Comment 015 May 1986

King's College London (KQC) newsletter

The Principal's table at the first College May Ball, held on May 3 this year at the Savoy Hotel. For a further picltlre and report, please see inside.

THE UGC LETTERS The first of the long-awaited communications from the GC has been received and copies have been widely circulated. Copies should be available for reference in all the main Site Libraries and can be additionally consulted in the Information Office.

The second letter indicating the 'selectivity a pect' of the funding in terms of re earch activity is due to be i sued on May _7.

ALL UNIVERSITIES WILL BE WORSE

, niversity l:ut havc already real:hed 10% in real term and could reach 30% by 1990'. niver itie accLfJl the competitive element introduced by the GC' seledivity exerci e but trying to combinc it with cuts i damaging univer itie finandaily and academically. 'Sele<.:tivity become the sharing out of mi cry' Mr Maurice hock aid.

TOO L1TILE, TOO LATE The Chairman of the Univer ity Grant Committee, Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, told the head of all Britain' universilie that Government plans for extra cash for universitie , leaked la t week, would be too little, too late.

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At a meeting in the Senat House on May 23, Sir Peter said:

Speaking in re ponse to the first letter, Mr Maurice Shock, hairman of the Committee of Vice-ehancellors and Principals, said , 0 univer ity i going to be better off next year'.

The UGC does not believe that the univerity system can be pre erved al its present ize and excellence on the amount of money which the Government has said it will make available. The Government must

cither provide more money or decide whic institution are to be truck out from thc grantli l. Tho e are nOl the only option.

The G will a k universilies lo tell the Committee in the nexl two week f their expccted defil:it for 19 5/ 6 and 19 6/ 7. Thi year' new method of aIJol:ation wa ba ed on an a e sment of re earch quality and teaching number. It ha 'moved the misery around a bil, but it ha not changed the total amount of misery. If there is not enough monoy to go round, there i no good way of distributing it'.

PRINCIPAL AWARDED HONORARY DEGREE Congratulations go to Professor Stewart Sutherland on the award of an honorary degree from the ollege of Wooster in Ohio. The Principal was awarded an Honorary L.H.D. at the College on May 12 thi year.

AN EXPEDITION TO CHILE WITH OPERATION I RALEIGH My purpo e in writing thi report i to explain to those who may be intere ted in Operation Raleigh and to tho e who ponored me omething of what I did in the 3 month I wa in hill' and what I got out of it.

The expedition con isted of around 70 venturer mostly from Britain but also from orth merica, Australia, ew Zealand, hile, Hong Kong, Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. The 70 venturers were split up into smaller groups of about 10-15 mem bers and set about tasks in different part of Chile. One group undertook a survey of a rare deer called Huemel in S. Chile, another built observation platforms for tourist in the beautiful glacier of San Raphael. Others built bridges for villages in i nes or log cabins in the Chilean national parks. I belonged to a group of 10 venturers known a the Puerto Montt Patrol. We were the northernmost group and completed two eparate project around Puerto Montt which is where the nag hip Sir Waiter Raleigh is anchored.

For the fir t month 7 venturers and a S navy survival in tructor, J im Bo eman, lived in a log cabin in the middle of the Chilean forest, cut off from civilisation and surviving only on the food ration we had carried out on our backs. The main work project was to hack through thick barn boo with machetes and clear a trail through the forest so that tourists and scientists can get through. The work was physically demanding but we soon began to pull together as a well-integrated team.

Each of us was 'boss' on different days and would organi e how he/she wanted the work to be done and the re t would contribute ideas. Like this we managed to clear a 4-5 km trail, build bridges over treams and we were taught local technique of bridge-building and how to make steps into hill ides by a Chilean park ranger.

Although the project was to make a trail, this wc found wa of le er importance than wa the knowledge wc acquired from simply working together and urviving in sometimes very ul1l:omfortable conditions.

