Freshers weak: stand and de-liver
Last Saturday saw a string of college bops across Oxford: the first of the year. The majority were stereotypically alcohol-fuelled events and thus an appropriate way to end Freshers' Week; toilets were redecorated, people passed out, and an ambulance was required. Yet, most considered it a remarkable success, and one can't help but agree....
Features: Why should tutors admit anyone but the best?
The Government's policies on student fees and its policies on student access are not so much joined up as at odds. Every time Oxford is falsely blamed for tilting the scales against state school applicants, such applicants will be further dissuaded from applying at all.
Features: Dark Side of the Country Girl
'I've no desire to show my private matters to the world." In aggressive boots and vivid jumper Polly Jean Harvey cuts a strikingly unapologetic form. Winner of the prestigious Mercury Music prize and darling of the indie Press, this is an artist who has earned the right to her challenging interview style and unpredictable musical output....
Features: The Cult Flicks That Make Us Tick
Features: The Cult Flicks That Make Us Tick
Features: Doggy Style
'Whatever you do, don't move from your seats after the performance; Miss Feng will come for you. She'll take you backstage."
Features: The Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home
It may be part of student life, burning the candle at both ends: partying when you should be working; then working through the night to finish that essay. For many of us, these all-nighters become the norm: sustaining ourselves on cocktails of coffee, Red Bull, Pro-Plus, cola and sweet snacks. But what are the long-term effects?...
Features: Telling No Lies
It might reasonably be argued that there are two potential motives for pursuing a career in the media. The first, entertained by any number of journalists, editors and 'press barons' from Morgan to Murdoch, is a desire for influence, and with it power - a wish, as Thomas Carlyle put it, to be: "a ruler of the world, by being the persuader of it". ...
Features: Matters of the Arts
University can be a tricky time; a tsunami of washing disasters, near-fatal culinary experiments and caffeine dependency, not to mention the occasional essay crisis to interupt that whirlwind of social events and million-and-one other things you manage to pack into what can be a very hectic three years.
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Features: The Finest Green Salads Known to Humanity
The waitress, clearly besotted by the celebrated actor seated opposite me, puts gentle pressure on the circular black pencil in her left hand and commits to paper the words he delivers with a theatrical gesture: "Get the man some bangers and mash".
Features: Competitions
They're smooth, they're stunning and you could be strutting along Cornmarket Street to the sound of your favourite tunes thanks to one.
