Fighting Back
Cherwell, one of the oldest student newspapers in the country, is facing an uncertain future after experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis this summer.
News: "Horrifically mismanaged"
The Guild Society will reveal within the next two weeks that it will be reforming and downsizing in an attempt to stop a massive slide in profits from previous committees. Neil Mahapatra, Oxford Union President, said the Society's accounts had been left "shockingly bad".
News: Revolution balls
The PR officer for the Oxford Revolution Ball has responded vigorously to the decidedly mixed response from students who attended the ball on 23rd June this year.
News: Grants return
After a summer of speculation in the press and an election campaign where the issue of student fees came up repeatedly on doorsteps, the Labour government confirmed on Wednesday that there is to be a review of student maintenance funding. Whilst some in the cabinet still continue to push for the abolition of tuition fees, the restoration of grants looks to be the priority in encouraging applications to university and aiming for the government's target of 50% of young people entering higher education. Two schemes have been suggested, the first providing grants for all and the second going only to poorer students, with the funding for both coming from a so-called "graduate tax" payable when earnings reach a certain level after university....
News: No fee no key
Many second and third years from Somerville were left waiting up to an hour for their room keys when they arrived this week. The college, well known for its students' non-payment campaigns, had adopted a particularly draconian "no key, no fee" policy, whereby nobody would be allowed into their room until they had payed their battels....
News: Oxford Responds
On the pavement outside the apartment I was staying in during my visit to New York last month, some children were selling lemonade for a dollar a cup. Beside them, a large banner read eProceeds to go Towards the Victims of the World Trade Center Crisis'.
News: NUS Fury at Women's Cuts
THE OCCUPATION OF the NUS' headquarters in June was the peak of opposition to the proposed cuts in spending. There was suspicion of hostage-taking, resulting in the possibility of a police raid.
News: Anger over room mixup
A RECENT FINALIST from Pembroke College is furious after being accused of illegally occupying his room at the end of Trinity Term last year in a case which he says shows up the "sheer bureaucratic obstruction" of his college.
News: Not taken for granted
Oxford University has launched a new bursaries scheme over the summer. The major fund-raising campaign forms part of their drive to widen University applications from all backgrounds.
News: A testament to art
AN OXFORD DON who died in February has left over £1m to the Ashmolean Museum in a surprise bequest.
News: Media Awards
THE OXFORD STUDENT and Cherwell have been nominated for several top student media accolades.
News: Balliol First
THIS YEAR'S NORRINGTON table showed Balliol occupying the top slot for the first time in twenty four years. St. Johns was narrowly beaten. Despite getting more firsts than Balliol a glut of thirds pushed it in to second place. New got the highest number of firsts and came in fourth place.
News: University-of-Oxford.con
For the second time in two years the University has won a battle for control of a domain name. Dr Seagle, an Australian inventor, was forced to relinquish university-of-oxford.com.
News: Northgate Fire
THE NORTHGATE HALL on St Michael's Street will remain closed for some time after a fire damaged the gay and lesbian centre on the first floor in August.
News: Sackler Library
SOME 250,000 VOLUMES from the former Asmolean Library and the Classics Lending Libraries have come together under one roof in the new Sackler Library.
News: Harry Potter
HARRY POTTER IS coming back to Oxford later this year, as Warner Brothers rushes to make a second film with Daniel Radcliffe before he looks too old.