Hall of Fire
Students at St Edmund Hall were shocked out of their complacency on Friday, as one of the first year rooms went up in smoke.
News: Anti-Fada
Protesters marched across Oxford last weekend in support of Palestine. Last Saturday's demonstration, organized by the Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Oxford Stop the War Coalition and the Oxfordshire Trade Union Council, was called to demand an end to Israeli incursions into Palestinian towns. The protestors marched from Manzil Way in Cowley to Broad Street.
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News: Paulin heckled by student
Hertford tutor and acclaimed poet Tom Paulin came under further criticism this week. At the launch of his new book in Borders last Thursday, Oriel student and self-proclaimed Zionist, Jamie Simpson, demanded an apology for Paulin's recent alleged anti-Semitic remarks.
News: Wise Words?
European Commission President Romano Prodi said Britain could "disappear" if it did not further embrace the European Union, at the Saïd Business School on Monday. He also emphasised that contrary to the views of most British politicians, the EU was "never divorced from politics."
News: Last action heroes?
A protest organised to coincide with the official opening of the Saïd Business School this Monday was declared "disappointing" by organiser and local councillor Paul Ingham, after just a handful of demonstrators took part.
News: May Day, May Day
Colourful scenes from a very cold May morning on Wednesday. The usual crowds gathered on Magdalen Bridge to listen to the traditional 6am hymns, while others took a dip in the Cherwell.
News: May Day, May Day
Colourful scenes from a very cold May morning on Wednesday. The usual crowds gathered on Magdalen Bridge to listen to the traditional 6am hymns, while others took a dip in the Cherwell.
News: News Hound
News: OUP Editor dies
Kim Walwyn, an "outstanding" editor who worked for Oxford University Press for 22 years, has died, aged 45, following her struggle with cancer, writes Clare Bevis.
News: Students: not Green?
CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS FROM Green Party candidate Laura Merrill saw swathes of anti-student feeling emerge at local council election hustings on Monday night. Speaking of her plans to move students and asylum seekers out of East Oxford's Cowley and Iffley, she demanded "why can't they go somewhere else?"...
News: The final insult
PATRICK MACKERRAS, INFAMOUS proponent of the anti-smoking lobby in the Oxford Union, was banned from the grounds last week. Mackerras had his membership suspended for a term when an Extraordinary Disciplinary Committee overthrew his formal complaints against ex-President Charlotte Keenan.
News: "Bookshop wrecked my degree"
TRINITY COLLEGE FINALISTS have described college library conditions as like "studying on a building site", due to the noise emanating from Blackwell's Bookshop. The shop, which backs onto the library, has chosen the start of Trinity Term to perform major work on its roof.
News: Vendetta on the Broad
AKME EXPRESSION, THE newest addition to the Broad Street shopping parade, has been opened by renegade philosopher Andrew Malcolm as the latest front in his ongoing battle with Oxford University Press.
News: News in Brief
SEVERAL COLLEGES HAVE taken pre-emptive action following last week's Oxstu revelations of aggressive rent rises at St. Hugh's and Wadham. Christ Church have passed a JCR motion to reject any proposed rent rises in excess of the Van Noorden Index rate of 4.1%.
News: First amongst equals
THE SYSTEM OF autonomous colleges, with ingrained traditions and distinct characters, has always been a treasured hallmark of the Oxbridge way. But in the wake of angry student protests over stealth rises in battels, allegations in an OUSU report that the nature of the collegiate system renounces Oxford's status as a 'university' at all, and of course the controversies surrounding Pembroke's 'cash-for-places' scandal some weeks ago, the issue of inequalities in college funding is playing on the minds of all Oxford students. ...