Alex Prvulovich

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Don’t let the chatbots win

2 months ago | cherwell.org | Alex Prvulovich

We were born too late to have attention spans longer than a minute, born too early to see our robot overlords purge us or take us to the stars, but born just in time for ChatGPT to write a solidly 2:1 philosophy essay. With tutorials and a focus on in-person exams, Oxford has probably been less impacted by the boom of artificial intelligence chatbots than other universities. So I don’t want to make some dramatic argument that AI will be its doom.
Unfortunately, the Union Matters

Nov 28, 2024 | cherwell.org | Alex Prvulovich

Within a decade of being founded, the Oxford Union was already doing its best to tear itself apart – complete with a faux-epic of the conflict written under the name Habbakukius Dunderheadius – and it’s not grown much calmer in its old age. With all the recent convulsions (never mind the constant elections), Union drama sprawls over student papers, Oxfesses, and your Instagram DMs alike. All this for, it must be said, a student society well past its glory days.
A glass-half-full perspective on alcohol

Oct 7, 2024 | cherwell.org | Alex Prvulovich

The sun rises in the east, all men are mortal, and students drink. Such is life, and Oxford is no exception. University life is soaked through with alcohol whether you’re at a bop or a ball, pres or afters, pub or club, a sports crewdate or a ‘blank and booze’ society. It’s the Oxford Experience – from freshers’ week to Finals’ trashing, alcohol is everywhere. This might be changing. More young people are completely sober.
Irene Tracey: Cautious academic not leader

Oct 2, 2024 | cherwell.org | Faye Chang |Morien Robertson |Alex Prvulovich

Irene Tracey is used to doing uncontroversial good. She has dedicated her remarkable career to studying pain, poring over MRI machines with the goal of understanding and preventing the phenomenon. She’s a fierce advocate for women in STEM, involved in several mentoring programmes. In January 2023, she went from Warden of Merton to Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, the first state-educated and second female one in the University’s history, and seemed set to continue her success.