Attacker on the loose
A FEMALE STUDENT was assaulted last Thursday night in an attack eerily similar to one that occurred two days before. Fortunately, the attacker was scared off before the woman was seriously harmed, though the incident has increased fears about crime in Oxford and, speaking to The Oxford Student, witnesses have raised questions over the police's handling of the incident....
News: Top-up tutorials for rich colleges?
Students at Oxford's richer colleges could be given the luxury of extra tutorials to compensate for the move towards class teaching, a University Committee has said.
News: Estonia is not Evil
Furious Estonians bombarded The Oxford Student with complaints this week after Estonia was linked to the Axis of Evil in a headline-grabbing OxStu feature.
News: New students in fracas
TWO STUDENTS FROM New College were beaten up on the High Street on Saturday night, in an incident apparently involving two other students from St Edmund Hall.
News: Triumph as Oxford goes Green
OXFORD IS TO become the UK's, and Europe's third, largest purchaser of 'green electricity' when Scottish and Southern Energy begin their contract to supply us in April.
News: Big, bad, bare, Bar Baby
Students in Cowley have a titillating new treat to look forward to this Christmas, after Bar Baby's application for a license to lap-dance was approved.
News: Protesting for peace
The movement against the proposed military strike on Iraq reached a crescendo last Thursday, with public demonstrations being held in Oxford and cities around the country.
News: Tales from the Test-tube
News: George St Street Fight
THAMES VALLEY POLICE were summoned to Yates Wine Bar, George Street, last Saturday night in response to a brutal street fight, involving four men and severely injuring one.
News: OUSU staff go
Staff resignations at the OUSU shop have led to a restriction on opening hours for students.
News: Smoke without fire
Embers of the on-going smoking battle are still burning at the Union with the release last week of figures confirming a drop in revenue, two years after the smoking ban in the bar. With Union finances currently in disarray, a number of drastic budgetary cuts were agreed at Standing Committee onMonday.
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News: Broad St Busted
A HOODED INTRUDER escaped with the entire day's takings of a Broad Street bookshop on Saturday, November 2.
News: UV Laws Neuter Iraq Debate
A new dimension was added to the international motions controversy in OUSU, when a ruling was returned on the Ultra Vires laws. The ruling will influence the contentious Iraq motion up for debate at next week's OUSU Council.
News: Lucas 'woolly' on top-up fees
Oxford students have said that they want Colin Lucas, the Vice-Chancellor of the University to state his position definitively on the subject of top-up fees. Will Straw has been mandated by OUSU Council to force Lucas' hand on the issue, so students know where they stand. The move comes following "woolly" comments made by Lucas in the national media over government plans to allow universities to introduce top-up fees....
News: Warwick repression
Warwick University student rag, the Warwick Boar has been recalled by union officials and the website closed, for running a headline story criticising the student union.
News: Women take charge
OUSU's consultation process on the future of female representation is to be an all-woman affair, after Friday's Council voted against allowing men to participate in the procedure.
News: Dons on tutes
National coverage of the 'Save the Tute' campaign has galvanised members of Oxford SCRs into responding to the worrying revelations.
News: Police Pandemonium
There was a time when the bicycle was the object of popular sympathy among inhabitants of the Oxford Colleges. The humble cycle was constantly abused at the hands of thieves; the bike racks a hive of criminal activity. Even at the hustings for last term's Local Government Elections, bike theft was a central criminal issue raised by the students. It was seen as a major problem and students wanted to know what was going to be done about it, when, and above all, how? ...