Tea for two?
In a corporate world fuelling a depressing proliferation of fast food chains, superstores and Starbucks Cafes, it is refreshing to stumble across something quite the opposite. And on our very own doorstep. As of this Sunday, if you walk down St Aldates and look opposite Christ Church Meadow, you will find what most people would cynically call "yet another bloody café". But this is a café with a difference, as all you have to do is enter and you will most probably experience something you have never experienced before....
Features: A Clubber's Guide
We are members of one of the world's most prestigious institutions, who would deny it? Surely only the sad and ignorant would ever dispute it, or those at lesser institutions who are green with envy at being unable to dress up like a penguin to do exams. With this unanimously held presupposition, I find it surprising that we endorse any medium (literature, films, people) that dares to argue to the contrary. Time to rebuild the pyres in Broad Street, some might even say. ...
Features: In the chair
It's that time of the month again. And if you are like me, you're dreading it. Vomit rises in the throat, nausea bubbles in the stomach, the heart pounds. What will I end up looking like, emerging from that palace of poodling: the hairdressers?
Features: Different Strokes
Diversity is an often-mocked phrase. After all, it seems rather nebulous and as with "political correctness" before it, calls for diversity run the risk being misunderstood. Either they come to represent a folly of liberal Britain, or they are a disingenuous fob towards equality that provides a convenient cover for institutions who fail to tackle the genuine issues of prejudice and discrimination. But in reality, the theme of diversity is a genuine, and needed, call for equality of opportunity in our society. ...
Features: Money for nothing?
With recent speculation that commercial interest rates will be charged on student loans, the university funding debate is about to be thrown back into the national media spotlight. The NUS is, unsurprisingly, opposed to this proposal and would rather a return to the good old days of grants. What the NUS and other student organizations have failed to grasp is the economic reality of the situation facing universities today....