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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) On 6th November, Louis Richardson, Vice Chancellor at the University of Oxford, held an open discussion with students at the university about the problems surrounding access and diversity. The Q&A was organised by Ben Fernando, a postgraduate student at the university. The Vice Chancellor opened up the conversation […]
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Image Credit: Paul Lowry Following the successful launch of Physic Gin, a brand created by the University of Oxford, Cambridge University has this month released its own gin. Oxford University began marketing their Physic Gin back in February 2018. It features flavourings of wormwood, Szechuan pepper, opium poppy seed, calamus root and gentian root, all […]
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Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger Almost 70 women stand to be evicted this Christmas from shared accommodation as a result of Oxford University’s purchase of the building to serve as future graduate accommodation. The property, which is currently Oxford’s only all-female shared housing accommodation, is being sold by Catalyst Housing Group, a charity based in London […]
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Wadham students occupied front quad in protest of the Governing Body’s attempt to set rent in the the new Dorothy Wadham building at £700 per month on a compulsory 9-month contract, totalling £6300 per year per student. The building was meant to provide affordable, college-owned accommodation for the college’s 2nd year undergraduates, who currently have […]
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The Oxford University LGBTQ Society, the Oxford SU LGBTQ Campaign and the Oxford SU Women’s Society have publicly condemned the Oxford University History Society’s decision to host Dame Jenni Murray on the topic of “Powerful British Women in History and Society” on Saturday 17th of November. Murray has since pulled out of the talk for […]
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Manny Pacquiao, professional boxer and politician, and currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines, spoke at the Oxford Union on the 5th November. In a statement, seen by The Oxford Student, the society has sad the following statement: “We recognise that the decision to invite Mc Pacquiao to the Oxford Union may have been […]
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The stereotypical image of the workshy Humanities student is well-established in Oxford culture. The regimen of self-supervised library sessions and weekly essays, it is often assumed, must be conducive to a relaxed schedule of late night revelry and late morning lie-ins. For at least one BA degree, an investigation by The Oxford Student gives the […]
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Image Credit: Brigade Piron Infighting within the Oxford University Conservative Association continues as President Ben Etty passes the contentious Bullingdon Club ban through the Senior Member, in a move which has been branded as “undemocratic”. The Bullingdon Club ban has caused divisions within in OUCA since it came to a head at the start of term. […]
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Committee members of the Oxford Union have accused the current President, Stephen Horvath of “blatant nepotism” following his decision to allow Minal Haq, an ex-Standing committee member, to have a paper speech during this week’s Thursday debate. Haq is scheduled to be speaking against the motion, “This House Believes that Retributive Justice is Obsolete”, alongside […]
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Image Credit: SUNIL GROVER Manny Pacquiao, professional boxer and politician, and currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union on the 5th November. As reported by The Philippine Star, this event will precede a likely US press tour to announce his fight against Adrien Broner […]
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Image Credit: Meg Howells A vigil was held at 7:30pm on 28th October at Radcliffe Square in response to the anti-Semitic attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The shooting, which took place on Saturday morning at the Tree of Life synagogue resulted in the death of 11 people. It was reported that the gunman shouted […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould. Description: St Cross College. Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of transphobic statements and images. Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College Michael Biggs has been posting transphobic statements online under the Twitter handle @MrHenryWimbush, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Twitter account, named Henry Wimbush and […]
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This Wednesday Oxford SU held a debate on condemning the invitation of Alice Weidel to speak at the Oxford Union on November 7. Weidel is the leader of German far-right political party Alternative for Germany. Her party stands on a platform of opposing immigration and they have often been branded as “racist” and “Islamophobic”. The […]
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Image Credit: Brigade Piron In dramatic scenes at Wednesday night’s council meeting of the Oxford University Conservative Association, members attempted to resist President Ben Etty’s efforts to ban members of the Bullingdon Club from OUCA committee elections. Ordinary business passed without affair until ex-President Alex Bruce proposed a Standing Order amendment to ban the Bullingdon Club […]
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Image Credit: Oxford Climate Justice Campaign/Facebook With the arrival of the recent news that fracking will restart in the UK this weekend following a seven year hiatus, a protest formed in Radcliffe square to protest government policy on fracking, both at a local and national level. A group of sixteen people from environmental activism groups […]
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Image Credit: Pilot Boy Productions (CC BY-SA 4.0) This Friday at 2pm, Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart will be speaking at the Oxford Union after their recent joint tour. Chappelle, the American comedian popularised by Chappelle’s Show, has recently received a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Earlier this year, his comedy special Equanimity, produced in […]
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Image Credit: US Department of State (Public Domain) The members of The Oxford Union have voted to begin the process that supporters hope will lead to the banning of slates in elections. The motion was passed by 57 votes to 15 after the first scheduled debate of this term, “This House Has No Confidence In […]
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To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, located within Mansfield College, held a two-day event, which hosted former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The event titled “Confronting Illiberalism: The Role of The Media, Civil Society and Universities”, was held on 10th October to […]
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Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, appeared as a panellist during today’s event at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. The event was titled “Confronting Illiberalism: The Role of the Media, Civil Society and Universities” and included three panel discussions, one on which the focus was on how universities can face the challenges of illiberalism. […]
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