Music through The history of the Alumni the decades Koan memories p. 25 p. 19 p 23 COMMENT page 16 LIFESTYLE page 18 BOOKS page 20 SCI &TECH page 26 40 years of headlines Fabulous fashion or faux-pas? What will be you reading in a decade? Th e rise of technology The Boar turns the big 4-0 » Looking as fresh as ever, despite being nearly as old as Warwick university itself. Sponsored by: theboar.org 16 Editor: Dan Mountain [email protected] Twitter @BoarComment COMMENT fb.com/groups/BoarComment 40 Years of Headlines Chris Hyatt 1973 - Mobile Phoney? Martin Cooper invents the first portable mobile phone 1974 - Watergate scandal. Nixon “impeaches” himself by resigning 1976 - First Bite of the Apple. Ste- ve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple 1977 - Light Speed. Star Wars be- comes highest grossing film fran- chise in history 1978 - Grave Error. A laughable attempt is made to steal Charles Chaplin’s coffin. It is recovered 15km away 1979 - Dawning of a New Era. Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister 1980 - Let It Not Be. John Lennon shot dead 1982 - Heartfelt Recovery. First permanent artifical heart implant- ed in a human 1983 - Any space for women on the shuttle? Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space 1984 - Off The Wall results! MJ wins record of The Year for “Beat It” and Album of The Year for » “The Morning After” Cartoon by Charley-Kai John “Thriller” at Grammys 1986 - Clouded Judgement: Cloud of Judgement. Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl The State of the Boar Address 1989 - Chinese get Square. Tianan- men Square flooded with students in a pro-democracy protest We’ve come a long way, and we’re only going to bigger and better places 1990 - Another Brick Out of the ditioning in the office (oh, one can Another great mystery, one un- into a stupid amount of debt, but Wall. The Berlin Wall finally falls. Dan Mountain only dream!) likely to ever be solved, is just how through some hyper-intelligent East and West Germany are united Print journalism isn’t dying. we came to acquire our name. De- money-management and business 1994 - I-rish this happened soon- There is still plenty of room for de- ciding to call the campus newspa- accumen, we’ve managed this year er. IRA declares ceasefire in North- 0 may seem like a grand old cent newspapers, put out by ded- per of a university renowned for its to finally get our balance on the ern Ireland. age for a newspaper that oper- icated teams that have a good eye ducks, and with both an elephant right side of zero. 1996 - Bull-ied by the hype? Brit- ates on nothing but the blood for detail and a good ear for stories. and a bear on its crest, the Boar It’s hard to express just how cool ain panics about Mad Cow Disease 4of freshers, the sweat of finalists But print journalism certainly is is something that seems doomed it is to be part of a team that pro- 1997 - Titanic Success! Titanic and caffeine, but we’re still prac- changing. There is no better train- to be one of the great mysteries of duces the paper that you’re hold- released in theatres and becomes tically suckling at the journalistic ing ground than your campus rag all time, up there with ‘what was ing in your hands right now. The highest grossing film in history at teat. While other campus publi- and we’re definitely going to have Stonehenge all about?’ and ‘just amount of hours that we put in to the time. cations at your old and wise uni- to change and evolve in order to what exactly happened to Cuba this paper instead of our degrees is 1999 - Worst Y2Case Scenario? versities may be paying taxes and keep up with the industry. What Gooding Jr’s career?’ probably a good indicator of just Y2K bug panic spreads round the spending their week nights con- this means is more online content Across all 14 sections of the pa- how stupid we all are. But I suspect world on New Years Eve. sidering whether to watch Antiques (like our rather beautiful website), per, the editorial team have been that producing a year’s worth of 2003 - Hussein We Can’t Get An- Roadshow or Bake Off, we’re only movement on to other mediums trying to deliver you only the best fantastic journalism will probably ything Done? Saddam Hussein ap- just finding our feet. (like our radio show) and more possible content. Sometimes this bring us far more pride than a de- prehended by the U.S military The Boar seems to have come integration with social media (I’m takes the form of an exposé on some gree anyway. 