{"id":505,"date":"2012-07-06T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=505"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:23:45","slug":"thes-university-vice-chancellors-grabbing-olympic-torch-places-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/thes-university-vice-chancellors-grabbing-olympic-torch-places-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"THES: Vice chancellors grabbing university Olympic torch places {updated}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Times Higher Education<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=420470&amp;c=1\">reports<\/a> on senior university managers &#8220;getting in on the act&#8221; of carrying the Olympic torch, after Samsung allocated 3 places each to 31 universities.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The places were meant for people who\u00a0&#8220;reflect the core value of the Olympic movement and the rich heritage of each institution&#8221; and were\u00a0co-judged by universities and the sponsor. But those chosen include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Neil Gorman<\/strong>, vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University<\/li>\n<li>Manchester Metropolitan University&#8217;s vice-chancellor, <strong>John Brooks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Smith<\/strong>, deputy vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Day<\/strong>, pro vice-chancellor for the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian Campbell<\/strong>, Brunel University&#8217;s pro vice-chancellor for student experience and staff development (UPDATE: see comments and <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/how-universities-allocated-their-3-olympic-torchbearer-places-from-samsung\/\">this follow up<\/a> for more on his story)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reporter <strong>Paul Jump<\/strong> notes that\u00a0John Brooks does not have a nomination story on the official website, but that &#8220;Samsung&#8217;s website says he intended to &#8220;endorse&#8221; his institution&#8217;s support for the Olympics at one of its pre-Games training camps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the University of the Arts London have <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.arts.ac.uk\/ual2012\/2012\/05\/04\/ual-torchbearers-interviews\/\">given their six torchbearer places to students nominated by staff for dedication and participation<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/olympics\/torchbearers\/index.html\">Cardiff University&#8217;s three torchbearers<\/a> are made up of two students and their head of sport.<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Trent University and Leeds Met have been equally keen to publicise the two students chosen to carry the torch &#8211; but not their respective vice-chancellors or deputy vice-chancellors &#8211; in these videos on their official YouTube accounts:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='584' height='359' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AxCslRouFB4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='584' height='359' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CggvbwEVaX0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/how-universities-allocated-their-3-olympic-torchbearer-places-from-samsung\/\">More on the process of how universities allocated torchbearers here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Higher Education reports on senior university managers &#8220;getting in on the act&#8221; of carrying the Olympic torch, after Samsung allocated 3 places each to 31 universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[254,298,252,253,250,256,257,249,255,258,260,251,259,296,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}