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• Academic anger over potential loss of library resources • Library staff label book burning rumour “insulting” Photo: Edwin Yeung

NIVERSITY academics have expressed concern about the removal of books from the Forum Library as a result of the planned addition of extra study spaces. Library staﬀ have revealed plans to remove less popular texts from the library and scale down identical copies of unpopular books in order to accommodate increased study space. The methods of disposal for removed

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books used by the library have been called into question by academics. Exeposé were made aware of ‘book burning’ as being a potential method for the disposal of removed books. When questioned about the rumour, Head of Library Claire Powne labelled the accusations “insulting” to librarians and commented that it is “really unhelpful” for such rumours to be spread. She said: “We know that some aspects of necessary library space management can be misinterpreted and want the academic community to be aware of the

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• Library plans book removal to accommodate study space

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Animal research on campus to increase

scope of work required to meet all expectations of what the Library should offer.” Despite this clarification from Library management, Henry French, Head of History, said that his department has “remaining concerns” about the developments. Dr French listed his concerns in an email to Exeposé, stating his dissatisfaction with the University’s ‘Digital First’ policy, claiming that online versions of texts “do not always offer proper coverage of illustrations, maps, or prefatory material”. Other academics have voiced similar

fears. Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature Dr Emily Bernhard-Jackson said: “My concern is that the library may start getting rid of actual books… and many of those books are, truly, irreplaceable.” Academics have also voiced fears that study space for students is being prioritised over the preservation of extensive physical research collections. Dr Bernhard-Jackson described study space as “often only a place for students to eat, drink, and settle in to use the computer... for hours and hours”. She...

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HE University have confirmed that they will be increasing the overall number of animals used for research on campus. In an open meeting on Wednesday 6 May attended by the Animal Welfare Society and Exeposé, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research Nick Talbot confirmed that this was due to the ongoing expansion of the University. Talbot qualified that animal research per academic staff member will reduce, in line with Home Office regulations. Exeposé understands, however, that this will not lead to a reduction in animal numbers overall. The University has stated their commitment to openness and transparency over research that involves animals. A University of Exeter spokesman said: “It is important to reiterate our commitment to the ‘3Rs’, Reduction, Refinement and Replacement. “Examples of this already include reducing the involvement of animals whenever and wherever possible through computer simulations and statistical modelling.” The meeting on 6 May occurred in part as a result of efforts by the Animal Welfare Society, who have continually campaigned for greater transparency from the University on the issue. In November last year, a Student Idea submitted by the society requested more ethical means of research at Exeter, including...

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Ban on watches ticks off students

Universities across the United Kingdom have faced student criticism following a ban on watches in exams. According to Goldsmiths’ policy, students must store watches under their desks, whilst those at City University have faced a complete ban. It follows similar policies at the University of Southampton, as well as Oxford and Cambridge. Students fear this decision could cause timekeeping issues for short-sighted peers who may struggle to see the clocks. Despite these complaints, the procedure remains in place in an attempt to combat cheating. To resolve the issue, Southampton will now project the time onto screens.

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Oxford University Scottish MP is is sued over rape youngest ever

Student dies after threats on YikYak

An Oxford alumnus is suing the university over its handling of rape and sexual assault complaints. Former student Elizabeth Ramey, registered an oﬃcial complaint with the university following an inadequate investigation and lack of prosecution after her own reported sexual assault in 2011. Her complaint was heard by the Oﬃce of the Independent Adjudicator of Higher Education, which recommended Oxford amend its policies. Although a new set of policies have since been drafted, Ramey believes it will “further discourage women from reporting sexual assaults, knowing that their cases are unlikely to be investigated or lead to disciplinary proceedings”. Her claim is now being heard by the high court in London.

Complaints have been brought against a university in Virginia following its failure to act on threats to a feminist club on YikYak. In months leading up to the alleged murder of Grace Mann, a member of the University of Mary Washington’s Feminists United Club, the group faced violent threats online. A spokesperson from UMW commented that “no known reports of direct threats of violence and/or assault have gone unheeded”. The federal complaint alleges the university failed to act and permitted a hostile environment against female students. The group had emailed the university informing them of the threats. 110 US colleges and universities are currently under investigations for sexual violence, with 137 undergoing sexual harassment investigations.

US students told to Sit-in protests the get naked for exam use of fossil fuels A US college professor has come under ﬁre after insisting that his students complete their end-of-year exam naked. Ricardo Dominguez, a visual arts teacher at the University of California, San Diego, was also nude during the examination, which involved student participation in a “series of gestures”, according to local news reports. Whilst the professor has apparently taught the “Performing the Self” cause for 11 years, the unconventional assessment only came under criticism when the mother of one of the students complained that her daughter was unaware of the examination. “To blanket say, ‘you must be naked in order to pass my class’… It makes me sick to my stomach,” she commented. Nonetheless, Dominguez defended the assessment, which is held in candlelight, stating unwillling students should simply “not take the class”.

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Edinburgh students have staged a protest outside the Senior Vice Principal’s oﬃce following the university’s announcement that it would not fully divest from fossil fuels. The university has failed to commit to divestment from fossil fuels, despite the move being backed by a university review group. Companies are required to report on their emissions, benchmarking them according to best performance in their sector, but the university will not pull investments from fossil fuel using companies. For the thirty occupying students, however, these reforms do not go far enough, with student campaigner Kirsty Haigh claiming that Edinburgh had “put money before climate science”. Students claim the university has invested £9m in companies such as BP and Shell.

A Glasgow University student has become Britain’s youngest member of parliament since 1667. 20 year-old Mhairi Black joined the record number of Scottish National Party MPs after defeating Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander. The new MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South was encouraged to enter politics following last September’s “No” vote in the independence referendum. “The thing that got me �ired up was standing listening to people telling you how much they were genuinely struggling. You’re used to hearing statistics about poverty, but then you realise these are people’s lives”, she said. Black still has a Scottish politics exam left to sit at the end of the month.

Uni to offer first ‘drag’ module

Student poisons flatmates’ food

Edge Hill University has become the first in the UK to offer a module based on the art of dressing in drag. T hird-year undergraduates at the university will be able to attend the module ‘Drag Kings and Drag Queens of Performance’ from January 2016 onwards. Edge Hill University, which is based in Lancashire, claims that the module will explore “relationships between performance, gender, sexualities and identity and the ways in which performance might be deployed in the service of specific political and cultural agendas”. Module leader Mark Edward (pictured) commented: “This module not only explores drag as a highly camp performance art, it also engages with complex gender, feminist and queer theory to explore the social and political implication of ‘drag’ gender in performance”.

Hayley King, a student at the University of South Carolina, has been charged with unlawful malicious tampering with food products, after video footage emerged of her spitting in her housemates’ food and pouring window cleaner on it. Following arguments with King, her ﬂatmates set up a hidden camera, which caught her in the act. The incident occurred in February, but has only recently come to light as King attended court charged with the felony, which carries a maximum sentence of twenty years. One roommate claimed that the event caused her to switch out of one of her courses due to the physical and mental stress. In the months prior to the recording, King had refused to move out of their apartment, leading the roommates to be concerned about her actions whilst they were out. King was released on bail and will return to court in June to face the charges.

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New private student digs unveiled

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LANS have been unveiled for new private student accommodation on Prince of Wales road, close to the University. The £8 million developments, which have resulted in the demolition of the old pavilion at Devon County Cricket Ground, are being undertaken by construction company Midas. The accommodation will house 159 students and will be between three and five stories high. There will be a mix of self-contained studios and cluster flats. The project will also involve the construction of a new state-of-the art, two-storey pavilion complete with changing rooms, kitchen, bar and office space. Alan Hope, Chief Executive at Midas said: “This is an exciting new development which will not only offer more modern accommodation for those studying at the nearby University of Exeter but also a brand new cricket pavilion protecting the future of Exeter Cricket Club.” The ground upon which the site is planned is owned by a family trust, which has allowed Exeter Cricket Club to play

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there rent-free since 1902. This lease ended in 2014, however, and without the development, the future of the cricket club may be left in doubt. Attempts to list the old pavilion, opened in 1902 by legendary cricketer Dr W.G. Grace, as an English Heritage site were unsuccessful, and the building was demolished on 13 April.

“We are committed to reducing pressure on the city’s housing stock by accommodating more students on campus. As part of this commitment, £130 million worth of new student accommodation has recently been built on our Streatham Campus to provide space for 2,600 stu-

dents”. Kate Hawkins, VP for Welfare and Diversity, commented: “Good quality student accommodation is a key priority of the Sabbatical team. We will continue to work with the University to ensure aﬀordable campus accommodation is

available, and with local landlords to encourage more registrations to the landlord accreditation scheme.” The accommodation is scheduled to open in June 2016, with the keys to the pavillion being handed over this coming December. Image credit: Express & Echo

We are committed to reducing pressure on the city’s housing stock by accomodating more students on campus A University spokesperson Speaking about the demolition, vice chairman of Exeter Civic Society Hazel Harvey said: “I cannot say we are particularly bothered. The ground would still be there with its lovely view. I am not sure we need more student accommodation, but that’s something else.” A University spokesperson stated: “This is a private development and has nothing to do with the university.

University scientists create Exeter graduate the ﬁrst electronic textile prospects in top 20 Tristan Gatward Online Music Editor

ROFESSOR Monica Craciun, Associate Professor of Nanoscience at the University of Exeter, was part of an international team of scientists who have successfully created the world’s first completely electronic textile. Professor Craciun, who co-authored the research, helped to pioneer a new technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibres used within the textile industry, which could

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transform the creation of wearable electronic devices. At just one atom thick, graphene is the thinnest known substance capable of conducting electricity. Its ﬂexibility and strength have made it attractive to scientists racing to uncover its potential in wearable devices. Professor Craciun said: “This is a pivotal point in the future of wearable electronic devices. The potential has been there for a number of years, and transparent and ﬂexible electrodes are already widely used in plastics and

glass, for example. But this is the ﬁrst example of a textile electrode being truly embedded in a yarn.”

The only limits are really within our own imagination Professor Saverio Russo

The possibilities for its use range from textile GPS and personal security systems to biomedical monitoring and communication tools for those with sensory impairments. On its uses, Professor Saverio Russo, co-author and also from the University of Exeter, added: “This breakthrough will also nurture the birth of novel and transformative research directions beneﬁtting a wide range of sectors ranging from defence to health care.” Craciun conﬁrmed: “The only limits are really within our own imagination.” Associate Research Fellow in Professor Craciun’s team from Exeter’s Engineering Department, Dr Ana Neves, added: “The incorporation of electronic devices on fabrics would certainly be a game-changer in modern technology.”

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XETER University has been ranked 17th for graduate employment in a league table published by the Complete University Guide earlier this month. In the rankings, which also included Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College, Exeter achieved 79.4 per cent in either employment or further education post undergraduate study. Andrew Leadbetter, a cabinet member from Devon County Council, stated: “It’s great to see the University of Exeter ranking well among the top universities… young people in Devon are our future workforce and it is vital for our economic growth that we attract and retain young talent within the country.” Many Exeter alumni stay in the South West to begin their careers after graduating. In 2013, nearly 1,000 graduates remained in the region. Imperial College came top with 89.9 per cent of its students in either employment or further education following undergraduate study. Bath University gained the highest placing in the region, ranking 4th in the league table with 85.1 per cent. Cambridge and Oxford, however, fell down the

league table to third and seventh place respectively. VP Activities, Matt Bate commented: “Both the Students’ Guild and the University work hard to provide students with development opportunities to ensure they leave Exeter with more than just a degree. It is vital that the University continues to invest strongly in employability.”

The full top 20:

1. Imperial College London 2. St. George’s University of London 3. Cambridge 4. Bath 5. Birmingham 6. London School of Economics 7. Oxford 8. Cardiff 9. University College London 10. Surrey 11. Bristol 12. Robert Gordon 13. Glasgow 14. Loughborough 15. Kings College London 16. Durham 17. Exeter 18. Nottingham 19. Newcastle 20. Swansea

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Academic concern over book removal CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ...said: “I’m not sure I’d want any books sacriﬁced to more of that nonsense”.

There is a ﬁne balance between the strong demand from students for study space and the necessity of a well stocked library VP Education, Ben Street VP Education Ben Street commented: “There is a ﬁne balance to be struck between the strong demand from students for study space, and the necessity of a well stocked Library and resource centre. “I understand the concerns of some academics. However, having spoken to the Library regarding this issue, the plans are not to remove essential texts and publications, but simply to remove duplicate copies of books that have not been accessed for several years. To compliment the increase in study space, we will continue to work with the Library to increase the levels of online materials and e-resources.” Complaints were initially received

after Library staff sent an email to all lecturers, citing “urgently needed study space” as the reason for the developments. After substantial feedback from academics, a second email was sent out explaining the plans in more detail, as well as detailing how removed books would be disposed. Exeposé has received transcripts of both emails. The Library recognises that selling or giving away unwanted books to staff and students is an option, but they claim they do not have the “staff resources” to do this. However, there are alternative approaches. The Foreign Language Centre regularly leaves unwanted and second-hand books on a table, which are free for students to take.

“Should we prioritise shelf or study space?” Comment Page 7 This news follows the University’s addition of 76 new study spaces for the current examination period. This summer, the Library plans to introduce a further 100 new study spaces, followed by 300 more to be introduced in the next two years. There are also plans for Express Collections to be adapted. This comes

after research conducted by library staﬀ found that the use of the facility has greatly declined in the last few years, with only 350 out of 7,500 books in Express Collections having been borrowed ten or more times.

Methods of book removal at Exeter Library: Anybook.biz website - The website anybook.biz collects the books from the library at no cost to the University. They are then re-sold through the website. - A portion of the profit is then returned to the uni versity and this is reinvested into the Library’s book replacement fund. Books Icon - The Library also often donates books to this local charity. Recycling - If a book is considered to have no value, it will be recycled.

Wave energy put to the test Giang Tran News Team

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team of researchers, including Dr Matthew Witt from the Environment and Sustainability Institute at Penryn Campus, are taking part in an innovative new research project into wave energy. The research forms part of a project funded by EU Horizon 2020 to test new technology at the wave energy test centre in Cornwall.

On a global scale, this project is at the vanguard of wave power research Heli Antila, Chief Technology Ofﬁcer at Forum The ﬁve-year Clean Energy From Ocean Waves (CEFOW) project was launched by Nordic company Fortum and will involve a new design of wave converter called the ‘Penguin’, created by Wello, a company specialised in wave energy conversion technology. Scientists have previously examined the use of wave power as a poten

tial future form of green energy. It is hoped that Wello’s wave converter, which has been successfully tested and developed on other parts of the ocean, will provide a solution for clean, pollution-free energy. The project also draws together biodiversity experts from companies including Mojo Maritime, Wave Hub and Green Marine, who will work alongside professors from Exeter University, Uppsala University and Plymouth University. Exeter’s researchers will coordinate biodiversity research at Wave Hub to determine how the device interacts with the marine environment.

