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- Isis_magazine abstract "The Isis magazine was established at Oxford University in 1892. Traditionally a rival to the student newspaper Cherwell, it was finally acquired by the latter's publishing house, OSPL, in the late 1990s. It now operates as a termly magazine and website, providing an outlet for features journalism.Until the mid-1960s Isis was owned and published by its printers, the Holywell Press Ltd of Oxford. However the firm's proprietor found himself increasingly at odds with the repetitive and deepening left-leaning politics of the late 1950s and with the magazine's consistent support of the CND. Dennis Potter was the magazine's Editor in 1959; see also Adrian Mitchell , below. So in 1960 Holywell Press rejected the latest editor chosen by its staff and imposed one they believed would revive the magazine generally. The choice was David Dimbleby.By 1961, however, the magazine was back in left wing hands but few people minded that when the editor was prominent left-winger, future investigative journalist and deputy editor of Private Eye Paul Foot. In his Isis editorship Foot was innovative, and perceptively argued that university lectures, like any other form of theatrical communication, deserved to be reviewed and that Isis was the right place to do so. Despite his best efforts, he was baulked by the Proctors and the Isis lecture reviews were banned after just a few issues, to much outcry among progressive members of the senior university.However the Holywell Press still felt uncomfortable about owning an undergraduate magazine; the risk of a libel suit (which in English law is charged to the printers as well as the author and publisher) was never far from their minds. So in 1964 they sold the magazine to Robert Maxwell proprietor of the Pergamon Press in Oxford. This highly energetic Oxford-based millionaire, about to become an MP, immediately promised to turn Isis into a national magazine. That commercial ambition never got off the ground, but undergraduate wits in Oxford did point out there was now a distinct prospect of Oxford publishing Britain's first "national socialist" magazine for university undergraduates throughout the country.With Maxwell's money behind it, the magazine continued to appear weekly – eight issues a term. The first editor under the new regime (Hilary Term 1964) was Peter Gillman, later to spend 15 years on the staff of the Sunday Times, mostly during the memorable Harold Evans era. Two terms later the editor was Christopher Meakin, who sought to revive Paul Foot's excellent idea of reviewing university lectures. Forewarned is forearmed, and although Meakin was persecuted by the Proctors, receiving five Proctorial summonses in the space of three weeks, this time he won the intellectual battle and permission was granted for university lecture reviews to be published in Isis under certain somewhat arcane conditions. His consequential low regard for the Proctorial system was set out in an Isis leader, Summoned by Bulls II, after Paul Foot had written a leader on the same theme three years earlier, headed Summoned by Bulls. The university responded in 1964 by setting up an Enquiry into the workings of the Proctorial system, chaired by Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House. Sir Edgar Williams and Christopher Meakin were both alumni of King Edward VII School, Sheffield, a school which had lately produced two more editors of Cherwell, Roger Laughton and Rony Robinson. Deliberately courting further Proctorial wrath, Meakin parodied their rules for reviewing university lectures in the magazine with an imaginary telephone conversation between Isis and a terminally decrepit lecturer of the university, and again the following term, in his signed column in Isis "The Fifth Column" by inventing a board game called VICTIM. He received no more Proctorial summonses. Joking apart, a major precedent had been set in the way Oxford lecturers taught undergraduates, and in what they could get away with in exchange for their not inconsiderable stipends. Meakin initially put two clever undergraduates in charge of editing the lecture reviews column, Michael Harloe of Worcester College (at which College years before Rupert Murdoch had been editor of Cherwell) and Mary Kaldor of Somerville. Michael Harloe later became joint editor of Isis in Hilary term 1965, and Mary Kaldor became its joint editor in Trinity term 1965. More recently, Professor Michael Harloe retired as vice-Chancellor of Salford University, while Professor Mary Kaldor is still the Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics.Among the numerous undergraduate lecture reviewers in the first term was Edward Mortimer, then the history scholar at Balliol, shortly to become a Fellow of All Souls. More recently Mortimer has been Foreign Editor of the Financial Times and in 1998-2006 served as Chief Speechwriter to the Secretary-General at the United Nations and eventually as the UN's Director of Communications. Edward Mortimer had served as deputy editor of Isis under Peter Gillman in Hilary Term 1964.Unusually, Chris Meakin awarded himself the influential post of Isis reviewer of Oxford Union debates, and also revived the old tradition of a termly Isis idol after several years' absence. By convention an 'Idol' was a profile of some prominent undergraduate in the university. To revive the tradition, slightly tongue-in-cheek he chose as the Idol for Michaelmas term 1964 the controversial Jeffrey Archer, then studying for a teaching diploma at the university. For all the fashionable derision of him among undergraduates, Archer did raise one million pounds for Oxfam (and that in 1960s pounds) and presented a large display cheque for that sum to Chancellor of the University Harold Macmillan, in one of his numerous photocalls. Few if any could claim to have been anything like so effective as that in their time at Oxford university.In its long history, Isis has benefited from the participation of individuals with significant literary flair. Alumni include Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, Graham Greene, John Betjeman, Michael Foot, Sylvia Plath, Dennis Potter, Adrian Mitchell, David Dimbleby Paul Foot Richard Ingrams Terry Jones, Tariq Ali George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Gyles Brandreth and Jo Johnson. Three editors of Isis went on to work for the Financial Times on leaving Oxford - Alastair Macdonald, editor in 1961 who later went into the Civil Service, Christopher Meakin, editor in 1964 who later became an international banker and now owns a publishing house, and Jo Johnson, editor in 1993 who more recently has gone into Parliament, where in his Orpington seat he succeeded John Horam who had also worked for the Financial Times in the 1960s. Jack Waterhouse, Isis editor in 1962 left Oxford to work for the Daily Mail before he, too, later became an international banker.".
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