Comment 019 December 1986

King's College London (KQC) newsletter

DEA APPOI TED BISHOP OFOXFORD

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SE At the ourt meeting on ovember 26. the m er ity gave tTOng backlOg to the College' plan for the lea e purchase and development of CornVvall Hou e. The Court received a detailed paper outhmng three cO ted configuration for rationalisation: rationalisation of tho e department pre ently on split site: rationalisation of related department, and rationali ation 01 thc Vvhole ollege on the 'Thameslde Campu' the Strand, Drury Lane and Corn~ all Hou e. The third proposal i co tcd at a nct figure of ÂŁ IOM with recurrent "avings of ÂŁ2.4M per year - the mo t financially, a well as academically. attractive o~ the configurations. The detailed paper WIll now be forwarded to the G with full federal endorsement of the ornwall House propo al.

The Revd. Richard Harrie , Dean of the College, has been nominated by the Queen for the po t of Bi hop of Oxford.

Oxford is one of the largest dioce e in the country, encompas ing the counties of Oxfordshire Buckingham hire and Berkshire and Revd. Harries will preside over 2,222 square acres', 823 churches and 455 stipendi;ry clergy. He will be aided in this task by three area bishops, and so will act in part a Chairman of the Board for his dioce e.

After five and a half years at King' ,the Dean will be moving to thi very major job in the Church of ngland in the early summer.

OF CVCP Professor Sir Mark Richmond FRS, ViceChancellor of the University of Manchester, is to be the next Chairman of the Committee of Vice~hanceUorsand Principal.

He will take over from the present Chairman Mr Maurice Shock, Vice~hancellor of the University of Leicester, in July 1987 Sir Mark, 55, became a mem ber of the Committee five years ago, when he took up his appointment at Manche ter. Since then he has chaired a number of key CVCP committees, such as those on exploitation of inventions and performance indicators. He has been as ociated particularly with the

efficiency of univer ities and their relation with industry, and wa a member of the J arratt Committee. He is currently chair109 a group looking at financial management in universities.

Before becoming a Vice-Chancellor, Profe or Richmond was a re earch scientist.

He was Head of the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Bristol where he ran a large research team. He became Fellow of the Royal Society in 19 O. He has erved on the ouncil of the Science and Engineering Research Council, and on the Board of the Pu bUc Health Laboratory Service. Professor Richmond was knighted in the last Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Dr Raphael Caldera, former President of Venezuela about to deliver the 1986 Commemorati~n Oration. An edited version of his speech is reproduced inside.

His wife, Shirley is a medical consultant in Virology. They have three children, onel son and two daughter, the youngest of whom i a university student. He lists among hi leisure interests, hill-walking, gardening and going to the opera.

Commenting on his election to the CVCP Chairmanship, Sir Mark said 'The Committee of Vice~hancellorsand Principals is evolving fa t with Government daily intervening more in university affairs. And that inevita bly affects the task of the Chairman.

The two years following Septem ber 1987 are likely to be pretty eventful for the universities. If nothing else the period is likely to embrace a General F.Jection.

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C DEMIC DEVELOPME T F

Toward the end of la t e ion, the College earmarked £350 000 to form the capital with which to establi h an Academic Development Fund. The aim of the Fund i to timulate the germination of ne idea within King' which hold promi e of academic growth and development, in it wide t en e. In principle any initiative which ha cope for aiding and abetting the academic development of the College can be con idered for an award from the income accruing annually to the Fund (between £35,000 . £40 000).

In May/June bid were invited for the fIrst ADF awards. Fa<.ultie were asked to make a preliminary election of applications where the likely ou tlay wa in the region of £20,000 or above. Department or individual were encouraged to apply directly for maller grants (below £ I0.000) , and ex ternal moderator, including Dr Jack Edelman of RHM Research Lld (a former member of the staff of pre-merger Q EC and now on the College Council) and the Principal.

The panel had more than twenty bid to examine and grade. The aggregate of the sums reque ted by applicants ea ily reached £250,000, giving the moderators no ea y ta k in choosing just a hand ful of projects to be the first recipients of ADF funding.

Four inlportant new academic departure are singled out in the award announ ed recently by the Principal. The major award (£22,000) goes to Mr Dominic Rathbone in Clas ics, to help set up a research group which will investigate the hi tory of Graeco-Roman Egypt through computer-assisted analysis of papyrological documentation a cro s di ciplinary study that enjoy full backing from the Faculty of Arts and Music and hould pioneer new understanding of a thousand years of Egyptian Hi tory (c330 BC - AD 640). The technological 'pin-off in terms of developing expertise in the growth area of computing for the humanities will also not be negligible. £7,000 goes to Professor Alan Roger of Electronic & Electrical Engineering as tart-up finance to give a boost to investigation into new uses of optical fibre for measurement sensing, particularly of large structures such as building, planes, and space craft. Optical fibre measurement can check for safety in electrical supply sy terns and provide detailed information about the behaviour in tructures of vibrations or strains which could be dangerous unle s carefully controlled at the design stage.

A parallel line of enquiry will examine the role of the cell' 'power-houses' the mitochondria in this process. The gues is that structural changes in the mitochondria affect the ease with which they are able to generate the energy needed to dispo e of altered proteins.

