ELECTIONS LOST IN SHIT
Last term's OUSU delegate elections have been called into question after allegations coming to light about the validity of the counting process. Sources have approached the OxStu with the claim that an election recount, held secretly in the OUSU offices, had to be abandoned after the first floor was covered in raw sewage....
News: HE Funding in limbo
STUDENTS MAY FACE top-up fees of up to £3,000 a year under government proposals to be announced next week.
News: RIP Lord Jenkins
Roy Jenkins, Chancellor of Oxford University since 1987, died of a suspected heart attack at his home in Oxfordshire on Sunday 5th January.
News: Fedotova finally wins Oxbridge place
ANASTASIA FEDOTOVA, THE deaf student from Manchester who had her application to Brasenose college rejected in 2001, has been offered a place at Trinity College, Cambridge.
News: Forced into exile from Exeter
STUDENTS AT EXETER College are in uproar over a shortage of college rooms for finalists, with only 35 out of 94 students being awarded rooms in the college's central Oxford site.
News: Surrey to sell out
Surrey University hopes to be the first to announce independence from government funding in favour of going private. It will be the first change made by a British university to switch to the American model and rely on its own income. Planned measures to bring in this income include an increase in student fees and endowments....
News: Straw: 'Sorry'
A HUMBLE WILL Straw has seen the error of his ways, as he wrote in a private email to OUSU colleagues. His shaky position in the face of extensive internal opposition was further challenged by the surprise resignation at the end of last term of five of the ten members of OUSU Executive Council due to alleged misconduct by the President and by VP (Finance), Sean Sullivan. ...
News: 'Terrorists' son to be Rhodes Scholar
THE SON OF two American 'urban terrorists' serving life sentences has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. Chesa Boudin, a 22 year-old student at Yale currently majoring in history, plans to study international development during his time in Oxford.
News: Student death
EDMUND SUTTON, OF MAGDALEN, former OUCA President and OxStu classical editor, died tragically in a car accident on New Year's Day.
News: News In Brief
News: FLOOD!
PART OF OXFORD found itself underwater last week, as the Isis reached its highest level since 1947.
News: Saddam Shield
A 22 YEAR-OLD ART student is planning to travel to Baghdad later this month to act as a''human shield', in order to prevent military action being taken against Saddam Hussein.
News: Race to court
NADEEM AHMED, THE former Oxford University student who unsuccessfully sued the institution for racial discrimination in the County Court last year is now taking his case to the Court of Appeal. His claim is still being defended by Hertford's controversial English Fellow, Tom Paulin, who gave evidence at the last hearing and whose involvement is expected again....
News: Cash cock up
CLAIMS THAT A drop in Oxford Union finances will result in fewer benefits for the members were refuted by the President this week. Several members of standing committee are insisting that treasurer Greg Stafford's financial report sees a huge drop in income for the Union, which can only result in cuts elsewhere....
News: Straw in fit face-off
WILL STRAW, PRESIDENT of OUSU and darling of the national press, has been relegated to second place in an online poll of Oxbridge hunks. The poll, run on The Guardian newspaper's website, was set up in response to an article appearing in the newspaper following the NUS' top-up fees march in December. Straw's rain drenched appearance and steely resolve so moved the writer, Laura Barton, that she was moved to describe him as "the new Mr Darcy" as well as "hot political totty".
News: Strip!
BAR BABY OF 213 Cowley Rd is revelling in the success of the newly launched lap-dancing nights. Since the evenings began on December 9th, the manager Justin Mofford reports that it has been "a tremendous success. A usually quiet night has been transformed".
News: No more Laura Spences!
INTERVIEW CANDIDATEs AT a number of colleges took part in the final round of tests for an ambitious scheme to evaluate and recommend changes to Oxford's admissions procedures. Students were quizzed on topics from family background to cultural influences, as well as taking personality tests.
