Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Things fall apart, the Centre cannot hold (on to academic staff in these financially uncertain times)

Campus is starting to reopen now. Term is approaching.
But all is not as it seems in the Humanities building. The resident ducks are gone. They have probably migrated for winter, but that is far too prosaic an explanation for my taste. I have a secret suspicion that they have been slaughtered by the Vice Chancellor Marty Vanderpoot and the University authorities. This feeling is strengthened by the smell of galloping hounds that pervades the corridors. Crazy, I know, but the West Midlands is a crazy kind of place.

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