News in Oxford
No stranger to the limelight, ex-Treasurer-elect of the Oxford Union, Jeff Bell, "got his kit off" for a mere twenty pounds. The latest Union scandal came as part of the Slave Auction at Lady Margaret Hall, held in aid of the Kosovo refugee appeal.
A London-based escort agency is to be founded by a female Oxford undergraduate who claims she her ambition is to be "a legal Howard Marks." The agency expects most of their supply of "nice young men who know what to do," to come from Oxford colleges. The agency follows in the footsteps of a recent similar effort based in Cambridge which folded after its founders recently left the country for Nepal.
An insider close to the founder of the new Oxford agency, says, "it's all about furnishing young men for a market consisting of, for example, wealthy New York Jewesses." The founder, who asked not be named, commented, "I'll probably be rusticated; I just want to make a couple of quid on the way."
A candidate in the forthcoming council election has registered her address on the electoral role as, the "chestnut camp" where she lived for a number of months as an eco-warrior. Green candidate, Emily Reeves, is a former Hertford College student, in the student-dominated city centre.
A student at Ruskin College, Oxford is facing the threat of deportation to his native Sierra-Leone. Alfred Koineh was brought out of the country by the Red Cross in 1994 as his family had been prominent dissident politicians in the All People's Congress Party, the elected government until 1992.
Despite repeated attempts to gain political assylum, Koineh still faces the threat of deportation, despite claims that he cannot go back for fear of his life. He will address a special meeting in the Oxford Quaker House on St. Giles 7:30pm, Thursday First Week.
In his farewell oration the out-going Senior Proctor produced an alternative 'league table' for the University to chew over. Dr Ainsworth of St Catz remarked St Hugh's won the prize for most University offences committed by a college, while the most offences committed by a subject was by PPE.
He added that that the most unusual case he had to deal with during his time overseeing University dicipline was his prosecution of the Junior Proctor for 'smoking in Academical Dress before the Gladstone Dinner'. How then, we wonder, do you top that?