Regent's Now Magazine 2019 WEB

REGENT’S NOW STUDENTS
The Importance of Being Earnest, performed during Trinity
“Regent’s has again shown – for the umpteenth time –
how far we punch above our weight in the contribution
we make to the life of the whole University and beyond.”
quad, the play drew large audiences (reclining on
picnic blankets on the grass) and rave reviews, and
we raised more than £250 for the Stroke Association.
Summer Eights was next, and it was a bumper year for
the Regent’s rowers. The Women’s Boat won Blades,
and although the Men’s Boat narrowly missed out,
they finished the week at their highest ever position
on the river. Emmanuelle’s birthday party was as great
a success as ever, with some truly incredible baking
by JCR members in the student kitchens for the bake
sale, and a perhaps rather too enthusiastic game of
‘Soak the Exec’ (all for a good cause, I suppose…). All in
all, the party raised a massive £771.30 for Meningitis
Now. Before any of us knew it, it was the end of term,
the finalists had survived their exams and the long
vac beckoned, but there was one more thing to fit
in. Charlotte Haley and James Brown organised an
incredible Final Fling, entitled ‘World Fair’, complete
with highly imaginative (and potent) cocktails, live
music, a silent disco, and even a firebreather. It was
the perfect way to end and celebrate a year packed
with achievements by the JCR as a whole and by its
individual members. I can’t wait to see what the JCR
gets up to over the coming year; if it’s anything like the
one we’ve just had, we’re all in for a treat.
William Robinson is President of the Junior Common
Room (2018-19) and an undergraduate student reading for
the BA in Theology and Religion (2017).
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