A world united, a campus divided

Wednesday 3 February, 2010 National flags in SUHQ

Organisers say One World Week was better than ever before, but many students claim the event is image obsessed and corporatist.

Warwick student dies in Haitian earthquake

Wednesday 20 January, 2010

Li Xiaoming, a postgraduate International Studies student, has been confirmed dead in the earthquake which struck Haiti on 12 January.

Welcome to your new Union

Tuesday 19 January, 2010

The new term has marked the completion of the rebuild of the Students’ Union building, including the opening of four new food outlets, new spaces for societies and a pool room.

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  • Lest we remember Chris Browne

    Tuesday 24 November, 2009

    There is little point remembering the dead if we fail to listen to the warnings they leave us. The ‘shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells’ are no artefact, nor has the ‘monstrous anger of the guns’ been silenced across the world.

  • Unhealthy debate needs real leadership to cure healthcare Alex Botting

    Sunday 8 November, 2009

    Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” reads the Statue of Liberty, an ever-present reminder of the spirit with which America was founded. Now …

  • Death drive is not key to youthful adventure Ian Robinson

    Sunday 8 November, 2009

    Prince Edward's Aussie comments were insensitive and simply misguided.

  • Confessions of a domestic extremist Chris Browne

    Sunday 8 November, 2009

    New vocabulary from the police surrounding 'domestic extremism' criminalises the idea of organised protest, as well as having further reaching consequences.

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Features

  • Copper-clad colossus opens doors

    Wednesday 27 January, 2010 Front of the new Union

    After two years of blood, sweat, tears and an endless onslaught of criticism from your favorite students' newspaper, the new Union finally opens under the ever-beady eye of the Boar.

  • One World Week returns for 2010

    Tuesday 24 November, 2009

    Due to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary next term, it seems appropriate to prime our collective awareness once more, in advance of the monolith that is One World Week.

  • On the fringes of society

    Tuesday 10 November, 2009

    Recent returnee from Prague Lisa Coghlan takes an in depth look at the prejudices which face the Roma Communities in the Czech Rebublic and Europe today

  • More Than Just a Sport

    Wednesday 7 October, 2009

    Sam Lee, President of Warwick's Skydiving Club, discusses the appeal of “falling with style”.

Lifestyle

  • Cupid Cashes In

    Wednesday 3 February, 2010 Cupid

    Emma Lowe discusses Clinton Cards’ answer to Love, St. Valentine’s Day

  • Confessions of a Facebook Stalker

    Wednesday 3 February, 2010

    Lora Leopard talks you through the essentials of the Facebook stalk

  • Bisous Baby

    Wednesday 3 February, 2010

    Every week, Caitlin Allen brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly from the life of a Warwick student abroad

  • Talking about sex

    Wednesday 3 February, 2010

    Lifestyle discusses sexual freedom and its impact on our relationships

Travel

  • Local Focus: Oxford

    Wednesday 9 December, 2009 Oxford

    In this issue's regular feature focussing on a village or city in the UK, Timothy Daniell tells us about some of the great features of his hometown and what you can see and do there.

  • Reimagining Tanzania

    Wednesday 9 December, 2009

    Yuka Murata shares her impressions of Dar es Salaam, a bustling, engaging city which she describes as being the heart of the nation and a place of surprising contrasts.

  • Local Focus: Great Missenden

    Thursday 26 November, 2009

    From a distance, Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire looks like any other quaint English village; it is situated in the rolling hills and sloping green valleys of the Chilterns, classified as …

  • Gems of the Emerald Isle

    Thursday 26 November, 2009

    Just hours after the completion of my last Warwick exam paper, my plane landed at Dublin Airport. Having associated summer with sunshine and high temperatures, I was shocked when a …

Books

  • Meltdown Ben Elton

    Tuesday 19 January, 2010 Ben elton

    Has the witchhunt for bankers’ blood gone too far? Alexandra Campbell reviews Ben Elton’s latest

