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The school of Politics & Communications has been left off of new a Roxby building sign in what S.O.S campaigner Paul Athans describes as being “a fiasco of comic proportions”.
The sign outside of the Roxby Building, home to the school, was removed and replaced with a new sign that did not include Politics & Communications.

The supposed mix up is reportedly due to the school accidentally being left off an email between the woman in charge of the signs, and the building’s porter. The only department to have left the building was the Institute of Popular Music.

The sign was removed after just a matter of hours  of being in situ. A university spokesman has claimed that : “The sign erected on Friday contained a genuine error, which has now been corrected.” however the mistake has still caused concern in the closure threatened department, with many fearing that the consultation on the department’s future may be simply paying lip service to the process.

Mr Athans has said : “It is claimed that this clear cut case of ‘sign mismanagement’ was an accident; however, if it was not, then it raises questions on whether or not this upcoming consultation process is in fact bogus?

 “What we hope is that this was simply a mistake, but even then it raises questions about the quality of communication within the University. Maybe members of the University’s hierarchy would like to attend some of the high quality lectures offered by the School of Politics and Communication Studies on exactly how to communicate?”

However, could the school being left off of the sign offer some hope to students and staff? In the event of the university management deciding to close the department the school would likely remain in situ until its final closure in 2012, which would mean for obvious reasons that it would still need sign-age until then.

Could the fact that the school has been left off indicate that the subjects have a chance of survival through a merger with another department such as sociology? Only time will tell, but we will be waiting with baited breath come June.

Andrew Shearwood