According to Dr Matthew Witt, the expertise of participating researchers will bring “close coordination on several aspects of the work including acoustic and seabed biodiversity rePhoto: WaveHub search”. Heli Antila, chief technology oﬃcer at Fortum, said: “We believe that the funding from the European Commission and the experienced collaboration partners create excellent conditions for making great strides forward in commercialising Wello’s wave power technology”. “On a global scale, this project is at the vanguard of wave power research”, he added.

- It is estimated the UK has around 50 per cent of Europe’s tidal energy resource - A study in 2004 estimated the UK’s technical resource at around 16 terawatts per hour per year (Gov.uk)

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is found dead Susannah Keogh News Editor

ANE McCartney, a business accountant at the University, was found dead at her home near Dalwood on Sunday afternoon, alongside her husband Graham. Mrs McCartney, aged 59, was also a governor at Honiton Community College for the last ﬁve years. The couple lived in Honiton and Dalwood, neighbouring towns to Exeter. A police investigation is still underway, but it has stressed that they are not looking for suspects in connection with the couple’s deaths. A University spokesperson commented: “We are deeply shocked and saddened by this terrible news, and our condolences and thoughts are with Jane’s family and friends at this most diﬃcult time”. The principal of Honi-

ton Community College also paid tribute to Jane: “She chaired our ﬁnance sub-committee and, with her extensive ﬁnancial background, she was a very valued member of the governing body”. “She will be very much missed as both a governor and as a colleague”, he added.

We are deeply shocked and saddened by this terrible news and our condolences and thoughts are with Jane’s family at this diﬃcult time A University spokesperson An inquest was late last week and a post-mortem will be undertaken once forensic searches at the property are ﬁnished.

Just one per cent of fire alarms are real James Beeson Editor

VER 99 per cent of recorded fire alarms in university accommodation in the current academic year were false alarms, according to information released to Exeposé under a Freedom of Information request. According to University statistics, there have been 139 recorded instances of fire alarms being set off between 1 September 2014 and 31 March 2015. Of these incidents, 138 were false alarms, whilst only one incident was recorded as a fire. Of the 138 reported false alarms, 52 were cooking-related, whilst 27 resulted from steam from showers. Five incidents were recorded as being caused by “malicious activities”. The Freedom of Information request, sent on 4 April, also revealed that

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fire services have been called to university accommodation eight times during the current academic year. In line with University policy, campus services were also called out to deal with all 139 recorded incidents. Speaking about the information, Director of Campus Services, Phil Atwell said: “The University’s Fire Investigation Procedure ensures that, so far as is reasonably practical, Estate Patrol will attend any reports of fires in the first instance. This means that the fire brigade are not called in the event of a false alarm, as indicated in the figures.” In January 2015, the Express & Echo reported that paramedics treated a woman for smoke inhalation after a fire started in a microwave at a university residence. It is unknown if this is the incident to which the FOI response refers.

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... a 20 per cent reduction in the number of animals housed on campus annually. Speaking to Exeposé, Laura Tapp, Animal Welfare Soc President, said: “Last year nearly 18,000 animals were used for research purposes at the University and our campaign for greater transparency and a reduction in the number of animals tested on received nearly 90 per cent approval”. The Student Idea also called for annual reports on the conditions of animal research at the university. These reports would then be published by the Ethics Committee and made available to all members of the university community.

Last year nearly 18,000 animals were used for research purposes at the university Laura Tapp, President of Exeter Animal Welfare Society Although the University has informally agreed to aspects of the campaign, Tapp notes that they are “demonstrating an ongoing commitment to continuing and expanding invasive procedures”. Administrators have informed the society that more live animals will

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be stored in the new Living Systems Institute, due to open in September 2016. The £50 million centre aims to revolutionise the treatment of human, animal and plant diseases through interdisciplinary methods. As a result of their campaign, the Animal Welfare Society has received the ﬁrst-ever UK National Student Award from animal rights organisation PETA. The society has been recognised for its work in publicising the housing of 30,000 animals by the University over a seven-year period. PETA director Mimi Bekhechi called on “young people everywhere to follow the example set by these students and encourage their universities to work towards eliminating cruel animal experiments”. However, Dr. Julia Baines, PETA Science Policy Advisor told Exeposé: “The University of Exeter goes to the bottom of the class for compassion and respect towards animals. The University must move away from archaic tests on animals by embracing and developng innovative and humane methodoligies.” VP Activities, Matt Bate, praised and congratulated the society for “their ongoing commitment to greater transparency around animal testing”. A University of Exeter spokesperson said: “‘Alternative tests and models have yet to be developed that can properly reproduce the complex biological

characteristics of humans and animals. “Furthermore, studies of wild animals in their natural environment will always require the involvement of the animals themselves.”

We ensure our research is undertaken with the highest level of animal care and welfare University of Exeter spokesperson They added: “Where it is unavoidable to use animals to further our research, we ensure it is undertaken with the highest level of animal care and welfare, as required by the Home Office, and this is regularly reviewed by our own Ethics Committee which also has a Home Office representative as a standing member.” The University has stated that they “will continue to explore further ways in which to reduce the use of animals in research, wherever possible, both now and in the future”. In October last year, Exeposé revealed that the university was housing around 17,000 animals on University premises. Between 2007 and 2013, 29,636 procedures were conducted on an average of 4,194 animals each year across all Exeter campuses. The animals were from 21 different types of species, including zebra fish and six squirrels.

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Guild to price match Sabbs to lobby Marketplace tampons for better Wiﬁ Katie Costello Music Editor

N Exeposé investigation has led to a price match on tampons across Guild-affiliated retailers. The Students’ Guild subsidies of the five per cent tampon tax have come into effect this week, with the duty being deducted from the full price at the till. This is following an NUS Women’s Liberation Campaign for an abolition of the tax on campus. Iona Wainwright from the campaign said: “Menstruation is not a choice; it is not a luxury that someone decides to indulge in every month, and so the labelling of menstrual products as ‘luxury items’ is ludicrous.” There was considerable support for the protests, which subsequently led to a successful Student Idea for the Guild to subsidise the

government’s tax. Despite this cross-campus policy, considerable discrepancies in prices were discovered between the Guild Shop and the Marketplace, with a regular box of 20 Tampax tampons costing £2.36 in the Guild Shop compared to just £2.18 in the notoriously pricier Marketplace. The Guild Shop’s considerable markup caused the tax-deducted product to still be priced above the recommended retail price. The shop, which is located in Devonshire House, was using extensive advertising declaring that “students and staﬀ who menstruate at the University of Exeter should be able to access essential sanitary items free from taxation”, yet continued to charge 18 pence more than their rivals downstairs. VP for Welfare and Diversity Kate Hawkins, who has been a key ﬁgure in the campaign to abolish the Tampon Tax

on campus, commented on the price gap: “The Marketplace have some items that are cheaper than us [the Guild Shop] because of bulk buying but we have other items that are cheaper than theirs.”

The labelling of menstrual products as ‘luxury items’ is ludicrous Iona Wainwright, NUS Women’s Liberation Campaign member

Yet hours after being made aware of the discrepancy between the two shops, the Sabb announced that they “took immediate action to cut the price of Tampax to match those sold in the Marketplace and will investigate what steps we could take to reduce the price further in the future”. This means that a box of 20 regular Tampax will from now on cost £2.18 across campus, with the Guild subsidising the 11 pence tax.

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HE Guild Council has confirmed that problems with student WiFi provider StudentCom will be presented to the University. Issues with the Internet service were first raised on the Guild website, prompting the Guild Council to discuss and pass the proposal at a meeting earlier this month. Students have recently shown dissatisfaction at the Internet provided in University accommodation, voicing concerns over slow loading times and regular losses in signal. First year student Jessica Hughes told Exeposé: “StudentCom’s been terrible, constantly in and out on my phone and laptop. Extremely frustrating when I’m trying to revise or use ELE”. Though exact details are yet to be confirmed, the Guild Council has said that the Sabbs have been instructed to start working on the problem. This work will be carried out by Kate

Hawkins, VP for Welfare and Diversity, and Rachael Gillies, Guild President.

StudentCom’s been terrible... Extremely frustrating when I’m trying to revise Jessica Hughes, �irst year student

Other Student Ideas included a motion to play XpressionFM in the Ram from opening until 5.00pm and a request to provide a greater range of vegan options at Guild outlets. Among the Student Ideas that failed to pass were: making the Ram chilli bigger, the selling of MSC-certiﬁed ﬁsh in Guild outlets, changing the Student Elections voting system and transforming the Grove Diner into a pub. Although the motion to play Exeter’s student radio station in the Ram was passed, the loss in over £877 in advertising revenue per year may prevent the idea from coming to fruition.

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People versus paper A I ty’s intentions to increase animal research on campus. Exeposé ran a front page raising awareness of the issue back in October. This, together with Animal Welfare Soc’s nationally recognised campaign, has helped to up University transparency on experiments taking place. Despite all our efforts however, guinea pigs (amongst others) are still being prodded and poked in the name of science. Is a more ethical alternative available? In other news, you may or may not have noticed some building work taking place on Prince of Wales Road. Yet more overpriced accommodation is on the way - move over Holland Hall. *** You’re probably sick to death of election coverage, but we just couldn’t help ourselves - soz. Labour MP Ben Bradshaw retained his seat in Exeter but that did little to stop the country drowning in blue. Look right for Harrison Jones’ thoughts on the implications of a Tory government for students. With young people heavily present in the #ToriesOutNow protests in London, the legitimacy of democracy is being immensely questioned. In Features, Thomas Collins discusses the first-pass-the-post system and calls for drastic electoral reform (page 8). It’s not just the system under scrutiny, Lifestyle analyse the best and worst election outfits over on page 12 whilst Music have compiled an election themed playlist (page 14). We’re back with a yak this issue. Exeter’s Yik-Yak game is now infamously strong, as is our content. Check out the science behind the latest social media craze on page 22, as well as the top yaks of the week over in Lifestyle (page 12). That’s all from us for now, but keep an eye out for our brand new ‘Press Preview’ which should be hitting your screens (and inboxes) sometime early next week. Best of luck with the remainder of the term, we hope your exams have not been quite as awful as your yaks suggest.

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N the midst of exam season, you’re probably sick of the sight of books. Apparently the library are too. Shelves are being scrapped in favour of increased study space as the University continues to burst at the seams. Finding a place to procrastinate is an important issue to us students and one we’re often griping about. We need chairs to chat, after all. However, academics are outraged about the removal of texts from the library. And when we say outraged, we mean there have been a few strongly worded emails. Lecturers versus librarians - now there’s a fight worth watching. Mayweather and Pacquiao eat your heart out. It is a legitimate question though: in our technological age, are physical texts really all that necessary? What is more important, having space for students to study, or having the physical resources for students to study with? The library have done their best to offer alternatives to the Forum - signs are everywhere to redirect us. The powers that be even installed some trippy study pods in the newly refurbished Loft to lure us in. But the Forum Library still remains the place to be. How else are we going to power through those essays and equations without a Marketplace meet or casual Costa to break up the day? What’s more, that book we might need at the last minute is just around the corner - but for how much longer? Of course, efficiency is key and there will be a large number of printed texts gathering dust where online resources have taken over. But for many disciplines, availability of physical books is crucial. Ultimately, these plans are another consequence of the University’s relentless expansion. Too many students, not enough space. Culling books is a sacrificial, short-term solution to a pervasive problem. For an examination of the pros and cons, see Comment on page 7. Our other front page story sees PETA getting pretty peeved about the Universi-

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FTER the coalition saddled Uni students with an extra £18,000 worth of debt, you might think that a majority Conservative government was bad news for us lot. And you’d be bang on the money. Or bang out of it, but we’ll get to that shortly. It’s diﬃcult to tell exactly what’s being planned as education got little attention in the Conservative Party manifesto, but here’s a few areas that are likely to be aﬀected.

Fees could well be the election’s biggest consequence Firstly, credit where credit’s not normally due. It should be noted that the Tories are going to bring in postgraduate loans worth up to £10,000 for students under 30 from next year. That’s long overdue, so top marks for the Bullingdon Boys on that front but surprise surprise - it’s mostly downhill

from there. Perhaps most notable is the fact that a further rise in fees (The Labour Party mooted £11,500) has not been ruled out. So with good old Sir Steve cheerleading from the sidelines, don’t be surprised if fees go up again (or if Nick Clegg claims he’d abolish them if only he were in government). The issue is that the idea is deeply unpopular, so the government may well get on with it sharpish. That would inevitably spark student protests and the opportunity for the media to not consider the real issue and merely gawp at the latest donut to daub something outrageous on a public treasure (maybe it’ll be “f**k fees” on Princess Charlotte’s forehead, this time). So fees could well be the election’s biggest consequence for students, particularly when compared with Labour’s proposed cut of £3,000. Whilst we’re on the topic of the Labour Party, it’s worth noting their proposed rent cap. That would have helped students signiﬁcantly, but it also won’t happen, so expect rent rises to continue for a while yet. Another important point is the

shortfall in funding if fees don’t go up, which would not be helped by potential reductions in the number of international students and consequently their extortionate fees (those damn immigrants, coming over here, funding our education).

These damn immigrants, coming over here, funding our education Health charges for international students are already at the heart of plans to “recover £500million from migrants who use the NHS”, while visa terms are expected to be tightened, so they could be in for a fun five years. Elsewhere, £12 billion of welfare cuts are planned, but it remains unclear where they will come from. Benefits for the under-25s (particularly housing benefits) could take a hit, but Disabled Students’ Allowance is widely thought to be most under threat. Aside from seeming monumentally heartless, that could pose all sort of practical problems for disabled students.

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“If the library doesn’t support student needs, what’s the point in having it?” Evan Jones Games Editor

HE fundamental purpose of our university library is to provide resources that support the studies of all students. It provides a quiet place to work and easy access to the Internet but most importantly, it has a ruddy lot of books. Personally, I ﬁnd reading physical books improves my ability to study considerably more than reading from my Kindle, and scientiﬁc studies agree with me. The evidence supported the theory that navigating a physical book helps with memory reconstruction.

Navigating a physical book helps with memory reconstruction As we feel the pages of textbooks turn, smell the mustiness of old journals (seriously, I know an archaeology student who loves the smell of those journals!) and see the chapters completed one by one, we develop a mental map of the content within far more easily than on a screen. The study also found that students generally prefer to read on paper.

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“We are not bound to one place; our pool of knowledge shouldn’t be either”

This basically means more effective studying for students if they read the physical books they need for their degree. The university’s decision to pursue a ‘Digital First’ policy and remove duplicate books from the library, which should lead to cheaper costs if anything, is completely against what students would want. The surge in student numbers has placed a noticeable strain on the library. This increase should not have taken effect without complete confidence that the university could sustain the existing standard of facilities for incoming students. Whether you need books for learning, analysing or referencing, you’ll benefit from having the physical thing right in front of you. If the library doesn’t want to support the study needs of students then what’s the point in having it? Because it clearly isn’t study space!

