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Image description: May Day celebrations in Wheatley, Oxford We’ve all been there. The Cheese Floor still ringing in your ears as you trudge down a High Street which would not look out of place in Shaun of the Dead, with the promise of hearing better music at the end of it. The ever-disapproving sun rising […]
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Keble College may be looking to perform a traditional boat burning if they become Head of the River. It’s a controversial move, with Garden Masters resigning and the JCR voting against it. It has highlighted some absurd college ground rules. Walking and sitting on the main lawn is not allowed but croquet and boat burning […]
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Noise, light, energy. The skyscrapers shimmer with neon and exuberant sky-high manga figures; the streets resound with the cheerful thunder of anime and J-rock; hype seeps from every concrete pore. You know when you’re in Akihabara, Tokyo’s ‘Electric City’, the heartland of all things stereotypically otaku – video games, anime/manga, computers. Wandering through the […]
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How is it that the homeless go hungry whilst, away from the streets, satisfied students leave plates of food that never get eaten? In this article I will attempt to answer this question, which has angered me since my arrival in this city so dominated by class divides. My own college’s ‘hall’ can be seen […]
Continue ReadingMerton’s effort to preserve the space time continuum in their annual “Time Ceremony” this weekend has been deemed a success. Students at the college spent an hour walking backwards around the historic Fellows’ Quad while the clocks went back on Saturday night, whilst dressed in full sub fusc. According to experts at the college, to […]
Continue ReadingMark Johnson, in response to Elly Nowell’s biting, unjustified criticism of Oxford in her rejection letter, writes a letter to Oxford in praise and gratitude for their lack of social elitism when accepting a northern, state-school boy.
Continue ReadingLouisa Thompson and Maxwell Harris debate whether university traditions are the best or the worst things about Oxford.
Continue ReadingSean Scoltock and Sam Richardson end their tenure as Comment Editors in this debate about standing at formal hall
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