{"id":604,"date":"2018-05-24T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=604"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:55:21","slug":"founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/founders\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUNDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Although SCAN has covered Bowland College\u2019s cancellation of Founders (the intercollegiate sportsing contest between Lonsdale and Bowland Colleges) in some detail, we thought we\u2019d at least add our disappointment to the pile. Founders was, er, founded, in 2004 to salvage the vibrant rivalry between Lonsdale and Bowland Colleges, which was threatened by Lonsdale\u2019s impending relocation from Bowland\u2019s doorstep to the newly built south-west campus. The reasons given, that Lonsdale College violated a bye-law they had no part in writing by allowing PostGrads and alumni to play, are risible, and actually go against the principles upon which the tournament was founded. subtext suspects that these are mere excuses, and part of an SCR implored shift away from \u2018boozy\u2019 on-campus events that are becoming increasingly frowned upon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">SCAN\u2019s report can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scan.lusu.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/breaking-news-bowland-withdraw-from-founders\/\">http:\/\/scan.lusu.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/breaking-news-bowland-withdraw-from-founders\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although SCAN has covered Bowland College\u2019s cancellation of Founders (the intercollegiate sportsing contest between Lonsdale and Bowland Colleges) in some detail, we thought we\u2019d at least add our disappointment to the pile. Founders was, er, founded, in 2004 to salvage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/founders\/\">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":[346,345,332,347],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bowland-college","tag-founders","tag-issue-178","tag-lonsdale-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99sHo-founders","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":262,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/12\/07\/school-of-missing-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":604,"position":0},"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. 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