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believe online provision of materials is the proper way forward for the library. An online copy of a textbook can cater for the 200 students on a module, and for the 200 next year, and the one after that. The alternative is either investing in a small number of textbooks that many would not be able to get hold of, versus buying lots of copies - solutions that are either unfair or unsustainable. Physical provision of books can never be as comprehensive as online. Online copies are of great use to me personally. We as people are not geographically bound to one place, and our pool of knowledge shouldn’t be either. As a nonUK student I am able to take my work with me wherever I go. I have written essays and re-

vised for exams from the comfort of my home, some two thousand miles away from Exeter. Conveniences like this go towards making a £9000 price-tag at least partly justiﬁable. And what about distance learners or those on their year abroad? They deserve access to library books just as much as full-time students do.

Having PDFs open is what guilt-trips me into actually doing any work at all Of course, reading on a computer screen is not always ideal, but e-readers, tablets and cheap home printing (speaking of issues with the library…) can rectify that to an extent. As for the nostalgic ritual of holding an actual book in your hands, enjoying that special smell of paper and the sound of the turning pages – I reserve that for books I actually want to read, thank you very much. At the end of the day, we wouldn’t spend any less time on our computers if we could only read physical books. If nothing else, the ten PDFs open in my status bar can guilt-trip me into doing some work in-between looking at pictures of other people’s cats/food/cats’ food.

Micropigs: Save their bacon Leanna Jones

AST week micro pigs from Pennywell Farm were brought onto campus as part of the Guild Welfare Team’s ‘#GuildTimeOut’ scheme. The purpose was to de-stress poor exam bound students with piggy cuddles and piggy cuteness.

I witnessed one of the pigs running into the road as a lorry pulled out of Costa The event was widely circulated on social media creating a buzz on campus. Guild President Rachael Gillies tweeted “Come have a cuddle”, no doubt hoping that the gimmick would be less of a ﬂop

than January’s infamous #puppygate. I salute the Guild’s eﬀorts in making life more bearable during the exam period and am totally behind other whimsically amusing ‘bubble wrap therapy’ type activities. But bubble wrap can be poked and popped without feeling any stress; pigs on the other hand, brought into an unfamiliar environment, passed around a crowd of noisy students all dying for “cuddles”, will inevitably feel stress and this is not ok. Animal welfare should never be sacriﬁced for student welfare. The pigs were stationed on the south piazza, surrounded by a huge number of students. People reported hearing the pigs screaming in distress but were reassured by the supervisors that they “like cuddles for body heat”. Clearly capable of making up ludicrous explanations the supervisors were not so apt in actually supervising the pigs.

They were positioned away from them and were not always watching the students handling the animals. This caused an incident seen by Louise Treneman, a Geography student: “At one point I witnessed one of the pigs running into the road as a lorry pulled out from the area behind Costa”. Far from being well monitored, organised and controlled the event was closer to a mosh pit where the pigs’ safety was clearly not a priority.

nywell Farm breeds and sells micro pigs as pets. Pigs do not make good pets as

The Guild should not be endorsing such an unethical craze More than this one event being morally suspect the whole micro pig industry is unethical – the selective breeding process designed to keep them small leads to serious health problems. Pen-

they have specialised needs which

many owners are not prepared for. What’s more many owners give up their micro pigs when they grow to a size rather bigger than “micro”. The Guild should not be endorsing such an unethical craze a n d should not be exploiting these pigs for the entertainment of the students. Stick to bubble wrap therapy please.

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Let’s scrap ‘first-past-the-post’ Thomas Collins reflects on the devastating blow dealt to smaller parties, specifically UKIP, in the General Election, arguing that the new government owes its success to the voting system

ESULTS night was not the night UKIP were expecting. The party expected around three to four seats - possibly more - and ended up with just one. However, it was not a failure from UKIP, it was a failure of our current electoral system. For a party to have received nearly four million votes but to have one MP representing them is an embarrassment for the ﬁrst-past-the-post electoral system. Under a purely proportional system, UKIP would have won 82 seats in Parliament, which would have been able to represent the party’s value in Westminster. By contrast, each SNP seat represents only around 26,000 votes, despite the party winning 56 seats. Furthermore, the number of UKIP seats could have been higher had people not been inclined to tactically vote and had instead been able to vote for what they believed in, rather than voting Conservative to avoid a Labour and SNP coalition, for example. People should be able to vote for what they believe in and be represented, rather than voting for their second best.

UKIP would have won 82 seats in Parliament A further problem with the UK’s electoral system is that it creates the idea of safe seats. It allows the development of

career politicians, who will be able to hold a safe seat. They will continue to hold it however little constituency work they do because they will be able to get elected on the national vote. This is due to people tending to vote nationally in a general election rather than for the local candidate with the exception of a few MPs. For example, Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavilion is judged to be an excellent local MP by those who live in her constituency, despite dissatisfaction with the Green council in Brighton. A more proportional system would encourage every MP to work hard to ensure they are elected and would encourage them to put their constituents ﬁrst as opposed to their party whips. This in turn would ensure that local issues are represented, as opposed to an MP’s personal interests. Therefore the so called ‘career politician’ would die out as a concept. A more proportional system would have changed the way the election campaign was fought. Firstly, we would not have had the Labour Party playing its so called ‘35 per cent strategy’, instead, the party would have had to reach out to more voters than that in order to get elected. It should not be the case that an electoral system allows a party to campaign for a third of the vote to get a majority, which is why we need a system which requires a party to get a majority of the votes to get a majority. Secondly, the Green Party and UKIP

would have played a far more signiﬁcant role in the campaign, as the two mainstream parties would have had to listen to the voters concerns to a far greater extent. The Labour Party would probably have pandered to the Greens environmental message and, in the case of the Conservative Party, they would have focused more on the issue of Europe in response to UKIP’s rise in the polls.

If we were to switch to a proportional system, we’d have to accept that single party government is over

clarifying that the most viable electoral system is AV+, which was backed by the Jenkins Commission as the fairest electoral system in 1998. From a personal perspective I am not bothered with what system we use, so long as it’s a more proportional system which discourages tactical voting and, secondly, that there is some form of constituency representation; I believe it would prove a vital addition, as the UK is a representative democracy, and MPs need to have a direct link to their constituents to ensure that politicians don’t become disengaged with their voters. I feel sorry for those who voted UKIP

at this election. No matter what you think about the party, you cannot deny that nearly four million people have been let down by an electoral system which denied Parliament a large number of UKIP MPs. Hopefully there will be an opportunity to have a referendum on the issue of electoral reform by the next General Election - although I highly doubt that the Conservatives will give us one. So in the meantime, if you want a fairer electoral system, I urge you - no matter where your political beliefs lie - to get involved with groups like the Electoral Reform Society, and help start the campaign for change.

However, neither of these messages that the two parties could have oﬀered would have gained enough to win a majority in the House of Commons, so if we were to switch to a proportional system, as a country we would have to accept the fact that single party government as a concept is over. It’s something which I’m in favour of, as a coalition provides checks and balances on the main power of a government. For example, the Iraq War – which a large proportion of the population opposed – would never have occurred in a multi-party government. It was proposed in UKIP’s manifesto for the UK to look towards a more proportional system, with Nigel Farage later Image credit: BBC

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‘General Election 2015’ was not the only three-word phrase to prompt discord in recent weeks, the slogan ‘beach body ready’ is now infamous. Joshua Rotchelle, Lifestyle Editor, questions the hostile response

REAKING news. Today, I walked past an advert for shampoo… and nothing happened. Striking stuff. I can, somehow, walk past an advertisement for something I neither want nor need (I bought a bottle of the stuff last week) and continue on with my everyday existence. I don’t feel the need to bother business people, take all my clothes off and pose in front of the sign, or denounce everyone for pressuring me to take up a life of using Herbal Essences. Apparently, this is a challenge that people face every day, specifically those who walk past ProteinWorld posters. The ad, featuring a woman with a wellconditioned physique, is accompanied by the now-infamous slogan: ‘Are you beachbody ready?’

Breaking news: I walked past an advertisment and continued on with my life Suddenly, people became incensed at the fact this advertisement was not aimed at them. They did not want a beach body, so how dare (went their logic) someone advertise it to them? This, they claim, was unjust pressure. Yet surely by that line of thinking, a slogan like ‘Are you prepared for dirty hair?’ would at once bully me into buying expensive hair care products.

Furthermore, adverts with the same message, but featuring male physiques, have received next to no attention. Alas, this is a debate for another day...

Adverts that feature male physiques, receive next to no attention Nonetheless, the original point is the important one: ProteinWorld is selling you one of the components to a better physique, much like Boots tries to give me the answer to more lustrous locks. If you are not interested in a better physique, then this advert is not aimed at you - why let it aﬀect you? An ad like this is targeting the many people who are, in fact, already interested in building a better physique. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be in the market for protein powder - a relatively niche product. These people aren’t pressured by the ad to go and work out; they’re already motivated by something else. The ad is just an accessory. If people are feeling unhealthily pressured to alter their physique, then that is a problem. However, it is not a problem associated with ProteinWorld. In this case, ProteinWorld is symptomatic of a wider issue. Once again, this is a debate for another day. Regardless, the vast majority of people who are the target of protein advertising speciﬁcally have very healthy goals.

They involve seeking a robust physique and condition, rather than dangerous weight-loss and other unhealthy options. For example, protein is generally for increasing or maintaining muscle mass, rather than rapid weight reduction. This means that ProteinWorld is effectively trying to support people (to its own economic benefit) in achieving a very worthwhile goal. Far more ominous campaigns do not receive this attention. Take L’Oreal, for example - they sport some seriously dark stuff. Their tagline for their makeup range is: “Because you’re worth it”. It implies that, if you don’t buy L’Oreal makeup, then you as a woman are not exercising your ‘worth’ or full potential. You don’t need to be told this, but I will stress it: that slogan is completely messed up. That level of psychological invasiveness is something that even history’s darkest propaganda programs would struggle to reach, and for what? To sell you a tube of concealer. The product itself is a notable example of extreme pressure, exploiting human emotions to promote facial aesthetics. Even worse, this goal can be truly detrimental to the people chasing it. Putting aside psychological factors, makeup can be very damaging to physical health; it sports enough dubious chemicals to poison a river and can worsen existing skin issues. On the contrary, muscle growth is incredibly healthy. More specifically, this is due to the weightlifting and exercise

involved, without which protein powder will do nothing for you. There is no cureall for humanity’s physical ills, but ﬁtness is about as close as you can get: regular exercise increases bodily constitution and strength, boosts longevity, reduces your odds of heart disease and a whole host of other ails. In one recent study, it was even shown to be more eﬀective than counselling in treating clinical depression. Does that justify the labelling of ProteinWorld as the utter idiots they were, on the basis of one advert? Of course not. But at least their message was a positive and healthy one, and - as established - not a source of pressure. It was just advertising; ProteinWorld were brutally honest about their goals, and even if you don’t like their goals, you can at least respect their truthfulness.

A study showed fitness to be more effective than counselling in treating clinical depression On the other hand, there are very serious cases of companies (L’Oreal are not the only offenders) which are doing terrible things with their advertising, while being extremely deceptive. People should be gunning at these culprits. The ProteinWorld case proved the public have a good aim. The issue was, they were shooting at the wrong target. Photo: The Telegraph

What body image does this advert promote?

Poll Positions In an anonymous survey, students had their say on the beach body campaign “It preys on personal insecurity.” “Society is quick to ‘skinny shame’ but it overlooks the damages of obesity to the NHS.” “It’s deliberately provocative; they know controversy sells.” “As someone who races 10k and plays for sports teams, I felt inadequate when I saw this advert.” “There was also a male version which didn’t get nearly as widely advertised.” “I think it’s amazing; it inspires me to keep working out!” “The worst part of the media storm is the assumption that all women are weak and vulnerable to this advert.” “How dare they decide what is an acceptable body for the beach!” “It suggests nobody is already ‘beach body ready’ and that some sort of self-transformation is necessary just to be accepted.” “The CEO handled comments on the campaign appallingly.” “I think women should be able to feel as though they can be ‘beach body ready’ without looking like the model.”

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Eamonn Crowe, Deputy Editor, examines the impact of white privilege

N the last two or three years, there has been a sharp increase in the casual, everyday discussion of civil rights movements and the critical theories attached to them. In fact, movements and ideas which were once the preserve of old and wise academics have now become commonplace in pop culture and, to some extent, fashionable. This engagement with ‘big ideas’ can be seen throughout celebrity culture, with celebrities now often acting as catalysts for wider discussions. However, celebrities are not adverse to becoming the embodiment of the exact ideologies a movement is trying to ﬁght against. Here is where we meet the main focus of this article, seventeen year old American reality star, Kylie Jenner. Jenner is the youngest of the six siblings and one very business savvy mother that form Kardashian Inc. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, there is no way that you would not have heard of the Kardashians. The fame of this family and their never-ending, self-replicating reality shows has reached stratospheric heights, securing their status as pop culture icons, whether America likes it or not.

There is no way that you would not have heard of the Kardashian family Many people see them as an embodiment of all that is wrong with modern society, considering that their fame is not based on any discernible talents. On the other hand, some have seen the family as symbolic of a more tolerant age and have commented on the fact that one of America’s most recognisable families is matriarchal, dual heritage, biracial and after the recent announcement of Bruce Jenner’s transition, transgendered. The youngest Jenner, however, has only started attracting real attention in the last two years. Her fame can be characterised by her provocative sense of style, a fetish for plumping up her lips and the fact she is dating a rapper eight years her senior. In fact, in a trend that highlighted the incredible inﬂuence of the Jenner family, young girls took to Twitter to try the #kyliejennerchallenge, in which they sucked on a shot glass, in order to plump up their lips. However, there was a dark undercurrent to this trend that has led to Kylie Jenner becoming the unwilling poster child for white privilege. One of the main criticisms levelled at Jenner is that she is appropriating black culture, with her exaggerated lips and ever changing collec-

tion of wigs and weaves.

While Jenner fears being ‘shot’ by paparazzi and their waiting cameras, young black men fear being shot literally Of course, the line between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation is always a blurred one, but many people have taken issue with the fact that while Jenner and other white celebrities participating in black culture, such as Iggy Azalea, are happy to manifest blackness, they are not as comfortable voicing support for black issues. Like many people in her pampered position, Jenner is clearly unaware of her own privilege and this can be seen through her social media activities. At the height of the Ferguson riots, Jenner tweeted a picture of herself running from paparazzi with her face covered, which she captioned ‘don’t shoot’. While Jenner probably intended for this to be a harmless play on words, the tweet was rightly met with disgust. Many felt that it was hugely inappropriate and distasteful to compare fending oﬀ paparazzi to the institutionalised racism within the American police force that has led to the murder of several young black men. While Jenner fears being ‘shot’ by paparazzi and their waiting cameras, young black men fear being shot literally, by the police that are meant to protect them.

