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A teddy bear found in Wadham College over the Christmas vacation has been reunited with its owner. Discovered by Wadham housekeeping staff before Christmas, the message was put out on the college website that the “small, much loved teddy bear” was “hoping to be reunited with its owner”. The post went on to state that […]
Continue ReadingThe President of the Oxford University Israel Society has accused the University Palestinian Society of “anti-Semitism”. In a post on the OUIS Facebook group Richard Black labeled PalSoc, “a vicious hub of anti-Israel and even anti-Semitic hate”. His comments came in response to a post on the PalSoc Facebook group with a link to the website […]
Continue ReadingThe Hunger Games is on its way to Turl Street, after the Jesus JCR backed a proposal to employ the deathly method to allocate rooms. The motion, which passed on Sunday of 1st week, was designed to rectify the “strife” caused by the “trials and tribulations” of the existing balloting system. The alternative system will […]
Continue ReadingOriel College have been labouring under the misapprehension that they are not allowed to comment to the press. Students from the college have been widely under the belief that they are not allowed to comment to student publications, and that all statements have to be cleared with the Deans or made through the JCR President. […]
Continue ReadingFlooded students are feeling abandoned by the council after claims they were refusing to distribute sandbags unless lives were in “lethal danger”. The flooding was so severe that council workers operating a pumping system near Abingdon Road stopped the system for just half an hour and caused over 200 houses to go onto “red alert”. Mehrunissa Sajjad, a third year at Merton who was staying at […]
Continue ReadingOxford feminist zine Cuntry Living has resorted to Kickstarter to raise funds for its next issue. A post in the zine’s Facebook group by Charlotte Sykes, one of the co-editors, asked members to “KEEP CL ALIVE” by donating to a page on fundraising website Kickstarter. “We have 1,535 members so if everyone on the group contributed £1 it would keep us going for a year,” she wrote. The […]
Continue ReadingTwo rival farming groups held their annual conferences in Oxford early this January. The 2014 Oxford Farming Conference was held from the 6th-8th, with events and talks in the Examination Schools, Christ Church, and the Oxford Union, while the Oxford Real Farming Conference was hosted by Magdalen, Jesus, and the Turl Street Kitchen from the 6th to the 7th. Speakers this year included Dacian Cioloş, […]
Continue ReadingOxford was in the eye of the national press this week after Oriel rugby player Matthew Janney began dating actor Emma Watson. The media’s focus on the new couple has generated tens of millions of results on Google already, with reporters detailing his 6’1 height, linguistic capabilities in French, Spanish, and Russian, and his recent win against Cambridge in the Varsity rugby match 33-15. Aside […]
Continue ReadingClothing company H&M is set to open a new store in Oxford’s Clarendon Centre in spring of this year. The Oxford store will be the seventh H&M to open in 2014, with further stores planned for the summer. Reaction to the news was mixed. Iva Bentley, the owner of the vintage shop Unicorn on Ship Street, said, “This is to be expected. […]
Continue ReadingGovernment cuts to access funding will deprive Oxford’s lowest-income students of a £2,500 tuition fee grant for their first year of study. The timing of this decision means that students from lower-income families who interviewed in December will be left without the fee waiver they thought they would receive when they decided to apply to Oxford. Moves made by the University to combat the […]
Continue ReadingOriel College students have been labouring under the misapprehension that they are not allowed to comment to the press. Students from the college have been widely under the belief that they are not allowed to comment to student publications, and that all statements have to be cleared with the Deans or made through the JCR President. There is in fact no rule in the […]
Continue ReadingA Univ student has been shortlisted to take part in a one-way mission to establish a human settlement on Mars. If successful, Ryan MacDonald – a third-year physicist – will be among the first 40 settlers of the Red Planet, as part of a mission sponsored by the Dutch not-for-profit foundation Mars One. The mission […]
Continue ReadingA prominent animal rights group has called on the government to cut funding for Oxford University’s experiments on primates. The Anti-Vivisection Coalition claims that the University is unnecessarily using primates in animal research, and asserts that other countries run more humane research schemes while remaining successful. The University says some of the claims are incorrect, […]
Continue ReadingA new zine has been launched for Oxford’s queer and trans* community. The Facebook manifesto for NoHeterOx** claims to “suspect the kind of quietist gay politics that instructs us to slip into the status quo with as little fuss as possible”. It also promises to “affirm the polymorphous perversity of our a/sexualities and seek to […]
Continue ReadingTeenagers still only communicate with a small number of people despite having hundreds of “friends” on Facebook, according to a recent Oxford study. Young people were found to operate an unconscious system of ‘one in, one out’ policies such that their communications patterns and number of close friends remain the same even who they socialise […]
Continue ReadingThe City Council has approved £14m plans by Oxford University to redevelop a Radcliffe Infirmary building for use by a medical research centre. The former Outpatients Building on Woodstock Road has been unoccupied since 2007. The new plan proposes to move the University’s Department of Primary Care Health Sciences into the site by 2015, after building a large glass infill on the north face of the […]
Continue ReadingOUSU is calling on international students to respond to an NUS survey collecting opinions on the government’s proposed immigration bill. Students in all NUS-affiliated universities are being asked to complete the survey so that student opinion can be presented to the House of Lords, ahead of their vote on the bill. A number of the proposals would affect all students from outside the EEA, leading […]
Continue ReadingCOACH CRASH CHAOS AFTER VARSITY The Varsity ski trip came crashing to an end when two buses carrying skiers back from their holiday collided north of Dijon. Fortunately no one was injured in the crash, which left tired students waiting on French roads for over five hours in the early morning. Benjamin Sullivan was our contact on the scene, emailing moments afterwards with […]
Continue ReadingA member of the University’s Department of Zoology has scooped the top prize in Science magazine’s 2013 “Dance your PhD” competition for his video on sperm competition. Dr Cedric Tan’s choreographed interpretation of his research illustrates the mating process of chickens using a range of styles, including swing, water ballet and modern jazz. The video […]
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