DAILY LIFE
With 200 adults living at St Paul's, there can be no single College routine or lifestyle. But the physical layout of the buildings, and the rooms provided, give a common pattern to daily life.
Valedictory Breakfast 2009 - Farewelling 45 men in the JCR over bacon and eggs.
Hall
- The College Hall, one of the finest nineteenth-century rooms in Australia, seats 200 people.
- Breakfast, lunch and weekend dinners are informal, self-service meals.
- Dress for Dinner in Hall from Monday to Friday is jacket, tie and academic gown. Dinner in Hall is the high-point of the College day, and is an occasion with a high standard of 'formal-informality'. It includes distinctive College ceremonies and the most important community announcements.
- Occasionally men have commitments which make it necessary to miss Formal Dinner (e.g. late lectures or University sport), in which case late dinners can be provided.
Student bedrooms
- Each man in College is given a single room furnished with a bed, desk, chair, bookshelf and wardrobe. Rooms are pre-allocated to men entering College. At the end of each year a room draw is held, in which College members bid for available rooms for the following year. Room points are accumulated on the basis of each College year, each University year and participation in College activities.
- A small number of rooms have ensuite bathrooms. These rooms are generally occupied by senior men doing graduate or post-graduate degrees.
- A small bar fridge (maximum height 1m) is often brought into College for a man's convenience, but radiators of any description are not permitted.
- Each room has its own telephone extension with voicemail facility.
- All rooms contain a LAN port, enabling connection to the College network, the three College printers and the internet.
- Smoking is not permitted in any College building.
Common rooms
- Within the life of the College, the Junior Common Room represents both a physical locality and a membership group.
- College men conduct concerts, plays, debates and meetings in the Rogers Room, which is a performance space seating an audience of up to 100 theatre style.
- The Billiards Room gives men not only the use of the full-size billiards table but also a large television for their viewing pleasure.
- The Salisbury Bar is another place where men can gather in their own time.
The Chapel
- Weekly chapel provides is part of the original routine of the College.
The Shop
- The Students' Club Shop is run by a syndicate of College men and is generally open at 10pm, Sunday to Thursday.
- Drinks, confectionery, biscuits, cheeses and hot snacks are stocked, plus necessities such as washing powder.
- There are also vending machines in College buildings.
Tutorial rooms
- Tutorials are central to College routine. Go to Academic support.
