Still, the anecdotes that Prof Ritalin was collecting were interesting. HODs overtly claiming territorial, conservative or tactical positions were unsurprising, but the sound-byte succinctness of the statements was. Almost as if they cried out to be headlined across the media, albeit just the Not The Monday Paper.
She couldn't help noting, furthermore, how rapidly the conversation had morphed from dicussing The Politics of Marking, to discussing The Politics of Space. After all, why waste good academic attention on teaching and learning matters when there were administrativia to consume it?
And, if an Englishman's home was his castle, was an academic's office his fortress?
Gramsci mulled over the possibility meditatively while the Cow humphed about a bit more. "Perhaps Marx should have spent some time at UCT," he ventured. "Then his model might have allowed for the simultaneity of tragedy and farce."