{"id":1524,"date":"2021-11-11T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:11:38","slug":"tolerance-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/tolerance-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerance News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster University&#8217;s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) came under focus during July, when a group of Travellers arrived on the 15th and camped on some of the University football pitches for four nights. In response to a letter from Eco-Socialist city councillors for University and Scotforth Rural Ward, seeking assurances that the site need not be disturbed until at least September, the response from our Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement, seen by subtext, was perhaps less-than-inclusive. Noting claims that there had been &#8216;physical, verbal and racial abuse directed at our students&#8217;, our recently ennobled PVC felt that, &#8216;Whilst we remain courteous and respectful at all times, since their departure we have incurred significant expense to clear refuse and repair damages caused. As I am sure you can understand, such despoiling of our beautiful campus does not epitomise a mutually respectful relationship.&#8217; This framing of a complex situation in terms of waste management was, unsurprisingly, not met positively by the councillors.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster&#8217;s EDI website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/edi\/\">https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/edi\/<\/a>) assures us that, &#8216;We are committed to creating a fairer and more inclusive University for all staff, students, visitors and our wider university community, where equality, diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our University&#8217;s plans and activities. We recognise that we all have a key role to play in making this a reality.&#8217; We do indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster University&#8217;s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) came under focus during July, when a group of Travellers arrived on the 15th and camped on some of the University football pitches for four nights. In response to a letter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/tolerance-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[552,623,622],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-edi","tag-inclusion","tag-travellers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-oA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1140,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/06\/28\/state-of-the-uni\/","url_meta":{"origin":1524,"position":0},"title":"STATE OF THE UNI","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 28 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A moderately populated Great Hall played host to the final all-staff meeting on Tuesday 25 June, led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark E Smith, CBE, before his imminent departure to southerly climes. 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