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FW de Klerk is a man used to public scrutiny. Like his native South Africa, he has remained under the spotlight since the dying days of apartheid. He may be so now more than ever: the death of Nelson Mandela just two months ago, and the outpouring of mourning and national introspection that followed, has […]
Continue ReadingOUSU presidential candidate Louis Trup made the leap from joke candidate to future student leader tonight as he won a decisive victory. Winning over 600 votes more than his closest rival, former Queen’s JCR President Jane Cahill, Trup declared that “the people have spoken”. “It’s going to make a big change,” he told a crowd […]
Continue ReadingA candidate for OUSU International Students’ Officer has been urged to step down one day before polls close after the Returning Officer realised that she was a visiting student. Lauren McKarus, an independent running for the International Students’ Officer was asked to withdraw from the race by RO Nick Cooper after it was realised that […]
Continue ReadingOn the final night before the polls open for this year’s OUSU election, candidates spent their remaining hours trading blows in one of the most aggressive campaign seasons of recent years. Returning Officer Nick Cooper was obliged to make two judgments on Monday after the Jane4Change and TeamAlex slates were found to have committed electoral […]
Continue ReadingOUSU election slate ‘Jane4Change’ has been disciplined by the Returning Officer in the wake of this week’s revelation that their campaign website had been plagiarised. In a judgement made just after 11:00 last night, RO Nick Cooper announced that a ninth of all Jane4Change election material was to be confiscated and that the team was […]
Continue ReadingMartin McGuinness responds to those that label him a ‘terrorist’, justifies the use of violence at times, and reveals an admiration for Tony Blair. Security measures were at their tightest at the Oxford Union, with Martin McGuinness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and former IRA member, making an appearance on Al Jazeera’s ‘Head to […]
Continue ReadingOUSU’s Vice-President for Access and Academic Affairs has stated that a summer programme hosted by LMH and St Catz will “hamper” the University’s access efforts. The colleges host Oxbridge Preparation, a course run by a company named Oxford Royale Academy, designed to prepare prospective students for the application process. The two week residential summer school, […]
Continue ReadingJCR presidents are supporting a college doctor in opposing the Government by refusing to hand over the medical records of his patients to the NHS. In an email sent to members of a number of colleges, students were told by their college doctor of “huge changes to the way in which the NHS handles your […]
Continue ReadingJoke candidate for OUSU President Louis Trup has pledged to make the Radcliffe Camera a club and Camera a library, The Oxford Student can exclusively reveal. The Brasenose third year’s manifesto, written entirely in crayon, calls for the removal of Fifth Week, “therefore eliminating Fifth Week blues”, as well as the creation of a monorail […]
Continue ReadingA first-year student spent the early hours of Friday of Third Week in a car boot, after an alcohol-fuelled night out went wrong. The male fresher, who wished to remain anonymous, was walking home on the way back from clubbing at Bridge. In an attempt to avoid the rain, he climbed into the boot of […]
Continue ReadingNew research has found that surnames originating with the Norman aristocracy are still over-represented at Oxford. By contrast, there are disproportionately few students with surnames associated with poverty in the 19th century. The study, conducted by the London School of Economics, takes names from the wealthiest caste of society 1000 years ago – such as […]
Continue ReadingFormer US Vice President, Al Gore, spoke to over 800 people at Exam Schools last Thursday in an event hosted by the Oxford Martin School. The heavily oversubscribed event filled both the North and South Schools, the latter of which served as an overflow room where a large screen was put up to show the […]
Continue ReadingAn Oxford graduate has created a board game named Dreaming Spires that allows players to build their own college and manage them strategically. Jeremy Hogan, who studied Psychology and Philosophy at University College, said: “Dreaming Spires is a board game that lets 3-5 players lead an Oxford college from the medieval era through to the […]
Continue ReadingOUSU Women’s Campaign has launched an “Oxford-based, student version of the Everyday Sexism Project.” The national project details the stories of sexism submitted by ordinary women. The Oxford version seeks to provide “a forum for women to share their experiences of sexism on a day to day basis, no matter the size, and thereby highlight […]
Continue ReadingDuring recent renovation work, asbestos was found under the floor of St Giles Church. As a result, the church has temporarily closed. The church was fitting a new heating system when the dangerous chemical was discovered in an old pipe lagging. Speaking to BBC Oxford, the Reverend Canon Dr Andrew Bunch said: “It’s not safe […]
Continue ReadingIt was announced this week that only four University departments have been recognised as paying all their employees the national Living Wage, two years after OUSU began campaigning on the issue. The departments that pay all of their affiliated staff at least £7.45 an hour were presented with giant thank you cards by the Oxford […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford History Faculty is considering allowing students to sit their exams using a computer. The move was announced in a November 4th email. The PPE administrator also announced that similar proposals were under consideration for PPE finalists. Dr Andrea Hopkins, the History Faculty Administrative Officer and the organiser of the consultation, claimed the main […]
Continue ReadingA detainee has been charged with arson, following a fire at the Campsfield Detention Centre that left two men in hospital.The centre in Kidlington, 15 minutes’ drive north of Oxford, has space for 216 male detainees. The long-term detention centre accommodates illegal immigrants, pending their case resolutions and subsequent removal from the United Kingdom.Last Friday, […]
Continue ReadingThe captain of the Pembroke rugby team has stepped down in the wake of the ‘Free Pussy’ scandal, after his team was relegated to Division 3 with immediate effect by the Oxford University Rugby Football Union. In a meeting last night, the JCR was told that the OURFU had banned the Pembroke team from competing […]
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