Hearts and Minds
This has been a bad week for one of your editors. He got fat on pancakes on Tuesday, had to give up chips for Lent on Wednesday, and today will be Valentine's Day, with no cards in his pigeon hole. Damn. His sure-fire way to romantic success, not checking his messages or email account for the entirety of today, will fail within about two hours and the feeling of disappointment will no doubt be crushing.
The Radcliffe Camera will have been a nightmare, with the juicy vibes of hundreds of single Oxford students battling it out for romantic attachment. People will be pretending to do work but will be actually slumped over their books eagerly hoping that the Sarah Michelle Geller/David Beckham look-a-like they have been stalking in the library for the past year will give them the all-important nod.
Valentine's Day is a day you love or hate, so this week at the Oxford Student we've sought to bring you a paper that reflects the emotions that fight against each other with its arrival. It looks horrifically tacky, that's true, but turning the OxStu pink for this week's edition serves a double function: either to increase your general aura of affection on this day of lurve, or to cheer you up with its general gaudiness and all round silliness.
We've actually had so much fun doing it that we don't even need any romance at all. Well, okay, maybe a little. Both of your intelligent, charming, attractive, GSOH editors (...ahem...) know that feeling of loneliness today, having not seen outside the walls of their newspaper office or beyond the lives of hacks for at least six weeks, so just remember, there are people worse off than you. Email us on editors@oxfordstudent.com. Get us out of here. Please.
14th Feb 2002