Expo area, the streets of culture and science lead to Rho – The Daily

There are special places, live in the memory collective but also present in one’s personal life. Places that transport us back, and call reminders ; and at the same time, draw us forward, and are called dreams. I will never forget a summer afternoon, neither too cold nor too hot to San Francisco when Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States . A river of young people had invaded the University Avenue , a large uphill driveway leading to the entrance of the Berkeley . We sang and danced all, July 30, 1974.

Many people associate innovation to the Silicon Valley , which is not too far from the Berkeley campus. Most of the innovations, not only science and technology, but also a lot of progress of the humanities, social and political , however, are born and brought along another road. Are miles of magic Massachusetts Avenue , where a meeting of the Charles river bank Boston University (founded in 1869) and on the opposite bank of the MIT (1861) and, a little further west, the ‘ Harvard University (1636). No one has yet come in the mind of delocalizzarle in some wasteland device of the future.

I started my academic career at Arcavata , where was born l ‘ University of Calabria . A stupendous scientific and cultural project before planning. There men like Beniamino Andreatta built courageous policies with an eye to the future and not to give too much weight to the contingent interests. And I am finishing a Milan , where there is another way, less known than Massachusetts Avenue or Nassau Street in Princeton, where over the years have established themselves cultural and scientific initiatives nontrivial. You via Teodosio , where a curious passer meets the Polytechnic of Milan (1863) and several institutes and laboratories of the Cnr (1923), the ‘ Carlo Besta Neurological Institute (1918) and the ‘ University of Milan (1923) and the’ National Cancer Institute (1925).

This happens not in Boston, it happens to Milan . In deference to the wise urban city politics, the way Theodosius survive only the Polytechnic and perhaps some shred of Cnr , because in Milan on future it is no longer what it once was. Everything else explodes into fragments spread across those territories where the private – so beautiful in public proclamations – does not hold up the scene without the triumphal entry of Pantalone. A few days ago the University of Milan has decided to transfer its campus in the Expo. This was decided by the Academic Senate , maximum democratic organ of self-government of the university, almost all ‘ consensus . And we have not even heard a breath of some teacher slightly dissent with respect to this decision. From media reports, the cultural project seems a bit ‘ “vague”. Not to mention the material needs behind this decision. Few stories, the University of Milan sitteth at Rho , where he chose a hilarious location on which it will be worth coming back, going from 250 thousand to 150 thousand square meters, since the future is more and more immaterial .

I doubt that any of the decision makers will never work in Rho, since for many years the ‘ retirement age of teachers is falling, while those rooms miners; and we leave to the young people younger this honor. A Genova There is a saying very vulgar and politically incorrect to comment on this kind of decision, but I blush to think only in so much as it already forgotten. I would simply like to think that my generating has been able to destroy several especially good things of the past, so much memories as dreams, without building the future. As one baby boomers my age, Oscar Farinetti : “My generation destroyed the ‘ Italy . Advice to young people not to listen to the tips “. In Milan, not far from Studies City , passes the river Lambro , a waterway hysterical and smelly. Not the river Charles .