JCR Meeting Motions

The JCR will be holding an Open Meeting on the 15th June at 10am in the JCR. Every member of the JCR is welcome to attend.

You are welcome to submit motions to this meeting.

These motions need:

• to be less than one hundred words
• to have a proposer and a seconder
• to be submitted to the Vice-President of the JCR by the END OF THE 11TH OF JUNE (that's tomorrow, folks!)

All motions that have been submitted will be added below. You will be able to submit amendments to the motions up until twenty-four hours before the start of the Open Meeting. Again, send those to the Vice-President.

‘Why Gender-Neutral?’ Campaign Endorsement

Proposed by: Ali Hyde | Seconded by: Liam Plimmer

This JCR resolves:

• To endorse the Why Gender-Neutral? Campaign (https://www.lgbt.cusu.cam.ac.uk/why-gender-neutral/).
• To lobby college administration to implement accessible, permanent gender-neutral toilets across the entirety of college, acknowledging that disabled toilets are not an appropriate option - in CUSU LGBT+’s 2018 Survey, 95.2% of trans and non-binary students support introduction of more gender-neutral toilets.
• To encourage the use of gender-neutral language across college, the provision of gender options beyond “male” and “female” in forms, and the creation of a guide with centralised information on how to change one’s name, pronouns, gender marker, and title in the university’s system.

Motion to support the college fully divesting from fossil fuels

Proposed by: Patrick Wernham | Seconded by: Bethany Appleton

This JCR resolves:

• To voice its support for divestment and demand that the college remove its direct and indirect investments from fossil fuel companies.
• To mandate the appropriate JCR committee members to argue in investment committee meetings for a specific statement on the college investment policy that commits the college to withdrawing direct and indirect investments from fossil fuel companies within a stated time limit (e.g. 5 years).
• To condemn the University’s continued investment in fossil fuel companies, despite widespread opposition from students and staff.