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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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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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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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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Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
A right Charlie: A new Darwin biography covers new ground.
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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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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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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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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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Warwick goes pro-choice
From student held lectures in the S0.21 sit-in, to a vibrant union democracy, choice is the flavour of the month in term two at Warwick.
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What is Warwick?
In this week's edition of this newpaper, Sam Shirley argues that Warwick, for all its dynamism, lacks a common identity as a university.The individual student can often feel lost.
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Research by Business School argues for increased funding for ‘soft’ subjects
University academics argue that Humanities and the Arts are currently being neglected in budgets
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Union Emergency General Meeting votes in support of sit-in action
Success for protesters but heated debate also prompts complaints of intimidation
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