The winner of this year’s Warwick Jailbreak is team ‘Aeli Hit the Road’ who reached Muscat in Oman by the 11pm deadline on Sunday 6 November. The team members Alixia Tordjman and Elliot Cervantes covered a distance of 4,759 miles. In total this year’s Jailbreak participants raised over £25,000 in...
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Warwick alumnus John Mason has written a poetry anthology, Signposts, in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society – a cause which he has been heavily involved with for several years. Mason, 76, is an ex-policeman and Woodland City Councillor whose passion for poetry arose in his early 20s, while he was...
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Dubai is a city of grandeur and extremities. It is luxurious and hyper-modern, with decadence dripping off from every corner. The magnitude of everything is surreal – the buildings, the shops, the portion sizes, and apparently peoples’ bank accounts. When staying with my housemate in her family home in Abu...
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TW: Harassment, sexual harassment and sexual violence As I awkwardly laughed off the unsolicited groping and crude chat up lines in the middle of the Copper Rooms, it suddenly hit me. I shouldn’t be awkwardly laughing and excusing this stranger’s behaviour. This was harassment and this was inappropriate.Unfortunately, this was...
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Last week, Warwick for Free Education published an article on their website calling for people to vote against Jack Hadfield in the Autumn election for Development Exec. WFFE criticised Hadfield after he called Hilary Clinton a “fucking bitch” in one of his tweets, and made comments about the weight of...
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The principles upon which the United States were founded – the freedom of religion and speech, of equality, opportunity and justice, all under democratic republican government – stand above all else. And although this great pledge has never truly been realized, the aspiration of such a nation is paramount to...
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Coventry University College’s (CUC) recruitment fair attracted a record number of students last month, with 1,300 people attending CUC’s Graduate Placement and Recruitment Fair on 20 October. Whilst it doesn’t hit the numbers often present at Warwick’s career events, this more than doubled on the 600 students who attended the...
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“Narf resembles a witch in the hypnotism of her voice” Feminist author Andrea Dworkin argued in her seminal book Woman Hating that witchcraft prosecutions in early modern Europe were an attack on women which amounted to “gynocide”. She also suggests witches were in fact real women who practised alternative medicines and- as a bigger...
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In her new solo-show Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield, Lucy Grace demonstrates the truth behind C. S. Lewis’ adage that “there are no ordinary people.” Moving, funny, and often deeply sad, Grace tells the story of her search for Lucy Barfield, C. S. Lewis’ god-daughter and the inspiration for Lucy...
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A projector screen fell from a wall – apparently only narrowly avoiding the lecturer – during a first-year History lecture this week, in the Maths and Statistics building room MS.02. Daniel Ruben, a first-year History student and eyewitness, said: “We didn’t quite realise what was happening at first; we noticed...
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One of our writers tells us the best TV students to emulate during your time at Warwick Wes from How to Get Away with Murder: the one who toughens up Nicknamed ‘The Puppy”, Wes is known amongst his peers for his kind heart and forgiving nature. At times overly gullible,...
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Yashas Mudumbai looks at why this great health club means that saying you "Run Like a Girl" isn't an insult on campus.
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Formed in 1996, Alien Ant Farm hit the peak of their success with their second album, ‘Anthology’, their debut with a record label. Despite initially being labelled as nu-metal, the band’s sound is a mixture of alternative rock, metal, punk-rock and pop-punk. ‘Anthology’ included their hit cover of Michael Jackson’s...
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