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A motion at the Wadham Student Union (JCR) to have all future meetings conducted via Facebook was defeated last Sunday. The proposal, which cited the present inability of absent and injured students to contribute to SU meetings, suggested that these weekly meetings should be held through the SU Facebook page, where any discussion and voting […]
Continue ReadingRegent’s Park have banned games consoles from their JCR after an influx of FIFA-players was deemed ‘antisocial’. A PlayStation 3 console was brought into the Common Room without prior consultation with the JCR. Once installed, the exponential popularity of the football video game FIFA 13 soon led to a JCR motion to ban the console, […]
Continue ReadingStudents and staff at St Hugh’s received an email last week warning them of a number of reported incidents of men attempting to indecently expose themselves in the University Parks. In an email entitled ‘Security Message’, the college advised students to call the police or the Security Services with any concerns or information about the […]
Continue ReadingA service was organised last week by the LGBTQ Society to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance and the victims of transphobic violence. The secular service held at Hertford Chapel consisted of a reading of the names, ages and locations of transgender people killed in hate crimes over the past year, accompanied by piano music. Candles […]
Continue ReadingRatemash, a website which allows users to rate students based on their attractiveness, has come under a wave of criticism this week, including an online petition against its activities. In addition to complaints that the site encourages objectification of both men and women, concerns have also been voiced over Ratemash’s use of students’ Facebook profile […]
Continue ReadingStudents at Lincoln were woken in the middle of the night when a fire alarm was set off by The Mitre pub staff. The incident occurred when staff from The Mitre pub on the corner of Turl Street and the High Street set off the alarm by smoking late at night in their staff accommodation […]
Continue ReadingOn this week’s edition of quiz show University Challenge, host Jeremy Paxman corrected contestants with a wrong answer. Cambridge’s Clare College team faced off against a team from Oxford’s Christ Church. In a bonus round Clare College members listened to an excerpt of music and were asked to identify its Czech composer. They guessed Smetana, […]
Continue ReadingAn Arab businessman is looking for a private tutor to coach him into Oxford, on a salary of €146,700 (£122,300) a year. The classified advert, placed in the Times Education Supplement last week, states that tutor should be available from 8am until 11pm, and would be expected to teach the anonymous businessman to speak perfect […]
Continue ReadingA Zimbabwean cleric, who has compared gay people to animals and gay sex to rape, has cancelled a visit to Oxford. Mufti Ismail Menk was scheduled to undertake a series of lectures across universities in the UK with the East London Islamic organisation, the Tayyibun Institute. He has made several remarks seen as homophobic, including […]
Continue ReadingA recent report has called Oxford’s Covered Market “damned and dated”. Markets consultancy firm The Retail Group has released a report on the market’s current condition at the request of the Oxford City Council. The report complains of the market’s lack of signage and visibility and its “dark and dated internal environment.” Other criticisms include […]
Continue ReadingSt Anne’s JCR has passed a mandate to investigate the data collected by college officials as to the security and whereabouts of students. The motion “to determine the full extent of data collected on students and work with college authorities to remove such concerns” was passed with an overwhelming majority after the installation of electronic […]
Continue ReadingLate night essay crises have been more unpleasant than usual for Lincoln students this term due to a broken heating system in their college library. The situation has caused confusion amongst college staff, with the Domestic Bursary denying all knowledge of the issue when contacted by The Oxford Student. According to library staff, however, the […]
Continue ReadingProfessors from Oxford are helping to design the world’s largest and most advanced radio telescope. The €1.5 billion Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Project is working to build a radio telescope that will have thousands of dishes and millions of linked antennae. Scientists and engineers from Oxford University are involved in the final design team, which […]
Continue ReadingWithin a single week, Corpus Christi has suffered two attempted bike thefts, including one audacious attempt to steal a bike from inside the college. The attempts occurred within days of each other during 4th week. On the Friday, students received an email issuing a plea from college to practise stringent bike locking. The most troubling […]
Continue ReadingConstituents and debaters of the fourth debate of Michaelmas Term weighted the merits of the motion ‘This House believes religion harms society.’ Along with ample discussion of the qualities of religion, the speakers raised the weighty question in a sometimes confrontational but engaging manner. Asking the crowd whether they had already made up their mind […]
Continue ReadingDuring tonight’s scheduled debate on education, students were removed from the Oxford Union after hurling derogatory and incisive chants and insults towards Conservative Party Member David Willetts. During Willetts’ speech defending the proposition, on the motion “This house believes that education is a right, not a privilege,” a banner was unfurled from the balcony that […]
Continue ReadingUnion president Parit Wacharasindhu has stepped into the media storm whipped up by Sepp Blatter’s visit last week. With Cristiano Ronaldo and his club Real Madrid incensed at Blatter’s assessment of the Portugal captain, Wacharasindhu has released a statement offering Ronaldo the opportunity to reply. Wacharasindu told the Oxford Student last night that “the Oxford […]
Continue ReadingA veteran anarchist labelled as Britain’s most dangerous man by The Daily Star has told The Oxford Student that he plans to hold a May Day rally on Broad Street. Ian Bone’s decision is a protest against the abandonment of his proposed visit to Balliol on 21st November. The event was cancelled when the police […]
Continue ReadingOxford graduates have been named the most employable in the world in a survey published this week by the New York Times. The Global Employability Survey placed Oxford at the top of the list, ahead of second-place Harvard, with Cambridge in third. The survey, carried out as a cooperative initiative between French and German research […]
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