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‘Oxford DIY Pride’ to stage separate Pride event

A new organisation has been set up as an alternative to the official Oxford Pride. Oxford DIY Pride plan to host their own pride event across Florence Park Community...

Concerns over University plans to halt funding for admissions tests

Plans by the University of Oxford to stop subsidising admissions test fees have been...

Construction set to commence for new £190m science park

Construction firm Bowmer + Kirkland secured the contract last week to build Fabrica, Oxford’s...

India Society cancels cricket match with Pakistan Society

Oxford India Society have cancelled a scheduled cricket match with Oxford Pakistan Society, citing...

Charity Shops

 Violet Graham leaves the High Street and explores the lure of the second-hand.Shopping in charity shops is a divisive issue. Whilst volunteering for an...

Partington left to pick up the pieces as election chaos goes global

Oxford Union President Emily Partington was forced to deny allegations of sexual harassment and racism at the debating society this week after the story...

The Review: The Nosebag

 6-8 St. Michael's Street4/5 Two words which sum up the Nosebag: ‘elderflower wine’. Could you get any more wholesome without using ‘organic’ as a prefix?...

The art of the political sex scandal

 Jeremy Cliffe, Nick Hargrave and Chris Jackson investigate political sexcapades and ask why they are a central concern of the media"My dear Arthur, I...

Mind The Gap

 Clare Barnard on how finding yourself isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be On entering my interview, bottom had not acquainted itself with...

Union at war over who can run for President

President attempts to overrule Returning Officer after Ex-Presidents fail to oust himThe Union Returning Officer (RO) is at loggerheads with President Emily Partington over...

In Brief

OUAFC President David Robinson has been announced as the coach for this year’s Colleges XI Varsity side to face the Cambridge Kestrels on Saturday...

Rampant St Anne’s smash seven past sorry Lincoln

Lincoln 3 - 7 St. Anne's St Anne’s moved within a point of Worcester at the top of the JCR Premiership yesterday, comfortably despatching a...

If I were Vice-Chancellor for a day…

...I'd introduce personality testsRemember how at interviews there was that boasty dick that let everyone know their ancestry guaranteed them a place here...

The two biggest games of the season: Preparation and plyometrics

The final blues league game against Worcester University is now essentially a shoot out for the title. Our victory over Bedford on Wednesday was...

Gee Whizz

Meet Irene Tracy, Professor of PainHaving a title that sounds like a breakaway hip-hop act from the early nineties is not exactly what...

Blues victory sets up title showdown

Blues 3 - 1 Bedfordshire  On a blustery day against a relegated (and rough) opposition the Blues provided an object lesson in how to win...

Clueless

This Week: A Computer Science paper by linguist Patrick Howard Define the term 'injection' (also known as one-one function) This term, together with its decidedly...

CD Reviews: Chris Walla and The Mars Volta

Chris Walla: Field Manual (Barsuk)Great things are expected from bands who explore new music, and Death Cab For Cutie certainly are such a band....

Hall progress as Ielpo saves them again

 Queen's 1 - 1 St Edmund Hall (St Edmund Hall won 4-2 on penalties)You could have been forgiven for dealing in clichés when describing this...

House of Bernada Alba

A classic Spanish text with an East Enders plot? Surely not! When I went to see House of Bernada Alba, Federico Garcia Lorca’s last...

Vote Obama for hope, Clinton for spin

by Scott Hugo The United States of America stand at a crossroads in 2008, and the fate of our country will be directed by the...

Old Stagers: Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony is the tired old cry of ‘it’s behind you’ in a pantomime; it’s Romeo stabbing himself needlessly next to his sleeping lover;...

Last Orders for binge drinking

 by Joe Wellington Picture this: it’s a Thursday evening and overcooking my latest tutorial assignment has left precious little pre-drinking time. However, not all...

Seeing the Light

Stone Gods emerge from The Darkness I have failed you. I am sorry. You lent me the Dictaphone and everything, and I let you down....