News in Brief

Catch up on all the latest news from on and around campus.

All the motions at the All Student Meeting in Week 7 were carried, on a turnout of 688 individual voters. In total, 2,462 votes were cast. ​Students voted for the Students’ Union to work towards reducing waste on campus and to lobby for increased representation of underrepresented groups in various university decision-making bodies. The Union strategy for combating increasing living costs was established as a separate policy, and existing policy on hidden course costs was amended as a standalone campaign. The Students’ Union’s current affiliations were also approved.

Disabled students’ officer Jenny Wheeler has created a Facebook page called ‘Spotted at Warwick: Dozy Parkers.’ It posts photos of vehicles parked in ways disruptive to disabled students and staff at Warwick, such as over dropped curbs or in spaces reserved for disabled drivers. Members of the University community can also post photos on the page. The stated idea of the page is to raise awareness of the issue rather than victimise the parkers themselves.

Leamington’s Christmas lights lit up the town on Sunday 16 November. The annual event attracted hundreds of people this year, according to the Coventry Telegraph. A yuletide market ran all the way down the Parade with a stage at the top. Various acts, including dance groups and cast members from the Royal Spa Centre’s Cinderella pantomime, performed on the stage before the lights were switched on at approximately 5pm.

An ongoing Warwick student-led campaign to ‘twin’ all the Students’ Union toilets with 94 toilets in developing countries raised £893.35 from a 12-hour sponsored squat on the piazza on November 18. The Warwick campaign is part of an initiative, called Toilet Twinning, organised between the charities Cord and Tearfund. The money raised will enable people living in poor communities to have clean water, a decent toilet and will encourage learning about hygiene. In addition, the Warwick campaigners, led by Emily Boyce and Jess Docherty, also held fundraising events outside the library and at Pop! on November 19, World Toilet Day. In total, they need to raise £5640 to twin all 94 SU toilets.