Election of Gordon Brown as Rector, 1972 - Revision history

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 == Archives ==
-*[http://www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/gbrown/ Gordon Brown as Rector]
+University Secretary's files:
 == Sources ==

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−	[[File:0025031c.jpg \|border \| 300 px \| right \| thumb \| Front Page of ''The Student'' during Brown's Rectorial campaign~~, [[Library\|Edinburgh University Library]] (Da 69.2)~~]]In 1972, [[James Gordon Brown (1951- )\|Gordon Brown]], postgraduate student and future Prime Minister, was elected [[Rector]] of Edinburgh University.	+	[[File:0025031c.jpg \|border \| 300 px \| right \| thumb \| Front Page of ''The Student'' during Brown's Rectorial campaign]]In 1972, [[James Gordon Brown (1951- )\|Gordon Brown]], postgraduate student and future Prime Minister, was elected [[Rector]] of Edinburgh University.

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−	[[File:0025031c.jpg \|border \| 300 px \| right \| thumb \| Front Page of ''The Student'' during Brown's Rectorial campaign. In 1972, [[James Gordon Brown (1951- )\|Gordon Brown]]], postgraduate student and future Prime Minister, was elected [[Rector]] of Edinburgh University.	+	[[File:0025031c.jpg \|border \| 300 px \| right \| thumb \| Front Page of ''The Student'' during Brown's Rectorial campaign, [[Library\|Edinburgh University Library]] (Da 69.2)]]In 1972, [[James Gordon Brown (1951- )\|Gordon Brown]], postgraduate student and future Prime Minister, was elected [[Rector]] of Edinburgh University.

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 == Student Militancy ==
-The late 1960s and early 1970s were a period of intense student militancy at Edinburgh University, centring on two causes: the demand that the university cut all financial ties with the Apartheid regime of South Africa and a call for greater student participation in university governance. These issues first came to prominence during the Rectorship of [[Kenneth Allsop (1920-1973)|Kenneth Allsop]] (1968-1971) who was broadly supportive of student aspirations. Students demonstrated against the touring South African rugby team at Murrayfield Stadium in 1970, persuaded the University to sell its shares in South African companies, and urged it to cease investing in companies that did business in South Africa. At the same time, the Student Rector Campaign gained momentum, arguing that the only way for students to gain a voice on the [[University Court]] was to elect one of its own number as Rector. The Campaign triumphed with the election of student [[Jonathan Wills (1947- )|Jonathan Wills]] in 1971.
+The late 1960s and early 1970s were a period of intense student militancy at Edinburgh University, centring on two causes: the demand that the university cut all financial ties with the Apartheid regime of South Africa and a call for greater student participation in university governance. These issues first came to prominence during the Rectorship of [[Kenneth Allsop (1920-1973)|Kenneth Allsop]] (1968-1971) who was broadly supportive of student aspirations. Students demonstrated against the touring South African rugby team at Murrayfield Stadium in 1970, persuaded the University to sell its shares in South African companies, and urged it to cease investing in companies that did business in South Africa. At the same time, the Student Rector Campaign gained momentum, arguing that the only way for students to gain a voice on the [[University Court]] was to elect one of its own number as Rector. The Campaign triumphed with the election of student [[Jonathan W. G. Wills (1947- )|Jonathan Wills]] in 1971.
 == Jonathan Wills ==

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 Brown was the last of the student rectors. The 1975 election brought a return to celebrity rectors, with the choice of television personality and journalist [[Magnus Magnusson (1929-2007)]]. During Magnusson's tenure, an agreement was reached between the Students' Representative Council and the University Court. The Court agreed to keeping the Rector as its Chair, and, in return, the SRC agreed to ban students from standing for the post. Two other major changes were made:
 *The vote in rectorial elections was extended to all of the university's staff, academic and non-academic.
-*Two students, the President of the SRC and the President of [Edinburgh University Union] (later the Vice-President of the SRC) were to be allowed seats on the Court, and a third would attend without voting rights.
+*Two students, the President of the SRC and the President of [[Edinburgh University Union]] (later the Vice-President of the SRC) were to be allowed seats on the Court, and a third would attend without voting rights.
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