2013/14 Week 27 Issue 609

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“Art’s not supposed to be comfortable; it’s catharsis”

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Tuesday 21 May 2013 • Issue 609 • www.exepose.ex.ac.uk • Twitter: @Exepose • www.facebook.com/Exepose

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Goodbye St. Luke’s?

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• Proposed plans suggest demolishing half of campus • Guild unaware of plans • Proposals found by student EXCLUSIVE Harrison Jones and Tom Elliott Online News Editors EXEPOSÉ has been shown pictures of plans suggesting that the University is considering a radical overhaul of infrastructure on St Luke’s campus. Last week Exeposé revealed the announcement of developments to both Streatham and St Luke’s, but the leaked documents suggest the extent of further changes are yet to be decided and may be extensive. The pictures appear to suggest that around half of the University’s smaller campus could be demolished – including the Sports Centre, Medical School Building, Baring Court and the newly renovated Library. The plans also detail new buildings which would replace the demolished structures. The vision of what these new buildings could look like appears to be spacious and modern. A student who wishes to remain unnamed alleges to have found the plans after a meeting between University bodies in the St Luke’s Medical School. Folders detailing a meeting involving Exeter Medical School Management Team and the General Medical Council were discovered by a group of second year students, upon arrival at a seminar. The documents were seemingly ac-

cidentally left in a top floor room of the Medical School, raising questions about why such sensitive plans were inadvertently discovered by students, considering the substantial amount of sensitive material which the University handles. The University told Exeposé that only the developments outlined last week are formally planned, but confirmed that the meeting did take place. Hugh McCann, Director of Estate Development said: “We are currently looking at the long term development of St Luke’s with a firm of consultants. This exercise is about exploring the future capacity of the Campus over the next 5-15-25 year period. This would involve demolition of buildings in my view, though not North Cloisters or the chapel.” “At this stage it is not possible to say definitely what the extent of any future development would be, given the timescales we are looking at, but we need to explore the possibilities at this stage in accordance with good estate management practice.” “Immediate works are the conversions of College House and upper floors of South Cloisters for the Medical School to move into this year and next.” There are currently 1,000 students on St Luke’s Campus, which caters for Sports Scientists and Medical Students, amongst others.

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CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

Exeter says No Students reject motion to ban The Sun

Arts: Your guide to live comedy in Exeter- PAGE 27

Sport: Preview of the EUMCC vs Bath Cricket Varsity - PAGE 36

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