For the fir t I Y2 weeks it rained continually making our work in the forest an extremely muddy and lippcry affair. It also meant that washing clothes was out of the que tion, they could not dry. I:: very thing wa wet, our clothes and the firewood, so a morale-boo ting fire was very difficult to light and even more difficult to keep going. These kind of hardships brought the group very clo e together. npleasant task like washing mess-tins in the ice-cold stream whilst being soaked by the rain were done without complaint because it [ " bd', do,,, in< "b ,,"up, ou'

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in th open meant th t we learned much about how to regard nature as a friend rather than as an inho pitable enemy. We found that ome wood would burn to make a hotter fire and other types would burn even when wet. We harvested bam boo shoot and the talk of a huge rhubarb-like plant known a nalca and boiled these up to supplement our diet of dehydrated rations. I n the evenings we would sit around the fire and talk, huddling up close together when it was cold. Sometimes we'd listen to survival instructor J im as he gave lessons on cold weather survival and medicine out in the bush. From our first project on Operation Raleigh we'd learnt much about how to lead a team, how to work effectively together and how to survive out in the open.

For the n xt month the Puerto Montt Patrol was based in sturio Reloncavi; this was in the fjordland about 30 km from Puerto Montt. Home for the next month wa to be two I 2x 12 tents and four 2-man tents on a stretch of grass near to the woood en dwelling of Chilean family. Again the rain plauged us for over a week - we were knee-deep in muo. Conditions were so bad that trenche were dug in ide the tents to allow the water to drain out. Cooking took place on a 'stove' made from dried mud and fern walls which upported a grating to balance pans on. Between the walls was the fire. Anum ber of projects were undertaken; one was to find a certain Lake Chilco and take specimens of the flora and fauna nearby. This information was requested by the Chilean Forestry Commission CONAF. Another small group of 4 did a urvey of sea-lions in the area, this information was al 0 handed over to CO AF.

A group of five clim bed the nearby Volcan Yate (7,000 Ft). Thi clim b was made particularly arduous because for most of the way up to the nowline we had to thrash den e bamboo which tore at our kin and clothe; temper soon began to be frayed.

At the ame time we had our ration tent and radio to carry on our back. The sun bore down on us the whole time and one of the group uffered from heat troke. We camped below the snowline before the final climb to the top the next morning. Unfortunately it was impo ible to get to the top of the volcano. There wa an overhang of snow at the top which looked as though it would avalanche at any moment. This factor plus the inexperience of the group and our lack of ice-axes and clim bing ropes made us decide that we would have to stop short. The summit was only 200ft above u and it seemed 0 clo e bu t that we was a far as we decided we could go. The views from the top were wonderful. White Andean snow-peaks stretched ou t as far as the eye could see. It was a cloudles day too so we ould see the whole of E turio Reloncavi below us.

Whilst in the fjord we had a lot of contact with the local Chileans. We took on the staff of a nearby school at football and were thrashed soundly, built a bridge for our Chilean neighbour and from thi contact we learned the rudimentaries of Spani h. One of the group went diving with the local men, this meant hard hats and dry suits with a hand-cranked air pump. Daily we would visit our neighbour with dough in our hands and he would let us use his oven to bake our bread. We were even treated to a S. Chilean speciality known as Curantos. This is prepared and eaten outdoors. A pit is dug and lined with rocks, then timber is thrown on top, then more rocks. The wood burns, heating the rocks and leaving ashes, then mussels and peeled potatoes are heaped onto the rock and covered with ferns. Potato bread is

layered on top of the fern, either on it own or wrapp d in the leave of the naica pi nt. More le ve are Laid on top and pa ked do n. Alter about an hour the deLiiou food 15 ready.

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When not out on a proJe t Life at the baseamp h to ontmue. Thi means th t 'Whoever wa left m amp had to olle t wood, fill Jetry- ans with water from the tream, whi h ne es hated a heav haul up a teep hillside, ook, colle t mus el to add to our oup and generally mamtam the camp area.

