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Image description: bar staff pouring alcohol into a clear shot glass at a bar TW: spiking, sexual assault, drink, drugs ‘It Happens Here’, a campaign group run by the SU is supporting a “Girls Night In” in Oxford on the 27th of October as a response to reported increased levels of spiking. The Oxford SU […]
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Image Description: a bird covered in oil from an oil spill. The Oxford Climate Justice Campaign today disrupted an online careers fair hosted by the University Careers Service, calling for fossil fuel companies not to be allowed to attend the events. The campaign disrupted the event by encouraging students to send messages to the companies […]
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Image description: a figure in a darkened room looking out of a window [CW: eating disorders, disordered eating, bulimia, anorexia, mental health difficulties] Many of our most precious memories, particularly at university, are the moments spent with friends. Feeling a sense of meaningful connection to others is so important to human quality of life. What […]
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A fundraiser has been set up to make Plush, the only LGBTQ+ club in Oxford, accessible. The fundraiser aims at installing a wheelchair lift, to make it fully accessible for wheelchair users. There have been concerns that this would mean disabled people having to pay for their own accessibility. However, it has been raised that, […]
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Image Credit: James Ashworth On Monday 12th November, members of University staff have taken part in a cake sale and “unpaid women’s non-working lunch” to raise awareness of the gender pay gap at Oxford University The local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) organised the stall outside the Clarendon building, at the corner […]
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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: Clara Barker Dr Clara Barker, my interviewee, is a material scientist at Oxford University. Entering the Material Science department, I see straightaway a poster on the doorway, highlighting LGBT+ visibility, and the receptionist wearing a rainbow striped lanyard. After waiting a couple of minutes Clara comes to fetch me. Walking down a twisted […]
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Image Credit: Oxford SU Joe Inwood, Oxford SU President, has announced in a blog post that he intends to make Access the key priority campaign area for the SU this year. This decision follows what Inwood described as the “intense scrutiny” the University has been subject to regarding admissions over the past several years. The […]
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Image Credit: Spigoo (CC BY 2.0) Following an attack on a campaign stall at Carfax last Friday evening, a group of Oxford campaigns have come together to call a ‘We will not be silenced” protest. The stall was run by a local socialist group who were campaigning against the statements made by the Former Foreign […]
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Supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall Oxford campaign gathered outside Oriel College at midday today to protest against institutionalised racism and the continued presence of the Cecil Rhodes statue. Around 40 protesters were present and called for increased representation of black students and black professors at the university, the “decolonisation” of the curriculum and an […]
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Brenda Trenowden of all people understands the lack of female representation in executive positions. Head of Financial Institutions Group for Europe, and Head of Banks and Diversified Financials E&A for ANZ, she is now the new Global Head of the 30% Club, a campaign that aims to reach the minimum of 30% women on FTSE-100 […]
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Democracy is one of the things the Western World is most proud of. When our countries come under attack we nod, smile politely and point out that, whatever the numerous faults of our systems, we are a democracy and therefore how wrong can we really be? Despite this deep-rooted admiration of our political system it […]
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TW: References to sexual assault Clarisa is a 14 year old Dominican girl. Disabled, she experiences the world as a six year old does. This has left her vulnerable to abuse. Last year, a man raped her many times and then offered her body to another man. He had a reputation for trafficking young girls […]
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The Lib Dems lost almost £150,000 following the recent election. That’s a shocking figure any day but in light of the budgetary cuts which have already been announced and the even deeper cuts which have been forecast, that sort of money is going to be increasingly crucial to all sorts of organisations and charities who […]
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Students and campaigners have had mixed reactions to the delay in the decision on whether or not to expand Campsfield House immigration detention centre. Cherwell district council voted on 19th February to defer the decision on expanding the site near Kidlington after receiving a legal letter from solicitors representing the Stop Campsfield Expansion group. Bill […]
Continue ReadingThirteen JCRs have passed motions supporting next month’s National Union of Students demonstration on free education, ahead of an OUSU vote on the policy.
Continue ReadingA University policymaking board has ruled in favour of supporting the Living Wage campaign. The University’s Personnel Committee, which is responsible for policymaking on the employment of all University staff, made the decision after a meeting last term. Members of the board will now draft a paper to the University Planning and Resource Committee expressing […]
Continue ReadingLincoln JCR has banned OUSU candidates from entering college property to door-knock. The motion, passed on Sunday of 5th, has been strongly opposed by both Jane Cahill, one of this year’s presidential candidates, and Tom Rutland, current OUSU president. The proposal, put forward by Kristin Lampe, a second year Law student, was designed to protect […]
Continue ReadingA new Facebook campaign is calling on Oxford’s Vice Chancellor to limit the number of sweatshop-produced goods used by the university. Sweatshop Free Oxford Uni, which has over 2,800 likes on Facebook, is calling on Professor Andrew Hamilton to “commit to protecting garment and electronics workers in the university’s supply chain”. It is also asking […]
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