fb.com/warwickboar twitter.com/warwickboar Wednesday 1st October, 2014 Est. 1973 | Volume 37 | Issue 1 theStudent Publicationboar of the Year 2013 Warwick Sport prices increase See inside page Comment page 7 Travel page 26 Games page 23 TV page 21 “Pipe down, societies” A summer with Warwick in Africa The casual gamer The 20th anniversary of Friends the single most important thing you will do Find out about opportunities with teachfirst.org.uk/graduates SponsoredTF2897 The Boar by: Warwick 265x44 Banner.indd 1 18/12/2013 16:37 2 News theboar.org/News | @BoarNews | NEWStheboar.org 2 Warwick Sport price increases “ridiculous”, say students fer needs to provide opportunities ing charged covers redistribution Samuel Lovett for the whole University communi- of the funding model for sport at ty, and currently the offer is heavily Warwick. What do Warwick students think? skewed towards sports clubs. “The aim is to be more equitable University is a place where This is going to put students Students have expressed their dis- “Clubs are only being charged and in doing so provide greater ca- you should be able to try new off from playing sport, which appointment over the 60 percent for costs that are directly attrib- pacity for the delivery of the wider things. People who want to is the complete opposite to increase of Warwick Sport fees uted to the administration of club sporting offer at Warwick.” try new sports will be put what Warwick Sport’s job is. It for the 2014/15 academic year, a activity and are currently heavily In redistributing costs paid by “off from joining periphery sports “doesn’t make sense at all. On top of decision that was made after 18 subsidised by non-club members of club members in this way, both because of the significant price in- all the other costs which the Uni- months of consultation and delib- Wa r w i c k Sp or t .” the SU and Warwick Sport believe crease, while club members gain versity fails to help us with, this is eration. the proposed model will offer bet- nothing from paying far more. just ridiculous. Members of sports clubs that use ter value for money for non-club Warwick Sport facilities are set to members. Will Harvey, second-year Akshay Shah, second-year be hit hardest as their membership The Boar also asked why fees for General Engineering Mathematics fees will be increased from £55 to non-club members had not de- £88, plus the £6 fee per club: a 60 creased as a result of the redistri- I can honestly say that my For Warwick to say that these percent price increase. bution of costs, but was provided membership to both Classi- new fees for sports member- For standard Warwick Sport no direct response. cal and Modern Dance has ship will increase participa- members and members of sports Peter Dunn, head of press and really made and shaped my tion is ludicrous. The fact clubs that do not use Warwick policy of the University, reiterat- “university experience. I hope that “that we not only have to pay for Sport facilities, there will be a ed this view and said that there the increase in membership fees signing up to teams singularly, as normal inflationary increase was broad agreement among does not dissuade students from well as food which we all know is from £55 to £58. those involved in deliberation. renewing their membership and not cheap, travel to university, and Over the past 18 months, War- He said: “Those who partici- forgoing such a brilliant opportu- socials, plus other costs, we now wick Sport has been carrying out a pated in the consultation accepted nity [in order to] save those much have to pay 60% more...Have they detailed and robust assessment in that the current funding model was needed pennies. considered the students at all? cooperation with the Students’ Un- unsustainable and understood that ion (SU) and the sabbatical officers the new mode would be more eq- Ami Isaac, third-year Eng- Bobby Zubis, second-year who are supposed to have support- » Photo: Warwick Sport uitable, putting more of the cost on lish and French Biomedicine ed the proposed model. club members rather than Warwick The initial proposal was to phase According to Ms Parkes-Hari- Sport members who were not part Increasing the cost of War- Having heard about the in- in the increases over the following son, the extra charge will help en- of clubs.” wick Sport is almost certainly crease in fees, it’s definitely three years but the views of sports sure non-club members are no Alongside such general consen- going to reduce the number put me off from paying the club members was to carry out all longer subsidising clubs for their sus, eight other universities and of students who participate £88. One of my friends told the changes in the