[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][BULL] The College is part of University of Oxford and students are [PARA]entitled to use its facilities.[EBOLD][PARA]Somerville is 1/2 a mile from the town centre. [ITAL]The architecture is [PARA]mixed and the gardens are very peaceful. Somerville is in the [PARA]process of accepting its first male intake (October 1994 entry). [PARA]The small bar, with its merry happy hours, bonds the bits other [PARA]bars cannot reach. Even the JCR meetings enjoy students' [PARA]undivided attention and lead to lively debate. As soon as an [PARA]appropriate issue crops up (especially a feminist one), the [PARA]students mobilise forces without delay. [EITAL]For example, the JCR did[PARA]successfully stave off the invasion of men for several years.[ITAL] Will[PARA]hordes of willy-waving yobs pee on the Somerville bonfire? Or [PARA]will they be New Men and knit quiche? [EITAL][PARA][PARA]*Predicted 1994 entry. Bar; Wolfson Hall (cap 200) for bands, [PARA]cabaret (1-2 times per term). Library (100,000 books); 8 [PARA]computers. [ITAL]Strong [EITAL]hockey team; Head of the River (rowing [PARA]winners) innumerable times; [ITAL]all-round sportswomen really[EITAL]. [PARA]Shares sports facilities with [ULNE]Wadham College[EULNE]. All 1st yrs and [PARA]finalists live in, plus 1/3 of others; [ITAL]varied, but generally spacious[EITAL] [PARA]rooms; students eat in the cafeteria and formal dinners once [PARA]weekly in dining hall. Multi-denominational chapel. Visiting nurse; [PARA]male welfare officer for overwhelmed blokes.[HDNG]FAMOUS ALUMNI:[EHDNG][PARA]Indira Ghandi (India's ex PM); Dorothy Hodgkin (Nobel Prize [PARA]winner); Iris Murdoch (writer); Baroness Park (spymaster); [PARA]Esther Rantzen (toothy TV celeb); Dorothy L Sayers (writer); [PARA]Baroness Thatcher ([ITAL]Who she?[EITAL]); Baroness Shirley Williams [PARA](ex-SDP MP).
