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WSAF changes name to SPLAT Fest

Warwick Students’ Arts Festival has undergone a re-brand and will now be known as SPLAT Fest (Student Performance Literature Arts and Theatre Festival).
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Posted Mar. 10, 2009

Student passes away due to cancer

The Boar regrets to report the death of third year physics student Wei-Sheng Zhu. Zhu, also known as Wilson, passed away following a long fight with Leukaemia in Birmingham Hospital on February 27 2009.
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Posted Mar. 10, 2009

A celebration of equal rights

International Women’s Week swept across campus once again last week, delivering the student body a series of events aimed at raising funds for, and awareness about, women’s causes in the UK and around the world.
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Posted Mar. 10, 2009

Custard: the weapon of choice for protestors

The BBC news website last week carried a fantastic headline: ‘Police are investigating Lord Mandelson custard-throwing incident.’ This is not something you see every day and certainly an occurrence to be relished.
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Posted Mar. 10, 2009

Naomi Klein on iTunes U

Those who couldn’t make it to the awarding of the Warwick Prize for Writing to Naomi Klein last week can now watch the entire event (and a great deal more) online. The university’s Myinsite intranet now contains a link to ITunes U, the ITunes resource for Universities, where free movies...
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Posted Mar. 10, 2009

The Union and the arms companies

Union Council’s recent decision to ban societies from being sponsored by arms companies has sparked controversy, rekindling the flames of the ethics vs. finances debate.
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Posted Mar. 3, 2009

Obama calls the troops home

US President Barack Obama last week announced a plan that would see up to one hundred thousand of the American troops still in Iraq return stateside by August 2010.
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Posted Mar. 3, 2009

NME Awards Tour, Cardiff

It’s Valentine’s Day. Tonight Florence’s Machine consists of guitar, keys, drums, a harp, and, for some numbers, White Lies’ Charles on bass. Their leader skips onto the stage in a burnt orange dress and bursts into ‘Between Two Lungs’, a song which allows her to exercise both her vocal and...
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Posted Feb. 24, 2009