Experts call for larger student loans
Experts call for larger loans as the ‘pitiful size’ of student maintenance loans will see thousands of students start university without sufficient funds to make it through the year.
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Lauren Hurrell
Our guided tour of campus art
You may think you know the University of Warwick campus, but something you probably don’t know is that it is a centre of modern art. By modern art we mean the sense that you can never be 100% certain if it is in fact art or not. As an alternative...
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Literary societies you’ll love
Faced with the lengthy list of societies that Warwick has to offer, it’s often difficult to choose which ones to put time aside for. Here at The Boar Books, we have scouted out a selection of literary based societies which you’ll be sure to love if you’re interested in reading or...
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What I’ve learnt at the Edinburgh Fringe
So, Edinburgh Fringe 2017 is over: the crowds have evacuated in the face of normal life; flyers have been ripped down from the Mile; and venues have gone back to being whatever the hell they are for 11/12ths of the year. It is possible for a human being to live...
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How to nail your first audition
The opportunities in student theatre at the University of Warwick are many and varied. Here at Boar Arts, we love reviewing the fantastic shows put on throughout the year by our talented students. However, we know that plucking up the courage to audition for your first show can be a...
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Peak numbers of students dropping out of university for financial reasons
The number of poorer students dropping out of university before completing their course has reached its highest point in five years.
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MTW’s Improv Musical: Electric, Eclectic and Entertaining
As someone whose experience of improvisation is limited to awkward games in GCSE drama classes, I approached the Improv musical with a degree of trepidation. The concept seemed simple enough; an hour of purely improvised entertainment by a group of musical theatre actors who create a play from a location,...
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Social Secretary: trials and tribulations
So elections for the 2017/18 society execs are over. Old members have been replaced by younger, fresher-faced, and better slept first and second years. An important member of every society is the social secretary—the glue of the team, the one who everyone entrusts with a most valuable possession: their social life....
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Warwick-centric memes take campus by storm
There has been a surge of interest recently in Warwick-centric meme pages on Facebook: from the simply named ‘Warwick Memes’ to ‘Memewick’, and even, in homage to one of the defining features of campus life, ‘Warwick Uni Memes for Koan Shaped Teens’ (WUMFKST), each gaining thousands of likes. Although shared...
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LitSoc go to Prague: culture, kilts and coaches
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are several ways of getting to Prague from our small, midlands campus on a Saturday night: plane, train, luxury private jet. We opted for the for the 22-hour coach ride. Five countries and too many hours later, we piled out of the bus and into our beautiful hostel in...
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Warwick India Forum speaker controversy over homophobic comments
Controversy arose last term over the attendance of Dr Subramanian Swamy, a leading MP for the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a guest speaker at the University on February 13th due to his alleged ‘extremist and fundamentalist views’.
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New Warwick Snapchat Filter Released
A new student-designed Warwick University Snapchat filter may be on the way, this time featuring the most famous piece of campus artwork: the Koan.
This will add to the previous two University filters in allowing students’ to show off their Warwick pride as part of Snapchat’s ‘geofilter’ feature, which allows users to superimpose unique images relating to their location onto their pictures.
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The craziest jobs in the world
Lauren Hurrell explores some of the more unorthodox career opportunities available to those willing to travel
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