Last Friday, Annie Teriba, a prominent Oxford University student activist, announced she would resign from her various campus appointments after confessing that she had had sex without properly obtaining consent from her partner.
Professor Louise Richardson, an expert on international security and terrorist movements, is the first woman in Oxford University’s nearly 800-year history to be appointed as its leader.
Oxford University has changed one of its stodgier traditions so that now it's less arbitrarily stodgy than it was before — students taking exams or attending formal events will no longer have to wear ceremonial academic clothing that is specific to their gender. Men can now wear skirts and stockings, and women will…
Known "perfect stylist" Jane Austen might not have been so perfect after all, says an Oxford prof who studied the novelist's writings and found "blots, crossing outs and 'a powerful counter-grammatical way of writing.'" Also, a dude heavily edited her.
Iran's regime has sent a letter to Oxford University denouncing a philosophy scholarship that was created in the name of Neda Soltan. They claim Neda's death was orchestrated by the opposition, and the scholarship "undermines [Oxford's] credibility." [Times]
[Oxford, October 8. Image via Getty]
Designer Roberto Cavalli is kind of awesome. Sure, he wants to cover the world in leopard print and has a Segway, but that kind of wacky is a goldmine. In an interview he did after a speaking engagement at Oxford University, he issued forth the following quips: (On Kate Moss) "I am against drugs and against the people…
