Monthly Archives: March, 2008
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Oxford win Boat Race
VIDEO: Cambridge suffer after losing their stroke man.
Blackwell gives Bod £5m
Julian Blackwell wants the Bodleian's treasures to be put on public view.
OUCA ‘rowdy behaviour’ criticised
The behaviour of some OUCA members caused a speaker to complain at a London event.
Professor wins IR award
Paul Collier won the 2008 Lionel Gelver Prize for his book 'The Bottom Billion'.
College football round up, 7th and 8th weeks
PREMIER DIVISION Teddy Hall 3 Oriel 0 Last week, SEH regained some form by beating Oriel 3-0. It was a good attacking display, in...
Great Novels: Gravity’s Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon’s manic schizophrenic novel, originally titled ‘Mindless Pleasures’, is a quasi-sequel to his previous work V, which had appeared in 1963 to...
Review: Mort
Thank heavens Mort is showing in 8th Week of Hilary: the term of sickness, stress and freak exams for an unlucky few. Well –...
Panel Discussion: The Role of the Art School in the 21st Century, Modern Art Oxford
Richard Wentworth, Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, initially seemed slightly taken aback to discover that he was the sole...
Concert review: Tomas Gould & John Reid play Schubert, Szymanowski and Schumann
Holywell Music Room, 2nd March 2008Wandering past a posterboard for the Holywell Music Room coffee concerts it is easy to feel a twinge of...
Zero-emissions sports car developed
Oxford University has helped create a green sports car.
COMMENT: Teetotalism Over Temperance
The Comment Team explores drunkenness
Liveblogging: Texas and Ohio returns
Roundup -
So with 99% of results in Hillary Clinton won the Ohio primary by 10
points, and the Texas primary by 4 points. In the results from the
Texas caucus Obama is currently leading by single digits with around
one-third of the results reported. What does all this mean? In short,
it means the race is going to continue for a while longer. Hillary has
survived a night which could have ended her campaign and lives to fight
another day, able to claim that she has halted Obama's momentum after
he won 12 states in a row. However, everything is not rosy for her. She
remains well behind in delegates (still around 80 behind in pledged
delegates) and she's running out of opportunities to make up that gap.
Plus, whilst the victories tonight were important, she had long been
expected to win Ohio and Texas. Given the demographics in each they
were viewed as a Clinton 'firewall' and the fact that Texas was fairly
close and Ohio wasn't a total blowout means that she stil
Christ Church win University Challenge
The college won by 220-170 to Sheffield
They float in the breeze…
"I am convinced that we can eliminate single-use disposable bags altogether, in favour of long-lasting and more sustainable alternatives"-Prime Minister Brown
Although...