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Pro-Palestine protesters establish encampment demanding University action
An encampment has been constructed in Oxford in protest of Israeli action in Palestine and calling for the University to “end complicity with genocide”. Students, faculty, and staff have...
New humanities faculty building celebrates construction landmark in ‘topping out’ ceremony
"On Friday 3rd May, the University of Oxford celebrated the ’topping out’ of the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The ceremony to mark the completion of the roof involved speeches from Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey and donor Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, who has to date donated £185 million in support of the project. Musical acts clad in hard hats braved rainy conditions to perform on the roof, still a site of ongoing construction."
Sir Michael Palin and others to be awarded honorary degrees from the University of Oxford
World-renowned comedian and actor Sir Michael Palin and Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar are among...
Labour loses seats in Oxford City Council as Independents and Greens make gains
The Labour party has been reduced to 20 councillors out of 48 in the...
Oxford Union believes international climate policy is neo-imperalist
On Thursday night, the Oxford Union voted in favour of the motion ‘This House...
Love Eight Relationship on Isis
Summer Eights 2004 After last year’s historic double headship, Pembroke College came down to earth with a bump or two during this year’s Summer...
Nose runs to Hockey Cuppers victory
Brasenose won their second Mixed Hockey Cuppers title in three years after defeating a combined LMH/ Trinity side 1-0 in at Iffley Road. ...
Parker’s Party in the Parks
A sublime fourth-wicket partnership for Oxford on Monday saw off Cardiff ’s hopes of victory in the Parks after two days of edge-of-theseat action....
Terminal collapse kills four
Part of a terminal at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris collapsed on Sunday killing four people and injuring three others. A thirty...
‘Such a Terrible Waste’
St Catherine’s student dies after traffic accident on Cowley Road Emilie Harris, a twenty-year-old student at St Catherine’s College, has been killed after being...
Student ‘critical’ after fall
A Christ Church student is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a first-floor window in Blue Boar Quad. The first...
Anger at ‘costly’ Oriel rejection
The decision by Oriel undergraduates to remain outside OUSU has been criticised by 23 JCR Presidents who feel that their members “subsidise” services which...
OUSU gambles with new Entz venture
After a year in which OUSU made less than £5,000 from running Entz, the student union has decided to create a position with a...
Black bike market at Union
Questions of dodgy dealing have arisen regarding the sale of bicycles at the Oxford Union this week, following a complaint from a student who...
Radiohead serenade Oxford
A lucky Oxford audience salivated over a topless Jude Law and bartered over Jonny Depp’s pants last Sunday to raise money for terminally ill...
Oxford to be cigarette free city?
An Oxford city councillor has called for a citywide ban on smoking in public places, provoking anger from city pubs and students. Susanna...
Shotgun hold-up at Co-op
Two men violently robbed an Oxford supermarket last Friday night, escaping with a five-figure sum. The robbery occurred at approximately 10.30pm at the...
Tabs win second
Oxford has finished runners up to Cambridge in The Guardian’s league table of UK Universities for the second year running. It scored 83.33 out...
Tolkien’s House for Sale
No. 20 Northmoor Road, the Oxford house in which J.R.R. Tolkein lived for seventeen years and wrote The Hobbit, is up for sale. It...
