Tutorials under threat
The future of the treasured hallmark of Oxbridge teaching, the tutorial, is under threat due to a move by several department faculties to replace tutorials with classes.
News: Jesus student beaten at Bridge nightclub
DALE JOHNSON, a 4th year chemist from Jesus College, has been left unable to work in the lab for over 7 weeks after getting caught in the crossfire of a fight at The Bridge nightclub on Friday, October 4.
News: Sex under control
OXFORD CITY COUNCIL is planning to impose a licensing system on Oxford's sex shops in a reversal of policy decided this week, that could see harsher rules imposed on some premises.
News: Fury at far-right Union guest
In a controversial move, the Oxford Union has invited a leading member of the French far-right to speak in one of its Michaelmas term debates.
News: OUSU VP Welfare expands
The OUSU Vice-President (Welfare), Andrew Copson, looks set to have Equal Opportunities added to his job title, if his motion proposing such a change is passed by OUSU Council on Friday afternoon.
News: A nightmare on Broad St
A great sense of loss hit the central colleges of Oxford last week as Hassan's kebab van mysteriously went missing due, it is claimed, to "engine problems".
News: Hilda's 'lifeless'
The war of words over the cancellation of Channel 4 documentary College Girls continued this week as director Kevin Sim and St. Hilda's Principal Lady English levelled several accusations against Channel 4.
News: Anti-war plans
Students from across the university gathered at Somerville College on Monday night to discuss the organisation of activities to publicly express their opposition to the war on Iraq.
News: In Brief
There was controversy at the Freshers Fair this year as Barclaycard employees were asked to leave following an alleged violation of Freshers Fair regulations. They were accused of asking Freshers to sign a binding contract committing the signatory to using Barclaycard services.
News: Chavez shenanigans
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and the man heralded by some as the new Castro, is visiting Oxford to address the University.
News: Magdalen professor attacks pylons
PROFESSOR COLIN Blakemore from Magdalen College spoke out this week over the secret erecting of mobile phone masts following last week's revelations in The Oxford Student.
News: Dress-down Wadham
Wadham students voted against compulsory sub-fusc for exams last Sunday in a bid to change University regulations on exam wear.
News: Oxford reject seeks £100,000
'A prospective Oxford student will become the first to sue his A Level exam board after a regrade lost him his place at the University.
News: Tales from the Test-tube
A STUDY into the chemical effects of semen has led to the discovery that women who use condoms during sex are more likely to become depressed than those who don't. It was also found that women who have sex using condoms become increasingly depressed the longer they abstain, and they are more likely to find a new partner straight after a break-up. It may be that women who regularly have sex without a condom have personality traits that make them less likely to become depressed. The study was conducted by Gordon Gallup, State University of New York at Albany. ...
News: Painted for Ladies
Bemused Teddy Hall students woke up this week to find the word 'WHORE' splashed on their college in the latest advertising stunt to affect Oxford.
News: Coping with disability
A Wadham fresher, who has just recently recorded a radio programme with the BBC on the subject of her disability, has spoken frankly and openly to the OxStu about the subject of being disabled in Oxford.
News: At large
New heights of gimmickry have been attained during this most recent conference season. At a time of international crisis, one could ask for nothing more than a figure whose presence can assuage a sceptical and concerned audience, even if unconnected with the party. Labour went for such an American beauty in the form of the esteemed Mr. Spacey, but whose idea was it to have Bill Clinton? As if Blair had not alienated his traditional support enough, he now seems to be openly allying himself with the Democrat party, hardly the socialist political group envisaged by Ramsay MacDonald and those other assorted train drivers and semi-skilled workers that founded the Labour Party. Clement Atlee would be turning in his grave....
News: Where's my tute gone?
In 1909, Lord Curzon, the Chancellor of the University, declared: "If there is any product of which Oxford has special reason to be proud, which has stamped its mark on the lives and characters of generations of men, and has excited the outspoken envy of other nations, it is that wonderful growth of personal tuition which has sprung up in our mist almost unawares." ...