Long story short.

Our college shut our campus library last year because of 'funding cuts' (principal on 125k). Removed all textbooks, computers and sacked the pretty librarian.

Last week they got a call from OFSTED to say they were inspecting ricky-fuckin-tick.

Today the ***** are back, shelving books and installing PCs and Windows and shit and making out like the library never left, purely for the 2 weeks OFSTED are in.

There is no fucking way this is happening. As the old man of the class I'm going toe-to-toe with management, intent on putting the shits on as many upstairs people as possible.

I've got a meeting with a print journalist tomorrow. Advice welcome.

Shit on them, from a great height.

FIGHT THE POWER!

Can be effective but you will need to give the press scum an angle that suits them - no offence but shutting a student library might not ring their bell. However if that library was being used to rehouse immigrants or the college were reopening it as a nike sweatshop staffed by aids orphans you might get somewhere.

The journo's gonna want documentable facts about it so if you want advice I'd say can you dig up any old emails from the college explaining the decision, or anything else of that nature, to pass on to him/her. Also can you approach any members of staff to see if they'd be willing to confirm details to support the story. Any chance you can find contact details for the pretty librarian and ask her out, I mean, ask her what management told her when they shut down the library.

go and do a sit down protest or handcuff yourselves to the librarian...thats the student way !! ;) failing that chuck a few eggs !

I've checked the manual and this isn't classed as grassing. Go for it JotS.

I pay £300 a month out of a redundancy pot. Three hundred pound.

Most of my classmates are flat-broke, on the dole and hoping to fuck their honest studies might come to something. Half the class can't muster the fucking bus fare. Meanwhile, some distant shit head rakes in the dough and collects a chufty **** bonus because the latest secondary school effluence wanted to shag the bird in the prospectus.

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We are chock full of documented facts mate.

I would try and get a meeting with the principal before you meet the journo and record your conversation. Stitch the self-serving fucker right up. Get him admitting all-sorts.

Your colleagues may back you, but will probably back out when push comes to shove as they will be more worried about their mortgages than their ethics.

Whatever you tell the journalist will be reworded but still put in quotes even though you didn't say it.