OxStu obsessions
Each week in a modest upstairs room on St Aldates a dedicated team of professionals work around the clock to give the people what they want. As you may imagine it takes Cahunas the size of church bells to survive as "The Independent Oxford University Newspaper since 1920."
After all in Oxford the news moves faster than a cheetah on tarmac - if you snooze, you lose. And the Cherwell never sleeps (alone at any rate). Whether you're looking for incisive political analysis, a school for scandal or just a mingin' Tory snog, Cherwell's got it by the skipload. Well, mingin' Tory snogs anyways.
We do owe the brothers and sisters of Cherwell a debt of gratitude for helping to restore the public profile of that nice couple the Hamiltons and for giving Oxford University Conservative Association its biggest press outing since the 'Minxgate' debacle.
And who around here can forget that one. Phew! The youthful face of Oxford Conservatism blemished once again (Goodhand's acne in glorious technicolour - money well spent boys!) The nation looked on in horror. No really.
It's hard to imagine a world without Jane Evelyn. Causing more uproar than a Nazi at a bar mitzvah, more raised eyebrows than the Marquis de Sade at an OICCU barbecue, there are no limits to how low Jane will go.
Eternally illuminating the gutters of Oxford in its weekly celebration of the debauched and the degenerate, it is the scourge of every straight-laced middle class student in town. Drunken orgies, "kiss for questions," man-on-man action, bribery, corruption, power and lies; Caligula would have blushed. Er, or could it be a case of life not really imitating art? You read, you decide, kids.
So let's hear it then for that doyen of Oxford journalism, the word on the street, the talk of the town. Join me, Jane and the ever-swelling pack of baying newshounds in raising a glass to seventy-nine years of the finest rag in town..
You want sleaze? You want dirt? You want intrigue? You want a career? The Cherwell - the original and still the best. Accept no substitutes. Er, Big Issue mate?