On Top Of The World
AS IF WINNING the Boat Race this year hadn't been enough for the egos of Oxford students, The Times Good University Guide 2002 has now put Oxford at the head of the university league table. Oxford outstrips Cambridge by 3 points out of a total 1,000, coming top for the first time since The Times rankings began....
News: Corruption crackdown
OXFORD UNION PRESIDENT Karen Price will present a controversial motion proposing to clamp down on the "misuse of Union money" at the Union's Ordinary Public Business Meeting this Sunday.
News: OUCA Outrage
A DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE was called by the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) last Saturday to investigate charges brought by OUCA President Jamie Gardiner against two of the association's members for talking to the Oxford Student newspaper last week.
News: Pop Tarts
THE EIGHT FINALISTS in the Oxford Pop Superstars competition took to the stage in a packed Town Hall last Thursday evening to perform to an audience that would be treated to more than just free punch and low-price G & D's ice-cream.
News: Raining on their parade
LAST MONDAY SAW 40 students brave hail and torrential rain to attend a march organised by the 'Switch to Green' Coalition.
News: News Hound
Being the courteous mongrel that he is, Newshound must commence by thanking the Labour Club for their free piss-up in Oriel JCR last week. A bizarre location for such a Blairite occasion, and thus it proved as half of OUCA turned up in black tie - apparently protesting against the third, yes, third cancellation of their planned toga party (at which Neil and Christine Hamilton had been tipped to join Marcus Walker in skimpy robes and slatherings of oil). Nothing to do with Jamie Gardener - sorry, Gardiner - then. Notable OUCA attendees included John Townsend and Anatole Pang, whose political fervour, it is reliably reported, left them quite literally foaming at the mouth. What a pleasant bunch these Tories are - as gorgeous News Editor Natalie Toms (Hanging Baskets of Babylon) found out when Marcus Walker plied her with wine in a frighteningly friendly manner. "Where's Neil Mahapatra when you want him?" she was later heard to exclaim. Whatever turns you on... [disclaimer: Newshound has taken Ms Toms entirely out of context. But we still thought it was funny]. Highlight of the night was meeting our idol, revolutionary Trotskyite Sacha Ismail. Despite disappointment that a true leftie had turned up to join the backslapping, Sacha is a Very Nice Boy. ...
News: Thieves run Wilde
An 18-carat gold ring that once belonged to Oscar Wilde was last week revealed to have been been stolen from Magdalen College.
News: Wadstock shock
"I buggered the Queen Mother to death." So sang Bob Nylon and the Elastic Band, silencing hundreds of students at Wadham's music festival last Saturday.
News: Rower rewarded
The former Oxford lightweight rowing blue, Hugh Wright, was last Thursday presented with the Royal Humane Society's silver medal for bravery in London, following his heroic actions in Spain in December 2000. The 23-year-old described it as a "great honour" to have received the award in recognition of the fifteen crew members' lives he saved, on the River Ebro at Amposta....
News: Motion quashed by UV law
A controversial motion on the situation in the Middle East passed by OUSU Council a fortnight ago has been judged illegal by VP (Finance) Eleanor Fletcher after consultation with lawyers over Ultra-Vires law.
News: News in Brief
News: Winning the league
Few can have failed to acknowledge that Oxbridge rivalry seems to have taken a rather agreeable turn in our favour of late. Numerous Varsity victories, and now, for the first time in nine years, Oxford University has unseated the Tabs to claim the coveted accolade of first place in The Times Good University Guide league tables, published this week. ...