Letter For Athens: School's Out

In the United States, college football is deep into its season, with the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays fast approaching. Students are busy studying, preparing for their lives and careers. Professors are preparing classes, giving lectures, setting up exams and holding students to the highest ideals of education that was once the province of Greek thought. But not in Greece. The college year, which begins late anyway, hasn't begun at all at eight universities because the administrative staff has been on strike for more than two months. They're not protesting a lack of resources, or equipment or the tools to do their jobs, but the impending transfer or firing of 1,300 staff under a government scheme being imposed on the orders of international lenders who rightly discovered there's hundreds of thousands of needless workers on the public payroll.

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