The satisfied sanctimonious architects

IT is with sadness and disdain that I have witnessed the dismantling of yet another University of Otago tradition but for what purpose?

Selfimportance by the university hierarchy, virtue signalling and keeping up with the woke madness that has infected many universities worldwide. Tradition at Otago has now become a dirty word.

Many of my Otago alumni friends and colleagues worldwide and especially in the United States have become so upset with this reckless spending of university money, that is in short supply, plus the throwing out of Otago’s worldrenowned history, that to a person they have closed up their donation wallets and many have taken Otago off their wills to the collective tune of tens of millions of dollars of bequests.

I hope the sanctimonious architects of the terrible new “banana” logo are proud of this achievement.

Otago has, or rather had, an excellence of education and research that was held in such esteem internationally that Dunedin graduates could readily secure a good job anywhere in the world.

These days likely are over for so long as the clock tower basks in its illusions and fantasies that they are turning out wellrounded graduates.

I along with all my alumni friends hope that the new vicechancellor will take the woke bull by the horns, instill some sorely needed common sense and recapture all the traditions that have been thrown to the wind. Bill Lindqvist

Abbotsford

Stop the cuts

I thought the government promised to create new jobs to cut unemployment. Well they have sure boosted it now, with all the media cuts. It will be a long line in the dole queue. Pauline Watts

Dunedin

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