junior common room
Britishnoun
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Rachel Johnson, the UK prime minister's sister and another Oxford contemporary, recently raised eyebrows when she recalled spotting Ghislaine Maxwell across the Balliol junior common room - "a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris's thigh."
From BBC
The comments, described as racist and trivialising by witnesses, were made during a virtual hustings event by a candidate for the position of “cake rep” – a welfare position on the junior common room committee at Christ Church college.
From The Guardian
Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba, Mansfield's Junior Common Room access officer, said the college's success in attracting students from state schools had helped to breed further success.
From BBC
Two others, Hatfield and St Chad's use the title of Senior Man - the rest have Junior Common Room Presidents.
From BBC
Meanwhile, at Rosie Wilcox’s college in Oxford, there has been a campaign to vote more women on to the Junior Common Room committee, the undergraduate governing body.
From The Guardian
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