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Bisous Baby

Every week, Caitlin Allen brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly from the life of a Warwick student abroad
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Posted Feb. 16, 2010

Aftershock Doctrine

More than two weeks after Haiti plunged into chaos, the country has yet to fathom the intensity of anguish and poverty that has befallen its people. The death toll possibly stands at 250,000, including Warwick student and peacekeeper Li Xiaoming. But this doesn’t account for the possible 250,000 more injured,...
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010

Letters: The Boar is Improving

Dear Sir, As an avid reader of your bi-weekly filth-bucket I would like to congratulate you on holding my attention for all of 10 minutes. I found a total of 0.5 articles that interested me last week, a 200 percent increase on the previous week. Yours faithfully, Angus McDinglebury
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010

Letters: Wasting Tuition Fees

Dear Sir, I would like to draw some attention to Warwick University’s inexcusable ability to waste our tuition money on frivolous projects, namely the landscaping work taking place next to the Arts Centre, and the acquisition of brand new vans with fancy pseudo-police markings for the Security staff. At a...
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010

Letters: Reflecting on OWW

Dear Sir, I want to express my gratitude to the entire One World Forum team, who did a spectacular job organising last week’s talks and discussions. We had heated arguments on deforestation, reflections on the current political disenchantment, debates on where to draw the line between our freedoms and our...
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010

Goose rescued from frozen campus lake

On Friday 15th January, an injured goose was rescued from a frozen lake on campus. RSPCA officers and the fire brigade were called to the scene. Warwick security officer Tel Smith commented that “the scene for the rescue was really quite spectacular.” Emergency services travelled across the lake using an...
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010

Warwick grad shortlisted for poetry prize

A Warwick graduate has been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘Crashaw Prize’ with his first unpublished poetry collection, Il Avilit. Phil Brown graduated from Warwick in 2008 with a BA English with Creative Writing, and his collection is an expanded version of his final year Personal Writing Project. The winner of...
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Posted Feb. 2, 2010