The la t month of the expedition aw the traumatic splitting up of the group. Five Journeyed to Quelet to build a bridge for the local ommunity and climb a nearby glacier. The other five, including my elf, travelled to Chile hico in the south. Chile Chico is an mteresting pot not lea t becau e it po es e a micro-climate which eau es it to be very dry, hot and windy a tark ontrast to the wet conditions prevailing in the south. The terrain in thi area was barren and rugged. The mountains which were covered with green trees, fern and bamboo in the north were qUIte bare with mall spiny plants growing on the slope. There were many different coloured rock in this region and in J einimeni ational Park we found cree funs of 1,000 feel.

Our main purpose in hile Chico was to help an organisation known a S [TER TIO AL. This is a team of doctors and opticians from SA who travel to poor area of the world and offer help to people who could not otherwise afford it in giving eye-tests and suppLying eye-gLasse free of charge. They also perform operation ations to remove cataracts from the eye. [ helped in creening patient which produced many amusing instances. One old gentleman did not eem to understand that I wanted him to read out aloud the card in front of him, even though I was using my best pidgeon Spani hand ge ti ulating wildly with my arms. He seemed to be quite amused. I t was only when a kindly lady explained to me that he wa deaf and could not read that I reali ed how ridicuLou I mu t have seemed to him. One most memorable experience was watching the doctor removing a cataract from the eye of an old lady. The operation required great skill in putting in titche and cutting around the irl5. When the lens wa removed it wa brown in colour in tead of clear. It was replaced with a plastic one and the eye sewn back together. 11 thi time the patient was fully conscious as only a local anaesthetic was used. What was so remarkable was that the day after surgery in some cases there wa a marked imporovement.

One man had become completely bljnd yet the next day he could make out our hazy figures in front of him. We were told by the SEE team that the eye take 6 weeks to heal and by that time the patient can regain up to 90% of his sight.

Sadly it all had to come to an end some-

time. All the group travelled to Operation Raleigh headquarter in Co hajque 'Where the Puerto ~ionlt Patrol 'Were reunited.Then we moved en ma e northward to Puerto Monu 'Where e ere to pend hristma . Christma Day wa hot and unny. Venturer were diving off the hip into the murky \\ ater 0 Puerto .ionlt nd tim blIlg up the ngging. In the evening there wa d n ing m the bar, we aw ideo of hat we had been doing filmed b~ the expedition photographer and two venturer and a ong they had compo ed about the expeditIOn. This is only an outline of my experience in Chile, to give ome idea of what I wa doing - to catalogue everything I learned and to tell of all the remarkable people I met would require me to write a book.

Operation Raleigh ha introduced me to new friend, I have een a country that I knew nothing about. I shall find ways of pa ing on what I have learned and hopefully r will return on a later pha e as a member of the directing taff for Operation Raleigh.

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J RRATT WORKI G GROUP EST BUSHED The Working Group to evaluate the Jarrttt Report recommendation in the King's context and to review ollege management ystems has now been et up. MrPM acnamara (the ouncil Treasurer) i the hairman and the membership is as follows: Profe or P J Black (Dean, Education) Professor W Tu mer (Dean, Engineering) Mr J Collin on (appointed by the Delegacy) The Secretary

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nand .iu i Dean:P-;-of~ssor RIIl ler le-Dean: Profe or Bately du atlon Dean:P""i"o e or Black ice-Dean: Professor A pm

UDIO-VISUAL SERA booklet i in produdion gjving information on service available to King' .ollege London. Copies will be mailed to all department within the next fc'W weeks and hould answer any queries on general graphic, photography, and audio and proJection facilitie on the three site. dditional copies of the booklet can be obtained from hel ea ampu udioisual Service Unit, x 2502.

he amendcd College Regulation which were approved by the ouncil at its meeting on February 11 19 6 are now available for consultation in each Departmental Office, or individual copie may be obtained from Mr Peter Gilbert, A i tant Secretary. Strand ampus.

The Finance 0 fficer and cademic Regjstrar will be in attendance.

ollowing the t alentine' Day Dinner last term and a number of request for another such occasion, \ e are arranging a Mid ummer' Eve Dinner on Friday June 20 19 6 in the Hamilton Room.

