Wednesday 9th March, 2016 Est. 1973 | Volume 38 | Issue 10 theEveryone knowsboar about the bench next to Bluebell Survey finds 6% of Warwick students take drugs daily INSIDE: 14 page Varsity Special edition >> Image: Connor O’Shea / The Boar Teach First is a registered charity, no. 1098294 AN EVENT WITH: To book your place, sign up via our website: teachfirst.org.uk/graduates Soo Mi Do For more information, contact Chris: Taught: Maths [email protected] Now: Senior Associate, PwC Sponsored by: News Editors’ Picks The lost art of journalism The Inspiration Game Do you even lift sis? Varsity Pullout Arts (p. 34) Books & Games (p.38) Lifestyle (p. 16) Sport (p. 18-31) Everyone hates journalists. That is some- Section collaborations are always a really in- As anyone who’s ever seen me try to screw Another year, another Varsity, another is- thing that I have learnt as Editor-in-Chief. teresting read. 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Except where otherwise noted, theboar and the [email protected] News Editors: Arthi Nachiappan & Connor O’Shea News [email protected] 6% of all Warwick students take drugs daily, survey finds » Image: Connor O’Shea / Boar News Clare Clarke gest. showed that almost two-thirds borough universities. those caught - except in 2011/12 The survey, asking 500 Warwick thought that drugs were easy to ac- One student commented: where ten students were evict- students about drugs, found that cess at the university. “Sometimes fam #freecalvin” - re- ed while only eight students were A Freedom of Information (FOI) almost 57% of students had taken Some students said that it de- ferring to Calvin Chan, a Warwick caught by security services. request has shown the number an illegal drug. This is compared to pends on who you know, while chemistry student who was caught The cause of this discrepancy of students caught with drugs a national average of 70%. others said it was dependent on the with £18K in drugs last year. was that previous to October 2014, on campus at the University of drug. The survey also asked how often the Residential Life Team had the Warwick. Only 10 students were Another student said: “It’s easy power to evict students without caught last year. to access drugs anywhere pretty involving the Security Services – Over the past five years there has 57% much.” while now they are required to be been a varying number of students While the number of students 6% present for all drug related searches caught using or possessing illegal Percentage of students at who have taken drugs is almost at conducted on-campus. substances on campus – ranging Warwick who have taken 57%, this statistic trails behind the Percentage of daily drug- An anonymous second-year from less than five to a spike of 24 national average of 70% of students. takers at Warwick Warwick student commented on in 2013/14. drugs before A 2015 Tab poll found that War- the University’s eviction rate: “The Last year, six students were wick ranked in the bottom three of government’s current drug policy is evicted from their on-campus ac- their “druggiest uni” list, much low- students took drugs, with the ma- backwards and on the way out – as commodations for using or pos- Of those who had taken drugs, er than its 2013 poll which showed jority (38%) saying “every now and exemplified by the moves of many sessing illegal substances. 53% had taken Class B drugs 78% of Warwick students as having again”. Most surprising is that, of American states to legalise recrea- While the number of students (which include cannabis and co- tried drugs and placed it at 7th. students who took drugs, 10% said tional use of marijuana - and it is caught or evicted has been quite deine). Perhaps more surprising is Manchester University was they took drugs almost daily. This appropriate that as a forward-look- low, a survey conducted by the Boar that 29% had taken Class A, and found to have the highest number amounts to approximately 6% of all ing institution, Warwick seems to found that the number of Warwick 12% Class C. of students who had taken drugs, students. be supportive of expanding the students who had taken drugs were However, even though many with 85%, while Warwick was on The number of students evicted mind herbally as well as academi- far higher than the FOI may sug- had never tried drugs the survey par with Cambridge and Lough- from halls was often far lower than cally.” 44 | NEWSNews theboar.org Reports of sexual offences double over two years Sarah Morland whelming, the male proportion ple of years, more than doubling risen sevenfold to 412. Offences mented: “It’s reassuring to see that has increased by a third to 16%. that of teenagers under 16 and included rape, child sex grooming more people feel comfortable re- older individuals, both of which and attempted murder. In War- porting sexual offences to the police. The number of sexual offences rose by just under two thirds. wickshire the quantity of record- “However, the rise is very alarm- reported by Warwickshire Po- Offences included rape, The nationwide upsurge in ed crimes related to dating apps ing for me, especially as a woman.” lice has almost doubled in the child sex grooming and sex crimes has been linked to or websites remains low, although According to a Telegraph sur- last two years, according to new attempted murder. 893 the rising popularity of dating the victim demographic has aged vey published last year, 1 in 3 fe- information obtained under the victims were recorded in apps, such as Grindr and Tin- by an average 20 years since 2013.