I was wondering: has the bounty on Salman Rushdie been bumped up now that he's been knighted by the Queen ( Read more... )

It is the Friday of the 8th week.

Term, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away ..

Has anyone lost a 128MB USB memory stick? Or know of anyone who has? I picked it up today in Central Oxford, it has a lot of essay work on it, and appears to belong to someone who is Christian/does Theology. It's red and white. Get in contact if it's yours or you know whose it is!

Question: When ordering books via Stack Request on OLIS, one of the options (and where a lot of the books I want are currently living) is "Bod Modern Pa" ....where is this? Thanks for your help!

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This is probably a stupid question, but is the OSS ID no required for the confirmation of status as DPhil student the same as the Bod card number?

Call & Response, a new literary 'zine at Wadham College is seeking submissions. We are looking for all sorts of writing (poetry, prose, translations), music (sheet music or lyrics) and art (paintings, doodles, photographs of sculpture), but please make sure it will fit onto an A4 sheet of paper folded in half. Also, please tell us which piece you' ( Read more... )

[Crossposted to dreamingspires]

There's going to be a new "Here & Now" UK edition of Monopoly, & you can vote for the UK city you think they should use. Not only is Oxford not top of the poll (at the time of writing, St Albans is in the lead) but it's even behind Cambridge! Vote for Oxford now - you can vote once per day per email address.

My partner and I are going to Oxford for our MA(Oxon) graduation ceremony, and we want to go for a meal out in the evening with a large party (15 of us). The restaurant we wanted to go to promptly shut down(!) and because several people in the group are fussy about what they eat (some vegetarians, some people who'll only eat plain English food, ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! My name is Zoe, second year undergrad at the University of California, Berkeley. I, like so many of my stateside bretheren, have applied to study at Oxford for the 07-08 school year. I have been sorta kinda given a place at St Edmund Hall, barring scheduling conflicts with the courses I am interested in. Yet, I have been in this ( Read more... )