[HDNG]INTRODUCTION:[EHDNG][PARA][BULL] The College is part of University of Cambridge and students [PARA]are entitled to use its facilities.[EBOLD][PARA]Pembroke's buildings range from 14th century dreaming spires to[PARA]50's redbrick, just off King's Parade and surrounded by beautiful [PARA]gardens. [ITAL]For Pembroke students, Pembroke offers enough [PARA]distractions to keep them from wider University activities (which [PARA]can get claustrophobic). Political activity is about as socially [PARA]acceptable as picking your nose and eating it, but if confronted by[PARA]rampaging MORI pollsters, most students would admit to being a [PARA]bit conservative.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]Recently refurbished bar (with Basque separatist barman); Old [PARA]Reader (cap 50, theatre); concerts in Old Library (90); student [PARA]bands in Junior Parlour (80) and Old Lodge Cellars (80), used also[PARA]for discos 3 times termly; annual 'ball-like event'. Library (50,000 [PARA]books); 10 computers; CofE chapel; 'Pembroke Street' [PARA]newsletter, 'Pem' arts; Pembroke runs a community centre in [PARA]South London (where students can stay). Success in football, [PARA]rugby and rowing; sports fields (41/2 acres) 11/2 miles away. All [PARA]students live in college or College houses; students eat in halls; [PARA]optional formal dinner every night; [ITAL]limited[EITAL] self catering in college. [PARA]Nurse; grants and scholarships; subsidised rape alarms and [PARA]self-defence classes for women.[HDNG]FAMOUS ALUMNI:[EHDNG][PARA]Tim Brooke-Taylor (Goody); Peter Cook (comic genius); [PARA]Raymond Dolby (sound suppressor); Thomas Gray (poet); [PARA]Christopher Hogwood (early music specialist); Ted Hughes (Poet[PARA]Laureate); Eric Idle ('Monty Python'); Clive James (TV personality);[PARA]Bill Oddie (Goody, ornithologist); Pitt the Younger (PM); Bishop [PARA]Ridley (Christian martyr); Tom Sharpe (author, 'Porterhouse [PARA]Blue', 'Wilt'); Edmund Spenser ( 'Faerie Queene' writer); Lord [PARA]Chief Justice Taylor.
