MCR COMMITTEE 2019-20
FROM THE MCR PRESIDENT
President Maurits Houck
A seemingly innocent MCR Karaoke Night on Thursday. Very close MCR elections on Friday. Two metre distance and the Handover Formal cancelled on Saturday. Within just two days everything turned upside down and a gloomy thought settled on us that 2020 may become a very difficult year. From the first day for me as MCR President everything was the unprecedented.
Vice-President Conor Heffernan Secretary Phoebe Heathcote Treasurer Harkeerit Kalsi Academic Officer Neha Moharir Environmental Officer Yair Perry Access Officer Eduardo Camarillo Abad Welfare Officers Valeria Zambianchi and Kethan Suvarna Technical Officer Erik Daxberger Social Secretaries Yaiza Andrés, Sana Kidwai, Jason Van Schijndel and Georgie Ward
Earlier, the year had started full of optimism about the new 20-ies decade. Dressed like the “Great Fitzby”, we celebrated the new decade with a roaring twenties “A night we won’t remember with people we can’t forget” formal and party. Midway through term, we hosted an intercollegiate Auditorium BOP with Trinity, Newnham and Corpus. The musical and creative talents within the MCR were shown off in the traditional Graduate Salon. We had a hugely successful Heritage Night, a potluck with food from all over the world. Little did we know that all this would be a complete taboo a few months later. It was the last weekend of Lent Term that everything changed. The coronavirus pandemic had reached the UK. All students, postgrads usually staying over the Easter break in Fitz, were urged
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