There will be drink beforehand, a threecourse summer menu with a choice of wine, and coffee and liqueurs to follow in the nte Room. The inclusive pricc will be ÂŁ13.50. Dres will again be informal with lounge suits preferred.

Following a eriou car accident Profe or Buxton wiIJ be on sick leave for the next few months. He is making good progre but the date of his return to ollege i not yet certain. lan Fairboum and David Till will be Joint Acting Head of Department from May I to September 30 19 6. Mr Fairbourn will have primary respon ibility for aclivitie on the Strand and Mr Till will have primary re pon ibility for activitie at We tfield.

The last date for booking i Friday June 6, and anyone interested should contact Mrs Katharine Harper, Room 2.305, Chelsea Campus, 552 King' Road.

For purpo. es of ex officio Academ ic Board membership and any immediate one-to-one matters, Mr Fairbourn will act. Where po sible and appropriate, memo should be copied to both.

John Muir Assistant Principal

Our be t wi hes go to Professor Buxton for a speed y rec very.

IGHT TO REMEMBER The fir t May Ball of King' College London (KQC) was held with re ounding ucce s on Saturday May 3 at the Savoy, London. ttended by the Principal, Profes or tewart utherland, and by 400 taff and tudent , the evening compri ed a fourcour e dinner followed by dancing to the Johnny Howard Orche tra. a thirteen piece dance band, who succeeded in packing the dance floor all evening.

Many month of behind-the- cences planning lay behind the succe of the evening and I would like to take this opportunity of thanking everyone who became involved with the Ball. Firstly, without the initial support of the Principal and the Finance Officer, Mr David Ball, this event would never have been possible. Secondly, 1 must mention the valuable advice and work on the May Ball Committee of Profe sor Baum and atherine Da ies, and of Sandra Gee and Elizabeth Ca tie in the Principal' office who worked very hard and gave valuable encouragement to keep the project alive. We were also indebted to Sandra for all her work on the beautiful floral arrangement . I must also thank Katherine Harper at Chelsea and Lindsey oules at Kensington for their assistance with ticket sales.

Thanks must also go to our sponsors, Coutt & 0., and ational Westmin ter Bank for providing a valuable contribution to the financing of table decoration, and of course, to the Savoy and to Mr Howard who made the evening a truly memorable occasion.

Finally, I mu t expres my deepest thanks to Nikki Watson and Parris Yalides, the remaining members of the Committee without whom this event could not have tak en place.

With the su ces of this year's Ball, the Committee is confident that it will now become an annual event and look forward to many such functions in the future.

lion. It has been de igned in modular form to allow the various needs of participants from different background to be met within an integrated programme of study, and has a carefully balanced mixture of theory and practical applications within both a Briti h and over eas context. The course can be taken either full-time (one year) or part-time (two, or exceptionally, three years).

For further information about the course, please write to: The Centre for Staff Development in Higher Education, 2 Taviton Street, LO DO WCIH OBT, or telephone: 01-380 0599.

Andrew Cox

FROM PALACE TO COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY NEWS EW MA COURSE I FURTHER A D HIGHER EDUCATlO The Institute of Education has established a new MA course which will be of practical and theoretical interest to academic and administrative staff from univer ities, polytechnics and other higher and further education colleges.

The principal aim is to provide an oppurtunity for the sy temati study of policy, admini tralion, management, teaching and course design in higher and further educa-

A part of its centenary celebrations, Queen Mary ollege ha published a pictorial history entitled "From Palace to ollege". The book, which wa pecially commissioned from the authors Dr GP Mo s and Mr M Saville, traces the growth of the College from its roots in the eighteenth century to the present day. It will appeal not only to those who have been associated with Queen Mary College or the People's Palace, hut also to those who are interested in the development of our leading educational in titutions. Copies can be purchased from: The Centenary Office, Queen Mary College, Mile Fnd Road, LO DO , El 4 S Price ÂŁ4.75 + ÂŁ 1.50 postage and packing.

