Exeposé Freshers' Week Events

As you may have seen from our delightful scroller, Exeposé are hosting a series of events during Freshers’ Week.

If you’d like to find out more about Exeter’s independent, student-run newspaper and website, please come along to as many as you like! Whether you’re a budding journalist or just a little curious, all are welcome.

If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to get in touch via our Exeposé twitter or Exeposé facebook pages!

Monday 16th September:

Meddle in the Media 
2:30:pm – 3:30:pm
M&D Room
Meet the heads of each student media, Exeposé, Exeposé Online, Xpression and XTV to hear how you can get involved.

Tuesday 17th September:

Meet the Editors
1pm – 2pm
M&D Room, Devonshire House
Meet the current Exeposé editorial team and hear about the best ways to be involved in your student newspaper.

News Team Induction
2pm – 2:45:pm
X-Media Suite, Devonshire House
Meet the Exeposé News editors to hear about how you can help make the headlines in the News section.

Exeposé Sport Kick About
5pm – 7pm
Rubber Crumb, Streatham Sports Park
Meet your Exeposé Sport editors over a game of football and hear about opportunities with Exeposé Sport this year.

Wednesday 18th September:

Exeposé Section Taster Stalls
Noon – 5pm
The Ram Foyer, Devonshire House
Come along and find out what each section is all about!

Thursday 19th September:

Meet the Editors 
Noon – 1pm
M&D Room, Devonshire House
Meet the current Exeposé editorial team and hear about the best ways to be involved in your student newspaper.

Exeposé News Team Induction
1pm – 1:45:pm
X-Media Suite, Devonshire House
Meet the Exeposé News editors to hear about how you can help make the headlines in the News section.

Friday 20th September:

Mega Media Marquee
Noon – 6pm
The Ram Beer Garden
Drop in and meet representatives from Exeter’s student media, set to answer any questions you may have about getting involved.

X-Media Social
6:30:pm – 11pm
The Ram
Join members of Exeposé, Xpression and XTV for an evening in the Ram.

Sunday 22nd September:

Activities and Volunteering Fair
10am – 4pm
Devonshire House, The Forum, The Great Hall, Northcott Theatre
Come find the Exeposé stall to sign up, ask questions and join in the fun!

Charley Allen's Weird and Wonderful World: Spain's answer to the Calendar Girls

Charley Allen’s latest column takes a comedic look at the group of Spanish mothers taking off their kit to save the school bus.

Worth getting your clothes off for? Picture credits: Pablo Cruz Roya.

Calendar Girls seems to have inspired Spanish mums to bare all in an attempt to save their children’s school bus. In December last year, authorities in the region of Montserrat decided that in order to save money they would be restricting the school bus service.
The normal Spanish thing to do to kick up a fuss would be to go out in protest, waving banners and getting rowdy but these Montserrat mums thought they would try a different approach: a topless calendar, naturally.

Montserrat near Valencia, which is one of the country’s largest cities, has a population of around 7,000 and has felt the effects of the crisis particularly badly according to Reuters. Along with Cataluña which is just North of Montserrat, the two areas are the most indebted in the country and harsh cutbacks have had to be made, the limited bus service being one of them.

However, mothers such as Eva Maria Casas Sancho, the calendar’s Ms. June, whose children were forced to walk almost 3 miles to their elementary school, is not happy according to NRP. “There’s no sidewalk and there are lots of trucks going fast. The truth is, it’s pretty dangerous for kids to be walking there.”

The monastery at Montserrat, Spain: one backdrop that the scantily-clad mums won’t be likely to choose for the calendar? Picture credits: Jennifer O’Sullivan Photography

This risqué move to do the calendar has certainly paid off though; sales have raised enough to keep the bus going until the end of June and considering that the Associated Press reports about $4,100 is needed to fund the bus, driver and monitor for a month, they must have sold an awful lot.

It is a pretty outrageous move and although it is obviously great to keep the much-needed bus service alive, I can’t help but feel sorry for the kid whose mum becomes an instant hit amongst his schoolmates for being an absolute MILF, or on the other (slightly worse) hand, the kid whose mum’s breasts sweep the floor… eek.