Finally, a propo.al from Miss Joan Bli s (Centre for Educational Studie.) to e tab!ish a teacher network in cience education 1 re be supported from the ADF with an award of £3 ,000. The Centre is itself contributing a like sum and additional re ource will be provided by Homerton College in Cam bridge - the area in which m uch of the basic re earch will be carried out. The teacher net work aim' to explore, at a fundamental level, children' varying idea about cience, in particular, mechanic, and to tran late the implication of the re earch finding into improved teaching techniques in science education.

CongratulatIon are due to all the above for helping to en ure that the Academic Development Fund is off to an impressive start that should stimulate others in future to go for ADF 'acorn' funding and with it the chance for turdy new growth. Bids for awards from the 1987-88 Fund will be ought early in J 987.

HIGHER EDUCATIO FOR SCHOOLS

WORKS

Fifty-one universities, polytechnics and colleges came together o'n ovem ber 24 to present to Government, local authorities and employers ways in which the national shortage of math , phy ics and technology teachers can be met. The meeting and related exhibition was held at the Royall nstitution and was chaired by Professor Paul Black, Head of the King's Centre for Educational Studies and President of the Association of Science Education. He outlined the problems facing us as follows:-

A joint project in Life Sciences, pu t together by Dr Alan Hipkiss (Biochemistry) and Dr Alan BittIes (Anatomy and Human BioProblem logy) receive £6,000. Ageing is attracting a lot of attention at the moment: and King's is already in the forefront of research The consultative document issued by the DES last July show how seriou the probinto the social aspects of gerontology. The lem is. For example in physics, for secondHipki /BittJes initiative will look at molecular and cellular aspect of ageing and con- ary school teaching there are about 7,500 posts. Of these, 150 are unfilled. More centrate first on recent evidence that altereriously, the proportion of physics tuition ed proteins accumulate in cells that are getting old because of a deterioration of the now being given to pupils by teachers with mechanism which normally removes them. no qualification in physics is about 18%.

To put thi right we need at lea t 1.000 more qualified teacher. But we al. 0 need to teach more science to more pupil: thi 1. a polic.y et out in the D Policy Document Science 5-16 i ued in 19' -. gain this ould require 500 to 1.000 more teachers. We are losing about Of of the teaching force each year, i.e. 600, and this proportion is rising. The supply of newly qualified phy ic teacher i about 300 to 400 each year. The chool population will fall at about 4% to 5% each year until 1991 - but then it tart to rise. It i very unlikely that we can ever catch up with the hortage, and we actually need to in rea e the number attracted into the hortage areas, i.e. to do much better than we are at the moment.

Response The downward piral is: fewer teacher lead to poorer work in chools lead to fewer tudent lead to fewer graduate leads to even fewer teacher. Thi must be reversed. The 5 I exhibits at the Royal Institution howed how higher education is trying to do this now, including: Course to re-train teacher of other u bject , attract in qualified people from other occupation, enhance qualifications of tudent from other areas.

Work to support teacher in schools, with special meetings and courses, and by producing new materials, book , videos, videodiscs, and computer-associated learning programmes.

Work with teachers to attract pupils, by visits of experts to schools and other special events in schools, or by bringing pupils into advanced laboratories to show the wider scope and interest of the subjects.

Work to help parents and the public to appreciate the needs and opportunitie .

In the longer term improving access to higher education by special 'second chance and other introductory courses to young or mature people without the usual qualifications.

Problems ew initiatives are a heavy burden when institutions' overall budget are contracting. Courses which provide students are a tangible activity which can claim resources BUT work in schools and elsewhere to attract or inspire these student to come can have little to show in the hort term, is not directly related to research or teaching cost indices, so does not get support. So we could get more and more courses chasing fewer and fewer students. There is a need for co-operation between LEAs, the DES and the various institutions who have the re ources to help. But the structures and the mean of funding often encourage competition rather than co-operation: this needs reviewing.

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Tea hers of mathemati ,phy i and te hnolog} are not to blame. They are doing a fir 1J Job, there areJu I not enough 01 hem. We mu t re ogni e heir great 'alue and give them lar be ter pport Ilh te hm ian help, equipment. book nd other ma erial . The} mu t be encouraged to bdic\'e in Iheir 0\\ n impOrt ne, and in (l it:ty" apprecia Ion of th ir \\ ork.

THE talion on the London nderground (that 11 he tation are on the urrent London

Each of he lue . i . our mind i Tran pon ~fap.

It was hard

'or moving that ne\\ marble monument into the hurchyard. It wa very hea\'y! [ note: not. tarble Arch or .10nument )

The vi ar made the mi take of .... alklIlg under the painter' ladder.

It one was a very young royal prince going up to one' bed and wanting omething to

cuddle, one might take .........

Perhaps thl i \\here the young ociety ladie might be found.

We made an unfortunate mi take leaving that plate of cold meat out on the table when we went on our ummer holidays.

People who are ill often feel better when they go there.

You borrowed it from me, so it mu t be .......

Perhap thi i where Mother Brown enjoyed herself. [ note: there are two pos ible answers for thi one: find both of them 1 9. Keep it in the dark!

10. The doting admire (perhap now middle-aged? sat at the feet of the inger in hi

rocking chair and aid ......... !..

