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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after registering with the Proctors.  After a six-month wait to approve their application, the political society announced...
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Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."
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Oxford academics sign open letter opposing Nathan Cofnas’ suspension

Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and self-described “race realist”, was responsible for publicising allegations that the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday had plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
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Over 500 sign open letter urging Oxford to resist “transphobic” EHRC code

Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society (OULGBTQ) has urged the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor and the wider Oxford community “not to passively accept transphobia,” in an open letter signed by over 500 students and staff.
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Hall become rugby champions

St Peter’s 8St Edmund Hall 15St Edmund Hall claimed an attritional, nerve-wrecked title decider against St Peter’s to regain the college rugby title from...

Soc. Shots

This week, the infamous fifth week blues have brought out the moaning teenage solipsists in the best of us, and let’s face it, sixth...

A constant delight

There are some subjects, writer John le Carré once said, “that can only be tackled in fiction”. It is curious, then, that Fernando Meirelles’...

Freshers fall to Tabs

Oxford Men 85Cambridge Men 96Oxford Women 92 Cambridge Women 98The Freshers’ individual performances suggested promise for the upcoming year. Oxford dominated the distance events...

What goes on tour…

The English music scene is a bizarre beast. To be sure, the market suffers from its pap bands that have endless sunshine blown up...

Raw Tongan power carries the day

Oxford 14Tonga 34Oxford came off worse in a match of brutal intensity against the touring Tonga national side. Though they remained competitive throughout the...

Morrisette for glory

The CollectionAlanis MorissetteOut 14 November« « « « «Since the glory days of her hugely successful debut, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette has been...

The demise of broadmindedness

A friend of mine was recently told by his economics tutor that “you used to be able to get a First in PPE if...

Music

Fabric 25Carl Craigout 7 NovemberThink you don’t like techno? Have a listen to this release and you’ll think again. It’s strangely accessible and challenging,...

Swimmers excel at season opener

Despite being early in the season, the standard of the competition was high. The men’s 100m freestyle which saw Oxford new recruit Josh Preston...

A slanging match

Cherwell notes with relief the return to form of those two bastions of political potty-training, OULC and OUCA, just when things seemed to be...

Wheels within wheels

The Caucasian Chalk Circledir Lily Sykes9 - 12 NovemberThe Oxford PlayhouseThe Caucasian Chalk Circle is Bertolt Brecht’s epic tale of the struggle for sympathetic...

Student stunt death avoidable

The death of an Oxford student flung tothe ground by a stunt catapult in 2002 could have been prevented if furthersafety tests had been...

Commercial success for chemists’ spin off

Acompany founded by Oxford University Chemists has doubled in value since lastyear and is now estimated to be worth £58 million.The company, VaSTox Plc,...

Foreign theatre

Masqueradedir Rrimas Tuminas25 - 29 OctoberThe Oxford PlayhouseMikhail Lermontov, the great Rrussian playwright, had a fatal penchant for duelling. Fuelled with vodka, the duels...

Congregation dons raise reform concerns

Controversial measures to reform the way the University is run were the subject of a heated discussion at a meet­ing of Congregation, the University’s...

How would you like to die?

Some go peacefully, some “rage against the dying of the light”, some do it themselves,some let nature take its course, for some it is...

The play’s the thing

This autumn the BBC is laying on a lavish feast. Aas Rradio 3 announces a four year project to dramatise seventeen of the bard’s...

Arms and my childhood

In 1992, a european country was destroyed while the rest of the world watched. Its nucleus,however, resisted, fought back and survived three years of...

Stage

Design for Living,dir Sarah Branthwaite,8 - 12 Nnovember,OFS: Noel Coward’s Design for Living caused a scandal at its 1932 premiere, with its candid view...
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