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Image Description: the main entrance to Pembroke College. Pembroke College have announced that following an Al Jazeera piece that accused him of sexual harassment and misconduct, Andy Orchard has voluntarily withdrawn from the Governing Body. In an email sent to the JCR yesterday morning, the President of the JCR and Gender Equalities Rep assured fellow […]
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Image Description: St Giles’ Church, Oxford, where OUCA’s primary event, Port and Policy, used to be held. TW: mentions of harassment The President of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) has been removed from office amid allegations about their conduct, including financial mismanagement and harassment charges. The Disciplinary Committee upheld the majority of the complaints […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould. Description: St Cross College. Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of transphobic statements and images. Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College Michael Biggs has been posting transphobic statements online under the Twitter handle @MrHenryWimbush, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Twitter account, named Henry Wimbush and […]
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Image Credit: Kaihsu (CC BY-SA 3.0) A recent investigation by The Guardian has revealed that accusations of bullying has been made towards hundreds of academics at top universities across the UK over the last 5 years. The paper sent freedom of information requests to different universities, revealing 294 complaints at 55 universities. Across 105 of […]
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The start of 2018 was greeted by a scandal that quickly received international condemnation. Logan Paul, a former vine star turned YouTuber, had uploaded a video as part of his Japan tour exploring the infamous Aokigahara ‘suicide’ forest, in which he stumbles upon a recently deceased individual. Filming at close proximity to the corpse, he […]
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It isn’t often I agree with Laura Pidcock, the outspoken Labour MP for North West Durham, but in the midst of the Westminster sex scandal(s) I am inclined to review the words of her maiden speech. In this rather blunt polemic she noted of Parliament: “This building is intimidating, it reeks of the establishment, and […]
Continue ReadingUniversity College has revealed that there were five instances of sex-related harassment in the last academic year. Of these allegations, three were made against staff, whilst two were made against students. One staff member left the College’s employment as a result of the complaint. Whilst the majority of allegations were made by students, one was […]
Continue ReadingThe results of an OxStu survey have revealed that many students are unhappy with their tutors, but do not take action.
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