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Oxford Union believes the EU has a bright future
On Thursday night, the Oxford Union voted in support of the motion ‘This House Believes the EU has a Bright Future.’ The final count had 105 members voting for...
Oxford Israel Society and Jewish Students For Justice release statements addressing pro-Palestine encampment
Oxford Israel Society issued a statement on Wednesday condemning the pro-Palestine encampment organised by...
24 hours inside the OA4P encampment
Mud swamps over grass where disintegrating cardboard and puddled tarp trace a crude footpath;...
Pro-Palestine protesters rally in attempt to present demands to Vice-Chancellor
A group of around 150, organised by Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P), rallied outside...
Inaugural Vice-Chancellor Colloquium to mark Earth Day
This year’s Earth Day on April 22, saw the completion of the first Vice-Chancellor’s...
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...
