Title: Exponents and the Cohomology of Finite Groups. Author: Jonathan Pakianathan AMS Classification: Primary 20J06, 17B50, 17B56 Address of Author: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. Status: Reprint. To appear in "The Proceedings of the A.M.S.". This paper provides an example of a p-group G which has elements of order p^3 in some of its integral cohomology groups but which also has the property that p^2 annihilates H^i(G;Z) for all sufficiently high i. This provides a counterexample to a conjecture of A. Adem which stated that if a finite group K has an element of order p^n in one of its integral cohomology groups then it has such an element in infinitely many of its cohomology groups.