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