{"id":10478,"date":"2015-10-02T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2015-10-02T17:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T01:52:47","slug":"ubc-v-gupta-checkmate-and-game-ubcnews-ubc100-ubyssey-bced-highered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/10\/ubc-v-gupta-checkmate-and-game-ubcnews-ubc100-ubyssey-bced-highered\/","title":{"rendered":"#UBC v Gupta, checkmate and game #ubcnews #ubc100 #ubyssey #bced #highered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there it is University of British Columbia. Game over.\u00a0The advantage was President Arvind Gupta&#8217;s, who now checkmates\u00a0you\u00a0in just 3 moves.<\/p>\n<p>First move: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ubc.ca\/2015\/08\/07\/ubc-announces-leadership-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\">resigns<\/a>. Second move:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/08\/ubc-says-now-is-the-time-to-speculate-ubcnews-highered-bced-caut\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ties UBC up in its\u00a0knots<\/a> of non-disclosure. Third move: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoronto.ca\/u-t-welcomes-arvind-gupta-distinguished-visiting-professor\" target=\"_blank\">walks out the door to U of T<\/a>, which is #1 while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancitybuzz.com\/2015\/08\/ubc-world-university-rankings-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">UBC battles for its comeback to #2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Checkmate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoronto.ca\/u-t-welcomes-arvind-gupta-distinguished-visiting-professor\" target=\"_blank\">Arvind then sends this message<\/a> back to UBC, which is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/ubc-to-investigate-prof-jennifer-berdahl-s-claim-she-felt-gagged-1.3193945\" target=\"_blank\"> still staring at the chessboard<\/a>, stunned: At U of T &#8220;there&#8217;ll be lots of opportunities to build new kinds of links.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lots of opportunities, new kinds of links, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there it is University of British Columbia. Game over.\u00a0The advantage was President Arvind Gupta&#8217;s, who now checkmates\u00a0you\u00a0in just 3 moves. First move: resigns. Second move: ties UBC up in its\u00a0knots of non-disclosure. Third move: walks out the door to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2015\/10\/ubc-v-gupta-checkmate-and-game-ubcnews-ubc100-ubyssey-bced-highered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2249,287,1223,2275],"tags":[1288925,1288923,1288922,1288936,1288963,2674],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-accountability","category-administration","category-governance","category-unions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-administration","tag-faculty","tag-governance","tag-unions","tag-university-presidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}