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ISSUE 774 22 OCT 2025 exepose.com @exepose
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1987
The Hardest Geezer comes to Exeter Breast cancer awareness month Page 9
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Emily Sara Rizzo Editor-in-Chief
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I came from London last night, got in about midnight, and I’m raring to go. We’re bringing the energy today, aren’t we?” were the opening words of the Hardest Geezer - Russ Cook - in our interview on a (fairly early) mid-week morning, by the Mill on the Exe. His first time in Exeter, Russ de-
buted his UK Run Club Tour with a mix of student and local runners, launching a series of events centred around a social run, and the opportunity to meet the Hardest Geezer himself. From our own city, the tour will then take him to St Andrews, Loughborough, Warwick, and Nottingham - spreading the word on and off campuses about his adventure travel organisation, Hardest Adventures. The run club tour itself is just a taster of what Hardest Adventures
offers. As Russ explained, “we’re on a mission to inspire people to take on the adventure of their lives, to do meaningful things, and as part of that we’re visiting all of these different universities,” inspiring students to have their own Hardest Geezer experiences. The inspiration behind the adventure travel organisation is this very impulse to share Russ’s love of challenge, and his dedication to “pushing physical limits while raising funds for important causes.” He explains that
the idea came to him about a year ago, following the momentous Project Africa, which crowned him the first person to have run the length of the continent. In his own words: “I was thinking, I’ve had so many mad experiences and journeys, what can I do to try and pass that onto as many different people as possible? So, I came up with the idea of Hardest Adventures.” Continued on page 6
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Guild Launches Major Review to Modernise Student Representation Harry Morrison Online Editor-in-Chief
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N an attempt to modernise how student voices are represented across the University of Exeter, the Students’ Guild has unveiled its ‘Representation Review,’ followed by a consultation period. Running from 22nd September until 31st October,
the Guild is aiming to hear the opinions of all students, in a bid to make student representation more ‘inclusive, engaging, transparent and adaptable...’. In anticipation of remodelling how students are represented, the Guild has released a review document labelled ‘Student Representation – The future of representation for students at Exeter.’ Taking two years to develop, this 16-page review outlines the reasons, findings,
and future of representation at Exeter. The decision to review student representation at Exeter has come around as a result of a reflection on the 2023 Big Guild Survey, which saw only 36% of respondents tell the Guild that they ‘felt represented by their elected officials.’ Another point of consideration for the Guild was the recent election turnout of 12%, causing concern for the way in which students are currently engaging with representation.
Guild President Sebastian Racisz admitted to Exeposé that the current structure “has its limitations and is not always widely understood,” stressing the importance of taking time to rethink how student representation works. Sebastian has additionally recognised the crucial nature of taking a step back for this review to “acknowledge a system that hasn’t been very flexible” with an evolving student population. Continued on page 4
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