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6-7 June, Warburg Institute COLLOQUIUM ON GRE K AND LAT/N SCHOLARSHIP 14 July, Institute of Historical Research A GLO-AMERICAN CONFERE CE OF HISTORIA S 3 Sept - November, Courtauld Gallery THE ORTHER LA DSCAPE EXHIBIT/O 13 - 17 October, Imperial College SCIE CE FAIR ] 5 October, Barbican Centre FO NDATIO DAY ] 5 Oct - December, Senate House Library BOOKS, MSS, ARCHlY S EXHIBITION October, Barbican Library Foyer PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIO October, 24 Russell Square YElLING OF T S ELIOT PLAQUE 20 October, Beveridge Hall PIAL LECTURE: THE ARCHITECTuRE OF THE U IYERSITY Professor J M rook 22 October ]n titute of Education o YERSAZIO E,O CO TI I G ED CATIO

23 October, Univer ity College SPE IAL LECT RE: ARTS Profe or F Thompson

LECTURES, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS

28 October, Queen Mary College SPECIAL LECT RE: LAWS Professor W Twining

29 Oct - 3 Dec, Gold mith 'College OPE I G OF GRAHAM S THERLA D EXHIBITIO

30 October Beveridge Hall/Birkbeck SPE IAL lECTURE: SCIEN E Sir Hermann Bondi 4 ovember, Middlesex Ho pital Medical School SPECIAL LECTURE: MEDI I E LP Le Quesne

10 November, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College SPECIAL LECTURE: EDUCATIO OF WOMEN I THE U IVERSITY OF LONDON Dr Gillian Sutherland 11 November, King's College SPECIAL LECTURE: THEOLOGY Dr S Evans

13 November, Imperial College SPECIAL LECTURE: ENGINEERI G Professor H Billett 14 November, Goldsmiths' CoiCge CONCERT BY THE ATIONAL CENTRE FOR ORCHESTRAL STUDIES & GOLDSMITHS' CHORAL UNION

18 November, Royal College of Music SPECIAL LECTURE: MUSIC Professor B L Trowell 19 Nov - 18 March, Percival David Foundation EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART: FINE EARLY PRINTED MATERIALS 20 November, London School of Economics SPECIAL LECTURE: ECONOMICS Professor Lord McGregor 21 November, Purcell Room, Festival Hall CONCERT OF WORKS OF YOU G BRITISH COMPOSERS BY GOLDSMITHS' ENSEMBLE 27 November, Institute of Education SPECIAL LECTURE: EDUCATIO Dr W TayIor 3 December, Royal Albert Hall/St Pauls PRESENTATIO CEREMONY AND THA KSGIVING CEREMONY 15 - 16 December, Warburg Institute COLLOQUIUM ON VITRUVIUS A D HIS INFLUE CE

Professor F:dward Irving of the University of Pennsylvania, with Professor Janet Bately at a reception following the English Department public lecture entitled "The Image of the Royal Hall in Beowulf". Professor Irving, who delivered the lecture, has been Visiting Professor in English during the session 1985/86.

NEWS FROM THE DEAN'S OFFICE 4 June The 1st Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture THE CONTRIBUTIO OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY TO SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIETY TODA Y Cardinal Hume

6.00pm Westminster Abbey

30 June KCL Theological Society Study Day LIBERATIO A D POLITICAL THEOLOGIES Speakers include Terry Tastard, Anthony Harvey, The Dean of the College

SEMINARS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 4 June THE FALLOUT DEBATE: Controversy among Expcrts Dr R Olby, University of Leeds 11 June ASPACE TIME DESCRIPTIO OF ATOMIC PROCESSES: Computer

Generated, Motion Pictures Dr C Dewdney, Port mouth Polytechnic

25 June WHAT'S EW I THERMODYNAMICS? Professor P T Landsberg, University of Southam pton 2 July RATIO ALITY A D CONSISTE CY Professor N Rescher, University of Pittsburgh Room IB06 Strand Campus, 2.15pm

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSSOCIATION FOR THE ADYANCEMENT OF SCIE CE The Annual Meeting of the BA will, this year, be held at Bristol University from I - 5 September. Combining scieptific meetings, discussions on the social con equenccs of science, popular lectures technology visits, exhibitions and social events, the meeting is open to all and most events are non-specialist, although the specialist is also catered for.

