Good News Column: Week One
Virtual bops at Emma, Movie Mondays at Churchill, and ‘Virtual Jesus’
Claudia RowanWe all need some good news in this strange new term, and so The Cambridge Tab has collated a selection of positive stories from across the University. We hope you enjoy this good news.
Cambridge buildings lit up blue as a tribute to NHS
Wolfson Green Society hosts online sustainability talks
Wolfson College Green Society is hosting a range of sustainability-focused lecture series this term, starting with a talk by Wolfson alumnus Marie Anne Coninsx, Former EU Ambassador at Large to the Arctic, this Thursday. Find the Facebook event here.
Virtual bops at Emma and Robinson
Robinson held a virtual bop, and Emmanuel is planning on hosting one. Emma has also created a “Pet of the Week” photo competition, as well as the opportunity to send cards to its porters.
Catz welfare officers set up virtual welfare teas every Sunday
They’ve also set up online “Welfairies”, whereby students can anonymously send one another virtual gifts such as recipes and colouring pages.
A radiant Catz
Churchill hosts Movie Mondays and Food Fridays
Movie Mondays involve a Netflix Party session for students, and Food Fridays consists of recipes.
Homerton provides a room full of free snacks, and its choir performs virtually
Homerton JCR has stacked a room with a selection of free food for students currently living in college. The room also contains lots of free books, DVDs, and art supplies for those still at Homerton to enjoy.
The Charter Choir of Homerton also sang together (virtually); you can watch this here.
“Virtual Jesus” set up at Jesus College
Jesus’s SU has set up “Virtual Jesus”, which this week involves a virtual Jesus book club, home workout exercises, and a bar quiz.
Downing JCR sets up virtual library discord server
Downing students can now access a virtual version of the college library. Students can even “sit down” at simulated desks and chat with friends via voice or video as they work together.
Robinson Music Society hosts online concerts on Fridays
Robinson College Music Society (RCMS) is hosting virtual online concerts every Friday at 6:30pm. You can watch the concerts on the RCMS Facebook page.
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Freya WattsYou go to Cambridge and don’t row? How else do you spend your free time?
Cambridge University college to install climbing wall inside 150 year old church tower
Pembroke has already converted the church on Trumpington Street into an auditorium
Cambridge University to ban use of the term ‘Oxbridge’ due to elitist connotations
Anyone caught using the word will be forced to undertake a mandatory ‘inclusivity training’
St John’s College Cambridge now has control over the SJV choir’s social media
The petition to save the mixed choir is supported by the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
Cambridge University temporarily halts funding from fossil fuel companies
A report found that donations from oil and gas companies posed a ‘high reputational risk’ for the university
Eight cafés to try in Cambridge as a student before you graduate from university
Lucy BarberSpoiler alert: Fitzbillies isn’t the only coffee shop in Cambridge
St John’s College Cambridge mixed choir is being disbanded
The decision means female sopranos will no longer be able to sing in any chapel services
Cambridge University colleges as songs with women’s names in the title
Ellen HawleyGet ready to update your playlist immediately x
Leah Whiting
Cambridge men lose on penalties at the 150th anniversary of Varsity football
Cambridge was forced to substitute its goalkeeper following an injury on the third minute
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Here’s everything you need to know about The Rad, a tiny pub on King Street
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Sophie PetrieA performance that did justice to the much-loved British comedy
Paint thrown over Cambridge University West site building in protest of its ties to Israel
Cambridge’s Laboratory for Scientific Computing has been under fire for its links to arms companies
A moral alignment ranking of Cambridge college rowing blade designs
Totally objective (based on free speed and vibez)
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April O'NeillIt’s me and my puffer against the world
Olivia Little
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Jessica SpearmanVoting opens Thursday 7th March after the weekly debate
Lauren from MAFS Australia has been spotted on a night out getting close to her ex again
Harrison BrocklehurstThere’s picture evidence!!!
Producers forced Tim to bring up cheating scandal again on homestays for more MAFS drama
Ellie RingAnd edited their homestays to ‘look worse than it actually was’
‘Shameful’: Sydney Sweeney savagely claps back at claims she ‘is not pretty and can’t act’
Emily Smith‘How sad that a woman in the position to share her expertise and experience chooses instead to attack another woman’
Phoebe Kowhai
OMG! The viral four lads in jeans are back and the jeans got… baggy
It’s been five years since the first picture was posted!
Lizz claims she’s no longer friends with Jack after Tori ‘forbid’ them seeing each other
And apparently even tried to get Lizz fired?!
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Kind of like picking your favourite child
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I’ve never felt so out of touch
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He’s a writer on Sex Education
One year on, this is what the cast of Race Across the World series three is up to now
The cast all still hang out and refer to each other as best friends
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OMG! Fallout has a real number you can call or text to get a secret easter egg
If you actually ring it, prepare to be terrified
Nose jobs to tattoos: Inside Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s hot girl summer life after break up
She just filed a restraining order against her husband
Top female Hollywood producer declares that Sydney Sweeney ‘is not pretty and can’t act’
She described her rom-com film, Anyone But You, as ‘unwatchable’
Anton ‘wishes he never went back’ to the Love Island villa and compared it to being in jail
‘I wish I never went back there’
Just five reasons why our spiritual queen Lucinda deserved better on MAFS Australia 2024
Give this woman the world
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He had a huge role on the show
