The Christ Church JCR executive committee released a statement by email to Christ Church students this evening signed by the JCR President Jarnail Atwal, Vice-President Arun Smith, and Secretary Efe Kati. The statement addresses last Sunday’s hustings where a joke was made by a candidate for “cake rep” comparing the murder of George Floyd to Read More…
Christ Church has released a statement regarding the JCR hustings last Sunday night in this email sent to college students.
Frederik Filz von Reiterdan, a physics postgraduate at Oxford, has co-founded a 0% margin PPE initiative called Mask Bros. The student-led start-up is selling medical masks and respirators to protect the public from Covid-19.
“Zoom dates aren’t perfect, although they inarguably do have a 100% contraception rate. In fact, once quarantine is over, I might ditch face-to-face dates altogether.”
On the face of it, it sounds like a fantastic step forward in battling structural transphobia. Except for one small overlooked detail: they plan to convert one of the women’s facilities, not the men’s. And why is this a problem? I’ll explain.
The Blue is expanding its team of illustrators for TT20. Grab your pencils/watercolours/graphics pens, because we have mountains of projects incoming.
Police have suspicions that the Christ Church art thief may have escaped by boat through the meadows and down the river following the late-night heist. The burglar stole three high-value paintings from Christ Church Picture Gallery on Saturday night. Thames Valley Police is re-appealing for information, pursuing a line of enquiry “that the offenders could Read More…
Between £1,000 and £2,000 worth of burgundy and Pouilly-Fuissé wine has mysteriously gone missing from the extensive collection in Christ Church’s wine cellar, The Times reported today. The college has launched an investigation led by a lawyer after noticing a discrepancy in stocks in its internal records. Wine is available to be paid for by Read More…
A Balliol College student accommodation block is to be transformed into a coronavirus (COVID-19) testing and isolation centre over the next few days, The Oxford Blue can reveal. Today in an email sent from Master Helen Ghosh to Balliol students living off-site in neighbouring accommodation blocks, she explained that: “It is currently the case that Read More…
A postgraduate student at Lincoln College has become the first confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19) at the University of Oxford. They had recently returned from travel overseas. An email from the rector, Henry Woudhuysen, was sent to all Lincoln staff, students, and fellows on Sunday morning: “We learned on Saturday afternoon that one of our Read More…