Major themes this year include industry,

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the PO\' er and initiath'e of cien e and te hnology, and computer and intelligence . There will al 0 be pe iali t onferen e organised by the In titutes of Biology, of Mea urement and Control, of Phy ic and of ~fe~hanical Engineering, the OperatIOnal Re ear h Society and the Royal A tronoml al Society. Other pe ial event In lude a _ mpo ium on Japan- K Collaboration in S ien e, orgaOl ed Jowt)y with the Royal So lety and the B riti h Coun il and a onference on enture apital and Innovation. organi ed wIth the Briti h enture Capital 0 iation. There are al 0 departmental tours and reception at Bri tol niver ity and a major industrial exhibition at the ity Dock Centre.

For full detail and regi ÂŁration form, please contact: Or David Morley, BAAS, Fortre s Hou e, 23 Saville Row, London WIX lAB. Tel: 017346010 ext 342 or Dr Jim Franklin, Local Organi ingSecretary, Senate House, niver ity of Bristol, Tyndall venue, Bri tol BS ITH Tel: 0272 266376

ontacts of a ademic resear hers with indu try, and she noted the wide range of intere t repre ented by companie and reearch organi tion at the meetwg.

The morning e ion m luded talk by Profe or John Ibel) Imperial College. Or L Gue t (Health and Safety xe utive , and Dr Ton Turner ranfield In titute of Technology on appli ation of sen ors in agri u!ture, medicine and indu try. After an excellent buffet lun h prOVIded by Christine'i il on and her taff, a hed down by be erage from the Queen Mary Bar, the afternoon e ion was taken up \\ith . workshop" demon trations of the many sen or device being developed for commercial market, ba ed on chemical response, electrical semiconductor, phy ical and olid- tate properties of materials, optical transdu tion, and biocatalysis. Informal technical and busines di cu sions were encouraged by a continuous upply of coffee and tea, and most delegates agreed that King' had provided a splendidly sociable venue for thi fir t London meeting of the Club.

STAFF NEWS PROFESSOR ROBI SO TO RECEIVE BIOCHE IC L SOCIETY W RD

CE TRE OF EO C no L ST DIES OFFICI L OPE I G o OPE DAY Tuesday July 1 1986,1500 to 1900 The entre for Educational Stud ie has been formed from the merger of the former Chel ea College Centre for Science and Mathematics Education and the former King's ollege FaL:ulty of Education.

The new Centre for Educational Studies will be formally inaugurated at the first Open Day on July I 1986. The Open Day will run from 1500 to 1900 and will provide an opportunity to find out more about the tcaching and research and development work in education going on at ES. A warm welcome will be ex tended to all fellow member and friend of King' College London (KQ(').

CHEMIC LSE SORS FOR M KE SI GTO PRIL I

Pre iou re ipient of the a ard, ompriing a gold medal and monetary prize of 400 donated by the Briti h Drug Hou e to the Bio hemical Society, include Professor Brian Hartley, FRS: Profe sor John Landen: Profe or HR Maurice and Or Ed Southern, FRS. Profe or Robinson and hi colleague in this field are pre ently supported as an MRC group for re earch in Human Genetic Disea e .

MEMORI L SERVICE A Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Profes or John Martin Cocking was held on Monday 2 April 19 6 in the ollege Chapel. The Dean, the Rev. Richard Harrie ,officiated. Mr Romilly ocking, Profes or Cocking's on, read 'Pied Beauty' by Gerald Manley Hopkin and Profe sor Ouston read 'The Character of a Happy Life' by Sir Henry Wootton.

