Sunday 15th June 2025

News

George Abaraonye wins Oxford Union presidency

George Abaraonye has been elected Oxford Union President for Hilary Term 2026 with 611 first preferences against opponent Rosalie Chapman’s 416 first preferences. Turnout was 1208, which falls significantly...

Underground Bar to open on George Street

Underground Bar, a “grassroots alternative music venue” is set to open in the basement...

Oxford Union town hall TT25: Meet the candidates

With polls open for the next set of Oxford Union elections on Friday, Cherwell...

MML Faculty cuts almost half of special subject final options

Over 40% of Modern Languages Special Subjects have been cut for those sitting finals...

Magdalen refuses chicken rep

JCR votes against college fowl officer.

iFest draws political protesters

Israeli festival sparks disagreement

Students left out in cold

'Boiler crisis' at St Annes continues.

Bets taken on JCR election

Wadham elections spark betting spree

Warning after taxi sex attacks

Unlicensed minicabs put students at risk.

VC promotes Oxford to teachers

Hood defends university in press.

JCR elections re-poll at New

Alleged vote-rigging prompts move

Sex pest harasses Corpus women

Police advise women to take care at night in Cowley/Iffley area

Students abuse travel grants

Drugs, clubs and sex on the beach: the real destination of educational travel grants

Balliol burglar may be student

Police are appealing for help after a burglar escaped porters at Balliol College.

The Futureheads – “This is not the world”

Monique Davis is underwhelmed by The Futureheads' latest offering

VIDEO: Protests mar Israel festival

Palestine supporters descend on iFest "Camels in Oxford" event, despite organisers' call to leave politics aside.

Union rule change poll opens

Members of the Oxford Union are voting today on a proposed change to the debating society's election regulations, despite a mistake in election publicity.   It emerged this weekend that printed publicity for the poll was erroneous, leaving out part of the proposed rule change.  A corrected version has been published on the Oxford Union website.   The poll closes at 9pm.   See also: Omkar triggers Union poll  

Bridge forced to clean up

Popular student nightclub The Bridge has been forced to change its door entry policies and has been forbidden from using glass bottles and glasses following a review of the club’s licence by Oxford City Council’s Licensing sub-committee.   The club will now be unable to admit customers in the hour before closing time. It will also have to serve drinks in polycarbonate containers as opposed to glass. 

Polish students in Oxford

Oxford University welcomed Committee members from Polish Societies across the country this weekend for the ‘Leading Our Future’ event, a Congress organised by students at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews.   Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski, former tutor at Pembroke, hosted some 60 students on the three-day event, which featured discussion panels, group workshops and leadership training.   Guest speakers included Oxford graduate and current Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radek Sikorski, and Professor Leszek Kolakowski, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls.

Music harms environment

Preliminary research conducted at Oxford University indicates that the UK music industry produces up to one million tonnes of CO2 annually.   The University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) believes the main contributors to be live concerts, the mass production and sale of music products and UK artists going on tour throughout the globe.   The ECI and Julie’s Bicycle, the organisation that commissioned the research, urge the UK music industry to think and act more greenly which they believe will inspire other companies as well.

College blamed for disease outbreak

Pembroke's JCR President has accused the college of putting students’ lives at risk.

Finalists evicted without warning

Landlord failed to keep up mortgage repayments.

JCR President told to plump up

President “dangerously close to being presentable and/or ‘attractive’”    

Case of meningitis at Catz

Male Welfare Rep praised for prompt reaction.  

Follow us