Privilege Axed

CENTURIES OF TRADITION face the axe following recommendations from the Quality Assurance Agency that the automatically-awarded Oxbridge MA should be scrapped.


News: Key vote for OUSU

The campaign to reform the voting system at OUSU Council has received a boost after a motion triggering a referendum on the issue was finally passed at last Friday's OUSU Council.

News: No Wills, no way

PRINCE WILLIAM has rejected Oxford, according to the University's Admissions Secretary.


News: Kebab attack

THE LATEST CLASH of 'town' and 'gown' erupted in the early hours of last Thursday morning when one LMH student was punched to the ground and another was held at 'glass point'.

News: Internet rejected

HERTFORD students face charges of up to £25 for telecommunications services, which they are not using. Bills sent out to students show a blanket increase in battels of fifteen pounds this term for the use of internet connections. The charge - which was condemned by one disgruntled student as "a back door battels increase" - has even been levied in cases where rooms have no, or broken, internet connections....


News: News in Oxford

News: Tabwatch

A student has been attacked whilst dancing at the Queen's College bop. Shezan Hirjee was punched twice in the face in Fitzpatrick Hall. Police and ambulances arrived, and he was taken to Addenbrooke's hospital, but was discharged soon after with no serious injury. The attacker has not yet been identified, and it is not known whether or not he was a student, due to failure of the bouncers to inspect CUSU cards at the bop entrance....


News: Inter-Varsity

Exeter University students taking part in a television documentary were filmed discovering a rats nest under the floor boards of their kitchen. The nest which contained around one hundred rats which had been feeding on food scraps. The University's Domestic Service was keen to distance itself from the privately rented house insisting that the University's own accommodation has very good hygiene and are free from vermin....