T he Students’ Guild revealed towards the end of last term, that Refreshers week – the week in which societies put on more taster sessions for people to try during ‘exam week’ in term two – was to be cancelled for January 2018. This wasn’t quite the traumatic/thankful/all-of-the-above news of the Saturday Lemmy coming to […]
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Exeter Sabbatical Elections 2017: The Results
Exeter’s new Guild President will be Shades, it was announced tonight – following a record-breaking elections week which saw 44% of students turn out to vote. Taking over from current President Toby Gladwin, Shraddha Chaudhary – known throughout the week as Shades – will head up the second all-female Sabbatical team in three years. She […]
New #NeverOK Video Uses Curly Fries to Explain Sexual Consent
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild has released a new video for their #NeverOK sexual harassment campaign featuring one of Exeter’s favourite dishes: curly fries. The new video helpfully uses curly fries as an analogy for sexual consent with the opening line: “If you’re struggling with consent just imagine that instead of initiating sex, you […]
NUS vote breaks record for student turnout
Exeter’s NUS membership has officially become the most voted-on topic in Guild history, with over 2,400 students registering their opinion on the Student Ideas forum. Exeter Change and Represent announced the record turnout on Twitter on Sunday evening. The motion “The Guild should disaffiliate from the National Union of Students” launched as a student vote […]
Report: the NUS #StayOrGo debate
As students began to vote on whether the Students’ Guild leaves the NUS, Monday night saw supporters and skeptics of both campaigns gather in DH1’s M&D Room for the first public debate on Exeter’s vote. Chaired by Xpression FM’s Jack Sheeran, ‘NUS Referendum: The Debate’ provoked laughs, indignation and intense frustration as speakers argued how […]
The UK and the EU: Ask the experts event at Exeter University
In light of the upcoming EU referendum, taking place on the 23rd June, the University of Exeter is hosting a neutral panel discussion at the start of term three. The panel consists of six leading professors from the University of Exeter, the University of Cambridge, and the LSE, who will be discussing the referendum and […]
Review: After Mrs Rochester
EUTCo’s Facebook page presents the show as: ”After Mrs Rochester’ – a play of nostalgia, memory and love.’ And let me tell you, in those fast-paced 2 hours, it becomes much more than that:creativity, madness, growth, family and misery all brilliantly executed through the hypnotising art of physical theatre. The play follows novelist Jean Rhys’s […]
2015: A year in review (January – June)
Ah, the dawn of a new year. Always slightly troubling, isn’t it? Whilst we’re all suffering from Christmas hat syndrome (“is there still one on my head? I genuinely can’t tell anymore”), we’re simultaneously shock-stricken that summer wasn’t yesterday… and when did Halloween happen? Did I even have a birthday? Seriously, where did all my […]
Library fines fall by nearly £30,000
R evenue generated by library fines fell by nearly £30,000 last year, an Exeposé Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed. In the 2013-2014 academic year, the Library took £76,067 in fines, but only collected £46,785 in 2014-15 – a drop of nearly 40 per cent. Over the past five years, the University Library has collected over […]
The mind can’t ‘man up’
It’s a phrase you probably heard last weekend. Painful tackle? Don’t want to down it? Film scene got you emotional? The answer is simple. Just two words to get you back on your feet, suck it up and continue without a word: “man up.” A seemingly harmless phrase, yet for some, the expression’s etymology built […]