Not In Our Name
Sir Colin Lucas, the university's Vice-Chancellor, has urged the Government to stand firm on plans to introduce top-up fees.
News: Blake Landslide
John Blake has been elected President of Oxford University Student Union for 2004 to 2005. Blake, a third year reading history at St Hugh's College, polled nearly twice as many first-choice votes as his nearest rival. The result is significant in that it is the first time in some years that a male candidate has won the race for President when standing against a female....
News: Filthy War
The colleges of Oxford are once again at war, this time over the beloved student territory known as Filth.
News: Hilda's choice
The future of St Hilda's is to be decided as its Governing Body prepares to hold a vote on Wednesday of 8th week regarding the college's single-sex status.
News: Joke Over for Barschak
Aaron Barschak has been sentenced to twenty-eight days in jail following his vandalism of a Turner Prize nominated art piece in Oxford last May. The Spanish activist, who made the headlines by crashing Prince William's Buckingham Palace birthday party dressed as Osama Bin Laden, was found guilty of criminal damage by the Oxford District Judge on Monday. ...
News: Broad St Blocked
Traffic ground to a halt this wednesday as Broad Street felt the impact of OUSU's 'Access Denied' protest.
News: AIDS
Over 100 students clad in red circled the Radcliffe Camera on Monday, to launch the Oxford Stop AIDS Campaign's "Week of Action" leading up to World AIDS Day.
News: US Scholarships for Entrepreneurs
Gordon Brown has announced that scholarships at American Ivy League universities will be awarded to Britain's top entrepreneurs.
News: Monkey Business?
Cambridge University has received government backing to build a large primate research centre, provoking outrage among animal welfare campaigners.
News: Opera-tunity for Oxford's homeless?
The seventh annual sleep-out for the homeless took place last Saturday night. It was an event which involved more than 120 people sleeping out in St Clements churchyard in order to raise money to help the homeless of Oxford.
News: Driver Suspended
The driver of the marked police vehicle that hit an Oxford Brookes student on Cowley Road late on Sunday 16th November has been suspended from driving in line with Force policy.
News: Kit off for KEEN
Girls at LMH have followed in the footsteps of last year's St Peter's rugby team and taken their kit off for charity.
News: Mafia Member?
A tense stand-off has developed at the Union over comments made by the President, Marcus Walker. Speaking to a journalist from The Independent, Mr Walker referred to the Union's steward, Salvatore Salamone, as "a big fat Sicilian - he looks like he should be a Mafia don." A light-hearted aside, you might think. Not so, it seems....
News: Summers Night
Thirty women listening to jokes about vibrators isn't something you see every day in Oxford, but that's exactly what happened when OUSU Women's Campaign hosted an Ann Summers party in the Purple Turtle last weekend.
News: Preparing The Troops
Inter-collegiate fighting has been greatly active in Michaelmas. As the conflict between Oriel and Magdalen simmers, the 'Battle of Filth' gets fully underway this week. Whilst many rivalries have a firm historical foundation, others are dreamt up for a bit of amusement. The OxStu looks at the history of college warfare, and questions just how seriously it should all be taken....
News: Bursting the Bubble
Suicide bombings ravage Istanbul