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Popular student nightclub The Bridge has been forced to change its door entry policies and has been forbidden from using glass bottles and glasses following a review of the club’s licence by Oxford City Council’s Licensing sub-committee.   The club will now be unable to admit customers in the hour before closing time. It will also have to serve drinks in polycarbonate containers as opposed to glass. 

Oxford University welcomed Committee members from Polish Societies across the country this weekend for the ‘Leading Our Future’ event, a Congress organised by students at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews.   Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski, former tutor at Pembroke, hosted some 60 students on the three-day event, which featured discussion panels, group workshops and leadership training.   Guest speakers included Oxford graduate and current Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radek Sikorski, and Professor Leszek Kolakowski, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls.

Preliminary research conducted at Oxford University indicates that the UK music industry produces up to one million tonnes of CO2 annually.   The University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) believes the main contributors to be live concerts, the mass production and sale of music products and UK artists going on tour throughout the globe.   The ECI and Julie’s Bicycle, the organisation that commissioned the research, urge the UK music industry to think and act more greenly which they believe will inspire other companies as well.

Pembroke's JCR President has accused the college of putting students’ lives at risk.

Landlord failed to keep up mortgage repayments.

President “dangerously close to being presentable and/or ‘attractive’”    

Male Welfare Rep praised for prompt reaction.  

Price of “massive piss-up” geography trip to Crete varied between colleges.

PPEist's one-man pig business shortlisted for Yorkshire Rural Award.

Zoology department research used to mimic human movement in best-selling video game.

Sean Lennon digs the fig.

Two terms after Krishna Omkar was disqualified from Union elections, the ex-Treasurer is still trying to change the rules that ban him from running.

UPDATED: Atmosphere in college "awkward" as political stand-off develops.{multithumb}

Four men jumped into the River Cherwell within minutes of Magdalen Bridge re-opening.

VIDEO: Student candidates fail to beat Lib Dems in Holywell Ward, but Labour win control of the City Council.

An email sent by Proctors last Friday warning against plagiarism caused confusion for some students who thought it was intended specifically for them. Students across the University emailed their tutors to ask if they were being disciplined. One Keble undergraduate concerned by the message said, “The email was a bit worrying.” “As far as I was aware I hadn’t engaged in any such activity, but I did email my tutor to say what I had received and that since none of the other Keble geography students has received his, ask if he had reported my work to the Proctors.” Academic registrar Michael Sibly claims he was asked to send the email by previous and current proctors in an attempt to make students aware of the regulations regarding plagiarism. “Whenever this [plagiarism] becomes an issue students often say that they just didn’t know,” he said. Sibly admitted that it was “mildly ambiguous” that the message, whic

Motion to rename college ‘The Socialist College of Keble’ falls flat at JCR meeting.

The average weekly student rent in the UK now stands at £61.48, a 1.5% increase from last year's figure according to statistics from accommodationforstudents.com.

One commenter has had cause to question Aldate's independence.  Be assured that this blogger maintains a professional distance from all Oxford media outlets... unlike some.   Word reaches Aldate that Martin McCluskey and his in-house newspaper are getting a little too close for comfort. It would seem that the OUSU President is a regular attendee at OxStu weekly meetings, 'just for fun,' and a recent sneaky peek at his mobile revealed his inbox to be full of texts from:   - Holehouse - Holehouse - Holehouse - Mum - Holehouse - Holehouse - Holehouse - Mum Let's hope the Stu's star reporter isn't being influenced by those in need of some positive PR.

Swing when you're winning, says Ash Barker.