11. The farmer tripped up while looking at his field of ripening cereal.

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nght royal man \ ho erve' the drink. in this pub.

13. The archaeologi t looked at the new site and tarted to dig, and a new excavation had come into eXistence.

14. This mormng did not seem like a morning at all.

1-. When you wrote down Tue

th Dec 19 6' a the date of the event, it wa not quite

what you intended.

16. When making a lot of soup, the cook might be advised to let a bucket down thl hole!

17. The modern pop tar would no doubt have told the famous philopopher and mathematician that he dId not appreciate his pop mu ic.

I . The campanologist took his tape measure and got out of his car.

A reminder to members of ollege that Lord Cameron's autobiography, IN THE MIDST OF THI GS, is now publi hed, by Rodder and Stoughton, and available, price ÂŁ J 2.95, from Hatchard and most book hop.

J9. The society lady, suitably dressed up for Royal Ascot, wa very annoyed when she saw her friend's new creation was the same as her own.

20. The scout master exclaimed to his troup that the men had just finished putting up the big tent.

21. The boy had torn a lot of pages out of the musical dictionary.

22. A small exclu ive convent.

23. Prince Charles painted his elder son' room to match the lawn.

24. There was a big battle in the road.

25. The physics teacher dropped his bottle of Ouorescein dye while crossing the river.

The ollege have engaged W.S. Atkin & Partners, on ulting Engineer, to carry out extended energy urvey encompa sing the whole of the Strand complex.

It is anticipated that this work will take up to about three month. The W.S. Atkins engineer directly involved are Mr David Foster and Mr Charles Payne. Where neces ary they will make themselves known to occupiers of the various spaces, labs, and offices prior to carrying out any survey work within a particular area. It is not anticipated that any plant or machinery will need to be interfered with.

Co-operation and assistance in furthering the survey will be much appreciated.

26. Where Prince Charles leaves hi car. [ two answers

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27. Am ber nectar for roo ters.

28. The Pleiades.

29. After the children at the seaside had built their large sand castle with its moat, they connected it up to the stream to fill it with water.

30. The young lady had to make a choice: to share with her boyfriend or to buy a place of her own to live.

3 I. These men have dark habits.

32. Frodo Baggins moved his finger to signal to the

nt.

33. The tramp sat in the road drinking his tin of Coke; then he put it down.

34. It's one of those eastenders yet again!

A nswers in the January edition.

Alan Fairboum, Department of Computing

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LATIN AMERICA, DEMOCRACY A D EUROPE THE 19 6 CO

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Deli ered b Or R PH EL CALDER

former Pre ident of Venezuela on Monday December 1st (An Edited Text) To a Venezuelan England is always an object of affection and admiration. Simon Bolrvar, Francisco de Miranda and Andnf Bello, the three most eminent figures in our history held in special esteem this ountry which I am honoured to visit.

Bolivar, in his famous speech of Ango tura on 15th February I 19, said 'Rome and Great Britain are the out tanding nations to he num hered among the ancient and modern world. Both were born to rule and to be free. But both were founded, not on brilliant concepts of liberty but on olid foundations~ Francisco de Miranda, General of the Armies of the French Revolution, guest of Catherine II of Rus ia, permanent representative among the highest personalitie at the Court of St lames, had hi residence in London, then 27 Grafton Street, today, 58 Grafton Way. It was not merely the home of his family but also a kind of permanent school, awakening and teaching the conscience and concept of an independent Hispano America. Andres Bello, philo opher poet,legi lator, lawyer, diplomat, lived in London for nineteen years. During this time he not only deepened hi knowledge of International law and philosophy, but he wrote the first great American poems which have been considered as the manifesto of the literary independence of the South American continent.

For us these links through Bolfvar, Miranda and Bello, remain pre-eminent. The invitation to King's College has been accepted by me as a double privilege which oblige me to state loyally my ideas and preoccupation about the current structure of democracy in Latin America and what he aspires and needs from Europe. If in the course of this commemorative lecture I touch on themes to which you may be su ceptible, I ask you beforehand to excuse me and try to under tand that it i my duty to fulfill to the hilt my respon ibility and to manife t with clear sincerity those out tanding a pects concerning the actual situation of Latin America and what it implie for the European world from whom we have received the fundamental deposit of our cultural values.

In 19 01 had the privilege to tate in a lecture which I delivered at the Institute of Directors in London what I aw as the 'prospects for democracy in Latin America'. You may recall that at that time the military were replacing by force many democratic regime in numerous Latin American countrie which had had in titutional traditions. I aid that this antidemocratic current could not la t. Allow me to recall ome of these thoughts which I then stated: 'The balance at the end of each of these periods of authoritarian rule could not have been more negative. The the is that the uppression of freedom is necessary for development has not been borne ou t by facts, since freedom and democratic institutionality constitute the greatest inducement and most powerful stimulus to the programmes of development.

Thus stating my opinions a regard the pro pect for democracy in Latin America, I dare to give a clearly optimistic answer.

