Freshers To Shun Fees
THE ANTI-FEES campaign in Oxford has been rejuvenated in the past week as at least one major College formed an anti-fees committee with a view to repeating last year's non-payment campaign. At an extraordinary general meeting on Sunday of 4th week, Hertford JCR voted overwhelmingly in favour of setting up a College anti-fees committee with a chairperson, treasurer and publicity officer....
News: KGB "connected" to Anne's suicide
PARENTS OF an Oxford student found hanged in his college room are convinced their son was murdered by the modern-day KGB.
News: Many hacky returns
OXFORD'S FAVOURITE ex-politicians, Neil and Christine Hamilton, were back in town on Tuesday evening to join a colourful cast of hacks, Anglican hierarchy and members of the royal household to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the ordination of the city's most controversial clergyman, the Rev David Johnson....
News: Uni $100m writ
THE UNIVERISTY has allegedly been served with a writ for $100 million by Mr Tong Park, an American student at Oriel during the 1980s. Park, who was apparently studying under a false name and passport at the time, is suing the college for 'violating his human rights' by refusing to let him continue studying after he failed his exams....
News: Fears for Eights
FEARS have been raised over disruption to Summer Eights after a series of incidents involving the owners of houseboats by Donnington Bridge. These culminated in the ramming of a Corpus Four by a speed-boat two Sundays ago, an incident being investigated by the Proctor.
News: Rent wars
OXFORD LOOKS set for another round of rent controversy. This week St Hugh's JCR was claiming victory in a rent strike which never took place. At the same time Balliol is preparing to ballot its members on whether to take similar action.
News: Poetry in Motion
THE APPOINTEMENT of Oxford-educated Andrew Motion as Poet Laureate was announced (or rather, leaked) this week, amid attacks from observers and critics. Motion only found out when he had to field questions about his appointment while in Australia.
News: Race hots up
This term's Oxford Union Presidential election looks set to be one of the most hotly contested in recent memory. With the close of nominations fast approaching, what once looked like a two-horse-race could eventually turn out to include at least four candidates.
News: BNC want 'nice pair'
NOT CONTENT with its proximity to the Oxford's 'pleasure dome', the Radcliffe Camera, Brasenose College JCR has put in a bid to buy the Millennium Dome. JCR President, Matt Forbes, told the Oxford Student, while the College has not had a reply to its generous offer of twenty pounds as yet, he is confident the millennium Dome could soon be adorning Radcliffe Square. "It's surprising really that they haven't got back to us yet," he said, " bearing in mind that our bid is almost certainly the best they'll have received so far."...
News: Divine retribution
OXFORD WAS hit by one of the strongest lightning storms in years, which took out electronic systems across the University and wreaked thousands of pounds' worth of damage to telephone and security systems.
News: Oxford Disturbance Strategy
ST EDMUND HALL finalists were plagued by drilling works at 4am last week, as contractors dug up the High Street throughout the weekend. With four days' warning finalists were forced to relocate, some up to Cowley, just weeks before their examinations. Students in New Inn Hall Street have also been disturbed by workmen using circular saws to cut at the pavement during the middle of the night....
News: Reality Bites
MONDAY: George Lucas looks on course for a $2 billion pay-day as Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace laid siege to the US Box Office. In its first five days the latest, this great cinematic epic took $102 million, despite poor reviews from the American press. In its first weekend the film made $62 million, five times as much as its nearest rivals. ...
News: Can Pay, did Pay?
Andrew Pakes, the President of the NUS, came down to speak at Hertford last week. Unfortunately I got there late, but I was just in time to hear him have a dig at the Oxford non-payment campaign this year. He said that he failed to see how a 'Can pay, did pay' campaign achieved anything. He is right to a certain extent, my withholdal of tuition fees was a 'Can pay, will pay at some point, (then) did pay' type of protest, but I have two major objections to his derision....
News: the interview: Anything he Khan't do?
Imran Khan captained Pakistan to its first and so far only cricket world cup victory in 1992. He is regarded as one of the finest all-rounders in the history of the game. And his record speaks for itself, with 362 Test wickets at an average of 22.81 and 3807 Test runs at 37.69. He is a graduate of Keble College, Oxford where he read PPE, and was captain of the Blues Cricket team. After retiring from cricket, Imran moved into public life. He set up a cancer hospital in Pakistan, which was named after his mother. In 1996 he started his political party called Tehrik-e-Insaaf and since then has devoted his life to politics in Pakistan....
News: News in Oxford
Brasenose College JCR have unanimously elected College-member, Vicky Tomlinson, official College Photographer after her photographs from the recent OUCA dinner appeared on the front page of The Sun.
News: Ugh! Editors Needed Shocker
PAUL CAMPY, student union VP Finance today announced that an editor and two deputy editors would soon be appointed for the oxfordstudent this coming Michaelmas term.