MAD COW VS TRAITOR
As competition heats up for what is considered the most prestigious post in academia, one question only is on every Oxford student's lips - where are all the credible candidates?
News: Bill Was CIA Spy
BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. President and potential candidate for Chancellor of Oxford, was spying for the CIA whilst a Rhodes Scholar at the University, according to a British journalist.
News: Disgust at 'honour killings'
WASEEM SAJJAD, HEAD of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee in Pakistan was condemned by OUSU Council last Friday, due to the fact that he had blocked Parliamentary debate in Pakistan on a resolution condemning the 'honour killings' of women.
News: Green Box
Mike Woodin, a Green City Councillor and a psychology lecturer at Balliol, has joined with the students and condemned the council over their Green Box recycling scheme.
News: Raelian cloning debate
THE RAELIANS ARE coming to town. Glenn Carter, head of the British Raelian Movement, has confirmed his intention to attend a debate 'This House sees nothing wrong with full humancloning', organized by PPE Society on 19 February, alongside the Director of the Pro-Life Alliance.
News: Students flee to U.S.
HIGHER TUITION FEES in England may be driving an increasing number of students across the Atlantic to study in American institutions.
News: Bolshy Bursar
ROGER BODEN, THE Bursar of Keble College, was confronted by a packed JCR last week regarding what students have seen as a heavy-handed approach to vehicle access to college at the beginning and end of term.
News: Oxford Romance
LOVE WILL CERTAINLY be in the air in the city of dreaming spires this Valentine's Day, with a little help from Oxford Romance.
News: Library Closed
LIBRARY OCCUPATIONS HAVE been scrapped as an OUSU protest tactic, following the narrow passing of a motion condemning such actions at OUSU Council on Friday. The contoversial motion, proposed by Daniel Rees (Merton), passed by a margin of 41 to 36.
News: Teddy Hall golf course?
Traditional college rivalries were revived last week when New College JCR passed a motion to buy Teddy Hall for the purposes of building a new golf course or paint-balling venue.
News: Picketers Face-off
Tension between rival anti-fees groups erupted last Thursday evening. In a confusion of protest and counter-protest, OUSU and its new rival FEDA (Free Education Direct Action) came head to head in a demonstration against fees.
News: Anti-War Meeting
LAST WEEK SAW Oxford's largest public meeting for some years, to express opposition to a possible war in Iraq. Over 600 residents, activists and a handful of students were joined by speakers Kate Hudson, Vice-President of CND, Felicity Arbuthnot, a journalist who has written extensively on post-1991 Iraq, and George Galloway MP, a vociferous parliamentary opponent of war, who, in his speech, referred to Britain as an Orwellian "Airstrip One" to American power....
News: Diversity Week
FIFTH WEEK IS DIVERSITY Week in Oxford, with a program of events planned to celebrate and promote the diversity and tolerance of Oxford's student population.
News: Give head for cash
Students are being offered a novel way of earning money to alleviate their debts without having to do any work. The participating individuals must simply agree to wear an advert on their forehead for three hours a day, for this they'll receive the tidy sum of £88.20 a week.
News: Bookstore boycott
Staff at the 'Inner Bookshop', a Magdalen Road 'Mind Body Spirit' bookseller, have faced abuse and threats following the shop's boycott of Israeli publishers.
