{"id":321,"date":"2018-02-01T16:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-02-15T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:11:05","slug":"a-dispatch-from-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/02\/01\/a-dispatch-from-the-front-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT LINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bomb shelter experience continues to be a popular ride for students and staff alike, leading in some cases to sessions being abandoned or students and lecturers wandering around in search of another teaching venue, traipsing off like a raggle-taggle bunch of travellers vainly looking for a home. subtext understands that the delays surrounding the spine renovation have meant that this particular project has ‘run into’ other building work that was already scheduled – the domino effect causing further inconvenience. Apparently the blame for all this disruption and chaos lies at the door of one particular contractor who did not grasp the complexity and scale of the spine project. A series of ‘cock-ups’ and sheer incompetence by this one firm has meant we have been living and working in a building site with no foreseeable end. Such incompetence should result in the contractor being asked to leave the site with their contract terminated forthwith. Apparently not – they are still here and the terms of their contract mean we have to live with this team of bodgers. It would be interesting to know who signed off on this – if he’s still here!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bomb shelter experience continues to be a popular ride for students and staff alike, leading in some cases to sessions being abandoned or students and lecturers wandering around in search of another teaching venue, traipsing off like a raggle-taggle … Continue reading →<\/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":"A DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT LINE","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":[11,13,214],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-design-the-spine","tag-facilities","tag-issue-172"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-5b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":585,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/space-jam\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":0},"title":"SPACE JAM","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"May 24 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019ve become so accustomed to the building work that perhaps we no longer see the effect of closing the roads and byways through the campus on those who aren\u2019t so used to it. In particular, we greet closures of the access points to the University as normal. They aren\u2019t. Memo\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":587,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/wet-dreams\/","url_meta":{"origin":321,"position":1},"title":"WET DREAMS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"May 24 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Another SCAN piece that caught our eye (SCAN\u2019s news reportage has been good this year, hasn\u2019t it?) was the report that significant parts of the unfaltering spine refurbishment have been ditched to speed up the process. 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