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