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Oxford Academics Face Backlash for Drinking from Skull

4/26/2025

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Senior academics at Worcester College, Oxford, are under fire for allegedly sipping wine from a human skull, believed to belong to a Caribbean female slave. Professor Dan Hicks condemned the act as distasteful, igniting a debate between those who see it as a bizarre tradition and others who highlight the troubling decline in educational standards.

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Senior academics at Worcester College, Oxford, are under fire for allegedly sipping wine from a human skull, believed to belong to a Caribbean female slave. Professor Dan Hicks condemned the act as distasteful, igniting a debate between those who see it as a bizarre tradition and others who highlight the troubling decline in educational standards.