  • Outside of a Dog Rick Gekoski

    Tuesday 19 January, 2010

    The Bibliomemoir - Katie Herring traces a journey through books and selves

  • The Humbling

    Monday 7 December, 2009

    Tom Goodenough peers into the dark mind of Philip Roth

  • Unseen Academicals

    Monday 7 December, 2009

    The 37th novel in Pratchett’s “Discworld” series has been nervously awaited. Long-standing fans feared a decline in his writing after last year’s announcement of the author’s diagnoses with Alzheimer’s disease, …

Arts

  • Anish Kapoor from out of a cannon

    Monday 7 December, 2009 Anish Kapoor

    Anish Kapoor is one of the public’s favourite contemporary artists. His sculptures engage with the public on a scale that has lead to successful commissions around the world. He is …

  • The English crescent on parade

    Monday 7 December, 2009

    Dearest reader, forgive me for a slight change of plan. The swirling skirts of sky-born Fate demand from mortal man acceptance. I couldn’t get hold of the book I intended …

  • Confused without direction

    Monday 7 December, 2009

    Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pictures of John Gray explored themes surrounding masculine notions of beauty. The devised piece was at times moving and funny …

  • Tantalisingly cryptic

    Monday 7 December, 2009

    Imagine a bizarre and incredibly well executed cabaret show. A little disappointing if you had been expecting a plot of some description, but that would be rather missing the point …

Music

  • Muse Birmingham NIA

    Monday 23 November, 2009 Muse

    Raj Bhatoa explains why Muse are the act to see before you die

  • Interview: Editors

    Monday 23 November, 2009

    Ola Sawicka heads to Wolverhampton to investigate the Editors' transition to bolder, darker realms

  • Bowerbirds Cargo, London

    Monday 23 November, 2009

    I had the opportunity to indulge in my ever-so-grating-and-patronizing tendency of forcing bands so new they’re practically foetal onto my friends the other week when Bowerbirds came to London. After …

  • Raditude Weezer

    Monday 23 November, 2009 Raditude

    An examination of Weezer’s back catalogue reveals a band struck by some kind of music schizophrenia.

Games

  • Starcraft

    Monday 8 February, 2010 Starcraft

    South Korea has three national sports, Tae-Kwon Do, Football, and StarCraft. Over the past thirteen years StarCraft has come to dominate in Korea and they still can’t get enough of …

  • Ape Escape P PSP

    Monday 8 February, 2010

    When I spend money buying an identical port of a game I already own on the original console just so that I can play it when out and about, you …

  • Army of Two: The 40th Day Xbox 360, PS3

    Monday 8 February, 2010

    The original Army of Two was by no means critically acclaimed; with its setting located partially in Iraq and its glamourised portrayal of modern warfare and private military companies, it …

  • Halo Legends Blu-ray, DVD

    Wednesday 3 February, 2010

    Having reviewed all of the major Halo releases in the past 18 months, there’s no reason why the Boar shouldn’t continue to provide coverage of the franchise, even if it’s …

TV

  • Goodbye, fwiends

    Friday 29 January, 2010 Jonathan Ross making a face

    As the great Wossy prepares to leave the BBC, Chloe Francis considers his legacy. Does the BBC need him after all?

  • Show meets world

    Friday 29 January, 2010

    William Grove escapes from his regular weekly column to interview Tim Dawson, creator of Coming of Age, about the future of youth TV on the BBC.

  • Love’s Labours Lost

    Friday 29 January, 2010

    As the sixth and final series of Lost fast approaches, Emily Wight gives us a reminder of the extremely convoluted plot so far. Beware: contains spoilers!

  • Foxtrotting

    Friday 29 January, 2010

    In this week's column, Toby Steinberg spends some time getting to grips with Fox, the Righter side of news.

Film

  • A Classic

    Tuesday 2 February, 2010 A Prophet

    Jacques Audiard's phenomenal A Prophet redefines the crime genre, finds Alex King

  • Precious

    Tuesday 2 February, 2010

    A hugely controversial tale of domestic abuse impresses Hugh Langley

  • Avatar

    Tuesday 2 February, 2010

    Groundbreaking. Epic. Beautiful beyond all reason. Racist. Anti-American.

  • A Bright Future

    Tuesday 19 January, 2010

    Here we present the Boar’s British Film Campaign preview for 2010: After financial fears for British Film, Alex King finds an industry fighting fit