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We’re looking for enthusiastic writers, photographers, cartoonists, filmmakers and editors to join the paper in Hilary Term 2014. As the largest student publication in Oxford, The OxStu‘s print edition reaches over 15,000 readers every week and we’re always on the lookout for fresh talent. Add to those 15,000 the tens of thousands of visitors our website […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford Student has received a dossier which points to the existence of a secret British Empire themed dining society made up of members of the Oxford University Conservative Association. The male-only group claims to be made up of ‘sound gentlemen of the University of Oxford’. The members refer to each other by names of […]
Continue ReadingOne man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and four on suspicion of affray after a woman was shot yesterday morning. Police were called to an address in Crowberry Road in the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford at 5.07 am on Saturday. The victim was rushed to John Radcliffe Hospital by paramedics, who were […]
Continue ReadingSean Scoltock interviews Guardian columnist, writer and producer George Monbiot. “We live in a shadowland, a dim, flattened relic of what there once was, of what there could be again”, George Monbiot. If not literally feral, George Monbiot, the figuratively rabid Guardian columnist, by trade menacingly encircles cosseted elites. A self-described “unreconstructed idealist” with the […]
Continue ReadingIlana Masad talks to the director/writer and cast of the new Much Ado About Nothing about combining theatre and film, sex scenes, and getting drunk on set. The Oxford Union’s Gladstone Room couldn’t be more different than the space I’d just inhabited: the Gladstone is dark, heavily curtained, wood-panelled, reeking of aged books and history; […]
Continue ReadingFilling the Oxford Union debating chamber, Joss Whedon, Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof walked in with genuine smiles and some waves, as well as a few glances around at the impressive room. On tour for Whedon’s newest film, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, first released at the Toronto International Film Festival in […]
Continue ReadingChrist Church JCR has passed a motion deliberately flouting College rules, to ensure the LGBTQ flag is displayed at the college. The motion notes that the JCR will pay for LGBTQ flags for any student who wants to fly one from their bedroom window. It will also pay for any potential fines resulting from this […]
Continue ReadingArmed robbery, motorbikes and smoke grenades. They sound like the key elements of a cheap movie instead of a Saturday shopping trip, but at 9.15am on 30th March two men armed with a pickaxe entered the Covered Market on a motorbike and attempted to smash their way into John Gowing Jewellers. Police believe that a […]
Continue ReadingThis week there have been further protests against Oxford University Press’ attempt to sue Delhi University for copyright infringement. Several publishers, including Oxford University Press (OUP), Cambridge University Press (CUP) and the Taylor & Francis Group, are suing Delhi University, as well as a photocopying shop near the Delhi School of Economics, for selling copies […]
Continue ReadingTechnology developed by Oxford University has allowed human livers to be kept ‘alive’ outside the body prior to transplant. Donated human livers connected to a new machine were successfully maintained at body temperature, allowing them to continue to function outside the body. Two patients have received transplanted livers successfully preserved using the machine at King’s […]
Continue ReadingSenior members of Oxfordshire County Council have criticised the national Met Office for not giving the county sufficient warning of heavy snowfall. The wave of snow on Saturday night, which hit at the end of a week where students sitting early Prelims had stayed behind, was tackled by the council later than it usually would […]
Continue ReadingAn Oxford conference on South East Asia has given voice to criticism of the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The second Southeast Asian Studies Symposium was dominated by discussions centred on Myanmar after its recent re-engagement with the international world. Dr Peter Carey said that despite the positive press attention given to the […]
Continue ReadingIt’s what you’ve all been waiting for… the OxStu’s famous Albums of the Year Countdown! We’ve surveyed a wide range of music lovers for their favourite records of 2012 and collected their choices in order to provide you with the definitive list of the year’s best musical offerings. To order the results, we assigned points […]
Continue ReadingHettie Burn interviews Mercury Prize winners Alt-J Arguably the most successful new British band of the year, there’s something wonderfully organic about Alt-J. The home-grown and honest undercurrent of their music is mirrored in the band’s public image, despite their recent rapid rise to Mercury-Prize-winning success. Formed during their studies at Leeds University in 2007, […]
Continue ReadingIt’s surprising that we’re still talking about Crystal Castles. The music press was palpably poised when their last album hit, ready to tear apart their giant, gig-cancelling, fan-punching egos, and dismiss them as another fad from the new rave wave that dragged along a generation of impressionable, dumb teenagers (myself, regrettably, included). But the record […]
Continue ReadingThe OxStu office was a hive of excitement this week as leaks began to emerge from our favourite-boy-band-of-all-time-like-ever’s new album. ONE DIRECTION ARE BACK!!! We’ve had YOLO anthem ‘Live While We’re Young’ on repeat since September. Youtube started to get suspicious at the number of times I’d clicked repeat on the video. They clearly don’t […]
Continue ReadingLewis Coenen-Rowe and Otis Graham debate the trajectory of musical nomenclature. Yes Nobody used to be remotely interested in band names. Artist’s simply had to find some kind of basic description to refer to themselves by; hence Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five, The Miles Davis Quintet, The Jackson Five (the significance of the number five in music […]
Continue ReadingBrian Eno is famous for three things: playing the synths in British art-rock band Roxy Music, pioneering the genre of ambient music, and creating the Windows 95 start-up sound which, incidentally, he composed on an Apple Mac. This review focuses on Eno’s second achievement, his ambient work. In 1978, after leaving Roxy Music and releasing […]
Continue ReadingWill Upton discusses the idea of the audience. In a week when I enjoyed performing new music by ten Oxford students the musical world was humbled by the loss of a composer at the opposite end of his creative career, Elliott Carter. This is not to say that Carter, born 1908, ever ceased to be creative; a […]
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