Call that smart?

10:14am Tuesday 30th October 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

WONDERFUL, after all the fuss about parking at and around the university: where are they building the new chemistry research centre? On a car park. These are the intelligentsia, are they not?

Rita Crombleholme, Deramore Drive, Badger Hill, York.

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J-Dawg says...
1:34pm Tue 30 Oct 12

Can't see why not, there's nowhere else to put it.

Don't need to worry about parking, there's loads of back roads around there to use.

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ColdAsChristmas says...
8:02pm Tue 30 Oct 12

Science has a bad name these days so nothing surprises me. That said, the City planners must have approved this like they did for building on the Barbican car park. I expect there will be an army of parking attendants round there slapping tickets on screens. No doubt all a part of the plan to get the money back wasted on that stupid duff wind turbine!

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Magicman! says...
12:36am Wed 31 Oct 12

Science only has a bad name because a lot of scientists have sold out on their beliefs to get funding from the government.

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ShunGokuSatsu says...
11:24am Wed 31 Oct 12

Magicman! wrote:
Science only has a bad name because a lot of scientists have sold out on their beliefs to get funding from the government.
Scientific advances can't be wished into being; someone's got to pay for them. I've heard more than a few researchers say they'll take on "sellout" projects - whether for the government, the military, the private sector - to cement their reputations for when they need funding for more esoteric projects. It's not pretty, but they do what the gotta do.

As for erecting a new building on a car park - it's been awhile since I've been up near the Heslington campus, but there never seemed to be a terrible dearth of available spaces, and as J-Dawg points out, there's a decent amount of parking in the surrounding area as well. No doubt an expansion of the campus to accomodate the new building would elicit an amount of moaning too.

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