Balliol student body reportedly told Christian Union that it was concerned over the ‘potential for harm to freshers’A University of Oxford college banned Christian Union representatives from attending its freshers’ fair over concerns at the “potential for harm to freshers”. Balliol Christian Union (CU) was told the college’s student body, the JCR, wanted the freshers’ fair to be a “secular space”, according to Oxford’s student newspaper Cherwell. Balliol CU boycotted this option. The motion prohibited the barring of official religious societies from future freshers’ fairs. “We didn’t want to monopolise the presence of any individual faith/belief society at the Balliol freshers’ fair.”Potts and Au made no immediate comment.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 17:14 UTC