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Pommen’s replacement, 19-year-old Ben Smith, heightened the drama. Ben’s brother, Matt Smith, is the President of Oxford??s boat. Between that duo and James and David Livingston—rowing for Cambridge and Oxford, respectively—the Boat Race was now the first with two pairs of brothers rowing in opposing boats...
Fenster was recruited as part of the Oxford Student’s endeavor to add a different perspective to their op-ed pages. What, after all, could be more alien than an American? The editors of Oxford??s campus weekly solicited The Crimson for a columnist and Fenster, who is a familiar face among the ranks of The Crimson op-ed team, volunteered. He soon found himself in an enviable situation—an ocean separates himself from the scrutiny of his editors and a weekly allotment of 400 words is his to use on whatever topic...
...edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break away from traditional government funding), Oxford??s weekly tiptoes along the line of objectivity. After all, straight-faced, no-nonsense reporting is so Puritan...
...fallen dramatically since the 1980s. In short, times are hard, and it’s no wonder that our research ratings are slipping and we haven’t won a Nobel Prize in decades. Also, whilst Harvard possesses an endowment that would be the envy of an elephant, Oxford??s is the equivalent of a small field mouse. For some demented reason we still seem to be under the illusion that education is a right, not a privilege, and therefore never stop moaning about?...
Before being tapped for the directorship in May, Rizvi worked as the Ford Foundation’s representative in India and served as the special assistant to the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan from 1988-1990. Previously, he had taught South Asian politics in British universities—including Oxford?? for nearly two decades...