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The Pitt Rivers’ famous collection of shrunken heads could be taken down from display following discussions between the Amazon’s Shuar people and museum representatives. The group indigenous to modern-day Ecuador and Peru has expressed dissatisfaction with how the items have been presented and visitors have raised concerns over the museum’s current use of the collection. […]
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In September, when I left the United States to study in the UK, I never thought I’d miss the one thing that the US is incredibly infamous for—food filled with preservatives. Week one in Oxford, I did what I usually do—I went to Costco and bought myself bulk boxes of all of my favorite American […]
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Oxford has some truly great pubs and bars. But it also has some really crappy, overpriced dens of iniquity. As an ardent drinker, I’m here to help you figure out which hovels to avoid at all costs. Trust me, there are plenty. This list is only the top five. Number 5: The Kings Arms. Listen, […]
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As Valentine’s Day approaches, I occasionally find myself for want of a special someone to while away the hours with. Around this same time of year, all of you lovey-dovey couples look at me with pity and provide unsolicited condolences and “support.” “You don’t need a significant other to be happy.” “I wish I was […]
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Over the Christmas break, we lost one of the greats in Oxford. Not the Classics course, but a true institution. So silently did it slip away into the great shopping street in the sky that one of my friends recently arranged to meet their brother there, only to find that the door was locked and […]
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If you’re like me, you will love a good sausage. You might also like German food. Cheese, bread, sausages (of course) and other Teutonic treats lie in wait at the German Society’s Abendbrot, or “Evening Bread”, taking place in Corpus Christi on Wednesday the 20th February at 6pm. The evening will present a wonderful opportunity […]
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Hark! A bad take is on my phone, hiding amongst the inane family photos and endless graduation pictures of my Facebook feed – that can only mean I have read the recent OxStu piece on the Spoons Christmas dinner. The entire awfulness of the article is exemplified in the claim that ‘everyone can agree that […]
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Image credit: Louis Thomas Hark! An angry drunkard is outside, shouting at some smoking children – that can only mean that I am in a Wetherspoons on a Monday night in December. There is plenty to dislike about J.D. Wetherspoon – the characterless interiors of their “pubs” and its owner’s anti-EU stance being two which […]
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