The Queen's College Record 2020
Reports and College Activities Some students were also involved in projects such as the development of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. One student, Andrew Orr, was even part of the University OxVent project, which developed rapidly deployable ventilators to be used by the NHS during the crisis. This Trinity term, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, our BME Officer, Tegar Ramadan, led the MCR’s response in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, helping draft an open letter to the College and reaching out to BME postgraduate students. Sean Ketteringham has also been particularly active in promoting the cause, helping to represent the MCR alongside me in a College-wide Working Group organised by the Provost, and aimed at promoting the interests of BME students and staff. The MCR hopes that the College will continue to channel the momentum generated in response to this movement to enact positive change. I would like to thank the rest of the Committee, the College staff, and the MCR as a whole for their continued support and engagement in postgraduate life at Queen’s College. 64 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
A YEAR IN THE JCR Hattie Bates JCR President President Hattie Bates; Vice Presidents Isabelle Gibbons and Aqsa Lone This year in the history of The Queen’s College JCR has been a remarkable one. Its beginning, however, was rather the same as ever. We welcomed a new year group with a fairly smooth Freshers’ Week, and I’ve been particularly impressed with their contribution to the vivacity of the JCR this year, for which we are all grateful. I consider it a mark of a strong and kind community when newcomers quickly become active within it, and I’ve been really lucky to witness this. Minor behavioural hiccups throughout the year included drinking in the library at the Michaelmas end of term event, and a very dirty beer cellar at rather too regular intervals. We thank the College staff for bearing our antics with good grace and patience! Reports and College Activities The year moved on through Hilary, and then came March. Our term finished officially on 15 March, only a week before the imposition of a national lockdown. We witnessed College change dramatically in the last few weeks of term: mass deliveries of microwaves for the students who were self-isolating in their rooms; cancellation of evensong; and a general growing sense of anxiety that we were facing a very different life than that we had been used to. We held our end of term event nevertheless (government advice at the time was to hold events as usual). Perhaps with the gift of hindsight I would have called this off, but, with this same hindsight, I’m very fond of the last memories of significant normality with the community in which I feel at home. Throughout the Easter vacation and the beginning of Trinity term, it became clearer that residence would not be resumed for the remainder of the academic year. Speaking on my behalf alone, I held out hope for as long as possible that I would get to see my friends again, and was really devastated to lose this precious time in such an amazing place. The JCR continued its meetings via Zoom, but I couldn’t help but feel our community had suffered a little. Reflecting back, it is clear that initial frustration had evolved into quiet resignation as we settled into many months of changing government guidelines, which affected almost all parts of normal life. It is odd living as a young person currently: the feeling of the world stalling around us just as we enter independent adulthood will, I believe, leave a lasting impression on our memories of university, and our collective psyches. As a historian, I’m curious to see what the legacy of this pandemic will be, whilst at the same time honoured to be a part of the College through an important part of its history. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 65
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Some students were also involved in projects such as the development of vaccines<br />
against SARS-CoV-2. One student, Andrew Orr, was even part of the University<br />
OxVent project, which developed rapidly deployable ventilators to be used by the NHS<br />
during the crisis.<br />
This Trinity term, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, our BME Officer, Tegar<br />
Ramadan, led the MCR’s response in support of the Black Lives Matter movement,<br />
helping draft an open letter to the <strong>College</strong> and reaching out to BME postgraduate<br />
students. Sean Ketteringham has also been particularly active in promoting the<br />
cause, helping to represent the MCR alongside me in a <strong>College</strong>-wide Working Group<br />
organised by the Provost, and aimed at promoting the interests of BME students<br />
and staff. <strong>The</strong> MCR hopes that the <strong>College</strong> will continue to channel the momentum<br />
generated in response to this movement to enact positive change.<br />
I would like to thank the rest of the Committee, the <strong>College</strong> staff, and the MCR as a<br />
whole for their continued support and engagement in postgraduate life at Queen’s<br />
<strong>College</strong>.<br />
64 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2020</strong>
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