Know What I Mean, Harry
REPORTERS FROM THE Oxford Student beat the tight security on the set of the new Harry Potter mega film to grab these exclusive pictures. The huge crew has been shooting the $120 million movie in the Bod and at Christ Church since Saturday.
News: Smokers Left Fuming
THE BAN ON smoking in the Union's main bar got off to a stormy start on Sunday evening, as regulars flouted the new rules by staging a "smoke-in". Union bouncers were forced to intervene after Andrew Peacock reportedly spat at Patrick MacKerras, and said "I hope you die of lung cancer".
News: Grassed
AN OXFORD DON claims his research on cannabis has been abused in the campaign for the decriminalisation of the drug. Against a background of increased pressure to scrap existing laws on cannabis, an article in The Independent on 20 October began with "cannabis is a safer drug than aspirin", referring to Dr Leslie Iversen's book The Science of Marijuana....
News: Sticky Problem
BODLEIAN OFFICIALS ARE reported to be shocked at alleged misstatements made in a recent Daily Telegraph article. It reported that the Bod had damaged a collection of books in the Upper Reading Room, whereas the library's employees deny that any books were in fact damaged.
News: Whose Work Is It Anyway?
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HAS been embroiled in a dispute with the University of Nairobi this week over the intellectual property rights concerning research into the AIDS vaccine. Although the research was supposed to be a joint venture between the two institutions, scientists from Nairobi, as well as the Kenyan media, protested when Oxford filed a patent application for the vaccine last December that apparently played down the Kenyan contribution....
News: Oxford In Question
THE DEBATING CHAMBER of the Oxford Union played host to the BBC's Question Time last Thursday, and the debate proved that the political row over Oxford admissions is far from dead.
News: The Spy Who Legged It Comes To The Union
CONTROVERSIAL EX-SPY David Shayler visited a packed but hostile Oxford Union this week.