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Queen’s to add names of German soldiers to WWI memorial

The Queen’s College has submitted planning applications to add the names of five soldiers to its World War I memorial – including one Polish and three German soldiers. The...
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St Hilda’s opens May Morning event to public

St Hilda’s College will host a May Morning celebration on the Regina Pisa Rooftop....
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Number of Oxford students declines for first time in a decade

Fewer undergraduates enrolled at Oxford University in 2023-24 than in the previous reporting year,...
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EDI report reveals less than one in ten Oxford professors are BME

Just 9% of professors at the University of Oxford identify as BME (Black and...
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The Girl Next Door

Odeon The Girl Next Door is the kind of film for which the term fantasy really should be used, although thankfully not a single...

The Fog of War

A rare gem of a film doing the tour of select cinemas across the country at the moment is Errol Morris’ The Fog of...

Miss Kittin – I Com

Miss Kittin is a female DJ and one of the main progenitors of the electroclash movement. Electroclash happened in 2002, and we all now...

The Stills – Live at The Zodiac

Canadian band The Stills sold out The Zodiac, promising an interesting plunge into ‘80s mope-rock, whilst trying not to be upstaged by the ought-to-be-huge...

Single Reviews

The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show - Out Now Don’t be fooled by its ominous name and gloomy collection of song titles (‘Martyr...

East is East: Golden Colours of the Past

Textile from the Islamic World Ashmolean Museum Until 13 June Islamic Art never fails to fascinate with its strong sense of aesthetics. From...

Shoe Fly Baby

Shoe Fly Baby, the 2004 Asham Award short story anthology, is eclectic to say the least. Taking us from a London brothel, to a...

Swallowing the Sun – David Parks

Martin is a man of destiny – or at least we are assured as much with mounting insistence throughout Swallowing the Sun. He has...

Sari Gul: Whirling Dervishes

Ever since Byron immortalised the famous simile “like dervishes, who turn as on a pivot” in Don Juan, the dervish has remained an enchanting...

London Marathon Man

The nipples and inner thighs were daubed with Vaseline, the tummy full of energy bars, and I was ready to go. The moment had...

Side Lines – Cricket

Cricket is often derided as a boring sport – Cherwell thinks that those who think so simply don’t get it, but will lay off...

University Cricket – Surrey Fail to See the Light

An unbroken ninth-wicket partnership of 39 secured a draw for Oxford UCCE on day three of their game against Surrey. Chasing 350 to win...

Oxford Snatch Dramatic Victory

Varsity Women’s Rugby Oxford 10 - 7 Cambridge For women’s rugby in Oxford, 2004 was a special year, as both the Blues and Panthers...

Championship Crews Far from Blue

Blues Sailing It is not often that the British weather is obliging towards sporting events. However, the sun shone and a perfect ten knot...

Jock Strip

Jock Strip always endeavours to be light-hearted but last week took a step too far. The very notion that Oxford’s glamorous and brilliant women’s...

Tabs Lose Tale of Two Cities

Women’s Cricket Oxford UCCE 241/2 Cambridge UCCE 137/6 Oxford won by 104 runs Oxford UCCE women’s cricket team began this season as they...

The party’s not over yet

An overwhelming majority of Oxford students do not want OUSU to endorse the new “Code of Conduct” restricting behaviour at post-exam celebrations, a Cherwell...

OUSU may ignore vote

A motion has been tabled for today’s OUSU Council which would allow the student union to tacitly ignore the result of the recent higher...

OUSU officer resigns

Ros Dampier, who was due to take over as OUSU’s VP (Women) at the end of this term, has resigned due to ill health....

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

Oriel postgraduate student Marcus Walker has been nominated for the Professorship of Poetry of Oxford, an honoured post established in 1708 and previously held...
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