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St John's College (Oxford University)
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St John's College (Oxford University)
St John's College
St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3JP
Tel:+44 (0)1865 277300
1555
'Oxide radio' is the newly established SU supported station. Expect eclectic music programming, current affairs and comedy. Enthusiasm will almost definitely earn aspiring DJs their own session.
St John's students are involved in editorial and writing capacities with the University's three major student publications: 'The Cherwell', 'The Ox Stu' and 'The Isis'.
Tony Blair - Runs the country.
Robert Graves - Writer and classicist.
Sir Kingsley Amis - One time Angry Young Man, novelist and poet.
Phillip Larkin - Major twentieth-century poet.
There's a popular and lively bar on site that does good snack food during the day. St John's students really do live up to the work hard play hard Oxford stereotype so the social scene is strong.
There is a major function, aka cheesy Oxford bop, every two weeks in the basement of The Beehive. Non-bopping Beehive inhabitants may find it wise to spend the evening elsewhere as noise levels may prove hard to ignore. St John's termly guest nights, often themed, are a great opportunity to be cheaply wined and dined in imaginative costume. The college JCR maintains a pretty good website to keep students up to date with termly events. JCR Website
St John's college balls, held in their beautiful and spacious gardens, are a spectacular Oxford affair. The 450th Annivesary Ball in 2005 was a lavish white-tie affair complete with string quartets and copious quantities of champagne.
Oxford University is in generally a very society oriented place, and St John's keeps with such tradition. From 'Ballroom Dancing Soc' to 'Bridge Soc', college drama with 'The Mummers', 'Darts' or the theological debate forum of the 'Laud Society', club-joining students will find plenty of diversions.
St John's is, let's be honest, pretty damn rich. A status which very much benefits its student body; the college is generous with travel grants and academic and musical scholarships.
Up to twelve 'Southern Awards' are granted each year to scholarly students in financial need and are equivalent to the value of a student loan.
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There are three types, and price-brackets, of accommodation available at St John's. A ballot system ensures that if you get a duff room in the first year you'll get a better one in the next year. This is quite an enlightnened policy and the overall standard of accommodation is high. In the Sir Thomas White Building washroom facilities and a kitchen are shared between four or five students and some rooms have a washbasin. Although be warned this is a shockingly ugly building... The Beehive has perfectly hexagonal rooms with their own washbasin. These are larger than those in Sir Thomas White. Middleton Hall is not actually a minor stately home but the third hall of residence. Rooms are variable in size and all have washbasins. The college also owns a number of houses in Oxford which can be rented at essentially bargain prices and are cleaned by university staff.
Food is good and cheap (around £2 will get you a decent dinner) but there are set meal times to adhere to. Students can choose informal or formal evening meals, formal dining meaning that gowns must be worn. Hobs are provided in the hall kitchens for self-catering purposes.
St John's is perfectly positioned at the bottom of St Giles, between the cosy cafes and cocktail bars of North Oxford and the amenities and university faculties of the city-centre. It is situated close to both the Ashmolean Museum and Playhouse Theatre on Beaumont Street, and the central shopping area and the Bodleian library are a five minute walking distance.
A sufficient number of free and paying and displaying spaces are available by the college's front entrance on St Giles, or by the back gate on Parks Road.
St John's is situated only a couple of minutes walk from the city-centre which has branches of all major UK banks and access to plentiful cash machines, if not always plentiful cash! There is also an ATM on St Giles, across the street from the college.
St John's continues to maintain its reputation as perhps the most disability sensitive college within the university. The 'Higby Bequest' provides significant funding for blind or partially sighted students and several en-suite rooms and kitchen facilities have been adapted for the ease of those with visual impairments of any kind. There is a Disabilites rep elected annually within the JCr who liases with senior college staff to ensure the greatest possible equality of experience for disabled students and arranges provision of diabled parking and general facilities.
A susbsidised stationary shop for all those back to school goodies is located in the OUSU building centrally located near the Clarendon Centre.
Large branches of Blackwells, Waterstones and Borders in the nearby city-centre ensure that almost every book on almost every reading list can be easily purchased or ordered.
Squash courts on site, generous provision of tennis courts ten minutes up the Woodstock Road and acres of multi-purpose sports fields nearby.
St John's is very centrally located. For any amenities within the city you are unlikely to need more than your legs or a bike. For destinations further afield Oxford is well served by both train and coach services.
One of the biggest and finest gardens in Oxford. St John's students get to live and work in enviable surroundings.
Although the college's libraries keep more limited hours than many of their other oxfod college counterparts, (9am-11pm in term-time, a more office houred 9am-5pm in the vacation periods)they are both beautiful and comfortable and house 370 rare historical manuscripts amongst their significant collection.
There are assorted machines avaliable in four computer rooms. The JCR facility in the Beehive is open 24 hours a day. The majority of rooms are networked and hardware to connect your own machine is avaliable on loan.
A doctor, a nurse and a counsellor can be reached on-site to deal with any medicdal or personal problems. Elected JCR reps for Welfare, Disabilities, Equal Opps and Women provide further support from within the undergraduate community.
