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Student Union co-CEO to leave in June

Emilie Tapping, co-CEO of Oxford SU, announced her resignation last week, with a plan to leave in June after a year in post. Formerly CEO of Oxford Brookes Students’...

Oxford Union votes against flying LGBTQ+ flag for Pride Month

The Oxford Union has rejected a proposal to fly an LGBTQ+ flag for Pride...

VE Day celebrations to take place across Oxfordshire

Street parties are being planned across Oxfordshire as part of a national programme of...

University Welfare Services release annual reports

The 2023/24 reports from Student Welfare and Support Services (SWSS) were published last week....

Union theft confusion

Both The OxStu and The Times reported last week that two pictures were stolen from the Oxford Union Society, but it would appear as...

Celebrity chancellors under threat

Government ministers have been urged to encourage the replacement of celebrity university chancellors with professional fundraisers. The initiative is a result of new...

Balloon festival lights up the skies

30,000 people turned up to watch the sixth annual Oxford Balloon Festival last weekend although strong winds hampered the performance of the balloons, a...

Candlelit asylum vigil

More that 200 protesters took part in a candlelit vigil last Saturday in opposition to the proposal for a new asylum centre near Oxford....

Conflict on Future

Oxford University could soon be in serious conflict with the colleges over its future. University authorities are planning radical changes to ensure that Oxford’s...

Balliol drops black tie

The Balliol Summer Event took place last Saturday, but the traditional Oxford black tie was conspicuously lacking. Balliol’s answer to the college ball...

Yet more post chaos

Oxford’s postal workers are to vote on Sunday whether or not to enact another series of walkouts which will paralyse the mail network in...

Chechen President assasinated

The pro-Moscow President of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, has been killed in a bomb explosion. The President was attending a ceremony commemorating Russian victory...

Indian election produces shock results

After a month of polling, voting has finally closed in India’s general election. It was predicted that the Prime Minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Thoughts of the Week

Give George Bush credit. You might think the day he acknowledges environmental and climate change will be the day he can heat up one...

DRINK: Sip

Sip 102 Walton Street (01865) 311322 Going to Sip is a bit like being a child at a grown-up, middleclass dinner party. It’s...

EAT: Baby Bar

Baby Bar 30 Walton St (01865) 515910 Baby Bar is one of those amazing places where you arrange to meet a friend for coffee...

Come out on top

If you read last week’s article, those glorious hats should now be adorning your rain-drenched hair. Do not think, however, that just because it...

Into the Minds of Serial Killers

It’s an age old question: what influences a person’s character? Is it nature or nurture? In a new book released this week Helen Morrison,...

Greed, Cuban style

As we belt down the autopista from Jose Marti airport towards Havana centre, crammed into our Soviet-built red taxi, this long hidden corner of...

Bored this Trinity? Try… Port Meadow

Summer is here (finally). Time to join every other Oxford student in the University Parks. For those of you who enjoy spending your afternoon...

Private Eye for the Satire Guy

Private Eye raises hell. Always has done – it’s been sued more times than anyone can count and provides much weekly amusement, from titters...

Basic Instincts

Phobias are, by definition, irrational fears, though it would seem that some are more irrational than others. A fear of heights on the top...

The Pride of Britain?

There are very few things that are seriously wrong with Britain at the moment. OK, so the weather might be crap, the food nowhere...

Chatting up: Jonathon Gornall

How did you get into journalism? Slogged my way through local papers from the age of 21, sleeping with anybody who could help me...