'Oxford's Full Of Posh Kids Who Laugh At Poor People'
When will the prejudice about Oxford end? Last week, in a laughable column in The Times, Giles Coren wrote 'Oxford is full of posh kids who have been crammed since birth and think common people are funny' and made pathetic attacks on the Oxford Student newspaper. This kind of ignorance would be funny if it weren't so damaging....
News: Suicide At The River
A BODY WAS found in the early hours of Monday morning close to the newly opened graduate annex belonging to Hertford College.
News: Uni Court In The Act
OXFORD UNIVERSITY IS to be taken to the High Court, the first time ever in such a case, in a judicial review over assessment procedures. Nadeem Ahmed, a postgraduate student at Hertford, had his academic career frozen in June last year after failing an 'informal' first year exam and subsequent resit labelled 'improper and unfair'. Racial discrimination is the alleged motive....
News: Say Yes To Rent
AN INCREASE IN Lincoln accommodation rents was met with a disappointing response from
News: Weird
ARMED FOR SCHOOL
News: Wassuuuup!
WAAAASSSSSUUUUP! Just sitting in Yates's, drinking a Bud... Hardly a chance encounter with Fred and Paul, better known a the 'Wassup guys' - well, half of them anyway. Oxford is just one of the stops on their promotional tour around the UK, which takes them to Ireland next.
News: Harry Potter Is Here
HARRY POTTER IS set to become the first wizard to study at Oxford University this weekend as the filming of the new Warner Brothers movie gets under way at Christ Church College. The dining hall staircase and the cloisters are currently out of bounds to students and tourists as technicians prepare the set chosen to appear in the film version of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - due for release in November 2001....
News: Increased Security At Synagogue
RECENT VISITORS TO the synagogue on Richmond Road, Jericho, have been startled by increased security measures.
News: What's The Point
OXFORD'S FUTURE MUSICAL talent may be strangled at birth, fear local music-lovers. For The Point ? Oxford's premier live music venue, and the scene of many a top act's first gig -? is likely to receive a late licence and stop putting on live music.
News: Dinner Money
INDIGNATION ABOUNDS AT Merton after the new JCR committee unearthed the figures for last year's Exec's expenses. JCR Treasurer Rosalind Hook discovered that the cost of their predecessors' celebratory meal at the end of last term exceeded the recommended amount - by up to £55 per head.
News: More Merton Madness
THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF the JCR at Merton has apparently continued with the introduction of the new executive committee. Sunday's meeting revealed an immature approach to University issues, the motion concerning Top-up Fees being dismissed as "boring". The meeting therefore proceeded with the more interesting matter of forcing the new JCR President, Chris Akrill, to wear a Napoleonic hat....
News: Your View of Oxford?
Nick Jones, Exeter:'The Laura Spence business has indelibly tarnished Oxford's reputation. I think it was justifiable that she wasn't accepted, considering the high calibre of the other students. There are some kids from what you might describe as 'privileged ' backgrounds at Exeter but you can't criticise someone because their daddy earns a bit more than yours'....
News: Fee-fighters Going For Gold
WHILE SOME FRESHERS may have spent the Matriculation Ceremony trying desperately not to vomit into their mortar boards, others took the more virtuous opportunity to show their support for OUSU's anti Top Up Fees Campaign.
News: Union Mass Debate Is A Load Of Wank
"ILL PREPARED AND passionless," was amongst the verdicts on the Union's latest No Confidence debate, held last Thursday.