This optimism does not spring from a facile conception of the

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political development of our countries: I know that democracy has to overcome very strong enemie , has to find a way that rejects both the oppressive violence of dominant clas e or ectors, and the revolutionary violence of radical groups, which would take u to new form of autocracy and who e action i manife ted in the repudiable phenomenon of terrorism. 1 k now full well that the fight for the definite establi hment of democratic institution in Latin America in general, is a trascendcntaJ ta k whic which annot be limited to the domain of politics, but ha to extend to that of social ju tice in order to achieve an economic deelopment capable of offering their people a life that i human and a participation of the totality of man, in the economic and cultural process. 1 continued on the ame occasion: I ba e my optimism on factors of great significance: in the first place, on the already mentioned conscience of Latin America, secondly on the historical truth that while regimes of force tend to take refuge in quietistic situation to which a sense of self-pre ervation impel them, open discu ion, ideological pluralism, the frank posing of problems, and even the vehemence with which so ial inju tices are presented and with which accomplishments gained through meritorious effort are denied, constitute a permanent stimulus for programmes indispensible to development. To this must be added the patent failure of the regimes of force that have been incapable of solving the most elementary a pects of the tran formation of their respective realities'.

Today we face a new onslaught: the return of democracy after the sad and traumatic failure experienced by the governments of force.

The proces of transition from autocracy to democracy i not easy. The new democracies have to face grave situations, and it is necessary that this be understood by the We tern world as they can mistakenly believe that with the devolution of power to governments popularly elected, all is solved. In my speech of 1980, to which I have already referred)1 gave this warning, notwithstanding that the democratic recuperation had not yet taken place: 'Of cour e, the uccess of a new democratic institutionality in Latin Ameri a is linked to the work that can be done for the transformation of our economic and social conditions into a model of society that raises the quality of life and offers all hum ble human beings the possibility of a better life. Facing problems such as marginality and finding solutions to others, such as housing, nutrition education and health, implies a considerable effort which needs the understanding, support and collaboration of nations that have achieved greater economic development through industrialisation. Latin America need a high degree of understanding and aid from countries such as those of Europe, with which it has deep ties'.

Therefore, it i es ential to be aware that the success of democracy, re-implanted in those Latin American countries which had fallen under the boot of tyrants and in those countries who 01idly maintained democratic in titutions in the midst of those

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拢7or e ..Huple, \ e have the probkm of the e 'ternal debt, I:or 'nell b~ the tault 0 tho e governm fit 0 LI htor ountCl LO\\.arLis the cxeclltlv ' :lnLl director 01 IflanCI'l11ll lltutt n . ,lOxiou to inve t their urplu lund wJlhout reali ing that the~ were emharldn!! on a L1angnou. venture fCllm WhICh I would be very difficult to extrkate them elve Th evere weight of the debt (even though relativel mall. compare to the hudget anLl detil:ils of the great power' j \ery great tor tho e debtor ..:ountne~ tll fulfil!. It hOllld he noted that to a great e tent the de t \\a in"rea elL> the lInJu tJlIeu and u unou rat 0 lntere t irnpo eu on the houlder f the Thtrld World \\ hi h "Quill not bear lIch hea\:> hurden .

I al1l among tho e \\ ha believe th It ""e uebtor countrie mu t pay and \ViII be able to pa~ m the future he commltmenh undertaken. b It t do thl , it IS es ntIal tor a complete n.'VI ion of the exi t1ng Sill Ilion. The resourc \\ hkh we could inve tin oruer to ..Iti ty ha e obligation must t:ome trom InternatIOnal t:omrnerce But every time that an Iso!alloni t polll':. i applied hy the Inuu.tClah eu nauons anu their market are clo ed to u because of a prate 路tionist policy. the adllevement of our resolve becomes l'v'er harder and tlte demand at he International Monctar> 'lInd I!encrally guided by mon tarL t preo cupation . pla..:e our peapl' in ltudtions ever morl' tragic than that ""hich we tat:e at prc'ent I have put torwaru the need that tho e institution uch a the World Bank a slime the eXisting t:redits against our countries, granting exceptIonal conditions 'ut:h a' a long term payment and a low rate <If interest and that the World Bank negotiatl' with thl' the private credit r bank' the term \\[th which they can recuperate their loan. The e would uppo ea. u bsidy, of cour e, on the part of those rkh countries in ordl'r to ab orb the difference and ri k ""hich the World Bank \~ould a ume. But the proportion which each one would undertake would evidenlly ha eta be relatively mall in proportion to their financial re our 'e and at the ame time obtaining with thi a ret:uperation of those bank -ing in tilution who are undergoing difficultle beLau'e of the uclay of payment by the debtor cOllntrie . The ex-Prune Miniter of rrance Raymond Barre in a ret:ent visit ""hkh he made to ene7uela aid that hi country a well a the r'ederal Republic of Germany and Japan. \V ill incline toward such a propo al but in order to achieve thi . the nited KlIlgdol\l and the 'nitt:u State would have to back it. ThL would mean that the ther capitali t countrie would follow uit, and their quota of participatIOn In the ub iuy would be convenient and feasible. In the nited State it elf it has been recogni... ed that the problem of the external debt is not imply economic hut of high political sigl1lficance. People as distinguI hed a Or Henry Klssinger and the ex-Amba adre s Jean Kirkpatrid.. br>th at ""horn no-one could accuse of being demagogue or left \~ lllg, support the solution. A ne\ Mar. hall Plan ha been talked of. The onginal Marshall Plan achieved the incredible. 'lllt:e war reparatlOns no longer fell entirely on the vanqul'!wd countlie . The initiative of the Marshall Plan aveu r'urope anu the world ot what could have been a cata trophe. Today this should be bl ught about by necessity. The nited States has a fiscal defiCIt which is over 200 billion dollar per year: thi re. t Its rights to criticise the policy of debt 0 the developing countrie., who have been

Central, merica ha be ome one of the riti al entre of the pohLIcal ""orld There are ome who fear It ould become another \ let I am or follow thl' traglt: path of the Middle 'a t. In order to erradl ate guerrilla \ IOlen 'e. military help may be lIldI pen. able but tundamentally it i, economic help that I needed.