The le son wa read by Professor icol and the address was given by Professor orma Rin ler.

NEWS ROUND-UP KI G'S COLLEGE CHEMISTS IN 5-A-SlDE LEAGUE

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Over 150 delegate from a dozen academ i~ institution and around 70 industrial organisation attended a one-day meeting on Chemical Sensors Club, organi ed by the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (an in titution of the Department of Trade and Industry) and King's Bioelectrochemitry and Biosensor G roup. Mrs J udy Staight, the site Assistant Secretary, welcomed the delegates and gave a brief outline of recent ollege developments, notably the vigorous research activity at the Kensington site. It was appropriate in Industry Year for King's to be fostering the

in e 1961. Profe or Robin on and hi group. compri ing many member of taff and re ear h tudents, have been a tive in developing and u 109 Ouore cent ub tr te) for mea uring enzyme. The u e of the h led to method for dIagnosing a Wide range 0 inherited di ea in ludwg Hurler' di ea e, and notably Ta, -S h disea e. ThIS latal di e e,o urring mainly in the Jewi h community attack the brain and nervou sy tern: the u e of Pro e or Robw on's method has resulted 10 an enormou de rea e in it incidence, a dlagno i can now be made during pregnancy.

Professor Donald Robinson of the Department of Biochemistry is to receive the pretigious BDH Award in Analytical Biochemistry for 1987. The award, for 'ou tstanding work carried out in a laboratory situated in the Briti h Isle or Eire, leading to advances relating to the developmen t or application of new reagent or methods' is to be given in recognition of the great contribution Professor Robin on has made in the field of Iy osomal enzymes, and most specifically of their methodology.

A team of postgraduates from King's Chemistry Department has joined the South London 5-a- ide football league, ba ed in Brix ton. A fter two evening' play, lying fifth ou t of eleven teams in their divi ion (the fourth, but they have to tart omewhere!), the team plus ub titutes ( olin Wright - captain, John John ton, Paul DonncUan, Keith Jone Paul Routledge, Dave lark and Ian J owett), went to play for the third time in hopeful mood. However, their enthusia m was short-lived.

I n alternating driule and pouring rain, they played their first two matche , five minutcs each way, holding their fir t opponent to a I-I draw but 10 ing the second match. At this stage of the evening they were a little defiated, but not defeated; what finally firtished them off was not the quality of the opposition, but the wait of more than an hour to play again whilst

other team fini hed, howered and left.

Cold and fed up, they could not be blamed for losing the la t two match ,but it wa a discon olate group of King' men who headed homeward loolci.ng forward to warmth and food.

Anyone interested in gi ing upport should go along for the nex t es ion of games on Friday June 7 at Ferndale Road Sports Centre Brixton - kick-off 7pm. Let's hope it is a better organised and more succe ful evening than the la t.

Elizabeth Tacey Chemistry Strand Campus

GOLF TOUR AME T On April 21 a good turnout of golf enthusiasts braved the seasonal weather at Brent Valley in the 13th Kensington Site competition (the J st QEC Memorial Tournament). The handicappers, working to the traditional Campden sy tern, once again managed to uppre most of the sporting talent, but "Potts" eufeld, a 3rd year chemist, won the men' trophy with a net 92, with Don Robin on (Biochemistry) runner up for the econd year running with a 98.

19th hole the "Kent" in Ealing. Biochemist featured heavily, John Stirling conjured a viciou 3 wood hot of over SO yards which narrowly missed colleague Dave DeKeyzer ... while the ball remained morionle s, In a similar incident Pete Butterworth got equall effective distance with his 5 iron; unfortunately this treasured clu b landed in the River Brent, and was last een travelling in the general direction of the Thames, Jl competitor are reported fit to re-start work for the ummer term.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY Richard ewland Dixon, who graduated in Physics from King' in 195 I, wa elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in March of this year. After holding appointments at Cambridge and Sheffield he is now Profe or of Theoretical hemistry at the Univer ity of Bristol.

