ဂလက္စဂို တကၠသိုလ္၏ ပါေမာကၡခ်ဳပ္ အျဖစ္ စႏိုဒန္အား ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္႔အပ္

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၏ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး အစီအစဥ္ မ်ားႏွင့္ အင္တာနက္ ဆက္သြယ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္ မ်ားကို လူသိရွင္ၾကား ထုတ္ေဖာ္ခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္ အမ်ဳိးသား လံုၿခံဳေရး ေအဂ်င္စီမွ အမႈထမ္းေဟာင္း တစ္ဦးျဖစ္သူ အက္ဒ္ဝပ္ စႏိုဒန္အား စေကာ့တလန္ ႏိုင္ငံ ဂလက္စဂို တကၠသုိလ္၏ ပါေမာကၡခ်ဳပ္ အျဖစ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၁၈ ရက္က ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္႔အပ္ ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အင္တာနက္ သတင္းတစ္ရပ္ အရ သိရသည္။

စႏိုဒန္အား ပါေမာကၡခ်ဳပ္ အျဖစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ရန္ ၎တကၠသိုလ္ရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အဖြဲ႕က ေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ၿပီး စႏိုဒန္၏ သေဘာ တူညီမႈကို ၎၏ ေရွ႕ေနမွ တစ္ဆင့္ လက္ခံ ရရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ဂလက္စဂို တကၠသိုလ္တြင္ ပါေမာကၡခ်ဳပ္ အျဖစ္ စႏုိဒန္အား ေရြးခ်ယ္ခန္႔အပ္ ခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ အလြန္ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ေၾကာင္း တကၠသိုလ္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အဖြဲ႕မွ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

စႏိုဒန္အား ပါေမာကၡခ်ဳပ္ အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ ခန္႔အပ္မႈ အစီအစဥ္တြင္ တကၠသိုလ္ ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ား၏ တင္ျပမႈ အစီအစဥ္မ်ား ပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း၊ ၎ျပင္ စႏိုဒန္သည္ အစိုးရ အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းမ်ား၊ အျခား အာဏာပိုင္ အဖြဲ႕မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ား တက္ေရာက္ရန္ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္း ထားေၾကာင္း ၎အဖြဲ႕က ဆက္လက္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

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Edward Snowden 'humbled' by his election as Glasgow University rector

In statement to the Guardian, NSA whistleblower describes vote as bold and historic decision in support of academic freedom

• Ewen MacAskill
• The Guardian, Tuesday 18 February 2014 15.25 EST

Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. Photograph: Guardian

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
In a statement to the Guardian, Snowden described it as bold and historic decision in support of academic freedom. "In a world where so many of our developing thoughts and queries and plans must be entrusted to the open internet, mass surveillance is not simply a matter of privacy, but of academic freedom and human liberty," Snowden said.
The vote is purely symbolic as Snowden is unlikely to be in a position to become a working rector, able to represent students at meetings of the university's administrators. He is wanted by the US for leaking tens of thousands of documents to journalists and has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.
The result of the online election was announced to candidates and their supporters shortly after polls closed at 5pm on Tuesday.
Snowden was nominated by a group of students at the university who said they had received his approval through his lawyer. He defeated the former champion cyclist Graeme Obree, the author Alan Bissett and the Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, who also stood for the post.
Chris Cassells, Snowden's spokesman for the rectorial election campaign, said: "We are delighted to see Edward Snowden elected as the new rector of the University of Glasgow. We have a proud and virtuous tradition of making significant statements through our rectors and today we have once more championed this idea by proving to the world that we are not apathetic to important issues such as democratic rights.
"We would like to thank all other candidates as well as the students who nominated them for promoting an exciting and relevant debating atmosphere over the last few weeks."
The rector not only represents the students but is chairman of the university court, the body that administers the resources of the university.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-glasgow-university-rector