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	Oxford Union: About The Union
		The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford.
		Oxford University's collegiate nature produces a real need for a central student venue, and the Oxford Union is the institution which meets this need.
		The Oxford Union is the definative place for students to meet and socialise.
	www.oxford-union.org /about_us (535 words)

	Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census).
		Oxford's Town Hall was built by Henry T. Hare, the foundation stone was laid on 6 July 1893 and opened by the future King Edward VII on 12 May 1897.
		Oxford is located some 55 miles (90 Km) north west of London and 70 miles (110 Km) south east of Birmingham, and the M40 motorway between London and Birmingham passes within seven miles of Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford (2068 words)

	Oxford University Student Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oxford University Student Union is the official student union of the University of Oxford, representing the interests of its members to the university and the outside world.
		Reflecting the federated nature of the University of Oxford itself, OUSU is both an association of Oxford's more than 17,000 individual students and a federation of the Junior Common Rooms (JCRs) and Middle Common Rooms (MCRs) that represent students and graduate students (respectively) at the University's 46 colleges.
		The University of Oxford's nascent students' union arguably emerged in the 13th century, as student leaders attempted to mediate the violent clashes between "nations" at the University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oxford_University_Student_Union (933 words)

	Oxford - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Oxford is twinned with Bonn in Germany, Grenoble in France, León in Nicaragua, Leiden in the Netherlands, and Perm in Russia.
		Oxford is located some 50 miles (80 km) north west of London; the cities are linked by the M40 motorway, which also links northwards to Birmingham.
		Oxford's latitude and longitude are 51°45'07" N and 1°15'28" W (at Carfax Tower, which is usually considered the centre).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/o/x/f/Oxford.html (1466 words)

	Why does anyone care about the Oxford Union? \| Students \| EducationGuardian.co.uk
		The Union combines a nearly unique global stature with the priorities you might expect from any group of students in their late teens and early 20s, and, as a result, strange juxtapositions ensue: on any given evening, His Holiness the Dalai Lama might be visiting - but then again, so might Johnny Ball or Westlife.
		It was the latest in a string of reminders of the Union's strangely unclear status: an institution that celebrities of all kinds, including world leaders, are flattered to be asked to visit, and yet, simultaneously, a vaguely preposterous fl-tie social club not taken particularly seriously even by most Oxford students.
		The Union's outsized role in British national life was never more in evidence than on the famous night of February 9, 1933, when students voted 275 to 153 in favour of the motion "that this house will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country".
	education.guardian.co.uk /students/politics/story/0,,2218257,00.html (1313 words)

	Williams College Oxford Programme - Activities & Sports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oxford University has more than 300 student organizations, all of which are open to Williams students.
		The Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) Freshers' Fair is one of the biggest university events of the year and an excellent way to find an activity that interests you.
		The Oxford Union is the world's foremost debating society, with a reputation for bringing guests and speakers to Oxford.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /orgs/oxford/activities.html (315 words)

	Dissent suppressed at Oxford Union
		Events at the Oxford Union were more low-key and the body insists that hostile questions were indeed asked of Mogae, in what was a successful debate.
		The Oxford Union is not an official part of the political system, but it has acted as a training ground for generations of political figures in Britain and beyond since the days of Gladstone to more recent figures such as Edward Heath, Tony Benn, Benazir Bhutto and Tariq Ali.
		Oxford, the alma mater of Sir Cecil Rhodes, who carved out a fortune for himself and an empire for Britain in Southern Africa with De Beers, is an entirely appropriate place to raise questions about these issues.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/oct2005/oxfo-o25.shtml (1139 words)

	Protests Disrupt Oxford Forum (phillyBurbs.com) \| Europe
		OXFORD, England - Demonstrators disrupted a forum at the venerable Oxford Union debating society Monday night but failed to stop an appearance by a far-right politician and a historian who denies the Holocaust.
		Union members voted Friday to allow the men to speak, despite calls to revoke the invitations.
		The union's president, Luke Tryl, has said he invited the men to talk about the limits of free speech, not to expound on their views.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-11262007-1446824.html (627 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Oxfordshire \| Rally over Oxford Union speakers
		Nick Griffin and David Irving are due to speak at the Oxford Union
		The Oxford Union said it was important to give people of all views a platform.
		Those attending the rally included: the Oxford Students' Union president, the National Union of Students fl students' officer, and the Trades Union Congress south east regional secretary.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7103350.stm (362 words)

