AGENDA

2ndordinary JCR meeting of Trinity Term 2016

  1. MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING

none

  1. MATTERS ARISING

none

  1. PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Lots of meeting about strategic review: drafting it

Shortlist for jcr award with omar will be organised tonight

Need thoughts/comments on living wage

Pledge2redge need to do better

  1. TREASURER’S REPORT

Still got loads wonga

Please apply for more motions

Cleared charities backlog with Rosie

  1. SECRETARY’S REPORT

Not here (#bareminimum)

  1. OUSU REPORT

Skipping ousu to be at jcr

  1. SOCIAL REPORT

Bop big success, college v happy

Marriage formal was good

Leavers bbq on Friday of 9th week

  1. WELFARE REPORT

Oxhub doing melancholy campaign to watch out for

  1. ACCESS REPORT

Videos going well; in production, thanks for all who are helping

  1. ACADEMIC REPORT

Changed the chairs in periodicals after vote

  1. EQUAL OPPS REPORT
  1. ARTS REPORT

Nothing to report

  1. SPORTS REPORT

Busy sporting

  1. CHARITIES REPORT

Paid lots of charities; see letters of thanks for self-esteem boost

Pimms party on Friday including non-alcoholic cocktails

  1. GREEN REPORT
  1. ACC REPORT

Pub quiz was good

Redit to debit change in hall will be in aob

  1. IT REPORT

Electrician was shit and will fix his cock ups

  1. QUESTIONING PERIOD

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  1. FIXING THE ROWING MACHINE IN STEVENS
  1. SECOND QUAD RULE CHANGE
  1. ANNOUNCEMENTS
  1. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

19. Fixing the Rowing Machine in Stevens

This JCR notes:

i.That many people in the college, including those who live at Stevens row or use the rowing machine for general fitness.

ii.That the machine at Stevens is currently broken.

iii.That having a working rowing machine will help with operation ‘get a decent gym at Stevens’.

It therefore proposes:

iv.To give Elysia Hannaford up to £100 to fix the machine by getting someone out (been quoted £82).

Proposed: Elysia Hannaford

Seconded: Chloe Huttner

Adopted by Nia Thomas

Nia: basically its broken and we want to fix it

Clemie: how often does it break

N: this is the first time this year

Cakers: Do the boat club offer any funding?

N: No its not part of the boat club

Motion passes unanimously

20. Second Quad Rule Change

This JCR notes:

  1. That there is allegedly a rule stating that members of the JCR are not allowed on the grass in second quad after 7pm.
  2. That no one seems to know where this rule has come from or why this rule is in place.
  3. There are currently two full hours between 7pm and sunset, and these hours could be productively spent lounging on second quad.

It therefore proposes:

  1. To mandate the JCR President to speak to college about extending the hours of use from 7pm to 9pm.

Proposed: Laurence Bialy

Seconded: Seth Warren

Adopted by Charlie Davies

Charlie: Chris the porter takes glee in kicking people off second quad and says that we could change it. #booChris

Omar: I want to make Chris unhappy

Caitlin: It’s a dean regulation in the handbook

Charlie: I read that but we still want to change it

Bella: Does it have anything to do with croquet being played?

Charlie: nah but people could play croquet in the extra time

Clemie: Chris likes some people and f you sit in certain places he will leave you if youre not on CCTV

Motion passes unanimously

21. Emergency Motion: Chancellor’s Comments

This JCR notes:

  1. That the original version of this motion took up five pages of powerpoint.
  2. That nobody has time to listen to David read five pages of powerpoint.
  3. That in a recent report by The Telegraph, the Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten, was quoted as saying “I don’t think that if you want high class universities you should expect them to lower their standards in order to make up for some inadequacies in our secondary education system.”
  4. The 2014-15 Equality Report, which found that BME students are under-represented at this University.
  5. The annual report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission which found that Oxford “still recruit[s] a disproportionate number of students from private schools…”

This JCR believes:

  1. That the Chancellor’s comments can very easily be construed as damaging for access.
  2. That Jesus College has a proud tradition of supporting access initiatives, and should continue to do so.
  3. That the University has a stated aim to widen access, and that shifting the responsibility of promoting equality of opportunity onto the secondary education system is in marked opposition to the spirit of access as practiced by the University of Oxford.

