A chain of squatters begins to form around the emblems. university buildings center of Athens. Athens Law School will reopen to life next Monday as the University of Athens has decided to close the iconic Theoretical Science Building on Solonos Street to avoid student busyness due to Tempi accident protest rallies and multiple responsibilities. His Propylaea are under occupation Athens University and its premises Polytechnic on Patision Street, and the student unions decided to take these days in seven NTUA schools, at the Polytechnic University. As student groups press for a repeat of the gatherings, information indicates that student groups are pressuring school leaders to occupy the buildings. Pressure, which is also interpreted politically in the context of the protracted pre-election period that the country is going through.

Ahead of Thursday’s rally, school officials ordered the law school building to shut down its daily operations Wednesday through Friday for fear of occupation by minority groups. Of course, it was decided to conduct courses remotely. According to “K”, the decision was made by agreement-recommendation with the leadership of the rector of the university. In addition, from the beginning of the week at the entrance to the Propylaea, where the administration of the AUCP is located, the banner “occupy” dominates. School leaders who spoke to “K” yesterday they noted that the decision was made to prevent any damage and loss of “management” of the faculty from years of occupation. At the same time, teachers were pressured yesterday by e-mails by student groups not to conduct TV courses. “Don’t think about taking lessons,” said one.

At the same time, the premises of Architecture and ASKT in the NTUA complex on Patision Street are occupied, and classes are determined in all schools of the Polytechnic University in Zografo, except for civil engineering. The “façade” does not include the building of the University of Economics (formerly ASOEE) in Patision (it was closed only on Thursdays), and some add to the “arch” of classes the building of the Rex Theater on Panepistimi Street and the main building of the National Theater on St. Constantine.

Project Loss

In addition to the possibility of damage to the infrastructure, there is the fact of the loss of the object during the occupation. For example, a professor at the Athens School of Law, Ms. Maria Gavuneli spoke with “K” yesterday stated that “Conferences are being cancelled, events are being moved off campus. We are again confronted with the same stereotyped reactions, with the same ritual procedures, which, as it seemed to us, were left behind during the years of bankruptcy. It’s not just missed class hours, missed seminars, missed papers: it’s a damage to the reputation and name of a state university that puts endless hours of work to climb the ladder of international rankings, but explodes its seriousness and authority. in the name of some pseudo-revolutionary gymnastics.” And he stressed: “We are all shocked by the completely unacceptable, unjustified sacrifice of young people on the altar of a broken system that goes on as usual. But I’m wondering if, after all, the spasm of suffering is nothing more than a consciousness of our own guilt for knowing and tolerating so many of these broken systems around us. All we know is that instead of moving forward, eradicating the culture of toadiness and never getting bored, we continue the same dead-end attachment to the rituals and slogans of the past.