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New humanities faculty building to open in 2025
A new humanities facility, located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter along Woodstock Road, is to join the faculty buildings of Oxford University. The Schwarzman Centre is set to open...
Biology department urged to stand against badger culling
The department of Biology at the University of Oxford is facing calls for action...
SU-supported College Disparities Campaign launches to create equal ‘Oxford experience’
Following the release of The College Disparities Report, a subsequent College Disparities Campaign has...
Cornmarket Street and Queen Street to undergo ‘extensive repair works’
Oxford’s Cornmarket Street and Queen Street are scheduled to undergo "extensive repair works’’. Andrew...
Delayed New College accommodation which forced students into hotels officially opens
New College’s Gradel Quad has officially opened after month-long delays. The Quad, opened by...
Singles: Electric Six, Dance Commander
Electric Six:Dance CommanderOut now You have to love Electric Six, only if for being Americans who actually understand irony. They can’t sing and can’t...
Singles: Sophe Ellis-Bexter, Mixed-up World
Sophie Ellis-BextorMixed up WorldOut now The cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s new single features bright primary colours and lettering that smacks of the over-enthusiastic eighties...
Singles: Desert Sessions
Desert Sessions: Feat. Josh Homme/PJ Harvey Out 3 November Desert Sessions are booked to appear on Later With Jools Holland this year. Can you...
Gig: Arab Strap, The Zodiac, 6 Oct
I’ve waited three years for this to happen; the sainted Arab Strap, on the hallowed ground of the Zodiac. Sadly, Messrs. Moffat and Middleton’s...
Scare tactics
This week’s comments from Lord Butler in favour of privatisation, and the ‘coincidental’ publication of the details of a report by the New College...
Oxford’s first Sports Scholar
Chris Statter speaks to top pentathlete Aly Rowett, about her Dark Blue ScholarshipAly Rowell is the first Dark Blue Scholar. An exceptionally talented pentathlete...
Cherwell takes up…boxing with James Glancy
Training with the boxing team was a leisurely affair. I watched them run and sprint, then attempt twenty press-ups, twenty sit-ups and then twenty...
Community work
Sports OutreachThe Combined Universities of Oxford Sports Outreach Scheme (known as CommUniSports) was designed to try to improve existing sports provision in the local...
Makeshift Blues hit for four
Amateur Football Association put Oxford to the sword in pre-season friendly BLUES FOOTBALL Oxford 0 Amateur Football Association 4 An experimental Blues side, missing...
Climb every mountain
MOUNTAINEERING Over the summer, members of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club travelled to Chamonix, in the French Alps. We practised ropework on a glacier,...
Oxford plan to net further success
BLUES BASKETBALL With four consecutive appearances in the BUSA final and a record fourteen straight Varsity match wins, there is a lot of pressure...
Tkchuk try lifts Canada
RUGBY WORLD CUP Wales 41 Canada 10 Blues prop Kevin Tkachuk scored a seventy-first minute try as his native Canada collapsed to a 41-10...
Oxfored clinch warriors draw
BLUES RUGBY Worcester Warriors 26 Oxford 26 The Blues bid to regain their Varsity title looked decidedly promising on Monday night, as they forced...
On the streets
PLAY THE MAN by James Mumford & Patrick Malone Broad St/Trinity College Wednesday 22 – Saturday 25 October Top Oxford drama is self-conscious, wary,...
