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So, you were at the Brits last night – how were they? You took along a listener, can you tell us more about how that came about? Yeah, so we went with Katie. We do a thing called Bleak Mornings at around half past six to get the show going; we have people who share […]
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What do you think should be done about the cuts in music education? Should we let music as a discipline die out? What did you enjoy about music classes at school? Did you find them valuable? In truth, I am writing this because in the pitch for this article a particular question angered me: Should […]
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Like all the coolest students at Oxford University (myself sheepishly included), Gaby Elise-Monaghan studies Classics. What is even cooler is how, during the three and a half years she has spent here, she has become a regular feature on the city’s music scene, first as a member of two piece-band Coldredlight, then as front-person for […]
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What got you together as a band? So weirdly, James the singer, he and I met at a live band karaoke night. So I play in a live karaoke thing which is quite fun where you have a song book of sort of two hundred tunes from like Dancing Queen to like I Believe in […]
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It’s usually easy to identify a bad movie, however subjective that process might be. Some reasons might include bad acting, a poor screenplay or underwhelming CGI. However, it’s harder to acknowledge that, despite a film’s many flaws, it nonetheless contains great elements within its structure. One such example is the soundtrack, which can still be […]
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An SU council meeting took place on the 27th February, in which a discussion was held on the new Parks College. This was held before a survey which closes on Friday 28th, and is aimed at gathering the opinions of current students of the university on the new graduate college. According to Allison D’ambrosia, the […]
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Air vents which are situated on Brasenose lane, and which homeless people often sleep on to provide them with warmth, have been boarded over. These air vents allegedly belong to Lincoln College. This has led to criticism that homeless people are being prevented from sleeping there to stay warm, as these grates put out hot […]
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Somerville JCR has voted overwhelmingly in favour of flying the EU flag on Europe Day in May “in order to show the community that we support all of our European members and that Somerville will do all within its power to stand by its founding values”. The motion passed, 39 votes to 1, with 3 […]
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The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) was the recipient of an accidental £105,520 payment from the artificial intelligence company DeepMind. Though the money was eventually returned, the process took approximately two weeks, with the committee being forced to engage in a lengthy process with their bank and the companies involved. Acquired by Google in 2014 […]
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A wide regional disparity exists between college outreach links in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Oxford Student can reveal. Whilst there are 20 colleges that have links to areas within London, other regions have significantly fewer college outreach programmes with just four colleges having associations with the North West. Using data from the Office of […]
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An open letter to Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson calling for action on mental health has been signed by twenty-five current and past JCR Presidents, nine MCR Presidents , Layla Moran MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and various members of college staff, including the Dean of St. Edmund Hall and the Junior Censor of Christ Church. […]
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In recently published QS rankings for 2019, Oxford University has come first in five subject areas including English Language & Literature, Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Archaeology, Anthropology, and Geography, as well as the broad subject area of Arts and Humanities. This is the highest number of subject firsts in the UK and globally below only Harvard […]
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Martina Navratilova, 18-times grand slam champion, has been removed as an ambassador from a US-based LGBTQ advocacy group, Athlete Ally, for transphobic comments published in the Sunday Times. She claimed that female transgender athletes were cheating because of their biological athletic superiority. She said in a tweet: “You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and […]
Continue ReadingHuman Circles, a newly founded not-for-profit organization has recently raised £600 to fund two new innovative projects to improve mental health in Oxford. The funding, raised from private donors was given to Coffee Ambassadors and Oxford Link. The first is a project that is creating a decentralized platform for peer supporters to provide support to […]
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Artemis, a female black cat who has been missing for the last two weeks was found safe at neighbouring St. John’s college yesterday. Although there are many black cats roaming around town, Trinity are convinced they have found her. Artemis, who is estimated to be 16 years old, had been missing since February 10th. Trinity […]
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Estranged students have reportedly been “left upset by the lack of guarantees” on accommodation and financial help. Freedom of Information requests and an anonymous survey sent out by The Oxford Student has revealed that the majority of colleges in Oxford University do not have an official policy on providing support for estranged students, instead opting for a case […]
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The University has scaled back the number of students in the inaugural intake for its new graduate college, Parks College, under new plans released this week. In a stark shift away from the plans announced back in February, which proposed the recruitment of 200 graduate students in 2019-2020 for admission in September 2020, the University […]
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A motion to rename the St Hugh’s JCR room to the “Junior Common Womb” until the end of Trinity term has been defeated in an online ballot, with 84 Against and 64 For and 5 Abstentions. The motion came out of a wider debate about the inclusivity of college spaces sparked by the Welfare and […]
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It’s Fifth Week at Oxford, and a Valentine’s Day-inspired gloom has settled over the city. Seeking to relieve the community of the blues, a team of Oxford and Stanford students is working hard to launch a humorous dating event: with the help of a questionnaire and an algorithm, we reckon that every participant in the […]
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