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Committee member resigns from Union over systemic issues
News
·9th May 2023

Union finances jeopardised after SU boycott

Rose Henderson
The Oxford University Student Union has severed ties with the Oxford Union. 78% of voters were in favour. The motion...
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Culture
·4th November 2021

Night on the Town

Amina Lounas
Image Description: a selfie taken in a night club.  Freshers week has been and gone, and our inevitable freshers flu...
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Features
·16th October 2020

Surviving in The Bubble: A Fresher’s Homage to Freshers’ Week 2020

Elsie Clark
Image Description: Two Bubbles separating two groups of individuals 1. THE ARRIVAL The day had come – after a year...
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·4th November 2017

Freshers’ Week: do a few years make a difference?

Alice Spiers, Graduate  There is a particular breed of fresher roaming the streets of Oxford this October. One that often...
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·21st September 2017

A letter to my fresher self

Emma. It’s the day after your nineteenth birthday, you’re moving to university and you’re terrified. You’re a home bird at...
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·16th August 2017

So, you’ve got into Oxford…

The sickening rush of results day is over, and you’ve made it! Congratulations. It’s soon going to start to sink...
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Life
·11th October 2016

5 Types of Fresher and How to Spot them

1. The Gap Yah Inbetween long stories about how they built a well in Kenya or chundered everywhere in Budapest,...
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Comment
·16th October 2015

My first week in Oxford: a review

Claire Sims
Until the moment I arrived at Oxford, I thought I was ready. I was the classic overzealous fresher; I diligently...
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Entertainment
·7th October 2013

What’s On Stage? 0th Week

Stage Editors
Welcome to What’s On Stage?, our new weekly update showcasing the editors’ picks for what to see in Oxford each...
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·16th September 2013

Behind the mask of Freshers’ Week fancy dress themes

Eleanor Grange
Before all of you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed freshlings descend upon Oxford for Freshers’ Week, what to wear to the inevitable...
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OxYou
·9th October 2022

The freshers you’re guaranteed to meet in Oxford

Milo Dennison
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an Oxford student, in possession of a freshers’ week, must be in want...
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Features
·4th December 2020

Champagne Activism Turned Sour

Lily Sheldon
You laugh with your friends about the evils of capitalism and get drunk off your face discussing progressive ideals. You...
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Features
·15th October 2020

From behind the screen to in front: a new perspective to fresher’s week

Kwabena Osei
Image Description: Statue facing upwards at Bodleian Libraries  Put quite simply, Freshers’ Week 2020 for me was… intense. So much...
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News
·24th September 2017

With a week until Freshers’, here’s our guide to the Oxford club scene

Darius Latham-Koenig
Ah, the Oxford clubbing scene. A veritable assortment of packed floors, questionable music transitions, and suspiciously cheap drinks. Despite what you may have heard...
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·17th August 2017

Rowing at Oxford isn’t scary

Danny Cowan
Before I started at Oxford, I was considering taking up rowing. My reasons were not the usual ones. Due to...
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Comment
·28th October 2016

Freshers’ Week First Aid Could Save Lives

Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill
Every autumn, universities up and down the country open their doors to new students excited by the thought of independent...
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·4th October 2016

Freshers’ Week Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Dear Freshers, You will probably have been dreaming of the wonders of Freshers’ Week since your UCAS offer changed from...
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·18th August 2014

The university packing list

After all of the stress, you’ve made it. The exams are done, the results good; your parents have gushingly informed...
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·4th October 2013

The fashion police on the Traffic Light Party

Emily Bootle
With the looming prospect of Freshers’ Week in all its overhyped glory comes the even darker thought of its fancy...
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