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‘Wadham’s women’s fury erupts as drunk girls are hunted like foxes’

Wadham's women's fury erupts as drunk girls are hunted like foxes

CD Review: Hot Chip- Made in the Dark

EMI 5/5 The electro-indie band Hot Chip are back almost two years after their second album The Warning. Listening to this new endeavour Made...

The Local: Witches at The Purple Turtle

here’s something odd about Oxford students and Oxford music. On the one hand, as a bunch of predominantly white, middle- class youngsters, it’s no...

Pro-Test to march despite death threats

Pro-Test, an organisation that favours animal testing, claims that it has been subjected to death threats and violence in the run up to its...

Celebrations

‘I’m talking about love, mate! True fucking love!’ So says Lambert unconvincingly in Pinter’s play Celebrations. The play revolves around three couples and a...

Pembroke JCR votes to support homegrown students

Pembroke JCR has voted to scrap funding for an overseas scholarship in favour of greater funding to encourage state-school access.The JCR Access Fund will...

The Power and the Glory

Remember when you were 15? (By which of course I mean remember when I was 15, and assume it was the same for everybody...

Hertford joins Fairtrade wave

Oxford University’s support for ethical trade gained ground this week after Hertford announced that it had officially become a Fairtrade College. It is the...

Varsity Volleyball team prepare for Tab challenge

What do you get when you achieve a perfect balance between aggression and control, between bluff and power, between swallow-dives to the floor and...

Wadhamites to be housed by Balliol

Wadham students have been offered the chance to live in Balliol-owned accommodation next year while renovation work is carried out in college. Housing on...

Footballers triumph in BUSA League showdown

by Paul Rainford (Blues Football Captain) The superb 4-1 victory against Worcester University last Friday ensured that we were crowned BUSA Midlands champions. I feel compelled to...

Blues look forward to Varsity

Four matches, one sorry day to avenge for, hundreds of expectant supporters watching on… it could mean only one thing. If you want to...

Teddy Hall close in on Worcester

St. Edmund Hall 2 - 1 Lincoln Teddy Hall laboured to victory over Lincoln on Wednesday in a match that belied the polar League positions of...

Brazen Brasenose give title leaders a scare

Worcester 2 - 2 BrasenoseGoing into this match off an impressive victory over Wadham, a dogged Brasenose side made Worcester scramble for a draw...

Editorial: Kind of blue

There’s a petition on Facebook to drop a reading week into the middle of every term. It is true that, if petitions on facebook...

University gets one over Town

Gown 8 - 4 Town There was little room for free speech at the union on Monday night, in fact there was little room at...

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Whenever I hear that a new adaptation of Alice Through the Looking Glass is being made, whether in theatre or film, I react with...

Oxford Announces Honorary Degrees for 2008

Oxford University’s honorary degrees for 2008 have been announced. The economist, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, will receive a degree of doctor of civil law, while...

Virgin Baron to Open Health Centre in Oxford

Sir Richard Branson is planning to open a health centre in Oxford where GPs would work alongside private health practitioners. Virgin Healthcare would offer...

Single Review: Chris Townsend “Radio”

3/5 Singer- songwriter Chris Townsend’s list of influences reads like the lighter end of the OC soundtrack; Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer and Jeff Buckley....

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