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Oxford University launches Ebola vaccine trial in Uganda

Ugandan participants in a clinical safety study received an Oxford developed Ebola vaccine this week.  Researchers vaccinated the first participants on 6th October in Masaka, Uganda. The phase follows the...
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Innovation and technology define Vice-Chancellor’s annual Oration

Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey opened the new academic year on Wednesday, 7th October, with...
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Striking workers demonstrate at Oxford University Press

A demonstration in favour of striking finance workers was held outside the Oxford University Press (OUP) last week, as a dispute over offshoring at the world’s oldest publishing house continues.
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Pitt Rivers Museum returns Māori artefact to New Zealand

The Pitt Rivers Museum, with assistance from The Homebound Project, has returned a kahu...
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Interviews are for toffs

New research has suggested that Oxford’s admissions policies is biased towards public school pupils. The findings of a report from the Higher Education...

14 year old regrets abortion

A 14 year old girl provoked widespread controversy last week by having an abortion, without the knowledge of her parents, only to change her...

Faked photos secure Morgan’s downfall

The Iraq war claimed another media scalp after the editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan, was sacked for publishing fake photos of Iraqi...

Thought of the Week…

If there’s one thing I dislike about this place, it’s the musty world of ‘secret’ societies. Bastions of old boy networking and the occasional...

DRINK: The Beat Cafe

The Beat Cafe Little Clarendon St (01865) 553543 With a name to live up to, The Beat Cafe could end up as one...

EAT: The Lemon Tree

The Lemon Tree 268 Woodstock Rd (01865) 311936 Recently re-opened after refurbishment, The Lemon Tree appears to have regained its former reputation as...

Bags of fun

A girl can never have too many bags. They are the ultimate fashion fix – cheap, versatile, practical (well, sometimes) and they don’t require...

Shiny Happy Models

The Oxford glitterati were out last Friday, stalking the Union pathways like a catwalk. The reason? UFO (Unique Fashionable Objects), showcasing young graduate designers...

Leave the bin outside

In the first week of this term, Cherwellprinted the sorry tale of Brian Butterworth, first-year psychology student at Merton, who was sent "into digs"...

A-list gluttony

Natives of LA love to complain about it: the pollution, the superficial, fastpaced lifestyle, the total lack of history and culture. These people live...

Bored this Trinity? Try… Tortoise Racing

Blithering on about how wonderful summer is seems to be a major vocation in Oxford. The cliché of ‘Pimm’s, punting and parties’ is hardly...

Dirty Pretty Films

If you had to use one word to describe the work Stephen Frears, it would be eclectic. A director whose films resist easy classification,...

Great Sex-pectations

Most of us women tend to think that we’re emancipated, modern creatures. We drink, drive, smoke, have casual sex, and do all those other...

The Opposite of Sex?

Sex is Comedy, says a recent film by Catherine Breillat, which tells of the crude bodily mechanics of actors trying to recreate the passion...

No love loss

"Sex without love”, Woody Allen said, “is a meaningless experience; but as meaningless experiences go it’s a pretty good one.” University is an excellent...

Chatting Up… Peter Bradshaw

Name one film everyone should see. The Addiction, by Abel Ferrara. This is a seriously weird, creepy and brilliant movie about vampires starring Christopher...

More sex please, we’re British

Vice is the order of the day as Oxford’s theatres shamelessly ‘sex up’ their repertoire, in an attempt to banish the Fifth Week blues....

Sex for America Double Bill

Judging by the tabloid-esque advertising for this production (the poster looks like something from the Daily Star), I was expecting this double bill of...

Faust of the Colonnade

Faust of the Colonnadeis a piece of new writing by David Cochrane. The play is set in the confines of a Don’s room in...

Phraeda’s Love

Seduction, suicide, and sadism: based on a Greek tragedy, Phaedra’s Love has been updated to depict a disturbingly dysfunctional family. Phaedra becomes obsessed by...
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