Fire Strikes Again
Firefighters led over 50 New College students to safety as their accommodation blazed on Thursday morning. Six fire engines and over 40 firefighters rushed to the college's Sacher building in the early hours of the morning.
News: Women's Officers out
The University, St Hugh's and the History Faculty has lost one of its finest with the death of Professor Colin Matthew, 58, fellow and tutor of history. He died suddenly of a heart attack last Thursday.
News: Historian mourned
The University, St Hugh's and the History Faculty has lost one of its finest with the death of Professor Colin Matthew, 58, fellow and tutor of history. He died suddenly of a heart attack last Thursday.
News: Barbie wire cut
St Hilda's JCR has voted in favour of removing the barbed wire from their walls reports Helen Massy-Beresford. They passed a motion at their JCR meeting on Sunday night to replace it with a more effective and aesthetically pleasing security measure.
News: News in Oxford
A third-year Greek PPE student, Mike Zalotas, turned up at an Oxford night-club last Thursday only to be mistaken for a member of the Mafia.
News: Hertford axe-rescue
What do you do when a fellow student returns home paralytic and then locks himself in his room? This was the dilemma which faced three Hertford students last Thursday night when a friend returned from a college authorised Law Society dinner and then shut himself in his off-site room in Abingdon House.
News: Grow your own tabs
Cambridge University last week became involved in the debate surrounding the donation of eggs for fertility treatment. Students and graduates of the university reacted angrily to the claim that they were being targeted by childless couples seeking 'clever' genes for their babies. The concerns were prompted by an advertisement placed in the June issue of the university's alumni magazine, Cam....
News: Hugh's...the saga goes on
The ongoing St Hugh's 'New Building' saga remains unresolved. Weeks of delays on the building front have left students dissatisfied, and problems of noise and disruption seem no nearer a satisfactory solution.
News: Inter-Varsity
'Oh Behave!' is the unlikely name of the latest society to spring onto the Newcastle student scene, though to date it has only managed to entice sixteen members. Based around the spoof 60s super-spy Austin Powers, this imaginative project demands that members strut around spouting catchphrases like, "throw me a fricking bone" and, "Do I make you horny?" Membership is not for the faint-hearted as the dress code requires short skirts and knee-high boots. Whether or not the members will be required to 'swing' is not yet clear....
News: State-school students on top
NEW RESEARCH published by UCAS suggests that comprehensive schools produce more top university students than they had been credited with. Figures from Cambridge show that two-fifths of its students are from comprehensive schools, not a quarter as previously thought.
News: Union feeling the squeeze
THE OXFORD UNION may now be too successful for its own good. A meeting of the Standing Committee this week heard concerns over the number of members who have to be accommodated at events.