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Credit card boost for Oxford's trading arm
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A series of new product initiatives—including the recently
launched University affinity card, a whisky for sale in Japan, and
even a bicycle—are helping to push up the income being generated
by Oxford Limited, the University's trading arm.
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Sound barrier was broken by Maths graduate
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The man who recently broke the sound barrier—as well as the
world land speed record—in dramatic style, Mr Andy Green, is an
Oxford alumnus (Worcester 1980–3), who gained a first in Maths.
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Secretary honoured for serving eight
Vice-Chancellors
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Miss Anne Smallwood, who recently retired as the Vice-
Chancellor's secretary, has been awarded an honorary MA.
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Delors cites primacy of law in uniting Europe
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Mr Jacques Delors, former President of the European Commission,
identified the law and effective frameworks for decision-making and
action, as factors of fundamental importance to the establishment and
success of the community model, in a special lecture on 27 October.
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Refugee Studies documents to be put on the
Web
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Work has begun on a new project, to digitise a substantial proportion
of the Refugee Studies Programme's unique collection of `grey
literature'—valuable materials of an unpublished or
semi-published nature—to make them available to scholars
world-wide.
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Ecologists revise debate on extinctions
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Two Oxford ecologists have challenged the prevailing view that the
ever-increasing rate of species extinction, caused by activities such
as the clearance of tropical rain forests, is of particular
evolutionary significance or concern.
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Ambassador appointed:
Mr Philip Lader, a former Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College
1967–8, where he now holds an Honorary Fellowship, has recently
been appointed US Ambassador to Britain. A close friend of President
Clinton (University 1968), Mr Lader sees himself as being `one of the
stewards of the special relationship'.
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Architectural awards:
The Oxford University Press book shop in High Street and the St
Edmund Hall student accommodation at Norham Gardens are among the
places receiving environmental awards from the Oxford Preservation
Trust. The awards recognise the best of the new, and refurbished,
buildings as well as landscapes.
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Remembrance Day:
Hebdomadal Council has expressed the hope that all staff, students,
and visitors to the University will be given the opportunity to
observe a two-minute silence at 11 a.m. on
Remembrance Day, Tuesday, 11 November, if they wish to do so.
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