'Stupid and Naïve'
Confidential information relating to the Home Secretary's son has been acquired by a senior reporter for Oxford's independent student newspaper, the Cherwell, and divulged to a national newspaper. Criticism has been levelled at both the Cherwell reporter and the student originally responsible for leaking the confidential information....
News: Fees March 'disappointing'
SUNDAY saw the biggest gathering of anti-fees protesters in Oxford since last winter. Under the gaze of somewhat mystified tourists the 400 strong crowd of enthusiastic freshers, committed anti-fees activists and the ubiquitous Socialist Worker Party members made their way through the centre of Oxford.
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News: The Word is out... again
ALTHOUGH THE newspaper cannot substantiate the claim that 'the Word was God', it can confirm that Oxford's troubled newsmagazine The Word is back from the void. Its failure to appear last Trinity term was hailed with the proclamation 'The Word is dead', but its publisher, Nick Hackworth, has recently affirmed that the paper is alive and well, albeit without the The. He told the Oxford Student that at that time 'there was a temporary hiatus in the finances of the paper', which has since been remedied....
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News: Ismail sacrificed
Alex "Sacha" Ismail - infamous fees non-payer and member of the Campaign for Free Education (CfE)- has been forced to quit his position as co-chair of OUSU's Finance and Funding Committee after slapping the CfE's logo onto posters for OUSU's demonstration last Sunday. Ismail now claims there is "hostility from some members of the OUSU Exec towards the CfE", prompting fears that the anti-fees campaign could descend into conflict....
News: Hugh's Finalist Fury
PATIENCE IS running low at St Hugh's this week due to the continued chaos caused by the delay in completion of a new accommodation block.
News: OUSU Counts the Cost
OUSU has been left in a "precarious" financial position after serious mismanagement of advertising revenues last term. An official assessment raises grave concerns over the funding of new sabbatical posts and the worrying dependence on uncertain sources of revenue.
News: Jacko on Oxford pilgrimage
Popstar Michael Jackson may visit Oxford having been given a taste of the Jewish faith by the high-profile founder of Oxford's L'Chaim society, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
News: LMH backs men
THE JCR of Lady Margaret Hall are putting through a motion to establish a Male Welfare Officer and a Female Welfare Officer, which will lead to the abolition of the current roles of Welfare Information Officer and Women's Officer.
News: Poet Pinched
AFTER POACHING the promising poet Jo Shapcott from Oxford University Press, publishing house Faber and Faber were this week celebrating her triumph in Britain's biggest poetry award, the prestigious £10,000 Forward Prize.
News: Sex Therapist targets Oxford
"Everyone is in between" declares psychotherapist Tracie O'Keefe, "It is not a bipolar system." Clinical hypnotherapist, counsellor, Patron of the Transgender Film Festival, psychotherapist, author and lecturer rolled into one, Tracy is to give an inaugural open lecture next week, entitled 'Sex, Gender and Sexuality: 21st Century Transformations.'...