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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) On Sunday 11th November, Worcester College JCR passed a motion to hold a ‘people’s vote’ regarding the JCR’s future membership in the European Union. The referendum, to be held on Wednesday 14th, will let the members of the JCR decide whether it wishes to remain in the EU. […]
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Image Credit: Fittoprint (Public Domain) St Hugh’s College ran a bop on the 3rd of November with the theme of ‘laundromats and scary rats’, following a series of maintenance issues at the College. The strapline of the bop was ‘dress up as your favourite Hugh’s administrative disaster’. St Hugh’s has previously suffered criticism about the […]
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Image Credit: Toby Ord Martyn Percy, the 45th Dean of Christ Church, is set to be investigated for “conduct of an immoral, scandalous or disgraceful nature incompatible with the duties of the office or employment”. It is understood the Dean has been on sick leave and will return to work this week to face a […]
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The Lady Margaret Hall JCR voted to donate £100 to the Oxford Anti-Fascist Network in its 3rd Week meeting. The money will be split between anti-fascist stickers and a banner to be used on marches such as the protest against the Union’s talk with Alice Weidel on November 7th. The motion comes following claims that […]
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Image Credit: Herbi1922-Description-LMH In its 3rd week meeting on Sunday the LMH JCR debated whether or not to voice its dissent to the potential hosting of the conservative Christian organisation Christian Concern. The debate was consultative and the governing body will make its final decision in 4th week but the JCR voted to oppose Christian […]
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Image Credit: Adithi Shenava Hillary Clinton has been made an honorary fellow of Mansfield College, The Oxford Student can reveal. The former Presidential candidate, herself wife of former President Bill Clinton, was in the College to talk at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, as part of a series of events marking the 70th anniversary […]
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Image Credit: Wadham College/Beard A contract to create a new undergraduate centre in Parks Road, has been awarded to the construction firm Beard. This new centre will be the first dedicated access facility for welcoming prospective Oxford students. The new three-storey facility will comprise two buildings, named after Dr Lee Shau Kee and William Doo […]
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Image Credit: Truth. Integrity. Posterity: Journalism in a changing world Lady Margaret Hall is to host an event celebrating the life of a former Oxford student and journalist. Paul McClean studied French at LMH before graduating in 2015. He was heavily involved within student journalism during his time at the University, including writing for The […]
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Image Credit: Linacre Ladies That Lift/Linacre College 71-year old Oxford University professor and grandmother Dr Catherine Walter reached 1st place at the European weightlifting competition, Masters 7. Dr. Walter, who lectures in Linguistics at Linacre College, won 1st place across three lifts – squats, deadlift and bench press- at the championship competitions in Dublin this […]
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Image Credit: Ed Webster (CC BY 2.0) Magdalen college have introduced a zero-tolerance alcohol policy for their JCR expenditure. This decision has been announced by their JCR’s Treasurer as part of an outline for expected changes to expenditure for the next financial year. In their JCR budget for 2018/19, seen by The Oxford Student, sent […]
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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) A professor at Oxford was forced to retire in 2016 in order to promote diversity, an employment tribunal has been told. John Pitcher, who specialised in Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and was a fellow at St Johns College, was made to retire at the age of 67 despite […]
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Image Credit: first degree photography/ Mel Cunningham A former member of New College, John Phillip Trower, graduated on Saturday (28th July) at the age of 95. Born in 1923, he spent four years at Eton before he came up. Mr Trower was an undergraduate in history at the College during WW2, matriculating in January 1941 and […]
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Image Credit: Alex Kumar Today at 5pm, a number of homeless people are set to be evicted from a site owned by Merton College, Oxford. The field, which is claimed to be overgrown and unused, has been a place several homeless people have been using as a place to sleep. A photo of the sign […]
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Image Credit: Des Blenkinsopp (cc-by-sa/2.0) The nephew of Lieutenant Geoffrey Ellwood, a soldier who died in the Battle of the Somme, is urging Magdalen College to restore a memorial cross (pictured) which once stood in its quad. Geoffrey Ellwood was a student of Magdalen college and was killed in action on July 14th, aged 25 in Bazentin […]
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New College and Mansfield College have come into dispute over the development of a controversial tower block from New College. Warham Tower, which would house third years in New College, would overlook Mansfield’s residential quad, and would feature some windows which would look directly into student bedrooms. This has lead to worries about privacy, with […]
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The Queen’s College’s JCR voted unanimously this week to introduce a Transgender Representative to its executive committee. The move sees Queen’s join Wadham, Magdalen, and Lady Margaret Hall, who all introduced equivalent positions earlier in the academic year, amongst others in providing a position to represent those who no longer identify with their birth gender. […]
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St Hugh’s College JCR has passed a motion to condemn and remove funding for arts publication ‘Gold of Fuck’ after its name was found scrawled on a wall on Iffley road. Zain Baweja, a co-founder of the zine, described the behaviour of the college JCR executive – who unanimously supported the motion – as “underhand” […]
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Following a JCR meeting held last Sunday, LMH have this week passed a motion to declare war on Sweden. A general hatred of Sweden, and the belief that Sweden was responsible for the cancellation of bops in college this year, motivated the vote. “Sweden is central to the current corruption within the JCR executive,” the […]
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A ‘dirty protest’ staged in the bathrooms of Somerville College bar – which had recently been made gender-neutral – has attracted international attention. The story, first reported by Cherwell on Sunday, has been picked up by outlets as diverse as The Times, Business Standard, and Odisha TV, a regional Indian television network. The words “We […]
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