{"id":42025,"date":"2022-02-27T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/27\/the-student-the-penguin-and-the-king-elite-thai-university-roiled-by-dissent"},"modified":"2022-02-27T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T08:30:08","slug":"the-student-the-penguin-and-the-king-elite-thai-university-roiled-by-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42025","title":{"rendered":"The student, the Penguin and the king: elite Thai university roiled by dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of student union forced out as debate on monarchy intensifies<\/p>\n<p>Just a few years ago, student activism and protests were a rarity at Chulalongkorn University \u2013 considered Thailand\u2019s most elite and staunchly conservative campus. Yet Thailand\u2019s oldest university, named after King Chulalongkorn, has since become yet another battleground for debate over the role of Thailand\u2019s monarchy and political system.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the head of the student union, Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, said he had been removed from his post by the university, which accused him of activities that damaged its reputation, undermined public order and were incompatible with Thai culture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/27\/the-student-the-penguin-and-the-king-elite-thai-university-roiled-by-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of student union forced out as debate on monarchy intensifiesJust a few years ago, student activism and protests were a rarity at Chulalongkorn University \u2013 considered Thailand\u2019s most elite and staunchly conservative campus. Yet Thailand\u2019s oldest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[559,41,457,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-freedom-of-speech","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42026,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42025\/revisions\/42026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}