Catholic students at the University of Warwick are mourning Pope Francis following news of the pontiff’s death on Easter Monday (21 April). The Argentinian, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, had held the prestigious office for over 12 years, and was the first Latin American and priest from the Jesuit Order to...
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The gold and emerald squares of the once-inescapable Wordle puzzle no longer swamp our social media feeds quite as they did in January 2022, when The New York Times (NYT) acquired the game for a seven-figure sum and sealed its place in millions’ daily routines. Maybe the crushing humiliation of...
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April 2020 was a bleak time for all of us. Locked indoors, binge-watching Netflix and occasionally gracing a Microsoft Teams call—as most students will recall— got boring eventually. For working parents of young children, however, the era may stand out as one of the greatest challenges of their lives. With...
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Results have been announced for the 2025 SU Spring Officer Elections, with The Boar speaking to the new officers for 2026's Students' Union.
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To mark International Women’s Day, six of our writers celebrate women in the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics that inspire them. Fionnghuala O’Reilly – Anna Bickerton Sharp, savvy and brilliantly articulate, Fionnghuala ‘Fig’ O’Reilly has made her mark in all things data science, media… and beauty pageantry? If...
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Voting has closed in the SU Spring Elections 2025. Follow The Boar’s live coverage throughout Warwick Students’ Union’s (SU) Results Night. 8:42pm The Boar understands that the Students’ Union aims to announce a winner for SU President in the next week. 8:06pm Thank you all for joining The Boar‘s election...
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The number of students charged with antisocial behaviour in on-campus accommodation has increased twenty-fold this year, a Freedom of Information request by The Boar has revealed. In Term 1 alone, 208 incidents classified as ‘antisocial behaviour’ were recorded – seven times the number recorded across the entirety of the preceding...
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Cathal Ó Gaillín never expected his love for hurling to take him beyond the shores of Ireland, let alone to the West Bank. Yet, just months after reaching out to GAA Palestine, the student from Donegal found himself stepping off a plane and heading into the occupied Palestinian territories, hurls...
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In the run-up to the Warwick Students’ Union (SU) Spring Elections, The Boar and RAW 1251AM collaborated to offer all Full-Time Officer (FTO) candidates the opportunity to be interviewed. Ollie Seal, the only candidate running for the position of Vice President for Sports, spoke to The Boar to discuss their...
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In the run-up to the Warwick Students’ Union (SU) Spring Elections, The Boar and RAW 1251AM collaborated to offer all Full-Time Officer (FTO) candidates the opportunity to be interviewed. Summer Jones, one of seven candidates running for the position of Vice President for Welfare & Campaigns, spoke to RAW 1251AM...
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In the run-up to the Warwick Students’ Union (SU) Spring Elections, The Boar and RAW 1251AM collaborated to offer all Full-Time Officer (FTO) candidates the opportunity to be interviewed. Anish Pani, one of twelve candidates in the race for Vice President for Postgraduate Students, spoke to RAW 1251AM. The interview...
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“Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine…” Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord – except, in this case, the dearly departed is not a soul but the green, unblinking menace of language learners everywhere: the Duolingo owl. But fear not, for like any good horror movie villain, Duo is never truly...
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Student activists affiliated with protest group Warwick Stands With Palestine (WSWP) have occupied an entrance to the Materials and Analytical Sciences block in a day-long sit-in. From 8am this morning (Thursday 20 February), demonstrators blocked off the Physics Concourse entrance to the MAS block, hanging up banners reading “Rolls-Royce off...
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