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Term 2 2015 Weeks 5 - 6

Help Us Help You

Varsity 2015

Curiositea Valentine’s offers

Real Ale Festival

What’s On listings

…and more!

We’re midway through Term 2 already, and that means just one thing for Warwick’s sports teams: the return of Varsity Season!

Throughout Week 5, our clubs will be heading into battle against their arch-rivals over at Coventry University to determine the finest sporting institution this side of the A45. Warwick remains unbeaten for 24 years now – needless to say, this year we’re looking to make it a solid quarter of a century undefeated!

The Varsity website is now live and contains details all the fixtures, plus the chance to buy tickets and merchandise

(including our amazing new ‘Thunder Sticks’ to help make a racket from the stands). The finale will be the Ice Hockey match at Coventry

Skydome on Saturday 7th February – tickets include return coach transport, so make sure you come along and cheer on Warwick’s finest as they aim to tell Cov to puck right off (…sorry).

Win or lose (that’ll surely never happen), one thing’s for certain: this year’s tournament is set to be absolutely epic! - RUBY COMPTON-DAVIES

Sports Officersports@

warwicksu.com

news in brief

Mystery DinerWe are constantly trying to develop and improve our Food & Beverage outlets here at the Students’ Union (The Bread Oven, Curiositea, The Dirty Duck and Xananas), and so we’re looking for people to take part in our new Mystery Diner scheme. All you’ll need to do is come along to one of our outlets and complete a questionnaire about your visit. In return, we’ll reimburse you for up to £5 off any food or drink you purchase there! If you’d like to take part, sign up at www.warwicksu.com/mysterydiner.

Pizazz – Sunday Week 5Involving over 13 societies and around 300 students, Pizazz is the University’s biggest dance showcase – this year benefitting Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice in Coventry. Pizazz 2015 takes place on Sunday 8th February at the Royal Spa Centre in Leamington, with a matinée at 3pm followed by an evening performance at 7:30pm. Tickets cost £7.50 students and £10 for adults, and will be available soon via the SU website!

Want to see your society event featured in a future issue? Email chris.carter@warwicksu.com with all the details!

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Officer Elections NominationsDo you have any ideas that you think would benefit the student body, or fancy a shot at running your SU next year? If so, don’t forget that the nominations for this year’s upcoming Officer Elections will be opening on Friday Week 5 – there are 7 full-time Sabbatical Officer positions up for grabs, plus a host of part-time roles. All the candidates are voted on by the student body in Week 8, with the winners taking up their positions for the start of the next academic year!

All Student Meeting – Week 5Term 2’s ASM will be held on Monday of Week 5 at 5:45pm in the Atrium. Officers will be taking questions from the student body before the floor is opened to debate the motions being proposed – make sure you visit www.warwicksu.com/asm to read up on the various submissions! Voting then opens online at 12pm on Tuesday 3rd February and closes at 12pm on Friday 6th, with the results announced shortly after. It’s your Union - be a part of it!

Help UsHelp You

Help UsHelp You

Warwick Students’ Union is a democratic, charitable organisation which exists to provide services to you, the student body. We’re run by students for students – but we know that many of you have different needs and expectations from us.

It’s therefore that time of year again when we ask YOU for your opinions on everything we do here at the SU. In our annual Help Us Help You survey, we want to know what you think about our services and facilities. Happy with our various welfare provisions, support services, clubs and societies? Think our food outlets have got it just right, or could be offering something more? Reckon there’s not enough Buffalo-Mating-Call Ravestep played in The Copper Rooms? Whether you love us, hate us or don’t really engage with us at all, we want to hear from you!

The survey will be running online throughout Week 5 - there’ll be a prize draw for completed entries, and all your feedback will be used to inform our plans for the organisation going forward. This is your chance to directly influence the different areas of our operation - if you don’t tell us what you think, we’ll never know!

Head to www.warwicksu.com/helpushelpyou to complete the survey – we look forward to hearing from you!

What’s On - Week 5

WEEKLY SPECIAL

Hot Roast Turkey and Stuffing - £3.45

Freshly carved turkey joint served in gravy with sage and

onion stuffing

Don’t forget:

ALL STUDENT MEETING

Atrium, 5.30pm

BATTLE OF THE BANDS – Heat 2

Room 2,7pmUNPLUCKED

The Dirty Duck9:30pm

QUACKSTAR KARAOKE

The Dirty Duck, 10pm POP!

Room 1, 10pm (Circles from 7pm)

monday

tuesday

wednesday

friday

COFFEE HOUSE SESSIONS

Curiositea, 5:30pmMIXOLOGY

The Terrace Bar, 9pmCLEVERDUCKS PUB QUIZ

The Dirty Duck9:30pm

thursday

REAL ALE FESTIVALRoom 1, 6pmGET FUNKED

The Terrace Bar, 10pmFLIRT! LOCK & KEY

VALENTINE’S PARTYRoom 1, 10:30pm

VARSITY FINALESkydome, 7:45pm

MiTUNESThe Terrace Bar, 9pm

VARSITY SCORE!Room 1, 10pm

sat/sun

Make sure you have your say on the All Student

Meeting motions!

