniversary of women’s admittance to the college – a suitable farewell, having been the first year to receive consent workshops in Freshers’ Week, in a model that has been solidified and replicated throughout the colleges.

This, and the commissioning of the first portrait of female Fellows at the Hall, are testaments to the feminist spirit here that grows stronger by the day.

Physically, Tit Hall has undergone significant physical change in our time here, with the appearance of the comically majestic WYNG Gardens - our tripartite living situation might never be quite the same. But of course this place is defined by us, by the Fellows who support us every day, by the tireless Porters, bedmakers, gardeners and kitchen staff, by students new and old. Even centuries from now, when Wendy’s cries of ‘Anything else?’ no longer echo through the Aula, we will all be Tit Hall, and Tit Hall will be us.

Sam Pulman-Slater

Lafayette Photography

D.Meulensteen E.Ahn C-J.Akinrele C.Ashley Miller A.J.Bartlett A.D.Baxter L.C.Bielinski S.Birkin X.M.Boyes O.J.Bukolt T.R.Burton T.Byrne M.J.Casey L.Chen S.Y.Chong S.Clarke E.Coales G.Cox M.E.Crawford O.J.Crawford A.Dalgleish E.P.Dalrymple L.Dunn Goekjian M.J.Dunne R.E.Evans L.J.L.Flemons E.Foley F.S.Forman J.L.Frazer E.G.Galloway D.Gethin P.A.Gismondi V.Goiporia E.J.Green J.Hall C.Halliwell E.Harbach A.F.Hazelwood C.T.Hewitt E.Higgs C.A.J.Hooper J.Hurley T.James P.Jenkins I.M.Jessop K.M.Jones S.Karlin R.Kelson B.Kitching-Morley V.Kyoseva A.Lambert C.Latham O.Layton C.Y.B.Lee J.D.Lewis J.Lewy M.L.Lockey D.C.Marlowe S.Mellab A.L.C.Mercier S.A.Molyneux M.Murphy Badger A.C.Murray J.S.Myers D.E.Nakakande D.H.R.Nanavati S.L.Newbery E.Nicol-Harper D.G.O’Neill T.H.Orchard C.S.Pak L.Parkinson J.S.Pavelin E.Peck L.Pike T.Pope D.J.Powell H.M.Pütz S.I.M.Pulman-Slater A.A.Raty D.R.Richards C.E.H.Rickard D.Ruttle E.Seah W.D.E.Sears J.Send W.Shanks C.C.Sik S.Slattery A.L.Smith M.Tenconi J.Towler J.G.Treneary A.D.Tung Yep E.Tunmore The Revd.Dr.J.Morris Dr.C.Jackson M.Wales E.C.Watton E.M.White J.Whiting K.A.E.Wickham C.Wikeley C.Williams J.A.Wood W.X.Yee H.Ziad

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first read the sign that said ‘Welcome to Wolfson College! The Porters’ Lodge is straight ahead’ four years ago. Much has happened since, and I feel a bit like a veteran who has seen people come and go, arrive and leave, matriculate and graduate. But one thing never changed during all these years: the college has always been full of people from all countries, of all ages, studying for all kinds of degrees, forming a community I am honoured to have been a part of for so long.

A lot of our time together has been spent working. Over time, everyone discovered their own favourite spot, be it the library, the reading room, the Club Room… you probably know which one was mine! The social events with their inclusive and open atmosphere provided a welcome balance to our studies. Many evenings were spent at the bar, often accompanied by a game of pool, or two or ten. Bops gave us a chance to go a bit, or in some cases very, wild. The Howler was always worth a visit, boasting headliners such as Russell Howard, and great student acts (Ken Cheng always being a favourite of mine!). Finally, the June Events provided an opportunity to celebrate the end of each year in style – and celebrate we did, be it in the roller disco, the Zorbs, the bumper cars or just on various dance floors.

A big part of my life here has been the Boat Club, and I’m certainly not alone in this: Every year, up to 40 new students try out rowing, the sport that Cambridge is probably most famous for. Together, we’ve spent countless hours on the water, on the erg, in the gym. We’ve had good terms and bad terms. We’ve won races by split seconds and lost some by several boat lengths. We’ve been getting up early in the morning on a regular basis, in an endless pursuit of higher boat speed and better rhythm. But what will stand out in our

memories are the friendships forged, and those few moments of triumph that make it all worthwhile: for example, rowing back to the boat house with a wide grin and greenery, indicating for all the world to see that we climbed another step in the Bumps rankings.

