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Exeter Sustainability Wrapped 2024

2 months ago | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 With 2024 coming to an end and being declared the year on record by the World Meteorological Organisation, it is important for us, as Exeter students, to reflect on the efforts our University has made in terms of its sustainability impacts, both locally and nationwide. By this means, towards the end of the year, the University of Exeter rose from 12th to 9th place in the 2024/2025 People & Planet University League – being the top Russell Group university within the current rankings.
Exeter's most controversial ticket-selling website

Jan 24, 2025 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 The Facebook group aimed at Exeter students – “Overheard at Uni of Exeter”, with over 42 thousand members at the time of writing, has recently been flooded with often anonymously listed posts that express anger and disappointment over the resell price of tickets to the leading nightclub Timepiece. Tickets are being sold by other students for over £40 a ticket, with the usual price of a ticket being just £3.
Review: Babygirl

Jan 16, 2025 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 With mixed Letterboxd reviews, averaging at just 3.2 stars for A24’s new release of ‘Babygirl’, starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, it has been argued that the production company behind ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, ‘Midsommar’ and HBO’s ‘Euphoria’, all three of which remain well-loved among their reflective audiences, is starting to fall behind.
New Year, New Reads!

Jan 16, 2025 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 With the New Year, comes new resolutions: for many, that means reading more books or visiting your local library. For parents, this often involves reading out loud to their children before bed. For me, as a student, reading for leisure (rather than for academics and, more specifically, my degree) has been crucial to me since last summer, but with the New Year, I also told myself that I would stop buying new books until I finish the current one I’m reading at a given time.
How Exeter's sport societies raised money and awareness during Movember

Dec 23, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 December marks the end of the month of November – known for its campus-wide Movember fundraising, including the “Big Moustache on Campus” event, where typically, different societies create online spaces for others to donate money to and inspire people to keep growing moustaches throughout the month.
The Rise of 'Doom scrolling': Time for another Digital Detox?

Dec 21, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 Doom scrolling has been broadly defined and understood by academics and medical professionals as the act of consistently seeking out negative material through the consumption of media. The first thought that might come to mind is to question whether this has correlation with increasing rates of media-related anxiety which soared during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Exeter MPs vote on Assisted Dying

Dec 18, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which allows terminally ill adults to be provided with ““, recently passed through Parliament in a 330-275 vote. It is significant to note that the recent vote was a ‘free vote’, meaning that MPs did not have to follow party lines.
Malala speaks up about women's rights in Afghanistan

Nov 24, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 Trigger warning: violence and misogyny. Since 2021, and even more notably over the past few months, you might have seen the phrase that “a squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan” used on social media. The fact that so many individuals won’t even question the statement and will simply go along with it like it’s a common fact instead of a global emergency, shows the key aspect of the issue.
Liam Payne found dead in Argentina

Oct 29, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 It was reported on the 16th October 2024 that the former One Direction singer, Liam Payne, had been found dead after falling from the third floor of his hotel room at the Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, just days after seeing his bandmate, Niall Horan, in concert. It was concluded that his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, had left Argentina the day before Liam’s death – documenting her journey home on her Snapchat and even pointing out that her plane seat number was “1D”.
Taking Part in Sober October

Oct 15, 2024 | exepose.com | Magdalena Kanecka

0 The UK Charity Macmillan Cancer Support has recently set up a fundraiser challenge – “Sober October” – in order to raise money for Cancer research and aid. The rules are straightforward and very similar to the popular “Dry January” challenge hosted by the charity Alcohol Change UK: no drinking alcohol for one full month.