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bubble Term 2 2014 Weeks 9-10
In this issue: Women’s Week 2014 Summer Party competition Battle of the Bands Student Trustee wanted What’s On listings …and more!
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Sabb Blab Hi folks! I’m really excited to be able to take part in International Women’s Week throughout Week 9. This is a perfect opportunity to take stock of the current state of gender politics by focusing on a range of issues affecting women today, including safety, pay, legal issues and cultural debates. It’s not just for the ladies though, as remember: feminism helps men too!
Welfare Officer welfare@ warwicksu. com
Welfare Officer welfare@ warwicksu.com
Elsewhere, make sure you check out Curiositea’s Easter specials menu, and come along to the Grand Final of Battle of the Bands on Tuesday of Week 10 to find out who’ll have the honour of opening the Main Stage at this year’s Summer Party. I hope you have a great last fortnight – we look forward to seeing you back and refreshed for Term 3, when we’ll be running our Feel Good campaign again to help keep you in top shape during the exam season! - CAT TURHAN
news in brief New Officer Team announced
Many thanks to all of you who stood as a candidate or voted in Week 8’s Officer Elections – the results are now available to view online at www.warwicksu.com/elections. Congratulations to all the winners – don’t forget though that the current Sabbatical Officer Team will still be ‘in-post’ until August if you need them! Visit www.warwicksu.com/democracy/officers for their contact details.
CourseSync – new IT service for students at Warwick
The University’s IT Services department has recently launched a new service called CourseSync, which allows students to have course-related material automatically sent to your SkyDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox. It’s free to use - visit www.warwick.ac.uk/coursesync for more details and to get set up!
Vintage Fair – 3rd March
In addition to Curiositea’s regular LOOT event on Saturday 8th March, there’ll also be a massive Vintage Fair held in the Atrium on Monday of Week 9 where you can pick up affordable, on-trend vintage clothing for guys and girls. Visit www.facebook.com/University.Vintage.Fairs for more details!
String Orchestra concert – 6th March
On Thursday Week 9, Warwick String Orchestra will be holding their Spring Concert from 7.30pm at Radford Road Church in Leamington Spa. Tickets cost £3 for students (£5 for all others) and will be available on the door!
Warwick LINKS Quiz – 13th March
Warwick LINKS are hosting a pub quiz on Thursday of Week 10 in The Mighty Duck, raising money for St John Ambulance and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Tickets can be purchased in advance online for £1.50 at www.warwicksu.com/events/4239/10952/, or you can pay on the door for £2. Want to see your society event featured in a future issue? Email chris.carter@warwicksu.com with all the details!
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Women’s Week Week 9 is International Women’s Week, in which Warwick SU will be celebrating the women in your life while honouring female achievements throughout history. It also provides a chance to reflect on contemporary gender politics and look towards greater equality in the future! Feminism affects all of us – as such, there will be loads of inspiring events for students to take part in across the week, from slam poetry and politics to music, film screenings and theatre. It’s all kicking off a little earlier than usual this year with the Reclaim the Night march through Coventry on Saturday of Week 8, with our seminal event being Warwick Hub’s Gender Development Conference in L4/5 the following Saturday.
A few highlights of this year’s programme include: THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES Tuesday 4th March Copper Rooms 1 7:30pm UN-PLUCKED: FEMALE PERFORMERS NIGHT Tuesday 4th March The Dirty Duck 9:30pm POLSOC PRESENTS: WOMEN’S WEEK QUESTION TIME Wednesday 5th March Lib 1 Time TBC WARWICK HUB DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE: THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE Saturday 8th March L4/5 (Science Concourse) 11am-4pm It’s set to be the biggest and best Women’s Week Warwick has ever seen – stay tuned to the SU website for further updates and make sure you get involved!
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What’s On - Week 9
Don’t forget:
monday JEWELLERY MAKING WORKSHOP Curiositea, 5:45pm LATIN NIGHT Room 2, 10pm
tuesday
UN-PLUCKED: FEMALE PERFORMERS NIGHT The Dirty Duck 9:30pm
Another chance to catch hand-picked UK acoustic talent up-close and personal in an intimate setting right here on campus!
Thursday 6th March Curiositea 4pm
wednesday QUACKSTAR KARAOKE The Dirty Duck, 10pm POP! Room 1, 10pm (Circles from 7pm)
thursday
WEEKLY SPECIAL
Roast Butternut Squash with Parmesan, Toasted Pine Nuts and Rocket - 3.45
BATTLE OF THE BANDS Semi Final Room 2, 8pm GLOBAL The Terrace Bar 9pm CLEVERDUCKS PUB QUIZ The Dirty Duck 9:30pm
friday
GET FUNKED The Terrace Bar 10pm
sat/sun MiTUNES The Terrace Bar 9pm CRASH Room 2 10pm
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What’s On - Week 10
Don’t forget:
monday
SALSA MONDAYS The Terrace Bar 10pm
Salsa Mondays
tuesday BATTLE OF THE BANDS – FINAL Room 1, 8pm UN-PLUCKED The Dirty Duck 9:30pm
Catch the finest up & coming Last chance this term to UK acoustic talent, curated get yourself checked by Radio 1’s new music guru for sexually-transmitted Huw Stephens! infections as Coventry’s mobile GUM Clinic returns!
