![]() UL apparently had a few Pete Wells ankle-issues, as he reportedly had an injury and was in and out of the crew line up ( very "hokey-cokey"). Isis were first off, racing against a University of London crew. ![]() Though sunny, and slightly better than the conditions for last week's Boustead cup, there was a nasty head wind at the start and the water was pretty ugly, though it did improve slightly over the course of the afternoon. For once, both blue boats (and Isis) were performing on the same day ( Goldie had their race on Saturday) after Cambridge had their Saturday race rescheduled to Sunday against Molesey, when their original Italian opposition pulled out a couple of weeks ago. The top end of Oxford and Cambridge rowing decended on the Tideway over the weekend for their usual pre-boat race fixtures. Merton M2 narrowly missing out on " Spades" ( apparently an honourĪwarded to crews who both bump and get bumped each day).Hugh's W2Ĭonceded to one and bumped the other in the same race However, unlike Pembroke a few years ago, New College seemed quite happy to stay in that divisionĮxeter W2 and W3 got in the wrong order after St. New College W1 " did a Pembroke" by getting pushed into the bank, and dropping from second on the river down to the second division.All four Lincoln College crews managed to get bumped at least once in every race.Other minor points of note during the week: On a more positive note, at least some of the coxes and marshals have taken the recent safety drive to heart, and the week saw some genuinely entertaining races, in particular the close-fought headship battles between Oriel and Magdalen. Needless to say, the fines from that incident will keep the race desk supplied with cake and biscuits for a long time to come. Them in a narrow part of the river, decided at the very last moment that, er, maybe they'd better hold it hard and piled into Wadham with a mighty crunch, leaving the Wadham boat hull unscathed but leaving a huge scarĪcross their cox's back where the 2 blade hit. Then along come Oriel II, who, on seeing a 6 boat pile-up right ahead of just managing to stop in time but getting a bit tangled up in the resultant chaos. Hugh's, Christ Church II and Wadham II all arrived on the scene. Mansfield however, had other plans and after colliding with the bank, they extracted themselves (without taking a look behind), by doing a racing start straight into the line of the chasing Pembroke II boat.īoats and blades went at all angles, as Exeter II, St. So, on Friday everyone wanted to avoid a repeat performance. There had already been a minor pile-up in the division on the previous day - resulting in a klaxon and some enthusiastic " we wuz robbed" posting on the OURCs messageboard. ![]() To start with, there was a rather unfortunate incident in Men's division 3 on Friday. Though no specific reports of the Lents have reached the slug's twitchy feelers as of yet, we do have a few things worthy of mention from Torpids. “In the music section, Grade 6 students are to study jazz and big-band sound, focusing on Glenn Miller and Mart Kenney, the United Conservative premier’s grandfather.The usual display of ineptitude and muppetry assoicated with bumps racing, was on show in both Oxford and Cambridge last weekend. Kenny even snuck his grandfather into the curriculum. Even the Ku Klux Klan is grossly oversimplified – practically reduced to a problematic slogan that elementary school children are supposed to know without any deeper dive into racism or white supremacy.” For example, much of history is reduced to names and dates. The curriculum also frequently reduces content to triviality. “To get through it all, teachers will be forced to treat content in shallow, decontextualized, often uninteresting ways that will not build deep understanding. It’s been harshly critiqued by educators. Hence the push against vaccine mandates and vaccine science in general.Īs far as the curriculum is concerned, the UCP recently brought about huge changes which focuses on broad memorization instead of developing more complex, critical thinking skills. I’m being a bit hyperbolic but Smith is clearly catering her platform to the evangelical UCP base.
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