Oxford's biggest student newspaper, produced by and for members of the University of Oxford, since 1991.
The Oxford Student and Cherwell have announced an upcoming merger in a bid to create a single Mega-student paper. The merger will allow the new paper to support more sections and more interactive media, including a weekly crossword puzzle, comic strips, and clickbait quizzes. Readers can also anticipate the launch of an entirely new section: […]
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Sun’s out…knees out? Rordon Gamsay, the OxStu’s tanline and park bench correspondant, is back with another run down of the week’s very important local news. Cambridge in local lockdown after disease outbreak Cambridge has been put into a localised lockdown after an outbreak of scabies in the university, after students contracted the disease this week […]
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On the banks of the river Cherwell – before it reaches the Isis – sits the Cherwell Boathouse. The restaurant began in a real Victorian working boathouse next to the punt station. It still remains, amazingly, a family-run business that is open all year round with special menus for each season. Reasonably priced considering the […]
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Student journalism has a bit of a reputation, and to an extent it’s probably well-deserved. Some over-confident 19-year-old has got some Big and Important Opinions, and they’re gonna write them down and by golly are you gonna read them. You absolutely need to, they’re such Important Opinions! About politics! War! Love! The class struggles of […]
Continue ReadingIn a covert operation undertaken by Thames Valley Police on February 2nd and 3rd, nine out of twenty establishments failed to pass ‘child sexual exploitation tests’. As part of the operation officers visited guest houses and hotels in Bicester and Banbury, North Oxfordshire. A plainclothes officer and a fifteen-year-old girl visited the establishments and asked […]
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Thames Valley Police have confirmed that a man who fell into the River Cherwell on Monday afternoon has died in hospital. They said that the man, in his 30s, died “a short while” after being taken to John Radcliffe Hospital. Firefighters have praised a woman who jumped into the river to try and rescue the […]
Continue ReadingComment Section Editor Michael Scott talks about the role of opinion pieces in university life…
Continue ReadingAnother summer, another round of training contract applications. Such is the beauty of life for an Oxford law student. No sooner has the last post-bop hangover of the academic year subsided are lectures, tutorials and essays traded in for vac schemes, psychometric tests and interviews. Friends of mine, fizzing with intellectual and extra-curricular achievements and […]
Continue ReadingThe controversy surrounding the Cherwell’s recently retracted article ‘A guide to dating posh girls’ intensified on Tuesday after Vice Magazine publicly accused its author, comment editor Tom Beardsworth, of plagiarism. The allegations surround alleged similarities between Beardsworth’s article and a Vice Magazine article entitled ‘The Vice guide to dating rich girls’ , which was posted on […]
Continue ReadingA Cherwell article (available to read in full at the bottom of this page) which claimed that “posh girls lose their virginity at 15” has been removed from the newspaper’s website just one day after its original publication on Monday 20th August. The lifestyle piece entitled “A guide to dating posh girls” provoked a storm […]
Continue ReadingSteve Dempsey reports on the mixed success of this year’s Oxstu five-a-side team
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