October 19, 2001

Red Ink Threatens U. of Oxford Newspaper; Uganda President Keeps University Title; Libya's Qaddafi May Gain Honorary Degree

The University of Oxford's oldest student newspaper, where Graham Greene and Rupert Murdoch apprenticed, is in deep debt and in danger of closing.

In the summer, when a new team of students took over Cherwell, a weekly with circulation of about 7,000, they discovered stacks of overdue bills and fines. The newspaper owed tens of thousands of pounds to its printers, and even more to the British government for unpaid taxes.

The newspaper received an emergency bank loan of more than