Thursday 6th February Tuesday 11th March, MR 4/5 Curiositea (SUHQ),11:30am 4pm
wednesday QUACKSTAR KARAOKE The Dirty Duck, 10pm POP! Room 1, 10pm (Circles from 7pm)
thursday COFFEE HOUSE SESSIONS Curiositea,4pm MIXOLOGY The Terrace Bar, 9pm CLEVERDUCKS PUB QUIZ The Dirty Duck 10pm
WEEKLY SPECIAL Chicken, Avocado, Mozzarella and Roast Tomato - 3.45 OR remove the chicken for a vegetarian option 3.20
friday
GET FUNKED The Terrace Bar 10pm
sat/sun
HAPPY EASTER FROM EVERYONE AT WARWICK SU!
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Let’s win this thing! Join special guests R3Wire & Varski as we team up with Club MTV to try and get them to Pimp Our Summer Ball! Thursday 13th March Room 1, 10pm
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As trailered in the last issue, Pimp My Summer Ball is a Twitter-based competition in which different universities will be competing to have MTV DOUBLE the entertainment budget of their Summer Party. Want to see a MASSIVE name at the top of the bill? Well, this is your big chance to help make it happen! From Monday 3rd March (Week 9) until the first week in April, all you need to do is send a tweet containing the hashtag #YesPimpmySummerBall, followed by ‘Warwick’. Every time a tweet appears containing these words, it registers as a vote for us!
Do retweets count? That’s the best part – they DO. Every time you tweet containing this phrase, that counts as a vote – then if your followers retweet you, that TOO counts as a separate vote! Likewise, if you tag either @warwicksu or @warwicksuents, we can then retweet you, and that counts as another vote. There’s also no limit to the amount of times you can tweet! So, an ideal Tweet would be something along the lines of… #YesPimpmySummerBall Warwick! @warwicksu RT to register another vote! - We can then retweet this, tweet you back to say thanks, you retweet that, tweet us again, we retweet you, you tweet your mates, they retweet that… you get the idea! There’ll also be additional giveaways for the most prolific tweeters – and make sure you come along to our End of Term Party on Thursday of Week 10, where we’ll be hosting a veritable Tweeta-thon to go for a really big push and try to bag the main prize!
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Battle of the Bands reaches its climactic stages this fortnight, with the runners-up from each heat going head-to-head in the Semi-Final on Thursday Week 9. Following this will be Week 10’s Grand Final, where the six remaining acts will be duking it out for the chance to perform at this year’s Summer Party! We have a diverse and entertaining range of acts performing this year, with the line-ups at the time of going to press running as follows:
SEMI-FINAL
FINAL
Brave The Woods Sir Wheat and Miss Ellaneus Jordan & The Sketcheads The Victors Jig [Heat 5 Runners-Up] “Wild Card vote” – judges’ pick
Asian Death Crustacean Gila Monster Instinct By Default Nothing Left [Heat 5 Winners] [Semi-Final Winners]
As always, keep up with the latest happenings at www.bandsoc.co.uk – we’ll see you at the Grand Final in Copper Rooms 1 on Tuesday 11th March for what is always one of the best nights of the year!
Easter Treats at Curiositea Mini Egg Hot Chocolate £2.50 | £2.80 Crème Egg Milkshake £2.75 Buttered Hot Cross Buns £2.20 Chocolate Easter Nests £1.20 Easter Daisy Cupcakes £1.70
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Warwick Students’ Union is a charitable membership organisation which exists to represent the views and interests of all students at Warwick University. We also run significant commercial services whose surpluses are used to subsidise welfare, representational and developmental activities for our members. The Trustees of Warwick SU are fundamental to the success of the charity and are responsible for its financial sustainability and strategic direction. We are looking for five additional volunteer Student Trustees who can commit 4 to 6 hours per month, largely in early evenings. To be a Student Trustee, you must be a student at Warwick University, be over 18 years old when you take up appointment and have no unspent criminal convictions. If you’re interested in applying, send a CV and covering letter detailing why you would like to be a trustee at Warwick Students’ Union to trustees@ warwicksu.com or visit www.warwicksu.com/trustees for more information.
Closing Date:
Midday Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Interview Date:
Monday 28th April 2014
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