July 2007 - Cherwell

The Million Dollar/Pound Question

On Friday night, I went to a baseball game where my hometown Yankees were ingloriously destroyed by the Tampa Bay Devils. My long hiatus...

5 Things we didn’t know last week

1) One small move of a counter – one giant leap for computer-kind. Scientists in Canada claim to have written a program which can...

Flash Floods Hit Oxfordshire

Torrential downpours hit Oxfordshire yesterday causing severe flooding and transport delays.Many train routes in and around Oxford have been cancelled or rerouted, leaving passengers stranded...

Staying Power: Does anyone have it anymore?

Way back in 2005, I wrote a few columns about generation gaps and aging. You see, in a Web 2.0 world, where things can...

Exit Facebook – Enter Deep Space

Your Physicists Need You! An Oxford team of astrophysicists is enlisting the public's help in classifying newly discovered galaxies at http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ The name is...

Proctors turn to Facebook

Oxford's Proctors have resorted to Facebook in their latest campaign against post-exam celebrations. Senior members of Univeristy staff are using the social networking...

Oxford student guilty of manslaughter

Oxford student Will Jaggs has pleaded guilty to killing a 25 year-old woman in a frenzied sexually-motivated attack.Jaggs, an English literature student at Oriel...

My Cyber-friends have manners too

My mother says the scariest thing about Facebook is that there are no rules. How can I distinguish love interests from professional contacts when...

Strickland goes for MP

Earlier this week saw former OUSU President Alan Strickland vying to take over Tony Blair’s position as MP for Sedgefield. After more than 50...

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