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Oxford research finds AI chatbots cannot provide information about latest news stories
Latest research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has shown that attempts to request top news headlines on the popular AI chatbots ChatGPT and Bard...
University statement on Palestine Solidarity encampment affirms right to protest, outlines investment policy
The University today released an official response to the pro-Palestine encampment organised by Oxford...
Oxford Vice-Chancellor attends Downing Street meeting to ‘protect Jewish students’
On Thursday 9th May, university leaders, including Oxford University’s Vice-Chancellor, Irene Tracey, met with...
MI5 warns Oxford University of security threat
In a recent briefing, MI5 has warned that foreign states are targeting UK universities,...
SU provides updates on Transformation Period
The Oxford Student Union (SU) has released further details on the 12-month transformation period,...
Documents about a documentary film festival
When I first heard about theOxdox festival, I couldn’tbelieve my ears: a week ofhundreds of documentary films frommore than thirty countries, showingin five different...
Dirty money
Curtailing bop banter is not exactly a new trick among the old dogs of Oxford officialdom - while defacation is hardly the most original...
OxStu pulled after legal dispute with University
Last week’s edition of The OxfordStudent was pulled after the University threatened Oxford Student Services Ltd(OSSL), the paper’s owners, with an injunction against its...
Saraband
Sarabanddir, Ingmar Bergman,out now: Ingmar Bergman, after nearly twenty years of silence, has spoken again, with a new film,Saraband, showing at the National Film...
Obituary
TRY ASKING for an Archer’s Aqua at a college bar. At worst, you’ll be jeered right out of thequad; at best, pointed derisively to...
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...
