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.
Dressed in a black suit and tie, Zalotas was questioned by the club's bouncers as to whether he was from Sicily.
Confirming that he was in fact Sicilian, the bouncers gave Zalotas a knowing nod and granted him free entry.
Oxford City Council shut down Temple Cowley Pool this week following the scandalous discovery that its water was infested with dangerous bacteria.
Nine cases have been reported of swimmers suffering from diarrhoea, fever, vomiting and abdominal pain.
The troublesome bacteria is thought to have originated from human faeces, and has been allowed to build up as the pool's filtering equipment is reported to have been broken for two months.
A 21-year-old Exeter graduate student was served a two-month prison sentence this week as a punishment for having falsely claimed she had been raped and for wasting about 900 hours of police time in the search for her non-existent attacker.
Investigators were first assigned to the case in January, but it was another three months before the student admitted her story was false.
Martin Bell and Major General Richard Danet spoke last week at the Balkan Forum to members of the Liberal Democratic society. The Major General was much more guarded than expected in his speech about the Balkan War, but said that the situation almost 'came close to World War Three.' Bell, rather typically wearing a white suit, argued that Britain behaved dishonourably at the beginning of the crisis, because the West did not seem willing enough to risk its own men for this cause.
In last week's paper we stated that the Oxford Union was "believed" to have distributed the FHM Freshers Guide. In fact this was not the case.
28th Oct 1999