'Debauchery and Depravity'
Oxford University Conservative Association is in disgrace once again after salacious photographs of OUCA members in compromising positions at their termly dinner were splashed over the tabloids earlier this week. The Sun has been branded the affair the 'Kiss for Questions' scandal. The dinner has sent shockwaves across the University with reports of racist speeches and inappropriate behaviour both during the event and in OUCA President, Stephen Doody's, room afterwards....
News: 'Debauchery and Depravity'
Oxford University Conservative Association is in disgrace once again after salacious photographs of OUCA members in compromising positions at their termly dinner were splashed over the tabloids earlier this week. The Sun has been branded the affair the 'Kiss for Questions' scandal. The dinner has sent shockwaves across the University with reports of racist speeches and inappropriate behaviour both during the event and in OUCA President, Stephen Doody's, room afterwards....
News: University speaks up for grants
The anti-tuition fees campaign was given new momentum yesterday, following an unprecedented public statement from the University's Hebdomadal Council which may herald their most explicit move towards a political stance on governmental Higher Education policy to date. However, in some minds, the University has not gone far enough. The 'Free Education Campaign' launched an 'occupation' in protest, on Tuesday afternoon, which was swiftly dispersed by the University police, following a 'tip-off' from an undisclosed source....
News: Union stage set for Salman
NOT FOR THE first time this term, the Oxford Union is facing a security headache as it gears up for the visit of controversial author Salman Rushdie. While the date of the planned visit has been shrouded in secrecy up until now, it has just been announced that Rushdie is due to speak at the Union next Tuesday (18th May)....
News: News in Oxford
Exeter College JCR have thrown out a motion of 'No Confidence' in its entertainments officers.
News: Scots slam fees
THE GOVERNMENT was faced, this week, with the prospect of having to abolish Tuition Fees for Scottish Univerisities. With Labour forced into a coalition partnership with the Liberal Democrats in the new Scottish Parliament, the abolition of the Tuition Fee - one of the Lib-Dems' key manifesto pledges - has suddenly become a real prospect. At the same time an ongoing occupation at Sussex University has kept the fees campaign in the media spotlight....
News: Merton evicts eco-warrior
MERTON COLLEGE has forced an eco-warrior off its land. He had been squatting in a graveyard owned by the college. The thirty-year-old environmental campaigner who is known only as 'Wild Owl' was fighting to keep the area as common land.
News: Queens hit by break-in
QUEEN'S COLLEGE is reassessing its security in the aftermath of a break-in at their Cardo Buildings on the Iffley Road last week. A CD player and a wallet were among the items snatched from the room of a first year .
News: Student elected
A SECOND-YEAR Law student at Harris Manchester College won a seat in the new Welsh Assembly last Friday. Jocelyn Davies was elected on the party list for Plaid Cymru. She will now have to combine her hectic law studies at Oxford with a challenging role in the devolved Welsh Assembly.
News: "DJ's" crash BNC ball
BRASENOSE COLLEGE found itself the focus of excitement on Saturday night, when its annual Ball was gate-crashed by imposters acting as DJ Shy fx and his retinue.
News: Scientist drowned
AN OXFORD social anthropologist was feared drowned on this week after a plane his plane crashed into the SOuth Pacific during a monsoon.
News: Reality Bites
MONDAY: Chinese students attacked Western embassies in Beijing in retaliation for the bombing of their embassy in Belgrade.
News: Degrees of Colour
Almost everyone will have heard of the Oxford Union's aborted racism debate by now. But have you heard of Equality '99, OUSU's anti-racism campaign week? The debate is dead, but Equality '99 is very much alive.