Umm, are you guys aware that Exeter was already a member of a group that had 12 of the top 20 universities. Along with the other three universities, also members of the 1994 group, the Russel Group will now have that same proportion of top unis. Ergo, this means nothing.
Sometimes I wonder at the intelligence some of the students here. A few months ago, in halls, I was speaking to a law student who genuinely thought that books were an invention in the twentieth century. He assumed that before then, people wrote on stone, or perhaps wood. With people like that, I really don't think we deserve to be Russel Group.