Lincoln College MCR 6th Week Notices
Internal Notices 1. MCR Elections - Saturday - Husts 6pm, Voting Open 7pm - 10pm 2. MCR Housing Ballot 3. Fire Alarm incidents in 2017 4. Lost Pen in Library External Notices 1. The Dealer App –––––– Internal Notices 1. MCR Elections - Saturday - Husts 6pm, Voting Open 7pm - 10pm The elections for half of your next MCR Committee are happening this Saturday. Adam has already sent out an e-mail with the candidates and instructions for voting in absentia, but for those of you who are eager to come and exercise some democracy in person then here’s all the information you need. Husts will begin at 6pm in the Oakeshott Room. Each candidate will make a short speech outlining their suitability for the office they wish to occupy, and then the floor is open for questions. This is your chance to grill your next Committee, so take the opportunity! After husts have finished, we’ll descend to the MCR where voting will open at 7pm. To ease the democratic process, the Social Team have very kindly organised a party that coincides suspiciously well with the elections. You will need your bod card to vote. Only Ordinary Members of the MCR are permitted to vote (not Associate or Honorary Members). Voting will close at 10pm, with results announced shortly after. The party then continues until 11pm, at which point who knows what happens…come along and find out! 2. MCR Housing Ballot See Adam’s e-mails from yesterday about signing up for the MCR Housing Ballot if you want to be in the running for College accommodation next year. Regarding the amendment of the banding structure in the ballot, Adam & I conducted a thorough review of our housing ballot system to seek out areas that could be improved. The banding structure/eligibility was one such area, and so we thought it appropriate to amend these to be (a) easier for future MCR Committees to administrate and (b) more robust to possible attempts to ‘cheat the system’. This second point should not be underestimated, as over the last few years a growing minority of people have attempted to place themselves higher in the ballot than they are eligible to be. In hindsight, we should’ve discussed these with the wider MCR in a General Meeting before implementing them, and we’re sorry that we neglected to do this. We’ll use the banding structure from last year (based on number of years in Lincoln accommodation, rather than number of years as a Lincoln postgraduate student) and have a discussion in the 8th week General Meeting about possible improvements to this structure in future years. As ever, any questions/comments/queries about the housing ballot, just get in touch with myself or Adam. 3. Fire Alarm incidents in 2017 There have been a number of near-miss fire incidents in College in the first months of 2017, and College is understandably keen to avoid these from happening. Below is a list of all of the fire alarm incidents in College since the beginning of 2017. More veteran members of the MCR may recall a time when fire alarm incidents were circulated every week. We will be returning to those glory days. So, let’s all try and avoid things like burning toast and cremating pizza in the future so your incident doesn’t wind up in an e-mail! Also, as a general reminder, students should remain in the kitchen (and flat!) when cooking, but also remember to shut the kitchen door. Kitchen alarms are triggered by rapid heat (i.e. fire), whereas alarms in corridors and bedrooms are triggered by smoke. So, if you burn toast and the kitchen door is open, it will trigger the alarm in the corridor outside. Three of the incidents below will be dealt with by the Senior Dean. DateLocationIncident 14-Jan Turl St Duckers workmen/dust 17-Jan High St Cooking 19-Jan stc 20 Panel fault 22-Jan Mitre Mitre restaurant 23-Jan LCS Wine Café 24-Jan Mus Rd Cooking 25-Jan Bear Lane Burnt toast 26-Jan LCS Wine Café 03-Feb Bear Lane Oven left on unattended (flat empty) 11-Feb Bear Lane Pizza cooking/cremating in empty flat 11-Feb Turl St E-cigarette 13-Feb LCS Walton St Coop (bakery) 15-Feb Turl St Duckers workmen/dust 17-Feb Turl St E-cigarette (same room as prior alarm) 4. Lost Pen in Library One of our own MCR members, Thomas Frost, has left a black fountain pen in a black leather pen case on Sunday morning in the library on one of the desks. When checking later on the same day, it was gone. The pen was a gift and has quite a lot of sentimental value. If anyone has any information about said pen, please do get in touch with Thomas ([email protected]). ––––––– External Notices 1. The Dealer App The Dealer is on a mission to save everyone money on their food and drink and revolutionize the way people give back. The Dealer App has launched its beta version in Oxford and it needs test users to enjoy money off food and drink. Yes that is actually what they are offering! The deal is simple: they have got 100 venues in Oxford who have agreed to give everyone on The Dealer App discounts at certain times of the day. All they ask in exchange is that you consider giving a tiny amount (£0.30) of the money The Dealer saves you back to the local community in support of the fight against homelessness. You can also give back in the form of time, 10 minutes (which you can exchange for a volunteer shift when you hit two hours) or you can just pass on a good deed. The app is free, gets you a discount at your favorite venues and helps everyone give back. We are looking for people to trial this version of the product and give any feedback they have on design, layout and any requests for deals that you want to see that are not currently on there. To download it type ‘the dealer app’ into the App Store and start saving and giving!
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