[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][BULL] The College is part of University of Oxford and students are entitled to use its facilities.[EBOLD][PARA]St Hugh's red brick buildings are a mile from Carfax.[ITAL] [EITAL] It's known for its garden parties, firework party and ball,[ITAL] its big booze ups at the start of each term and its general penchant for riotous revelry, larks and laughs[EITAL]. [ITAL] Among the cliques are the 'Footie Lads', professional pint swillers, and the Beer and Wine Society whose motto is 'Quantity not Quality'. In their defence, we should mention that the tone is of subversive irony rather than drunken stupidity. [EITAL]Hugh's students plague almost every activity at a University level.[PARA][PARA]2 bars; Wordsworth Room (cap 50), Lee House (50) used for student bands, as well as Mordan Hall theatre (300); bops 2-3 times termly in JCR (250); free annual Dean's Xmas Party. College news: 'Chunder'; 2 libraries (73,000 books); 14 computers. [ITAL]Lots of sportswomen and rowers[EITAL], despite being quite far from the river; some sports facilities on site; joint college sports fields with [ULNE]Wadham[EULNE] 1/2 mile off site. Most live in for all 3 years, many in new Rachel Trickett Building; few eat at the buttery; formal meal in dining hall weekly. Visiting doctor and nurse; interdenominational chapel.[HDNG]FAMOUS ALUMNI:[EHDNG][PARA]Baroness Barbara Castle (ex-Labour MP; Ruth Lawrence (child prodigy); Mary Renault (historical novelist); Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese Nobel Prize winner); Joanna Trollope (Aga saga writer). Dame Peggy Ashcroft (actress) was an Honorary Fellow.
