Christ Church JCR has voted in favour of a proposition to “baptise” new JCR Presidents.
The motion, proposed by Tom Morris, stipulated that “Every new JCR president has to be baptised in Mercury at the start of the term in which they take office.” Mercury is the iconic college fountain in Tom Quad.
The baptism would involve “a dunking in the ceremonial font or, at the very least, a bucket of aforementioned font water being poured on their head.” They added, “The ceremony should be done as publicly as possible.”
The current JCR president, Alan Howard-Rimmer, will not be dunked; he pointed out, “this will go ahead well after my tenure has come to an end.”
