Why Chapel?

At the Special General Meeting of the Association which was not held before the vacation, I understand that it was stated that a chapel has "been agreed on by all sorts and conditions of students.

Having now read the Executive report, I must enter one in the lists to disagree with the idea.

Why should it be necessity to set aside a special room for this." From the report it seems that there are already plenty of small rooms which could be used: in fact it seems that too much of the space in the building will already be cut into little pieces and doled out. This is a waste of a good building.

The answer will be raised that all the other clubs have facilities, and the religious clubs should also have theirs. This is fallacious—the meeting rooms are designed to cater for their meetings as well as any others. The other answer may be that they feel themselves unable to worship except in a room specially set aside for this purpose and decorated to that end. This would be a sad admission of unworthiness on the part of the religious clubs who should be able (and I am not being sacriligeous) to face their Maker without the need of special surroundings to do so.

There isn't any good reason why these clubs shouldn't have to use one of the other meeting rooms. Cut down on this senseless chopping up of good space into pokey little units which are each too small to be worthwhile.

If they get away with it, then we could perhaps suggest that the Charter Club should have a special room set aside for its meetings, with a deep blue colour scheme and an enshrined photo of Sid.

—Senior Atheist.