This JCR resolves to:

  1. Mandate the President to co-sign an open letter on behalf of the JCR to the Chancellor (the content of which will be made public upon publication), expressing the arguments made in ‘notes’ and ‘believes’, coordinating with other JCRs and SUs.
  2. Through this letter, demand an apology from Lord Patten for his comments, as well as a demonstration of his commitment to access and anti-racism.

Proposed: Jess Keating

Seconded: David Cakebread

David adopts, Omar chairs

David; were not a political jcr and don’t want to become wadham. Original motion written by Wadham jcr president. Letter says we disagree with sentiment of chancellor’s statement in shifting the burden of access onto secondary schools. We think it should be access should be seriously taken as an aim of the University. Letter is basically asking the chancellor to promoting these goals

Marcin: what’s BME

David: Black, minority and ethnic

Charlie; you said ask the chancellor to change and the motion says demand, why the discrepancy?

D: I took the original motion and changed it hence the discrepancy. The letter will be approved by all JCRs making it reflective of what the student body think

2 against, 6 abstentions, 26 in favour, motion passes

David back as chair

AOB:

Caitlin: if anybody wants to be an unofficial student mentor for applications from gaza please email me

Omar: there will be some vacancies on the JCR committee due to people leaving. And freshers committee. Think about this.

Llewelyn: will the terms be for a single term or will we move the subsequent elections?

Omar: a single term but you may be able to run again in hilary

Saloni: you need to be peer supporter trained for men’s welfare

Matt: credit to debit what do we think?

Clemie: will we get reimbursed if we have money left over at the end, noen of the other colleges do

David: Hopefully

Susie: Why change it?

David: Strain on the accounts department following battels being sent out, and in theory this will make it easier to search through and harder to make mistakes

Bella: When applying the credit system was one of the reasons I came here rather than other colleges.

Llwelyn: Can you clarify the debit system which is being endorsed. Its really hard to clarify how much you’ve spent at the moment

David: had a meeting with the guys who run the intranet online system, theyre updating the intranet anyway to make it better, credit/debit is a further debate. Basic pay as you go top up system on cards, possibly also an overdraft on this system. Email reminders when close to lower limit

Liam: whats to stop them having a huge overdraft and retain the option for a credit system

David: also attraction of limiting liability

Omar: would the new system involve a new card?

David: No, also talk of having debit in the bar as well

Nick: Why cant we have credit in the bar

David: Ethical considerations according to the company running it

Rosie: It sounds like its more an accounts team issue than our issue

Bronnie: If it’s a problem of it being hard to find where it went wrong would a tracking thing giving us an idea of how much were spending not be better?

Ollie W: student loans don’t come in straight away so people could get screwed in that way

David: I raised this with Stuart (accounts bursar) who said theyred be a ‘grace period’

Charlie D: Like credit?

Cue raucus laughter in the JCR

David: I tld him I like this system because it helps me budget

Clemie: I am old and have been here ages. It feels like were steadly becoming more like hotel clients rather than students at college, this smacks of that

Bella: Float the idea that people are happy with credit rather than debit but would like it to be clearer

David: making the system better would solve problems rather than credit

Omar: hall shouldn’t feel like a restraint

Jess K in absence (via text): it’s a big access issue if we are demanding money up front

David: Stuart said we still get the same loan so we should reorganise ourselves

Tim B: the issues come from college why should we fix them

Hannah: Could we also have receipts from hall

Poll: whos in favour of retaining the current system as opposed to credit

Result: debit 1, credit everyone else

Poll: who thinks we should improve the current system rather than switch?

Result: we agree

Clemie: foreign students depend on credit as we don’t get the maintenance loan

Tim B: how do they fix the issue currently?

David: dunno