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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.
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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...
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Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."
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Oxford academics sign open letter opposing Nathan Cofnas’ suspension

Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and self-described “race realist”, was responsible for publicising allegations that the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday had plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
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Oxford 11Cambridge 11In the 72nd minute, Cambridge winger and fresher, Charlie Desmond, lived up to his billing as the “speedster” and “bolter” of the...

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It's a dangerous situation when dining companions arrive late; when the restaurant offers such a splendid bar, it is simply insulting not to use...

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Another New Year, another new term, and with them comes another new trend. Well, you’d think this is the case, but some how, this...

No pain, no Blaine

They tried to dissuade him. Forty-four days without food, and his body would turn to itself for sustenance. Heart palpitations, hallucinations and loss of...

No more plane sailing

It’s never a good idea to let the newspapers make your decisions for you. If you were to believe everything you read in the daily...

Working harder, playing harder

At any one time it is estimated that 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk. In a microcosm such as Oxford this figure, particularly...

Balk at the Wild Side

It seems extremism in all shapes and forms is permeating so many aspects of our lives these days; aside from the everyday worries of...

Shock and Whore

The problem with extreme sex is that I’m not entirely convinced such a thing exists. If anything, it conjures ludicrous images of overweight women...

Violence is not golden

This nefarious exploration of all things savage is a deliberately perverse piece, to such an extent that to grasp either where it’s coming from...

Smashing Entertainment

Bash is a series of three short pieces that show us people who have been pushed over familiar boundaries. Labute’s vision is a bleak...

Court “underestimated” student’s life

The mother of Edmund Sutton, an Oxford student killed in a car crash last year, has expressed her anger and grief after the Cambridge...

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Left turn Oriel JCR is considering the use of legal force against College bursars. Oriel looks set to take the Estate Bursars Committee to...

Dons call for privatisation

Top college chiefs are pushing the University towards privatisation in a blow to both government tuition-fee plans and the student campaign against top-up fees....

Freshers’ bus stalls after media hype

Oxford students were portrayed as molly-coddled and spoon-fed by the national press last week in the wake of foiled plans by the Oxford University...

Job struggle for poorer students

A new report reveals that for the large majority of working class graduates, the chances of getting “interesting and meaningful” work are slim. The...

Meeting to defend Kelly’s faith

The Oxford Baha’i Society held an open meeting this week following the media frenzy surrounding the death of one of its followers, Dr David...

Wadham bops threatened with closure

Police put an abrupt end to Wadham’s freshers’ bop on Friday night following complaints from local residents over the “unbearable” noise. The organisers cut...

Union defies anti-joining campaign

A University wide campaign, launched to discourage freshers from joining the Union has been traced to anti-smoking campaigners. In a renewed attempt to ban...

Girl survives 20 ft glass drop

Clubbing students watched in shock as a tourist plummeted two storeys through a glass roof outside the Bridge nightclub on Monday night. The young...
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