Saturday, November 21, 2020
- News
Interview: New University Mental Health Taskforce launched
Oxford University has launched a Mental Health Task Force to consider the “immediate needs” of students during the pandemic after observing an...All Souls College change Codrington Library name, but keep statue of slaveholder
All Souls College's Governing Body has announced that they will no longer call their college library ‘the Codrington Library’, acknowledging that plantations...Professorship in vaccinology secured by £3 million Saïd donation
Oxford’s role in vaccine development has been bolstered by £3.33 million gift from key benefactor Wafic Saïd. The...20% of COVID-19 patients receive a psychiatric diagnosis in 3 months, Oxford study finds
A new study shows that 20% of those who contract coronavirus are diagnosed with a mental health illness within 3 months. This...Balliol “flood” leaves students adrift
This week, a broken tap in Balliol forced a staircase to evacuate, and concerns were subsequently raised regarding the College's response to...
- Opinion
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."The American Story, Part One: The Founding
"More pertinently, America’s slave-owning ‘fathers’ understood ‘freedom’ because they denied it to others.... Slave-holder Thomas Jefferson was qualified to write the Declaration of Independence, in part, because it was he who understood ‘freedom’ and its denial best."A message for non-Jews
"Please, non-Jews who are reading this: step up and show you care, even a little. Educate yourselves, and do some of the work for us."
- 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
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...Long COVID: What can we do?
In a crisis full of unknown variables, it pays to stay alert for new curveballs to avoid being caught off guard in the future.Rapid COVID-19 test to be trialled on Oxford students
A rapid COVID-19 test that provides results within 30 minutes is being tested on student volunteers at Merton College and St. Hilda’s,...Oxford expected to get $100m from vaccine
Oxford stands to make over $100 million from developing a successful COVID-19 vaccine. The University has landed a 6%...
- Life
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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"The Lord is a Warrior
"Now, God’s people are soon to flee, Into the wilderness and coarser sands He takes them, they at last are free, But I, loyal servant, loving wife, What is God’s plan for me?"A Letter To Those Whom my Light Will Guide, In Honour Of Those Whose Light Has Guided Me
"What you are, is complicated. And I love you for that, Because you are complicated, Because you are raw, and soft, and broken."Return to Oxford
"A peal of percussive raindrops tumble from towering heavens. A lonely leaf joins the fray in a willowing, whispering wash."
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