Anyone who is familiar with UK Urban music will most likely have heard of the duo, Krept & Konan, who have released singles like ‘Freak of the Week’, ‘Wo Wo Wo’ and ‘Don’t Waste My Time’, with ‘Freak of the Week’ making it to number 9 in the UK Singles...
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With the number of reported mental health issues amongst students higher than ever and suicide rates in higher education having increased by over 50% since the year 2001, it’s no wonder that mental health at university has become such a widely discussed topic. When you or someone you care about...
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In week four of this term, members of the Warwick STAR team participated in the Asylum Seeker Challenge, which aimed to understand the struggle that asylum seekers face when moving to the UK. In this, individuals are given £38 for their livelihood, which does not roll over if they save...
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Professor Rebecca Earle, the new Head of the Department of History at the University of Warwick has stated that "activism and protest can work" after the University announced an external and independent review of its discipline and appeals processes yesterday.
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Difficult to stomach yet highly addictive, The Ted Bundy Tapes delivers the quintessential gritty true-crime that we all love to get our teeth into. It seems recently that we, as a generation, are increasingly fascinated with the phenomena of serial killers. With true-crime shows like Making a Murderer being such huge hits in the...
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The best that can be said about Wash Westmoreland’s biopic of acclaimed French novelist, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, is that it’s a film with the best intentions at heart. It sets out to tell an important story addressing male exploitation of female work, stigmas attached to female writers, and the importance of...
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Blue Orange, the award-winning play by English playwright and screenwriter Joe Penhall, has been given a fresh face by the Birmingham Rep nearly two decades after it first debuted. Young talent Ivan Oyik, a British-Ugandan student of the Guildford School of Acting, makes his stage debut as Christopher, a black Londoner...
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Just before I embarked on a school trip to Rome 7 years ago, my mum gifted me a very thin, pocket-sized floral notebook, for the purpose of writing down my different experiences. At first, I found this odd, as this was not my first time abroad without my parents, and...
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There is much debate as to whether you should listen to music while you learn, with some students preferring to work whilst listening to music and other students preferring to work in silence. Some students claim music helps them to concentrate and work better, but does listening to music actually...
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Members of Newcastle’s Mechanical Engineering Society have recently come under scrutiny for wearing t-shirts exhibiting ‘jokes’ about the Holocaust. The shirts were worn as part of a ‘White T-Shirt Social’, a common event in many universities where students wear self-decorated white t-shirts. Having been merely let off with a suspension...
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The Warwick Alumni Solidarity Campaign have written an open letter to senior management, students and staff in response to the group chat scandal. The letter demands a thorough review of the disciplinary system, increased investment in the University's welfare services, and that all senior management responsible for the "administrative debacle" to be held strictly to account. The open letter has received 275 signatures.
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Students, staff and alumni marched on University House on Wednesday afternoon in protest at Warwick's handling of the group chat scandal.
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The University has announced that there will be a "thorough, external and independent review of our disciplinary and appeals processes" after a meeting of the University Council this morning.
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