The Boar has re-launched its website today with a new look. This is part of the newspaper’s 40th anniversary celebration, which commences in October. It also brings the website in line with the newspaper which was redesigned last year. Chris Hackett, who was co-editor of the Boar during the redesign,...
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Jessie Baldwin speaks to world renowned neuroscientist Oliver Sacks about his life and works
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Over the last weekend of the Easter holidays, Canoe Polo teams from universities across the country descended upon Hatfield Water Park to compete at the annual BUCS Tournament. Warwick entered mens’ and ladies’ teams as well as a B team and an assortment of Old Boys. The Warwick As were...
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The giant sable antelope is a critically endangered species that is not often acknowledged by conservation efforts
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Remember when most of us liked David Haye? There was a time when British boxing fans – also known as Haye fans, as the two have rarely been mutually exclusive – were hoping to witness this meteoric trajectory into boxing immortality on the biggest stage of all: the heavyweight division....
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Warwick University fined students more than £120,000 for various offences including drugs and anti-social behaviour last year, the Boar can reveal. The exact amount of money amassed in fines from the academic year of 2011-2012 was £123,058, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) Request by the Boar. Of this...
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Students at Warwick have reacted positively to the announcement that current UK number one act Rudimental will be playing the 2013 Summer Party. After complaints from students about the Summer Party’s line-up in previous years, the reaction to this year’s has been mostly positive. Main acts for the day long...
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This week’s episode directed its attention straight into the hidden depths of the TARDIS and it was hard not to scratch your head in wonder and confusion
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Sarah Moss, author of Names for the Sea, a lecturer in the Creative Writing Department here at the University of Warwick and a nominee for the RSL's Ondaatje Prize 2013 talks to Books Editor Nicole Davis on ‘pissing’, place and the pleasures of living in Iceland
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One of the most highly anticipated albums of the year has finally arrived from another member of the irreverently insane Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. After Frank Ocean’s incredibly successful ChannelORANGE topped critics’ lists around the world last year, Mr. Creator must have felt the pressure this time out, but...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ fourth album opens with a fuse being ignited. ‘Sacrilege’ begins in a rather pent-up fashion, with the sound of drums clattering ominously behind Karen O’s irresistibly breathless vocals (and my, how they’ve been missed). And then, after several minutes, comes the bang. A break in the clouds...
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As part of a five-week odyssey through south-eastern Brazil, two travelers made a visit to Rio de Janeiro.
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