Lonsdale College, Lancaster

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Lonsdale College Kidney (Looking towards the back of Lonsdale House)

Lonsdale College is a college of Lancaster University, in Lancashire, United Kingdom. Lonsdale College 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.

Formerly located north of Alexandra Square, in what is now Bowland North; in 2004/2005 the college was relocated into the newly developed Alexandra Park located to the south of the campus, where just over half the students live. Other Lonsdale students live in the city centre.

Lonsdale college boasts a bar called Mane Place, junior and senior common rooms, a computer lab and study room, a launderette and modern en-suite accommodation.

Lonsdale College

The college has a noted long standing reputation for being the university's "party college", holding some of the most well attended social events on campus.

Like the names of other colleges in Lancaster University, Lonsdale comes from a feature in the local area. In this case the college takes its name from Lonsdale, the Lune Valley.

The residential blocks housing the en-suite accommodation in Lonsdale College, like the college, are named after places in the Lonsdale area. Due to current building work on campus, the in-take and location of colleges is changing year to year. Pendle and Grizedale colleges are currently being rebuilt and consequently some of their in-take this year will be living in 2004 and 2005 Lonsdale blocks. While Lonsdale is losing some its blocks, it is gaining others in the southwest extreme of Alexandra Park in 2006. In taking over these blocks, the college takes on the blocks' block numbers, but has been able to transfer 'Lonsdalian' block names to these new Lonsdale residences.

Senior Common Room (SCR)

• College Principal: Keith Davidson
• College Vice-Principal: Michael Pickles
• College Secretary: Laraine Shaw
• College Residence Officer: Marilyn Lindsay
• College Senior Tutor: Moira Gathercole
• College Dean: Paul Coulton
• College Licensee: Andy Shaw

Junior Common Room (JCR)

Strictly speaking the junior common room (or JCR as it is often referred to) are all the current Lonsdalian undergraduates; although the term JCR is often used in reference to the junior common room's elected executive committee.

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Purple Lonnie: The Lonsdale College Magazine

The executive committee undertake a variety of tasks, ranging from organising socials to co-ordinating sports, producing puclicity to offering an education and welfare service. The JCR has it's own website, and also produces the publication 'Purple Lonnie'.

The name Purple Lonnie comes from when a member of the executive's parent 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 by Purple Lonnie.

Past JCR Presidents

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Michael Liffen & Jo Kilburn (JCR Presidents in 2006)

• 2006: Jo Kilburn & Michael Liffen
• 2005: Jonathan Smith
• 2004: Tom Shepherd
• 2003: Daniel Barcroft

Past JCR Executives

2006

• President: Jo Kilburn & Michael Liffen
• Vice-President: Suzy Lawson
• Chairperson: Rachel Timmins
• General Secretary: Emma Moore
• Editor: Sotirios Hatjoullis‡
• Webmaster (new for 2006): Bethan Evans†
• Communications Officer: David Mannheim
• Education and Welfare Officers: Lauren Moss, Rhian Glover, Matt Lynch† and Steve Edelman††
• Equal Opportunities Officer - LGBT: Jamie Carruthers
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Environment and Social Justice 'Green': David Hamblin
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Students with Disabilities: Samantha Anderson‡
• Equal Opportunities Officer - International Students: Cross Larini†↔ and Michele (?)†↔
• Social Secretaries: Tom Garvin, Vikki Patterson and Sebastian Negreira
• Disco Manager: Eddie Lloyd-Davis
• Sports' Officer (new for 2006): Paul Hulme
• Sports' Representatives: Paul Green and Naomi Summerell

†Joined via bye-election (Feb '06), ††Joined via bye-election (June '06), ‡Graduated before end of office, ↔Resigned before end of office

2005

• President: Jon Smith
• Vice-President: Catriona Forbes
• Chairperson: Amanda Spiers
• Secretary: Kerry Ryan
• Treasurer: Ben Buxton†
• Editor: Michael Liffen
• Communications Officers: Gem Foster‡, Jim Robertson‡, Emma Moore††† and Lauren Moss†††
• Education and Welfare Officers: Jo Kilburn and Ben Sneddon
• Equal Opportunities Officer: James Maxwell
• Equal Opportunities Officer - LGBT: Catherine Dobson
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Environment and Social Justice 'Green' (new for 2005): Richard Wyatt
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Women's Officer: Rebecca Sharkey
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Students with Disabilities: Samantha Anderson
• Equal Opportunities Officer - International Students: James Maxwell
• Social Secretaries: Jo Upson↔ and Lida Khanverdi†
• Disco Manager: Steve-O McCartney
• Sports' Representatives: Adam ‘Axel’ Foley, John ‘Pace’ Tuckwood, Lorna Diggle and Vicki Garside††

†Joined via bye-election (Feb '05), ††Joined via co-option (Mar '05), †††Joined via bye-election (May '05), ‡Graduated before end of office ↔Resigned before end of office

2004

• President: Tom Shepherd
• Vice-President: Greg Harper
• Chairperson: Lisa Pyke
• Secretary: Kylie Hall
• Treasurer: Sasha Abdul Rahman
• Editor: Michael Liffen†
• Communications Officers: Gem Foster and Jim Robertson
• Education and Welfare Officers: Catriona Forbes and Sean Bailey
• Equal Opportunities Officer: Richard Wyatt
• Equal Opportunities Officer - LGBT: Kate Simkins
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Women's Officer: Sophie Swain
• Equal Opportunities Officer - Students with Disabilities: Heather Mack and Zara Todd
• Social Secretaries: Jon Smith and Steve-O McCartney
• Disco Manager: Lloyd Rock
• Sports' Representatives: Adam ‘Axel’ Foley, James Craggs, Admanda Spiers and Rebecca Sharkey

†Joined via co-option (Oct '04)

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.