{"id":1542,"date":"1988-03-10T16:22:00","date_gmt":"1988-03-10T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2017-11-23T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:34:39","slug":"march-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/1988\/03\/10\/march-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: March 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spring has sprung in Edinburgh, with an exciting election for rector taking place, some great musical acts and much more! Read all about it below&#8230;.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/21074\/03_03_1988_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">3 March, 1988:\u00a0 Medical Marches\u00a0and Rector Races<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The University is reported on the eve of the election of\u00a0a new rector to the University, with the candidates being the &#8220;flamboyant&#8221; Richard Demarco, the\u00a0&#8220;youthful&#8221; Christopher Lipscomb, the &#8220;political&#8221; Albertina Sisulu, and the &#8220;direct and humorous&#8221; Muriel Gray.<\/p>\n<p><em>Student<\/em> reports on a march of thousands of medical students from around Scotland across Edinburgh, to protest the cutting of NHS provisions for both patients and doctors, as proposed by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/21074\/03_03_1988_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Read the full issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/21074\/03_03_1988_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">10 March 1988: A New Rector a Great Performance <\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Muriel Gray, famous English journalist, wins the election for new University Rector by a landslide, with a more than 1,00 vote margin between herself and the next candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The Proclaimers return to Scotland to preform in Edinburgh as the finale to their U.K. tour, putting on a great show at Usher Hall, according to <em>Student<\/em> critics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full issue here<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung in Edinburgh, with an exciting election for rector taking place, some great musical acts and much more! Read all about it here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[26,22,19],"tags":[89,84,88,85,86,87],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/files\/2017\/04\/30_03_1988_featurdd-phtoo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52Px1-oS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}