CCOMMODATIO To let: Self-contained nat omprising I bedroom, itting room, kitchen and bathroom. ÂŁ90 per week including VAT, whi h includes cleaning once a week and bed linen.

Contact: Jame Wel h Hall Manager, Wellington Hall.

Available for a doctor: Modern, paciou , 1 bedroom, furnished nat, Lambeth. Just re-decorated, available shortly. In exchange for two evening urgeries per week.

Contact: OJ -622 1923 (preferably am; or leave name and phone number at any time) time).

Wanted: Twelve year old French boy from Paris wishes to tay for 2-3 weeks in July a a paying gue t with London family having similar aged boy. ontact: Professor Hall, Biology Department, Half Moon Lane.

Jane Drummond (Biology) won the ladies cup, while Hilary Gower (Biochemistry), last year's winner of the women s event, clocked up a record 169 to carry off the wooden spoon with no serious competition. Bruno Franco (MS Refrig) pipped Angus Robertson (SU) by one strokc to take the "best score" trophy with a gross score of 77, a remarkable effort under the monsoon conditions.

Many novel strokes made in the intense heat of competition were relayed at the

A bove: Sir Richard Way, Patroll of KCLA, with A lice Coleman at a receptioll ill the Great Hall jollowing the A ssvc:iatiull 's A GM. They are pictured in frunt of a dis(lla)' shuwing design alteratiolls tu inner cit)' huusing estates resultillg jrom studies by the Land Use Research Unit, of which A lice Coleman is Director, and from the publication of her book Utopia on Trial.

Lejt: The Prillcipal alld Tony c'dl\'ards, whu is retiring as Presidell t ()f K C1,,1 after IOllg and loyal service tu the College. M r I:'dwards is l\'l!arillg the ceremunial cullar, which hc has kindl), (lml'ided j(;r the ujjice uf Prcsidellt. Hc is succceded by Professor /; A Bdl, Director uf the R uyal Botanic Gardens, KCl\'.

CO 1ME. 'T i produced by the King' College London (KQC) InformatIOn Office on the Strand ampus.

EXT EDITIO : Copy date Friday June 20 for publication In the week of June 30.

KI G'S COLLEGE GOES TO FR CE For over ixty year, the member 01 the non-teaching staff of the College ha e enJoyed each other' company and a l;hange of cene on the nnual College OUlIng. In recent year the weather ha been kind, (even la t year!) and the pre ence of 'ome retired colleagues has added to the pleasure of the day. s a re ult of support from the College, Juniors can join th Outing at a greatly reduced co, 1. he organi er arc certain that thi year will will be ju t a enjoyable, and an additional rea on for their confidence is that the trip will be to Boulogne. Ou tings to France are always popular, having the added attractions of French cooking and duty-free allowances, so BOOK NOW on the form below.

Dr ,\ erille Marsh signing copies of his book "The llistury of Queen Elizabeth College" at the launch part)' held in the Old ReJectory at K ensinKton to celebrate its publicatiun on April 29 1986. Describing the book as "a fascinating history of a very lively College ", the Principal, Professur Stewart Sutherland, spoke of the debt owed to Dr Marsh bl' the College for all the work put in to this carefully written lI'urk.

The detail of the OutIng are a follow:

for the afternoon.

Date: Wc'dnesday July I 19~6

Pas~ort:

Cost: £17.00(redudion 10rJunior)

Full Pas port or BTlush r::. cursion Document I essentiaJ - anyone without will be lel t at Dover!

Times: Meetat Channg 'ross at 07.15 for 07.30 train. Return to Charing Cros at 21.09.

BIt may be possible to arrange a second party on the 09.30 from Charing Cross, returning at 23.04, but anyone taking this alternative will not arrive in Boulogne until after the restaurants and cafes have hut

To book: Complete the form below and return to: J Rumbell, Stationery Store, Strand Campu pus, or Mr F Dou c, liES, Chelsea Campus, or T Legg, Biology, Ken ington Campu , together with the full fare (£ 17), OT LATER THA JULY I 1986.

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