Sunday 24th February, 8.15pm

Green Room, Gonville and Caius College

£5 for members, £7 for non members.

If you want to come to our first port and cheese extravaganza, please email rvs24 and deliver cheques to me ASAP by UMS or to my pigeon hole in Caius (R.V. Stewart)

Please make cheques payable to Cambridge University Conservative Association.

Tickets will be given on a first come first serve basis. The Port parties are very popular but numbers are limited by the room size and college rules.

Many of you will have replied to the Facebook event. Please note that you will not be given a space until we have received a cheque or cash for your ticket.

Nominations for election for Easter 2008 open today at 10pm for seven days. The nomination form is available at: http://www.cuca.org.uk/images/noms.pdf

The Constitution of the Association, giving all details relating to elections is available on the website. The criteria for eligibility are summarised below.The return officers for this election are Messrs Roland Valentine Stewart and James Wallis, of Gonville and Caius College.

To stand for election, please submit your completed nomination form to the Returning Officers before 10pm on Wednesday 27th February. The returning officers are also available to give impartial advice.

To be eligible for Committee you must:

• Be a member of the Conservative Party and no other
• Have attended 4 ordinary meetings of the Association this term before the close of nominations
• Have paid all your debts to the Association
• Not have been elected to Committee more than twice
• Must be a resident member of the University of Cambridge in Easter Term 2008

To be eligible for Executive you must:

• Meet all the criteria for eligibility for Committee
• Been on Committee or Executive in Michaelmas 2007 or Lent 2008
• Must not have stood for election to the same Executive office more than once before
• Most not have served in the same Executive office before
• Must have attended at least two campaign sessions before the close of nominations

Election Timetable:

Nominations Open: 10pm, Wednesday 20th February
Nominations Close: 10pm, Wednesday 27th February

Elections: 12pm-3pm, Wednesday 5th March

TGM: Wednesday 5th March 3.30pm

Applications are open for the position fo Junior Treasurer, to serve through to the end of Lent Term 2009.

Applications close on Tuesday 19th February, and you can download the application form now: Junior Treasurer Application Form.

If you wish to apply, please complete the application form and deliver it to my pigeon hole at Caius or UMS it to me (R.V. Stewart) by Tuesday.

From 8pm, tonight in the Castle Inn (up the Hill, past Magdalene), CUCA will be holding its first policy pubmeet of the term.

Over a few drinks, we discuss a topical event and its effect - if any - on policy. Tonight, in light of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about incorporating aspects of Sharia law into British law, we shall start by discussing the implications of these comments, what we think of them, and what
we think of relevant broader issues such as what role the Church or even the Royal Family should play in politics and influencing policy.

There will be a campaigns session meeting at 2.30pm on Saturday at the Caius Porters’ Lodge. If you can help out with distributing leaflets for the local association, please let me know on hjw43.