BIRDMAN Film is something I have had a long love affair with. At age 12 my cinema education began with the list of films my dad had long been waiting to show me, and from that moment my adoration of good cinema was instilled. I have seen a lot of...
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A car with Polish number plates was vandalised and badly damaged recently, in what is seemingly a racially motivated attack. The car was parked in the Brunswick Street area. It was the only vehicle singled out and damaged on a busy residential road. The owner, a Warwick graduate, was away...
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University of Warwick Vice-Chancellor Stuart Croft has published a blog tackling the topic of sexual violence at UK universities, including at Warwick. The blog, entitled “Beyond Zellick”, was published on Monday 10 October and particularly attacks the Zellick Report, a 1994 publication that still guides how universities treat sexual violence...
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The “Killer Clown” craze has reached Cannon Park, with a University of Warwick student chased by men in Joker masks on Saturday night. The craze, which is being called an epidemic, begun in America, where predominantly older teens have begun dressing as clowns in an attempt to scare children, but...
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Two academics from the University of Warwick signed a statement calling on the United Nations (UN) to defend the rights of people in need of humanitarian protection. The statement was created and signed by numerous UK academics, including those from the University of Bristol and the University of York. It...
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Almost two thirds of students think Arts is the easiest faculty at Warwick, according to a Boar survey of 156 students. Warwick’s Arts faculty includes Film, English, Classics and History. Almost half of the students polled thought Film and Television Studies was the easiest subject overall. On the flip side,...
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Senior management at the University of Warwick are making clear the University’s stance of a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment and violence on campus. This comes after pressure from Warwick Students’ Union (SU) to include the topic in the welcome speeches during the move-in weekend. Academic Registrar, Mike Glover,...
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Warwick’s Student Support Services have been renamed and changed to Wellbeing Support for the start of this academic year, it has been revealed. This is to encompass the service no longer being just for students, but to cover the welfare of staff, too. It is unknown at this time whether...
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A Freedom of Information request has revealed that there were 261 cases of cheating and plagiarism in the 2014/15 academic year at Warwick. 93% of those caught cheating were undergraduate students, with only 18 of the cases postgraduates. Cheating is split into two categories at Warwick: cheating in exams, and...
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Warwick Students’ Union (SU) are petitioning the university to create a lecture-free Freshers’ Week, with a management meeting on the issue taking place this week. At the management meeting will be members of the university senior management team, heads of department and faculty board members. This petition is a major...
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The Guardian has revealed a climate of cover-up and coercion for sexual assault on university campuses, with a claim that students harassed by staff are even forced into non-disclosure agreements. Leading lawyers, academics and campaigners on sexual assault have told The Guardian that non-disclosure agreements are allowing staff perpetrators to...
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Oliver James, a University of Warwick alumnus, won a Paralympic gold at the Rio Games in the mixed coxed four rowing event on Monday. James graduated from Warwick in 2012 with a degree in Philosophy, having joined the rowing club in his first year, wherein he started to cox. After...
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The Gurdwara Sahib Leamington & Warwick has been occupied for most of today by over 50 people, in a protest believed to be a row over mixed marriages. The protest lasted eight hours, and although many of the group were said to be armed with blades and knives, nobody was...
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