It is important to stress that Jenner is not the sole problem here. After all, she is a teenage girl who has, perhaps unwillingly (she was only nine years old when Keeping Up With The Kardashians ﬁrst aired), grown up in the harsh glare of the celebrity spotlight and it is unlikely that she truly understands the impact of her actions, or her inﬂuence on society. Thus, arguably it is not so much Jenner who is perpetuating white privilege, but the media that report on her.

Actress Zendaya Coleman wore her hair in braids to the Oscars, and a fashion commentator remarked ‘she looks like she smells like patchouli and weed’ This can be demonstrated by a number of articles that have placed Jenner within the context of black culture. For instance, when the aforementioned Beyoncé posted an Instagram picture of her pouting her naturally full lips, the website Styleite headlined their article about the picture as ‘Beyoncé tries Kylie Jenner lips’. Here, the media have implied that Beyoncé has stolen Jenner’s

look; in fact Beyoncé’s lips are naturally full, a traditionally African American feature, whereas Jenner’s are plumped by makeup and ﬁllers. Thus, the media has allowed Jenner to take ownership of an aspect of black identity and denied Beyoncé’s rightful possession of this African-American feature. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. When Jenner wore a dreadlock wig in an online photo, magazines and websites gave their support to the ‘daring’ style. However, when earlier this year, the Nickelodeon actress Zendaya Coleman wore her hair in braids to the Oscars, a fashion commentator remarked ‘she looks like she smells like patchouli and weed.’ Again, we can see how the media makes it ok for white people to appropriate aspects of black culture, but doesn’t allow for black people to possess elements of their own culture. This privileging of the white persona was perhaps best expressed by the controversial rapper Azealia Banks. Banks partook in a now-famous radio interview in which she slammed white celebrities, such as Iggy Azalea (interestingly, she did not mention Jenner) for only liking black culture when it beneﬁts them and for ignoring black issues, such as Ferguson.

Kylie Jenner has become a symbol for the privileged white child Full of raw emotion and anger, Banks perfectly encapsulated the damaging lessons that the perpetuation of white privilege teaches people, as well as the resulting disillusionment of black youth: “it tells white kids that you can have whatever you want and it tells black kids that you don’t have shit, not even the shit you created”. Kylie Jenner is far from the only public ﬁgure taking part in cultural appropriation, but she has certainly become a symbol of the privileged white child, who lies in stark opposition to the oppressed black youth of America Jenner doesn’t embody the entirety of this society-wide problem; until she educates herself on race and her own privilege, she will certainly not feature as part of the solution.

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“Smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave” FLORA CARR “‘I’ll let you in on a little secret son, I actually voted for the Socialists” THEODORE STONE “Tune in tonight for a special edition of Extreme Makeover with Dr Evil and Mini-Me” PAVEL KONDOV “Wave at the plebs, Georgy, it’s half the job” HARRISON JONES “Daddy, I’m going to be a star! Jazz hands!” HARRY SHEPHERD ““God, dad, why do you always copy my style? This is SO embarrassing” *rolls eyes, extreme toddler sass*” FRANCES LOWE “‘I’m learning your ways, dad. Once I’ve mastered it all, I’ll usurp you” CHRISTIE KUUKY “Daddy, when I grow up I’m going to be a constitutional irrelevance who’s needlessly harassed by the gutter press just like you!” GARETH ROBERTS “Daddy, is it called royal royal blue when we wear it?” TOBY GLADWIN “Why are they wearing Pink? It’s not Wednesday” SOPHIE HARRISON

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Tweets of the week These people have clearly been having enriching and productive revision breaks... Tweet us @ExeposeLStyle BV @naizlev I hope Chaka Khan becomes Labour leader, she’s every woman. Tristan @TristanGatward Revising 17th Century “rambling”. Apparently it equates to exhibitionism, but I’ve always thought it was jewellery for sheep. Eloise Marie May @eloisemay94 Need to blog again but also exams but no motivation for everything bleeeeurgh Laurel Bibby @laurel_bee_ Flatmates surprised that I’m in my pyjamas at 12:30 midday, obviously doesn’t know me that well Sarah Gough @sarahgoughy Bye bye Scotland. I WANT TO BE IN YOU.

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Blue is the new black

In the wake of the election, Gemma Joyce has been analysing who secured a safe style seat and who needs to reshuﬄe their wardrobe

hile the main party leaders’ outﬁts were doubtlessly planned as meticulously as the photo opportunities on the campaign trails, the “most unpredictable election ever” may be a more appropriate description of the attire than the outcome. There’ve been more hard hats, headdresses, aprons and boiler suits than ever before - so much so that if the party leaders had each worn their costume of the day during the debates you could probably mistake them for the Village People. What were they thinking? What did their choice of clothes mean for their election chances? Here’s a run down of the most memorable (or not) outﬁts donned by the main party leaders: David Cameron: He may have held on to the keys of Number 10 but was it his policies or his fashion sense that swung the vote? Well, I hope it wasn’t his policies. Cameron was snapped in a variety of uninspiring shades of blue in the lead-up to 7 May, but perhaps his most interesting accessory was the orange patka he wore while visiting a Sikh temple in Kent for the Vaisakhi Festival in April. Maybe the complementary nature of blue and orange was the key to winning the hearts of the electorate. Ed Miliband: While bold red ties are said to build trust and convey power, it is ironic that

a man who probably has a drawer full of them was hardly able to convince anyone that he might have the competence to be Prime Minister (although the red-top right-wing press might have a little something to do with that). Poor Ed’s blacksuit-red-tie strategy gets an A for eﬀort, but it’s time to put it through the wash.

No wonder the Lib Dems lost so tremendously Nick Clegg: While the Liberal Democrat’s colour tends to be yellow, Clegg doesn’t seem to like it very much. According to my rigorous Google Images survey, his favourite

tie colour seems to be pink, while he also favours red, blue and purple. No wonder the Lib Dems lost so tremendously - no one knew what colour he preferred! You can’t trust a man with such an inconsistent collection of ties. Nicola Sturgeon: While Sturgeon’s unrelenting choice of a tight jacket may or may not be a symbol of her views on the constricting effects of the Conservative’s austerity measures, her sometimes fluorescent colours are obviously a great help towards getting a lady with a lack of height noticed on the murky campaign trail. Anyway, it definitely makes for a nice change from the old boys’ network poli-

tics of Westminster, that’s for sure. Natalie Bennett: Compared to the very bright Green Party billboards, Bennett’s choice of clothing colour has been more on the faded side. Maybe it was to symbolise her calm temperament, a façade that was swiftly shattered when Nigel Farage got in the way of her turn to talk at one of the debates. Perhaps it was instead a subconscious choice, looking back to that “fadeful” day on LBC when everything went out of the window. Maybe another Green surge will brighten both her day and her wardrobe. Nigel Farage: Farage’s election style has largely been overshadowed by his impeccable frog face impressions and ability to drink so many pints and not fall off his podium at the televised debates. The most interesting moment was his choice of a Bayeux Tapestry tie. It’s an odd selection, given that it depicts the English army being brutally defeated by the Normans in the Battle of Hastings. A nod towards a last minute policy to employ an army of archers to defend the borders? Leanne Wood: Wood only seemed to register in the public consciousness during the televised debates when she gave Nigel Farage a stern talking to. Perhaps her choice of red and black had the same effect as it did on Miliband, having a dulling effect on whatever sense she chose to speak, even if it was in a lovely accent.

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Joshua Rotchelle, Lifestyle Editor, sets the record straight on hefting plates for women

HE health and ﬁtness industry is one full of myths, snake oil, and enough bullshit to make a dairy farmer cry, but for my money, some of the worst is the nonsense surrounding female weightlifting. Many seem to have the idea that any woman who so much as lays hands on a barbell is destined to become some combination of Shrek and Godzilla: a walking, talking, blob of grotesquely overdeveloped muscles.

Weightlifting truly is the king (or rather queen) of all exercises out there With that in mind, let’s get something straight: 99 per cent of women simply do not naturally pack on that kind of muscle. Even approaching the beast-mode levels that some reach requires years of hardcore lifting, huge amounts of calories, and a hearty supply of steroids to boot. In fact, the approach to having a slick bod for women, should they want one, is much the same as it is for men: lift a bunch of weights, and throw in some cardio. Guys who do this will get big, but women will get more subtly muscular.

The specifics of ‘how do I fitness’ are covered in all kinds of guides, but the truth is that the guidelines for female fitness are almost a carbon copy of those for males. Calories in, calories out, etc. etc. Indeed, should you choose to take the path of the plate, there are many, many benefits. Both women and men can expect a stronger, slicker physique, improved physical and mental health, increased self-confidence, and even better posture. For women specifically, there is the added benefit of a much-strengthened skeleton. This is important to women in particular, as they are more likely than men to suffer from weak and brittle bones - in other words, more time under the bar means less time in a cast if you get hurt. Many women gravitate to “alternatives” to regular weightlifting, such as bodyweight training, a hundred-andone variations on yoga and pilates, tai chi, blah blah blah. Do these work too? Of course. Do they work as well as the old-school approach of picking

heavy things up and putting them down again? Of course not. Weightlifting truly is the king (or rather queen) of exercises when it comes to raw ﬁtness. That said, cardiovascular exercise is not to be neglected! As any exerciser will tell

enjoy running. These people are either liars or mad, and can be clocked by their garish lycra. Avoid at all costs. However, there is also the (thankfully fading) perception that women belong on treadmills and men in squat racks, and

some report feeling intimidated, but this is totally unintentional. As far as I’ve noticed, women are treated like any other schmuck in the weights area: staﬀ and fellow lifters will be happy to help you out if you ask, but ninetynine times out of a hundred, nobody will care that you even

you, running sucks, but a healthy heart is absolutely vital, and there are few ways to achieve that target besides pounding out some miles. Be aware, however, that more “fun” cardio methods exist... experiment! Cycling is a good one, as is swimming (particularly if you have weak joints). Some people claim to

exist: everyone in there is lifting for themselves, not coming into the gym to watch you lift. So, if you’re equipped with more oestrogen than testosterone, don’t be afraid to head down into the

halls of hefting the next time you’re in the gym. Just ask any old staﬀ member what’s up and they’ll be glad to show you how to drop it like it’s squat.

- Testosterone is the key hormone that the human body uses to build muscle - Women have about 5-10% as much testosterone as men - This means that women will not naturally build muscle at anywhere near the rate that men do

Written in the stars Emma Thomas, our stand-in astrologist, rubs her crystal boobs to predict what’s in store for Lifestyle readers Taurus (Apr 20 – May 20) You try a bar of Cadbury Daim and almost orgasm with pleasure. Lucky nightclub: EX4. Well, it’s been a while. Gemini (May 21 – Jun 20) It’s soon to be the big day. It’s unfortunate timing, but at least you can make your bastard friends who finished at the beginning of May wait on you like the freaking king. Lucky day: your birthday, duh. Cancer (Jun 21 – Jul 22) According to astrologers, Cancers only prosper when properly ‘evolved’. So quit the Jungbombs for a few days, stop dragging your knuckles on the floor and stride with pride, after those exams, you deserve to!

Leo (Jul 23 – Aug 22) RAWR. You strode through those exams like an alpha lion on the Discovery Channel. But you won’t always have Attenborough whispering a soundtrack to your life. Don’t get too blasé, new challenges await. Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) Oh Virgo, you’re as dependable as a B&Q kitchen, none of that Ikea flat-pack with you! You’re gonna be fine, exams are in the bag and you’ve got yourself sorted for the summer. So happy for you! Libra (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Looks like someone spent too much revision time on Yik Yak during exams. Let’s be real, 120 up-votes won’t get you an internship.

Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21) You’re a character of extremes, Scorpio, so you’ve probably burnt yourself out studying. So rest – stroll along the Exe; bike ride at dawn. Or binge on Netflix. Won’t judge. Lucky egg: Mini. They might be reduced... Sagittarius (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Jupiter is in your fifth moon’s atmospheric retrograde continuum this month. Yeah, shit. Better get yourself together; the planets don’t care about insomnia and energy drink overdose. Whip your horsey arse into gear! Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 19) You’ve been feeling a little caprichorny over the last fortnight, but fear not, YOU ARE FREE (almost) to get a little summat-summat.

Aquarius (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Now the election is decided, what will you write those witty yet cutting blog posts about? You need inspiration and fast. There’s plenty more controversy afoot, apparently Pieminister serve dishes that aren’t actually pies?! Lucky food: soup. Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Pisces are prone to poor decisions, even in partners. But the stars have aligned, and you may find some eligible singles in your area soon! Maybe narrow your Tinder wants though yeah? Lucky direction: right. Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19) Stop giving any shits, it’s not worth it.

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Intrigued by the recent initiative, James Atherton, Music Editor, evaluates whether Jay Z’s new streaming service can take over Spotify and the way that we consume music

AST month, Jay-Z launched his new music streaming service Tidal, in a star-studded event featuring over a dozen of the biggest names from the world of music, including Kanye West, Jack White, Madonna, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé. The service, which labels itself as “the ﬁrst artist-owned global music and entertainment platform”, aims to restore the value of music to listeners and artists by providing a higher quality sound, as well as giving a larger share of royalties to artists, rather than labels. This is in contrast to Tidal’s rival services, Spotify and Deezer, which both allow users to listen for free with the support of advertisements, something Taylor Swift criticised in 2014 when she removed her back catalogue from all major streaming services in dramatic fashion, following the release of her album 1989. Tidal aims to diversify itself from its rivals by providing exclusive al-

bum releases and streams of live shows, as well as showcasing upcoming artists in its ‘Discovery’ section.

It’s like spending £4 on Waitrose finest rice when £1 rice from Asda does However, these features do not come cheap. Tidal offers two subscription packages: a premium option at £9.99 a month and a high fidelity option at £19.99 a month. This has led to artists such as Lily Allen, Tyler, The Creator and Mumford & Sons criticising the service for price, bias towards popular artists and greediness on the part of the star-studded group of artists with shares in the project. In reviewing this service, I wanted to focus on the listening experience of the service in comparison to Spotify,

Tidal’s biggest rival. Tidal’s £19.99 option claims to trump Spotify in sound quality by striving to achieve high fidelity CD-level FLAC sound, something I find odd considering the move of popular opinion towards analogue sound in recent years. Nonetheless, in assessing this, I blindly listened, using audiophile headphones, to an assortment of songs from six diverse genres, pop, indie, electronic, rock, shoegaze and hardcore punk, on both Spotify and Tidal and judged which sounded more pleasing, and ultimately higher quality, to my ears. After listening to all six songs, the result ended up being a 3-3 tie between the two services for which sounded superior. Ultimately, I heard very little, if any, difference between them. At the end of each song, I also noted which service I thought that I was hearing, and was wrong most times; once again, this feels indicative of the lack of a contrast

in quality and subsequently, a unique selling point for Tidal. How can Jay-Z and his associates expect people to pay four times as much for something that is not one step ahead of its rivals? It’s the equivalent of spending £4 on Waitrose ﬁnest rice when £1 rice from Asda does the job just as well. As well as this, other content that one can get ‘exclusively’ from the service, such as streams of concerts, new albums and music videos can be found on YouTube anyway. It’s just not enough to make your average music listener part with the extra cash when they can get all of Tidal’s exclusives elsewhere, often for free. Yes, the industry needs to explore new avenues of giving artists, especially upcoming ones, the money that they rightly deserve. But am I convinced that this group of Goliaths are genuinely trying to help the Davids of the industry? No chance.

