Carry On Proctors
EX-RETURNING OFFICER Tony Lord described a decision by the proctors as "frankly quite barmy". They had ruled that he was wrong to declare invalid the nomination of Adam Storch for Vice President Graduates in last term's OUSU elections. Storch has now been automatically elected VP Graduates, as there were no other valid nominations....
News: Fighting a losing battel?
ON FRIDAY THE university is set to suspend students who have not yet paid tuition fees. Those who do not pay up are facing confiscation of Bod cards, cancellation of computer accounts and no admission to university facilities.
News: Morse Man Honoured
AFTER KILLING OFF nearly eighty residents and tutors of Oxford the creator of Inspector Morse, Colin Dexter, is to be honoured with the Freedom of the City next month. Oxford City Council's Strategy and Resources Committee announced last week that it had decided unanimously to grant him the rare accolade, previously awarded to figures such as Nelson Mandela and the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi....
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News: You Rang, Mallard?
LAST SUNDAY FOR the first and only time this century, fellows past and present of All Souls College convened to brandish flaming torches, sing a raucous drinking song and chase a wooden duck on a pole around their main quad.
News: Time for Tubby Bye Bye
IT'S THE END of an era for Oxford surfers after Trinity's Tinky Winky server was barred to out of college users on Sunday. The tutu-ed Teletubby was the source of DVDs and MP3 files that were viewed by students across the university network. The server had become so popular that downloads from it made up an eighth of total traffic across the network....
News: Straw Polled
How is university different from your day? What was the most positive thing you introduced as NUS President? Is there anything you wish you had introduced? Is it tougher being a student today than in your day and if so, why? Why are you banned from Leeds Students Union?
News: Woman Braves Oxford
THE WINNER OF the bravest woman in the world award is coming to perform in Oxford. Keti Dolidze won the award at a New York Cermony due to heroic actions in the recent Georgian civil war. She led a battalion of a thousand women wearing white scarves across the battlefields, stopping the warring factions. To commemorate this event, the last Sunday in September is known as White Scarf Day, and a day's ceasefire worldwide is recognised.
Ket
News: French connection
TEDDY HALL HAS elected its first French JCR President, and is hoping that he will bring some continental flair to the role. Alex Grouet, a second-year PPE student, is the first French president in the history of St. Edmund Hall.
News: Summer camp windfall
OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S INTERNATIONAL Cultural Exchange Society has been granted an astounding sum of money by the parent of a former LMH student. Totalling about £17,000, the contribution was made to assist the Cultural Exchange Society with its 2001 English Summer Camp in China.