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On Thursday the 13th of June, as part of the annual Helen & Douglas House’s ‘Jail & Bail Fundraiser’ , Anneliese Dodds MP and 8 other businesswomen will be imprisoned in the cells at Oxford Castle – a prison has an infamous history as a place of torture and execution. The 9 inmates will be […]
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The Queen’s College has appointed a presiding fellow of the Eaglets Club to its Equalities Committee as a second harassment advisor. The Eaglets is an exclusive, male-only, ‘secret’ dining society based in, but not affiliated to, The Queen’s College. In a Governing Body meeting on 23rd January 2019, the Domestic Bursar informed members that a […]
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Kaya Alexsson has been elected as the SU’s VP for Charities & Community, beating out her competitor Naomi Hirst with 599 votes to Hirst’s 380. Re-Open Nominations received 32 votes. The announcement came last night at the SU’s Charity Awards ceremony. The by-election came after no-one stood for the position back in the full SU […]
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A light and joyful evening at Corpus Christi marked the inaugural SU charity awards. Rosanna Greenwood (former VP for Charities and community), and Ben Farmer (RAG president) hosted the event, the purpose of which was to give recognition to the enormous amounts of charity work undertaken by students at the university, and to dispel the […]
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Oxford University’s Multaka-Oxford project, which provides volunteering opportunities for forced migrants at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and History of Science Museum, has been presented with Volunteer Team of the Year at the Museum and Heritage Awards. The annual awards, which were announced on Wednesday 15 May aim to celebrate innovative and ground-breaking initiatives from the […]
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Oxford SU Council delegates voted to approve a ban on electoral slates in Student Union elections at their meeting in Mansfield College on Wednesday. The motion to change the SU’s rules was proposed by VP Welfare and Equal Opportunities Ellie MacDonald and seconded by President-Elect Anisha Faruk. Ms Faruk opened the debate in favour of […]
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The Oxford Union has passed a rules change that will allow students of Oxford Brookes University to buy permanent Union membership if their course lasts 3 years or more. Previously, only temporary membership was available to Brooke’s students, meaning that unlike University of Oxford students, they had no option for lifetime membership beyond the end […]
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Oxford’s ‘Welsh College’ has received a £625,000 investment for access from, a single, anonymous donor. The mystery donor was identified as a former student, who is “keen to support its programme to encourage Welsh students from all backgrounds to apply to study at the College” Jesus College has gained an informal reputation as Oxford’s ‘Welsh’ […]
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Magdalen College has opened an exhibition titled ‘Making History: Christian Cole, Alain Locke and Oscar Wilde at Oxford,’ celebrating the lives of early pioneers of diversity at Oxford. The exhibition is taking place at Longwall Library, and will run from May-October 2019. The exhibition can be viewed by all College members, and by all other […]
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A particularly deceptive phishing email has been sent to students at multiple Oxford Colleges, including Magdalen and Lincoln. The subject line is “Your Nexus mailbox is set to expire on 24-5-2019”, and it features a corrupt link. It is not a genuine email and will result in your account being compromised if clicked. The email […]
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On the 11th of May, Regent’s Park College’s tortoise Emmanuelle, affectionately called Manny, celebrated her 116th birthday party. A total of five tortoises were in attendance including the birthday tortoise herself. The event was a charity fundraiser for Meningitis Now in honour of Antonia Bruch who was a Regent’s student that passed away in 2009. […]
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The twelve hour music festival Wadstock kicked off last Saturday, May 11 with twenty-six acts in the lineup and over 850 students in attendance. The event was organized by the Wadham College Entz, a committee of Wadham students. Aside from the musical performances, other entertainment included a bouncy house and a body painting tent. The […]
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Vegetarian and vegan members of Oxford University are being invited to rank colleges according to the quality of their veggie food. The initiative, based on the well-known Norrington Table for ranking colleges according to their examination results, is being pioneered by the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society, which was founded in 2007 with the aim […]
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St. Antony’s College has launched its second annual Mental Health Awareness Week, which runs to May 19th. The theme chosen this year is ‘The Habit of Mental Health,’ and each day has been constructed around three key aspects of maintaining good mental health: (1) physical health, (2) mindfulness practice and mental-health workshops, (3) social events […]
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A letter signed by over 100 Spanish professors has been sent to the Union’s Standing Committee to protest what the signatories perceive as the “one-sidedness of its coverage of Catalan politics.” Foro de Profesores, an “informal association of 240 university professors and other professionals” organised the letter, in which they express their “deeply regret that […]
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Protestors yesterday gathered outside the Oxford Union to demonstrate against the invitation of far-right media personality Katie Hopkins. A heavy police presence surrounded the area, including several mounted officers. At least one arrest was made after an altercation between a protestor and a counter-protestor who was seen performing a Nazi salute. Chants from the protestors […]
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The Wilberforce Club hosted an Alien themed drinks event in St Giles’ Church on 10th May in honour of the Oxford academic Dr Young-hae Chi, who has joined the society as a Senior Member. Dr Chi is an instructor in Korean at Oxford’s Oriental Institute who has spoken and written about the presence of invisible […]
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At a signing ceremony this week, Santander UK and Oxford entered into a new three-year partnership in which Santander will provide funding of scholarships, travel awards, internship programs, and entrepreneurial ventures. Present at the ceremony was Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson and the CEO of Santander UK, Nathan Bostock. Santander UK pledged over 1M to […]
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Oxford’s Said’s business school have stopped their ads from appearing on fake news websites. The school was contacted by the organisation Stop Funding Fake News, and were alerted that their adverts were appearing on sites that proliferate extremist or inflammatory content online. Stop Funding Fake News is a small organisation run by activists who have […]
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