Oxford against Iraqi war
Oxford students have controversially come out in opposition to the looming war in Iraq and declared that "regime change within Iraq is a matter for the Iraqi people."
News: OUSU delegates under threat
THREE JCR Presidents have threatened to bring a motion to next Friday's Council proposing the abolition of the position of OUSU delegate. If proposed, the motion would split OUSU down the middle.
News: Tribunalised
Christ Church JCR President Jack Langdon may face a motion of 'no-confidence' after he breached OUSU electoral regulations and forced Presidential candidate Helena Puig Larrauri to go to tribunal.
News: Fees frenzy
Clare Short has become the first Cabinet minister to oppose proposals to introduce top-up fees. In an interview with the Guardian, Short said: "It is a really bad idea; I'm against it."
News: Iraq protestor charged
A student anti-war protestor was charged this week of causing an obstruction to the public highway. Owen English, of St. Catz., was among the eight student members of Oxford Students Stop the War who were arrested for trying to sit down in the middle of the road at last week's protest outside the Said Business School....
News: Union Returning Officer resigns
Union Returning Officer Nicola da Costa has resigned her membership days before election night after allegations that she and her sister Alex "smelled."
News: In Brief
A forthcoming government report proposes the scraping of British degree classifications claims this week's Times Higher Education Supplement. The proposed new American-style system would better reflect student's scores across the modules and units of their degree.
News: Paulin banned
TOM PAULIN, HERTFORD College's most controversial English lecturer and poet, has had his invitation to deliver Harvard's annual Morris Gray Lecture cancelled after students strongly protested against his vehement anti-Israel views.
News: Condom giant inundated
CONDOM BRAND 'CONDOMI' has received an incredible 10,173 applications in just one week from cash strapped-students in response to an advert for condom testers.
News: Afternoon Bod?
The days of struggling out of bed with a stinking hangover to start the weekend's studying may soon be over. OUSU Chair Conor O'Neill will bring a motion to the next OUSU Council meeting proposing to change the Bodleian's Saturday opening hours to "fit in better with student working patterns."
News: College charity status reform
"SHEER POLITICAL CHEEK" was how Anthony Smith, the President of Magdalen, last week described proposed changes to the college auditing system.
News: Tales from the Test-tube
News: Portillo speaks out in Oxford
Michael Portillo spoke to Oxford last Friday as he gave a lecture on the need to reform the Conservative party to a largely friendly audience of 400 students on Friday.
News: Bond glory for OSF
The Oxford Stunt Factory has orchestrated the 'Greatest Movie Stunt Ever' according to a nationwide Sky Movies Poll last at the weekend.
News: To bomb or not to bomb?
The Oxford student body is being torn apart on the contentious question of whether we want our representative bodies OUSU and college JCRs to campaign on our behalf against a war on Iraq. Following a series of motions passed by individual JCRs, OUSU Council passed a motion on Friday criticising the Bush-Blair stance by 47 votes to 26. Whilst the motion seems to show that many JCRs believe OUSU should be taking a stance on current international politics, it conceals a significant and impassioned minority who believe that OUSU should take no specific line on foreign policy and chose to abstain....