29 OCTOBER 1983, Page 20

Exeter lounges

Sir: It may interest you to know that here at Exeter University one of the lounges in our main Students' Union Building, Devonshire House, has been called the 'Nelson Mandela Room' for more than five years. At supposedly middle-class, conservative, Sloane Ranger-infested Exeter University, we can also 'boast' a Steve Biko lounge and a room named after Oscar Wilde, this latter to show our support for `Gay' Liberation. These decisions were taken by general meeting where only a few per cent of the university's population was present.

Andrew Turner

86 Pennsylvania Road, Exeter, Devon