
Students at Glasgow University have launched a campaign to get Edward Snowden elected as rector. The whistleblower, whose revelations about mass surveillance by US and UK intelligence agencies have caused worldwide controversy, is one of four official candidates for the three-year post, currently held by the former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/21/edward-snowden-glasgow-university-rector-vote