Indifference to disability
The beginning of Michaelmas finds you swimming in a sea of change. Not only a better room to trash and bigger problems to panic over but unknown faces have sprung up everywhere, and last year's finalists have vanished for good. Among the radical new hairstyles and redesigned looks, there are also the subtle alterations to college buildings, which escape the attention of most. You may, by chance, catch sight of a wheelchair ramp outside the dining hall. And if you do, you wonder exactly who it was meant for. Visitors perhaps. Certainly not students. For despite the many changes that undergo the university population year by year, one thing that stays the same is this; the disabled student in Oxford is a scarcity....
Features: Morse, we'll miss you!
Through Morse, Oxford has become the murder capital of the country. The eighty deaths on film have included a girl jumping off the chapel organ in Univ, a woman committing suicide in Jericho and an elderly's lady death in room 310 of the Randolph.
Features: Can't Get Enough CHEESE
Admittedly, studying at Oxford requires a certain degree of compulsory insanity. After all, who in their right mind would willingly eat crappy college food, take exams in silly clothes, and spend hours toiling over an essay when their friends in other parts of the country are participating in alcohol-fuelled orgies? But the most worrying and inexplicable symptom of Oxford's insanity is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, our obsession with the most hideous and offensive musical genre known to man. Yep, you've guessed it, I mean cheese....
Features: Top-Up Fees Flop
The Greenaway-Haynes Report, published during the long vacation, promised that top up fees would be the answer to the university's problem of underfunding. Apparently our univerities would undergo a magical transformation if allowed to charge 'what the market will bear" for our education.