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This past week I got the chance to sit down with Carley-Jane Stanson to talk about a sustainability project through the Oxford Hub that she is heavily involved with called Edible Gardens. Can you explain the Edible Gardens project to me? So, we are a small team starting off now with a 5-week training program […]
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On Tuesday January 24th, the first Oxford SU access conference was held at Mansfield College. The aim of the Access Conference was to ask what Oxford should aim towards in the next five years, considering the role of the Oxford in the context of national targets to reduce inequality in universities. Mansfield was a fitting […]
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Back when I was a spritely Year 13, naïve to what lay ahead and idealistic about University, I faced the choice we all made, where to apply on the dreaded UCAS, and for what. One of the sole reasons I decided to do Classics in the end, was because I didn’t want to give up […]
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We are well into the new year, and with that has come an influx of cries of “new year, new me!”. The trends that people attempt are generally things they know deep down that they should be doing year round, but generally only manage for 24 of the 30 days of the first month. This […]
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SAD (seasonal affective disorder) more commonly known as winter depression plagues an estimated 1 in 4 people every year (National Alliance of Mental Health). These symptoms can range from experiencing mild depression, a drop in energy levels, fatigue or weight gain to extreme manifestations of depression that can result in hospitalisation. Winter depression is most […]
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As 8th week of Michaelmas started to reach its end, I couldn’t quite prevent myself from thinking about how near the Christmas holidays were. As a lesbian, I always wfound the holidays really quite strange: heterosexual couples dressed in visually unpleasant red and green Christmas jumpers would plaster my TV screen as early as November, […]
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On 23rd January, Angola adopted a new penal code, its first since its independence from Portugal. The former penal code was in effect from 1886 and had not undergone reforms since 1975. In doing so, it removed an article that prescribed a jail sentence of six months to three years for “vices against nature”, an […]
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Hilary is undoubtedly the worst term of the year. The excitement of Halloween and Christmas in first term has gone, and there’s still five months to go until the sun will finally rise once again for the summer. For many, Hilary can be a period where it’s easy to feel quite lost. I, as a […]
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Image description: Ellie Oppenheim (left) Recently, Pink had a chance to talk to the charismatic and capable Ellie Oppenheim, who is the current president of the LGBTQ+ Society. Love it or hate it, “the Soc”, supposedly the third largest student organisation here, is the core of our community’s social life in Oxford. I invited Oppenheim […]
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Oxford is definitely a city of contrasts. Architecturally, the old and the modern co-exist side by side, generally in happy juxtaposition to each other, occasionally in a more uneasy tension. When it comes to the relationship between town and gown, a history marked by occasional riots and violence, things haven’t always been straightforward. However, in […]
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This summer, me and 5 of my friends went on the most stereotypically coming-of-age holiday possible. Comprised of 3 film students, a ballet dancer and two Oxford biologists (yay!), we had the makings of a semi-functional group of 3 couples that could just about bear to live in each other’s pockets for two weeks straight. […]
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As an overseas student, there are a few options of how to spend the Christmas holiday: traveling, going home or preparing for exams. If you don’t want a complicated and expensive trip, or don’t feel like studying, there is another option you can try — joining a host family. The whole process is quite simple, […]
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Queen’s probably wouldn’t be your first stop on a spooky ghost tour of Oxford. Its 18th century facade looks relatively baby-faced in contrast to the gothic walls which line the High Street. The exterior you see today, however, belies a rich medieval heritage which can still be explored beneath the surface. Drawn to one of […]
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Cornwall: the land of sun, sea and Cornish pasties! That’s what it is for four months of the year, at least. Between June and September, Cornwall puts on its best show of being a cream tea-fueled paradise just a six hour drive from London. Now, imagine living there – year round. Suddenly, six hours from […]
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‘Steven Universe’ is a popular cartoon on the US-based channel Cartoon Network, which is at once delightful, musical, emotional and pure fun. Among other things, the show is about how the eponymous main character, Steven, unravels the legacy of his mother, Rose, who was an intergalactic alien matriarch imperial overlord turned into a guerrilla war-criminal […]
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Barely a day went by over the Christmas vacation when there wasn’t an Oxfess agonising over collections, asking whether they matter, what will happen if we fail, how we should prepare for them. Instead of Christmas being a time for rest and recuperation from a hectic Michaelmas, the vacation becomes a time for panic to […]
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Remember the Calais jungle? Ever since it was officially shut down in October 2016, the refugee crisis only 26 miles away has blissfully drifted out of our heads, replaced by more fun, fresh topics like Brexit and ‘thank u, next’. However, two years on, there are still thousands of people living in makeshift mini-camps in […]
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Image Credit: Lucie Blackman Trust When I became Features Editor at the beginning of December, my first thought was ‘Great! I can write a travel piece on New Zealand’. On the 2nd of December I set off from Newcastle for Auckland, a two day journey. When I left the UK, Grace had already been murdered; […]
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All images by Alex Homer. Description: a view of the Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. Date of trip: Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th August 2018 Journey time: approx. 3h40–4h (usually two trains, with the interchange station depending on the time and day of travel) Fare: £49 (Off-Peak, with 16–25 Railcard) The distance is probably the main […]
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