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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) On Sunday 11th November, Worcester College JCR passed a motion to hold a ‘people’s vote’ regarding the JCR’s future membership in the European Union. The referendum, to be held on Wednesday 14th, will let the members of the JCR decide whether it wishes to remain in the EU. […]
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Image Credit: Geni Twenty-five refugees living in Oxford have been taken on as tour guides by Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of the History of Science in a new project to forge cultural links between the Museum and the local community. The majority of the new tour guides came from Syria, however among the […]
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Image Credit: David Hawgood Oxford City council has admitted that it needs to attract more people from ethnic minority groups to work within the council. Only 9 per cent of the council’s workforce is from a Black, Asian or ethnic minority background, whereas 19% of the city’s inhabitants are. Nigel Chapman, the council’s board member […]
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Image Credit: Fittoprint (Public Domain) St Hugh’s College ran a bop on the 3rd of November with the theme of ‘laundromats and scary rats’, following a series of maintenance issues at the College. The strapline of the bop was ‘dress up as your favourite Hugh’s administrative disaster’. St Hugh’s has previously suffered criticism about the […]
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Image: Tony Hisgett (CC BY SA 2.0) The Oxford City Council has announced that a new Oxford Living Wage will be set at £10.02 an hour, and will come into force from April 2019 onwards. To mark this announcement, the Oxford City Living Wage Campaign held an ‘Oxford Living Wage Rally’ on 5th November, which […]
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Image Credit: Toby Ord Martyn Percy, the 45th Dean of Christ Church, is set to be investigated for “conduct of an immoral, scandalous or disgraceful nature incompatible with the duties of the office or employment”. It is understood the Dean has been on sick leave and will return to work this week to face a […]
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Image Credit: jarmoluk Difficulties have plagued the opening of the Oxford University Chemistry Department’s new teaching labs which were supposed to be fully functional by the time students arrived at the beginning of Michaelmas. These problems include the late delivery of the building in addition to a “small fire and break-in”, The Oxford Student can […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould Students have been responding to the reaction from the sociology department at the University following a series of transphobic tweets were revealed by The Oxford Student. The head of the sociology department sent an email to students saying that, whilst they could not comment on the specific allegation, they “would like […]
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Image Credit: Paul Lowry Following the successful launch of Physic Gin, a brand created by the University of Oxford, Cambridge University has this month released its own gin. Oxford University began marketing their Physic Gin back in February 2018. It features flavourings of wormwood, Szechuan pepper, opium poppy seed, calamus root and gentian root, all […]
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Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger Almost 70 women stand to be evicted this Christmas from shared accommodation as a result of Oxford University’s purchase of the building to serve as future graduate accommodation. The property, which is currently Oxford’s only all-female shared housing accommodation, is being sold by Catalyst Housing Group, a charity based in London […]
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Image Credit: WundermanWiki Student diabetics need to look out for their future health. Recently, there’s been a lot of attention in the press about diabetes, such as the news that hundreds of people are dying due to diabetes-related illnesses. So, for a young person, it’s a bit disconcerting. I feel a responsibility to speak out about my […]
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Image Credit: Basher Eyre (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford’s independent music venue The Cellar has launched an £80,000 crowdfunding campaign to avoid closure in early December. In June, Oxford County Council inspectors, had said that the venue’s 70cm fire escape was 30cm too narrow, and therefore the club was ordered to cut the number of people […]
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Image Credit: SUNIL GROVER Manny Pacquiao, professional boxer and politician, and currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union on the 5th November. As reported by The Philippine Star, this event will precede a likely US press tour to announce his fight against Adrien Broner […]
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Image Credit: Meg Howells A vigil was held at 7:30pm on 28th October at Radcliffe Square in response to the anti-Semitic attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The shooting, which took place on Saturday morning at the Tree of Life synagogue resulted in the death of 11 people. It was reported that the gunman shouted […]
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Image Credit: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte-Description:Science Publishing Flowchart As a scientist, there is a certain allure to the idea of publishing in a journal. Taking the data you spent so long to collect and putting it through many different analyses and tests until you can confirm that the line you see on the graph is significant is […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould. Description: St Cross College. Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of transphobic statements and images. Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College Michael Biggs has been posting transphobic statements online under the Twitter handle @MrHenryWimbush, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Twitter account, named Henry Wimbush and […]
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Image Credit: Herbi1922-Description-LMH In its 3rd week meeting on Sunday the LMH JCR debated whether or not to voice its dissent to the potential hosting of the conservative Christian organisation Christian Concern. The debate was consultative and the governing body will make its final decision in 4th week but the JCR voted to oppose Christian […]
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Image Credit: Sergey Pesterev-Description: Mount Kilimanjaro It’s 3am. I’m stumbling uncontrollably. It’s dark, cold and I’m relying entirely on other people to show me where to go. No, I’m not drunk, I’m 5000m or so up the world’s tallest free-standing mountain. Record Scratch. I bet you’re wondering how I got here? Over a year ago, […]
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Image Credit: Alex Homer. Description: Coventry Cathedral. I like taking day trips to escape the massive, massive bubble that is Oxford. This doesn’t surprise people, but what does is when I told them I went – instead of to Bath, or London, or Worcester – to Coventry instead. But there’s no stopping me – and here’s […]
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