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Cherwell newspaper is a student newspaper published by and for students of Oxford University. First published in 1920, it has had an electronic version, now called Cherwell24, since 1997. Named after the local river, Cherwell is published by OSPL (Oxford Student Publications Ltd.), who also publish the sister publication ISIS. One of the oldest student publications in the UK is editorially independent and has been the launching pad for many well known journalistic careers. The newspaper receives no university funding and is independent of the student union. The current editors are Emily Gosden and Kate Tolley. A student newspaper is a newspaper run by university or high or middle school students that covers local and in particular school or university news. ...
The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
The River Cherwell is a river which flows through the midlands of England. ...
Oxford Student Publications Limited Oxford Student Publications Ltd or OSPL, is an independent student publishing house in Oxford that publishes the reknowned Cherwell student newspaper and the award-winning ISIS student magazine. ...
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History
Cherwell was conceived by two Balliol College students, Cecil Binney and George Edinger, on a ferry from Dover to Ostend during the summer vacation of 1920 while the students were travelling to Vienna to do relief work for the Save the Children charity. Erdinger recalls the early newspaper having a radical voice: "We were feeling for a new Oxford... We were anti-convention, anti-Pre War values, Pro-Feminist. We did not mind shocking and we often did." In 1926 Cherwell became the only British newspaper to break the general strike, when it was produced at the offices of the Daily Mail in London Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford...
Nonetheless, early editions combine this seriousness with whimsy and parochialism. The first editorial gives the newspaper's purpose as being "to exclude all outside influence and interference from our University. Oxford for the Oxonians".
Throughout the 1920s Cherwell had a strong literary focus, and a policy of not editing literary contributions. Undergraduate contributers included Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, L P Hartley, Cecil Day-Lewis and W H Auden. The newspaper's literary focus broadened over the coming decades until by 1950 it carried the familiar general newspaper mix of news, features and comment.
In 1946 Cherwell was briefly banned by the university for distributing a survey on the sex lives of undergraduates, and in 1954 ran a series of pin-up photographs entitled "Girls of the Year". In 1970 then-editor Peter Stothard published what was possibly the first topless female photograph in a British newspaper, and was disciplined by the university's proctors.
In 1964 the newspaper's longest-running feature was born, the John Evelyn gossip column (which has run almost uninterrupted ever since). Over the decades many famous people have been the subject of John Evelyn's (usually) wry and faux-condescending style, among them future Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto, politician Jonathan Aitken, and actor Imogen Stubbs. In 1981 Hugh Grant is described as "New College's answer to Brooke Shields", and his unsuccessful attempts to infiltrate a ball with his date are reported. John Evelyn (October 31, 1620 – February 27, 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. ...
In the mid-1970s Cherwell survived one of its periodic financial crises, and politically the paper campaigned against Oxford University's investments in apartheid-era South Africa.
Well-known Cherwell contributors Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ...
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Sources - Cherwell 75 Years, anniversary edition of Cherwell, November 1995
External links - Cherwell24, the paper's electronic edition, updated every day during term time
- Isis Online, the sister publication
- Oxford Student Publications Ltd
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