Lonsdale College
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| Lonsdale College, Lancaster University | |
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| College name | Lonsdale College |
| Named after | Lonsdale |
| Established | 1964 |
| JCR President | Jo Kilburn & Michael Liffen |
| Undergraduates | Over 1200 |
| Homepage | JCR Homepage |
- See also List of fictional Oxford colleges.
Lonsdale College is a college of Lancaster University, in Lancashire, United Kingdom. Lonsdale College was one of the two founding colleges, built when the university first opened in 1964. It is also one of the largest colleges on campus in terms of junior common room membership, with over 1,200 JCR members.
Formerly located north of Alexandra Square, in what is now Bowland North; in 2004/2005 the college was relocated into the newly developed Alexandra Park located to the south of the campus, where just over half the students live. Other Lonsdale students live in the city centre.
Lonsdale college boasts a bar called Mane Place, junior and senior common rooms, a computer lab and study room, a launderette and modern en-suite accommodation.
The college has a noted long standing reputation for being the university's "party college", holding some of the most well attended social events on campus.
Like the names of other colleges in Lancaster University, Lonsdale comes from a feature in the local area. In this case the college takes its name from Lonsdale, the Lune Valley.
The residential blocks housing the en-suite accommodation in Lonsdale College, like the college, are named after places in the Lonsdale area. Due to current building work on campus, the in-take and location of colleges is changing year to year. Pendle and Grizedale colleges are currently being rebuilt and consequently some of their in-take this year will be living in 2004 and 2005 Lonsdale blocks. While Lonsdale is losing some its blocks, it is gaining others in the southwest extreme of Alexandra Park in 2006. In taking over these blocks, the college has been able to transfer 'Lonsdalion' block names to these new residences.
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[edit] Senior Common Room (SCR)
- College Principal: Keith Davidson
- College Vice-Principal: Michael Pickles
- College Secretary: Laraine Shaw
- College Residence Officer: Marilyn Lindsay
- College Senior Tutor: Moira Gathercole
- College Dean: Paul Coulton
- College Licensee: Andy Shaw
[edit] Junior Common Room (JCR)
Strictly speaking the junior common room (or JCR as it is often referred to) are all the current Lonsdalian undergraduates; although the term JCR is often used in reference to the junior common room's elected executive committee.
The executive committee undertake a variety of tasks, ranging from organising socials to co-ordinating sports, producing puclicity to offering an education and welfare service. The JCR has its own website, and also produces the publication 'Purple Lonnie'.
The name Purple Lonnie comes from when a member of the executive's parent worked for the company that penned the Purple Ronnie poems. On being asked to pen a Purple Ronnie poem for Lonsdale, the poem came back signed by Purple Lonnie.[citation needed]
[edit] Past JCR Presidents
[edit] Other uses
Lonsdale College is also a fictional college of the University of Oxford, as featured in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels. In the television adaptation of Inspector Morse, Brasenose College was used to represent Lonsdale.
| Lancaster University | |
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| Colleges: |
Bowland | Cartmel | County | Furness | Fylde | Grizedale | Lonsdale | Pendle | Graduate |
| LUSU |
Bailrigg FM | LU Cinema | Scan |
