Reported today on the Glasgow University website: "Greg Hemphill is new Rector TV comedian Greg Hemphill has been elected the 118th Rector of the University of Glasgow in a four-sided contest in which 2,204 students voted. The vote was as follows: Candidate:1st count: 2nd count: result KAREN DUNBAR: 135 : - : - ALASDAIR GRAY : 805 : 837 : 1026 GREG HEMPHILL : 938 : 1008 : 1127 STUART MURDOCH :323 : 347 : - Voting was by the Single Transferable Vote conducted by successive rounds of counting. After each count the candidate with the lowest vote drops out and their votes are distributed by second and subsequent preferences until one candidate is the overall winner. Some voters do not express the full number of preferences. There were 3 spoilt papers. All twenty thousand matriculated students were entitled to vote. The turnout was 11% The new Rector will be installed at a ceremony in the Spring at a date to be arranged by the SRC. He holds office with immediate effect for 3 years." Greg-effin-Hemphill, talk about lowest common denominator politics. Poor Alasdair. That's ruined my day. *Wistfully* Greg-effin-Hemphill? It's a sad, sad day for student politics. "But the Rector is not a political position!" Aye, ah know. But Greg Hemphill, ah mean c'moan. Anyways, the rector may not be political but he is politicised, but that's another debate... Disillusioned, David. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+