However, rowing is just one of many sports Wolfson students have been involved in. Over the last few years, teams have competed successfully against other colleges in, for example, squash, table tennis, football – and pool. Students have also represented Cambridge in the eternal struggle against the other place in a range of events including ice hockey, cricket, rugby, athletics, powerlifting, and, yes it must be mentioned again, both lightweight and heavyweight rowing. On the brainier end of the spectrum, a team led by the immortal Monkman recently even got to the final of University Challenge!

It has been a great experience living with people from such diverse backgrounds with such diverse interests: sports, theatre, musicals, student journalism... and as we now prepare to move on from our time at Wolfson, one thing is for sure our common experiences at this college will connect us forever, however far we might spread around the world. We might miss the conversations, the Saturday brunching, and the Cambridge environment, but on the other hand we know that we will have friends in almost every country of the world we will ever visit.

Claudio Ravasio

2014 MATRICULATION/Jet Photographic

A.I.Smid S.Y.Selvén A.Munster A.J.Butler Rushton F.Wang H.Yu S.Rigas D.Reti P.Frank L.Daines N.Nishioka M.Shamia M.Judge J.T.Aguirre S.An P.Xu Z.Lu Y.M.Tiang D.Gvirtz M.Jinks Z.Wu K.E.Chong A.Soenardjo G.Lane D.Garyfallos S.Davis I.Hackett-Evans N.A.Abdul Satar K.M.Chisenga R.Holder A.A.Y.Ng A.Suryanarayan J.S.Goldstone S.Bencik J.P.Robledo G.Gebreluel W.Y.Lee P.R.Tuladhar M.Rashid S.Strebl H.Saunders M.F.A.Steinmetz R.Tanno T.J.Nawrocki A.M.Chudziak P.D.Myers A.Timakov S.Pyne E.Chua J.Fowler Y.Wei J.Garsha J.Telfer R.Haidary J.L.Batterbury B.Moosavi T.Bodenham R.Izzo L.McSharry J.Hussein B.Odero R.Okeyo Z.Sun M.Vitti N.Dunhill-Turner G.Jiang M.C.Anderson F.Baravalle K.Nejad M.A.Piña Dreyer O.R.Aziza H.Prag Z.C.Tay Z.Huang C.Lazenbatt D.Fernandes L.Li S.Q.A.Chin T.A.Malik A.Methachittipan G.V.Davis S.J.Mawson C.L.Booyens F.P.M.Generau A.Sente M.B.García Tec M.Ruiz-Audinette W.Schreiner R.Vincenzi A.Gingell D.Edwards M.Price V.Dimond C.Hoy C.B.Jenkins D.Abugaber-Bowman L.Trial A.Patarau A.Cardova E.Pritchett A.Goldberg A.Nikolova T.Vilsbol A.D.Yalbir J.A.Hunter A.de Monts de Savasse P.Tangpianpant C.E.S.Flude S.R.Sandieson T.Hagy I.Menikou A.Ross G.Tanriver H.Hogrefe A.Kayacan D.Cowling G.Mills M.Löffler B.Robertson G.Fiddler S.Kazmouz T.Hansen R.Maclennan L.Easton Z.Cullen P.Mihalić S.Greenidge Z.Khan J.Quan A.J.Soulieux-Evans H.L.Redhead E.C.Neyroud S.J.Tollan A.Kiltinaviciute J.C.Evans L.Araoz Ellis A.Ten K.B.Seres A.Theodosiou S.Tertnik K.Makkar S.Ashraf D.Beiderbeck Z.A.Van Veldhoven A.Smith S.Titz K.Schroer R.Galiwango D.J.Packard D.E.Gutierrez Blanco J.M.Parkhurst M.Parker H.Badenjki D.Kandeil A.Lubis Y.Q.Wu L.X.Dong P.Caamano Sambade X.Heng C.Y.Jo Y.Deng K.Little G.M.Doyle K.O’Neill Z.Li K.Tateyama Y.Sophocleous W.Tong A.Z.Ahmad O.J.A.Norman F.Braukmann W.L.T.Tan C.W.M.Schwalbe D.Sulis A.M.Cowden A.F.Lake H.W.E.Monkcom C.A.Haage E.K.W.Tan W.Haque S.M.H.Mirrazi Renani P.Ongkittikul X.Wen S.Srihawan Y.Sie J.W.Chen J.Li L.Garahan D.Sriram S.C.R.Wong M.Lai J.Li K.H.Yung S.Hook J.C.Wiesel W.Rui U.Zivkovic A.Solt A.P.R.Wilkinson M.C.Horsley B.A.Brown J.B.Gumussoy B.P.S.Neo E.Fahim A.M.Ndifon K.J.Wolkowski P.K.Vallurupalli B.Chaudhri H.Guerreiro H.Feng W.B.M.Tan C.J.Seeley M.C.De Melo Masci Valadão Cardoso N.Sen X.He L.Dahal N.Hueng R.Canagarajah M.L.Hoang L.MacVinish J.Dekkers A.J.Trinidad A.Bagnoli C.Skott G.S.H.Yeo M.Wignall A.Fuller B.D.Cox J.D.McLarty R.J.Evans C.S.M.Lawrence K.A.Stephenson M.D.Vestergaard S.K.Church S.Taha K.M.Greenbank A.East T.Moncaster K.Cornish B.Chen V.Khanna T.Li K.C.Kourouvani

