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On April 6, 2009 we have unfortunately become all earthquake victims, even University.
the locations of the many were unusable 9 Faculty: Arts and Humanities (Old Town), Economics (Roio), Engineering (Roio), part of Education and Sports Science (Old Town). The other reported damage repairable: Medicine and Surgery (Mature), Science mm. ff. nn. (Mature), Biotechnology (COPPA). The registered office of the Rector and, shredded (Old Town). 55 students victims of the earthquake, many employees have had losses, all employees displaced.
At 6 months after the earthquake, October 19, 2009, reopens the academic year for all faculties, in L'Aquila.
All this has not been painless. In thanking those who worked ec'ha still believed, I look back a few milestones.
all remember that in May, some degree moved to validate the semester and teaching was delivered with great difficulty, out from Aquila. There began the first obvious political pressures that pushed the University fully or partially transferred.
The Senate unanimously approved to stay in the city, beginning to focus on the possibility of having large temporary venues and appropriate. They talked long and required a part of the School of the Guardia di Finanza: The request was rejected. Yes fought to have the ex-Reiss-Romoli School and after a long negotiation to be obtained. But it was not enough. So a special committee decided that it was necessary to rent a property and there being no public available, you go through various options private. The cheapest were neither more nor less than empty warehouses, to be equipped with completely unrealistic cost and time. The people who took it upon themselves to do this, we were many, mostly belonging to the Academic Senate. After a long wandering, they met the ex-Optimes, certainly big enough to house the School still without a seat (Engineering and Sciences) and in good condition compared to structures. Then also began the labor of the Faculty of Arts which promised heaven and earth, but nothing concrete came. Everyone will remember the sit-in launched June 11 by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities who denounced the "teasing" about the arrangement of its faculty. They were very hard days, in which the University under various pressures, she found herself alone to look for locations and subject to the claims, very expensive, the owners of the buildings. Being a public institution the University requested the opinion of the territory, at that time burdened by various problems due to the expropriation of land for the CASE project, then entered into the contract and sent to the Agency's request for an opinion.
After a year and a half comes to the opinion: the price charged by the owner and paid by the University is exaggerated and we'll see how it will with Bazzano. The University is obliged to terminate the lease.
I wish the Land Agency would also look at the rents they pay the Aquila and students for their homes. I would like this "bubble" exploded and understood the responsibilities of such a widespread unlikely situation in which, cornered by a lack of accommodation and facilities, all we had to adapt, by necessity.
I would also like to know what the words mean "L'Aquila University on its tip," or "The University, the engine of the city," said right from administrators who did not aid or the permanence of the University in the city. Do not waste that hour not a word, not only to solve the absurd situation that has arisen, but not to point the finger at those who, for 22 months, feel free to ask exorbitant prices.
A pact on territory that does not exist or there may be bypassed.
And this also is L'Aquila.
and I am Aquilana defend our University.