Editing University of Warwick (section)

==Student life==
The university has a campus cat named Rolf.<ref name="Campus Cat">{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/about/community/newsandevents/news/rolf/|title=Meet Rolf, the campus cat!|access-date=23 December 2022|archive-date=23 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223141602/https://warwick.ac.uk/about/community/newsandevents/news/rolf/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Students' Union===
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The University of Warwick Students' Union is one of the largest [[students' union]]s in the UK, and currently has over 260 societies and 67 sports clubs including basketball, [[University of Warwick Boat Club|rowing]] and ice hockey. The Union has an annual turnover of approximately £6&nbsp;million, the profit from which is used to provide services to students and to employ its staff and [[sabbatical officer]]s. The Union is divided into two buildings—SUHQ and The Union Building. The Union Building contains a three-room club venue known as "The Copper Rooms"; CAMRA-accredited "The Dirty Duck" pub; a popular bar called "The Terrace Bar"; Curiositea, a tea shop known for its hot chocolates, cakes and vintage atmosphere; The Graduate, a postgraduate social and study space; and The Bread Oven, a design-your-own sandwich shop.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warwick Student's Union votes to leave National Union of Students over 'bigotry' |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/news/warwick-students-union-votes-to-leave-national-union-of-students-over-bigotry-4hQDdV1ho883HwZCLf4ZyH |access-date=18 April 2023 |website=www.thejc.com}}</ref>

===Student media===
Student media at Warwick includes:
* [[Radio Warwick]] (RAW) – student radio station.
* ''[[The Boar (newspaper)|The Boar]]'' – newspaper distributed free across campus every second Wednesday.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/oct/09/studentmediaawards.students|title=The Guardian Student Media Awards 2006|work=The Guardian|date=9 October 2006|access-date=19 August 2020}}</ref>

===''University Challenge''===
The university won BBC television's ''[[University Challenge]]'' competition in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-56650924.stm|title=Warwick team triumph in University Challenge final|work=BBC News|access-date=12 April 2021|date=5 April 2021}}</ref> This was their second win – their first was in 2007, beating the title-holders [[University of Manchester]] in the final.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6562691.stm|title=Warwick wins University Challenge|access-date=21 December 2011|work=BBC News|date=17 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227120334/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6562691.stm|archive-date=27 February 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Esports===
The University of Warwick are the five-time UK Esports "University of the Year", having won the title every year since its inception.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sacco |first=Dom |date= 21 April 2023 |title=Warwick becomes UK's Esports University of the Year for a record five times in a row – but the gap at the top is narrowing |url=https://esports-news.co.uk/2023/04/21/warwick-esports-university-year-2023/ |work=Esports News UK |access-date= 21 April 2023 }}</ref> In August 2022, Warwick became the first UK university to receive a finalist nomination for the Esports Awards, for Esports Collegiate Program of the Year, with Head of Esports Jack Fenton also becoming the first UK nominee for Collegiate Ambassador of the Year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sacco |first=Dom |date= 27 August 2022 |title=University of Warwick and head of esports nominated for collegiate honours at 2022 Esports Awards, UK-based cosplayers and creatives also nominated |url=https://esports-news.co.uk/2022/08/27/warwick-cosplayers-creatives-awards/ |work=Esports News UK |access-date= 30 September 2022 }}</ref>  Warwick fields numerous esports teams each year through its student-run esports society, Warwick Esports, who compete out of the [[#Esports Facilities|Esports Centre]].

===Student housing===
[[File:Sherbourne, University of Warwick.jpg|thumb|right|One of the Sherbourne residences]]
The Warwick campus currently has around 6,300 student bedrooms across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate residences. All of the residences are self-catered, and each has residential tutors and a warden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/all/campus/|title=Campus Accommodation|access-date=4 February 2012|publisher=University of Warwick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213192311/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/all/campus|archive-date=13 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Warwick guarantees accommodation for all first-year undergraduate students, regardless of their present address. Many of the university's postgraduate population are also catered for, with some specific residences available for postgraduate living. Each residence accommodates a mixture of students both with home and international status, male and female, and, sometimes, undergraduate and postgraduate.

In their second and third years, many students live in one of the surrounding towns: either Coventry, Canley, Kenilworth or Royal Leamington Spa, where they can live in student  accommodation or independently owned residences. Since 2011, Warwick has constructed two new halls of residences for the students. Bluebell, opened in 2011, offers accommodation in flats of eight people, with a total of 505 single rooms for first-year undergraduates. The Sherbourne residences was opened in 2012, which similarly provides 527 ensuite rooms to first-years,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/all/campus/residences/sherbourne/|title=Warwick Accommodation|access-date=4 February 2012|publisher=University of Warwick|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503035726/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/all/campus/residences/sherbourne|archive-date=3 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was extended with a further 267 rooms in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/estates/developments/sherbourne_extension|title=Sherbourne Extension {{!}} Campus Timeline {{!}} University of Warwick|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref> A further 700 new rooms were built in the Cryfield Village, namely Cryfield ‘Townhouse’ and ‘Standard’ residences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/estates/developments/new_cryfield|title=New Residences at Cryfield Village {{!}} Campus Timeline {{!}} University of Warwick|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cryfield Standard Halls of Residence 2023 {{!}} Warwick Accommodation |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/students/cryfield-standard/ |access-date=22 April 2023 |website=warwick.ac.uk}}</ref>

=== Political incidents ===
In June 2014, the university announced [[Alex Davies (extremist)|Alex Davies]], a member of the proscribed terrorist organisation [[National Action (UK)|National Action]], voluntarily withdrew from his course.<ref>{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Nick |date=17 May 2022 |title=University of Warwick student who founded banned neo-Nazi group guilty |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/university-warwick-student-who-founded-23982053 |access-date=30 January 2023 |website=CoventryLive }}</ref> In early 2018, it was made public that a group of male students had constituted a group chat in which many references to rape, occasionally targeted at particular other students, and other sexual offences were made, in such a way which left significant cause for concern.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48366835|access-date=25 August 2021|title=Inside the Warwick University rape chat scandal|work=BBC News|date=28 May 2019}}</ref> As a result of this and other incidents, students staged a [[Sit-in]] in 2021 in the central plaza of the university.<ref>{{cite news |last=Murray |first=Jessica |date=2 April 2021 |title=Warwick University students stage sit-in over sexual abuse |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/apr/02/warwick-university-students-stage-sit-in-over-sexual-abuse |access-date=18 April 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In January 2020, the university was criticised for choosing not to adopt the [[Working Definition of Antisemitism|IHRA definition of antisemitism]]. This decision was later reversed in October following intervention by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Aleks |title=Uni vice-chancellor says IHRA definition offers no 'added value' |url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/warwick-university-vice-chancellor-says-there-is-no-added-value-in-adopting-ihra-definition-1.495348?highlight=warwick |website=www.thejc.com |publisher=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] |access-date=10 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415100604/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/warwick-university-vice-chancellor-says-there-is-no-added-value-in-adopting-ihra-definition-1.495348?highlight=warwick |archive-date=15 April 2021 |date=13 January 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2024, Students of the University's Conservative association were filmed singing and dancing to the Nazi-era World War II marching song [[Erika (song)|"Erika"]] at their annual black-tie dinner.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bruke |first1=Dave |title=Warwick University Tory students filmed dancing to sick Nazi anthem at posh bash |work=The Mirror |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-association-apologises-after-revellers-33138045 |access-date=30 June 2024}}</ref>