Thi wnomit: upport mu t be refle 'ted in the openll1g up of market, anu the e t.lbli hll1ent of inter hanging onditIOn tor tho e tate to otler heir people the po ibility of a..:hie\ing a better hIe. \ m> ountry i an oil exporter, the most important in the whole of LatIn \merica, w Ilh proven re erves for the future in the Orin(lco OIl Belt. the grlate t In the We tern world, J wish to danty ""hat I have behl'ved and ustal.l1ed. We arc member of or C In 19 7 4 when I c.ame to London to inaugurate the ,tatue of the Liberator Imon Bol(var, the exploitation of orth ea oil was increa ing. I had the opportunity of stating III a speet:h in an wer to Mr Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary, that it appeared pos ible the time would come when the nitcd Kmgdom would wish to be a member of OP . '. aturaUy, this was a friendly expre sion. But the fact that the United Kingdom, orway, Mexico, Egypt and Trinidad-Tobago and some other exporters of crudes and their products are not mem bers of OPEC should not imply that they have to keep themselve apart from it. And even less hould not wage a \\ ar price which t:an only re ult in damage and financial loss to all. A commodity a essential as I oil, demand world under tanding. I believe that a conference with the principal exporting countrie , mdu trialised or in the proce s of development, hould take place without delay in order to establish fair prices, thus protecting producer and consumer from the dramatic ri e and fall which risk. the future tabllIty of the market. qUllibrium between demand and upply is nece ary. a Oexibility of movement e entia!. moderation in price llIay be convenient so that norm that are e tabli heo may protect humanity frolll the economic cata trophe that the oil market produce But some rational agreement must be l'cun~d.

peaking of European-Latin rnerican relation 1 cannot but mention here a matter which mu t be dealt with ympathetically but WIth all the sincerity it de erve . Thi is the exi ting problems of Anglo-Argentine relation due to what yOll call the Falklands and we the Malvina . In 19 2 when I brieOy visited London I was invited to meet the Prime Minister. I told her very dearly the attitude of the people of Latin America regarding the connict ""hich at that time was at it height. She replied that she could not understand how the democratic government of Vene7uela could back the Argentine military dictatorship violator 01 human right. I endeavoured to explain as well a 1 could that it wa not solidarity between governments but olidarity between Latin American people. It was a principle of our Americani m, what I have called the Pluralistic Solidarity of Latin

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better than no intere t at aIr. Thl remark wa also hacked hy the notion of development: 'There 1 till far too trong a tendenc~ - Belloch aid - even among people \\ ho ought to kno~ better, to regard 'development' a a purely economic problem, to equate 'underdevelopment' \\ith povert)-, and to imagint.' that an~ and e\er~ gift or loan or im'e tment or 'technical cooperation'l bound to promote development. 'Den'lopment'i a uni\'cr al human proces and If we \\ ant to under tand the development problem 01 ( ay) a Latin Ameri an country, we ought to begin b~ trying to under tand our own.'

Dr Caldera at the reception following the oration.

America. The government can be of the right or of the left, democra ie or dictator hips, con ervative or revolutionarie , but over and above all thi exists the fundamental brotherhood of our people. I mu t repeat here today without the lea t doubt, that in this matter all the Latin American people stand shoulder to houlder with Argentina and that we genuinely wish the British policy will be directed toward a.iu t solution. We are convinced that thi will lead to the ironing ou t of many difficulties between u and will facilitate the interchange of our traditional friend hip between our continent and this great and admired country.

I must admit that over the last few years the nited Kingdom ha developed a growing intere t in Latin America and this is also true of all Europe. Many of the better univer ities have Latin American departments. I had had a pecial pleasure in accepting Profe sor Sutherland' invitation to give this commemorative lecture as I consider it an honour to Latin America. King's College was one of the first to undertake Hispanic and Latin AmAmerican tudies. We wi h these studies well and will give all the backing wc can. The government of Venezuela establi hed the Simon Solivar chair at Cambridge University and a fellowship at Oxford University bearing the illustrious name of Andnfs Bello. Through this chair and fellow hip and the variou in titutes for Latin American studies directed by most knowledgeable professors who understand and sympathise with us, a most important link of friendship ha been developed which on no account must be allowed to ~ane since it is of great importance to both of us academically and economically. 1 repeat what 1 have often expressed, the desire that the number of British students should be greater than it has been, ince often the e institutions had had a majority of Latin Americans. It is you student we want,a we both need each other, but i also evident that there must be a greater interest in the problem of our development.

