Luke Alexander, Author at Cherwell

Identity crisis

The desire to identify oneself with something at university is a fairly self-evident step that people take. however, for this identity to be dictated...

Re-open nominations

When it comes to OUSU elections, what do we know? Cherwell has a rather regrettable habit of backing the loser on these occasions, and...

A slanging match

Cherwell notes with relief the return to form of those two bastions of political potty-training, OULC and OUCA, just when things seemed to be...

Dirty money

Curtailing bop banter is not exactly a new trick among the old dogs of Oxford officialdom - while defacation is hardly the most original...

Clash of moral duty

The staff of Oxford’s two student newspapers occasionally forget that the majority of the University’s population have little interest in the inner workings of...

Suffering OUSU

The agenda for last Friday’s OUSU council meeting, where a vote toboycott Coca-Cola was passed by an overwhelming majority, contains twopoints of significant interest....

Mistaken identity

The fast train from Paddington allows those not fortunate enough to inhabit our world to get close enough to peer in. They ingest voraciously...

Taking stock

It has been an eventful long vacation. Whether you were stuck in an office in the city, sunning yourself in exotic climes or living...

Student model

Damian le Bas has appeared in an advert for mobile phone company T-Mobile after being approached by a representative for the company at an art exhibition.

Blair’s son elected

Nicky Blair, the son of Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been appointed secretary of the Oxford University Labour Club for Michaelmas 2005. Blair, studying...

Big Screen

Serenitydir Joss Whedonout 7 OctoberIt depends on whom you ask: Serenity is either the highly-anticipated result of an unprecedented fan-led revolution, or the doomed...

Asthma Gene

Oxford researchers Dr Miriam Moffat and Professor William Cookson have taken a dramatic step towards enhancing our understanding of asthma. The pair, and their...

OUSU Criticised

Keble MCR has published a report encouraging JCRs and MCRs to revise their financial relationship with the Oxford University Student Union while remaining affiliated...

Mind Over Matter

If you answered; 4 questions correctly you are a genius, 3 correctly – you are above average intelligence 2 correctly – you are normal...

A Philosophical Double-Helix

In 1953, a year after deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was identified as the molecule that carries the biochemical information responsible for the physiology, anatomy and...

Radiohead

Considering the anticipation that has been attached to the new Radiohead material, for those of us who haven’t been bothered to download it already,...

Vitamin Value

Vitamin supplements are ineffective, a study by Oxford scientists has shown writes Rosa Silverman. While millions of Britons have been taking these pills in...

JCR Pres Resigns

Penny Berrill resigned as Hilda’s JCR president this week, citing ill health as the reason why she could not continue in Oxford this term....

Oxford Spies

Speculation has been sparked recently about the existence of KGB-run Oxford spy ring in the 1930’s, writes Christopher Harris. Christopher Andrews, a professor at...

Stock Exchange

Oxford Students have begun to participate in Cambridge University’s new game, “bumpsdaq” – an online fantasy stock exchange based on the crews rowing in...

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