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intro • news in brief • warwick student cinema
Hi folks, Nearly halfway through term now and exam season is in full swing. Make sure you take the time to read up on our Feel Good Campaign (warwicksu.com/feelgood) and stay healthy over the coming weeks! We’re all still busy in SUHQ working on different projects and I’m writing the intro this week due to the launch of the Union Democracy Review. Full details are available online with thoughts on how to make democracy more simple, accessible and relevant to your lives as a student alongside some technology to drag us into the 21st century…I’d really appreciate people’s feedback, so if you’re looking for a revision break or are in the mood to procrastinate then send me some thoughts: democracy@warwicksu.com. Finally, remember that tickets are still on sale for this year’s Summer Party – it’s a guaranteed showstopper and will always be one of the highlights of my time at Warwick. Get your ticket now and have something to look forward to once essays, exams and dissertations are but a distant memory… Good luck! Chris Luck DEMOCRACY OFFICER
news in brief Welfare and Campaigns Officer Re-election After another week of feverish campaigning, we’re pleased to announce that the Welfare & Campaigns Officer Re-election achieved quoracy – congratulations to the winner, Ben Sundell, who now joins Nick, James, Anna, Cosmo, Silkie and Bam to form your Sabbatical Officer team 2012/13!
Wsaf coming soon! Warwick Student Arts Festival (WSAF) is one of the largest student arts festivals in Europe and is hosted annually at the University of Warwick. It’s an entirely student-run, four-day festival of over one hundred free events ranging from beat-boxing to Brecht and covering all art forms from theatre to music via film, visual arts and dance. This year’s festival will run from Sunday 24th to Wednesday 27th June (Week 9-10) - head over to www.wsaf.co.uk to get a sneak preview of what’s on offer this year!
Society Awards 2012 One of the highlights of the WSAF programme is the Society Awards, which honours the contributions made to student life by the SU’s 300+ clubs and socs. This year’s event takes place on Tuesday 26th June in Butterworth Hall, and will be a black-tie event with light supper & wine provided. Keep your eyes on the SU website in the coming weeks to grab a ticket for this unforgettable night of dance, drama and entertainment!
Grad Ball 2012 - table plans now available online You are now able to submit your table plans online for the Grad Ball at www.warwicksu.com/summer/gradball/ Please note that tables can now only seat a maximum of 10 people, not 12 as originally specified. We do of course apologise profusely for this late change – unfortunately we were informed of this by the Hilton after we had originally published the information online! However, if you want to submit two groups of a smaller number, we will do our best to seat you next to each other.
warwick student cinema - weeks 5 & 6 Higlights this fortnight include: The Woman in Black - Midnight Screening - Saturday 26th May (Week 5), Midnight, L3. The Grey - Friday 25th May (Week 5), 18:30 and 21:30, L3. Shame - Tuesday 22nd May (Week 5), 19:30, L3. This Means War - Friday 1st June (Week 6), 18:30 and 21:30, L3 As always, you can find out more about the Student Cinema’s activities at www.filmsoc.warwick.ac.uk
SU Democracy Review
2012 Warwick SU is run by students, for students, but we know from your feedback that many of you can often feel alienated from the Union’s core democratic structures and processes for a multitude of reasons. As promised in his election manifesto last year, SU Democracy Officer Chris Luck has been hard at work taking onboard all your comments and feedback from the Democracy Review, The Big 5 survey, Rant Week and beyond in a bid to come up with a new democratic system for the 21st Century.
DEMOCRACY
HERE'S WHAT YOU TOLD US: • You don’t like long meetings • You don’t like decisions being made on your behalf • You like online voting • You don’t like our jargon and our bureaucracy • You think we talk about the wrong issues • You don’t know how to find out what’s going on • You don’t know who the decision-makers are.
We’ve now boiled those issues down into three key goals, which are to make Union Democracy more:
SIMPLE
to understand and be involved in
ACCESSIBLE
all year round and regardless of time available
RELEVANT
to Warwick students’ lives
We’re proud to announce that you can see the full Democracy Review online at www.warwicksu. com/democracy/review - we’re now looking for your feedback, questions and comments before we start taking the proposals forward! It’s your Union - make sure you email democracy@warwicksu.com with your thoughts!
WWW.WARWICKSU.COM/DEMOC RACY
2012
Curiositea - Term 3 offers • Vegetarian week in Xananas • The Bread Oven baguette delivery
Curiositea - Term 3 offers opening late By popular demand, Curiositea will be open until 8pm from Monday of Week 5 if you’re in need of a refuge from revision!
summer menu We’ll also be introducing our special Summer Menu in Weeks 5-10 to help you keep cool this term – from smoothies to ice lollies, there’s something for everyone! All this in addition to Treat Yourself Tuesdays, where we’ll be laying on an extra selection of our most popular cakes and desserts if you fancy a well-earned reward to go with your cuppa. Head over to www.warwicksu.com/curiositea for more info!
Vegetarian Week in Xananas Fed up of meat? Don’t touch the stuff? Unleash your inner herbivore by trying our mouth-watering selection of vegetarian dishes in Xananas throughout Week 5. Grab yourself a plateful of legumes and feel the benefits of an all-natural diet for a week – a perfect stimulant for mind and body alike during exam season!
Visit www.warwicksu.com/xananas for the full menu.