	The British are coming . . . again: UGA to debate Oxford Union on U.N.'s role in Iraq
		The UGA at Oxford Program was established in 1989 by Shaw; thirteen students of English spent the summer at Oxford that first year.
		The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 as an arena for the free exchange of ideas among students, and it soon became the forum for political debate in Oxford.
		UGA at Oxford is offering this second debate as part of the inaugural celebration for its new fundraising organization, the Friends of Oxford, which has been established to help support UGA students who study at the university’s residential study-abroad center in Oxford.
	www.uga.edu /news-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=6&num=535&printer=1 (830 words)

	Part 4: Wilde at Oxford/Oxford Gone Wilde
		At Oxford, Wilde, in Richard Ellmann's words, "created himself." Perhaps the most important influences on Wilde at Oxford were Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, and John Ruskin.
		By the time he left Oxford for London, Wilde's double first in "Greats" (said to be the best of his year) and his Newdigate Prize for poetry, had spread his fame far beyond the confines of the university.
		He was accused, as he had been by members of the Oxford Union, of merely imitating other, better poets and criticized for inconsistency and contradicting himself in the volume.
	www.nyu.edu /library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/3oxford.htm (1153 words)

	Royal Mail Aims To Smash Union (from Oxford Mail)
		While a strong trade union supporter and member, the strength of a union lies in exercising it's powers responsibly and not crying wolf and causing bother to the public whose support is vital.
		Oxford CWU is a rare example of a branch that is prepared to fight.
		It seems that the union in oxford are the ones who cause so much hassle for the general public anyway.....[/quote] While I'm no fan of the union's militancy, that's putting an awful lot of faith in the Post Office managers, faith which I'm afraid I don't have.
	www.oxfordmail.net /news/headlines/display.var.1701007.0.royal_mail_aims_to_smash_union.php (2563 words)

	Oxford Union, 1986 Huxley Memorial Debate on CD, Dawkins/Wilder-Smith/Andrews/Maynard-Smith, 1986
		A story that began to circulate about that time was that after the debate, there was a total flout on the part of Oxford Union regarding it, that in fact as far as the Oxford Union, and the Oxford University were concerned, the event may as well not have happened.
		I was one of several who told the CRS group it was Oxford and not Cambridge, and I said that I had a copy of the tapes.
		Nor is the Chairman of the Oxford Union, who read out the votes at the end of the evening, corrected in any way by either the tellers who counted the votes, nor any from the evolutionary side of the debate.
	www.tonguesrevisited.com /oxford_union_debate.htm (2341 words)

	Smokers Return - News - The Oxford Student - Official Student Newspaper
		THE OXFORD UNION bar could be surrounded by its traditional haze of blue smoke once more if a motion to re-introduce smoking on the ground floor of the building is passed this Thursday.
		He also fears that Union bar profits have fallen significantly since the introduction of the ban, although he admits his information is currently based on unofficial surveys.
		Richard Silcock, President of the Oxford Union, said he did not mind whether or not the Union bar allowed smoking, and stated that he was happy to obey the outcome of the motion, as long as it maintained the wishes of the members.
	www.oxfordstudent.com /mt2000wk6/News/smokers_return (453 words)

	Canadian Miss World Beauty Nazanin Afshin-Jam to address the Oxford Union in England
		The invitation to Oxford was initiated by the Vice-President of the Oxford Union Society and it is to address the Union in their upcoming Michaelmas term on October 9, 2004.
		An active campaigner on Third World development, the 24-year-old Politics and International Relations graduate from the University of British Columbia is enroute to the Union to speak on her views as to why "beauty competitions are still appropriate and necessary in the modern world" and on the place of women in the Middle East.
		The Union (whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford) is the most renowned student society in the world.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/oct/1068.html (397 words)

	Commentary » Blog Archive » Cheapening Free Speech
		Oxford students are indeed an “intelligent” bunch: all the more reason that they do not need to spend an evening listening to these men, thus granting them legitimacy.
		Oxford, on the other hand, can not be merely excused by attributing such immature motives to their administration.
		As to the Oxford Union, there is a difference between its upcoming, rigged “One State Solution” debate, where both sides are largely hostile to Israel, and its Free Speech Forum where overt Jew haters are allowed to do their worst.
	www.commentarymagazine.com /blogs/index.php/kirchick/1110 (1933 words)

