Lonsdale College
| Lonsdale College Lancaster University |
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| Motto | Simply The Best! | ||||||||||||||||
| Named after | Lonsdale | ||||||||||||||||
| Established | 1964 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dean | Richard Austen-Baker | ||||||||||||||||
| Principal | Keith Davison | ||||||||||||||||
| JCR President | Tom Woodburn | ||||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 1200 | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | Lonsdale College | ||||||||||||||||
| JCR Website | Lonsdale JCR | ||||||||||||||||
Lonsdale College is a constituent college of the University of Lancaster, UK. It was one of the two founding colleges, built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of Junior Common Room membership, with over 1,200 JCR members. Like most other colleges in the university, the college is named after a region of the traditional county of Lancashire. The college takes its name from the Lonsdale area, the valley of the River Lune.
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[edit] History
The College was originally located in what is now Bowland North to the north of Alexandra Square. The college was designed in tandem with Bowland and was in fact designed as a mirror image of it.[1] In 2004 the college chose move, along with Cartmel College to some of the newly-built buildings to the south of the main campus in Alexandra Park. Its original buildings was transferred to the other founding college, Bowland, and became known as Bowland North.
[edit] College Symbols
The "Heraldic" lion features in the official Lonsdale college logo. The college colours are observed in the college scarf and include: blue, white, red and grey.
[edit] Facilities
Lonsdale college boasts a bar called Mane Place, a JCR, SCR, a computer lab, a study room, and a launderette.
[edit] Social Events
The college has a noted long standing reputation for being the university's "party college", holding some of the best attended social events on campus. Lonsdale was the first winner of the inter-college Rugby sevens cup in 1969.
[edit] Residences
Just over half of the college's students live in college at any one time. Other Lonsdale students live in Lancaster city centre. The residential buildings housing the college's entirely en-suite accommodation are named after places in the Lonsdale area. Due to ongoing building work on campus, precisely which residential buildings are Lonsdalion ones is subject to change each year. However, in spite of this, the college has been able to transfer Lonsdalion block names as it takes and relinquishes the various residential buildings.
[edit] Governance
The College is established under the Statutes of the University. Internally, the key committee which runs the College is the College Syndicate.
The College Principal is Keith Davidson and the Vice-Principal is Michael Pickles. The Senior Tutor is Laura McGowan, and the Dean is Richard Austen-Baker.
[edit] Junior Common Room
The Junior Common Room consists of all Lonsdalion undergraduates. The term JCR is often used in reference to the junior common room's elected executive committee. The executive committee undertake a variety of tasks, ranging from organising social events to co-ordinating sports, producing publicity and offering an education and welfare service. The JCR publishes 'Purple Lonnie', currently named ROAR, the college magazine. The origin of the magazine's name relates to an episode when one of the parents of a member of the JCR executive worked for the company that penned the Purple Ronnie poems. On being asked to pen a Purple Ronnie poem for Lonsdale, the poem came back signed Purple Lonnie.
Current JCR Exec 2012
Emperor: Tommy Wommy Woodburn IV, Vice President: Amy Harvey, Chair: Amy Kaye, General Secretary: Danny Myers, Social Secretary: Chris Wheeler, Social Secretary: Justine Bate, Social Secretary: Jack Glancy, Female EWD: Sammy Crow, Male EWD: Andrew Thomas, Publicity Officer: Holly Moorhead, Webmaster: Joe Foster, Male Sports Rep: Jake Aspinall, Female Sports Rep: Xantha Leatham,
Previous JCR Executive Committees
JCR Exec 2011
President: Rachel Essex, Vice President: Jessica Newton, Chair: Kaitlin Woods, General Secretary: Matthew Haslam, Social Secretary: Amy Harvey, Social Secretary: Matthew Lancaster, Female EWD: Grace Fitzpatrick, Male EWD: Tom Woodburn, Publicity Officer: Amy Wareing, Webmaster: Alex Stewart & Erin O'Reilly, Magazine Editor: Holly Sutton, Male Sports Rep: Danny Worthington, Female Sports Rep: Jade Goveia, DJ Manager: Sion Elliott,
JCR Exec 2010
President: Katie Kitney & Matthew Power, Vice President: Alex Carlin, Chair: Zack Coates, General Secretary: Robert Williams, Social Secretary: Hannah Scopp, Social Secretary: Reece Yates, Social Secretary: John D'Ambrosio, Female Equality & Welfare: Jessica Newton, Male Education & Welfare: Kevin Wong, Publicity Officer: Sarah Warsaw, Webmaster: Matthew Newton, Magazine Editor: Rachel Essex, Male Sports Rep: Lee Osborne, Female Sports Rep: Ruth Sowerby, DJ Manager: Aman Singh[citation needed]
[edit] Other uses
Lonsdale College is also a fictional college of the University of Oxford, as featured in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels. In the television adaptation of Inspector Morse, Brasenose College was used to represent Lonsdale.
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