Infamy, infamy....
Equal Wrongs
Columns: Coping with Academia
Last week I found myself in the college library for about the third time in my university career. It was a spooky Halloween experience, with steaming flasks of tea and ribena protruding from ever growing piles of books and journals. However, my attention was drawn to one particularly annoying fresher (a lawyer probably) who in the finest mock Home-counties accent was repeating the same annoying phrase over and over again to any person she happened to vaguely know: "I'm so blatantly not going to get this essay blatantly done." Yes, I thought, you're so blatantly, blatantly fucking not going to get the essay done, if you're going to spend your entire time attempting to court sympathy from passers-by, who given their location are probably blatantly attempting to get there own four-sides of toss finished by 9 a.m. tomorrow!...
Columns: Club Class
Columns: His and Hers
What do you do?
Columns: columninches
I woke up on Saturday morning to find that I was ill. And no ordinary illness at that: my entire body seemed to have packed up overnight. Pain coursed through my wracked limbs; my head throbbed like the Wrath of God; and as I opened my eyes the ceiling lurched and span alarmingly above me. Even more worryingly, when I rapidly shut them again, my eyelids made a strange scratching noise that definitely wasn't normal....
Columns: Wisewords
There is no greater indication of the depths to which we have collectively sunk than The Sun newspaper. Read daily by about 10 million people, it defines the British social, political and cultural state of mind better than any other media source. It leads opinion, controls debate and gets results. It is nothing less than the populist pawn in the hands of the world's most influential man. It is, however, without wanting to undermine the argument, a highly entertaining read....
Columns: RetroFit
Press Gang is a show that we at OxStu Towers take particularly close to our hearts. We can sympathise with the long hours, the stress and the choices faced by this merry band of schoolkid journos. However, we can never understand why they were never sued for libel. It happens to us every day.