Our Election Verdict
THIS YEAR'S OUSU elections may at first glance seem to offer the same assortment of hacks, desperate to represent students with whom they are not in touch. A lack of hustings for sabbatical candidates makes the choice for ordinary students even harder. The OxStu editorial team has read the manifestos and interviewed all the candidates. We've tried to decide who we think would be best for each role....
Editorial: Editorial
I am technically a "Chick". Yet I am fairly sure if I were ever to write a piece of "Lit" it would not involve the wacky life and times of a "gal about town". Jane Austen's heroines didn't work in PR and Jane Eyre didn't head for the Chardonnay every time Rochester spurned her. I understand that both Bronte and Austen were writing in a time devoid of such enviable "girl power" and there are many contemporary female authors who write novels that do not include amusing leg-waxing incidents. However in recent years the publishing floodgates have seemingly opened to let in a deluge of "Chick Lit" novels. Quite frankly their lurid pink presence on bookshop shelves irritates the hell out of me. This is a fairly irrational hatred but I will attempt to explain why I could cheerfully garrotte the publishers of such novels....