I normally wouldn’t respond to someone who writes under a nom de plume – any reason you can’t reveal your true identity? —- but I resent your assertion that most of my article was copied — unlike the cut and paste brigade which is so prevalent, I actually burn the midnight oil in writing up, interview real people, attend meeetings and rallies,research numerous articles and gain as many insights into what I am actually writing about — it was NOT a cut and paste job but in fact occupied several consecutive nights of concerted effort. Ok –so, Dr ( and Professor) Harry Medlin was a former ‘Deputy Chancellor’ not a Vice Chancellor’ ? — and now the Vice Chancellor is styled as the ‘President’ so what ?— the fact remains that he is an eminent man who spent many years in the top echelons of the University collegiate structure —and for the record, I was asked to provide a pro retention of Union hall piece and was advised that there would be an opposing piece which I agreed to. I suggest you read each piece objectively and apply more intellectual rigour in your analysis.

I must be in a parallel universe because for once I completely agree with everything Lavinia has said.

There is an inherent racism in much of the Save Union Hall campaign; that somehow it is because the uni is being overrun with foreigners that their precious hall is under threat.

I’m offended by the comments made by Goers who seems to be ignoring the fact that overseas students choose to come to Adelaide because of the quality of the education here. This is a cultural/intellectual cringe of the worst kind and from someone who should know much better.

I say: the uni should give students the best. It’s the only way Adelaide can build its reputation for greatness. If we all listened to Peter Goers (and god help us if we did) we’d all be chain smokers chaining ourselves to the nearest crumbling piece of “functionalist” (ie, crap) architecture in the hopes of reliving the good ol’ days.

There are two Union Hall pieces in this post – the first by Dennis, and the second by Lavinia Emmett-Grey. We feel that, together, they constitute a well-rounded analysis of the ‘Save’ and ‘Demolish’ positions, respectively.

C.

Nice try On Dit, but I would have preferred to read something more balanced, not written by someone who has been actively working in the community to save Union Hall. If we want biased writing we can keep reading the articles thrown at us by Peter Goers and Samela Harris, who obviously have no sense of journalistic objectivity.