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Freshers Week

End of year thoughts

Gracie Moore reflects on the end of yet another year of studying during the pandemic, but shares her hopes for a summer filled with fun, friends and flights abroad.

Apr 12, 2022 By Gracie Moore Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: summer, Freshers Week, studying, friends, uni life

Social Spaces: Freshers And Socialisation During The ‘New Normal’

Rebecca Colyer debates the ever changing ways in which students must socialise due to the impact of COVID-19 The chaotic, sleepless and hungover ‘traditional’ Freshers week has been fully reimagined, as the concept of Fresher’s flu was taken to the extreme. However, after spending months at home, the anticipation, excitement and nerves of moving away […]

Oct 5, 2020 By Rebecca Colyer Filed Under: Lifestyle, Culture, Wellbeing, Editors' Picks Tagged With: freshers, Freshers Week, social life, #lifestyle

A Fresher’s Guide to Packing for University

A Fresher’s Guide to Packing for University Print Music Editor Bridie Adams gives us the down low on all the university essentials for every fresher If you are a returning Exeter student, you’ll already know the basics of what you need and don’t need at university. If you’re going to be a fresher in September, […]

Aug 6, 2020 By Bridie Adams Filed Under: Lifestyle, Culture, Headlines Tagged With: University, Exeter, first year, Freshers Week, exeter accomodation

How to Survive Freshers’ Flu

Print Comment Editor Kamila Bell gives us her tried-and-tested tips on tackling the fabled Freshers’ Flu I was five weeks into my first year of uni, five weeks of almost consecutive nights out followed by mornings of regret, when I awake one day to discover that my Deliveroo order is not subsiding my banging headache […]

Oct 5, 2019 By Kamila Bell Filed Under: Lifestyle, Wellbeing, Editors' Picks Tagged With: illness, wellbeing, Freshers Week, Freshers Flu, fresher

OOD – Figuring out the Freshers’ Fair

I may not have found a grey hair yet – only an oddly yellow one from my disastrous attempt to go ginger – but this year marks my third, and presumably final Freshers’ Fair. Instead of wandering around as hopelessly as a cloud in a June sky, it would have very much helped my first […]

Sep 20, 2018 By Neha Shaji Filed Under: Comment Tagged With: University, Exeter, students, sport, societies, Politics, advice, Freshers Week, Freshers Fair

Those post-Freshers blues

Freshers Week; the beginning of a new independent life away from home, or merely the start of yet another academic year. It is exciting, exhausting and jam packed full of super fun things. But what happens when you finally come to a stop; as it starts to dawn on you that you are now a […]

Apr 3, 2018 By Tash Ebbutt Filed Under: Comment Tagged With: University of Exeter, Freshers Week, Budgeting, timetabling, freshers blues

Welcome Team Worries

Members of the University of Exeter Students’ Guild Welcome Team have expressed concerns with regard to changes made to the initiative’s organisation both prior to and during Freshers’ Week 2017. Welcome Team participants, known for their bright pink presence throughout Exeter from Arrivals Weekend until the Freshers’ Fair, disclosed a dual concern to Exeposé about […]

Oct 31, 2017 By Emma Bessent Filed Under: News, Local News Tagged With: University of Exeter, The Guild, Freshers Week, Welcome Team, Freshers Week 2017

The Ghosts of Freshers Past

Oh Fresher’s Week. The gateway to a year of university life, an opportunity to blow off steam before the hard work begins or, in my case, get horrifically drunk to mask the fact I was shitting myself with nerves and end up not being able to look half of Lafrowda in the eye. In comparison […]

Sep 21, 2017 By Alicia Rees Filed Under: Comment Tagged With: lemon grove, Freshers Week, student nightlife, exeter clubbing, Freshers 2017

Great Expectations

Arriving at your University Of Choice, which, considering, is probably Exeter (if it was Oxbridge, you’re here now, so let it go) you will probably have ambitions. Let me be the first to say two things: Firstly, welcome! to probably the best university in the world, as those bumper stickers from the 90s still, for […]

Sep 20, 2017 By James Murphy Filed Under: Comment Tagged With: first year, Freshers Week, student life, University life, Freshers 17, adulting

Agony Art: freshers’ fears, tips, and tricks

As a fresher myself not that long ago, I know there are probably a few things occupying your mind at the moment: What if it turns out I hate my course? What if my flatmates don’t watch Bake Off??? Will my pet remember my face when I come home? All of the above. If any […]

Sep 19, 2017 By Emily Stearn Filed Under: Arts & Lit Tagged With: freshers, University of Exeter, advice, Freshers Week, agony art

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Our front page covers the University's failure to uphold Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) as evidence for longer-term mitigation and student charity work being halted by the Guild's delay in updating their DBS policy. 

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Our front page reports on student Meningitis cases in Exeter and the Exeter University Rugby and Football Club's self-described 'Hymn Sheet' which contains parody-style songs some students have labelled sexist and classist.

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Our front page news stories cover both horrifying and pleasant student experiences with estate agents, Cardens, and Jacob Rees-Mogg's controversial comments at an event organised by the Exeter University Conservative Association. 

Inside we have COP26 coverage and an exclusive interview with the USS Pensions Officer for the UCU, a Feature article detailing local support for sexual assault survivors and a Science piece on how TikTok is revolutionising science communication.

Over on our Exhibit pages, Lifestyle discusses breast cancer signs and how to self-examine, Arts and Lit explore the concept of streaming theatre online and Screen spotlight some of the best (and worst) musicians-turned-actors.

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Our front page covers the outrage and confusion over the Athletic Union's (now u-turned) decision to ban sport socials indefinitely and the boycotting of nightclubs in response to a rise in spiking. 

We also have an exclusive interview with Marion Ojua, VP Liberation and Diversity, who spoke about her day-to-day duties, Black History Month and diversity at the University of Exeter.

In our Comment section, one writer argues in favour of banning red meat on campus while Science spotlights the work of Black scientists and Sport looks at the career of former footballer, Viv Anderson. 

Over on our Exhibit pages, Lifestyle writers discuss important Black-owned fashion and beauty brands, Arts and Lit contributors share who their favourite Black artists are and Screen reviews Netflix's most popular show, Squid Game.

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