Over the past seven months, some of Oxford’s offer holders have been hoping for their luck to change. They met the academic requirements and demonstrated sufficient intellectual rigour. What led them to fail the test was, instead, the passports they held.

The perseverance of The Concordian and The Tribune in the face of Bill C-18 demonstrates just how impactful institutional support can be, not least for allowing these student journalists to believe that their work is worth fighting for.

At Oxford, it seems like we get used to talking about our lives as nothing more than a summary of the things we’ve accomplished lately, or at least are just about to. The longer your list, the better you must be doing, because to be busy is to be making the absolute most of your time here – and who doesn’t want to be doing that?

“If they tell me to take it off, I won’t do that, and I...

The question, perhaps, is not whether Oxford makes time for tradition, but which traditions have the privilege of being considered part of ordinary life.