Voting opens: 12pm Tuesday Week 5

Voting closes: 12pm Friday Week 5

www.warwicksu.com/asm

LIT WEEKAn annual event celebrating

everything literature-related! From quizzes to film screenings

and book sales, check Facebook and the SU events

calendar for full details.

GET FUNKEDThe Terrace Bar

10pmFLIRT!

Room 2, 10:30pm

What’s On - Week 6 Don’t forget:

WEEKLY SPECIAL

Teriyaki Chicken

- £3.45Chicken strips in a sticky teriyaki marinade, served with sesame

seeds and spring onions

QUACKSTAR KARAOKE

The Dirty Duck | 10pmPOP!

Room 1 | 10pm (Circles from 7pm)

wednesday

Fall in love this Valentine’s...…with our sumptuous menu of delicious delights!Perfectly Pink Hot Chocolate £2.50/£2.80Rich and creamy hot chocolate, and it’s pink! Topped with whipped cream, pink sugar sprinkles and a love heart.

Mini Hot Chocolate Fondue £2.50/£2.80Served as a single shot or a double to share, with little flapjack pieces and mini marshmallow dippers.

Vanilla Coeur Cupcake £1.70Vanilla sponge topped with fluffy pink icing and a handmade sugar heart.

Amouretto £2.50/£2.80One of our favourite coffee classics takes a heavenly twist, topped with milk and white chocolate stars.

Apple loves Mint Tea £2.00/£3.50Enjoy a romantic pot for two of this beautifully floral tea with whole roses.

Available throughout Week 6

at CURIOSITEA

VALENTINE’S SPECIALS

monday

COFFEE HOUSE

SESSIONS Curiositea, 5pm

REAL ALE FESTIVALRoom 1, 6pm

CLEVERDUCKS PUB QUIZ The Dirty Duck

9:30pm

thursday

Catch the finest up & coming UK acoustic talent, curated

by Radio 1’s new music guru Huw Stephens!

Thursday 6th FebruaryCuriositea

4pm

Want to run your Students’ Union? Don’t miss out on your chance to nominate yourself for a position in the upcoming Officer Elections!

Nominations close Friday Week 6 via www.warwicksu.com/democracy.

BATTLE OF THE BANDS –

Heat 3Room 2, 7pm

UNPLUCKED: BIG BAND TAKEOVER

The Dirty Duck9:30pm

tuesday

REAL ALE FESTIVALRoom 1, 6pmGET FUNKED

The Terrace Bar, 10pmFLIRT! LOCK & KEY

VALENTINE’S PARTYRoom 1, 10:30pm

friday

REAL ALE FESTIVALRoom 1, 6pm

SATURDAY SESSIONThe Terrace Bar, 9pm

CRASH, Room 210pm

sat/sun

NOMINATIONS

UV SPORTSUV Squash - Thursday Week 6

UV Spin - Friday Week 6

Sign up at www.warwicksport.com

The 36th Warwick University

Real Ale Festival will be coming to campus from 12th–

14th February! This year they’re promising their best festival yet with over 120 beers and 30+ ciders, along with the usual helpings of fruit wines and Turbo Purple. Following the success of their international beers last year, these will also make a return – as will the Hog Roast (now

with added vegetarian sausages!) and live entertainment from Dr. Busker.

You can view their preliminary Ale, Cider and Foreign Beer lists at

www.realale.uwcs.co.uk. Bottoms up!

So, it all comes down to this. For 24 years, Warwick’s sports teams have maintained an unbeaten record against our competitors over at Cov Uni, and now we’re looking to hit the big 25. This year’s Varsity tournament kicked into life in Week 4 with the Basketball opener, and will continue throughout Week 5. Every victory matters, and that’s why we need YOU to come along and cheer on our sporting lads and lasses as they head into battle!

Tickets for the Grand Finale on Saturday 7th February - a showdown between our fine institutions’ respective Ice Hockey teams - are available now via the Varsity website (varsity.warwicksu.com), where you can also view the fixture list and buy Team Warwick merchandise. Later on, it’s all back to ours for the After-Party as our cheesy midweek favourite from years gone by, Score!, makes a return for one night only.

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Fall in love this Valentine’s...…with our sumptuous menu of delicious delights!Perfectly Pink Hot Chocolate £2.50/£2.80Rich and creamy hot chocolate, and it’s pink! Topped with whipped cream, pink sugar sprinkles and a love heart.

Mini Hot Chocolate Fondue £2.50/£2.80Served as a single shot or a double to share, with little fl apjack pieces and mini marshmallow dippers.

Vanilla Coeur Cupcake £1.60Vanilla sponge topped with fl uffy pink icing and a handmade sugar heart.

Amouretto £2.50/£2.80One of our favourite coffee classics takes a heavenly twist, topped with milk and white chocolate stars.

Apple loves Mint Tea £2.00/£3.50Enjoy a romantic pot for two of this beautifully fl oral tea with whole roses.

Available throughout Week 6

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