UPDATED: Voting has opened in SU officer elections
Voting opened at 9am this morning (Wednesday 2 March) for the Warwick Students' Union (SU) sabbatical officer elections.
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Warwickshire Pride Asks For Donations to Hold its Annual Festival
In order to host Warwickshire Pride Festival this August, the organisers have launched a £2,000 crowdfunding scheme.
The festival is a free entry charity event and so funding is required to hire the venue, which this year will be the Leamington Pump Rooms.
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Arts students most likely to vote in SU elections
Recently received data shows that a significant proportion of the student body hasn’t taken part in the annual SU elections in previous years.
Figures from several years ago showed that the turn-out of post-graduate students was fairly low. In 2012, only 8% of voters were post-graduates.
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Halsey: Live at the O2 Academy, Birmingham
Jenny Andrews reviews Halsey's recent Birmingham gig.
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Does Warwick care about student politics?
A Boar survey of 217 Warwick students has shown that, while the majority of respondents have voted before, far fewer believe student politics makes a difference and even less still have considered standing for election.
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Increased immigration does not cause higher levels of terrorism: Warwick study
Migration between countries does not link to higher numbers of terror attacks, according to a recent Warwick University study.
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Election Coverage – Hustings Live Blog Day 2
Live elections blog for Warwick SU hustings day 2.
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Election Coverage – Husting Live Blog Day 1
17:00 – Welcome to the Boar Comment’s live blog on the SU hustings. For a 5 PM start, not much content so far. We await with baited breath. First position up for questions is Welfare Officer. 17:03 – A bell continually keeps ringing. Does this mean something, or is there a...
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Election Coverage: Don’t vote based on gender
We are nearly at the end of a year with an all-male sabbatical officer team. Has it been the disaster that most predicted at the beginning of their “reign”? Well no.
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Election Coverage – why should I care?
Do Warwick students care about the SU SABB elections? What can the SU and student body do to improve engagement.
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Blossoms flower into indie’s next big thing
Already heralded as the new heroes of the Mancunian rock scene, Blossoms have been passed the highly decorated (and admittedly highly drug-laced) mantle previously held by the likes of Oasis and The Stone Roses. This notion is riddled with inaccuracies, though: Blossoms are proudly neither Mancunian nor a rock band....
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Election Coverage – Why are there so few candidates?
Warwick University has 23,570 enrolled students. Why then are there only 36 candidates running for sabbatical positions in the SU elections?
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Election coverage: Cardboard – yes or mess?
Cardboard on campus - annoying mess or cheery necessity? Halimah Manan and Beth Hurst discuss the postering of campus, with such key terms as 'colourful' and 'eye-catching'.
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