The Election Tape

Great Cynics, Bangers, The Fairweather Band @ Cavern Monday 18th May This gig features three of Exeter’s biggest and most talented homegrown bands. Headlining the event will be indie-punks Great Cynics, who are celebrating the release of their critically acclaimed third album I Feel Weird.

‘I’m Blue Da Ba Dee’ - Eiffel 65 – Lewis Norman ‘Sad Old Red’ – Simply Red – Tristan Gatward ‘Yellow Submarine’ – The Beatles – “Shows how far the Lib Dems are sinking…” Will Short ‘UKIP Me Hanging On’ – Kim Wilde – Pavel Kondov ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’ – Kermit the Frog – Pavel Kondov The General Election brought tears, joy, ‘Everybody Hurts’ – R.E.M – Harry Shepherd and more Facebook arguments than we’d ‘Career Opportunities’ – The Clash – “For Clegg and Miliband, normally see in a year. Exeposé has put towho are out of a job right now” – Josh Dack gether a playlist to articulate your electionScan the QR code to listen to the playlist on Spotify fuelled pain.

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The story so far of The Story So Far

Joe Stewart, Online Music Editor talks to Kelen Capener from The Story So Far about being on tour, and the pop-punk quintet’s new LP

OU’RE being supported by Terror and Four Year Strong pretty huge bands. How does it feel to be in the top spot this time around on the tour? I guess the biggest thing for us being able to do a headlining tour is being able to bring out the bands we want to bring out – Terror, Four Year, Souvenirs, they’re all fun guys to be on tour with. It’s all the same crowd and regardless of who plays when, it’s a good show for all the bands. Do you think that Terror have brought out a bit more of a hardcore crowd or do you think there is a crossover with the fans? I’m sure some people come to see Terror and leave, but I don’t think it’s too many people. Most people come to the show and enjoy or at least appreciate what all the bands are doing. They’ve been around for a lot longer and have a more established audience, longtime fans that aren’t going to be getting into what we’re doing necessarily but you have lot of younger people who are getting into hardcore maybe through our band or whatever means. It’s a good show for everyone.

things with. We could stray out of our comfort zone but we know how we want our music to be delivered. We’ll have opportunities in the future to do things that are out of our comfort zone but while we have the ability to do our own thing, it’s the route we’ve taken and will take in the future.

We could stray out of our comfort zone but we know how we want our music to be delivered A lot of bands have trouble with their second or third album. Did you experience that? Surprisingly we didn’t. I thought six months prior we’d hit a roadblock and didn’t have enough material – I thought we’d go in and record and it’s not all coming to us, but it all just sort of came and we were able to write all the songs. We h a v e

some of our best songs on the record, and they have a lot of cool parts. They sound complete, and we didn’t really hit any stumbling blocks. We worked together and we put out a product we are happy with. Sam Pura recorded this album as well as your last ones. Do you have a good working relationship with him? We do. He gives a proven product and is always advancing his recording techniques as far as every time we come, he’s advanced. He’s a good friend, and we know what to expect, how to work with Sam. We know it’ll sound good – he’s a talented engineer. It wasn’t convenience so much. He does live close to us, but we’re just lucky we have such a talented engineer in our area. The grooves are impressive and a big part of your sound. Do you spend a lot of time making sure the rhythms work? We do, it’s good you noticed that. R y a n

You do these massive tours, and you also manage to fit in smaller shows. Do you try to keep that balance? We do try to do that with our headliners and such. Our shows have gotten bigger but we’ve had opportunities to do way, way bigger things that we’ve put aside to do our own thing and to have our own show. There are a lot of popular bands – pop bands – that we could tour with or do

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spends a lot of time creating the drum parts and when I record my parts we spend ages making sure everything I play is synced up with his kick drum. It’s very rhythmic, so if there is a groove, it’s my duty to make sure whatever Ryan does isn’t put to waste. I want to accentuate the intricacies of his patterns.

The transportation has changed but the way we tour is the same Do you think you’re still touring in the same way you were a few years ago? We actually rent a bandwagon now when we do the US, so we have the added comfort of being able to sleep on the drives and not have to drain ourselves getting from city to city. That’s a fortunate thing we’ve been able to work up to afford, but we still keep a budget, we’re not riding around in a bus. The bandwagon is kind of an RV but it has bunk beds and anything you need to be travelling. Honestly, the transportation has changed but the way we tour is the same. We do the same venues and cities, and we get a good crowd. We just try to keep that crowd by delivering the same product on stage every night.

Born under Saturn, set for stardom

Katie Costello, Music Editor reviews Django Django’s astrologically-themed piece Django Django Born under Saturn 4 May 2015

N the three years since their last album Django Django haven’t altered their style all that much. Their distinctive chanting vocals and heavy harmonies are present in pretty much every song on the album. But, can you blame them? Their debut album was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, and you can see

why. Django Django sound good. It’s unsurprising that they have an artschool background as there is more than a pinch of experimental music styles, with strange bleeps and echoing vocals, spiralling up and down scales. What makes them so impressive, is that despite this potential for pretention, Born under Saturn is still something you can enjoy listening to. It could have easily become overly-artistic, with the name itself stemming from a little-known book about

melancholia and the concept of ‘the artist’. But the band have dispelled this oh-so-alternative image, explaining that they found the book in a charity shop and simply liked the name.

It’s unsuprising that they have an artschool background After trying out different titles, they stuck with Born under Saturn. The astrological tone stretches be-

yond the title, with swooping minor solos and hyper-active bass lines, giving Django Django their recognisably mystical sound. With an upcoming tour headed to Bristol this week as well as a generally positive reaction to their album so far, things are looking good for the band. Follow up albums are often disappointing, but Django Django successfully find a balance between making something catchy and making it interesting. It is this unusual equilibrium which makes Django Django’s new album as impressive as their first effort.

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Hot / Not / Long Shot / Forgot Hannah Butler gives her opinion on what’s hot, what’s not, something that is a bit of a long shot and what has scandalously been forgotten. Hot: ‘Uptown Funk’ - Mark Ronson Mark Ronson’s hit the spot again here. You know what? I think it’s the sass. See, even if you have no sass in everyday life, when this song comes on… you have sass. It certainly got my Nan popping the moves at a recent family wedding. Not: ‘Love Me Like You Do’ Ellie Goulding I’m sorry Ellie. I really am. It’s not your fault that every time this plays, I picture violent BDSM and Christian Grey’s red room of pain. But hearing your sultry tones in public is just uncomfortable now. Long shot: ‘The Last Garrison’ - Enter Shikari Now, you probably won’t love this for the first few seconds. It’s alright: I didn’t either. But bear with the screaming and it soon becomes wonderfully uplifting. Plus I think “head’s up and thank fuck you’re still alive” is something we all need to hear during exam season. Forgot: ‘Spice Up Your Life’ The Spice Girls When I’m having a good time, and I know that I feel fine, I need a song that’s going to tell me what to do with all this excess emotion. And can I find it? No. Because this little party piece doesn’t get nearly enough airtime. And, quite frankly, that is not ok.

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Indiana Jones 5 ‘will one day be made’ Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, has stated in an interview that Indiana Jones 5 “will one day be made inside this company”, albeit qualifying that “when it will happen, I’m not quite sure. We haven’t started work on a script yet, but we are talking about it”.

Found-footage can get lost

James Hands laments and questions the recent surge in found-footage horror movies

FTER the release of found-footage horror Unfriended, the viability of the genre has come into question. To understand the subgenre’s future, its history and techniques need to be examined.

Star Wars loses director Josh Trank, director of Chronicle has dropped out of directing the second Star Wars Anthology film. In a statement, Trank spoke of “making a personal decision to move forward on a different path”, which leaves the project in development limbo. The film was recently confirmed to be a Boba Fett origin story, and a new director is being sought to take the helm. It is expected to be released in 2018.

The Hateful Eight photos revealed Images of Quentin Tarantino’s new film The Hateful Eight have hit the internet. In the film, eight westerners seek refuge together during a blizzard, and things go south. The film boasts the acting talents of Kurt Russell and Bruce Dern, along with Tarantino regulars Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Roth. The Hateful Eight is expected for release around winter, conveniently close to the Oscars…

The output of found footage horror films is high and, regrettably, weak The creation of most modern horror films tend to follow a simple formula. Number one, produce a script recycling a monster we’ve seen exhausted several times the previous year. Number two, select actors whose qualifications combine a pass in GCSE Drama with a nice haircut. And finally, number three, replace any static shots with a camera that shakes so much you check the end credits for Tweek from South Park’s name listed under Camera Operator. That is not to say that found footage is

simply a cheap gimmick. There have been many highly regarded horror films to effectively use the technique in the past. But in today’s world, where children own cameras before school shoes, it would seem impossible to avoid the recent influx of shit. When talking of the older generation found-footage horror films, Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust must be discussed. Widely credited as the first film to use the found footage technique, Deodato’s film focused on a group of American documentary filmmakers in search of a South American cannibalistic tribe. Personally, I have many problems with the film; problems which Deodato has addressed himself in recent years. For example, the film gruesomely depicts scenes of genuine animal abuse which feels wholly unnecessary. It offers a commentary on the ignorant, arrogant

and brutal nature of western culture, uncomfortably forcing an audience to accept that the world they inhabit can in no way claim to be more civilised than that of a tribe of cannibals. It would be a huge generalisation to suggest that recent additions to the found- footage horror genre have lacked Deodato’s political insight. Although, it’s worth reinforcing that the current availability of cameras capable of filming highquality video has enabled a generation of amateur filmmakers the opportunity to make films that would have previously gone unproduced. An appropriate example would be the V/H/S franchise. Each feature is comprised of several short found footage horror films made from an assortment of up-and-coming film directors. The problem with V/H/S is that its execution often fails in doing

justice to its idea. For instance, one segment adopted the perspective of a mountain biker, forcing the audience to view all action from the GoPro camera attached to the protagonist’s helmet. Unfortunately, the resulting ﬁlm consisted of cheesy dialogue layered with no real story, making the ﬁlms interesting for their ideas rather than its delivery of cinema.

Actors whose qualifications combine a pass in GCSE Drama with a nice haircut However, like all commercial cinema, the output of found footage horror films is regrettably, weak. It seems that many of these films are produced following strict formulae based on compromise, inevitably killing good cinema. But, hidden amongst a lot of this new found footage horror are some real gems: you just have to sift through the shit and find it.

Netﬂix: the gold and the guff

Ben Londesbrough, Screen Editor, reviews three Netﬂix ﬁlms you may have missed

Safety Not Guaranteed 2012, Director: Colin Trevorrow

Y a mile, this is one of the best mumblecores, a genre of low-budget, independent cinema based on naturalism that produces a very specific ‘melancholy mixed with hope’ kind of tone. The film stars the familiar faces of Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation fame, and Jake Johnson. The plot follows a group of journalists who investigate a classified ad from a man who asks for a ‘somebody to go back in time with him’. Worth a watch!

The Blair Witch Project 1999, Director: Daniel Myrick

F course, everyone tells you to go ‘watch The Blair Witch Project! It’s so scary!’, and I could understand their opinion if we were still in 1999. Often heralded as the ‘found-footage ﬁlm that started it all’, Blair Witch has not aged well. We are now so accustomed to the tropes of the genre, like shaky cam, scary symbols and psychological scares, that they fall ﬂat here. Bottom line – it’s boring and forgettable, try something else!

Oldboy

2003, Director: Chan-Wook Park

H no, this is not the poor Spike Lee remake. This crazy, weird, neo noir thriller is based on a Japanese Manga of the same name. The premise follows a man who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor’s motives, only for him to be released and go on a really cool, brutal quest for vengeance and answers. With a crazy twist and crazier set-pieces, this ﬁlm truly is a gem that you need to check out.

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S a nation, it’s fair to say that we are obsessed with the royal family. Not too long ago, Kate and William brought their second child, a pint sized princess by the name of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana into the world and the media circus erupted once again. What this media hype has led to (besides taking over Twitter for the past week), is the creation of a market for movies concerning our royal asset, a market that has actually turned out some remarkably good ﬁlms in recent years.

It’s a ﬁlm that questions the role of royals in the renewed political language Some have been so good, in fact, that they’ve shaped the way we view the royals, taking the camera away from the paparazzi to take a more intimate look in-

side the private grounds of Buckingham palace. Where better to start then, than the aptly named The Queen? The film deals with the tragic death of Princess Diana and the aftermath for Elizabeth II on a personal, as well as political level. Without doubt the highlight of the film is Helen Mirren’s performance in the title role of the movie for which she also won an Oscar; she brings a depth to a national figure who’s rarely seen in such an intimate light. Diana’s death is so often described as a national tragedy, but Stephen Frears’ film wonderfully makes the point that it was also a family tragedy, one made ever more difficult by the continued involvement of politicians and journalists. It’s a film that questions the role of the royals in the renewed political landscape of New Labour, whilst examining the conflict that arises between tradition and progres-

sion, and manages to do it all with great sympathy, conviction and style.

In my eyes, films show a diffferent side to life... a more personal side There’s one film which would be impossible to ignore when talking about the monarchy, and that’s the 2010 masterpiece The King’s Speech. The film was so well received that it brought home a royal flush of awards; four Oscars and seven BAFTAs, including Best Picture at both events. Colin Firth also scooped up multiple awards as lead actor, deservedly so, after being pipped for his part in the previous year’s A Single Man. Geoffrey Rush impresses too, also being nominated for an award. Through the story of King George VI’s struggles with elocution the public image of the royals is again put

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and Costume Design, of which it won the latter. The ‘look’ of cinema concerning the monarchy seems to be fundamental to the capture of the royal essence that we all appear to be so fond and familiar with.

