In Hilary Term 2013, two students from Oriel College, Niamh Gordon and Katie Ebner-Landy, decided to start a college newspaper, written by and for students. After a term of sourcing, writing, collating, editing and finally printing, the first issue of The Poor Print was released – to indubitably great acclaim. After a year's interregnum in 2013–14, The Poor Print returned in Michaelmas 2014 in a new guise – as an online newspaper – and since Michaelmas 2015 has additionally been published fortnightly in print. Still run by students, the core aim is promoting and stimulating art, culture and free-thinking on a wide range of subjects, from the comic, serious and quotidian happenings of collegiate life to global events, developments and sensations. Content consists of a hugely wide variety of written, visual, and aural creativity, including news, poetry, photography, science, comment, drawing, music, events and entertainment. The Poor Print's ethos is based on attempting to get as many people as involved as possible and thereby to offer a broad range of perspectives and insights into a portion of what goes on amid the essays, problem sheets and lectures which, if left unchecked, invariably subsume the Oxford calendar. Any member of Oriel (JCR, MCR, SCR or staff) can send in contributions via [email protected] – articles, prose composition, poetry, cartoons, artwork, music, or anything else you can think of is welcomed! Each edition has a theme to stimulate submissions – to be added to the mailing list and be kept up to date with the theme and any other news, just fill out the 30-second form in the menu. There's no need to check ideas with us beforehand - but if you'd like to, feel free! As a rough guide, we ask for most written pieces other than poetry to be between 200 and 1200 words, but this is far from a hard-and-fast rule.
