Tea, scones and sandwiches served alongside Pimms, cocktails and other treats in the beautiful, secluded Fellows’ Garden. Expect live music, lawn games and prizes for best hat/costume.

Tickets are limited. Book now to avoid disappointment! Prices for MCR members is £8; non-members pay £12.

Location: Magdalene College, Fellows’ Garden
Date: Sunday 11 July
Time: 1pm – 5pm

Email jk445 for ticket and payment information.

Also, unless you’ve been living in some media-proof bunker, you’ll know today is English football’s own special D-Day. If you want to support/jeer or are just short of other entertainment/pressing work, we’ll be watching it in the Owlstone common room – kickoff at 3pm – and then heading outside to dominate the last of the sausagey BBQ leftovers.

A bientot,

Brendan x

Please join us at the Graduate Union in Mill Lane to watch the Opening
Ceremony of the Soccer World Cup and match between South African vs Mexico
on Friday 11 June. The ceremony and game will be shown at 1pm British
Summer Time on ITV.

The Graduate Union will be offering some refreshment (soft drinks, pizza
and crisps).

The South African flags will be flying, but please invite friends of any
Nationality to join us and bring their flags along as well.

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday.

The Graduate Union Board

The Porters have started to remove bicycles that are not registered from the bike sheds. During the summer, after the end of term, a massive clear out will go ahead and so if students have not yet registered their bicycle, please do so at the porters lodge. This also applies to the outside properties.

On the evening of the bop this week (Friday May 7th) we intend to put into trial the security system on the Cripps automatic doors.

This means that all Fellows, residents, and visitors to the MCR or Bar will need to carry their University Card throughout the duration of the bop (say, 9pm Friday to 1am Saturday morning) if they need to enter the Cripps staircases or the Bar through the automatic doors.

The procedure for operating the doors is:

1. Observe the colour of the indicator light on the proximity card reader. 2. If the indicator is red, place your University Card on the reader. 3. If your card is recognised as authorised, the indicator will turn green. 4. When the indicator is green, press the button to open the doors.

Only cards registered on the Queens’ security system will be recognised. If your card is not yet registered on the Queens’ system, please take your card to the Head Porter during normal working hours.

A side-effect of the security system will be that non-members of Queens’ will not be able to enter the Bar from Cripps Cloisters: they should instead use the doors to the conservatory in Lyon Court.

The doors will continue to open automatically to let people out.

The intention of this trial is to make it less easy for non-members of Queens’ to enter the private areas of Cripps Court. It is not the intention to make Cripps Court completely secure against unauthorised entry.

The automatic glass doors at the bottom of each Cripps Court staircase (and the lobby to the Bar) are now in operation.

From outside, you press a button to open the doors. With the exception of FF, there are buttons on both sides of the entry.

From inside, the doors will open automatically as you approach.

In the event of a fire alarm or electricity failure, all doors will open and stay open until the condition is reset.

For the time being, the University Card readers, although physically present, will not be in operation. There will be a further circular when these have been commissioned.

Dear all,

I’d be grateful if you could circulate the information below.

Firtsly, please advise members that the WML door is being altered (work scheduled for 21st and 22nd January). While the change is long awaited, the work is at rather short notice so I was unable to warn you much in advance. Once completed, exit as well as entry will need a Uni card. The door opening mechanism will be lighter and easier for all and will be automated for some.

Secondly, the Thomas Smith exhibition in the Old Library will be open on Friday 22nd January 3-4pm, Wednesday 27th 3-4pm and Friday 29th 12-1pm. All members of College will be welcome. Please call at the WML office during these times to gain entry. There will other Old Library exhibitions to which all members will be invited. Small groups of visitors are welcome at other times too and anyone interested can contact Mrs Begg for more information.