Complex sentence: The news met with anger from some students at the University of Warwick and the general public, and Thrift was lampooned on several blogs, which claimed that the pay rise was unjustified in light of Warwick's poor performance in international university league tables.
Split into simpler sentences: The news met with anger from some students at the University of Warwick. Some claimed that the pay rise was unjustified in light of Warwick's performance in international university league tables.