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Oxford Theologian John Henry Newman honoured by Pope Leo XIV

The 19th-century Catholic theologian and Oriel College fellow Cardinal John Henry Newman has been conferred a series of honours by Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Newman was named “a patron of...

Former Oxford student acquitted after spraying Stonehenge orange

A Just Stop Oil activist and former student at the University of Oxford, Niamh...

1930s artefacts uncovered during renovation of Oxford theatre

Renovations of the New Theatre on George Street have uncovered a variety of historic...

Oxford Climate Justice Campaign relaunches with Rad Cam demonstration

The Oxford Climate Justice Campaign (OCJC) has relaunched with a banner-drop demonstration in Radcliffe...

Oriel fellow on the way to being canonised

A former student of Trinity Collegeand Fellow of Oriel, John Henry Newman, is heading towards canonization after aBoston deacon claimed that prayers to the...

Laughing at gilded butterflies

The Insect Playdir Nanw Rowlands1 - 5 NovemberOFSThe first thing to strikeyou about The InsectPlay is that it is visuallystunning. Not only is thecast...

Blues rugby team stung by Wasps

Oxford 15London Wasps 41The underdog’s audacity lost out to professionalism on Monday as a brave, adventurous Blues side was overpowered by the superior stamina...

University to discuss gender gap in Finals results with students

The disparity between Finalsresults which exists between male and female undergraduates will be discussedat an Educational Policy and Standards Committee (EPSC) panel meeting on...

Counting the Ways

Counting the Ways, dir Will Robertson, 1 - 5 November, Burton Taylor: Edward Albee’s Counting theWays is an unsentimental studyof love and grief in...

US-banned Islamic scholar begins Oxford teaching post

Controversial Islamic scholarTariq Ramadan, who has in the past been accused of anti-Semitism and was bannedfrom teaching in the US, is aboutto begin teaching...

Tsunami victim named for award

A former student at Pembroke College who was seriously injured inlast year’s tsunami has been nominated by national magazine New Woman for theirWoman of...

The Real Insp. Hound

The Real Insp. Hound, dir Sarah Markiewicz1 - 5 November, Moser: A classic English country housemurder mystery. Two boredtheatre critics who alternatebetween pretentiousness and...

Lincoln chapel desecrated by ex-student

A former student of Lincoln College entered the college’s chapel,disrupted the altar dressing and shouted  abuse at the choir who were rehearsing. The incidienttook...

Time to stop talking and start acting

When scientists look back on this period in our history, one has to wonder what they’re going to think of recent years.In the last...

Colourful Cubism

Angela BullochModern Art Oxford11 October - 18 DecemberAngela Bulloch’s newexhibition is rather likehow you might imaginesome cyberspace realitywhere technology hasreplaced humans. The plywood andmetal...

Justified…

People often describe Hollywood as a strange beast, by which they tend to mean it has a closed, glazed expression, piercing eyes, and a...

Turner would turn over in his grave

From now until the 22 January 2006, Tate Britain will be playing host to an exhibition of the shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize....

Clash of moral duty

The staff of Oxford’s two student newspapers occasionally forget that the majority of the University’s population have little interest in the inner workings of...

Documents about a documentary film festival

When I first heard about theOxdox festival, I couldn’tbelieve my ears: a week ofhundreds of documentary films frommore than thirty countries, showingin five different...

Dirty money

Curtailing bop banter is not exactly a new trick among the old dogs of Oxford officialdom - while defacation is hardly the most original...

OxStu pulled after legal dispute with University

Last week’s edition of The OxfordStudent was pulled after the University threatened Oxford Student Services Ltd(OSSL), the paper’s owners, with an injunction against its...

Saraband

Sarabanddir, Ingmar Bergman,out now: Ingmar Bergman, after nearly twenty years of silence, has spoken again, with a new film,Saraband, showing at the National Film...

Obituary

TRY ASKING for an Archer’s Aqua at a college bar. At worst, you’ll be jeered right out of thequad; at best, pointed derisively to...

Cambridge advised to heed reform

The Chancellor of Oxford University hasspoken publicly for the first time in support of attempts to reform the University.In a speech to an audience...

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