Common rooms All members of college are members of a
common room. Undergraduates are members of the
Junior Common Room (JCR). They may opt out of the common room if they wish, although if they do so they are not allowed to attend JCR events, such as the informal and formal ball, or
Formal Hall. The JCR annually elects an executive committee consisting of ten members as well as an impartial chair. The executive committee ensures the successful running of the JCR, in conjunction with the College Officers. The rules of the JCR are stated in the
standing orders, which can only be amended by resolution of the JCR members during general meetings.
Postgraduate and some senior undergraduate students, including mature students, are members of the
Middle Common Room (MCR), which hosts its own events and operates similarly to the JCR. The MCR has its own standing orders and executive committee consisting of eleven elected members. Administrative, academic and other members of college are members of the
Senior Common Room (SCR).
Arts The college has a strong history of music, art, and the performing arts. The college has hosted, The college has an
orchestral society, a
flute choir, which puts on productions several times a year alongside the premier Trevelyan College Musical Society. The college hosts at least one musical per year from Trevelyan College Musical Society, which has been active since 1994 The college has also in recent years been college champions of women's hockey, Women's astro football, Basketball (both men's and women's) and Badminton, which saw Men's A finish the session undefeated. The college cheer team has also found success; winning both All Girl Groups Stunt and Co-Ed Level 2, at the 2019 Intercollegiate Comp. They were also crowned Grand Champions in the same year. The college rugby club made headlines in 2017 after planning to hold a '
Miners versus
Thatcher' social. As a result of the controversy the club was suspended for the remainder of the season.
Other Student societies play an important role in college life, with active Board Games, and
LGBT societies. Previously, the college ran a monthly magazine called
Hex magazine,
Traditions The college holds
Formal Hall once a fortnight, in which students enter the dining hall in their
academic gowns, which must remain worn until the end of
silent grace. The formal is signalled over when the JCR and MCR presidents bow out formally to the Principal and student body.
Shield: ''
Gules issuant from water in base barry wavy of four
Argent and
Azure a demi horse
forcene Or, in chief three
Saint Cuthbert's
crosses Argent''
Crest: Out of a coronet composed of sixteen fleurs-de-lis set upon a rim alternately large and small a lyre Or, mantled Gules doubled Argent Motto The college motto,
Vera Fictis Libentius, was taken from the inscription of the 1875 statue of
Lord Macaulay in the antechamber of the chapel of
Trinity College, Cambridge. In the early 1980s, a competition was held to name the horse. Its eventual name,
Vera, stems from a student innocently assuming that the college motto,
Vera Fictis Libentius, was referring to the horse. ==Connections with the Trevelyan family==