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An awful lot of people have complained about the monolithic campus map outside University House – you know, the one with enough space to accommodate legible text but instead has a key in 8 point type and a big black empty void, in very much the Scandinavian style. We should probably be grateful for what we have, since the maps have started to become discoloured with what would appear to be damp, causing an outbreak of grey patches that are starting to cover the already miniscule text. At least, we think that’s what it is. But it doesn’t look intentional: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ya7eoe9p<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An awful lot of people have complained about the monolithic campus map outside University House – you know, the one with enough space to accommodate legible text but instead has a key in 8 point type and a big black … 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,178],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-campus-map","tag-issue-170"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-4a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":973,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/04\/02\/subtext-187-yet-another-meaningful-subtext\/","url_meta":{"origin":258,"position":0},"title":"subtext 187 – \u2018yet another meaningful subtext\u2019","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"April 2 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often during term time (and sometimes a bit after). 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