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The first Student Council meeting of the academic year, yesterday, passed the motion to mandate the Sabbatical Officers to encourage the use of British Sign Language (BSL) clapping, otherwise known as ‘silent jazz hands’ at Student Council meetings and other official SU events. The motion was presented to Council last year by Ellie Macdonald (former […]
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A light and joyful evening at Corpus Christi marked the inaugural SU charity awards. Rosanna Greenwood (former VP for Charities and community), and Ben Farmer (RAG president) hosted the event, the purpose of which was to give recognition to the enormous amounts of charity work undertaken by students at the university, and to dispel the […]
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This Wednesday Oxford SU held a debate on condemning the invitation of Alice Weidel to speak at the Oxford Union on November 7. Weidel is the leader of German far-right political party Alternative for Germany. Her party stands on a platform of opposing immigration and they have often been branded as “racist” and “Islamophobic”. The […]
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Oxford SU has passed a motion allocating £500 to assist Irish students in their travel home to vote in the upcoming abortion referendum. There are currently around 300 Irish citizens who are students at the University of Oxford. This comes after the NUS pledged to match student unions’ contributions towards travel home up to £55. […]
Continue ReadingIn this year alone, the National Union of Students (NUS) has presented evidence against the illegal deportation of 50,000 international students at a Home Affairs Select Committee, given evidence at the UN against the Islamophobic Prevent agenda, and convinced the government to reverse £41 million worth of cuts to Higher Education funding. The NUS does […]
Continue ReadingAs someone involved in the workings of OUSU, I am starting to get slightly tired of the latest trend in the student press, which involves reeling off ranting comment pieces, slamming OUSU, OUSU Council, OUSU members, OUSU’s campaigns – or in fact, anything else within reach. A recent example of this came in Alexander Rankine’s […]
Continue ReadingLincoln JCR has banned OUSU candidates from entering college property to door-knock. The motion, passed on Sunday of 5th, has been strongly opposed by both Jane Cahill, one of this year’s presidential candidates, and Tom Rutland, current OUSU president. The proposal, put forward by Kristin Lampe, a second year Law student, was designed to protect […]
Continue Reading“We are free today in this land because so many of our friends throughout the world supported us… [Students] were able to change the moral compass in your country…” Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu is better placed than most to comment on the success students can have by standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples throughout […]
Continue ReadingOn 13 November, voting will open for OUSU President, Vice-Presidents and other representatives. This year has two candidates for the top position – Tom Rutland, finalist in PPE at Jesus, and Izzy Westbury, in her 4th year at Oxford, studying physiological sciences at Hertford. Following results showing that OUSU is the least popular student union […]
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