Aimee Howarth brings you an interview with The Yorker directors on the final day of the advent articles
Aimee Howarth speaks to YUSU's sabbatical officers about their Christmas Day routine for day 17 of the advent calendar
For the final time this term, Vicky Morris updates you on this weeks film news
50 years after the publication of 'James and the Giant Peach', the works of Roald Dahl continue to celebrate success.
Last year James received poor publicity after Nouse reported that much of their budget had remained unspent with welfare and sports receiving little to no funding. We kick off with what the JCRC are going to do with their cash this year. Green responds saying “we’re looking at what we’ve got first before we spend it”, explaining that with finance training next week with Lewis Bretts, they are waiting until after that to finalise anything.
As a former sports rep, he is keen to make sure that last year’s situation isn’t repeated, telling me “we’ve emailed all the sports captains asking them where they’re spending their money and seeing what we can do to help them with training and kit.”
We move onto discussing the bad taste event that never was. He seems keen to make sure that all the facts go on record telling me they decided on the theme before Christmas, and it wasn’t until they got back that concerns started to be raised. At that point he tells me they decided to vote on it, with the outcome being to go ahead but with restrictions.
Rather than ending the problem though, it seems that just complicated even more. “Where do you draw the line on bad taste?” he asks. He tells me that his meeting with Jane Grenville simply confirmed that they couldn’t put any such taste restrictions on the event. In the end, as the Yorker reported they decided to change the theme to ‘good taste’. “Rather than doing an event which will cause offense, do something that everyone can enjoy” he argues. Should we care so much about events? “Yeah, they’re the public face of the college, they’re important for college spirit”.
When asked were to go from here, his response is instant “cheap, good events. If we can get freshers going, second and third years will follow”. It appears that he aims to emulate Derwent’s success saying “Club D has a good brand; people go to it just because it’s Club D”.
That said however he doesn’t intend to copy their events, instead planning to make use of James’ layout, “We’re planning a termly punch party in the quads, and of course watch this space for the Quad Dash and Bash!”
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