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...world diminishes into insignificance against the `student production.' We can, but we won't, talk of student journalism (dreadful), sports, films, politics and music. Such an elysian delight to arrive fresh-faced from high school and pick and choose among multiple student personae. In my college in Oxford, the educational habitation of Oscar Wilde, the penchant for extreme effeminacy and decadence was the mask of many arrivals. Why not waltz with youthful freedom amidst such variety, and try out all the masks...
...OXFORD, England--As news of Governor Bill Clinton's resounding electoral victory reached Oxford University early yesterday morning, Harvard students studying abroad breathed sighs of relief that this unpredictable race had finally run its course...
Reich, Clinton's roommate while the two wereRhodes scholars at Oxford, gave $1,000 to hisfriend's campaign...
...ordinary people," Toda says. "He talks a language people understand. He has a real interest in what people say and think and do. We haven't seen this kind of man in government in a long time. Bush sounds like a Yalie and Clinton sounds like someone who went Oxford. George Bush doesn't even understand people...
Last week the Boston Phoenix ran a lengthy piece on violence in college campuses around the country. The escalation in physical and sexual assaults on students is not unique to the U.S. In Oxford, the rather glamorous old conflicts between privileged students and hardnosed town residents have been replaced by horrifying acts of violence--not in the name of class war, but for the sake of drugs, money and kicks. In the U.S. violence has shifted from premeditaion to simple brutality: one in which the randomness of it all makes everyone a possible victim and a possible assailant...