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Jesus in sexism row Pyjamas sent to bed without any dinner Read all about it: Library Lads on tour Union officials probed Too much Oxbridge at Beeb, says boss
 

Jesus in sexism row

Controversy over rejected female empowerment motion at Jesus College

Pyjamas sent to bed without any dinner

Pyjamas sent to bed without any dinner

Brasenose students who continue to go to breakfast in pyjamas may face a dressing down.

Read all about it: Library Lads on tour

Self-titled "Library Lads" are touring various university libraries in a bid to liven up their revision schedules for prelims and finals.

Union officials probed

Union officials probed

A breach of confidentiality rules earlier this term led to the investigation of a number of senior Oxford Union committee members, including a potential presidential candidate, it has emerged.

Too much Oxbridge at Beeb, says boss

Too much Oxbridge at Beeb, says boss

The outgoing BBC Director-General has reportedly claimed to be “disturbed” by the high number of Oxbridge graduates at the organisation.

LGBTQsoc, militant? Don’t be absurd

21 May 2012

By Alex Gabriel  Alex Bramham, who just cancelled his campaign to be president of LGBTQsoc, complained in this paper that liberationist ‘equality militants’ control the group. I have to tell him: it’s news to us. Having come up to Wadham a year after me, he describes a society where ‘language is policed to a[n] Orwellian [...]

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US university system better than Oxbridge?

20 May 2012

Rebecca Temerario compares her experiences on both sides of the Atlantic…….  While the system of higher education in the United Kingdom is accommodating to individualism, this does not mean that the American system needn’t be. I attend Sarah Lawrence College, near New York City, which enrolls about 1,000 students each year. Sarah Lawrence doesn’t have any [...]

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Ineffable: the mutterings of a science student

18 May 2012

By Heather Stevens On 2nd May, scientists at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire released a letter and video appealing to the consciences of environmental activists planning to physically destroy their research in a protest – described on their website as “a nice day out in the country, with picnics, music from Seize the Day and a decontamination” - set to go ahead next Sunday. In [...]

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Politicians, above the media should be the focus of Leveson

18 May 2012

Propostion: Politicians must be held to a higher ethical standardby Adam Tyndall  Be honest, you love the tabloids. You care more about Cameron texting like your mum than his message admitting “Miliband’s got me on the run”. The notion that the Leveson Inquiry will raise the tone of our public debate is worthy of only one response: LOL. So what will it change? [...]

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In the foothills with Chris Mullin

In the foothills with Chris Mullin

17 May 2012

By Dom Gilchrist and Sakina Haider The rise of New Labour was noticed by all but recorded by few. Fortunately, through the little red notebooks he used to capture his time as an MP, Mullin has preserved one of the most important periods in the Labour Party’s history establishing himself as the turn of the century’s most important diarist in the process. His [...]

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The Malcontent on: Youtube Adverts

17 May 2012

By James Restall John Lennon once said, “Time you enjoy wasting, was not time wasted.” The snowed-under finalist may welldisagree, but let’s not forget that university students are the ultimate professional procrastinators.  Since its 2005 launch, YouTube has provided essay-writers with the perfect vehicle for distraction. Be it an irate dog-walker cursing his pet as it hurtles towards a stampede of deer, a clip [...]

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The Police: the Bedfellow of Capitalism

The Police: the Bedfellow of Capitalism

17 May 2012

By Shozab Raza Last Thursday, up to 400,000 public sector workers staged a day of strikes in protest of the UK government’s austerity programme. What was unusual was that 20,000 off-duty police officers also marched in the capital that day, albeit in a separate demonstration. Organized by the Police Federation of England & Wales, the [...]

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Europe asks: le changement, c’est maintenant?

Europe asks: le changement, c’est maintenant?

17 May 2012

By Chris Barry Francois Hollande’s recent victory in the French presidential elections represents a welcome shift to the left in the balance of European politics. It has indeed been a very long time – thirty-one years – since the last election of a socialist French president. This fact, coupled with Hollande’s insistence that his victory represents a new, collective will to break with the [...]

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