Meet the new JCR Co-Presidents Restructuring the room ballot system, keeping prices low, and deciding on a name for the summer event: these are just some of the aims for the new JCR Co-Presidents, as Louise Hanzlik learns.
Choosing the name of this year’s JCRhosted summer event could cause a rift between the new Co-Presidents. “I think it should just be called the June Event”; “It should be the June Garden Party”; “It’s not really a garden party though, is it?”; “Well, it is taking place in a garden...” I am chatting to Tim d’Aboville and Candela Louzao Carabel, who
started their new roles in January as Co-Presidents of the Junior Combination Room (JCR), the studentelected committee that represents undergraduates at St John’s. The JCR Committee was officially established at St John’s in the late 1930s, and today its members attend meetings with senior academics and College leaders, as well as organising events and welfare initiatives. 8
Despite not agreeing on the event name, it is plain to see that Tim and Candela get on remarkably well. The second-year undergraduates are both international students – Tim lived in America until he was eight and then moved to France, and Candela is from Spain. They have been good friends since starting their studies at St John’s after they met at a student night and realised they had a few things
