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===Junior Common Room=== Due to Lincoln's small numbers and tight-knit community, its [[Junior Common Room]] (JCR) plays a greater role in student life than do the JCRs of most other colleges.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}} JCR elections, held in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, attract one of the highest turnouts of any Oxford college.{{citation needed|date=February 2009}} The JCR, like all JCRs in Oxford, is both a communal room for undergraduates (with a television, kitchen, vending machine, daily newspapers, a DVD library and sofas) as well as the name of the body that represents said undergraduates to the senior members of college and on a university-wide basis.<ref>{{cite web |title=Junior Common Room |url=https://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/JCR |publisher=Lincoln College |access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref> All undergraduate members of the college are automatically members of the JCR, unless they specifically express a desire not to be a part of it. Honorary membership to others is sometimes extended, but have limited rights compared to other members.<ref name="JCR Constitution">{{cite web |date=July 2023 |title=Lincoln College JCR Constitution |url=http://lincolncollegejcr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lincoln-College-JCR-Constitution-July-2023.pdf |access-date=6 July 2024 |publisher=Lincoln College JCR}}</ref> The JCR is run by an Executive of ten officers, headed by the President, which is ultimately responsible for the JCR, whilst the JCR Committee comprises forty-two members and fulfils a wide range of duties, all aimed at the general improvement of the lives of and facilities available to the undergraduate body of the college.<ref name="JCR Constitution" /> Members of the JCR Committee are elected by popular vote.<ref name="JCR Constitution"/> [[Shabana Mahmood]], the MP for Birmingham Ladywood, served as JCR president in 2000β2001. JCR meetings are held three times a term, in 2nd week, 5th week and 8th week of each.<ref name="JCR Constitution" /> The JCR was founded in 1854 as the Lincoln College Debating Society but was renamed in 1919 (although it continued to be referred to by its former name for some time after). From 1886, the society provided members of the Common Room with tobacco and cigarettes from its funds, as well as tea and coffee;<ref>Exhibition at Lincoln College, Oxford (March 2009)</ref> however, "The President shall have the power to stop smoking while the Torpid ''[a rowing eight entering a regatta in [[Hilary Term]]]'' and the Eight ''[an eight entering a regatta in [[Trinity Term]]]'' are in training."<ref>''The Rule Book of the Lincoln College Debating Society 1872β1920'', on display at Lincoln College (March 2009)</ref> Tobacco and cigarettes are no longer available from the JCR, but tea and coffee are to be found in the JCR kitchen.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
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