Pembroke - Up For Sale
TWO PEMBROKE FELLOWS have resigned following revelations that the College offered to take cash for places. The Reverend John Platt and Mary-Jane Hilton caught on tape by an undercover journalist promising preferential treatment in admissions in return for a £300,000 donation to the college. Platt admitted, "yes - it has happened before". ...
News: Filming Frenzy
NO LESS THAN two movies have been filming on location in Oxford over the Easter vacation. Christ Church once again became the setting for the Harry Potter franchise, while Hollywood stars Tim Roth and Dougray Scott were also in town to film historical war drama, Cromwell And Fairfax.
News: Housing threat
CITY Councillors are considering plans to move a number of 'vulnerable' groups away from the east of Oxford in order to achieve a more even spread of tenancies across the city. This could potentially have disastrous effects on students.
News: Election idiocy
THE END OF Hilary saw confusion at the Oxford Union, when presidential candidate Igor Toronyi-Lalic was disqualified, despite the fact that he had already lost the election. Union insiders suggested that had he not been disqualified, Toronyi-Lalic, last term's Librarian, probably would have succeeded in an attempt to force a re-poll between himself and the victorious Treasurer, Dave Watson....
News: Wadham looking for Romance
OXFORD'S ONLINE DATING agency has revealed that Wadham is the college with the greatest need for love. Oxford Romance, whose website launch was reported in last term's OxStu, has now published a breakdown of its membership by college.
News: Mandela Visit
NELSON MANDELA WAS in Oxford this week to speak at the opening of the new lecture theatre at the Saïd Business School. The School has named the 300-seat theatre after the former President of South Africa, who made a rare visit to the city to thank the University for what he called the "unsurpassed honour". Mandela said: "It is because education is one of the highest priorities in human society that I am most touched to be associated with Oxford".
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News: An awe-Some performance
SOMERVILLE COLLEGE HAVE become the 2002 champions of television quiz show University Challenge, beating former title-holders Imperial College London by 200 points to 185.
News: News Hound
It's been an exciting vacation, hasn't it, what with Oxford flying high up in the media stratosphere. Indeed, no sooner had Newshound recovered from the Sunday Times article when he was confronted with the sight of two college JCR Presidents appearing upon that classic daytime TV show, Esther. Ali Richardson of Teddy Hall and Aodhnait Fahy of Merton seemed unusually eager to contribute to the scintillating topic under discussion, 'Beauty versus Brains'. Apparently, Ali considers good conversation to be vital in a partner, while Aodhnait finds brains and beauty equally attractive. So now you know. ...
News: All for charity...
A PACKED UNION debating chamber witnessed a stunning show of flesh at RAG's annual 'Mr and Miss Oxford' contest. Hosted by the Hon. Gareth John and judged by Dave Watson, Ruth Hunt and ex-RAG President Penny Evans, it lived up to its billing as "a night of naked flesh debauchery".
News: Research funding crisis
OXFORD UNIVERSITY WILL face a decrease in government funding this year, whilst many other newer universities can expect an increase. The HEFCE budget is the first to take into account new rules on research funding which mean that funding is only maintained for the the top-rated researchers - the five-star rated departments - and cutting all the rest. ...
News: A-Paulin Language
AN OXFORD DON has been fiercely criticised for allegedly anti-Semitic comments made in an interview with an Egyptian English Language Newspaper.
News: News in Brief
Labour candidate Mandy Telford became the new NUS President this Tuesday, in what former President Andrew Pakes, calls "one of the dirtiest campaigns I've seen in NUS".
News: Sullied yet again
OXFORD HAD JUST been recovering well in the eyes of the public, and more importantly the national press, from Gordon Brown's ignorant comments over the Laura Spence affair. Sir Michael Beloff, through his influential media contacts, might even have convinced some last January that places really weren't up for sale at supposedly one of the most academic universities in the world. Then the Reverend John Platt and his accomplice, Mary-Jane Hilton, dragged the name of the University through the mud yet again. ...