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VP (Finance) says that student union's commercial arm is "not operating as a totally legal company”.

Around a hundred students held a protest on the front quad of Wadham College in response to college rent rises.    

Costs of third-party programs inconsistent

JCR votes against college fowl officer.

Israeli festival sparks disagreement

'Boiler crisis' at St Annes continues.

Wadham elections spark betting spree

Unlicensed minicabs put students at risk.

Hood defends university in press.

Alleged vote-rigging prompts move

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

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

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

Monique Davis is underwhelmed by The Futureheads' latest offering

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

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  

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. 

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.

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.

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