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Cherwell is an independent newspaper, largely published for students of Oxford University. First published in 1920, it has had an online edition since 1996. Named after the local river, Cherwell is published by OSPL (Oxford Student Publications Ltd.), who also publish the sister publication Isis along with the Bang! science magazine, Industry fashion magazine and freshers' magazine Keep Off the Grass. One of the oldest student publications in the UK, it is editorially independent and has been the launching pad for many well known journalistic and business careers. The newspaper has a commercial business team, receives no university funding and is independent of the student union. Source

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Language English
Country United Kingdom
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No One Tells You About the Second-Year Scramble

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Somewhere around the fifth week of Michaelmas, it starts. Not with a formal announcement, not with any kind of pastoral guidance — just a creeping anxiety that spreads through staircase WhatsApp groups and over hall dinners, usually introduced by someone who heard from someone in second year that if you haven’t found a house by Christmas, you’re finished. This is Oxford’s least-discussed rite of passage: the second-year housing scramble. Everybody goes through it. Nobody really prepares you for it.
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How an Oxford undergraduate made a name in choral music

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By Anish Vedantham
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For most undergraduate composers, a debut album remains a distant ambition. For Christopher Churcher, a music student and finalist at Lady Margaret Hall, it has already become a reality. His album Moonrise, a collection of choral works recorded with Somerville College Choir, has earned national attention, including being selected as BBC Radio 3’s Album of the Week. The path to Moonrise began long before Oxford.
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‘Scenes With Girls’ and complicated female friendships

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By Charlie Bailey
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Scenes with Girls deserves to be seen as one of Labyrinth Productions’ (Rosie Morgan-Males and Emily Cullinan) most impressive accolades. It displayed the tension inside a female friendship to such a believable extent that at points the audience were silenced entirely.
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Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

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By Emma Heagney
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William Hague, Chancellor of Oxford, conferred nine honorary degrees in today’s Encaenia ceremony.
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Why are so many Oxford graduates leaving the spires for the north?

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Ask any final-year student leaving an exam hall in June where they’re headed next, and London was the obvious answer. Not anymore. More and more Oxford graduates are heading north, and one destination keeps appearing in conversation: Manchester. The Lure of Manchester In the capital, rent may eat through a graduate wage before the month is half over, and that is reason enough for plenty of finalists to look elsewhere.
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‘The Moro Affair’: Astonishingly original, but not quite a story

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By Ian Coates
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I must admit I don’t have much love for musical theatre – not in a holier-than-thee (not thou) sort of way, as I assure you I have significantly less love for opera – but simply on the basis that I am a great lover of stories, and I find that songs are usually an obstacle to the momentum of an unfolding plot. So, when reading this review, bear in mind that as a story-loving, musical-hating, easily-bored theatre-goer, I am quite possibly the worst person in the world to review this play.
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The Oxford Union was never about free speech

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By Olivia-Mae Butterfield
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A private members’ club audacious enough to promote itself as the “last bastion of free speech”, the Oxford Union is the embodiment of Oxford exclusivity and elitism. Founded by a group of young white men in 1823, the Union’s self-professed object is to encourage rigorous debate, often about some of the most controversial topics of the moment. It occupies a bizarre space between the University and the public, affiliated to neither and mediating between both.
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‘Music can be everything’: Aurora Orchestra’s Jane Mitchell on the narratives around classical music

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By Lilia Goldstein
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The Aurora Orchestra, who are playing at Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre on the 19th June, are best known for performing their orchestral repertoire from memory. For anyone who’s familiar with classical concerts, this is a huge departure from the norm – orchestral players usually sit demurely in their seats, eyes flitting between their scores and the conductor.
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Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

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By Beatrix Arnold, Mercedes Haas, Ned Remington
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Background Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who calls himself Tommy Robinson, is due to speak at the Oxford Union at 8:30pm this evening at a debate on the motion “This House believes the West is right to be suspicious of Islam”. The event has drawn condemnation from University societies, local politicians, and local faith leaders.
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Branding the beautiful game: How the World Cup logo signifies the commercialisation of football

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By John Whittingdale
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As billions around the world gear up for the beautiful game to touch down in not one, but three cultural superpowers, there has been an overriding sense of disgruntlement with North America’s vision of the world’s festival.
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Cherwell Journalists

Chang, Faye
Chen, Selina
Cooke, Laurence
Gibbins, Amelia
Hayes, Ben
Johnson, Louis
Lock, Donovan
Maciejewski, Jan
Okunde, Anita
Prvulovich, Alex
Robertson, Morien
Robson, Noah
Rouffin, Gaspard
Saxon, Adam
Willis, Charlotte