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King Charles opens new wing at Centre for Islamic Studies

His Majesty King Charles III visited the University of Oxford last week to open a new wing and education programme at the Centre for Islamic Studies, both of which...

Extinction Rebellion protests the opening of Barclays on Cornmarket Street

Extinction Rebellion Oxford (XR Oxford) organised a protest in front of Barclays Bank on...

Oxford and Cambridge receive £6.25 million joint donation to improve STEM access

Oxford University has received £6.25 million to improve access to STEM degrees in a...

Students frustrated over filming at Brasenose College during exam season

Students at Brasenose College expressed their frustration last week after scenes for a forthcoming...

This Is Our Youth

Warren, wasting his life, has been thrown out of his father’s house. Stealing a large sum of money he arrives at Dennis’ apartment, but...

Definitely, Maybe

2/5 This is the story of a disillusioned, soon-to-be divorced advertising executive who recounts his messy love life to his precocious daughter in the...

College heads push for autonomy from Whitehall

Six heads of colleges have this week urged Oxford to reduce its financial reliance on the government and find alternative, independent sources of income.As...

Indian Ink

Criticising Tom Stoppard feels like committing literary sacrilege. That said, Indian Ink is not one of his finest plays, despite attempts in this production...

How to cope with teenage pregnancy

Juno5/5 The history of Juno begins with one young woman and ends with another. Much has been made of 29- year-old screenwriter Diablo Cody’s previous...

Old Stagers: The Kiss

An ex-girlfriend, after the odd tête-à-tête, revealed to me that the first man she had ever kissed was now acting in the play in...

CD Review: The Duke Spirit- Neptune

You Are Here records3/5 The Duke Spirit have been toiling away tirelessly in the three years since the release of their moody garage-rock debut Cuts...

‘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...

Modern Manners: Bad Breath

Human beings have a lot of pretty disgusting tendencies that are guaranteed to turn an ordinary, relatively relaxed social situation into an embarrassing and...

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...

Omkar blocked by RO

Krishna Omkar has been blocked from having his proposed changes to Union rules debated in the chamber. Returning Officer Cameron Penny believes that the proposals,...

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...

Iconic Fashion: Pencil Skirts

Where oh where would we be without The Pencil Skirt? How to look smart in a work environment without succumbing to The Trouser Suit?...

Class Tension at Teddy Hall as unwelcome guests are ejected

Class war has broken out at St Edmund Hall after complaints from students forced the eviction of a pair of non-student guests.Oxford residents AJ...

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...

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