A late dear friend of mine wrote in 1965 to me: 'Here in England there are encouraging igns of a new outburst of interest ill Latin America - an interest not 0 much in possibilities of increased trade with the countrie of Latin America a in the history and the culture of the Latin American nations. All, or almost all, our universities, both old and new, now have department devoted to Latin American studies, and two years ago a 'Society for Latin American studies' was founded, mainly for the purpose of enabling these various university department to keep in touch with each other - it interest and its discussions are rather academic in character, and I sometime find myself wanting to get up and shout 'but all this has very little to do with Latin American realities - with the fle h-and-blood human beings of the area, their intere ts and activities, their struggles and their achievement! However, even an academic intere t is

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The truth i that there is till much ground to be covered. Gro~ th. ac ording to a phra e Irom Paul \'1' Enc. c1h:a 'Populorum Progre sio', must be for all men and for the whole of each man.

That i, to ay, for the human being, with its nece Hies and matenal and piritual po sibilities, and not only for the privileged groups of the population. This i a tremendou challenge for the Latin American democracies. It is not our wish that the wealthie. t countries give u money indiscriminately but that they should help us to attain our growth by removing those oh tacle which prevent us from so doing. It is this path which Latin America ees more clearly every day, and that herein lie the relation hip with the Western world. The five hundred year of the discovery of America or bett~r aid, the meeting of America and Europe and the re t of the then kno\\ n world, will trengthen the e link despite the multiple and partially expre ed an wers given which often do not seem to make ensc. Amenca need Europe: Latin America, in order to facilitate its growth \I hil:h is indispen able to democracy and peace: 'orth America, because the exce se and errors which some of it political leaders and entrepreneurs commit, may find a rea onable equilibrium' and JU t limitation for an ever clo er entente bet wcen Europe ami Latin America. We do not need gifts from Europe. It i something much more. It i a new way of being, a new way of acting, new under tanding, Great Britain and Ireland played a great role towards the independence of Latin America. ] tru t that through the influence of its great thinker and with the help of the universities, urope will fulfill an out tanding role in Latin America's struggle to achieve its growth/he way to development is the surest path not only for peace as Pope Paul VI said, but also to affirm it democracy,

His Excellency Dr Jose Salcedo-Bastardo, the Venezuelan Ambassador, presenting the 34-volume Memorias del General O'Lear to the College.

SHOUTl G LOUD A D CLEAR ABOUT SUBSTA TlAL RESERVOIR OF EXCELLE CE Ken Groves wa appointed Director, KCL Re earch Enterpri e in ovember. The e ence of hi task i to increa e the indu trial funding of college re earch and strengthen the relation hip with Government, the European Commi ion and other agencie concerned with re earch programme . Here he outline ome of hi objectives.

I am grateful to Comment for giving me the opportunity of talking about the way in \ hich I ee my job (.f Director. K L Reearch Enterpri e developing. The basic concept of the job i imple. Translating it into a reality i going to be extremely demanding and difficult. It will only work with the enthu ia tic ooperation of my academic colleagues who are at the sharp end of re earch and development. My task will be to act partly as a cataly t and to bring a greater understanding into the College of what industry require and the way indu try approaches problem . However let me ay at the outset that having started on an extensive programme of consultation in the College I have been very impressed not only by the level of expertise that resides here but al 0 by the friendline of my reception. In addition, the open minded approach with which people have discussed ideas about how my job can be made effective, makes me confident that succes will be achieved.

thi . Commi IOn pon ored re earch proJect are a reflection of a general trategy developed in Bru el. This has become more formali ed with the e tabli hmenr of the framework programme for re earch and development. The new programme for 1987 - 1991 i currently before the Council of Ministers. I would expect the College to be able to influence the thinking behind these strategies and not just accept them once they are developed, but this will require considerable refinement in our approach to relation hips with the Community and its in titutions.

see an initial requiremen t for ome well produced literature telling companie in the area we have cho en. and the wider commercial world, what our kill are and the \\ ay in which they an work with u for mutual benefit. Similarly our relation hip, with the media in the e area will need trengthening, and we need to make known through the editorial page not only of scientifi journal. but al 0 tho e technical journal read by industry \ hat i happening in the ollege. Other i ual aid may be be needed.

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But these are early days, aIJ I have attempted to do in thi hort note is to fly a few kite. What we need to do now i to collate ideas from within the College a to how the general work of business liai on can be pur ued and the priority areas which we foresee a bringing the greatest benefit.

