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Kaya Alexsson has been elected as the SU’s VP for Charities & Community, beating out her competitor Naomi Hirst with 599 votes to Hirst’s 380. Re-Open Nominations received 32 votes. The announcement came last night at the SU’s Charity Awards ceremony. The by-election came after no-one stood for the position back in the full SU […]
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Growing up in Cardiff, I became quite used to the sight of a television crew set up ready to film one of BBC Wales’s successful shows. I remember how natural it felt when one day after primary school my friends and I took a detour with our parents to see Doctor Who and his Tardis […]
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Being gay at Oxford for me is a very polarised experience; my college is one of the most accepting places I’ve ever been to, and I’ve never felt so comfortable anywhere about my identity before, but the institution at large still suffers with an amount of internalised homophobia I naively thought was extinct. Being a […]
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A new charity has been established by Oxford students with the aim of distributing books to the city’s homeless. The non-proft organisation Homeless Oxford Literature Drive (HOLD) was set up last month by Hamza Rana, Alex Haveron-Jones and Martha Davies, all from Somerville College. This term, HOLD have launched their first book drive where they are […]
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This one’s for you, Instant Noodles. Disclaimer – I have never been a breakfast lover. Scrambled eggs are a dime a dozen, bacon gives me the sweats, cereals just ‘there’ – I generally feel disillusioned and apathetic to both the time of breakfast (obscenely early) and breakfast foods (except maple syrup, you’re my boo). But […]
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Tilly Rose provides a student perspective of Oxford University through her successful book, blog, and social media pages ‘That Oxford Girl’. She aims to provide a free resource which will encourage young people from a range of backgrounds to apply to the university, targeting problems with access that the university faces. She shares her own […]
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TW: sexual assault. Thames Valley Police have put out an appeal for witnesses to come forward following a rape incident in an alleyway on Turl Street. The appeal was also emailed to students of Lincoln College which is located on the street. The incident occurred around 03:20 to 03:40 on Saturday, 4th May. The victim, […]
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A new campaign has been launched to boycott the Oxford Union following its decision to invite figures described by the campaign as ‘fascist and racist’. Triggered in particular by the announcement of Katie Hopkins as a speaker for Trinity 2019, the campaign asks students to pledge not to attend Union events and has created an […]
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Amelia Standing represented the Dark Blues in this year’s Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race; the first-year engineer from St Anne’s College taking the position of stroke in the Women’s Blue Boat. Being the youngest of the crew, Amelia did not let only being in her first year at Oxford hinder her from representing the Dark […]
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This May Day, approximately 13,500 Oxford residents showed up to Magdalen Bridge for May Morning. The celebration of May Day in Oxford goes back over five centuries. The Magdalen College choir began its performance at 6am and was followed by dancing and music across Oxford throughout the morning. Paula Redway, Oxford City Council’s cultural development […]
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Osaid is a medical graduate (MD) from the Gaza Strip, Palestine. He is currently a student at Green Templeton College, reading for a Masters by Research (MRes) at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS). When I was a child in primary school, I picked up a book which was used by […]
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Oxford students were urged this week to register to vote in EU elections. In partnership with the SU, Vote For Your Future, a cross-party campaign, are urging students to register to vote in the upcoming EU elections. Students are encouraged to post a photo of their voter registration confirmation in the group, and the college […]
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Okay, so this idea has literally just popped into my head but I’m rolling with it. A general consensus across the world is that music is awesome and often food is too. Both can bring out feelings of joy, make me happy dance and burp a lot – they’re also my two best friends. With […]
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Chicken soup – you love it or you don’t. Either way, it is undeniable that the dish has souped its way into the hearts of people across the world, becoming a staple ‘rainy day’/’sick day’ comfort meal and an act of hostility to any kid who hates carrots (memories, shudder). Chicken soup’s broth is usually […]
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Oxford City Council is to become the first UK local authority to establish a citizen’s assembly with the aim of helping address the issue of climate change, by considering the measures that should be taken in Oxford. This follows the unanimous declaration by Oxford City Council members of a ‘climate emergency’, in a decision that […]
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“you have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” – Warsan Shire, “Home” From civil wars, political and religious persecution, or tyranny; the decision to flee one’s country is often seen as a last resort, a risky journey considered safer than staying. Despite […]
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It is likely that you saw something of the climate strikes on social media, whether that was a post encouraging you to attend or simply a picture of one of the protests that took place around the world on 15 March. These protests, with their condemnation of inaction on climate change, caught the public eye […]
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Leaving the Jeff Koons exhibition at the Ashmolean, I was left with the mixed feelings of gladness and repulsion; gladness that I had seen an exhibition that is intriguingly complex, if only for how problematic it is, and disgust that was born of the realisation that his work was both artistically unoriginal and sexually regressive. […]
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As a wearer and lover of stash, I thought I would respond to an article, published by the OxStu, in which my beloved stash faced the opprobrium of a fellow student who sadly misses the point of stash altogether. I proudly admit to owning a plethora of different articles of stash, which includes a puffer jacket, […]
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