Gagging For It
by Rose Hasler and
News: Anger at JR
THE HELPLINE SET up at the John Radcliffe hospital in the wake of the organ retention scandal has so far received over 800 calls. It recently emerged that the hospital had some 4,400 former patients' brains in storage, making it second only to Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital in terms of retained organs. Of the body-parts accumulated at the Oxford hospital over a period of 30 years, about 350 of the organs stored had come from children.
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News: Playing The Race Card?
LOCAL RESIDENTS HAVE accused the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Mrs Maureen Christian, of turning complaints over the new Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) into a race issue. The accusations come after she and Dr Browning, registrar of the Centre, revealed that they have received abusive letters regarding the plans. Mrs Christian's support for the centre also provoked a letter writing campaign from a fundamentalist Christian group....
News: Still Fighting Fees!
AS THE OXSTU went to press, non-payer and OUSU Executive Officer Regan Early faced being sent down. Wadham's tutorial board were due to decide on Wednesday afternoon whether to rusticate or expel the second year biologist. Since she made the decision not to pay her tuition fees, Early has been barred from university facilities. Her final deadline for payment is Friday....
News: Dot.comuppance
TUESDAY 6TH FEBRUARY saw UpStart Network join forces with First Tuesday Thames Valley to bring an event designed to give students with an interest in entrepreneurship the opportunity to meet up with start-up companies and industry executives. For the fourth time, the event was held at the University Museum, and was themed 'Fame and Fortune - the reality'...
News: Weird World of love
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News: State School Bias
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HAS again been accused of discrimination in its applications and admissions procedures, except that this time the University stands accused of being biased against those from independent schools.
News: Storch & Burn
THE GROWING CONTROVERSY over the role of Vice President for Graduates is set to continue as OUSU Council passed its second motion of no confidence in Adam Storch, VP-Graduate-elect, on Friday.
News: Sort it out!
THE CURRENT OXFORD postal strike, now in its seventh day, has left thousands without mail and forced businesses to turn to other, more inconvenient methods of delivery. The action is the third of its kind in six months and was sparked last Thursday by events which have been described by the Royal Mail as "petty". Eighteen workers were asked by managers to sort mail by postcode rather than by delivery route. The workers refused and after half an hour walked out, returning twenty minutes later. The Royal Mail refused to pay them for the time working on the wrong line, and threatened action, which resulted in the spreading of the strike to 900 workers....
News: Davies: top dog of sweet FA
ON MAY 4TH, 1957, David Davies was woken early by Manchester United fans coming off the overnight train from Manchester to London, and desperate for sandwiches from his parents' shop just outside Euston station. It was FA Cup Final day, and young David was enthralled by these colourful figures from the north. By the end of the day he had bought a United rosette and felt the disappointment as Aston Villa took home the Cup 2-1 with two strikes by Peter McParland.
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News: So what's the deal?
SUNDAYS AT MAXWELL'S have suddenly got a lot less crazy! Since October 2000 the restaurant on Queen Street has claimed the last twelve hours of the weekend as 'Crazy Sunday'. This promotion had offered any main course from the menu for £5, on production of a Maxwell's privilege card. Students previously had gratefully swapped boring and stodgy college food for a normally unaffordable 16oz T-bone steak with this bargain offer. Yet those days of bounty and plenitude are alas now over, as a new restricted a la Carte menu has been introduced on Crazy Sundays, currently only offering seven different main courses....
News: NUS Showdown
"THERE'S NO REASON why we can't bring the country to a halt." That could be your future NUS president talking, as NUS Treasurer Helen Aspell criticised current President Owain James for not emulating the truckers' success in getting government attention.
News: Drying out
TRAGEDY WAS NARROWLY averted last Thursday night when Brasenose bar ran out of beer. Drinkers descending on the cellar bar after dinner were greeted with the unfortunate news that, due to a gas leak, the pumps could not be used and the on-tap beer could not be served.