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