Valleé’s film has been panned for its numerous historial inaccuracies In my eyes, films show a different side to life, and in this case a more personal side to a national institution that is often lost in the carnage of media frenzy. Through all the excitement of a new royal baby, its important to remember the point that filthy rich or not, the monarchy are still human. The challenges they face may be of a different, of more regal ilk, but their portrayal in film shows us that they aren’t too far from the ones us plebs face as well. w

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under the spotlight in a way that is relevant for everyone. It plays into the fear of being embarrassed in public that everyone has, before amplifying it to a national scale. It would take a stony viewer to not feel sorry for poor Bertie as he minces his words, as it’s a phobia shared by so many people. A character who is expected to eloquently recite speeches is shown to be just as fallible and human as anyone else, and that’s what makes The King’s Speech such a good film, one that drove people of all ages attend the cinema in masses. Another example of regal cinema is The Young Victoria, with Emily Blunt taking on, unsuprisingly, the role of a young Queen Victoria. Jean-Marc Valleé’s film has been panned for its numerous historical inaccuracies, with many events embellished for dramatic value, it was celebrated for its striking visuality. Subsequently the film was nomiated for three Oscars, for Best Art Direction, Makeup

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P-P-P-Pick up a Penguin 80 years ago, the ﬁrst ten Penguin paperbacks were published in the UK. Still selling today, Exeposé Arts & Lit review a few of the Little Black Classics you must read this summer The Maldive Shark Herman Melville

ECAUSE we’re all obliged to read a bit of Herman Melville, why not try this collection of his stories and poems drawn from his years at sea? It’s an easy way to experience Melville’s multilayered writing without plunging yourself into the depths of Moby Dick. Based on his life’s voyages, these poems are pearls of observational wisdom, recounting his experiences in the form of short snippets of writing. And the poems are just the tip of the iceberg, as he also includes brief notes which will leave you wanting to sail away from the exam period. Couple with a bag of sea-salt crisps, and read in the bath to achieve full eﬀect.

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No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss

The Yellow Wall-Paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gooseberries Anton Chekhov

VERYONE must read Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella, which is at once beautifully written and groundbreaking. One of the most popular Little Black Classics, this story challenges the 19th century attitude towards women’s health and highlights the physical and mental repression of females in this period. The protagonist is locked away by her physician husband in order to treat her ‘hysterical’ tendencies. As a result, her mental health deteriorates and so does Perkins Gilman’s delicately constructed prose. Pick it up, it’s a compact work of genius - and we all need a healthy dose of feminist literature.

S we bet you can’t wait to ‘Chekhov’ this author from your list: Gooseberries is the perfect short read, acting as a critical commentary of social injustice (Owen Jones…who even is he?) It starts with a comforting narrative, set in the beautifully-described Russian countryside, but soon develops into another story about Nikolai, a civil servant. At ﬁrst, he has the modest dream of retiring to a nice house with a small gooseberry patch, but he soon becomes overwhelmed by greed. It’s a simple story which says a lot about the temptations of our society. Perfect for an ideologically-fuelled tweet.

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There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me

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The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

ING of the gothic short story, Edgar Allan Poe’s fast-paced thriller is an inspired choice for this set of classics. The unnamed title character is full of mystery: all we know is that he’s killed someone. Short sentences move the plot along dramatically, and sounds are employed to full effect: from the final, dying shriek of the victim, to the muffled beating which haunts the murderer for the rest of the night. And there’s a thrilling twist at the end (which we won’t reveal here). Bloodcurdling yet fascinating, this novella is the perfect examination of the troubled mind of a psychopath. If you like Robert Browning, you’ll love this.

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The low stiﬂed sound that arises from the bottom of the soul

Penguin Books through the pages

Ellie Wood publishes her thoughts on the literary giant and its continuing popularity

T is an iconic design – the pair of broad orange horizontal bands, framing title and author; the innocent penguin mid-waddle - something has caught his eye and he turns his head to the left. Perhaps it is the familiarity of those original covers, simple, bright and bold, that has enabled the legacy of Penguin books to thrive. The story of the publishing house begins right here in Exeter, in no less a place than our very own Exeter St. David’s train

station. In 1934, Allen Lane, returning to London after a visit to Agatha Christie, found himself struggling for something stimulating to read on the journey. Good books simply didn’t come in decentlypriced paperback form back then. His idea wouldn’t just ﬂourish into one of the biggest names in publishing, but it would completely revolutionise the very act of reading. By the summer of 1935, you could buy a pocket-sized book for the price of a packet of cigarettes, and from

the same tobacconist. Well-regarded ﬁction became available for anyone who could read.

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Part of its success is its willingness to adapt As it evolved, Penguin acquired a reputation for championing free speech and publishing controversial titles like Lady Chatterley’s Lover, winning the

court case in 1960 that attempted to have it censored. Penguin continues to evolve and expand – in 2013 it joined with Random House, and is now oﬀering interactive apps alongside their printed books. Part of its success is its ability and willingness to adapt to what people want, combined with the desire to constantly refresh accepted notions of reading. I have grown up reading Penguin: from the illustrated Ladybird collections

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of my childhood; to the Puﬃn stories that saw me from Hairy Maclary and Zachary Quack all the way through to secondary school; the huge DK encyclopedias on World War II and Space that littered the messy ﬂoors of my room; and now my stack of Modern Classics with their collectable jackets of vintage photographs. Across its imprints it publishes entertainment and information for all tastes and ages. And the only requirement is that you like reading.

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ARETH ‘Alfie’ Thomas became the first rugby union player to openly come out as gay in late 2009. Previously captain of the Welsh rugby team, British Lions team member and first Welsh player to achieve their 100th cap, Thomas told the Daily Mail: “I don’t want to be known as a gay rugby player. I am a rugby player first and foremost. I am a man”. In this new production, Robin Soans discusses not only Thomas’ story but brings in complex themes of suicide and teen depression. Thomas’ strife is parallel to the struggles of teenagers Darcy and Meryl, also from Bridgend, Thomas’ hometown. It could be argued that the two girls sharing their stories bears an

ambiguous relation to Thomas’ situation, but throughout the performance we are both told and shown how each of them eventually ﬁnd ways of dealing with their personal and emotional obstacles. It is challenging to address three complicated subjects in the space of two hours but it is done with earnest, captivating humour and heart breaking poignancy.

As a Welsh girl, I believe that Soan’s script should be highly praised The set isn’t heavily furnished and acts as multiple locations, a locker room, classroom, medical room and living room. As well as the staging being interchangeable, the cast of six portray multiple characters of both genders and the role of Thomas is shared between the entire cast at diﬀerent intervals. The passing of a rugby ball indicates that the

role has moved to another member of the cast; this and the inclusion of the audience provides a sense of conversation and informality. As a Welsh girl who has grown up well-informed of rugby culture, I believe that Soan’s script should be highly praised. His use of colloquial language and characterful depiction is packed with humour and has the audience roaring with laughter. Admirably, the text isn’t ﬁlled with so much contextual information about Welsh or rugby culture that someone who isn’t educated on either of those would be confused. I was interested to ask the friend that accompanied me (neither Welsh nor a rugby fan) if he felt that it hindered his understanding of the production and he felt it didn’t. He actually commented that it was easy to follow, even with no prior knowledge. The fantastic script is delivered with a

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complete sense of honesty and resolution, which the crowd vociferously welcomed. Lauren Roberts (Darcey/Thomas) has the ability to take on two completely contrasting characters and the audience is in stitches with her comic timing. Rhys Williams and Bethan Witcomb plays the highly entertaining roles of Thomas’ parents. The six-strong cast faces a real challenge with this production, and each member executes the chameleon-like characterisation admirably and with great panache. The performance is perfectly packaged and explores the juxtapositions of strength, empowerment, heartache, and torment. A powerful crowd pleaser, Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage deals with real issues. The performance acts as a poignant reminder that everyone you meet has their own struggles and that a sense of community, humour and strength can make everything a bit better.

Knowing Our Mothers You think how hard it must be To know our mothers, How strange it must be To feel their pleasures— The red thorns in your chest Are from her roses Your pains are variations on hers

This week, we’re featuring the work of Millie Guille, a second year English student “I wrote this piece in response to the poetry of Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds, who both examine moments of motherhood and its inscription upon the female body. It centres upon the theme of transition - from youthful resistance to mature acceptance - and explores the gradual erosion of the boundaries between mother and daughter”.

How arrogant we have become Not knowing we are our mothers, Having loved the same boys Told the same lies When you look in the mirror It has never been your face, Just as it was never hers.

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Louisa Griffith-Jones has a ponder over Yik Yak’s perplexing power on the state of your psyche

ITH exam season and the promise of a Conservative government becoming a sad and stark reality this week, the only possible solution that I could oﬀer myself was to allow my previous levels of procrastination to reach new, dreamy and unfaltering heights. Apart from spending far too much time in the library, playing a constant game of musical chairs and blankly staring at the intimidating emptiness of my revision notebook, I have discovered YikYak - the newest, anonymous social networking app to hit the smartphone community. In short it’s a tad like twitter but you ‘yak’ anonymously and people vote you up or down depending on the successfulness of your ‘yak’ banter. I’ve only ‘yakked’ a couple of times, my highest upvote score is 67 and I already feel more popular than the Lib Dems (too soon?).

Each Yak feels like I’ve given birth to a child. I’m genuinely concerned about its progress in the ethereal YikYaksphere, whether it will make friends, so to speak, and impress fellow Yakkers in the ten-mile radius. I am constantly checking my phone and success actually aﬀects my mood. To have an eﬃcacious Yak is a little bit like that warm glow parents feel when they watch their little darling outrageously win the egg and spoon race for the fourth time in a row.

I already feel more popular than the Lib Dems (too soon?) The real question, however, is what is this ‘warm glow’ that we feel and why do we have such a close bond to a

sentence that we post anonymously to a faceless audience? So what is it that ultimately makes YikYak so utterly addictive? The answer lies in dopamine. The Beyoncé of the neurotransmitters, it is a chemical that plays an important role in the functioning of both brain and body. A surge of dopamine is a sign of success, thus when your Yak gets a high number of votes, that warm fuzzy feeling you get in your tummy is an exciting rush of dopamine down the mesolimbic motorway to the Nucleus Accumbens, a small but important part of the brain that controls motivation and pleasure. The upvote on YikYak can be compared to the ‘like’ on Facebook, particularly if we look at the work undertaken by the Neuroeconomist Paul Zak, who claims that a positive experience on social media can raise levels of the hormone, oxytocin. This is

why we invest so much emotion into our Yaks. They have become members of the brood and we have a weird protective bond with them.

That warm fuzzy feeling you get in your tummy is an exciting rush of dopamine down the Nucleus Accumbens, a small but important part of the brain The unfortunate possibility of a Yak getting a negative response and being voted oﬀ also plays into the addict’s ballpark. The combined feelings of shame, guilt and general agony when my Yak gets voted oﬀ must be similar to those felt by the Milibaes around the world when Ed lost this week. It’s

heart wrenching. My social status in the YikYak Sphere is suddenly knocked from its perch. This close emotional link between the potential thrill of a popular Yak and the five second, ‘I’ll never show my face again’, when a Yak gets voted off, contributes significantly to the addictiveness of YikYak. Pleasure and acknowledgement are central motivators in our lives. It is intriguing that we feel so attached to a faceless community, that the enhancement of our social status to that of an anonymous “micro-celebrity” is up to a stranger’s perception of what is good bant. My real, living friends and I often have competitions to see who can yak the best. Our contributions to YikYak suddenly become altruistic. We are providing a public service, we tell ourselves. Revision can wait, I’ve got a yak to make.

In the pursuit of perfect procrastination Hannah Butler lets you know all about the apps that make her productivity plummet Pinterest

HIS is my go-to app when I want to kid myself that I’m not procrastinating at all. Because it’s USEFUL. I NEED to have a comprehensive inventory of Jamie’s egg recipes. And I have to have multiple methods of making Oreo cheesecakes. Of course, I can justify browsing the web for interesting features and news stories as research for my future high-ﬂying journalism career, right? I can’t explain the cat videos, though.

OneDrive

ROCRASTINATION for the sentimental and/or organisational freaks like myself. This is basically a free Cloud storage app for all of your really important documents – although it’s the photo upload tool that is the real pull. I thought I’d exhausted this app of all its time-sucking power once I’d uploaded my 1268 iPhone photos and spent a while reminiscing about Summer 2K13. But no: you can make new albums as well! Oh, the fun just never ends.

Yik Yak

F you haven’t downloaded this game yet… you’re probably in a much better place than I am. Basically, you have to attach all these numbered spikes onto a spinning wheel, and at ﬁrst it seems so easy, but oh, it’s beyond infuriating. The thing is, you don’t get angry at the game, you get angry at yourself. And the way your thumbs suddenly develop a mind of their own. I’m currently stuck on Level 27. Anyone who can better this… you have my utmost respect.

HIS little beaut barely needs an introduction. You’re anonymous. You can say anything you want… and it’s wonderful. Never before have I had this freedom to talk about my poo. And I can be passive-aggressive about ANYONE. Chewing loudly in the library? Walking slowly in front of me? Taking the last cookie dough brownie in Comida when I’m next in line? Oh, just you wait, my friend. I’ve got a yak in waiting with your name on it.

30-day ab challenge

K, I only got to Day 17. And it really wasn’t fun. But hey, if you have the willpower and core strength I sadly lack, I reckon this could be almost enjoyable. Lol, jk.

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CIENTISTS are one step closer to answering David Bowie’s favourite question. NASA’s Curiosity rover has been busy collecting data, some of which indicates that liquid brine might very well exist all across Mars, thanks to a chemical substance in the soil that absorbs water vapour from the atmosphere. That’s right folks - there is brine on Mars. Jokes aside, this is a pretty big deal. This brine remains in a liquid state even when surface temperatures fall below water’s freezing point. While it is true that the radiation bombarding the planet means that microbial life forms would almost certainly ﬁnd the environment too hazardous to survive, even with a liquid present, this discovery adds to the nowoverwhelming evidence that rivers and lakes once existed on Mars. The theory goes that hundreds of millions of years ago, Mars lost the vast majority of its water into space, leaving it the red planet we know and love today. Of course, Mars isn’t actually red - that’s just the abundant iron oxide on the surface. A couple of months ago, Curiosity revealed that Martian soil is actually a slate-blue colour. So just imagine it covered in

water and less iron oxide - it seems like this planet just red shifted without moving at the speed of light.

