A focus group which will ask students how satisfied they are with the Warwick email system has had to be postponed due to insufficient student turnout. As an incentive, students will be offered ten pounds to attend the group, in the hope that this will attract enough students to take...
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More details have emerged about an arson attack reported in the Boar last week, which happened at a student house in south Leamington shortly after midnight on January 10. The arsonists entered the fenced front garden of the house on Radford Road and wheeled a large rubbish bin onto the...
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A “theatrical protest” was staged in the Library courtyard on Friday to draw attention to the death toll in Palestine, which surpassed 1000 the day before. Five second year students lay down in the centre of the pathway outside the Library Café and IT rooms wrapped in white sheets splattered...
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Questions surround the University of Warwick’s financial state after it refused to give details of its budget forecasts and plans for this year and the near future. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Boar, the University decided “to withhold information relating to forecasts and budgets, including...
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At the beginning of the year, when I made my picks from 2008’s new US shows, The Mentalist barely made it on to the list. The concept wasn’t promising – after all, who needed yet another procedural drama in which a team of mavericks solve crime using only their intuition...
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Do you feel like you waste most of your time watching random rubbish on TV? It seems like, as university students, we should be able to focus our intelligence on interesting programmes, things with intellect and/or genuine insight. Instead, though, it seems the majority of students are focussed on the...
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The room is only half full when A Textbook Tragedy take to the stage. It’s their first time in the UK, but their brutal metalcore is received enthusiastically. Action-packed and heavily rhythmic, they’re exciting to watch, but lack the melodic interludes that usually bring metalcore to life. Technical difficulties aside,...
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Hip-hop? With violins? It's probably time you met Miri Ben-Ari, writes Sam Kinchin-Smith.
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I hate saxophones. If there is one sound that strikes fear into my heart then it is the sound of a saxophone emotionlessly parping its way through a middle 8 like the 1980s never ended. This isn’t to say that there aren’t good songs with saxophones in, it’s just that...
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You might not know it but you have probably already heard Kevin Rudolf. In the past he has played second fiddle to the likes of Justin Timberlake, Flo Rida and Timbaland, he is the annoying little voice on the R’n’B club bangers that get everywhere. On his own album Kevin...
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Oh, what wonders the internet does for music nowadays. This band, the rather scantily-named Red Light Company, owe it completely for their present-day line-up, with several of the band members having met on the web back in the now-distant mists of 2007. These days, after a couple of years of...
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New Year is all about two things – 1) The obligatory celebrations, alcohol and hangover, 2) A somber reflection on the past year’s successes and failures, and a time for redefinition and rebirth of one’s character. Whilst my New Year was notably lacking in a soundtrack to the party season,...
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When you think of backpackers’ hostels style is not what comes to mind. Flea-ridden mattresses, grubby facilities, general drunken debauchery or that horrible slasher film are probably much higher up the list. But times are changing and the hostels are too. The Boar’s Travel team brings you our top stylish...
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