The Bread Oven - Baguette Delivery Don’t forget that we’re still taking orders online to get your Bread Oven baguette delivered to the Library so that you don’t get “pink slipped” by coming over to the Union – simply log on to www.warwicksu.com/ breadoven/lunchorder before 10am that day, choose your favourite filling, pay online and then pop down to the stall outside the Library between 12 and 12:20pm!
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what’s on
what’s on week 5
Thursday 24th
Friday 1nd June
IDIOTEQUE
MTW: KISS OF THE
9PM - 1AM THE TERRACE BAR
A relaxed evening of leftfield indie/alternative music courtesy of Offbeat society.
what’s on week 6
Monday 21st May
CURIOSITEA - OPENING LATE OPEN ’TIL 8PM FROM MONDAY WEEK 5
CURIOSITEA - SUMMER MENU
Round up your mates and get your warble on - The Duck’s hosting its very own Karaoke night!
Friday 25th
FROM WEEKS 5-10
TDI FRIDAY: EUROVISION
See www.warwicksu.com/ curiositea
FROM 7PM THE DIRTY DUCK
Tuesday 22nd
BURGER & PINT FOR £6 5PM - 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
ROCK SOC SOCIAL FROM 7PM THE DIRTY DUCK
UN-PLUCKED 9:30PM - 12AM THE DIRTY DUCK
Live acoustic music from the student talent-pool.
Wednesday 23rd
BUCS PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET 12PM CRYFIELD PAVILION
Come along and represent your home nation as we celebrate music’s least/most prestigious event!
GET FUNKED 9PM - 1AM THE TERRACE BAR
Captain Funkwash delivers a fresh blast of funk, soul and breakbeat classics to kick-start your weekend.
Saturday 26th
MIXOLOGY 9PM - 1AM THE TERRACE BAR
The perfect blend of cocktails and beats, with house music from student DJs.
Head down and support your team on a sunny day.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
POP! MIDWEEK MAYHEM
A midnight screening of the recent British horror smash, courtesy of Warwick Student Cinema.
10PM - 2AM (CIRCLING FROM 7PM) COPPER ROOMS 1
Cheesy tunes and midweek mayhem courtesy of Disco Dave.
CURRY NIGHT 7PM - 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
Curry and a pint for £7.50 between 7-10pm.
12AM - L3
Sunday 27th
BUCS PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET
7.45PM ARTS CENTRE STUDIO
TDI FRIDAY: JUBILEE PARTY FROM 7PM THE DIRTY DUCK
QUACKSTAR KARAOKE 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
SPIDER WOMAN
Glam up as your favourite Royal as we have a right ol’ British knees-up!
Monday 28
th
BURGER & PINT FOR £6 5PM - 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
GET FUNKED 9PM - 1AM THE TERRACE BAR
Captain Funkwash delivers a fresh blast of funk, soul and breakbeat classics to kick-start your weekend.
Tuesday 29th
UN-PLUCKED 9:30PM - 12AM THE DIRTY DUCK
Live acoustic music from the student talent-pool.
Wednesday 30
th
BUCS PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET 12PM CRYFIELD PAVILION
Head down and support your team on a sunny day.
POP! MIDWEEK MAYHEM 10PM - 2AM (CIRCLING FROM 7PM) COPPER ROOMS 1
Cheesy tunes and midweek mayhem courtesy of Disco Dave.
CURRY NIGHT 7PM - 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
Curry and a pint for £7.50 between 7-10pm.
MTW: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN 7.45PM ARTS CENTRE STUDIO
Thursday 31
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Saturday 2nd
MIXOLOGY 9PM - 1AM THE TERRACE BAR
The perfect blend of cocktails and beats, with house music from student DJs.
MTW: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN 7.45PM ARTS CENTRE STUDIO
CRASH 10PM - 2AM (SOCIAL FROM 8PM) COPPER ROOMS 2
This year’s biggest rock, metal, punk and ska anthems - as voted by you!
Sunday 3rd
BUCS PREMIER LEAGUE CRICKET ALL DAY CRYFIELD PAVILION
Head down and support your team on a sunny day
CLEVERDUCKS PUB QUIZ 10PM THE DIRTY DUCK
ALL DAY CRYFIELD PAVILION
Test your mettle against your fellow students at The Duck’s fortnightly pub quiz!
Head down and support your team on a sunny day.
MTW: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN 7.45PM ARTS CENTRE STUDIO
Your Club/Society event not listed? Email your events for Term 3, Weeks 3-4 to: bubble@warwicksu.com
featured event • AIESEC Warwick
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saturday week 6 It’s been another thoroughly rocking year up in Crash HQ which has seen surreal sing-alongs to The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, conga lines aplenty and – of course! - muchos moshing to the world’s noisiest alternative thumpers. As is customary in Term 3, we’re opening up the floodgates of democracy and asking YOU to pick your favourite Crash anthems of the year! Whether you “blessed the rains down in Africa” to Toto, unleashed a rampage of gratuitous riffs to Rammstein or skanked yourself silly to Sublime, now’s your chance to have your say in determining the playlist for the final Crash of term. All your need to do to cast your vote is ‘Like’ the Crash Top 40 2012 page on Facebook, pick your FIVE favourite tunes from the shortlist on the ‘About’ section and post them as a comment on the wall – we’ll tally up the scores and unleash the countdown in full on Saturday 2nd June! This is always one of the highlights of the year here at the Union as the Crash Massive limber up to get very silly indeed to one of the most banging soundtracks around – if you’re a fan of rock, metal, punk or ska, make sure that you don’t miss out!
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