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HousekeepingYour room will be cleaned by a ‗Scout‘ (cleaner) at least once every two weeks, and your waste bin will beemptied each weekday, Monday to Friday. (If you do not want to be disturbed, leave your waste bin outsideyour room as a signal to the Scout.) Please note that Scouts are not responsible for tidying your personalbelongings, or dealing with your washing up. You will be advised in advance which day/week your room willbe cleaned, and your Scout must have access on this day.Communal areas will be cleaned daily Monday to Friday; this includes corridors, stairs, bathrooms, showers,toilets, kitchens, and pantries.When you take possession of your room, you will be given a list of contents for which you will beaccountable, with a description of their condition. You will be asked to sign this and return it to theHousekeeping Manager.Bear in mind that, if there is any damage or unreasonable deterioration to your room or furniture, you will becharged for any necessary repairs or replacements.Each room has a noticeboard and poster strips. The use of Blue Tac or similar adhesives to hang postersetc. is forbidden, as this causes damage to wall surfaces.Any maintenance problem should where possible be reported through the appropriate Maintenance RequestForm on the College Web site: http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/maintenanceThis is the speediest way to get the problem brought to the attention of the Maintenance Department.In an emergency, please contact the Bursary on + 44 (0)1865 270615 (during office hours) or the Porters‘Lodge on + 44 (0)1865 270600 (out of office hours).TelephonesThere are no telephone line jacks in undergraduate bedrooms. Telephones are located in the variousbuildings as follows.Call-bar telephone lines (you can receive calls on these numbers, but not make outgoing calls):Penrose Ground Floor - + 44 (0)1865 270667Penrose Middle Floor - + 44 (0)1865 270698Darbishire Middle Floor Hall - + 44 (0)1865 280635Park 1st Floor - + 44 (0)1865 270692Park 2nd Floor - + 44 (0)1865 270675Hostel Top Floor - + 44 (0)1865 280593Vaughan Middle floor - + 44 (0)1865 270662Vaughan Top floor - + 44 (0)1865 270663Payphone (cards only):Front Hall (Green Hall) - + 44 (0)1865 554073For queries regarding telephones, please contact the Treasury & Projects Administrator, Mr Paul Francis(email: paul.francis@some.ox.ac.uk; tel.: + 44 (0)1865 270624).Guest roomsWhile there are no guest rooms specifically for use by JCR members, it may on occasion be possible to hirean undergraduate room that is not occupied. Please contact the Housekeeping department for information(email bursary@some.ox.ac.uk; tel.: + 44 (0)1865 270615/23).Queries regarding accommodation or housekeepingAny queries regarding accommodation or housekeeping should be addressed to the Housekeepingdepartment (email: bursary@some.ox.ac.uk; tel.: + 44 (0)1865 270615/23).4.4 InsuranceThe College does not accept responsibility for any possessions sent to, kept at, or left on College premises.Since you will be living in College accommodation, you will have limited insurance cover through the Collegewith Endsleigh Insurance. Details are included in your Licence to Occupy. The insurance charge isautomatically included in the room rent, so there is no additional charge.4.5 StorageWhilst we appreciate that it tedious to have to clear all belongings from College rooms at the end of eachterm, every student is required to remove all his or her property from the premises at the end of term, or10 of 23
when vacating his or her lodgings. Belongings left in rooms – no matter how small or unobtrusive – will beremoved by Bursary staff and, if kept, will be subject to a storage charge (of up to the student commercialrate of a minimum of £25 a night).The College has limited storage facilities, and storage priority is given to overseas students. Storage isrestricted to three boxes per student, with the boxes supplied by the College. Use of the space is alsodependent on availability. Students who wish to take advantage of this limited facility should make contactwith the Lodge at the beginning of term to ascertain availability, and the terms and conditions that apply.Alternatively, commercial storage facilities are available in and near Oxford. Companies include:Big Yellow Self StorageBarretts4.6 Keys and securityhttp://www.bigyellow.co.uk/http://www.barretts-storage.co.uk/When you arrive at Somerville, you will be issued with a personal electronic access card, and a key for yourroom. The card is needed to open doors into all the buildings on the College's main site, and some doorswithin buildings. It also functions as your pre-paid card for your food account.You should also be given a Late key, which will enable you to enter the main College site through a numberof different gates around the perimeter of the site.Oxford is no different from other cities across the United Kingdom or, for that matter, the world. Crimes arecommitted here and it would be naive to think otherwise. We ask that you please comply with the followingrequests whilst you are in College. Lock your room door whenever you leave it, regardless of the time you intend to be away — it takes secondsto steal a purse or wallet! If you have a ground floor room, please lock your window shut whenever you leave your room. Do not leave valuables (e.g. computers, games consoles, cameras) on display in your room — please lockthem away in luggage or similar if you are not using them. When using your electronic access card to enter College buildings, do not leave the door open for otherpersons unless you know them to be a member of Somerville or they have an access card. This preventsunauthorised persons from obtaining access. Do not lend your keys or access card to anybody you do not know, regardless of how plausible their storymay seem.If you see anybody acting suspiciously within, or trying to gain access to, College premises, call the Porters‘Lodge immediately (+ 44 (0)1865 270600). If you are able, make a note of what the person looked like(clothes, hair, skin colour, type of footwear, whether they were carrying anything), time of sighting, wherethey were, and which way they went.4.7 PostYou will have a personal pigeonhole in the Porters' Lodge. Incoming mail will be put in your pigeonhole bythe Porters. You must check your pigeonhole frequently, since important information may be sent to you bypost.All post should be addressed to you by name at: Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HD.Outgoing post destined for other institutions within the collegiate University may be sent free of charge.There are collection boxes in the College. Outgoing ordinary post to all destinations may be placed in theappropriate collection boxes in College, provided it has been stamped with the correct postage value.Tutors and administrative staff in the College have pigeonholes in the House building. You can leavemessages in their pigeonholes.5. Junior Common RoomThe Junior Common Room (JCR) is the undergraduate student body (like a student union) of an Oxfordcollege. It is also the name of the common room shared by undergraduate students.All undergraduate students of Somerville College are members of the College's JCR. The Somerville JCRhas an Executive to manage its affairs.11 of 23
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