Sex-press drama climax
OUSU council will decide this week whether to discard nearly seven thousand pounds worth of annual funding. A motion is to be put before the governing body seconded by the OUSU president Anneliese Dodds. Its aim is to abolish Stagecoach advertising on OUSU products in protest against Brian Souter's donation to the Scottish 'Keep the Clause' campaign, which is fighting to keep the controversial Section 28 of the local government act....
News: 'Deferred celebration' at Union after 60 years
THE OXFORD UNION played host to an unusual celebration on Tuesday evening - the 29th February. Martin Grundy, a former law student at Corpus Christi held his 21st birthday party there...at the age of 84. Mr Grundy was born on the 29th February in the leap year of 1916 and so missed out on a birthday in 1937 when he turned 21. At the time he invited his friends to a birthday party to take place in the year 2000....
News: Are Britain's top universities on course for top-ups?
THE VICE-CHANCELLORS of the elite Russell Group of universities, the top twenty research universities in Britain, met to discuss the future funding options for higher education last Friday. The meeting at Warwick University agreed to commission an investigation into the funding options, including the potential for students to pay top-up fees of up to £600 - a crippling rise from the present tuition fees of £1025....
News: Lack of brain bug jabs
OXFORD STUDENTS continue to be at risk from meningitis C despite the vaccination programme intended to protect all first years from contracting the brain disease. A survey concluded last week that 25 per cent of freshers nationwide are yet to be vaccinated because of "alarmingly" slow vaccination rates. The Department of Health was left defending itself against charges of failing students when risks were at their highest.
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News: Exploited students ignore unions
STUDENTS ARE BEING exploited at work, claim the TUC, but at Oxford there is no central policy to deal with this. In a survey released this week, research into students at universities across the UK shows that nearly three quarters of students take part time jobs during term time. Yet almost sixty percent of these workers feel that this has caused problems with their studies....
News: Bagpuss and blindfolds: the world of Oxford societies uncovered
"VOLUNTEERS FOR STRANGE Encounters" read the poster. Bored and single, I volunteered on gloucsoc@hotmail.com. The Earl is waiting for me, said the e-mail. I had to be waiting for him outside the Kings Arms at 8.30pm on Tuesday, reading a foreign newspaper. Clutching Le Monde, I perched on a bench outside the KA, feeling rather ridiculous and, when approached by a man dressed in a pinstriped suit, conferring on his mobile: "I've got her. We're on our way," pretty scared. I was frog-marched away down Broad Street, led along a corridor, blindfolded, spun around, deposited on a stool and left for twenty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds until a gong sounded and I was led away....
News: Royal secrets unearthed at Balliol
ON WEDNESDAY AT 9.00am, numerous historians and journalists will be at the Bodleian Library to witness the release of documents which may finally resolve the questions surrounding Her Majesty the Queen Mother's role in the 1936 abdication, and the Duke of Windsor's liaisons with Adolph Hitler before the outbreak of the Second World War. The documents are part of the Monckton papers, a bequest to Balliol College by Viscount Monckton, Edward VIII's lawyer and confidante. For the past 50 years this time bomb on the history of the Royal Family has remained out of the public domain due to the wishes of Monckton, who requested that they could only be released after 1999....
News: OUSU: should focus be politics or pints?
OUSU VICE-PRESIDENT (Graduates) Jason Dorsett has caused controversy in OUSU by condemning the opinion that the organisation is primarily a campaigning body. Dorsett's criticism has been published in his termly report to OUSU Council, due to be delivered on Friday.