Revising? In need of a sugar fix? Yummy doughnuts will be available (for free!) in the Dining Hall from 3-4pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays starting on 13 May and ending on 7 June.

And, as in previous years, your kind-hearted Librarians will be offering juice and biscuits on the River Terrace from 3-3.45pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting on 14 May and ending on 6 June.

Finally, don’t forget about Welfare Tea – this week it’s at 3:30 on Sunday in the Terrace Room.

You have no excuse not to be spherical by the end of term.

Nick Black’s college team are through to the quarter finals of Cuppers after wins against Peterhouse and Corpus Christi. Against Peterhouse, fifties from Black and Elliot Bath were the highlights, as was Phil Ruis’ questionable banter during the second innings.

On a spicy wicket at Corpus, Tit Hall rebuilt after early losses and were indebted to Matt Hickey, who hit 86 out of the final total of 157. Corpus were then bowled out with Michael Carson taking three wickets and managing to hit one of the opposition in the helmet in the process. Hickey also took two, as did Nick Harvey and Shudong Li.

Bampos. Barbeque. Sun. Lawn. People. Fun.

6pm, Latham Lawn, Saturday 18th May. Be there or be square somewhere else.

The Bampos BBQ is a big freaking deal. JCR president

Please stop quoting me…JCR president

Trinity Hall’s annual 7-a-side tournament is coming up soon and you should join in!

• Date: Thursday 13th June
• Location: Wychfield
• Time: the first games will be starting around 10.30am

The rules for squads are as follows:

• No more than 10 people.
• Maximum of 2 first team players
• Each team must have at least two female players on the pitch

Teams are usually organised roughly along subject lines, however this is just a guideline, so feel free to pick whatever teams you want. Wear boots and shinguards if you have them but these aren’t essential if you don’t already own some. As anyone who was there last year can tell you it’s a great day out all round, the football is very relaxed and players of absolutely all levels or experience and ability are encouraged to come and enjoy themselves, as well as the food provided.

If you’re interested try and get a team together and send your names to Paddy Fee ASAP. If you find yourselves a few players short, or even if you don’t have a team yourself please let him know and you can work out the details.

In exam term, several rooms are opened up as quiet study areas. If you haven’t already had a note in your pidge about the specific times/places, I’ve copied them in below:

Coffee room: 24/7

Terrace Room and Lecture Theatre: 8am – 8pm daily

Graham Storey Room: 8am – 8pm on Sundays

Contrary to any libellous slander you may have read in The Titbit, the JCR have been doing something useful this term. The committee met for its first meeting of the term on the 28th of April, and the minutes are now up here. In case you’re averse to reading long detailed notes of meetings you didn’t attend and only vaguely care about, I’ve provided a summary below.

College Questionnaire

Sigh. We’re at 43% or something, and we’re not closing it until we get to 50%. It’s not even funny any more, guys.

Welfare/Access

Plans for an Alternative Prospectus are being drawn up. Georgia has founded a lovely Jog Squad and you should join. Various miscellaneous wonderfulness from the welfare team.

Ents

Movie nights in the lecture theatre, hooray. Possible Pub Quiz.

Listings

Less is more. Listings are now once per week, and even more packed with juicy goss.

Webmaster

Some updates requested for the website, including links to news sites (over there on the right *vigorous head gestures*).

Sky TV

We’re sorry! Blame CUSU. Always blame CUSU. Davina is working on it.

Cafeteria/IT

Thank you for the wonderful response on the survey we sent out. All feedback handed over to the relevant committees.

IT are considering switching to a credit-based system for printing, where you would need to top up your balance online before printing instead of having it on the college bill. This is because of problems with people accidentally running up big printing charges, and the cost/difficulty of handling all of the charges (IT have to collect all of the charges and send them to the bursary to be put on each student’s bill).

This would be a central balance (many departments use this system already), and you would be able to print to most printers in the university using it. New students would be credited a small amount to reduce the friction when they’re getting set up.

The IT committee asked me to return feedback on this within two weeks, so if you have an opinion on this either way, I’d really appreciate an email.

Freshers week

A meeting was held after the main JCR meeting, and plans are being drawn up. We may send around a survey at some point to get people’s (particularly this year’s freshers) opinions.

CUSU has opened a university-wide survey looking at welfare systems in different colleges and how much tutorial support each college provides. One of the JCR’s key aims for this year is to improve the tutor system in Trinity Hall, and this is part of a broader aim at CUSU to improve student experience and generally make us all happier people, concurrent with its current plans to unleash as many small animals as possible into the arms of stressed revisers.

The campaign is called ‘Students Deserve Better’ and is really, really cool and exciting, but the only way that we’ll manage to convince the university that we do, actually, deserve better, is to show them how many students care about an improved welfare structure, so fill out the survey!

This bunny wants you to fill out the survey.

Speaking of which, if you’re stressed or like animals (not necessarily mutually exclusive), get yourself to the Graduate Union on May 18th and hug some bunnies. If you can’t wait that long, check out the WELFARE BLACKBOARD OUTSIDE THE PLODGE where delicious welfare things are advertised and you can enjoy them while faring well. Well, better.

Have a nice day. :)

Davina x

The last Superhall of term will be on the 10th of May, with a 1920′s theme. Dress up all fancy-like and join us for a celebration of the decade that brought us Winnie-the-Pooh, liquid-fueled rockets, colour television, and Birds Eye frozen peas.

Bookings open tomorrow (Friday 3rd) at 7pm.

Update – here’s the menu:

Asparagus au Gratian
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Sea Bass with Garlic Butter
Nut Roast (Vegetarian)
Potatoes a la Hollandaise
Creamed Spinach
Baked Butternut Squash with Sage
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Devil’s Food Cake
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Coffee

Ticket registrations for the Trinity Hall Garden Party are now open!

With food and drink including a BBQ, Ice Cream, Strawberries & Cream and Pimms and the musical entertainment of CUJO, Mo’s Gold Teeth, Rose Saunders and more, it might even tempt the webmaster out of his lair for a few hours.

Tickets are £14 for Tit-Hallers, £16 for anyone else, and £15 for orders of 10 or more.

Update: Tickets are now sold out!

The Boat Club is calling all potential new rowers for a recruitment barbecue this Saturday 27th April at 1.30pm at the Boat House, where you can come along, try some rowing, talk to current rowers and start loading up on the protein (ie burgers). There’s a race on the river on Saturday so you’ll be able to see some First VIIIs in action too.

The club is looking to make up a couple of novice boats which will be a reasonably light time commitment and loads of fun.