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Student death near Claycroft

The Boar regrets to report the death of Pragya Mehrotra, a postgraduate student in the School of Law. She graduated from the National Law School of India in 2008 and was working to earn a Masters degree following the LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights at Warwick. Mehrotra...
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Posted Jan. 6, 2009

OBE for Professor Martin Cave

Professor Martin Cave, President of WBS Centre for Management under Regulation, was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Cave is an economist specialising in the regulation of sectors such as airports, broadcasting, housing, legal services, posts, telecommunications and water. He has previously advised the government on various...
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Posted Jan. 6, 2009

Suicide Season

When did metal become so… overground? The horrifying new dawn of our subculture has seen Metallica become as acceptable (and, some might say, predictable) as U2. For genuinely groundbreaking metal, we must go subterranean. This particular band has long had a reputation as Metal Marmite; rabid deathcore, made by some...
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Posted Oct. 14, 2008

The Holy Pictures

Who is David Holmes I hear you ask? The DJ / film music composer / owner of film production company Candleblinks / iphone-ad jingle-creator has in fact been creating albums since 1995, with his debut entitled This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash the Seats. Now on album number 6, Holmes is...
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Posted Oct. 14, 2008

Dig Your Soul

In an interview prior to the release of Dig Out Your Soul, the ever-eloquent Liam Gallagher, Oasis’ front man and one of Britain’s leading authorities on Spongebob Squarepants, was quick to latch onto a journalists suggestion that the seventh Oasis album would be in the same league as Revolver, the...
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Posted Oct. 14, 2008

Warwick student arrest

A female student at the University was arrested over the weekend in relating to an incident at a student party early Sunday morning, where another student’s nose was broken.
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Posted Oct. 6, 2008