I wonder whether the university made any use of its research centre with specific expertise on the ethics of cultural heritage:

A world which recently had no idea South College (est. 2020) existed now knows it as the epicentre of the latest story about student cancel culture, and amidst the fallout a letter’s floating around in which the colleges’ JCR presidents collectively demand a greater say for students—over whom colleges invite. (I thought that was what Cuth’s …

I can well believe that whatever is in store for higher education will be carnage (I’m especially wondering what recruitment caps for ‘low value’ subjects would mean for cross-subsidy), but I’m wondering what to make of this:

Thanks, Doctor Irvine. Now I get to spend the rest of the day speculating about who this was.

From 2003 (the year I entered the University of Durham as an undergrad. fresher):