UNICAL 476 AD
Dear professors,
is strange, it's just really weird having to think about writing a letter to you it is strange because, despite the diversity of roles, we find ourselves living in everyday life, all the ups and downs of the history of our university. I never thought to talk to a letter: it is a tool for those who are far away, but so much so, and if they feel the need but will have a reason to be there.
The events related to the cuts Budgets of Italian universities and the unfortunate reform project led by the minister Gelmini, the combination of these two designs, has thrown the whole system of research and higher education in a state of deep distress. On this the opinion of all academic members is unanimous. Yet something still escapes me; escapes my understanding that, although it will be limited - for charity - but I really can not understand many things.
A little 'memories from school, a little' to be returned recently, I remember that in 476 AD Rome kept intact all the institutions that had made it great: he had the Emperor, had the senate, had the legions ... and had the barbarians in the home. Here, today it seems to me that, ceteris paribus, we are in the same condition.
you refuse to make a defense to the bitter end of institutions that have been or will be largely empty of meaning, and degrades the task for which they were born, and yet nothing happens to you. The empire is collapsing and you have to "spend the night." Or are you short-sighted (blind?) Or are accomplices. The second possibility I will not ever believe.
I perched on a barren defending positions that you know you have already lost, how those children whose parents remove the batteries from the toy and they, undeterred, continue to pretend that nothing has happened. Children have by their ingenuity that comes of age, you will not.
While defending your trenches, largely bypassed by the barbarian troops, pass on everything, even what I did not think was possible. Go over the personal insults that are addressed in public; pass over that humiliating and shameful request of some parliamentarians who do not feel the slightest Calabrian decency to go and beg a few dollars to a government that has other things in mind for the South, as if the problem was economic in nature and not of dignity that you put in things you do. But still, something we are used to this country in this region or not? And if it is the second to be true, then Let us draw the right and sincere consequences, without cheating or between us or to others.
But the beauty lies in the fact that, by researchers, I have said in all the languages \u200b\u200bwe know, in any event, not just the money issue. But nothing, "all is well, Madame la Marquise." Still convinced that they can still rule the protest of some recalcitrant researcher to get in line in that everything was a bluff, motivated, but destined to pass. There are 24 requests for withdrawal of claims, the result of decisions taken with great suffering, some truly in extremis, and yet you refuse to call you pretending anything.
Someone had asked about the consequences of data possible unavailability of those officially registered and officially presented to evaluate the alternatives, to allow the discussion, but you know, the Senate of Rome can not come to terms, even in 476 AD, with Odoacer jolly already sitting on the Board of Administration. A strange
reform, a reform squint that seeks to punish you and gets angry with us, with the weakest link by declaring, in fact, unnecessary. And we should not react to this? We should adapt to the defense of which "imperial eagle"? Or maybe we should give up the arrogance of these novel by barbarians who govern us too? No, not possible. And it is because we would like from our side we have given you many opportunities to be with us: there is no trace in the minutes of all the councils that have followed, from October onwards. All Councils in which we have called to talk about anything they did not speak of what was right and natural speaking: never a time that you had not put in a position to play called, not to suffer passively. Fri
we asked in so many ways that we have also asked you to think of practical alternatives, with the only result of power to observe your looks astonished, your tongues stutter, your faces never blush. And how quickly you have done everything to turn every match that could be objectionable: not a word, not a sigh on your corporate communications, of course, is understandable: you're afraid to look too incendiary. But be careful, because firemen died.
researchers Maybe we eventually lose and you'll have to rewrite the story, as is customary. On the other hand, if we are only the "third" band and not the "first" will also be a reason, even at the level of power to be exercised. I have no illusion and no prophet will certainly easier if I tell you that next year everything - formally - will start as if the imperial regalia were at peak and not in pieces, in an advanced way of decomposition. But it is clear that at that point we will still be able to tell very easily and without any awe "even if you believe you are discharged the same involved."
Walter Greek
