Shhhh....
Which serial wag has Hoodwinked the University by setting up a blog under the name of our esteemed Vice Chancellor? The author, clearly not Big John, writes: ‘Hopefully, this will provide a chance for me to record the lighter side of Univesity life and give an ‘insider’s’ report from within the dreaming spires. ‘I will endeavour to update this whenever I can, so remember to return again soon.’ I have no doubt the University Office will be logging on without delay.
Further to my piece on the Weakest Link travails of Jesus College poster-boy Ryan Wilson recently, news reaches me of yet another item of note regarding the owner of the boybandesque visage which graces this year’s University prospectus.
Over the vac Ryan, ‘the sixth member of Westlife’ (before Brian/Bryan left), was to be spotted at the Cheltenham Race Course Conference Centre at the access-encouraging Oxbridge Conference signing autographs over the cover of the prospectus for wide-eyed 15-year-old girls enraptured with the ‘celebrity’ in their midst.
Who was the drunken St Peter’s student who, following a heavy night’s drinking with mates, arrived on Magdalen Bridge in a dressing gown and boxer shorts to bellow to the Magdalen College Choir: “Play some of your early stuff!”
5th May 2005