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Honorary Graduates Honorary doctorates in Divinity (DD), Law (LLD), Science (ScD), Letters (LittD) and Music (MusD) are the highest honour the University can bestow on an individual. When higher doctorates are conferred honoris causa the recipients are usually individuals of outstanding national, or international, achievement in their field. Occasionally the Master of Arts degree (MA) is also conferred as a titular honorary degree, on those who have made an exceptional and direct contribution to the life of the University or City of Cambridge.

The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell Doctor of Law

Professor Sir Malcolm Grant Doctor of Law

Honorary Fellow of Clare College, lawyer and university leader

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Malcolm Grant is an Honorary Fellow of Clare College and a former Professor of Land Economy and sometime Pro-Vice-Chancellor. After reading Law at the University of Otago, a lectureship at Southampton and a professorial post at University College London, he took up his Cambridge chair and Clare fellowship in 1991. He then returned to UCL as President and Provost 2003-13.

A barrister and public servant as well as an academic, he has chaired various public bodies including the Local Government Commission for England. In 2011 he was appointed as the founding Chairman of NHS England, with responsibility for investing the budget of the NHS in England and for its operational performance.

A specialist in property, planning and environmental law, he is a Bencher of the Middle Temple, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and an Honorary Life Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, Honorary Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Chancellor of the University of York, and President of the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA), Sir Malcolm was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2003 and knighted in 2013.

Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, economist, businessman and financial regulator

Adair Turner read History and Economics at Gonville and Caius College, of which he is a former College Supervisor in Economics and now an Honorary Fellow. The 2012 Rede Lecturer, as an undergraduate he was President of the Cambridge Union Society and Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.

Lord Turner began his business career with BP and then the Chase Manhattan Bank, before moving to McKinsey & Co., of which he became a Director in 1994. Director General of the CBI 1995-9 and later Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe, he served as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority 2008-13 and of the Committee on Climate Change 2008-12.

A former Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council, he chairs the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Having combined a business career with academic work, he holds visiting chairs at a number of institutions, including the London School of Economics. A Trustee of the British Museum and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, Adair Turner was created a life peer in 2005.

Honorary Graduates

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn

Professor Eric Maskin

Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science

Former Alexander Todd Visiting Professor in Chemistry, Nobel Laureate, chemist

Jean-Marie Lehn is a former Alexander Todd Visiting Professor of Chemistry. He first considered studying philosophy before reading Physical, Chemical and Natural Sciences at the University of Strasbourg and completing a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1963. At Harvard he did post-doctoral work on the total synthesis of vitamin B12 whilst also studying Quantum Mechanics. Returning to Strasbourg he was appointed Assistant Professor in 1966 and then Professor of Chemistry at the Université Louis Pasteur until his election to the Chair in Chemistry at the Collège de France, Paris, in 1979.

