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Image Description: Belfast during the Troubles, 1970-2 (Kaspar C) On Thursday evening, riots broke out in Mulroy Park and Galliagh areas in Derry in Northern Ireland. Earlier that evening, police vans had entered the area to investigate dissident republicans believed to be planning attacks in the city. As the riots escalated to include use of […]
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Image Description: Elizabeth Warren speaking at event. At what point does a company seem more like a country? In San Francisco in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented his vision of America during his presidential campaign in a speech now known as the Commonwealth Club Address. He noted that concentrations of economic power were not to […]
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An SU council meeting took place on the 27th February, in which a discussion was held on the new Parks College. This was held before a survey which closes on Friday 28th, and is aimed at gathering the opinions of current students of the university on the new graduate college. According to Allison D’ambrosia, the […]
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Air vents which are situated on Brasenose lane, and which homeless people often sleep on to provide them with warmth, have been boarded over. These air vents allegedly belong to Lincoln College. This has led to criticism that homeless people are being prevented from sleeping there to stay warm, as these grates put out hot […]
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Somerville JCR has voted overwhelmingly in favour of flying the EU flag on Europe Day in May “in order to show the community that we support all of our European members and that Somerville will do all within its power to stand by its founding values”. The motion passed, 39 votes to 1, with 3 […]
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The Oxford University Computer Society (CompSoc) was the recipient of an accidental £105,520 payment from the artificial intelligence company DeepMind. Though the money was eventually returned, the process took approximately two weeks, with the committee being forced to engage in a lengthy process with their bank and the companies involved. Acquired by Google in 2014 […]
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A wide regional disparity exists between college outreach links in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Oxford Student can reveal. Whilst there are 20 colleges that have links to areas within London, other regions have significantly fewer college outreach programmes with just four colleges having associations with the North West. Using data from the Office of […]
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An open letter to Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson calling for action on mental health has been signed by twenty-five current and past JCR Presidents, nine MCR Presidents , Layla Moran MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and various members of college staff, including the Dean of St. Edmund Hall and the Junior Censor of Christ Church. […]
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Estranged students have reportedly been “left upset by the lack of guarantees” on accommodation and financial help. Freedom of Information requests and an anonymous survey sent out by The Oxford Student has revealed that the majority of colleges in Oxford University do not have an official policy on providing support for estranged students, instead opting for a case […]
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Anisha Faruk, former co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, has clinched victory in a tough election for President of the Oxford SU. The results were announced at an event at the Weston Library, and show significant victories for Faruk’s Impact: Oxford slate. The presidential election went through three rounds of preferential voting. RON was […]
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It came as a shock to the scientific community when in late November, He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist, claimed that he had created the first genetically edited babies using CRISPR, a new gene editing technique developed in 2012. Not only would this mark the first use of CRISPR in humans, rather than in cell cultures, […]
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The Oxford Kayak Tours has discontinued its partnership over claims that Steve Bannon was not sufficiently challenged at his talk which was held by The Oxford Union last term. The event, which happened on the 16th of November suffered controversies as protests were held outside of the Union buildings, and calls were made for a […]
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Cellar, one of Oxford’s most popular music venues, has taken an important step to securing its future. The venue won permission from Oxford County Council to build a new fire escape further along Cornmarket Street, thereby meeting all the its legal obligations. The club had previously been under threat as safety inspectors found its fire […]
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2018 marks 100 years since some women in the UK got the right to vote. In those 100 years, there have been a total of 491 women MPs. By contrast, 442 men were elected in the 2017 General Election alone. These simple statistics portray the grave inequality that lies at the very heart of Parliament. […]
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Oxford’s only LGBTQ club, the Plush Lounge, has announced it will be delaying its expected change of venue to the end of January 2019. Plush had announced it would be terminating its long-held lease at the Jam Factory building on Park End Street in October, with a move to the venue then-occupied by Purple Turtle […]
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Three Oxford students have been recognised at the inaugural Student Social Mobility Awards. The Awards, hosted by social mobility charity upReach at the House of Lords, showcased the outstanding achievements of students from less-advantaged backgrounds. 22 undergraduates were presented with awards, including Renée Kapuku (Keble College), former president of Oxford University African and Carribean Society, […]
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Image credit: Cmglee. Description: the Westminster School, London, the students of which get 70-80 Oxbridge places per year. Eight top schools have as many Oxbridge admissions as the next 2894 UK schools combined, according to a new report by the Sutton Trust. The Trust suggests that little has changed regarding access to opportunity at Oxbridge […]
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A nineteenth-century professor of Chinese has been honoured with the unveiling of a blue plaque on the wall of his former residence in North Oxford. James Legge, a prominent Scottish sinologist and missionary, lived at 3 Keble Road from 1875 until his death in 1897. In 1876, a year after his arrival in Oxford, Legge […]
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The Oxford SU LGBTQ+ campaign has issued an official statement in anticipation of Brendan O’Neill’s visit to the Queen’s College tonight. It follows the organisation of a protest, scheduled for tonight at 6:30, against the decision to invite O’Neill to address an Addison Society dinner at the college. The statement, which has been signed by […]
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