{"id":7313,"date":"2011-03-18T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2011-03-18T23:29:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:29:51","slug":"flying-doctor-tan-sri-dr-m-jegathesan-is-new-usm-pro-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2011\/03\/18\/flying-doctor-tan-sri-dr-m-jegathesan-is-new-usm-pro-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Doctor Tan Sri Dr M. Jegathesan is new USM pro chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Dr Jegathesan for this appointment. I think its a first time a Malaysian of Indian descent been appointed to this position. Maybe because we have more IPTAs nowadays compared to 10 years ago. Won&#8217;t look nice if all are from one community \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0BTW, USM has two pr0 chancellors. The other one is Tan Sri Razali Ismail. Can check their website under top management. I hope its not some sort of quota thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Olympic Council of Malaysia deputy president and Asia\u2019s fastest man in the 1960s, Tan Sri Dr M. Jegathesan, will be proclaimed pro-chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) at the university\u2019s 43rd convocation tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He replaces strategic and financial consultant Tan Sri Dr Lin See Yan, a former deputy governor of Bank Negara Malaysia and former chairman\/president and CEO of the Pacific Bank Group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/ex-sprint-ace-m.-jegathesan-to-be-made-usm-pro-chancellor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/ex-sprint-ace-m.-jegathesan-to-be-made-usm-pro-chancellor<\/strong>\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Dr Jegathesan for this appointment. I think its a first time a Malaysian of Indian descent been appointed to this position. Maybe because we have more IPTAs nowadays compared to 10 years ago. Won&#8217;t look nice if all are from one community \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0BTW, USM has two pr0 chancellors. The other one is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,90],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-role-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}