Thi i very much a preliminary tatement of how I ee the activity developing. I shall look forward to receiving idea from my academic colleagues on how we can make The econd area of priority that uggests the work effective. I suggest that there is itself is immediate and closer relation with a sen e of urgency in this. In common with one or two industry areas which have signiother niversity institution, the College ficant companies within them. If we are has een its financial basis weakened with going to increase industry funding of our the relative decline in funding from tradresearch experti e then industry will expect itional ource. This underline the importo have a clear idea of the benefits that it tance of widening upport for a well will gain and the costs that it will incur. though t ou t re earch strategy. 0 ne of the After all, well run companie regard research objectives of King's must be to become a as part of their overall corporate programme most powerful College in the University of qualifying for a defined part of the total There is no ideal way of approaching a job London. I intend that the work which I of this nature. I see my fir t priority as get- budget. Programmes are constructed on shall lead will make a contribution to this the basis of benefits to be received and jud- aim. ting a much better understanding than I currently have about the scope of work un- ged on that ba i . Unless these benefits can dertaken in the various departments and the be clearly defined companies are reluctant KW GROVES to spend money on them. Sponsored Uniway in which that work is progressed. For this reason I have initiated discu sions with versity research is no exception to this Deans of the relevant facultie and with the rule. Thu if we can build up an association with individual companies within clearencouragement of the Principal talked to AGE CONCERN INSTiTUTE OF different group of intere ts within the Col- ly defined industrial group with a prograGERONTOLOGY lege. I am also making wider contact at an mme of research projects jointly agreed, 1 academic level with those whose research would expect research funding from Industry to be more easily achieved. I will wish areas I feel could be capable of further inA Liaison Committee has been e tablished dustrial involvement. With increasing know- to play a significant part in the discussions to link the Institute of Gerontology, other ledge it will be my objective to establish with the companies concerned and these staff of the College, and those at Age Consome priority areas for action. If the road joint programmes should lead on to greater cern England with a research or teaching to Hell i paved with good intentions I am opportunities for consultancy by mem bers interest in gerontology. Among other actsure that the road to successful indu trial of the academic staff and the development ivities the Committee will circulate a regliaison could be following clo e behind. It of other services. This process, of course, ular ewsletter to all those on the Instiis therefore necessary to have ome limited will have to be managed and I wiIJ be givtute's circulation list. The membership of and early priorities and it is on these that I ing considerable thought to the formal orgthe Liaison Committee is as follows: anisation structure under which it can be will be working during the early weeks of successfully developed. Rest assured that my appointment. (representing staff based Janet Askham it will not be a bureaucratic one. It could at ACIOG and other Tony Warne start with a club concept'.

A t present I have already i olated one or social science, law and two areas which might show some useful ethics staff) result. It eem to me that we need to There is a general feeling in some traditionsharpen up the way in which we make subal busines es that if you make a better Ro amund Herbert (representing staff in missions for grant-aided research to organmouse trap, the world will beat the path to Life Science) isations uch as Research Council and ur- your door to buy it. I do not believe it. It opean Commission. My experience with the is very necessary in business to keep people (representing staff at Cameron Swift latter has demonstrated that it is no good regularly informed of the benefits they will the Medical and Dental making an excellent submis ion unless you obtain from doing business with you and School) have undertaken a fair amount of grounduniversity research expertise is no excepwork to inform those both in the Commition. We need to shout hard and clear abIf you would like further information sion and the various supporting committout the sub tantial reservoir of excellence please contact one of the above or Rachel ees which assess reque ts for funding of the that resides in King's College and therefore Stuchbury the ACIOG Administrator/ reasons why your submission merits accepthe public relations activity demanded by Secretary at 552 King' Road. ext 3626. my work will require careful thought. I tance. Ideally, one likes to do more than

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LECTURES, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS

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Friday. 12 December 10.30

Fir t e ion (Room 3B_O) Chalrm;!n: PrOle or RO I WI bey Dr W J Ho saLk: 'Optic I Computing'

Dr ,1artin Frost 'Prohl m 01 ndly 109 Current PopulatIon and Employmen Cen u M terial' Chri tian Kay (L nJver ity 0 Glagov.) and DrJane Robert 'Word . World. and Computer: The Hi torical The auru~ 01 Cngli h. ,; 00

Second Ses ion (Room 3B 20) Chairman: Dr Andrev. Byerley

The Very R evd Sydney Evans (right) \\ith lames Colliston. Sl at a reception following his leelL/re 'The Faculty of Theology Origins and Developmenc', This Special Faculty Leclllre in Theology was given at King son ovember 11 as parr of the Unh'ersity of Londun S 150cll annh'ersary celebrations.

Peter H ancarrov. l Wooll on College. ambridge): 'The Input and Output of Exotic harader' Da\'id Martin (Director, u tomated Service, The Britl h Library): 'Optic;al Di Development at the Bnti h Library', 4.00

Final e ion (Room 3B20) Chairman: Dr Peter Dcnley (We tfield College) Davld Holmes (Bri tol Polytechnic : 'Source of Statistical Knowledg for Humanists' Richard Simp on (Warburg (n~t足 Itute): 'Academic Publishing versu Desktop PublishlOg - the Merits of Postscript' Sebastian Rahtz (Univer ity of Southam pton): 'Electronic PubIi hing in Archaeology'

DEPARTME T OF MECHANICAL E GI EERING RESEARCH SEMI AR L SER ELOCIM TRY APPLI ATIO S L OMB STIO E GI E I I 'TER FLOWS'

Part of the exhibition accompanying the lecture

J UARY] AUGURAL LECTURES I THE DEPARTME T OF PHYSICS Thursday 8 January THE LIMITS OF RESOLUTlO E.R. Pike, FRS, lerk Maxwell Profe sor of Theoretical Physics.

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This is the first in a series of 10 lectures, continuing each Thursday thereafter at 3.1Spm in room 28A until 12 March.

Dr M. Yianneskis, Lecturer Mechanical Engineering Department Wednesday 28 January 1987, 3.1Spm4.1Spm, Room 2B08, Strand campus

KJNG'S EPIC SEMI AR

Monday 12 January THROWI G SOME LIGHT 0 D FECTS I SILICO Professor E.C, Lilghtowler~, Professor of Experimental Physics.

