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Exclusive: Oxford Union announces Trinity term card

Cherwell can exclusively reveal that former Home Secretary Sir James Cleverley, President of Goldman Sachs John E. Waldron, and rapper Tinie Tempah are all set to speak at the...
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Oxford University Press and University of Pennsylvania Press announce open access agreement

Oxford University Press (OUP) and University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) have struck a two-year agreement granting University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) students open access to hundreds of OUP journals.
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Proctors criticise University policy on buildings, AI, and staff payment

The University of Oxford’s Proctorial Team has criticised the physical decay of buildings, staff pay, and university policy on the use of artificial intelligence in their traditional end-of-term Oration shared in the Oxford University Gazette.
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‘English Pride’ protest met by counter-protest at Bonn Square

Clashes broke out between an Oxfordshire Patriots demonstration and a counter-protest from anti-racist groups in central Oxford today, with both sides gathering in Bonn Square outside Westgate.
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New College Warden dismisses ‘nonsense’ university league tables

Professor Alan Ryan,Warden of New College, criticised league tables in a recent opinion piece forthe Times Higher education Supplement, say­ing that the “problem with...

Film

In Her Shoes,dir. Curtis Hanson,out now: When Stupid Girl by Garbage announces the start of the film, alarm bells ring over the pretext of...

Hall become rugby champions

St Peter’s 8St Edmund Hall 15St Edmund Hall claimed an attritional, nerve-wrecked title decider against St Peter’s to regain the college rugby title from...

Soc. Shots

This week, the infamous fifth week blues have brought out the moaning teenage solipsists in the best of us, and let’s face it, sixth...

A constant delight

There are some subjects, writer John le Carré once said, “that can only be tackled in fiction”. It is curious, then, that Fernando Meirelles’...

Freshers fall to Tabs

Oxford Men 85Cambridge Men 96Oxford Women 92 Cambridge Women 98The Freshers’ individual performances suggested promise for the upcoming year. Oxford dominated the distance events...

What goes on tour…

The English music scene is a bizarre beast. To be sure, the market suffers from its pap bands that have endless sunshine blown up...

Raw Tongan power carries the day

Oxford 14Tonga 34Oxford came off worse in a match of brutal intensity against the touring Tonga national side. Though they remained competitive throughout the...

Morrisette for glory

The CollectionAlanis MorissetteOut 14 November« « « « «Since the glory days of her hugely successful debut, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette has been...

Wenger’s dilemma

I knew being at Oxford was like living in a bubble when, in five weeks, the only live football match I’d seen was Balliol...

Performing in the shadows of Pyramids

On a July evening in Cairo, Hussein Omar and I walked into “The place” or “Makan” as it is known to Egyptians. Outside, through...

A slanging match

Cherwell notes with relief the return to form of those two bastions of political potty-training, OULC and OUCA, just when things seemed to be...

Wheels within wheels

The Caucasian Chalk Circledir Lily Sykes9 - 12 NovemberThe Oxford PlayhouseThe Caucasian Chalk Circle is Bertolt Brecht’s epic tale of the struggle for sympathetic...

Student stunt death avoidable

The death of an Oxford student flung tothe ground by a stunt catapult in 2002 could have been prevented if furthersafety tests had been...

Commercial success for chemists’ spin off

Acompany founded by Oxford University Chemists has doubled in value since lastyear and is now estimated to be worth £58 million.The company, VaSTox Plc,...

Foreign theatre

Masqueradedir Rrimas Tuminas25 - 29 OctoberThe Oxford PlayhouseMikhail Lermontov, the great Rrussian playwright, had a fatal penchant for duelling. Fuelled with vodka, the duels...

Congregation dons raise reform concerns

Controversial measures to reform the way the University is run were the subject of a heated discussion at a meet­ing of Congregation, the University’s...

How would you like to die?

Some go peacefully, some “rage against the dying of the light”, some do it themselves,some let nature take its course, for some it is...

The play’s the thing

This autumn the BBC is laying on a lavish feast. Aas Rradio 3 announces a four year project to dramatise seventeen of the bard’s...

Arms and my childhood

In 1992, a european country was destroyed while the rest of the world watched. Its nucleus,however, resisted, fought back and survived three years of...
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