Like the unforgettable Stevenson's best character, the Cambridge's building showed in the picture plays two very different lives: respectable all girls College during the day, execrable funnel sound corridors at nightime..
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Students at all-girl Cambridge college sent email asking them to be quieter when having sex
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:23 PM on 04th February 2010
It's the type of institution where burning the midnight oil is normally associated with academic endeavour.
But it is late-night activities of a different kind which are currently worrying student leaders at a historic Cambridge women's college.
All 400 undergraduates at Newnham College have been sent an email asking them to be 'discreet in your activities' and reminding them that the corridors 'funnelled sound' and that some college walls are 'very thin'.
All 400 undergraduates at Newnham College were sent a polite email on Tuesday after the student union received 30 complaints about noise in the student halls
Lizzy Cole, president of the college's junior common room, sent the email after receiving 30 complaints about noise in student halls.
Undergraduates were horrified to think that their neighbours have heard them in the throes of passion. A second-year classicist, who asked to remain anonymous, said: 'When I read the email I cringed. I thought it must refer to me!'
Another Newnham undergraduate said: 'It's just so embarrassing to think that people have been listening in. I was blushing when I got the email.
'You try to keep it down, but it's easy to forget the walls are so thin if you get a bit carried away.
'This sort of thing must happen at every university in the country. Only in Cambridge would your fellow students complain. They'll be handing out ear plugs next.'
In her email, Miss Cole, 19, a second-year who is studying natural sciences, said: 'This is just a very quick thank you to everyone for being considerate of your neighbours.
'However, I'd just like to politely remind everyone that Newnham corridors funnel sound and walls are very thin in some buildings.
'Therefore, please remember to be discreet in your activities, especially during late/early hours of the day.'
Male visitors are allowed to stay for up to two nights at the college but after that must sign up for a guest room.
A male natural sciences student from Homerton College told the student newspaper The Tab of his experiences of staying a night at the college.
He said: 'I'm not surprised. That place is a nightmare to escape from when drunk. And as for the walls, I thought I was going to break them at one point!'
Newnham, whose former students include Sylvia Plath, Iris Murdoch, Germaine Greer and Joan Bakewell, was established as the second female college at Cambridge in 1871. Along with Murray Edwards College, it is one of the two remaining women's colleges.
It hit the headlines last February after several students from the Newnham Nuns drinking society were pictured in sexual poses during a boozy initiation ceremony. Yesterday Miss Cole said some students had misinterpreted the email.
'The complaints I received from people over the last month or so were mainly about general noise coming from the college,' she said
'It was things like shouting in the corridors and music being played late at night and in the early hours.'
However, Miss Cole added: 'Newnham does have a feminist reputation and also it's known as the slutty college of Cambridge, which I think is a bit unfair.
'But it's always going to be that way with an all-female http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248487/Students-girl-Cambridge-college-sent-email-asking-quieter-having-sex.html#ixzz0ediwIMx6
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:23 PM on 04th February 2010
It's the type of institution where burning the midnight oil is normally associated with academic endeavour.
But it is late-night activities of a different kind which are currently worrying student leaders at a historic Cambridge women's college.
All 400 undergraduates at Newnham College have been sent an email asking them to be 'discreet in your activities' and reminding them that the corridors 'funnelled sound' and that some college walls are 'very thin'.
All 400 undergraduates at Newnham College were sent a polite email on Tuesday after the student union received 30 complaints about noise in the student halls
Lizzy Cole, president of the college's junior common room, sent the email after receiving 30 complaints about noise in student halls.
Undergraduates were horrified to think that their neighbours have heard them in the throes of passion. A second-year classicist, who asked to remain anonymous, said: 'When I read the email I cringed. I thought it must refer to me!'
Another Newnham undergraduate said: 'It's just so embarrassing to think that people have been listening in. I was blushing when I got the email.
'You try to keep it down, but it's easy to forget the walls are so thin if you get a bit carried away.
'This sort of thing must happen at every university in the country. Only in Cambridge would your fellow students complain. They'll be handing out ear plugs next.'
In her email, Miss Cole, 19, a second-year who is studying natural sciences, said: 'This is just a very quick thank you to everyone for being considerate of your neighbours.
'However, I'd just like to politely remind everyone that Newnham corridors funnel sound and walls are very thin in some buildings.
'Therefore, please remember to be discreet in your activities, especially during late/early hours of the day.'
Male visitors are allowed to stay for up to two nights at the college but after that must sign up for a guest room.
A male natural sciences student from Homerton College told the student newspaper The Tab of his experiences of staying a night at the college.
He said: 'I'm not surprised. That place is a nightmare to escape from when drunk. And as for the walls, I thought I was going to break them at one point!'
Newnham, whose former students include Sylvia Plath, Iris Murdoch, Germaine Greer and Joan Bakewell, was established as the second female college at Cambridge in 1871. Along with Murray Edwards College, it is one of the two remaining women's colleges.
It hit the headlines last February after several students from the Newnham Nuns drinking society were pictured in sexual poses during a boozy initiation ceremony. Yesterday Miss Cole said some students had misinterpreted the email.
'The complaints I received from people over the last month or so were mainly about general noise coming from the college,' she said
'It was things like shouting in the corridors and music being played late at night and in the early hours.'
However, Miss Cole added: 'Newnham does have a feminist reputation and also it's known as the slutty college of Cambridge, which I think is a bit unfair.
'But it's always going to be that way with an all-female http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248487/Students-girl-Cambridge-college-sent-email-asking-quieter-having-sex.html#ixzz0ediwIMx6
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