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Anti-hunting group protests against alleged illegal hunt on St John’s College land

Anti-hunting protesters gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre during matriculation on Saturday to protest against alleged illegal hunting activities on land owned by St John’s College.

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I no longer want to be an astronaut

Just last week, OpenAI dropped 372 papers covering various well-known unsolved problems in mathematics and computer science. As someone in the unfortunate position of soon applying for a PhD in maths, it seems to be harder than ever to get one’s foot in the door. How can I, a bright-eyed but inexperienced undergraduate, compete with thousands of machines trawling through the sum of all human knowledge in parallel?

The quiet guilt of upward social mobility at Oxford

Freshers’ formal. The first black-tie event I attended at Oxford. The golden glow of the candlelight, the grand dresses, tailored suits, and frustratingly elegant...

Unsilenced: I reported Damian Howard, too

When looking back on abuse cases that have plagued the church, some of the most common questions centre around whether there were early warning...

We should hate more

Oxford students hate C*mbridge. Or at least, we’re supposed to. We call them Tabs, occasionally ‘shoe’ them, and inherit a rivalry as soon as we matriculate. There’s only one problem: most of the time, nobody seems particularly bothered.

Politics must not serve as a barrier to education

As this article goes to print, Oxford University is missing two of its offer-holders. In a haunting echo of the trials faced by approximately 78 Palestinian students last academic year, several of whom held places at Oxford, two Sudanese doctors are unable to begin master’s courses at the University this October. This comes after the High Court dismissed their legal challenge to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s ‘emergency brake’ visa policy, which also affects applicants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, and Myanmar.

Features

No Greek life doesn’t mean no rape culture

Perhaps the most effective tool we have at our disposal against casual sexism is casual feminism.

All work and no pay: Why Oxford students aren’t allowed to have jobs

Strangely enough, however, the ‘vac’ is also the only opportunity for an Oxford student to work, not through problem sheets and essays, but in the most fundamental sense of the word.

Oxford’s obsession with being busy is pretty performative, right?

At Oxford, it seems like we get used to talking about our lives as nothing more than a summary of the things we’ve accomplished lately, or at least are just about to. The longer your list, the better you must be doing, because to be busy is to be making the absolute most of your time here – and who doesn’t want to be doing that?

Profiles

Culture

How cinema has taught us to see Autumn

Autumn is clearly a time for comfort and reflection, a fact the film industry has learnt very well and pumps into new releases.

Beyond litter and emissions: The environmental costs of loud sound at music festivals

The music festivals of the summer have packed up and moved on. Stages and sound systems have been dismantled, litter cleared, and land reseeded.

‘Burning Down the House’: A review 

During the odd ‘in-between’ space that is Week 0, I searched for a show to give me something to do, amid the random dilly-dallying and the odd collection currently occupying my time.

Why ‘No Bad Memories’ is my album of the year

I didn't expect how perfectly my personal happiness would fit an album so preoccupied with the sounds of old advertisements and obsolete electronics, filled with the relentless optimism of a world that believed the future could only get better. 

Lifestyle

The art of reaching out to old friends

Coming to university, I realised that the stable, effortless reliability of my friends from home was, all of a sudden, precarious and difficult to maintain.

Sport

Sport Spotlight: Sam Fitzgerald

Sam Fitzgerald only took up cycling during his undergraduate degree, and yet he’s now President of Oxford University Cycling Club.

Record 15,000 runners participate in Oxford Half Marathon

A record 15,000 runners took to the streets of Oxford to complete the annual half marathon on Sunday 11th October. Thousands of supporters lined the course to cheer the runners.

Sport Spotlight: Charlotte Maple

Sport has been a constant feature of incoming Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC) women’s Blues captain Charlotte Maple’s time at Oxford.

From Oxford to Cambridge: The 204-mile punt for Alzheimer’s 

Four students from St John’s College, Cambridge, have undertaken an extraordinary fundraising challenge, punting over 200 miles to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society.