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Baroness Valerie Amos has been appointed Master of University College, Oxford. She will be the first black head of an Oxford College, and the first women Master of Univ. Baroness Amos is the current director of SOAS University of London, a former politician for the Labour Party, and former United Nations Official. Commenting on this, […]
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Image Credit: University College, Oxford University College has built a new war memorial in commemoration of Rolf Wilhelm Baron von Seldeneck, the college’s only German casualty in either World War. Rolf joined University College in 1911, where he studied for a year, before joining the army in 1914. He was then killed on 24 January […]
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To many, the thought of Russian literature conjures up bad memories of trying to read War and Peace, because ‘it’s just one of those things you just have to read’, before giving up and skimming through a summary online instead. And yet, it’s the lighter, less philosophical side of Russian literature that is often less […]
Continue ReadingAllegations have been made that Univ freshers have been swearing and spitting at the college’s bar staff. The most recent in a string of incidents occurred at a bop in the college bar on Saturday night. Staff at the bar, which is managed independently of the college, reported multiple instances of swearing at workers. On […]
Continue ReadingStudents at Univ are up in arms after gardeners forcibly removed a number of bike locks on Monday. In an email to JCR members, Univ’s JCR Treasurer and Vice-president Robert Natzler described how the College’s gardeners went round with “dazzling temerity”, cutting the locks from bikes that were parked in Logic Lane and not marked […]
Continue ReadingAn Oxford University graduate has died in Afghanistan in a suspected suicide, a day before his 30th birthday. Captain James Townley of the Corps of Royal Engineers allegedly shot himself in the head while serving at a remote base in Helmand Province, before later succumbing to his injuries at Camp Bastion. The Ministry of Defence […]
Continue ReadingOxford’s newest sport continues to grow, with even the Guardian becoming involved this week. Resident Harry Potter expert Tom Ough checks it out.
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