Leah Harper (MPhys Physics, 2020) writes: "All four of our boats had an incredible Eights campaign given the year of training we have had – with very little water time, our second boats both managed to move up in the rankings, with O2 going +1 and W2 going +2 overall to finish 6th and 5th respectively in Division IV.
Our O1 crew went into the week with the aim of “hopefully staying in Division I”, and, after being bumped by LMH on the first day, managed to bump LMH back before a strong rowover on Thursday in which they almost bumped SEH. They got bumped by New on the last day to finish 11th on the river, surpassing their own expectations for the week. The crew are in a strong place going into the next year, with the majority of the rowers being keen to build on this year and climb their way back up Division I.
The W1 crew knew that they were in a good place going into the term, starting it off by finishing 3rd in CORC bumps as the fastest college boat. After some injuries throughout the term that limited their water time as a crew, they were unsure of how they would stack up, but managed to bump three times throughout the week (getting Oriel on Wednesday, SEH on Friday, and Univ on Saturday) to finish 2nd on the river! Most of the crew are here next year and will be training hard to take the headship from Christ Church."
The Wadham Drama Society put on a production of Alice in Wonderland for this year's garden play, drawing on Henry Savile Clarke’s musical version. Produced by Ella Turner (History and Modern Languages, 2022), The Oxford Student said, "The wacky and wonderful aspects of Carroll’s story are translated into bold-colour costumes, garish makeup – including UV face paint for the Cheshire Cat – riddles and twisted logic, and choreography."
Ben Sheridan (Jurisprudence, 2022) writes: "On Wednesday 29th May, four Wadham first-year lawyers participated in the 2024 Wadham College Moot. Elysia Boon and Katie So represented the appellant and Annika Nandi and Enyu Jin represented the respondent in this fictional appeal to the Supreme Court (sitting exceptionally in Wadham College). The judge of the moot was Wadham alumnus Mo Sethi KC (Jurisprudence, 1992).
The moot problem, written by Professor Sandy Steel, was focused on issues in contract law. Specifically, it concerned variation of contract and penalty clauses. Both of these topics are currently subject to wide academic and judicial debate around possible reform. This gave the mooters a rich source of material to draw on and prompted them to make interesting proposals for changes to the law.
The judge praised the mooters for the high standard of their written and oral submissions. This was all the more impressive given that, for three of the mooters, this was their first experience mooting. Elysia Boon was awarded ‘best mooter’ for her impressive responses to judicial questioning. Lord Justice Holroyde, in attendance, congratulated all four mooters for the quality and presentation of their arguments."
Dancing in time with others raises your pain threshold and increases social closeness, says research carried out by Wadham’s Emma Cohen and a team from Oxford University's Experimental Psychology and Anthropology Departments.
Read Chaucer’s poems, guided line by line by Wadham Emeritus Fellow, leading poet and medievalist Bernard O’Donoghue.
