SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Nearly 100 students gathered in silence outside Monday's meeting of University Council to protest against Congregation's vote last month that gave the University an explicitly pro-fees stance.
News: Summer balls collide as Atlantis goes under
Two Cambridge students were injured at Exeter's 'Atlantis' ball on Saturday, which also recorded a heavy loss following low attendance.
News: Wadham: "No fees"
Wadham fellows and undergraduates released a joint statement opposed to the Government's higher education finance plans on Tuesday. In only the second such joint statement, which was passed unanimously by both the Governing Body and the Students' Union, Wadhamites describe the current system as "inadequate" and the proposals as "ill-advised"....
News: Forget May Day, it
This Saturday, May 3, Oxford will finally hold its first Gay Pride event. This may come as a surprise to many given the active and open LGBT community that already exists in the city.
News: Walker: "too drunk"
Intoxicated and irate, he found himself picked up by the bouncers, carried to Cornmarket and deposited face down in the street.
News: Anne-other fine mess
St Anne's plans to provide all students with three years of on-site accommodation have backfired leaving some students without water supplies and the college with an unattractive building site.
News: Crimewatch
One third of students were victims of crime in the last year, according to a recent Home Office study, yet an alarming proportion of these incidents were not reported to the police.
News: CITY OF NO CULTURE
Oxford came an embarrassing last place in a country-wide poll based on the UK's bids for European City of Culture 2003.
News: One World Week
One World Week is playing out at the moment, bringing a radical and internationalist flavour to Oxford. On Tuesday evening Jo Wilding, who worked as a human shield in Iraq spoke at Oxford Town Hall about her experiences, including touring hospitals and meeting civilians allegedly hurt by Coalition weapons. The part-time law student revealed that she plans to return to Iraq in the summer, saying "the struggle starts now".
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News: A dilly of a pickle
Keble Classicist Sam Brown was the centre of a media storm over the Easter vacation. Travelling on a Virgin train from Oxford to Brighton, Sam tried to buy a cheese and pickle sandwich but was refused; the blue wrapper indicated that it was reserved for first-class ticket holders. He was left with no option but to buy a more expensive sandwich (in a red wrapper) or go hungry. Sam told us that when he enquired as to why this system was in place, the Virgin Rail stewardess looked "as if there was something wrong with me". ...
News: Music Downloaders Suspended
The controversy surrounding 'peer to peer' lending organisations has been reawakened this week following the barring of two St. John's students from the college computer network. In an email from the college students were "reminded that 'peer-to-peer' file sharing software services are not allowed under university and college network rules". ...
News: News In Brief
Oxford's Professor Richard Dawkins this week slammed plans to teach Creationism on an equal footing with Evolution in certain schools as "educational debauchery". Dawkins, joined some parents in criticising plans by the Vardy Foundation to present Creationism as a valid alternative to evolutionary theory.
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News: Alcohol ban on Magdalen Bridge
Oxford has been preparing itself for the city's May Day celebrations on May 1, the centrepiece of which is the Magdalen Choir's dawn song from the top of the Great Tower.
