{"id":402,"date":"2008-11-28T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidersed.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/28\/king-toope\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T01:29:00","slug":"king-toope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2008\/11\/28\/king-toope\/","title":{"rendered":"King Toope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_TQSQvVfFwOg\/STCxJDee2TI\/AAAAAAAAAV4\/VXymJdyJuMM\/s1600\/King+Toope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_TQSQvVfFwOg\/STCxJDee2TI\/AAAAAAAAAV4\/VXymJdyJuMM\/s320\/King+Toope.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanmag.com\/\">Vancouver Magazine<\/a> has produced what it calls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanmag.com\/News_and_Features\/The_Vanmag_Power_List\">The Vanmag Power List 2008<\/a>. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any real criteria, but I&#8217;m supposing the list is meant to designate the top 50 most powerful individuals in Vancouver. Coming in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanmag.com\/News_and_Features\/The_Vanmag_Power_List?page=0%2C3\">#40<\/a> is none other than our President and Vice-Chancellor, Stephen Toope. I found his description to be quite interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>UBC, 100 this year, is the belle of today\u2019s development ball. Market-housing construction yields ceaseless infusions into its dowry (funding all that research that\u2019s meant to be the point of the exercise). The 7,000 housing units coming onstream will boost the population of the Point Grey isthmus to almost 20,000 in the next decade\u2014an enticing tax base as the university contemplates joining the city of Vancouver. Builders aren\u2019t the only suitors courting King Toope; this summer, a loose-screw student and some B-list thieves showed that campus security needs some tightening, presumably a priority with Thunderbird Stadium hosting its share of Olympics hoopla.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Position last year <\/strong>New<strong><br \/>Last book read? <\/strong><em>Midnight\u2019s Children<\/em> by Salman Rushdie<br \/><strong>2008 low point? <\/strong>A UBC budget cut<br \/><strong>Worst mistake? <\/strong>Eating 16 cinnamon rolls at one sitting<br \/><strong>Six words for your tombstone? <\/strong> \u201cHe did his best.\u201d (I know that\u2019s only four!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver Magazine has produced what it calls The Vanmag Power List 2008. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any real criteria, but I&#8217;m supposing the list is meant to designate the top 50 most powerful individuals in Vancouver. Coming in at #40 is none other than our President and Vice-Chancellor, Stephen Toope. I found his description [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}