Letters of support

16 Responses to Letters of support

1. Eric Alliez says:

   4 May 2010 at 19:41

   From Ernesto Neto

   dear eric

   what a shame!!!!! there is just two things in common between the two war movies avatar and the hurt locker (oscar winner), both treat the intellectuals as idiots

   hugs e

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3. N.H. says:

   6 May 2010 at 01:41

   It’s difficult for Middlesex staff to come forward and post on the Facebook group or sign the petition, for fear that we might be next or get fired. You can be sure though, that there are many of us who fully support the actions of the Philosophy students, who see the cutting of these programmes as cutting at the foundation of the university, and consider the fact that the executive and the dean have failed to meet with you all, as a serious and sad demonstration of their level of respect for our students. Many staff would have liked to see senior staff meet you straight away and see less of the silly nonsense from contractors about “fear” at what was clearly a peaceful student protest, for a very just cause.

   Many of us are actually very proud to see our students fight for their university and we wish you the best of luck and hope you manage to reverse this very sad and short-sighted decision.

   If Philosophy goes, so too does a level of respect many of us have for the institution we pour so much into. How embarrassing to see so many of our colleagues and partners across the UK, Europe and abroad expressing shock and dismay at this limited decision. You are striking a blow against the university’s reputation, which hurts, but is for just reasons all the same.

   On behalf of the silent majority at Middlesex. Congratulations on a well run campaign and we wish you all well in your continued efforts.

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4. Oxford Anti Cuts says:

   6 May 2010 at 22:17

   We are disgusted at your management’s decision to cut your highly renowned Philosophy course. We believe that, as shown with Tower Hamlets College and elsewhere, it is direct action such as the occupation you are inspirationally and courageously (in light of the severe repression of occupants in Sussex and beyond) undertaking that gets results.
   Consequently, we fully support your continued occupation, and offer our complete support and solidarity with your struggle to save Philosophy.

   In solidarity,
   Oxford Anti Cuts
   http://oxford.anticuts.com/

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7. K.C says:

   8 May 2010 at 13:01

   It’s sad that things have come to this. So which programs are next? I’m on a program which is probably not commercially viable, but it’s disgusting that they are attacking us and our futures!

   Why can’t the government give up this ridiculous reduction in education, and actually pay for their mistakes! Why is it that the future generations have to suffer for the governments mistakes?

   I fullly support your occupation. I can’t join you all, but you have support! You stand for all the ‘little’ courses in Middlesex, the ones that will pay next if you lose this battle. Keep going guys, stand for all of us that aren’t ‘commercially viable’.

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10. Matt Raine, Secretary Birmingham University UNISON says:

    10 May 2010 at 17:27

    Its disgraceful that our Universities are being treated as businesses. Education is a right and essential part of any democratic society. Keep up the campaign, we learnt at Birmingham University last year that the public campaign has to continue, don’t be bought off by any fake consultation – its action that wins results

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12. DB says:

    14 May 2010 at 18:22

    I send solidarity from the philosophy department at Sussex. We’ve had our fair share of problems, though nothing so starkly directed at our own department.
    Just to say hang in there – the management sought an injunction against our own sit-in which we broke. Having persevered, our requests were met. Do not be afraid in the face of management pressure.
    Remember that if you’ve pushed them this far, you are having an effect.
    I wish you the very best!

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13. Juliet Flower MacCannell says:

    17 May 2010 at 21:13

    I participated in the first actually international meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature in 1982 at Trent Park on the campus of what was then Middlesex Polytechnic . The rise of its philosophy programme since, which has been nothing short of spectacular, should have given the administration of this university cause for celebration and reason to honor it.

    It is appalling that ‘managers’ have now been substituted for intelligent stewards of university and philosophical thought. If they are, as in our country, paid many times more than actual professors and lecturers, it is little wonder they hold the latter in low esteem, given that ‘managers’ are now well schooled in disdain for anything that is not measured by money.

    This event is now cause for great anger around the world.

    Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

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14. Tahmeena Bax says:

    22 May 2010 at 11:43

    I support any protest to save the Middlesex University Philosophy Department. Lecturers should always be allowed to teach and Students should always be allowed to learn. Education is right, not a privilege.

    Tahmeena Bax
    QMUL Student Representative,
    Incoming QMUL Black Students Officer

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15. Harry Gilonis says:

    26 May 2010 at 14:40

    As whoever it was said, all of philosophy is just a set of footnotes to Hegel; and it’s true here too: “When philosophy paints its own greyness in grey, then has a form of life grown old, and cannot be rejuvenated by this grey grey, but only known…”. The mismanagement of Middlesex university (not merely its philosophy department), and its cavalier disregard for concensus and debate, can only now be met with what Hegel clearly had in mind: grey-listing. This is looming for other universities headed by money-happy quangocrats, and has elsewhere proved efficacious.

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16. paula gilligan says:

    27 August 2010 at 17:30

    Hello
    Please check out the new dossier on Impact and the UK on the Journal of Social Text Website-two of us have written about Middlesex in support of your campaign-

    Also, please leave comments and share the landing page link as often as possible to and hopefully continue conversation about the issues raised by what happened in Middlesex-there is also a lot of other relevant stuff on the crisis in the Universities in the UK.

    The direct link is: http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/impact/.

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