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Student Union co-CEO to leave in June

Emilie Tapping, co-CEO of Oxford SU, announced her resignation last week, with a plan to leave in June after a year in post. Formerly CEO of Oxford Brookes Students’...
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Oxford Union votes against flying LGBTQ+ flag for Pride Month

The Oxford Union has rejected a proposal to fly an LGBTQ+ flag for Pride...
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VE Day celebrations to take place across Oxfordshire

Street parties are being planned across Oxfordshire as part of a national programme of...
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University Welfare Services release annual reports

The 2023/24 reports from Student Welfare and Support Services (SWSS) were published last week....
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Out of the Blue: The International Men of Mystery

I associate the dreaming spires of Oxford with Gregorian chants and boys’ choirs. Until I heard Out of the Blue, I was sceptical that...

M J Hayland: How the Light Gets in

There is something about the coming-of-age story that never grows old. While some writers have transformed the tale of adolescence into either sentimental kitsch...

Michael Faber Under The Skin

Faber’s first novel tears away protective layers of propriety, leaving the flesh and bone of society quivering and in full view. The realisation that...

Trebles all round for Oxford

Varsity Athletics The 130th match against Cambridge was characterised by strong performances on both the track and the field, culminating in victory for the...

Stearn shows no Varsity nervous Tics

Varsity Seconds Cricket Cambridge Crusaders 241/9 Oxford Authentics 242/5 A dogged unbeaten hundred from all-rounder Chris Stearn, a veteran of an incredible ten...

Gale Grant only Shields Oxford pain

Women’s Cricket After a superb victory against Cambridge in April, the fortunes of the Oxford women’s cricket side took a tumble, as weather and...

Oxford refuse to hibernate

Blues Rugby The bulk of the season may be over, but for the Blues rugby side, this week has brought a starting amount of...

Cambridge stay on target

Varsity Archery Cambridge 3417 Oxford 3187 In ideal conditions on the backs of St. John’s College, Cambridge, Oxford University Company of Archers put...

A breeze for LMH

Sailing Cuppers LMH, starting out as pre event favourites, held their composure and secured their first sailing cuppers win in recent years. Fourteen college...

Don’t mix your drinkers

Outraged Oriel students have rallied round their college staff in a confrontation over whether they should be allowed to drink at the college bar....

Teenage girl raped on way to school

A teenage girl has been savagely raped while walking to school in Oxford. Thames Valley Police have appealed for witnesses and urged all women...

Celebrities amongst the spires

The rich, famous and powerful descended on Oxford last week. The Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao, took tea in Christ Church as part...

Mast debate grips LMH

LMH’s JCR is to hold a referendum on whether to allow a mobile phone mast to be built in the College. The proposal...

Election’s confusing pro-life choice

Yesterday’s OUSU VP Women byelection was mired in controversy as it emerged that one of the two candidates had not mentioned her anti-abortion links...

Rent rise concerns rehashed

The front page of The OxStu last week dramatically revealed plans by various colleges to raise rents, almost six months after Cherwell first broke...

Student tramps to bed

A Christ Church student who woke up next to a middle-aged homeless person after a night out has vowed never to drink again. Adam...

Tab stabber on the loose

Cambridge students are "living in fear” after four people have been stabbed in apparently motiveless attacks in the city centre. Police believe the attacks...

Bog standard

Pun writers had a field day this week as it was announced that an Oxford public lavatory might be converted into student living quarters....

Chicken chow main-road

A New college student was arrested for running out in front of a car which was part of the Chinese Prime Minister’s convey. Second...

Attacker strikes in Lincoln

A man assaulted two Lincoln students last week, one of them inside the College grounds. Police were called shortly after 1am on Saturday morning,...
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