{"id":77,"date":"2017-10-12T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:44:53","slug":"et-moi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/et-moi\/","title":{"rendered":"ET MOI?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">It\u2019s interesting that LUText, in celebrating its 800th issue, should claim some kind of lineal descent from InkyText, the highly unofficial newsletter edited and mostly written by the late Gordon Inkster until 2000. LUText\u2019s forerunner \u2018Vickytext\u2019 may well have been named with InkyText in mind, but as anyone who clicks on the link thoughtfully provided in LUText will discover, the two publications were radically different in content and style. For one thing, InkyText was funny; for another, it was about as far as anything could be from a vehicle for central management to initiate a \u2018conversation with staff\u2019. Indeed, management did try to co-opt InkyText into its structure, at one point offering to Gordon accreditation to report on Council meetings. This he declined, in his typically courteous manner. In subtext\u2019s review of Marion McClintock\u2019s excellent 2011 history of the university, Shaping the Future, we described InkyText as \u2018subtext\u2019s great predecessor\u2019(subtext 84).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">Even if we\u2019re often not funny, we\u2019d still like to think that subtext has a more legitimate claim to ancestry and inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">*****************************************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">AND ANOTHER THING&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier\">If nothing else, LUText\u2019s small mention will have at least given readers cause to delve into the archive of Gordon Inkster\u2019s incredible body of work, which can be marvelled at here: http:\/\/www.maths.lancs.ac.uk\/~rowlings\/Inkytext\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting that LUText, in celebrating its 800th issue, should claim some kind of lineal descent from InkyText, the highly unofficial newsletter edited and mostly written by the late Gordon Inkster until 2000. LUText\u2019s forerunner \u2018Vickytext\u2019 may well have been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/et-moi\/\">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":[7,4],"tags":[28,26,121,25,27],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lu-text-lost-and-found","category-news","tag-gordon-inkster","tag-inkytext","tag-issue-166","tag-lutext","tag-marion-mcclintock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-1f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1414,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/10\/28\/lutext-lost-found\/","url_meta":{"origin":77,"position":0},"title":"LUText Lost &amp; Found","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 28 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Whilst Lancaster has thus far avoided any of the scenes that have blighted some of our Mancunian fellow-institutions (as far as we are aware, none of Lancaster's students have been forced to remain within their accommodation by Security), we are not above charging self-isolating students \u00a317.95 per day for food\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;lu text lost and found&quot;","block_context":{"text":"lu text lost and found","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/lu-text-lost-and-found\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":638,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/07\/lu-text-lost-and-found-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":77,"position":1},"title":"LU TEXT LOST AND FOUND","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 7 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, we bring you Lancaster's recognition in the national press that somehow didn't make it into LU Text's 'Lancaster in the Media Roundup.' 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The last issue of LUText advertised for a new Dean of FHM, meaning that the incumbent is stepping down after less than four years in the post, not least in the midst of the development of the Health Innovation Campus, the biggest expansion\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":1470,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/middle-management-mindfulness\/","url_meta":{"origin":77,"position":4},"title":"Middle Management Mindfulness","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Contributed by a reader They come, they go, head honchos called Deans, Each one instigating yet another counting of beans, Trim trim the gold standard crew, Yet another, yet another, PS review! 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