Bod Men Get Mad
A botched anti-fees occupation ended with one student in hospital after a number of the protestors were forcibly ejected from the Radcliffe Camera by a University employee.
News: Hacks In A Huff
Saturday's abortive occupation was the last straw (although the absence of the man himself was notable) for OUSU's divided Finance & Funding Campaign, with the announcement on Tuesday of the creation of an independent "Free Education Direct Action" campaign.
News: Shoe-dunnit
OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S CHIEF purchasing officer stole £31,065 from the uni to fund a shopping addiction, allegedly brought on by the stress of caring for her elderly parents. Patricia Whitehead, 57, stole the money to pay for clothes which she often never wore, Oxford Crown Court heard last week.
News: Shit happened
WILL STRAW HAS admitted to the OUSU executive that the recount of the delegate election featured on the cover of this term's first issue of the OxStu did in fact happen, while members of the executive have conferred blame onto the Returning Officer, Nick Bennet.
News: LGBsoc relaunch
LGBsoc, THE UNIVERSITY society for lesbians, gays and bisexuals, is holding re-launch drinks this Thursday at 8pm. The event will take place at the Northgate Centre, Oxford's gay community centre, situated on St. Michaels Street opposite the Union.
News: Trinity room scandal
TRINITY's LGBT REP has criticized the college's policy regarding room-sharing on the college site.
News: Shirley Our of Race
Shirley Williams, the Lib Dem leader in the Lords, has announced that she "will not let her candidacy go forward" for the post of Oxford Chancellor, in protest at the government's plans for higher education funding.
News: Holocaust Memorial
The third National Holocaust Memorial was marked in Oxford on 27 January by a memorial service in the Wadham College chapel. There were readings by representatives from the University Jewish Society and OUSU's Equal Opportunity Campaigns. The service was followed by a talk by Margaret Brearley entitled 'The Master & The Führer: Wagner & Hitler'....
News: Dr. Domingo
Placido Domingo, famous for being a member of the Three Tenors, is to be receive an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University.
News: 15 and Still KEEN
KEEN, the joint Oxford/Brookes charity, is to celebrate its fifteenth birthday this week. It was founded in 1988 by a New College student, and currently involves over 120 disabled children and young adults around Oxfordshire.
News: Oxford Gets STV
The upcoming election for Chancellor is to be conducted using a new system. The traditional "first-past-the-post" method is to be scrapped in favour of the "single-transferable vote."
News: Blazenose
FIRST AND FINAL year students at Brasenose were shaken from their beds in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a fire started in a student's bedroom.
News: Fees Protest
Student outrage at top-up fees erupted in Oxford last week writes Hannah Parham. The protest on Broad Street last Wednesday, which OUSU estimates attracted support from around 400 students, covered the steps of the Clarendon building. The demonstrators banged drums, waved banners and wore yellow ribbons. St Hilda's, Balliol, Wadham and Mansfield were the most represented colleges in the protest that attracted attention from the national media. Film crews and reporters from the BBC, ITN, Sky and local news questioned OUSU President Will Straw who appeared on the front page of the Daily Telegraph.
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News: State of the Union
PUBLICATION OF THE Union's accounts has revealed a massive deficit of £101,857 for the academic year 2001-02. These embarrassing financial losses are a notable anomaly for the society, which has otherwise reported surpluses, averaging around £20,000, for the past five years. The accumulated surpluses and the general reserve have now had to be raided to cover the deficit....
News: State of the Union
PUBLICATION OF THE Union's accounts has revealed a massive deficit of £101,857 for the academic year 2001-02. These embarrassing financial losses are a notable anomaly for the society, which has otherwise reported surpluses, averaging around £20,000, for the past five years. The accumulated surpluses and the general reserve have now had to be raided to cover the deficit....
News: Brown Invited to Oxford
IN ORDER TO REDRESS negative government perceptions of access issues at Oxford University, Sonia Sodha, VP (Access and Academic Affairs), has invited Chancellor Gordon Brown to attend the first Target Schools Open Day of 2003 in St. John's College on 17 March.
News: Protest at RAF base
APPROXIMATELY 40 STUDENTS - many clad in improvised decontamination suits, masks, and goggles - played weapons inspectors on Friday as they joined in a mass demonstration at the Royal Air Force base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, in protest against the proposed war on Iraq. According to the Oxford Mail, the target was chosen because of the American stealth bombers stationed there. Estimates for attendance range from "several hundred" in the Mail to over 1000, according to the Gloucestershire Weapons Inspectors, the group that organised the protest....
News: HMC's Bursar Hell
A motion of no confidence in their domestic bursar is being put before the JCR of Harris Manchester College. Proposed by JCR Treasurer Franz Schaper, the motion has been brought due to a perceived lack of concern for the student body. Jane Mactaggart, who is seconding the motion, told The OxStu that the it's aim was to "make the college understand that there's a real problem."...
News: End of college autonomy?
A further contentious detail in the Government's already controversial White Paper on Higher Education constitutes a threat to the jealously-guarded autonomy of Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
News: Vice-Chancellor slams govt.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S VICE-CHANCELLOR, Sir Colin Lucas has launched an attack on Charles Clarke's plans to increase the number of students from the poorest backgrounds. Writing in The Daily Mirror he claimed that Clarke's proposed "admissions tsar" would be a bar to academic excellence, and insisted that efforts must instead be focused upon encouraging the brightest students to apply....
News: Fire strikes set to continue
FIREFIGHTERS ACROSS BRITAIN and in Oxford have staged a 48-hour strike, which began at 9am on Tuesday, January 28. A further 48-hour strike, due to take place on Saturday, 1 February may also go ahead.
