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St Hugh's College (Oxford University)
30,887 discussions, 145 guides
St Hugh's College (Oxford University)
St Hugh's College
St Margaret's Road
Oxford
OX2 6LE
Tel:+44 (0)1865 274425
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'Oxide Radio' is the newly established SU supported Univesity station. Expect eclectic music programming, comedy and current affairs. Enthusiastic aspiring DJs can almost definitely earn themselves a session.
'Hugh's News' is the college's publication, which comes out a very variable amount of times each term and comprises student contributions, gossip and photos. Copies can be viewed on the JCR website www.hughsjcr.com.
St Hughs alumni is testament to the diversity of its student body...
Baroness Barbara Castle - Former Labour Party MP
Joanna Trollope - Writer of very steamy stories.
Aung San Suu Kyi - Politician and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Has been under House Arrest in Burma for over a decade.
One of the liveliest college bars at Oxford University, with plenty of debauchery and a unique atmosphere. The cavernous space, with a decent jukebox and a compulsive 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' machine, is a reasonable size but can get very crowded on the busiest of nights.
St Hughs's holds a popular Formal Hall dining event each tuesday, and for under a fiver, you can be well-fed with three courses of the college's hearty food. Bops, aka the Oxford University cheesy themed disco and cheap alcohol combo, are held in the bar three or four times termly and are guaranteed to get fairly raucous.
St Hughs's huge freshers week is the perfect induction to a college that immediately lets its new intake know that it likes to party. Its reasonably priced summer balls and fireworks display work hard to maintain first impressions.
SHABAG (St Hughs Amnesty & Burma Action Group), inspired by the political struggle of past student Aung San Suu Kyi and dedicated to human rights activism, is perhaps the most notable of Hughs based societies. There is however a plentiful supply of sports and academic subject-based societies to join, ranging from Table Football to Biochemistry club.
An annual scholarship is available for a student from Hong-Kong, and the standard array of small but helpful travel grants and academic prizes are awarded by merit.
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All of the accommodation is college-based and available for all three years or four years of your course. There are no disparate satellite halls which contributes to the creation of a strong community atmosphere. Just ten minutes walk from the city centre the college grounds are perhaps best described as lush and verdant. 40% of the rooms have en-suite facilities, but all are spacious and comfortable. A room ballot-guide with hi-tech pics of potential accommodation can be viewed online at www.hughsjcr.com. Meals are purchased on a cash basis so there is no pre-payment for food you might not eat. Most St Hugh's students certainly seem to think that life in college is just peachy.
The city of Oxford is beautiful, its as simple as that. Even the addition of a few 1960's monstrosities can't alter the image that you are in a special place. Aside from the architecture there are some great places to shop and the combined student population is pretty high so there are plenty of student friendly places. There are pubs galore but hunt out the gems from the touristy crap. Start with The Purple Turtle For night spots, try the traditional student haunts of Parkend, Fifth Avenue. Hardened clubbers will have to make the hour's train ride to London. 60 000 students has given all of Oxford's club DJ's the idea that nothing but cheese will do, which, to be fair, is true. Po Na Na is a favourite and does manage to raise itself occasionally. As a general rule drunkeness is the best way to appreciate the clubs in Oxford. For food you really should try the Mongolian Wok if you want to go out for a meal that just has that edge - everyone knows the Wok.
Given that most of the colleges have fairly limited social facilities for late nights, the local area is all there is for real night owls. You might well get bored quite quickly. If so then don't despair as London is not far and very accesible by both train and an excellent coach service called the Oxford Tube. It's inexpensive and convenient.
The college's location in residential North Oxford is helpful for parking. There are both free and paying and displaying spaces available on the Woodstock Road, the Banbury Road and North Parade.
The 'Rose & Crown' pub on quaint North Parade is home to the college's nearest cash machine, but charges £1.35 per withdrawal. The closest free ATM is located five minutes away, next to the Co-op supermarket on Walton Street. Oxford city-centre has branches of all all major banks, but if you can't make it into town the college bar will sometimes cash cheques for 50p.
St Hughs encourages applications from disabled students, and makes efforts to ensure ease of access for those with ambient disabilities.
Branches of Blackwells, Borders and Waterstones in Oxford's town centre (a ten-minute walk away) ensure that almost every book on almost every reading list can be purchased or easily ordered.
St Hughs has a number of on-site tennis courts. Further facilities, such as hockey, football and rugby pitches are off-site and shared with Wadham College.
St Hughs is a ten minute walk and a slightly shorter bike ride away from central Oxford. Cheap local buses (most fares between £1 and £2) leave from the Woodstock and Banbury Roads for Summertown and Woodstock- attractive village home to Blenhiem Palace. For destinations further afield, Oxford is well served by rail and coach services.
St Hughs is situated in attractive and spacious grounds in peaceful North Oxford. Nearby, on Parks Road, are the public University Parks which provide another quiet escape from the stresses of the city or university.
The 'Howard Piper Library' is beautiful and comfortable building, originally built in the 1930s, which at last count provided shelf-space for a neat 95,000 volumes. Only closed for Easter and Christmas- when you really should take the day off!
There are a number of college-based computer rooms, for both undergraduates and graduates. All are open 24hrs to accomodate any late night essay crises, and also provide access to scanners, CD writers and printers.
CCTV for safety and a doctor, nurse and counsellor for your physical and mental maintenance, a number of trained peer counsellors (students of St Hughs or Somerville) and LGB, Womens, Equal Opps and Academic Affairs Reps ensure that St Hughs is a calm and caring environment.