2007 - Browning Street. Gordon on leaps and bounds in the last few not lying when I say that the Boar seriously screwed-up kebab ingre- So next time you pick up a copy Brown replaces Tony Blair as prime years, even going so far as to win literally ceases to function without dients in Leam, or sitting down and of the Boar, know that it’s been sent minister Student Publication of the Year! Facebook). talking with the latest occupation there with love. Know that a lot of 2008 - Van Goght away… 3 Men in This is certainly something you’ll movement. And sometimes this people have sat and thought and ski masks steal 4 paintings worth a hear us brag a great deal about over Print journalism isn’t dying. takes the form of whinging about scratched and stressed over line total of $163 million from the Zu- the next few years (or decades) but messy freshers, Vice-Chancellors placements, typography, grammar rich Museum in broad daylight. There’s still room for it. But it that fail to be Thrifty, and reviews and all sorts of other nonsense that it truly is a monumental achieve- certainly is changing. 2009 - Obama Self in the History ment and would not have been of the latest Made in Essex Shore. would probably never occur to you. books. President Barack Obama is possible without a long history of It’s also worth taking a moment Know that there is a group of sworn in as the first Black president fantastic writers, editors and busi- to mention the unsung heroes of brave souls wandering the campus in history ness people just like you. The Boar There are some moments in the the Boar – the business team. With- this very second, bleary-eyed and 2010 - “Oil Fix it I Swear”. An ex- is your campus newspaper and its publication’s history that seem ut- out them we wouldn’t be able to thirsty for a story. Just waiting for plosion on a BP oil rig releases an successes only ever reflect the cali- terly baffling. 60 page issues being produce what you’re holding right that moment when we discover estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per bre and commitment of the people printed weekly sounds like an ideal now, we wouldn’t be able to acquire what exactly has been living in the hour into the Atlantic Ocean. who choose to take part. recipe for a failed degree and a tear- sponsorships and advertising, and Koan all these years, or how exactly 2011 - No mar Gaddafi. Col. Over the next 40 years I’m pre- soaked office. Getting in to £10,000 we’d be far more reliant on the SU. Costcutter keeps their prices so un- Muammar El-Qaddafi killed by re- dicting a torrent of awards, publi- of debt is enough to make us sorely We really pride ourselves on our reasonable. bel troops in Surt cation on five different continents, regret ever having the audacity to editorial independence from the Student journalists are an odd 2012 - Lon-done with the Olym- a wing of the library named after even consider purchasing a brand SU and our ability to be self-suf- bunch, but we really do care about pics. The offical closing ceremony us and, ooh, maybe some air-con- new pencil. ficient. Granted, we got ourselves giving you a good read. marks an end to the London Sum- mer Olympics theboar.org Editor: Roxanne Douglas17 [email protected] Twitter @BoarFeatures FEATURES fb.com/groups/BoarFeatures In the Boar-gining From the online archives, first published in the Warwick Boar - Week , Spring Term 2 - A bit of Hist-boar-y Volume 2, Issue Roxanne Douglas relays the highlights of the last forty years ncorporating the newssheet known as Campus, Godfrey Rust and Kasper De Graaf could hardly have chosen a more Iexciting time in the history of the Students’ Union to launch the Boar. The five year battle to place under student control the soon-to- be constructed ‘second Rootes social build- ing’ (modern day Union South) was nearing a thrilling, and ultimately victorious end. “If we don’t do it this time we can look forward for many years to being no more than an inefficient and rather petulant youth club”, boomed the Boar’s first ever editorial. The voice of the students was clear – a week later the Boar pictured over 1,000 students crammed into the Workroom (later the Air- port Bar and now ‘the Bar’), with all but three voting in favour of “nothing less than full Union control of the Second Social Building.” However consensus had failed to spread to the University – Pro-Vice-Chancellor Scars- brick had dismissed the Warwick Union as the “centre of barbarism” and the “phalanx of ignorance”.