Elections take place between 8am and 8pm on the 22nd November. Check your nexus for your voter codes.

A number of brave/stupid corpuscles are taking part in movember. Please donate and help this great cause by visiting the Corpus Movember page: http://uk.movember.com/team/671193

The next college open days will be on 26th and 27th June and 20th September.  For more information please go to

www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/open-days

www.facebook.com/CCCOxford

or for further enquiries please email admissions.office@ccc.ox.ac.uk

As you may be aware, we will be holding by elections for the following JCR posts at the beginning of term. All junior members of college (i.e. all members of the JCR and MCR) are eligible to stand and vote in these elections.

Entz President

Arts Officer

Equal Opportunities Officer

All positions are on the JCR Committee and thus whoever is elected needs to attend all JCR committee and JCR meetings, which happen every other Sunday (2^nd, 4^th, 6^th & 8^th weeks) and is bound by the standing orders (i.e. what you have to do – see attached) for their position. The elected member will serve out the remaining time on the current term, thus will only hold the post until the end of Michaelmas Term for the positions of Entz President and Equal Opps President, whilst the newly elected Arts Officer will be in their post until the end of Trinity Term 2013. Nobody may hold more than one JCR committee post simultaneously and for all positions except JCR President, JCR Treasurer and JCR VP, candidates can seek re-election without limit.

How to Stand

If you wish to stand for election, you need to be proposed and seconded by two different full members of the JCR. Sign up sheets will be posted in the JCR on Sunday of 1^st week and will be taken down on Saturday of 1^st Week. In the past, there have been joke candidates put forward, please can you not do this, it is a waste of my time (If you wish to make a cheap joke than please use a post it or something similar) and more importantly I won’t be around much to replace the sheets should they be filled up in such a manner.

How the Elections Work

If more than two candidates are nominated then we will have an election on Monday of 2^nd week. Hustings will take place directly after the JCR meeting on Sunday of 2^nd Week, I shall send out details of how hustings will work nearer the time. As well as the nominees, there will be an option of “None of the Above” or NOTA, which is counted as one of the candidates. It is unlikely that NOTA will win, so I will only discuss what happens in that situation only if that situation arises.

If, and ONLY if, the position is uncontested (i.e. there is only one nomination), then we shall bring a motion at the JCR meeting on Sunday of 2^nd to proclaim the nominee into office. The motion will be voted on via secret ballot and if a two thirds majority is achieved in the passing of the motion, then the nominee is immediately appointed. If a two thirds majority is not achieved, then we shall elect as above, with NOTA and the nominee in question being the candidates.

An election is carried out using STV and takes place online. On the night of Sunday of 2^nd Week, you will receive a voter code and instructions, unless all elections are uncontested and they are all proclaimed into office as outlined above. You follow these instructions and vote online between 8am and 8pm. At 8pm polls close, the computer does the leg work for me and I’ll announce the result via email and post a copy of the results in the JCR (as well as reading them out in the JCR should anybody be interested)…

Promotional Material

You may produce posters etc for the election, but you must not name or reference any of the other candidates. All JCR members are forbidden from covering or removing such material. You may find your posters are removed by Scouts and college staff should they deem it to be in an inappropriate place (e.g. if they are covering important signage, are attached to the recently re-varnished quad doors etc).

If you have any questions or problems, then emailing me is by far the easiest way to contact the RO, Gareth Langley.

The minutes archive on the website has been (at long last) updated, meaning that the minutes all the way back to 2009 are there to check/look at/refer to.

There are some missing entries. If you have copies of these minutes, can you please send them over to our RO, Gareth Langley

More content is waiting to be approved and created, but the website is back on its feet and running smoothly, with all the content on the site being up to date and ready to go…

This also comes at the same time as the full handover of stuff, so Chris Davies is now your point man for all things website related.

The June open days are over, please take a look at the subject ambassadors and contact them if you have any further questions. Also, please follow the Access & Admissions team - https://www.facebook.com/CCCOxford

Meanwhile, don’t forget that the final open day of 2012 is on September 14th…

Over the next few weeks, the details and content on the website will be updated as we try an revitalise what is an underused resource.

Please bear with us as we sort it all out.

Gareth

by Anthony Collins

And so we’ve all returned at last
To Oxford’s fair vicinity,
And all came ready to enjoy
A bright and sunny Trinity.

But Zeus who wields the thunderbolt,
That lord of machination,
Has vowed to foil our eager plans
With grim precipitation.

In times gone by in Trinity,
We’d feel no wet or cold -
The term when Oxford’s spires are bathed
In rays of lustrous gold;

We’d bask content on verdant lawns,
Then close one bleary eye,
Or calmly watch a lazy hawk
Drift through the opal sky;

With Pimm’s in hand, we’d guide our punts
Down Oxford’s glistening streams -
And even in our beds, the sun
Would permeate our dreams.

Yet now the sun’s held prisoner
In swathes of hoary cloud,
And dismal rain upon our rooves
Beats merciless and loud.

Each day, a chill, malicious gale
Besets our college walls,
And girls are forced to walk the streets
While wrapped in woollen shawls.

But yet, my friends, let’s not desert
The summer’s fine pursuits.
With strength of will, we’ll thwart the plans
Of that vindictive Zeus:

We’ll picnic on the meadow
Till it turns to a lagoon;
We’ll get our mallets out and play
Croquet in a monsoon.

The ball last night presents us
An example to admire -
The drizzle didn’t sour the taste
Of Cajun jambalaya.

And so against the bitter rain
This poem is our defence -
And with that reassuring thought,
The meeting must commence.

The Corpus Christi College JCR was founded  in 1797 by George Leigh Cooke, a fellow of the college.  It is customary for the Poet Laureate to produce an ode to the JCR to celebrate this event. The following was my poem in honour of the JCR’s birthday on November 20th 2011:

Ode to the JCR 

o conclave, potes longos perstare per annos:

            cures discipulos tempus in omne tuos!    

Hallowed space, inviting chamber,

     Haven for the lonely student soul!

Room that in our college drama

     Plays for us an ever-starring role!

In the age of Pitt the Younger,

     Ère the first Napoleonic War,

George Leigh Cooke, intrepid scholar,

     Founded then the room we now adore.

Panelled walls and softest carpet,

     Squashy couches line this sanctuary.

Tucked away, its own computer

     Mercifully restored and virus-free.

Scene of late-night conversations,

     Drunken talk of fears and hopeless dreams;

Scene of teatime’s piping mugfuls

     Dunked with ginger nuts and custard creams.

Here at tense, fortnightly meetings,

     Tempers fray as each his view affirms:

FIFA debts we argue fiercely,

     All, of course, in gender-neutral terms…

Setting of the looming hustings:

     Candidates declaim their fevered chants

Late at night there’s brazen murder:

     Dark intrigue and mutilated plants.

Scene as well of scandal, plastered

     In the pages of the gutter press.

Now our JCR is forced to

     Bear the stains of port-induced excess.

Corpuscles must rally round -

     Restore, I pray, the room’s unstained repute

And through the intervening ages

     George Leigh Cooke with one true voice salute!