Of course, Mars isn’t actually red - that’s just the abundant iron oxide on the surface Scientists estimate that Mars had around seven times as much water 4.5 billion years ago, almost all of which disappeared when the planet’s magnetic ﬁeld dissipated due to its core temperature dropping and the core solidifying as a result. Curiosity’s data reveals evidence of a substance called calcium perchlorate on the planet’s surface that absorbs water vapour from the atmosphere (yes, Mars does have one) to form a salty brine that acts as an antifreeze. This means that when surface temperatures drop overnight and during the planet’s winter, the frost that would otherwise form is able to take

liquid form and permeate the soil. But why is the possible existence of water on Mars of interest? Who cares what was going on 225.3 million km away 4.5 million years ago? Well, that’s a great question. Essentially, it doesn’t. Whether or not water exists or has existed on another planet means nothing to us as individuals. However, as a species, it could lead to us being able to answer some massive questions, such as how easily life can form from planet to planet throughout the universe, whether we are alone in the universe, to even potentially how our own planet came to have the origins of life as we know it. To be completely honest, there is no straight answer to this but that’s how science works. Sometimes we don’t do things to learn something speciﬁc. We do it to learn. As a species humanity is endlessly

curious and it is that quality and our drive to explore and discover that has led us to become the dominant species on our own planet. We can conceive of things we currently cannot achieve, such as quantum teleportation of living organisms, and stumble across discoveries that make such things possible after speciﬁcally studying them for decades. Human ingenuity and resourcefulness has led us to take to the air, traverse the oceans and even escape our own planet.

Scientists estimate that Mars had around seven times as much water 4.5 billion years ago If finding out about Mars’ past just tells us it once had water on, fine. It was worth doing it as we had no way of knowing what we’d find out. In the words of Max Planck, the theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1918 for originating quantum theory, “scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

What ‘appened last night? Lewis Norman, Science & Tech Editor, conducts research on the app that promises to revolutionise your clubbing practices

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N Friday 1 May Exeter student Lewis Norman undertook groundbreaking scientiﬁc research. The subject: new Hangover-inspired app Flashgap. The study site: Arena. The results were mixed, exhibiting a negative correlation between time and attractiveness but lack of data between the hours of 1.00am and 2.00am reveal damaging amounts of VKinduced uncertainty. Jokes aside, despite previous speculation about the concept of the app, Flashgap has proven to be a revolutionary tool in recording hazy nights out. It is all really

quite simple: you and your friends create accounts and exchange usernames so that you can create collective photo albums. Therefore, not only do you have the pleasure of receiving your own intoxicated selfportraits, you get ones from your friends too (a nice touch, don’t you think?).

The results were mixed, exhibiting a negative corellation between time and attractiveneness As is the case with many night-out activities, you don’t really appreciate its beauty until the following morning. At about 11am, I got a message from the Flashgap crew containing all of my drunken artwork. They even gave me the

option to download my photos. I could have chosen to dispose of them safely and eradicate any evidence of the atrocities that occurred on my adventure to Arena. The time each image is taken is recorded alongside the picture, allowing you to temporally document drunk selﬁes and pinpoint the exact moment that your memory cut out. Unfortunately, like many things in my adolescent experience, I fear that Flashgap is just a phase. Collective albums are nice but the appeal wears oﬀ pretty quickly. In reality, as fun as it is, Flashgap doesn’t re-

ally oﬀer anything that you can’t achieve in some way with a normal camera and a Facebook album. It does also prove to be a little useless in exam season, so the developers might want to reconsider their branding if they want to keep up with market giants Snapchat and Instagram. That said, Flashgap did pleasantly surprise me and I will certainly give it another go once the dark raincloud of exam season has passed.

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Biweekly Breakthroughs by Joshua Rotchelle Golden Gains

It turns out that Popeye was wrong all along: the key vegetable to becoming ripped may in fact be the onion. It’s been discovered that coating the tearjerkers in gold paint promotes their conductivity, making them stretch and flex like muscle tissue when manipulated with electricity. Possible future uses of this technology include creating artificial muscles for robots, as well as new health treatments for muscular issues.

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French researchers claim to have artificially created mature human sperm from male fertility tissue. The process is reportedly complex, and takes around two and a half months, but it has raised hopes for more effective treatments of male infertility. However, these hopes are cautious: the results have not been peer-reviewed, and won’t be released until a patent is issued.

Cosmic Café

Coffee has been brewed in space, aboard the International Space Station, for the first time. Dubbed the ISSpresso, the process required a specially-devised espresso machine (terrestrial coffee machines rely on gravity to function). There are hopes that, in the future, the same technology can be adapted to space-borne medicine manufacturing. Reports have yet to surface on the difficulties of combining diuretics and space toilets.

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Newsbyte Yooka-Laylee becomes most funded UK video game Kickstarter ever A crowd-funded project by Playtonic Games, a newly founded British video games studio, has become the most funded UK video game Kickstarter ever. The £175,000 project for their new 3D-platforming title called Yooka-Laylee was fully funded after just 40 minutes. The project currently has over 50,000 backers and has raised over £1.5 million to date.

Hacker receives in-game death sentence An online avatar controlled by a hacker has been ‘sentenced to death’ in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2. A video of the character, named DarkSide, shows him being stripped of his armour and forced to jump off a bridge to his death before deleting the avatar. It now has over 850,000 views on YouTube. Users had reported him teleporting and dominating player-versus-player combat. The developer’s security head, Chris Cleary, took over the account and made the video. Mr Cleary also added “Oh yah, he’s also banned”.

Telltale Games team up with Marvel Telltale Games has announced a partnership with Marvel Entertainment to create a game scheduled for release in 2017 with much speculation as to which franchise they will choose.

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Joshua Rotchelle, Lifestyle Editor, discusses if eSports are really sports

N recent years, questions that once rumbled forth only from neck bearded throats on internet forums have now graduated into mainstream debate: do video games count as sports, under the moniker of ‘eSports’? If you head to South Korea, you’d certainly think so. For those who don’t know, eSports is the term for organised multiplayer video game competitions, typically in the genre of ﬁghting, ﬁrst-person shooter and real-time strategy games. Last year, 40,000 Koreans attended the League of Legends World Championships, repurposing a football stadium for the event, and that’s before you count the thousands more who watched it online.

But the venue does not maketh the sport. You can have an egg-and-spoon race in a drained Olympic swimming pool, but calling it a breaststroke competition would just be a bunch of shit. However, I’d argue that the case for video games being a sport is as strong as the case for other games, such as chess. Many people explicitly class the latter as a sport, yet most people would say both are deﬁnitely games. The only diﬀerence is that one has the support of moustachetwiddling old farts who claim chess has more pedigree. The two aren’t all that different on a physical level either: pushing keys on a keyboard and prodding bits of wood over a table aren’t that far removed

from each other and both games have similarly niche followings.

You can have an egg-andspoon race in a drained Olympic swimming pool, but calling it a breaststroke competition would just be a bunch of shit So eSports are ‘sports’ in the same way that chess is a ‘sport’, and to the credit of both, there are deﬁnitely athletic qualities. Contrary to popular belief, an eSport gamer’s life is physically intensive,

with most kept on ﬁrm workout regimes and good diets in order to balance out the hours spent practicing their gaming skills. However, I’d say it’s a bit of a stretch to say outright that eSports, chess and all the other games are or aren’t sports. It seems to come down to a matter of personal opinion. But other categorisations are just laughable. For example, counting darts as a sport and not eSports is a complete joke in my opinion. So, in the end, it’s ultimately down to you. For me, seeing the big shots go headto-head in a game of StarCraft II is still riveting to watch, and with all this sportor-not rhetoric, it’s easy to forget what games are really about – having fun.

Take life one episode at a time Harry Shepherd, Online Editor, tells us the true value of episodic games

ALUE is a particularly fraught concept in gaming at the moment. In a world of micro-transactions, downloadable content and pre-order bonuses, gamers are faced with a complex struggle about how to get the most bang for their buck. The relatively novel phenomenon of episodic gaming has come under such scrutiny as games like Life is Strange and Broken Age have become ever more popular, but the value you can derive from them very much depends on your taste in games.

tested “Telltale model”, we usually get ﬁve episodes per series, with each installment lasting a couple of hours. Brand new episodes are individually priced at around £4 whilst the whole series costs between £15 and £25. This is the cost for a ten to twelve hour-long title that’s also replayable if you’re curious as to the consequences of the

The rise in popularity of episodic games is partly down to its embodiment of the virtues of TV shows

other choices. The rise in popularity of episodic games is partly down to its embodiment of the virtues of TV shows. Titles like Telltale’s The Walking

Now, I’d ﬁrst like to debunk the myth that episodic games are poor value for money. If we look at the tried-and-

Dead: The Game now have their own ‘water cooler eﬀect’, where you ﬁnish watching an episode and then discuss and speculate about it with friends, making gaming

a more enriched and communal experience, and you’ll probably be holding these discussions over internet forums… in your underwear. Episodic games also have a ‘try before you buy’ aspect. Instead of having to stump up for the full game as you would for a typical AAA title, you can give the ﬁrst episode a go, often for the price of a cheap takeaway, and then take the plunge with the whole series if it hooks your interest. Of course, value is a subjective thing;

gamers who are looking for deep combat systems and hundreds of hours of content will not find that here. In Telltale’s titles, a typical game is punctuated by a series of conversation trees, a bit of light puzzling and some action-packed quick-time events in order to liven things up, which does not constitute good value for those gamers. So, I can’t recommend episodic games universally but they’re certainly not a genre to be written off. These games have engrossing narratives that create a richer gaming and social experience and the season passes are quite cheap compared to their AAA counterparts. They might not have large, complex combat systems or countless hours of content, but that doesn’t mean value for every gamer either. Those who are willing to forego such features and want to try their hand at gaming through an episodic experience, possibly even through their favourite TV franchise, may just find episodic to be the best value.

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Universal Studios and Nintendo are building a theme park, Victoria Bos provides some rides

Luigi’s Haunted Mansion

UIGI’S Mansion sees you playing as the green dungaree-clad Luigi, who’s sent to rid ghosts from a spooky haunted mansion with his Poltergust 3000, a vacuum cleaner modiﬁed for ghost busting. Naturally, this sets down the perfect premise for a haunted house attraction. The ride could have a similar set up to ‘Men in Black: Alien Attack’, currently at Universal Studios, which would use a rail system whereby everyone has to shoot at ghost targets using their own Poltergust 3000 whilst they go round in on order to earn points. Professor E. Gadd could even judge them at the end of the ride!

Pokémon Simulator

NOTHER ﬂagship Nintendo series, although not developed by them, is the Pokémon series. This would make a great simulator, with the premise that riders are going on a tour of a safari zone found in the series and encountering various kinds of Pokémon as they go. This could be a real feast for the senses as, for example, if water-type Pokémon Squirtle used its ‘Bubble’ attack, then bubbles could be squirted at the riders; the possibilities are endless. The only real issue that may arise here is picking which Pokémon to include from the current total of 721 critters. Good luck there Universal!

Pikmin Rollercoaster

RIGINALLY released in 2001, Pikmin sees you playing as Captain Olimar who has to command diﬀerent varieties of little vegetable-like creatures, which he names Pikmin, in order to ﬁnd the missing parts for his crashlanded ship. This would be an interesting premise for a rollercoaster as the Pikmin are always running around and trying to overcome obstacles in the game, which could be represented through the twists and turns of the ride. If not this, then perhaps the descent into the Earth’s atmosphere, as Captain Olimar screams alongside you as you plummet to the ground! The designers could also have fun using the small size of the Pikmin to allow them to incorporate overly large objects. Tin cans have never looked so terrifying!

Mario Kart Go-Kart

HE Mario Kart franchise has been going strong for years, with eight diﬀerent versions being released for Nintendo’s ever-evolving range of consoles. The premise for this ride is very simple; make Mario Kart real. Of course, we probably won’t be able to actually throw banana skins and turtle shells at each other due to some slightly oversensitive health and safety laws. But the possibility of going around some of the games’ most famous courses (starting with Rainbow Road!) in the familiar go-karts would certainly help to fulﬁl any gamer’s dream of really jumping into the game.

In space, no-one can hear you boom Simon Clark tells you why you should be dying to head into orbit this summer Kerbal Space Program Squad PC, Mac & Linux Out now RRP £29.99

ERBAL Space Program is one of a very rare set of games, something that is both genuinely educational and genuinely entertaining. Not since the Civilisation series has a subject as vast and potentially dry as rocket science been made so genuinely fun. The game puts you in charge of a ﬂedgling space agency run and piloted by Kerbals (think of the Minions from Despicable Me) and allows you to design and pilot spacecraft in your self-deﬁned space missions.

Imagine King Joﬀrey operating the Soviet space program with unlimited funding and you have a pretty solid grasp of what Kerbal Space Program is all about The various game modes allow for diﬀerent kinds of missions. In career mode, you start with limited technology and money and must build towards more complex missions in a fairly unforgiving way; whilst sandbox mode

opens up the entire solar system to whatever missions you can cook up. Regardless of how you choose to play the game though, expect lots and lots of your adorable little Kerbalnauts to die, (most likely in a fiery explosion whilst screaming for their lives). Imagine King Joffrey operating the Soviet space program with unlimited funding and you have a pretty solid grasp of what Kerbal Space Program is all about. Sound fun? Damn right it is. The game is also a much-needed win for the early access method of distribution, where players who backed the game early have now ended up with a complete product instead of the mess of incomplete game modes it used to be. The game has satisfyingly developed over four years from a bare-bones physics simulator to a fully-fledged multi-faceted game. Of particular note is a set of content created in collaboration with NASA, allowing players to use components modelled upon the next-gen Space Launch System in order to capture an asteroid, which was made possible by the game’s strong popularity during the development stage. This popularity also gave rise to a bustling mod community, whose efforts have been folded into the game in ways both great and small. Whilst early access to games in development, following the trend of the notably successful Minecraft, have been accused of flooding the online market with hastily puttogether, overpriced knockoffs, Kerbal

Space Program has been an unquestionable triumph, and other developers will deﬁnitely seek to imitate its success. That’s not to say the game is perfect however. It can be frustrating to control y o u r

craft at times, and when lives are at stake that alone is enough to send blood pressures skyrocketing! There’s also some rather simplistic sound design that is not scientiﬁcally accurate when in a vacuum, but compared to the problems the game could have ended up with after such a long development process these are minor quibbles. In fact, some of the glitches are actually quite endearing, such as when the game struggles to simulate precisely how your preposterously constructed craft will tear itself apart. Though in the case of space planes either a simpler set of physics or a more forgiving set of parts would have saved this reviewer many tantrums! At the end of the day, any criticisms that I have of this game pale in comparison to what it has in its favour. A huge amount of replayability, almost endless mods to try out, promises of future updates, and a very solid game core to build on; this is an absolutely essential purchase if you are interested in space, sandbox games, or watching elaborate engineering creations blow up. And if like me, you tick all of those boxes, then Kerbal Space Program is pretty much the most fun you can legally have with your clothes on.

The Hyrule Interactive Experience

K, this one isn’t so much a ride but more based oﬀ interactive experiences such as ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’. The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo’s most successful franchises with 18 games in the series so far. So why not incorporate some of the key game mechanics into the park itself, such as speciﬁc sword movements and ocarina tunes, which would cause an event or reveal an Easter egg within the park, allowing keen adventurers to step into Link’s shoes as well as exploring the in-depth world of Hyrule as a real adventurer, sword and shield in hand!

