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Multiple JCRs are preparing to table motions condemning the handling of accusations of racism during a Christ Church JCR hust, after a candidate for Christ Church’s JCR ‘cake rep’ made a joke comparing the murder of George Floyd to flour shortages. The Oxford Student understands a statement calling on such motions to be tabled has […]
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Image Description: The Oxford Union being addressed by John Kerry The officer candidates for the Elevate slate (President, Librarian, Treasurer, and Secretary) have all failed to nominate themselves for the Oxford Union elections by the deadline of 3pm today, effectively dropping out of the race. This comes after a former member of the slate was […]
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Image description: High Street in Central Oxford Speak Out Oxford and Oxford SU It Happens Here (IHH) have published an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson, voicing concerns surrounding the University Sexual Violence and Harassment Support Service. The letter has been circulated mainly via JCR pages, with there also being a motion template for […]
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It Happens Here, an Oxford University Student Union group which campaigns against sexual violence, has launched a campaign calling for a ban on relationships between staff and the students who they have responsibility for to be implemented in Oxford University colleges before Michaelmas term 2020. They have created a template JCR/MCR motion calling for the […]
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Image Description: The Oxford Union main building An open letter, which was released today, condemns an Oxford Union election candidate who invoked the George Floyd protests in America when imploring union members to register to vote. The member was running in this term’s Union elections as a part of the Elevate slate. The candidate, who […]
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A team of Somerville College students have raised over £27,000 to support US civil rights protesters in light of the killing of Minneapolis African-American man George Floyd in police custody. The fundraiser was created by Nadia Awad, Cara Moran, Ibtihaaj Mohamoud, Danielle Welbeck, and Emma Schuetze, all members of the College. The Facebook fundraiser benefits […]
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A black shirt depicting Dorothy Wadham, the founder of Wadham College, with the slogan ‘acab’ in a speech bubble was advertised on the Wadham College SU page on Facebook. The slogan ‘acab’ commonly stands for ‘All cops are bastards’. The T-shirt was unveiled last week with the creator of the shirt, who did not wish […]
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In the last week, government guidelines were updated to allow for students to return to university accommodation to collect any personal belongings they may have left there. Several colleges have now published their individual protocols for how this will take place. Of the policies seen by The Oxford Student, the majority asked that belongings be […]
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The Oxford SU Student Council passed a motion in its 5th week meeting seeking to defer continuation fees for Graduate students. The motion argued that it is ‘completely inappropriate for the University to demand payment of continuation fees from Postgraduate Research students at this time.’ It points out that a number of Graduate students ‘ […]
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Image description: bikes outside the Radcam Lady Margaret Hall has donated over 90 bikes as part of Active Oxfordshire’s contribution to the #bikesforkeyworkers initiative. The college explains in an email to students “The goal here is to provide free bikes to NHS and Social Care staff who cannot use public transport during the lockdown or […]
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Zero Gravity, a new digital mentoring start-up, has launched today. Building on the success of Access Oxbridge, Zero Gravity seeks to pair students looking to apply to any university with undergraduate mentors from Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Students will receive mentoring and application advice via the Zero Gravity app up to and beyond receiving […]
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Disabled students promised access to recorded lectures have been consistently denied this support by the University since its recommended implementation in 2016, an Oxford Student investigation has found. Further, support was denied despite the University recording all lectures this term, as part of all teaching being conducted remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many disabled […]
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Jeb Bush told the Oxford Union President he was ‘out of therapy’ for the 2016 US Presidential election campaign in a podcast interview. When asked about his experience running for President in 2016, a contest in which the eventual Republican nominee, Donald Trump, repeatedly belittled the former Governor of Florida as ‘Low Energy Jeb’, he […]
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Encaenia, the annual University ceremony for the conferral of honorary degrees, will be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Oxford honorands will receive their degrees in the next ceremony to be held on 23 June 2021, according to a proposed Congregation resolution likely to be approved without opposition. The seven people originally due to be […]
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Photo description: an AIDS awareness mural by Keith Haring in Barcelona The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a proliferation of medical trials seeking to treat and eventually cure the virus, one of which is the convalescent plasma trial. Scientists hope that, by recruiting volunteers who have had coronavirus, they will be able to develop a […]
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The Graduate Accommodation Office (GAO) will increase rent for its residents by 4.57% from August 2020. Students living in accommodation owned by the GAO will also have to pay Council Tax, following a decision made by Oxford City Council earlier in the year. Increases to rent form part of the University’s five-year plan to pay […]
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Trinity Professorial Fellow Chris Butler has launched a trial on the effects that the common drugs Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin have on COVID-19 symptoms in over 50-year-olds. This has been named the PRINCIPLE trial, and is the first trial of COVID-19 treatments to take place in primary care, relying on a network of GP surgeries. PRINCIPLE […]
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Oxford city centre saw a historic fall in air pollution as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, and Oxford City Council is considering measures to maintain this reduction even as the lockdown eases. Actual nitrogen dioxide levels were down 59% compared to no-lockdown models, experts from Ricardo Energy and Environment found. The reduction was the […]
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