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Is the future of student protest set in stone?

Niamh Lynch did not expect to attract international attention during Trinity term of her second year. That changed after her arrest at Stonehenge for spraying orange cornflour onto the...

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Intoxtigation 2025: The good, the bad, and the Balliol bar

Pour out a glass for the second annual Intoxtigation. 562 respondents told Cherwell all...

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An offer is only half the story: The challenges facing college outreach

Microsoft Forms and student satisfaction polls mark our email inboxes each year as the...

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Across the Atlantic: American academics are finding a new home at Oxford

As political and financial pressures mount across American higher education , a quiet migration...

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Features

Is the future of student protest set in stone?

Intoxtigation 2025: The good, the bad, and the Balliol bar

An offer is only half the story: The challenges facing college outreach

Across the Atlantic: American academics are finding a new home at Oxford

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