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Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a deep sense of relief and hope” after the UK Government announced plans to approve visas...
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SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...
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SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...
News Conor Walsh and Arina Makarina -

Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role...
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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....

Brasenose come close to Cuppers upset

 Magdalen 23 - 22 Brasenose It was almost the upset of the season. Brasenose had finished at the very bottom of the fourth division and...

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho Tavern

The Local: Martha Rowsell at The Jericho TavernMartha Rowsell’s favourite venue was a retro clothes shop back home in Brighton. ‘I was surrounded by...

Donkey’s Years / Desert of the Real

Oxford and Cambridge are home, not only to dreaming spires, but also to aspiring drama. Donkeys’ Years is firmly fixed in college. It follows...

Rainbow Messiah

Ranjit Majundar visits Peter Tatchell, the man who arrested Mugabe I had no apprehensions about approaching the highly secure abode of the country’s...

Video: 3rd Week Blues Football

Reaction from 3 Oxford Blues footballers, Alex Toogood, Matthew Rigby, and Nik Baker, on their 3-1 win over Bedfordshire University. by Jack Pitt-Brooke and Ben...

More about sausages

Vee vill find a vay of tracking you down! UPDATE: Well done QAZ, you’re spot on. This isn’t an article. You clearly haven’t come across...

The Tippett Quartet, 27th January 2008

Whilst many football fans have their ‘dream team’, I have a dream string quartet, comprising of my favourite musicians and, as of today, one...

‘Wad Words’ Opt-Out

Controversial Wadham zine receives tentative JCR backing
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