Asylum Funding Confusion
OUSU's legal advisors have blocked plans by OUSU Council to financially support Ruskin College student Alfred Koineh's fight against deportation to Sierra Leone. OUSU Council voted recently to match the Ruskin College Students Union contribution to the 'Let Alfred Stay Campaign' pound for pound. While some have questioned the move, the OUSU Vice-President (Finance) has defended the decision claiming that because of the nature of the campaign it would not have been legal for OUSU to make an official contribution....
News: LMH Prison Threat
The crisis at Lady Margaret Hall deepened this week with the MCR joining the JCR in a rent-strike amidst allegations that the College Principal, Sir Brian Fall, withheld information on the college's true financial state. LMH has traditionally been seen as one of Oxford's poorest Colleges, however JCR Vice-President, David Toole, has publicly claimed that this may be based on false information....
News: Coup de Farce
Revolutionary forces hit Oxford this week as Students First staged an occupation of the OUSU offices in Little Clarendon Street. The occupation which never numbered more than ten people was staged by the rouge anti-OUSU organisation Students First on Monday afternoon. A Press release sent to the Oxford Student listed various demands, including moves to adopt the 'one member, one vote' (OMOV) proposals for OUSU Council....
News: News in Oxford
While it cannot be confirmed, it has been reported that inmates in Campsfield House are staging a hunger strike in protest at the government's refusal to close the home for asylum seekers.
News: Sword fiend at large
THE POLICE chased an LMH finalist into college last Friday after mistaking him for a homicidal maniac.
News: Evelyn: the truth
Legal action has been threatened against Oxford's red-top student paper, the Cherwell, after its salacious gossip column, Jane Evelyn's wrongly reported that two male students had been seen kissing each other in the Purple Turtle nightclub. The two students have vociferously denied the allegations and are both understood to have long-term girlfriends....
News: OUCA swing to Reich-wing
YET ANOTHER NAIL was hammered into OUCA's coffin this week, with revelations of mounting debts and a neo-Nazi 'drinking song,' which is allegedly sung at OUCA functions. At the same time disillusioned members are preparing to launch a splinter group and do away with the scandal-ridden organisation once and for all....
News: Reality Bites
Surfin' Nuns
News: Oxford sees launch of local TV channel
Sunday saw the launch of the Oxford Channel devoted entirely to local television. The channel, which has a two year licence probationary period, mainly broadcasts news and reviews of local events. Programmes are repeated hourly and the station claims that they will bring a completely different angle of Oxford to the city's screens....
News: Red faced
Despite his 'continental' tan, John Redwood was left red faced at a speaker meeting at the Oxford Union last Friday evening. In a talk entitled "The End of Britain" Redwood attacked devolution calling it a "battering ram against the Union" and argued that the differences between English and Scottish people are far less than the similarities. Devolution, he said, was wrong because it would undermine the unity of the British Isles....
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