Caerdydd Students for Palestine responded that "Cardiff University would rather violently repress its students than speak to us. Whilst we are outraged by this, we must remember the privilege of having a campus to protest on at all." According to The Guardian and the investigative journalism unit at the Liberty advocacy group, British Law firm Shakespeare Martineau LLP coached Cardiff University and several other universities on how to obtain these court orders.
=== Athletics ===
The Cardiff University Athletic Union is the body that supports student sport at Cardiff, it oversees more than 60 competitive and non-competitive sports clubs, many of which compete in the British Universities and Colleges Sport league. The university's Ice Hockey team, the Cardiff Redhawks (which also recruits players from other Welsh universities) competes in the British Universities Ice Hockey Association leagues.
The university's sports teams also take part in the annual Welsh Varsity against Swansea University, which includes the Welsh Boat Race, and several other sporting competitions. The Welsh Varsity rugby match has been described as "probably... the second biggest Varsity Game next to Oxford vs Cambridge".
Cardiff participates in British Universities and Colleges Sport which manages a sporting framework of competitive fixtures and events for over 150 institutions around the UK. Cardiff registers nearly 100 teams in the various leagues and competitions each year and sees students travelling around the country to represent Cardiff University. In 2013 Cardiff team achieved 15th position overall across the 50 different sports hosting events.
== Insignia and other representations ==
=== Motto ===
Cardiff University's motto is Gwirionedd, Undod a Chytgord. The Welsh motto translates as Truth, Unity and Concord or Truth, Unity and Harmony. It is taken from the prayer for the Church militant as it appears in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
=== Coat of arms ===
Cardiff University's current coat of arms was granted by the College …
