SU Spring Officer Elections 2025: Your new Sabbatical Team
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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International Women’s Day: six female trailblazers in STEM
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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Elsewhere at Warwick — Volume 47 Issue V
Articles in this section originally appeared in Volume 47, Issue V of The Boar, published Wednesday 5 March, 2025. You’ll never beat the Irish Dizzying victories, crushing defeats – Friday 5-a-sides for the Warwick Sport Intramural League have it all for students searching for the thrills of a football league...
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SU Spring Elections 2025 Interviews: Muneeba Amjad, President
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. Muneeba Amjad, current Vice President for Education, and one of four candidates running for President of the SU, was interviewed by student media...
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SU Spring Elections 2025 Interviews: Adam Skrzymowski, VP Societies
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. Adam Skrzymowski, one of two candidates standing to be Vice President for Societies, spoke to The Boar about his platform and policies. In...
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SU Spring Elections 2025 Interviews: Sophie Bourne, VP Postgraduates
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. Sophie Bourne, one of a record 12 candidates standing for Vice President for Postgraduate Students, told The Boar about her candidacy for the...
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Lecturers consider strikes to end ‘freefall’ in university funding
Lecturers at British universities are considering a ballot to take industrial action this year in a bid to halt the “freefall” of funding for higher education. The University and College Union (UCU) had originally decided to ballot members back in December of last year, but pushed back a final decision...
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Warwick Stands With Palestine stage sit-in in Science Concourse
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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Can animals have their hearts broken too?
Your cat (probably) isn’t navigating a situationship, but they’re no stranger to heartache. From crow funeral practices to whale grieving rituals, Martin Day examines the wide range of evidence that animals, like humans, will suffer from heartache this Valentine's Day.
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Elsewhere at Warwick — Volume 47 Issue IV
Articles in this section originally appeared in Volume 47, Issue IV of The Boar, published Tuesday 4 February, 2025. A STAR is born Warwick’s branch of student charity society STAR (Student Action For Refugees) has been lauded for its work supporting asylum seekers in the past year by being recognised...
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“I’m the f–cking landlord”: Lawbreaking and neglect rife in ‘mouldy’ and ‘dangerous’ student housing
Students at Warwick searching for housing face a market of neglect, lawbreaking, and exploitation across Coventry and Leamington Spa, an investigation by The Boar has found. A survey of students conducted by the paper found many living in substandard and even dangerous conditions. Issues ranging from untreated mould-ridden rooms to...
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Let them eat cupcake? University’s 60th birthday celebrations descend into farce
Warwick’s 60th birthday celebrations descended into chaos on Wednesday as Warwick Stands With Palestine (WSWP) activists disrupted the launch event in the Piazza. The event – scheduled to start at 12:30pm and promising “cake for 600 people” – was heavily attended, with the ongoing winter graduation ceremonies only making the...
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Warwick in 2085: What does the future hold?
To predict the future is hard: none of us would claim to be Nostradamus. Most Warwick students, in fact, tend to live in a sort of temporal haze, the notion of what lies after university existing only as an abstract concept paid lip-service to by the occasional internship rejection. Asking...
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