TT22, Vol. 2
Friday 13 May 2022
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ChristChurch students face adversity for the first time in their lives...
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West Papuan President visits Magdalen, and the heartless ignorance of the Rwanda deal.
A review of HBO’s new series The GIlded Age, and another review of another production of Much Ado ABout Nothing
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LMH PLEDGE TO END USE OF NDAS
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by Anna Davidson Senior Editor
F Professor Irene Tracey nominated as the next University of Oxford
Vice-Chancellor P rofessor Irene Tracey, currently Warden of Merton College, Oxford, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. She replaces the current Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, in 2023. A renowned neuroscientist, Professor Tracey has led Merton College
since 2019 and is also currently Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, a department she led for several years whilst holding a Statutory Chair. She is also President-elect of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).
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Professor Tracey completed her undergraduate degree and doctorate at Merton College, Oxford, in biochemistry; her doctoral work focused on early use of magnetic resonance imaging methods to study disease mechanisms in humans under the supervision of Professor Sir George Radda.
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She then held a postdoctoral position at Harvard Medical School, working at the Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging, before returning to Oxford in 1997, when she became a founding member and then Director for ten years of hit
Afghanistan Society Protests Union’s Invitation of Hamdullah Mohib
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n Oxford Afghanistan society member, Summia Tora, interrupted a talk given by Hamdullah Mohib, the former National Security Advisor of the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, in protest at his answers to her questions. Mohib fled the country on August the 15th during the fall of Kabul, and has been living a lavish lifestyle as shown by a picture
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of him driving a red Bentley car in London. Although this photo was taken 2 months before he fled, his appearances at distinguished talks have resulted in backlash from Afghanis. (cont.) Read more on page 3
ollowing a Times article published in April exposing Lady Margaret Hall for badly mishandling cases of sexual harassment, the college has pledged to never use Non-Disclosure Agreements again. The report, which described LMH as threatening an undergraduate with expulsion if she spoke out about the alleged assault she experienced and her subsequent experience of dealing with college while reporting it, sparked outrage.
The undergraduate, who went on to take legal action against the college, bringing forward a case including discrimination, negligence, breach of contract and harassment, had signed a confidentiality agreement under former principal Alan Rusbridger. The case, though disputed by the college under Rusbridger, was settled under his successor Prof Christine Gerrard, who also confirmed the college’s decision to sign the pledge. Gerrard stated that she hoped the move would demonstrate “commitment to tackling sexual violence and misconduct, and increase the confidence of our students in the help and support that is available to them”. The pledge, the result of collaboration between the Department Read more on page 3
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facilitative role in the ongoing murder and genocide of thousands of Afghans and the crippling humanitarian crisis they are subject to
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The Oxford Afghanistan Society, on Hamdullah Mohib