Sinister: Bad, but inevitable, news from Glasgow...

[David Howie]

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.



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