first year. sporting experience at Warwick. It their sports membership fees were “and this will have a detrimental ef- “me that to join Warwick gym and Kelly Parkes-Harrison, Warwick is suggested that the fees increase taken into account during the con- fect on students’ physical health but a martial arts group it would cost Sport’s senior press and communi- will enable Warwick Sport to ad- sultation process. also their mental health. I find exer- over £300 with insurance and such. cations manager, cited a number of minister a fair and effective sport- According to the University, after cise a really good stress relief. It’s a crazy amount of money. reasons behind the decision to in- ing model from which all members the increase, club members will still crease costs. can equally benefit from. pay less than the amount charged Grace Blackburn, Laura Primiceri, She said: “There is a growing re- Ms Parkes-Harrison stated: “The by seven of those eight universities. second-year LLB Law second-year alisation that the Warwick Sport of- additional money that clubs are be- » Front page photo: Ann Yip English Literature theboar Editorial Team SCIENCE & TECH Cayo Sobral Editor Rebecca Myers NEWS Ann Yip [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Samuel Lovett April Roach TV Laura Primiceri Deputy Editors Raghav Bali [email protected] [email protected] Daniel Cope COMMENT Daniel Cope Sian Elvin [email protected] Hiran Adhia TRAVEL Samantha Hopps [email protected] Sub-editors Samantha Hopps FEATURES Rami Abusamra [email protected] Sophia Schoepfer [email protected] Desi Ekzarova SPORT Luke Brown Maaike Spiekerman Bethan Riddell [email protected] Chloe Wynne Florence Vane LIFESTYLE Bethan McGrath Director of Business Alessandro Presa [email protected] Ailsa MacLachlan [email protected] ARTS Catherine Lyon Head of Sales Pamela Rajadurai [email protected] [email protected] BOOKS Emily Nabney Head of Marketing Kate Mant [email protected] Lucy Skoulding [email protected] FILM Paulina Dregvaite [email protected] Ellie Gill Photography Editor Ife Akinroyeje [email protected] GAMES Gabriella Watt [email protected] Joe Baker Head of Logistics & Distribution Derin Odueyungbo [email protected] MUSIC Sam Evans [email protected] Jacob Mier Get in touch: WE WANT YOU! SUHQ, Floor Two theboar is printed on 100% recycled paper University of Warwick Leave your paper for someone else when finished To write for your student paper University Road Coventry theboar is the University of Warwick’s CV4 7AL editorially independent student newspaper Email the section editors above if produced entirely by and for students. Except where otherwise noted, theboar and the you want to write for the paper works in theboar are licensed under: [email protected] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk 3 News theboar.org/News | @BoarNews | NEWStheboar.org 3 What’s happening with the campus roadworks? Over the of course be short-term pain for us April Roach all as the works proceed – but that short-term pain will produce sig- summer... nificant long-term gain.” The closure of Gibbet Hill Road near The scheme will include the in- the University of Warwick in June stallation of a new roundabout by 2014 has caused problems for resi- the Arts Centre. dents and people travelling to cam- This requires realignment of pus. University Road to connect the Students, however, are being re- roundabout and bus interchange, assured that the road works project thereby providing an extra two-way on campus is scheduled to come to entry exit on to main campus from an end soon. Gibbet Hill Road. Presently, buses are diverted into The University will also be in- central campus by the Students’ Union building before stopping by “The works will help traffic flows Library Road, but will no longer around our campus and are stop by the gatehouse. designed to make routes safer, Vehicles will be able to enter particularly Gibbet Hill Road.” campus through University Road Peter Dunn Samuel Lovett after Monday 29 September. Mean- while, Gibbet Hill Road will be closed from the Library Road junc- stalling a new traffic system where arwick was awarded the tion onwards. The road will par- there will be more focus on vehicles University of the year tially re-open early next month at coming into campus during the 2014/15 by The Times the south half of Gibbet Hill Road; morning hours, and in the evening, Wand The Sunday Times. The Times from Kenilworth to Kirby Corner vehicles coming out. acknowledged that: “Warwick has Road will be open to all traffic. Other traffic calming measures been an ever-present in our top 10 The north end of Gibbet Hill include raising a granite table next over the past two decades.