In nearly one thousand papers, Professor Lehn has made major contributions in the areas of supramolecular chemistry, physical chemistry and photochemistry. Now an Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, he is also an Emeritus Professor and a Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Strasbourg.

A Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Jean-Marie Lehn is a Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Officier, Ordre National du Mérite and Grand Officier, Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur. In 1987, with Donald Cram and Charles Pederson, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and Jesus College, former visiting student of Darwin College, Nobel Laureate, economist

Eric Maskin read Mathematics at Harvard University, completing his PhD there in 1976 but spending time as a visiting student at Darwin College. A former Research and now Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, he is also an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and a former Overseas Fellow of Churchill College. After a post-doctoral year in Cambridge, he was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was later a Professor there before returning to Harvard as Louis Berkman Professor of Economics in 1985.

In 2000, he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, but rejoined Harvard in 2012 as Adams University Professor. His work has covered topics from mechanism design theory, with applications to climate change and election methods, to game theory and political economy.

A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a former President of the Econometric Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, Eric Maskin has received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize and Harvard’s Centennial Medal. With Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson, he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

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Honorary Graduates

Professor Janet Rossant

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science

Darwin College, developmental biologist

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Janet Rossant read Zoology at Oxford, before coming to Darwin College, of which she is an Honorary Fellow, to complete a PhD in 1976. A Developmental Biologist, her first post was at Brock University in Canada, later moving to Toronto and the Mount Sinai Hospital in 1985 and to the Hospital for Sick Children in 2005.

She is currently a University Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, President and Scientific Director of the Gairdner Foundation, having received the Gairdner Wightman Award in 2015. Her research has helped to uncover the cellular and molecular events that control early-stage embryo development in mice, with implications for stem cell biology and understanding developmental disorders.

A contributor to ethical and policy debates and a former President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, she is a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children. Winner of many awards, Janet Rossant is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Canada, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences USA, and since 2015 a companion of the Order of Canada.

Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College, information technologist, businesswoman and philanthropist

Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley is an Honorary Fellow of Murray Edwards College. An information technologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, she arrived in Britain as a child refugee and her initial work with computers was with the Post Office Research Station and a subsidiary of ICL. In 1962 she founded her own software company, Freelance Programmers, later Xansa and subsequently acquired

by Steria.

This evolved a unique business model for the industry, outsourcing software development to women working from home. Originally targeting women with dependents, throughout her career she has pioneered opportunities for the education and professional development of women and girls.

In later years she has also developed a major philanthropic role through the Shirley Foundation, particularly supporting autism research and emerging technology. A former President of British Computer Society and Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Dame Stephanie has also served as UK Ambassador for Philanthropy.

A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Mountbatten Medallist, she was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1980 and made Dame Commander in 2000.

Honorary Graduates

Ms Sophie Wilson

Professor Manuel Castells

Doctor of Science

Doctor of Letters

Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, computer scientist and software engineer

Sophie Wilson read Computer Science at Selwyn College, of which she is an Honorary Fellow. Senior Technical Director and Fellow at Broadcom, as an undergraduate she developed what would form Acorn System 1, a microcomputer that was Acorn’s first product.

In 1981, the BBC commissioned her to design a more advanced microcomputer, the BBC Micro, which allowed schools across the UK to introduce children to writing their own software and for which she designed and wrote BBC BASIC. In 1985 she co-created the Acorn RISC Machine Processor, now an integral part of items such as smartphones and broadband routers. Used in Apple’s first personal assistant, Newton, Apple products still feature it today.

A Fellow of The Royal Society, in 2016 she received (with Steve Furber) the Mullard Medal for their contribution to the design and analysis of the ARM Processor as the most successful embedded processor architecture in the world. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society, Sophie Wilson has Fellowship of the Computer History Museum for her innovation in programming and processor architecture.

Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Balzan Laureate, sociologist

Manuel Castells is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and Director of Research in the Department of Sociology. He was born in Spain and studied in Paris. Professor of Sociology and Planning, University of California at Berkeley for 24 years, he is currently University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

He has published 30 books, including his trilogy “The Information Age: Economy, Culture, and Society”, translated into 22 languages. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academia Europaea, of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics.

He was a founding board member of the European Research Council. He has received the Erasmus Medal, the Holberg Prize and the Balzan Prize and has been knighted by the Governments of France, Portugal, Catalonia, Finland, and Chile.

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