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Thursday, December 3, 2020
- News
BREAKING: Some students won’t return to university until February
"Students who will be prioritised for an early return include those on placements or practical courses with a need for in-person teaching (including music, dance, drama, the sciences, medicine, nursing and dentistry)."Oxford alumnus funds bursary for visually impaired students
"“In setting up this bursary, I wanted to prevent anyone visually impaired with the academic ability to get into Oxford, being daunted from applying or accepting their place because of their disability. We need to challenge this belief that visual impairment prevents you from achieving potential: academically, socially, or that it should impact your career ambitions."Oxford study identifies prisoners for priority vaccination
A new Oxford study identified prison inmates and staff as top priorities for the impending coronavirus vaccine.Final consultations for Zero Emissions Zone
The final consultation period for the Oxford Zero Emissions Zone (ZEZ) launched this past week and remains open until January 17, 2021....“Trans-exclusionary” group Woman’s Place UK received £20,000 “consultancy fee” from University
The project's first report, Sex and the Census, concludes that "the demands of groups which claim to represent the interests of the trans community have been privileged to the detriment of women"
- Opinion
The American Story Part 2: An unfinished Civil War
"In the years surrounding the Civil War, a bitterly fought tug-of-war over the American historical memory took place."The US Supreme Court: a broken cycle
"The court holds immense power, and politics is the operation of power - of course it would be political."Great Thunberg’s Spitting Image Sketch and the Problem with Political Satire
"Compared to the cutting-edge and culture-shaping Spitting Image of the 80s and 90s, this reboot seems to have taken out its dentures and started sipping the political and environmental crises through a straw."The U.S. election: three students’ perspective
"Joe Biden’s victory is a declaration in favor of science, competence, experience, empathy, and unification. However, the break was anything but clean: a razor-thin margin split blue and red on Election Day."
- Long Reads
Oxford’s Eyesores: Brutalism’s Place among the Dreaming Spires
For most, to think of Oxford is to think of its historic architecture, from the Anglo Saxon Tower of St. Michael and Christchurch’s twelfth...Power of the People: Toppling Europe’s Last Dictatorship
How might a society, in the face of an uncompromising authority and lapdog police force, successfully overthrow a dictator with more than two decades...Wages Against Housework: “More smiles? More money.”
“More smiles? More money.” This was the rallying cry of women around the world in the 1970s. They were adamant that women everywhere should...“Cofiwch Dryweryn”: A Welsh History of Oppression
I am proud of how so many people in my town in rural West Wales have rallied around the Black Lives Matter...Defiance in the face of Danger: Human Rights Activism in Colombia
The inconvenience caused by having to navigate through the hanging faces as you walk from class to class, serves as a reminder of the mass disruption in the lives of the protesters themselves. Activism should not be easy and in Colombia this is a given.
- Science & Tech
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine up to 90% effective
This week, the vaccine being developed by Oxford University and Astrazeneca was found to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19 symptoms.Oxford study identifies prisoners for priority vaccination
A new Oxford study identified prison inmates and staff as top priorities for the impending coronavirus vaccine.Automatic Facial Recognition – A gaping hole in data privacy legislation?
As technology advances, we lose track of the vast amounts of data being stored and our ignorance prevents us from protecting our data in the future.Lateral flow tests accurate enough for community use, Oxford University and PHE announce
New rapid coronavirus tests are accurate and sensitive enough to be used in the community, Public Health England and Oxford University have...Food habits must change to meet Paris Climate Agreement, Oxford-led study finds
According to an Oxford-led study published in the journal Science, even if the world significantly reduces its reliance on fossil fuels, it...
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Benchmark
"The pattern starts from you to there And, breathless, starts again with me."You’ll See Him
"Rain cracks its whip Against the windows. The wielder: autumn. From the cottage in the cleft of the foothills You can see a flickering light, just out of sight And it stains the blackest night."Soil: On Digging a Hole
"A worm has beaten me to the hole I’m digging; when I pull apart the soil, I find a slender punctuation mark in the mud. Its pink body threads through the dark clay."A Vision of Autumn
"It was uncommonly sultry and dark when I arrived at the Winchester water meadows. The scene was a near stereotype, and it reminded me of those decrepit - far too embellished - landscapes you see in many royal palaces."Petrichor
"in a quiet hollow on the far side of this field rain patters through the leaves like twinkling glass"
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