And so, every winter the Language Lab in the basement of the Arts Block is transformed into an indoor swimming pool, each February They find new ways to increase the pain of Reg Week, and the half-life of a parking bay is now estimated at five minutes.
And we now have a Substantive Agreement ending a wage dispute which starts off endorsing exactly that which is broken and led to the dispute in the first place, and a new email system that is even flakier than the last.
Still, it's reassuring for many that all this neoliberal discourse of efficiency and sustainability is just talk, and that things remain comfortably the same in fundamental ways.