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Can anyone tell me more about Collingwood?

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What is it you want to know? The Collingwood jcr website isn't bad. You should start there.

http://community.dur.ac.uk/collingwood.jcr/

In general, it's an informal hill college that is quite well situated for the science site. It has a slightly posher reputation than most of the other hill colleges but nothing like what you'd find in Hatfield or Hild Bede. They have a sporty reputation and frequently top the tables for sport but they also do well academically. Whilst some of the students are very good at sport, the sporty reputation also comes from their general enthusiasm for just participating in sport. My friend, the least sport person I know, went there and was on about the 6th netball team and played ultimate Frisbee and absolutely loved it. She also had the happiest 4 years of her life being part of the college.

It's not my college but I have several friends there and they all love it.

Are students able to walk across the South Bailey bridge to get to classes?

Through somewhat covert means (it says it on my pay my deposit payment page), I discovered yesterday that I have been allocated to St. John's! I'm very excited. Where did you apply?

I have not officially accepted so I haven't gotten to the deposit page but on the offer letter, it didn't specify, even though I did apply to Castle. I would love to be on the Bailey in either Castle or Chad really lol

Are students able to walk across the South Bailey bridge to get to classes?

I think where it asked for your preference on the initial application is not relevant anymore. Once you formally accept, they send you a college application form where you list your first two preferences.

Have seeing some you tube videos on racism recently for my college assignment and suddenly this thought struck me,does racism exist in Durham?

I have not encountered anybody with racist beliefs in my college or course at Durham. There are a vast number of international students in the city and really is quite a multicultural university, especially in my college (Van Mildert).

I'm not saying racism doesn't exist up here as there will always be a small proportion of close-minded individuals, but I've never witnessed or heard about it.

I have not encountered anybody with racist beliefs in my college or course at Durham. There are a vast number of international students in the city and really is quite a multicultural university, especially in my college (Van Mildert).

I'm not saying racism doesn't exist up here as there will always be a small proportion of close-minded individuals, but I've never witnessed or heard about it.

Have seeing some you tube videos on racism recently for my college assignment and suddenly this thought struck me,does racism exist in Durham?

To some degree, racism exists everywhere. "Racism" is extremely broad and can also be quite subjective, so your question is sort of confusing. It can be found in America, China, Britain, India, etc. Fortunately, enlightened university students are generally tolerant and open-minded, especially students at top 100 universities; however, to properly answer your questions: yes, I'm sure racism exists in some capacity at Durham, as it exists in some capacity anywhere you go.

Well yeah of course racism exists everywhere.My question was basically directed towards the student population at Durham in general.
And I don't think it matters whether one is in a high ranking uni or not,its about personal choices.Something that could be expected is,lets say a student at Durham may not like "black" skinned people but he or she instead of treating them rudely,just ignores them/doesn't get friendly or whatever else.

I am more interested to know how people deal with other ethnic backgrounds.The you tube videos I mentioned,one of them is titled "a drunk lady at London tube gets trolled for racist remarks" or something of that sort.You can check it for yourself and I would like to hear what you have to say regarding that video.