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Volunteers tackle community issues

Friday 5 March, 2010

Students take part in Volunteering Week, working to raise funds and help local projects

Friday 5 March, 2010

A review into the closure of the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies has found failings in Warwick’s conduct

Sunday 28 February, 2010 - 1 comment

Daniel Stevens has been elected as the next president of Warwick’s Students’ Union

Two Penn’orth: Six degrees of aggravation James Appleton
Monday 1 March, 2010
Why the Conservatives' six key pledges are really really good, without a hint of sarcasm
Sage Lindsey Lohan tells us trafficking is wrong Kasia Delgado
Monday 1 March, 2010
It is a terrible world we live in when we can only pay attention to those issues celebrities investigate and tell us about

Chelsea book Wembley visit after United gain top spot
Tuesday 9 March, 2010
Rob Goodway reflects on a lively weekend of footballing action, which saw Chelsea, Aston Villa and Portsmouth guarantee F.A. Cup semi-final berths.
Madrid Topple Barca Despite Messi Magic
Tuesday 9 March, 2010 - 1 comment
Jasjit Sansoye rounds up another week of footballing action from across the continent - and looks ahead to the midweek Champions League fixtures.

Student Think Tank discusses Immigration
Saturday 27 February, 2010
In a continuation of our recent series on the issues international students face studying in the UK, Money meets Warwick Think Tank society to discuss their up-coming conference on visas, immigration and the EU
“Good show, Darling”
Saturday 27 February, 2010
Boar Money editor, Patrick Edwards, sums-up the Warwick Economics Summit with a review of the conference's highlights

Jasjit Sansoye on Madrid Topple Barca Despite Messi Magic 1 day ago
Monday night’s game: Valencia 0 - 0 Racing
Ben Firshman on Interview: Simon N Goodwin, Codemasters 4 days, 13 hours ago
Simon’s paper “How players listen” has more information about the audio configuration survey. “3D sound for 3D games - beyond 5.1” goes into ...
Chris Browne on Protestors blockade nuclear arms maker 4 days, 19 hours ago
I think the line ‘the Warwick group, accompanied by a photographer and legal observer’ is a bit misleading, as both the legal observer and photographer ...
Nathan Wong on Interview: Simon N Goodwin, Codemasters 5 days, 12 hours ago
This is a great interview and fascinating read, more please!
Chris Browne on England stumble as Ireland remain on course for Triple Crown 1 week, 1 day ago
Erin go bragh!

Fight for your right
Thursday 4 March, 2010
Hannah Brenton sits down with three young radicals to discuss student activism, forty years on from the Warwick Files Affair
The Orange Revolution
Tuesday 2 March, 2010
Chris Browne interviews three members of Warwick’s Liberal Democrat Party

When I grow up, I want to be a WAG
Saturday 27 February, 2010
We discuss the WAG(wives and girlfriends), Cheryl Cole and a new brand of feminism
Top B v. Smack: The stand off
Friday 26 February, 2010
Are student run events hotter on or off campus?

Fill in the gaps with the appropriate acronym: TEFL
Wednesday 10 March, 2010
Victoria Galloway describes how teaching English as a foreign language can be a rewarding way to spend a gap year
Celebrating in the Saronic Islands
Tuesday 9 March, 2010
Vera Pratikaki can’t get enough of the Greek islands of Hydra and Aegina, especially over Easter

The private world of Orwell
Monday 22 February, 2010
In reading the published diaries of the great author Tom Goodenough encounters a literary figure faithful to the end of his days
Is Democracy “Demon Crazy”?
Monday 22 February, 2010 - 1 comment
Away from the glare of the Hollywood spotlight Alex Campbell looks at the true nature of Indian democracy

Art in a material world
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
Good business is the best art,” claimed Andy Warhol, and after this statement, art was never quite the same
Swinging Belleville rendez-vous
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
I’m a fresher, I’m new on the drama scene at Warwick University, and I’m in …

Battle of the Bands Heat Two
Saturday 13 February, 2010
The second chapter of BandSoc’s annual competition rolled around last week, maintaining the unusually high standard set by heat one
Who said Grime doesn’t pay?
Friday 12 February, 2010
The current British music scene is fertile ground, and British youth culture, for want of …

Interview: Simon N Goodwin, Codemasters
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 - 2 comments
The man behind the sound in Colin McRae DiRT talks about sound technology and getting a job playing video games
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth DS
Monday 1 March, 2010
The Phoenix Wright franchise is expanding and Sophie Carroll's got the Boar covered!

The school of hard knocks
Friday 26 February, 2010
Robin Stevens on the strangely mean experience of watching the Olympics.
The kids aren’t all right
Friday 26 February, 2010
In his column, William Grove discusses the current state of advertising on television.

“The Crazies” Competition
Tuesday 23 February, 2010
Win yourself some goodies to promote the The Crazies, out on Friday
A Classic
Tuesday 2 February, 2010
Jacques Audiard's phenomenal A Prophet redefines the crime genre, finds Alex King