The New Dark Ages

The budgetary axe is falling on Sanskrit at Berlin and Cambridge, on Greek and Latin at Lund.

Lund's web site says:

Welcome to Lund University where a European cultural tradition going back hundreds of years lives side by side with dynamic developments in education and research for the benefit of society, today and tomorrow.

This should read:

Welcome to Lund University where a European cultural tradition going back hundreds of years is being jettisoned in favor of trendy developments in education and research to the detriment of society, today and tomorrow.