Rugby Union players Wanted

ARE YOU A BUSINESS STUDENT WHO LIKES TO TACKLE THE OPPOSITION BOTH FIGURATIVELY AND LITERALLY?

…….THEN RUGBY UNION IS THE GAME FOR YOU


Cranfield Business School has challenged us to a game of 15 man rugby.

If we can form a team, we can win the game, so if you are interested in playing, please contact Doug Waller(bottom left) on 07733285470 or email douglas.waller@sbs.ox.ac.uk.

An invitation to the Chinese New Year Party

You are invited to attend the SBS Annual student led Chinese New Year Party. This year it will be held on Week 2, Friday January 27th from 6:00 – 9:30 p.m.

Three main events are scheduled for the evening:

1) Performance in Nelson Mandela Theatre at 6:00pm
• Speech by VIP Guest
• Lion dance & martial arts
• Traditional Korean music
• Raffle draw, 80 gifts for 80 lucky winners!
• Chinese Wedding Dress and Ceremony by our own SBS models

2) Temple Fair in SBS Lobby at 7:30pm
• Chinese calligraphy/ Generating Chinese Names
• Traditional Chinese games
• Tea Ceremony
• Chinese Lantern Festival--Quiz Game

3) Chinese Buffet/Happy Hour/Karaoke in Dining Room from 7:30pm

Wow! How can I get a ticket?

Students can buy tickets through the following ticket-sellers on Thursday, 19th of January:
Section A: Suman Banerjee, Gertrude Wong
Section B: Chris Fearn, Leslie Lai
Section C: Pierce Louis, Matthew Urhammer
(gifts for the first 30 buyers)

Tickets cost £10 for students/faculty, £6 for children under 12 and free for under 5's but the experience will be priceless.

Come and join the biggest party of the year at SBS!!

Chinese New Year Party Committee & SBS Student Social and Sport Committee (All the party gifts and costumes are sponsored by Lijun’s company - Guangdong Development Bank Hangzhou Branch in China, Hangzhou.)

MBA Ski in Davos

On the 18th December 35 MBA’s, MFE’s and their Families and Friends headed towards Davos in Switzerland. One meter of fresh powdery snow, beautiful weather and a great four star hotel was waiting for them. Since the trip was just before the season the slopes belonged to us. No queuing (the British guys loved it), no waiting for beer or the “Schümli-Pflümli” which is the local name for a coffee with schnapps (its also called curveoil).

After the first couple of days everyone had to fight with their aches and pains, but after the first swings on the fantastic slopes the next morning the soreness all of a sudden disappeared. A rich breakfast delighted us every morning with everything which is needed to sustain a day on the trails. In the evening we got from Swiss Raclette to Swiss Fondue everything what we needed to excuse a fine glass of wine. After the diner we were sledding down the mountain in the dark, went for a Swiss beer in one of the numerous pubs or went straight back to the hotel were one could fall deadly into the bed.

We all had a great week in which we could forget the stress that we’ve had the weeks before and where we could get to know each other better. This week showed that the teamwork among all those different nationalities can work very well and gave us the possibility to gain friends for our lives…

Martin

Holidays!

We've been a busy bunch over the holidays.

The prize for the greatest adventure goes to Jessica Jackson who got married!

Wedding vows
Many thanks to all of you that sent such warm wishes to Clay and me for our wedding on New Year's Eve! Probably everyone says this about their wedding, but we had an absolutely perfect day. After two straight days of rain, December 31st dawned blue and sunny (and cold!). Our families flew in to celebrate the day with us, and some SBSers even made it to the ceremony. We were married in my college chapel (Harris Manchester). The ceremony was great, with a few laughs (including when Clay pronounced my name "Jeksica" when saying the vows) and some tears (mostly me!). After the ceremony, Clay and I walked from the chapel to the Randolph Hotel, which was a cool way to see Oxford in a different light (and with a wedding veil flying all over the place). We had dinner at the hotel with our families and danced until midnight.

Happy New Year!
Jessica (Jackson) Shortall

Happy Hogmanay!
The McFadden party bus was in full swing this holiday with a trip to Edinburgh for the Hogmanay (that's New Year's to you and me) celebrations. The Scots sure know how to party but I think that the MBAers gave them a run for their money.

Fearn Fun
Le Massif, Quebec – An hour north of Quebec City lies the only mountain on the North American Eastern Seaboard billed as being capable of hosting a World-Cup Downhill. Eight of us spent a week nestled in the snowy woodland of ‘La Belle Provence’ snow-shoeing, cross-country and Alpine skiing in and around this wonderful mountain and cool ice-clumps of the St.Lawrence River. Blessed with warm weather (the coolest being -18 C, but averaging -4 C) we enjoyed some fresh country air and seclusion (not to mention some quality conditions and quality poutine). And would New Year’s be complete without a human pyramid and a bit of Twister?