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Angered staff at the University of Winchester now have to look at an almost £24,000 statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as they walk into the building after enduring years of budgetary cutbacks.
The bronze monument, which set the school back £23,760 ($32,700), is a tribute to Thunberg who became an international figure after cutting class to protest what she believes is inaction on the part of the global community to combat climate change. The staff at the university slammed the statue as a “vanity project.”
The Winchester branch of the University and College Union (UCU) said that although it “supports the role that Thunberg has played globally… This money should have been better used by preventing redundancies and other cuts at the university” after years of austerity.
“The university’s distinctive approach to commissioning pieces of art is to do so in unminuted meetings and/or avoid any committee scrutiny,” the union added facetiously.
“Not the ideal approach when spending university money.”
The university leadership, for its part, defended its expensive statue. “The university’s approach to art is to commission or purchase unusual and striking pieces which embody our distinctiveness and values,” pronounced Vice-Chancellor Joy Carter, insisting that “Greta is a young woman who, in spite of difficulties in her life, has become a world-leading environmental activist” and, “As the university for sustainability and social justice, we are proud to honour this inspirational woman in this way.”
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Angered staff at the University of Winchester now have to look at an almost £24,000 statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as they walk into the building after enduring years of budgetary cutbacks.
The bronze monument, which set the school back £23,760 ($32,700), is a tribute to Thunberg who became an international figure after cutting class to protest what she believes is inaction on the part of the global community to combat climate change. The staff at the university slammed the statue as a “vanity project.”
The Winchester branch of the University and College Union (UCU) said that although it “supports the role that Thunberg has played globally… This money should have been better used by preventing redundancies and other cuts at the university” after years of austerity.
“The university’s distinctive approach to commissioning pieces of art is to do so in unminuted meetings and/or avoid any committee scrutiny,” the union added facetiously.
“Not the ideal approach when spending university money.”
The university leadership, for its part, defended its expensive statue. “The university’s approach to art is to commission or purchase unusual and striking pieces which embody our distinctiveness and values,” pronounced Vice-Chancellor Joy Carter, insisting that “Greta is a young woman who, in spite of difficulties in her life, has become a world-leading environmental activist” and, “As the university for sustainability and social justice, we are proud to honour this inspirational woman in this way.”
With so many statues being torn down across Europe and America by Black Lives Matter groups, will Greta’s monument be the next target?