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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...

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."

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.

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.

Clash of moral duty

The staff of Oxford’s two student newspapers occasionally forget that the majority of the University’s population have little interest in the inner workings of...

Suffering OUSU

The agenda for last Friday’s OUSU council meeting, where a vote toboycott Coca-Cola was passed by an overwhelming majority, contains twopoints of significant interest....

Tired of helping the Third World

I recently sponsored a friend of mine to go on a Rhino Run. This rather bizarre excursion involves jogging for many miles in a...

Justified

Few things in life can be said with certainty. The fact that the majority of people who come out of Oxford will go on...

Bachelors in the art of seduction

We live, it is said, in a city of beautiful buildings and ugly people. We are continually portrayed as lacking passion and social skills,...

The world is no longer a stage

Optimists for the future of British theatre have recently had little tosmile at owing to the plethora of articles by smug Fleet Streetjournalists who...

A case of a lack of ‘art?

What polystyrene is lacking aesthetically it usually makes up for infunctionality and low cost. More commonly known for its kebab-bearing virtues, the lightweight plastic...

The Talking Horse

Long-time childrens’ author Mark Haddon took the bestseller lists by surprise with the success of his last offering, Whitbreadwinning novel The Curious Incident of...

Coffee and broken flowers

Broken Flowersdir Jim Jarmusch4/5Director Jim Jarmusch won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2005 for BrokenFlowers, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Known as...

Sky High

Sky Highdir Mike Mitchell2/5Billed as the American answer to the Harry Potter series, Disney’s SkyHigh has raised expectations in line with its title. It...

The original material girl

The story goes that when Queen Marie-Antoinette was told that the French people were starving through a lack of bread, she flippantly replied, “If...

Student sexually assaulted in Cowley

Police are appealing for witnesses after an Oxford student was sexually assaulted in the early hours of last Thursday. The incident occurred at around...

OUSU VP (Women) position survives referendum threat

A motion to hold a referendum onwhether the OUSU position of Vice-President (Women) should be kept has beenrejected by members of OUSU council. The...

Hilda’s matriculation crashed

Two male students from StCatherine’s gatecrashed St Hilda’s matriculation photoshoot on Saturday, and willappear on one of the photos that will be available for...

Student bags searched as Bod tightens security

Security has been tightenedacross the University following the attacks by animal rights extremists overthe summer. Visitors to the Radcliffe Camera(Rad Cam) now have to...

Merton JCR to appoint anti-welfare officer

An anti-welfare rep is to beelected at Merton after the JCR unanimously passed a motion to institute theposition. A motion was submitted noting that...

Union speech protestors ousted by ‘burly’ officials

The President of Botswana’s visitto the Oxford Union on Friday 14 October was interrupted by 25 protesters fromSurvival International, some of whom were Oxford...

OUSU condemns Coke and urges NUS boycott

OUSU Council has passeda motion condemning Coca Cola and resolv­ing to cease commercial relations andall publicity with the company. It also resolves to lobby...

Welfare HIV e-mail hoax

A hoax e-mail warning ofHIV-positive needles being placed in cinema seats has caused panic across theUniversity as people anxiously forwarded the warning to friends....

‘What’s most interesting about squirrels?’ asks Admissions book

A book detailing bizarrequestions that have been asked at Oxbridge interviews has been produced by thecompany Oxbridge Applications. Tell Me About a Banana…So You...

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