{"id":504,"date":"2018-04-26T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=504"},"modified":"2018-06-25T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:58:42","slug":"letters-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/04\/26\/letters-11\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">This picture on the University homepage is pretty poor and not inviting AT ALL. Subconsciously, it just does not work:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/media\/lancaster-university\/content-assets\/images\/home-page\/Ambassador%281%29.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/media\/lancaster-university\/content-assets\/images\/home-page\/Ambassador%281%29.jpg?resize=500%2C187\" width=\"500\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/media\/lancaster-university\/content-assets\/images\/home-page\/Ambassador(1).jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/media\/lancaster-university\/content-assets\/images\/home-page\/Ambassador(1).jpg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">The main focus of the picture is the father figure and not the offspring who is on the visit day. Offspring is set back behind the tour guide and behind the parent. Offspring is looking at the ground. Do you really want Subway in the background of the home page? Thankfully the Chemist&#8217;s window is advertising hayfever tablets, could have been worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">There are so many better backdrops for a photo to advertise the University via the homepage. Have the guide, the young person on a visit day (looking ahead), have the parents but not in the forefront and have a decent architectural backdrop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Name supplied<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext, This picture on the University homepage is pretty poor and not inviting AT ALL. Subconsciously, it just does not work: http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/media\/lancaster-university\/content-assets\/images\/home-page\/Ambassador(1).jpg The main focus of the picture is the father figure and not the offspring who is on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/04\/26\/letters-11\/\">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":[10],"tags":[292,199],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-issue-176","tag-university-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":246,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/12\/07\/letters-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":0},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 7 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"An Open Letter to readers of subtext The announcement at the annual meeting in January 2017 of a review of the effectiveness of the Court \u2013 a body often likened to the annual shareholder meeting in a private company \u2013 seemed at the time relatively inconsequential. Six months elapsed before\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1209,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/subtext-192-strike-while-the-subtext-is-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":1},"title":"subtext 192 &#8211; &#8216;strike while the subtext is hot&#8217;","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often during term time. Letters, contributions, & comments: subtext-editors@lancaster.ac.uk Back issues & subscription details: http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/about\/ In this issue: editorial, strike, casualisation, lancaster exchange, student politics, emeriti, gender stereotyping, new build, spineless, university future, widden's review, penguins, letters. ***************************************************** EDITORIAL 'Ultimately our aim is to protect our community's wellbeing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;editorial&quot;","block_context":{"text":"editorial","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/editorial\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":318,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/02\/01\/letters-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":2},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 1 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, On the 'There's only one University in Lancashire' thread. I do applaud UCLAN's short sightedness on changing their name and as a Lancs Poly graduate I well remember the arguments raging amongst staff about naming. I recall the favourite at the time amongst chattering classes was University of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1504,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/letters-32\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":3},"title":"Letters","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 11 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, In response to the letter at the end of the recent subtext, I googled the Lancaster list. Many of the more recent names I had never heard of. It would be helpful if they put 'Dead' by the name of those who had died. Who has currently held\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/12\/07\/school-of-missing-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":4},"title":"SCHOOL OF MISSING LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 7 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Coming off the night shift at the subtext warehouse our drones were intrigued by the new sign at the entrance to Bowland North. Not the blaring adverts for Subway and Blackwell's, but the cool, chunky, brushed steel lettering proclaiming something called 'law school'. The fact that it was all in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1468,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/letters-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":5},"title":"Letters","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Inspired by your piece on David Starkey's prompt removal from Lancaster's Honorary Degree list, I had a look at some of the other members. While I only used Google and Wikipedia, there seem to be at least two figures of note. One faces historical child sex abuse allegations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}