[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][BULL] The College is part of University of Oxford and students are entitled to use its facilities.[EBOLD][PARA]University College, the oldest Oxford College, claims to have been founded by King Alfred the Bad Cook in the 9th century.  It presents a [ITAL]prison-like [EITAL]facade to the High Street, but is[ITAL] pleasantly habitable inside [EITAL]with the massive marble Shelley memorial lurking down one of its quieter corridors.  [ITAL]Students are well-involved in University-wide activities, although the College fulfils many students' needs on its own.  The sports tradition is almost as all-consuming as the academic record and JCR meetings are well attended, having become more wit and waggery than serious political debate.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]Bar (cap 150); theatre; 2 [ITAL]sweaty [EITAL]bops per term; jazz evenings; drama soc puts on panto and annual revue; music soc performs regularly.  'Toilet' news fortnightly.  2 libraries (Main, Law: 50,000 books); 9 computers; Inter-denominational chapel.  [ITAL]Strong in sports:[EITAL] Head of the River (rowing champs) in 1991, [ITAL]successful rugby and women's sport.  [EITAL]7 acres of sports fields and boat-house 11/2 miles.  1st and 2nd yrs live in, finalists in an annexe; [ITAL]generally comfortable rooms; limited self-catering[EITAL].  2 doctors; nurse;[ITAL] reasonable disabled access;[EITAL] Taylor House hostel for severely disabled.[HDNG]FAMOUS ALUMNI:[EHDNG][PARA]Clement Attlee (former PM); Bill Clinton (US President); Bob Hawke (former Australian PM); Stephen Hawking (physicist/cosmologist); Armando Ianucci (producer, 'The Day Today'); Richard Ingrams (founder 'Private Eye', editor 'The Oldie'); VS Naipaul (writer); Willy Rushton (raconteur, writer); PB Shelley (poet); Peter Snow (Newsnight presenter).