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Hague to confer nine honorary degrees to celebrate first year in office

Lord William Hague has announced the conferral of nine honorary degrees to mark his first year as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The degrees will be awarded during...

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‘Rage bait’ named Oxford Word of the Year

Oxford University Press (OUP) has revealed that “rage bait” is their official Word of...

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International student fees increased by 37% since 2022

Overseas student fees have increased more than 37% over the last three years, a...

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Too hot to handle: Tracking Oxford’s energy efficiency

A Cherwell investigation can reveal that 89% of buildings owned by the University of...

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Girl survives 20 ft glass drop

Clubbing students watched in shock as a tourist plummeted two storeys through a glass roof outside the Bridge nightclub on Monday night. The young...

Merton don heads Booker

A former drug and gambling addict has been awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize by a committee chaired by Merton’s Professor of English, John...

Saintly porn

University of Cambridge Cambridge’s Christian Union has some useful ideas about exam ‘technique’, as students attempting to access its revision advice website have been...

Bond-style

University of Melbourne, Australia A female Biology student was rushed to hospital last week after being accidentally shot by a friend with a James...

Builder chaos

University of York York builders, previously featured in Cross Campus for innuendo and sexual harrassment, have stepped up their campaign against exasperated students. Last...

Jesus bar prices raised

Students at Jesus were shocked to return to heavily inflated bar prices at the beginning of Michaelmas. A JCR mandate to reduce the price...

Oxford students UK’s least mothered

Mothers all over the country are going online to keep their children well-fed at university. Oxford students, however, seem more capable of buying their...

Gays aborted

Gay men could be the product of a failed abortion according to an Oxford professor. Bryan Sykes, Professor of Genetics, suggests that homosexuality may...

Shock Deech resignation

Dame Ruth Deech, Principal of St Anne’s College, announced her retirement in an open letter to staff and students at the College last Sunday....

Lion population close to collapse

An Oxford professor has suggested that Africa’s lion population is in danger of collapse, after a four-year study in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Research lead...

Funding needed for Nobel success

A former Oxford Classics student has been awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work outside of the UK, contributing to Oxford-based...

Buskers code

Oxford buskers will be forced to face the music if a council code of conduct restricting their performance is ratified this week. A 13-point...

Freshers’ Flu

From the sound of coughing in the lecture hall to a week of drowsy mornings accompanied with a box of tissues, few of you...

Women’s alliance

by Jonathan Bailey A petition has been started to save Oxford’s last remaining women-only college. Worried by debate on the governing body of St...

50% of students directionless

by Joanna Lee Morrison New research has revealed that over 50% of first year university students have no clear plans for future employment. The...

Clint Eastwood

by Timothy RileyUnion members were thrilled last Thursday at the chance to see one of Hollywood’s “living legends,” when Clint Eastwood appeared in front...

Dictionary gets ‘sexed-up’

by Mark Bedford In a new Oxford mini- dictionary released this week one of the most controversial expressions of 2003 has made its first...

A disorientating dialogue

Candice Breitz: Re-animations Candice Breitz’s installation, ‘Double Karen’ consists of two televisions facing each other in a stairway, one in front of you, the...

Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux

In a recently published essay, Theroux states that he eschews cameras and travel snaps. A bold claim, but his descriptive prose in Dark Star...

In the footsteps of the Revolution

NATALIE TOMS visits the lefty student haven of cigars, Che and communist charm The silence is getting quite embarrassing. I don’t realise at first...

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Hague to confer nine honorary degrees to celebrate first year in office

‘Rage bait’ named Oxford Word of the Year

International student fees increased by 37% since 2022

Too hot to handle: Tracking Oxford’s energy efficiency

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