Chelsea Hits Out at "Offensive" Oxford
Chelsea Clinton has criticised the students of Oxford for what she sees as their "offensive" behaviour in the wake of September's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
News: More Cherry Popping
OUSU HAS BEEN forced to respond to further questions about its club night at the Zodiac, Pop Ya Cherry, after at least two more male students were encouraged to strip entirely on the stage at the request of the DJ.
News: Union treasurer Resigns
DR PHILIP KREAGER, Senior Treasurer of the Oxford Union, was dismissed this Monday after it was found he was not viable for the post, despite three years of "efficient and dedicated service". It has emerged that Kreager, a research fellow at Somerville College, has for three years been at odds with the rule that states that Senior Officers must be actual members of the Union. This now renders his authority immediately invalid. ...
News: Illegal postering
THE UNIVERSITY, THE Playhouse theatre, and OUDS all clamped down on the increasing prevalence of illegal flyposting by student drama companies last week, after it was revealed that an angry City Council had been repeatedly ringing the Playhouse theatre to complain at the level of illegal flyposting taking place in Oxford. The Playhouse was angered by the complaints, as the vast majority of this illegal flyposting was by student drama companies, which often have relatively little association with the theatre....
News: Christ Church tragedy
STUDENTS AT CHRIST Church were left feeling vulnerable this week after the deaths of two members of the college within four days.
News: More e-mail blunders
ID-SOC, THE NEW sexual minorities society in the University, has been criticised for making available the names of its members last week, only a week after the controversy surrounding the Oxford Union's breach of the Data Protection Act.
News: Tab Watch
Drunken St. John's students were individually named and shamed in a notice posted in their porters' lodge by the college Dean this week. After what one John's student called "a crazy night" of revelry and excess, involving food fights in hall, vomiting, running amok around the quads and urinating in a college building, the Dean, took the unprecedented step of publicly exposing the culprits. The notice ordered those who had been "incapable through drink" to "clean vomit fouled lavatories." ...
News: Is Oxford Anti-American?
In light of last week's outburst by Chelsea Clinton that Oxford was 'Anti-American', the OxStu decided to discuss the issue of anti-americanism with students.
News: Dog of a debate
THERE WAS SURPRISE at the Oxford Union on Saturday, when the Chief Adjudicator of the Oxford Inter-Varsity Debating Competition compared the final to being peed upon.
News: 'Provincial' Oxford Restaurants Slammed
SOME OF OXFORD'S best-known restaurants have been slated in a new edition of a leading restaurant guide. "Harden's UK Restaurants 2002" is based on a survey of 10,000 diners, more than any other national guide, and the results have surprised many.
News: Inquest into rower's Death
An inquest has concluded that Leo Blockley, the 21-year-old Oxford rower who drowned off the coast of Spain last year, died because of freak weather conditions.
News: Stop the War
A student based "Stop the War" meeting was held in New College on Monday night in an effort to mobilise student opinion and activity against the current bombing of Afghanistan. Organiser and Chairman Matt Sellwood from New College opened the meeting with a few key points as to why he thinks students should oppose the war. ...
News: Boris the Buffoon
Editor of the Spectator and newly elected MP for the Tory safe-seat of Henley-on-Thames, Boris Johnson, was heralded a "buffoon" on the twenty-second series of the BBC's quiz show, Have I Got News for You.
News: News in Brief
The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill, one of the country's most senior lawyers, has been appointed by the Chancellor as High Steward of the University with effect from 12 November. He succeeds The Rt Hon Lord Goff of Chieveley who held the post since 1990.