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Johannes Chan needs to expose the dark political forces at work.

Public Eye calls on Professor Johannes Chan Man-mun to name and shame. The former University of Hong Kong law dean claims a member of the HKU governing council sent a middleman to request he quit right after the council appoints him as pro-vice-chancellor. That is a bizarre request indeed. What's more, he says it is not the first time he has faced such political pressure. If someone has really asked him to do something so outlandish as to accept and immediately abandon a top university job - and we are not saying it didn't happen - Chan needs to expose this madman. He has repeatedly claimed dark political forces are behind the stalling of his promotion. His allies have fingered Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying as the behind-the-scenes manipulator intent on blocking it because Chan is chummy with Occupy Central co-instigator Benny Tai Yiu-ting. If that is the case, Public Eye sees no moral reason why Chan should protect the identity of the emissary sent to do Leung's dirty work. No code of ethics or honour is breached for exposing a middleman who pressures a scholar to quit a top job for political reasons. Besides, if back-door meddling of university affairs is really happening, the public has a right to know. Chan has dismissed speculation the middleman was sent by Professor Arthur Li Kwok-cheung of the Executive Council and the HKU council. If he is willing to say who did not do it, then he has a duty to say who did. Otherwise, he has cast suspicion on all the remaining 21 HKU council members. How is that fair? If he does not name names, no one can be blamed for taking his words with a pinch of salt.

What does it feel like to be bumped by a young woman's breasts? Public Eye has thought long and hard about this since last week, after a magistrate jailed Ng Lai-ying, 30, for heaving her breasts into a police inspector at a Yuen Long protest against parallel-goods traders in March. We are sure some men have been fantasising about being breast-bumped. Trouble is, this has been ruled an offence punishable by jail. That would undoubtedly deter women from using their breasts as weapons. There is a case to be made for making breast-bumping an offence. It is molestation if men bump deliberately into female breasts. So it's only fair it applies the other way round too.

What is the rule on loud music while riding the MTR? Public Eye had the misfortune of being in the same East Rail Line carriage with a chap last week who was obviously very much into his music. He had it blasting from his phone without earphones all the way from Kowloon Tong to Lo Wu. People stared but he was lost to the world, with eyes shut and head swaying to the beat of that awful racket. We thought of asking him to spare us the agony, but what if he retorted the racket from the train's televisions was equally loud?

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