	SEQUENCE & HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Union is the world's most prestigious debating society, with an unparalleled reputation for bringing international guests and speakers to Oxford.
		Gladstone was President of the Union in 1830, shortly before entering the House of Commons.
		Instead, the Union is a forum for debate and the discussion of controversial issues.
	www.ecgi.org /conferences/fese_efmc2005/ou_rules.htm (978 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Oxfordshire \| Angry scenes greet Oxford debate
		It was a far cry from the normal image of Oxford and its students.
		Not a gown in sight, studies left behind for an evening, as hundreds of protesters besieged the Union Society, furious at the decision to invite the leader of the far-right British National Party to speak there, along with a historian who has denied that the holocaust ever happened.
		Nonetheless, the Oxford Union Society is insisting the event was a success, albeit a qualified one.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7114343.stm (667 words)

	WISC Study in Oxford
		We have made special arrangements with the Oxford Union (one of the oldest private clubs in England and a social center -- dining room, bar, discos, parties, etc., as well as a traditional debating society) to elect to membership one term or one year students recommended by us.
		Students are "elected" to membership and about half of Oxford's students do join which makes it the largest private club (it is not officially part of the university) in Oxford.
		According to the rules of the Union, only degree candidates are eligible for Life membership, but one term students are eligible for one term membership, which may be renewed.
	www.studyabroad.com /wisc/handbook/hboxfordunion.html (516 words)

	Protesters disrupt Oxford Union forum : World
		OXFORD, England, Nov. 27 Protesters in Britain disrupted a forum at the Oxford Union featuring a far-right politician and a historian who calls the Holocaust a myth.
		The protesters, primarily students at Oxford, were angry over the debating society's invitation to Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, and David Irving, a historian specializing in Nazi Germany.
		Griffin and Irving spoke Monday in separate rooms of the Union while protesters outside argued over whether the Union was upholding free speech or giving a platform to fascists, the BBC reported.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/148785.html (217 words)

	Porn Star Delays Oxford Union Address (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neither is he the first porn star to speak at the Union, in 2002 actress Jenna Jameson delivered a speech about the benefits of porn.
		A spokesman for the Oxford Union said: "I am completely confident that he will be at the union within the next three months."
		The Union has hosted speakers for over 180 years and is part of Oxford University.
	www.monstersandcritics.com /people/printer_4836.php (126 words)

	David Irving to speak at Oxford Union amid protests : UK World
		Despite opposition from the Oxford Student Union, and the university's Muslim and Jewish societies, Oxford Union members voted by a margin of 2 to 1 to let the ticket-only event, entitled Free Speech Forum, go ahead Monday evening.
		But Luke Tryl, the president of the Oxford Union, said "the men were not being given a platform to extol their views, but were coming to talk about the limits of free speech."
		The Oxford University newspaper, Cherwell, said students had received death threats from neo-Nazis as BNP supporters were planning to "target" demonstrators at Monday's protests.
	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/148306.html (451 words)

	Oxford Union Debate - This House believes that "the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music."
		Oxford Union Debate - This House believes that "the free music mentality is a threat to the future of music."
		This was a debate held at the Oxford Union on Thursday 24th October 2002.
		The Union made a video recording of the entire thing, which may or may not eventually get put online (you could try asking the Union President, David Watson about it, I suspect the more requests they get the more like it is to get online).
	www.gagravarr.org /writing/UnionDebate (948 words)

	Tom Watson MP » Blog Archive » Oxford Union
		Member for Oxford East for the Oxford Union to retract its invitation to Nick Griffin, the BNP Leader, and the Holocaust denier, David Irving, to address the Union; applauds the decision of the hon.
		Member for Oxford West and Abingdon, to do the same; notes the threats from far-right groups to target any anti-racist demonstrators; and calls upon the Conservative Party leader and the acting Liberal Democrat leader to make their views known on the issue.
		Shame should fall upon the Oxford Union and it should be noted that Nick Griffin’s party want to reintroduce Grammar schools, the 11+ and the dustbinning of children at that age.
	www.tom-watson.co.uk /?p=1648 (803 words)

	Oxford Union Debate Features Holocaust Denier - New York Times
		The police in Oxford said they planned to mount “a ring of steel” around the union building in the city center, where student and trade union groups were preparing to bus in hundreds of people for what they described as an “anti-fascist” protest.
		The union’s members, mostly students at Oxford University, voted by a margin of more than two to one at a special meeting on Friday to proceed with the event, which was to debate free speech.
		Irving, the author of several books on Hitler’s Germany, had billed his appearance at the Oxford debate as a warm-up for a proposed national speaking tour in Britain, where his writing and other publicly expressed views on that period have provoked bitter dispute for years.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/11/26/world/europe/27britain.html?ex=1353733200&en=efae6687f06319ad&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (790 words)

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