Harland's Humiliation
Amy Harland broke the stalemate which was hardening between opposing camps in the row over David Irving on Wednesday when she made a dramatic eleventh hour u-turn, announcing that Thursday's entire debate on freedom of speech would be cancelled.
News: More Juice mystery
THERE IS CONFUSION as to the identity of the man responsible for the head-butting of Jonathon Clift outside Park End, as reported last week.
News: Kylie to come?
Rumours are currently surrounding the headline act of the Revolution Ball. Inside sources have revealed to the OxStu that the headline act will be a "female UK number one artist". Although the star has yet to be officially revealed, there is a question mark over the head of Australian diva Kylie Minogue. She is currently on her sell out 'On a Night Like This' Tour in Australia. But the tour finishes on May 15th, over a month before the Revolution Ball on June 23rd.
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News: Weird World
Hung like a donkey
News: Referendum night-mayor
OXFORD STUDENTS ARE being asked to sign a petition calling for a referendum on whether the city should have a democratically elected mayor. Oxford City Council has decided that, from October, it should take the form of a cabinet, with a leader appointed by the council. Yet Demox, the Campaign for a Democratically Elected Mayor in Oxford, is trying to force the council to change its plans and instead hold a referendum, with one proposal being that of an elected mayor. The referendum will have to take place if 5100 people - five per cent of Oxford's electorate - sign the petition. The campaign has already gathered over 2000 signatures....
News: EastEnder ends up with wet shirt and no date
EASTENDERS HEARTHROB Michael Greco received a frosty welcome from one Oxford local last week. The 31 year-old actor, who plays Beppe Di Marco in the hit BBC soap, had a drink thrown over him while he signed autographs at the Chicago Rock Cafe.
News: Oxford nets the world's first web institute
OXFORD HAS FINALISED plans to set up an Internet Institute based at Balliol. It will be the first University in the world to have an institute solely for the studying of the internet.
News: BNC barman pulls his last
An air of mystery hangs over the former Bar Manager at Brasenose College. His sudden exit on Wednesday of First Week has started a wave of rumours, and even his surname seems to be a mystery among students - identifying him only as 'Chad'.
News: Coursework confusion
IT SEEMED THAT the proctors were pursuing a tough new line last week, threatening fines and other punitive measures to a student thought guilty of handing her work in late.
News: Sex-tacular debate
Last Wednesday's meeting at the Oxford Reform Club saw a ferocious clash of both opinion and personality between Peter Tatchell and Peter Hitchens, debating the motion that "Underage Sex is not necessarily abusive".
News: Justification by faith
"HE LIED AND lied and lied" screamed the Guardian newspaper after he was sentenced to 18 months for perjury and perverting the course of justice. But the Jonathan Aitken who spoke to the Oxford Student on Tuesday seemed a changed man, mellowed by years and humbled by the events that shattered his political career. Even before his final downfall, he had a colourful past, from 'reviewing' LSD for the Evening Standard the day before it was banned ("I had a bad trip") to having a fling with Margaret Thatcher's daughter (no comment). Aitken was tipped as a possible future prime minister, yet today quips that "the world is absolutely full of ex-future prime ministers". He now has a renewed faith in Christianity and is presently studying Theology at Wycliffe Hall. ...
News: New V-P Grad
A NEW VICE-PRESIDENT (Graduates) for OUSU has been elected. Catherine Sangster fills the space left vacant by the controversial Adam Storch.