Britain in winter is an exceptionally dull place. Too mild for snow, too wet for frost. Just mud and rain and grey: empty vistas for as far as your bleary, apathetic gaze could care to look. Is there any wonder that the overwhelming urge is to shun travel entirely? To...
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Warwick Students’ Union (SU) has addressed recent controversy regarding the All Student Vote (ASV) and sanctions faced by the University of Warwick Conservative Association (UWCA). In a statement titled ‘A message to our members’, the SU acknowledged concerns from students over the organisation’s transparency, and decisions taken in the Impact...
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It’s been only a few weeks since the results of the US presidential election shattered political consensus, like a rock tossed through the surface of a frozen pond. That former President Donald Trump, a disgraced convicted felon subject to dozens of sexual assault allegations, could defeat Kamala Harris, a successful...
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Warwick student Ed Swann has raised over £1,100 for men’s health charities after walking between campus and Leamington Spa for 24 hours. The second-year PAIS student embarked on the feat of foot-based fundraising in support of men’s mental health charity Movember and the Oddballs Foundation, a testicular cancer charity. Mr...
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One Vauxhall Corsa. 14 wild boars. 307 first-year physics textbooks, and 1,535 copies of The Boar. That isn’t the Editor-in-Chief’s slightly perplexing shopping list but is instead a list of items equal in weight to the world’s largest pumpkin. The titanic vegetable was crowned on 14 October at the annual...
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The science will have you binning your tupperware — but is there any point to panicking? Martin Day explores the true scale of our plastic problem in food, looking at what scientists know, the huge amount they don't, and whether it might be pointless after all to try avoiding plastic's effects.
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Student groups have reacted with anger after Warwick Students’ Union appeared to cancel this term’s All Student Vote (ASV), in an unprecedented move. In its Impact Assessment report, available online, the SU rejected all eight motions proposed by students to be voted on in Week 9. The decision has effectively...
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Articles in this section originally appeared in Volume 47, Issue II of The Boar, published Tuesday 29 October, 2024. Houseplant sales wither Among other staples of the start of term, students this month were tempted with an exotic array of miniature greenery at the annual houseplant pop-up sale. Browsing the...
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In what represents a genuinely seismic step, the UK has become the first major global economy to move on entirely from coal power with the closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last coal power plant left in Britain.
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The Chair of the Warwick Conservative Association has resigned weeks after the end of a University investigation into misconduct that led to sanctions on the group. Lewis Wakeford, who had been Chairman of the society from March 2024, stood down from his position in October, The Boar can reveal. He...
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators have attempted to block access to the Rootes building today in response to the presence of BAE Systems at a careers fair. At 10:45am, seven protestors stood in front of two entrances to the Rootes building on campus to prevent students from accessing the STEM Careers fair. ...
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The University of Warwick has launched a consultation with students as it considers major changes to its brand identity, including ditching its iconic two-triangle logo. The so-called ‘Brand Evolution’ is aiming to modernise the University’s image as it approaches its 60th anniversary in 2025. An online survey running from 1...
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Academics have warned of a ‘catastrophe’ facing Britain’s universities this year, as rising costs and falling enrolment numbers place huge pressure on institutions’ finances. It has led to suggestions that universities could be forced to abandon courses, cut staff, or even merge to avoid bankruptcy and closure. Such an event...
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