After the release of his debut studio album Long Way Down in 2013, the English singer-songwriter Tom Odell has continued to rise to success. He has a host of music awards and had his own song, ‘Real Love’ feature on the popular Christmas John Lewis advert in 2014. The singer brought...
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The first All Student Meeting (ASM) of term took place in the Students’ Union (SU) atrium on Monday 14 November. The event was run by the Warwick SU Democracy Exec as part of the SU Referenda whilst giving chance for debate. The hosts of the event included the Deputy Chair...
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Warwick Jailbreak raises over £25,000 Warwick Jailbreak took place on the weekend of Saturday 5 November. The challenge was to travel as far as possible in 36 hours without using their own money. The winners were second-year students Alixia Tordjman and Elliot Cervantes going under the name ‘Aeli Hit the...
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Societies and sports clubs have been conducting initiations over the past few weeks, where freshers and other new members are often forced to do embarrassing or humiliating things. The Boar spoke to some clubs to find out what has been going on this year. RUGBY The Men’s Rugby Union Club...
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14 reports of “Killer Clown” craze incidents have surfaced in Warwickshire, including a University of Warwick student’s encounter last Sunday afternoon in Leamington Spa. The American trend sees people put on clown masks, and sometimes even dress up in full clown costumes, in an attempt to scare the public. It...
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A Prevent Conference, run by Warwick Students’ Union (SU) and co-hosted with Warwick Anti-Racism Society, took place on campus during Saturday 15 October. Prevent is a policy relating to the government’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015, taught as a form of de-radicalisation. It began in 2006, followed by Channel...
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Every time we reach this part of the year, you can bet there’ll be that person piping up with the glib refrain: “there’s no white history month”. Correct – this does not exist. But it’s important to note that this is not out of discrimination or some view of racial...
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