I have experienced a member of college staff responsible for signing a room licence agreement on behalf of a college be presented with the fact the college is breaching the contract only to respond – showing a complete lack of personal integrity – to say that if the college abides by the agreement isn’t a matter for him. One underlying problem is related to the adage that academic politics are vicious because the stakes are so low. In Cambridge colleges, unlike other universities, often The Entrance Accommodation matters are not dealt with by professionals but by academics and the power academics have over typically relatively poor students when they can for example waive rents for a period of time provides a great temptation for abuse of position; especially in the absence of any safeguards or realistic likelihood of being held to account.