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Following on from last issue’s BUCS review, Exeposé Sport talks to club captains to ﬁnd out how some of Exeter’s smaller clubs have performed over the course of this season MIXED GOLF

>>The 2s and their supporters celebrate a trophy win. Photo: Craig Townsend

USC swimmers Dominic Wooldridge, Hannah Pullinger and Katya Zossimova competed at the South West Regional Championships on the weekend of the 2 to 3 May, where Olympic gold medalist Ruta Meilutyte and commonwealth champion Benjamin Proud also competed. Wooldridge came 2nd in the men's 200m freestyle with a time of 1:56.93; 2nd in the men's 100m butterfly with 57.02 and 3rd in the men’s 200m butterfly with 2:10.41. Pullinger achieved a personal best time in the women's 50m breaststroke with a time of 36.32. Their toughest opponents in the championships were Plymouth Leander, Millfields and Mount Kelly. The club has progressed astound-

ingly this year, and this advancement has been highlighted in their performances at the BUCS Short Course and Long Course Championships, as well as in the hosting of their 10th Annual Varsity. Over the two BUCS competitions, thanks to the preparatory work of coaches Nye Levett and Jo John, the swimmers reached nine ﬁnals and broke 12 club records. They also defended their Varsity title against Bristol, Bath, Falmouth and the Exeter Alumni 'Legends' team. The event was a huge success in raising over £1,700 for the MS Society, a charity close to a number of current members. They had their ﬁrst ever international competition, sending a team to Karlsruhe, Germany in December.

FENCING

>>Exeter’s fencing team in action at the university. Photo: Misha J. K

UGC have won four team titles and two individual titles this year, making it the most successful year with regards to BUCS points since the club’s establishment in 1954. The EUGC currently has five mixed sex teams of six made up of category one golfers, which means five handicap or less. The 5s were new this year and exceeded all expectations. They finished second place in the Western 2A division to the EUGC 3s, who were captained by Sir Alex Marine. Marine, ‘the geezer from Hampshire’, had run for several committee positions at the AGM prior to the year without success. Despite this, he thrived in his captaincy. With extra training sessions, team meals and ex-

The club is not just about competition however, and after a record number of signups this year there has been a great turnout from members. All of them have made training sessions an enjoyable and challenging environment for all abilities. They've increased coaching and started training at a larger pool to increase capacity and improve training for competitions. They are now enjoying the sun in the Cornwall House pool. The pool is open from 8am to 8pm now until 21 September. More information on the club is available on Facebook and Twitter. Robert Moran, Club Captain, and Katya Zossimova, EUSC

ENCING have had an extraordinary 2014/15 season, with highlights including a promotion and a cup final. They will be looking to build on their substantial successes next year. This year, the club has had a total re-structure, including a new coaching team, a larger training space and new equipment. The new coaches are of a high standard and have represented Hungary and Latvia on the international stage. These changes, along with a new intake of extremely talented fencers, has helped the women achieve the best results they've ever had. In the league they got off to a shaky start, losing their first fight against Plymouth. However, they fought back to get the ball rolling on a great comeback, securing victories in all their other fights

panded social presence, Marine’s leadership was exceptional. The Western 2A title was just the start, as the team went on to win the Conference Cup against arch-rivals Bournemouth. The second team, under the leadership of Alexander Broggio, won the Western 1A (second regional) league and went on to win the BUCS trophy. Individual titles were earned by EUGC veteran Chris Fleming, who won at Prince’s golf club, and first team captain Katie Bradbury, who won at Southport and Ainsdale. Recently, the BUCS individual final was played out at St Andrews. Four rounds took place, and Bradbury finished second. The fourth team captain Alex Saunders finished third. Fleming and Brad-

bury have been selected as a reserve and as a squad member respectively to represent the British universities at the World University games in South Korea. EUGC is consistently ranked within the top three in the country and have done well enough this year to record the highest BUCS points of any golf team across the UK. Over the course of the year, I believe that team coherence and club unity is everything. I want members of the club to feel that they are part of something special. Perhaps 2015/16 will foster another BUCS golﬁng gold! More information on the club is available on Facebook and Twitter. Jack Irwin, Club Captain

SWIMMING

>>Action from the Swimming Varsity. Photo: Edwin Yeung and taking first place in the league on the grounds of an enormous points difference. The playoffs were tough, as they slumped to defeat against Surrey in their first match, but they managed to make up the difference in their fight against King’s College London to earn their promotion to the premier league, with a final score at the end of the day of 125 – 111. In the cup, they rallied to brilliantly storm through to the final. At this point, they were confronted by a strong Nottingham outfit. They still contested the match fiercely despite one woman being down due to a knee injury, and played well to take home the silver medals with the final score at 90 -117. The club has managed to thrive due to the hard work of an entire team of talents by the names of Georgie

Lindsay (Captain), Lorna Martin, Alex Fitton, Natalie Taylor, Gemma Lewis, Emma Chamblard, Shareen Sandhu, Charlotte Wardle and María Gómez de Olea. Everybody involved is extremely proud of the women's remarkable success. It is a testament to the impressive quality of the coaches, and the dedication the women have showed this season, that Fencing has become such a prodigious club at the University. All at Fencing are looking forward to a new season in September and would be delighted to recruit new talent to expand on this year. Hopefully they will outperform themselves again. Misha J. K, Club Captain

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W >> EUCC’s Max Stedman moving up Yearsley Bank ahead of the peloton. Photo: Paul Stedman

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HE men’s and women’s BUCS Cycling Road Race Championships took place on Saturday May 9 based on a circuit around Brandsby, North Yorkshire. Exeter success was found in the form of Max Stedman, a first-year Sports Science student who finished 2nd out of 70 riders. His female counterpart, Bethan Stubbs, finished 14th. The late withdrawals of Oscar Hutchings and Sam Barker due to illness and injury, left Stedman and team-mate Bethan Stubbs as the sole representatives of the university. Stedman had initially decided not to travel up to York due to illness, but thankfully had a late change of mind and joined the rest of the team late on Friday evening. The 48 mile women’s race comprised of 6 laps of an undulating circuit around scenic Yorkshire countryside. The competitors had to overcome one steep climb per lap, plus a final one mile climb up Yearsley Bank at the end of the race. With unfavourable conditions prevailing, the

40 riders found proceedings difficult in the wet and windy weather. Stubbs fell midway through her race and was unable to regain contact with the leading pack despite her best efforts. Although this setback was a disappointment, she was still able to finish in a credible 14th position. With conditions improving throughout the day, the stage was set for the 80 mile men’s race. Comprising 10 laps of the same circuit that the women had raced on, Stedman bided his time in the 70-strong field. The peloton stayed together for large portions of the race, but Stedman firmly established himself at the vanguard of any assault on the leading pack. The field continued to diminish steadily as the race progressed, with the incline through Crayke Village proving particularly languid for many riders. But Stedman stayed firm. Riding aggressively, he was able to move himself to the forefront of several breakaways, but eventual winner Rory Townsend, (St. Mary’s University) was able to draw the Exeter man back to the peloton without too much difficulty. By the last lap the peloton had been reduced

made a break for home with about three

miles remaining. Despite Stedman’s best eﬀorts to remain in contention, Townsend steadily increased lead to win by a margin of around 30 seconds.

Stedman firmly established himself at the vanguard of any assault on the lead Behind him, the peloton began to dramatically separate as the 17 per cent incline of Yearsley Bank began to take its toll. Stedman held his place at the rear of a small group and as the hill’s gradient lessened, he was able to stage an attack on second position. Stedman began to move through this group and then launched his sprint for the line as they crested the top of the final hill. With the last 100 metres at a slight decline, the Exeter man was able to draw upon all his experience and accelerated away to take a fine 2nd place and win vital BUCS Points for the university.

ITH four losses from four, the pressure was placed firmly on the 1s to produce a performance and a result worthy of their ability. Fortunately, a comfortable 106 run win over a strong Cambridge side on 7 May suggested that the side have found form at just the right time. Having been put into bat on a pitch that favoured the bowlers in the prevailing conditions, Michael Cousens and Tom Abell opened solidly and built an impressive 69-run partnership. However, a leading edge sent the Somerset man back to the pavilion with 37, bringing the captain to the crease. Struggling for form, Ollie Mills was in desperate need of some runs and looked uneasy in the first few overs. As he began to settle, the runs flowed and fine batting between the pair saw Cousens move beyond 50. Mills’ increased run-rate had placed Exeter firmly in the driving seat before Cousens was given out LBW, attempting to play an extravagant sweep shot. Tom Coldman followed suit not long after, flicking a shorter delivery straight to mid-wicket, before the experienced Alex Morgan joined captain Mills at the crease. A cameo innings from Morgan assisted Mills to three figures, before the team finished on 269, their highest BUCS score for several seasons. Having been handed the new ball, Jonathan Burden and Tom Barton wasted no time in drawing some loose shots from the Cambridge batsmen. The opening duo took a wicket apiece, with debutant Rendell taking both catches be-

hind the stumps. Tetley settled the ship for Cambridge with a well-formed 43 before Fleet swung the momentum back in Exeter’s favour, picking up three wickets. Spinners Rob Craze and Alex Hughes restricted the ﬂow of runs, before claiming the ﬁnal Cambridge wickets, and with it, the victory. Bowling Cambridge out for 162, Mills was eager to highlight the importance of the victory: “It is a great result in the lead up to two big games [Loughborough and Oxford] and Varsity”. Despite this EUMCC 1s remain bottom of their BUCS division, and there is clearly still work to do.

PLAYER RATINGS By Bruce Coleman Abell - 7 Opening stand provided the foundation for the innings. Cousens - 8 A first BUCS fifty rewarded his concentration. Mills - 9 Made a commanding century off only 104 balls. Coldman - 6 Never quite settled with his bowling, but a linchpin of the side already. Morgan - 6 A cameo innings and excelled in the field. Craze - 7 Bowled his best spell of the campaign with 2-28. Hughes - 6 Showed willing with the bat and picked up two very useful wickets. Rendell - 6 Three vital catches on his BUCS 1st XI debut. Burden - 7 Collected his first BUCS wickets with 2-16. Barton - 6 Bowled the better of the Cambridge openers. Fleet - 7 Well deserved his figures of 3-34.

EULCC thrash Bath to extend winning streak LADIES’ CRICKET

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XETER Women’s team took on Bath at Topsham in a South West derby that saw a mountain of runs scored by Exeter in a momentous 229 run victory. The Bath team were delayed, meaning that the game was reduced to 45 overs. Despite this delay, Exeter wasted no time in taking apart Bath’s tame bowling attack. Exeter’s coach suggested prior to the game that

Exeter were the top team in the south division and he was conﬁdent that his side would make it to the semi-ﬁnals of the competition. Captain Bryony Butcher gave away her wicket early, setting the stage for Amara Carr and Aylish Cranstone to form a hefty partnership. The pair set about scoring runs quickly, peppering the boundary with an extensive array of shots. H a v i n g scored 45

runs within the ﬁrst 5 overs, Carr soon brought up her half-century before losing her wicket and making way for Phoebe Graham who arrived at the crease with conﬁdence. She audaciously dispatched her opening deliveries for boundaries and continued to pile on the

runs with Cranstone as they reached 150 runs after just 18 overs. Exeter’s run count soon stretched to 274-6 with the coach deciding their lead was suﬃcient for declaration, despite it being a limited-overs match. Cranstone top scored with 84 runs whilst Graham was left unbeaten on 60. Graham was thrown straight back into the action as she took an early catch oﬀ her own bowling. The early breakthrough was soon followed by wickets from Frayal Shami and Fi Morris with an excellent catch at midwicket from captain Butcher. Sophie Bowen continued to tear apart Bath’s batting line up tak-

ing four wickets. Bath were ousted for a mere 44 runs, resulting in a comprehensive victory of 230 runs for the impressive Exeter side. This resounding win was their third from three matches, and their dominance in this league is unquestionable. Their talented team are expected to progress further in the season as players return from exam duties.

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EUMCC batter Bristol to take top spot

>> EUMCC 2s players Alex Hughes, Henry Sensecall, Oli Strong, James Hawkes, and Matt Yeabsley celebrate another wicket en route to their 104 run victory over Bristol. Photo: Rob Cross

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HE EUMCC 2s took on Bristol in the sunshine at Topsham, a match that saw the leading two teams in the division going head to head and vying for the top spot. This game was the 2s’ last home game of the season so the glorious weather and belter of a pitch proved to be the ideal setting for a 103 run victory. Suﬀering from a depleted team due to exam commitments, the players remained calm to conﬁdently dispatch the travelling Bristol side.

With a number of players describing the wicket as “an absolute road”, Exeter’s decision to bat first suggested that there would be plenty of runs. Captain James Hawkes and Charlie O’Brien opened for the home side and set about anchoring down their innings. They progressed to 43 off the first 10 overs with O’Brien scoring some exquisite early boundaries. Hawkes began to get his eye in as well, scoring with some aggressive shots off loose Bristol bowling. However, both batsmen lost their wickets in the mid-30s before the drinks break. Having disrupted Exeter’s rhythm, Bristol continued to fight back. Robbie Goddard and first team regular Alex Hughes made only a few runs to bring the 100 up before also perishing

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to well-pitched deliveries. The second half of the innings saw a wavering middle order become unstuck by some impressive spin bowling. The turning wicket enabled Bristol to restrict Exeter’s run-rate, and the batsmen progressed slowly to 150 with 40 overs gone.

They progressed to 43 off the first 10 overs with O’Brien scoring some exquisite early boundaries With eight wickets down, Exeter’s tail-enders produced a flurry of boundaries before departing from the middle with their side all out for 171. Despite

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this, optimism remained high, and the 2s were confident of defending this lead. Without the presence of pace bowler Andrew Turner from their attack, Matt Yeabsley and Mike Harris opened for Exeter and a couple of early appeals suggested that the wicket would provide more joy than initially calculated. After a quiet first 10 overs, Oli Strong moved into the attack, and excellent improvisation from Henry Sensecall resulted in a stumping. Two excellent catches in the field soon followed, whilst Sasha Barras was able to secure his first scalp of the afternoon. It was Oli Strong’s spell which really pinned Bristol back, however, leaving the visitors struggling on 30-4. Exeter soon turned to spin and an

excellent ball from Gus Grant saw another batsman perish to the straight ball. Barras then took two wickets in a row, only to be denied by an LBW decision on a hat-trick ball to the disbelief of his teammates. An Exeter victory seemed to be inevitable as another Bristol batsman fell to a combination of Grant’s spin bowling and a juggled catch by opener Harris. The ﬁnal two wickets fell soon after in quick succession to leave Bristol all out for 67. Victory by more than 100 runs exempliﬁed an impressive bowling performance from the EUMCC side in a surprisingly lowscoring game. The club will hope for a similar result when the 1s play Bristol in the eagerly awaited Varsity game on 25 May.

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