The Last Word

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=180 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>The Last Word (?)</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#555555" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFF66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Save UCL</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>    </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFF99" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Save UCL"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Save UCL"><U>Save UCL</U></A>   |   <A HREF="senate.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fewer Students, Fewer Jobs"><U>Fewer Students, Fewer Jobs</U></A>   |   <A HREF="posters.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Download a Poster!"><U>Download a Poster!</U></A>   |   <A HREF="jeremy1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ask Jeremy!"><U>Ask Jeremy!</U></A>   |   <A HREF="jeremy2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ask Jeremy! 2"><U>Ask Jeremy! 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="objectives.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Objectives"><U>Our Objectives</U></A>   |   <A HREF="concerns.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Concerns"><U>Our Concerns</U></A>   |   <A HREF="goodbye.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GOODBYE! Magazine"><U>GOODBYE! Magazine</U></A>   |   <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SAVE UCL! in the News"><U>SAVE UCL! in the News</U></A>   |   <A HREF="vision.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Provost Robertss Vision"><U>Provost Roberts's Vision</U></A>   |   <A HREF="subnerge_1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Submerge 1 "><U>Submerge 1 </U></A>   |   <A HREF="feedback.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Your feedback"><U>Your feedback</U></A>   |   <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <B>The Last Word</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>The Last Word</I></div> <div> <I>.........for now.........</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="355" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 255 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="03440f90.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jeremy Bentham writes:</B></div> <bR> <div> I<B>t is with gratification that I believe I may call a close to this troubled chapter in the history of our great institution. And yet I note from the statements issued by Provost Roberts, that despite the unequivocal rebuff of which he has been in receipt, he is of the belief that the issue of merger may yet resurface under a future Provost.  I would recall to my readers the cry of the abolitionist Mr. Wendell Phillips: 'Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom'. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For the present I gladly resign the tasks of policy, strategy and advocacy to those endowed with life: but I may assure you that should the call come again, I am ever ready to answer it, in the name of </B><B>PROMOTING THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Yours ever</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Jeremy Bentham</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>PS I append for your interest the comments of my secretary, which I commend, as recorded in a respectable journal:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Merger of colleges scuppered</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Donald Macleod</B></div> <div> <B>Tuesday November 18, 2002</B></div> <div> <B><U>The Guardian</U></B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> David Conway, a postgraduate student in the department of Hebrew and</div> <div> Jewish studies, who ran a Save UCL website attacking the merger and harrying</div> <div> the two vice-chancellors, expressed delight at the news. "There is no doubt</div> <div> Sir Derek Roberts exceeded his remit in staking everything on this merger.</div> <div> There was no plan B. In the end he has damaged the university. He launched</div> <div> everybody down this one-way street with no preparation. He has paid the</div> <div> penalty of hubris." But he did agree with Sir Derek on one thing - the</div> <div> potential of his successor. "Given UCL's reputation for excellence and</div> <div> breadth of coverage of science and humanities, it will be able to attract an</div> <div> excellent candidate. A world beater in Sir Derek's favourite phrase."</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>