Monday 26 January 1987 at 5.00 p.m. : Or R. BEATO : 'The Greek Chanson de geste: Digenes Akrites'

2.00pm, Room 2C, Strand Campus

Room 330, Strand campus

RESEARCH SEMINARS SPRI G 19 7 : FOOD SCIE CE DfYISIO January 14

Or Diana nder on (Briti h lndu trial Biological Re earch 0 i tlon) Genetic toxicology in the food indu try

January 28

Or T Galliard (Lord Rank Research Centre) Wholemeal flour: u e and abuse

5.30pm, Food Science Lecture Theatre, Kensington campus

PROF.ESSOR BROW

HO OURED

The University of Durham is to award an Honorary D.Litt to Profe or Julian Brown.

Illne prevent Julian Brown receiving the honour In per on but uch i the regard in lA hich he i held that Durham are to make the notable exception of conferring the honour ill absencia. Our congratulation to Profe sor Brown and our good wi he for a peedy recovery.

NEWS ROUND-UP WE'RE MOVING

STAFF NEWS OBITUARY MR D.S. MILLER We are sorry to record the death, last month of Mr. D.S. Miller, Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Food and utritional Studie ince 1963.

EQUIPMENT GRANT TO DR P. R. GORDON-WEEKS The Wellcome Trust ha awarded a special equipment grant of ÂŁ36,529 to Dr. P.R. Gordon-Weeks of the Departmenfof Anatomy & Human Biology for an ultracentrifuge to continue his work on the biology of nerve growth cones. This grant has been awarded under the Wellcome Trust's Major quipment Scheme.

LAW LECTURER LEAVES FOR NEW APPOINTME T Dr Janet M Dine, Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at King's College London, has been appointed Senior Re earch Fellow in Company and ommercial Law at the Institute of Advance Legal Studie. niversity of London.

PHARMACY ROLE AT I STlTUTE Dr A.E. Theobold, Lecturer in pharmacy ha been de ignated Honorary Senior lecturer in Radiopharmacy at the Institute of Cancer Research.

OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES Michael Knibb has been promoted from Reader to Profe sor of Old Te tament Studies, effective from 1st ovember 19 6.

Please note that King's College Short-Life and Head-Lease sections of the Accommodation Office are moving from Lightfoot Hall, Chelsea Campu to Kensington Campus.

The move will take place on riday 12th December 19 6 and therefore all future corre pondence and enquiries hould be sent or made to:

COLLEGE CHRISTMAS CARDS OW VAILABLE Thi year' card depi t one of the Icon in the College Chapel. and i available in red or blue. The can be bought from the following people: Strand MrJoeMay Mr Derek Law Or Ann Knock Mrs Briggs

Main Entrance Library Library nion Shop

Kensington Mis Lind ey Coules Main Building Chelsea Mr John Harden's Secretary (552 King's Road) Mr John Wornham (Manresa Road)

Room 2-305

Main lodge at Main Building

They cost 35p each, or 30p if 5 or more are purchased.

Student Services Registry Huts Kensington Campus Campden Hill Road LO DO W87AH Tel: 937 5411

THE FITTEST DEPARTMENT IN THE COLLEGE? The Department of Pharmacology took part in the Sunday Time ational Fun Run in Hyde Park in September for the third succe sive year. This time we had two teams in the Fun Run, one all female and one all male. The sex discrimination act prevents us from telling you which team performed better, but we can say that both teams finished in the top half of all the teams taking part. The runners were: Catherine de Whalley, Sue Friend, Alan Gibson, Mike Hudspith, David Leake, Philip Moore, David Ogden, Christos Pagonis, Roxana Pagonis (co-opted), Judy Phillips, Sara Rankin, Deirdre Robertson, John Tucker and Alexa von Uexkull. We received a total of two gold medals and six silver medals. The money we raised in sponsorship was sent to the Save the Children Fund earmarked for the African Famine.

We therefore now consider ourselves the fittest department in the College and challenge any other department to prove us wrong by ubmitting their own team for the Fun Run next year and beating us in the Rankings.

EWS FROM THE CATERI G OFFICER KENSI GTON Chri tine Wilson, Kensington Site Catering Manager since the merger has recently left the department. Colleague will I am sure join me in thanking her for her work for the merged College, and for Queen Elizabeth College which she joined in 1980. I wish her every success in the future.

We hope to appoint a new 'Site Catering Manager'in the near future: in the mean time the Senior Supervisor Mr H Harper will together with Miss Kennedy be responsible for the day to day operation of the department. I would like to thank them,

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and the member of the Site Admini tration who are a is ing them, for their suppon during thi period

FO R EV FELLO\ SHIPS PH R\1 CY

HO PIT LITY REQ E TS

P to tour ne\\, po tdodorallellow hip lor pharm eu ieal edu"atlon or re ear h will be awarded by the niver ity of London in 19 ~.

The ne .... ha pHality torm mtroduced at Ihe heginning 01 thi e -ion arc proving 01 benelH bo h to the department, and the majority 01 our u tamer. However. there are ome department in College not u ing he e form, and It would a ist C tering Servi e nd the Finance department if the e lorm - .... ere u ed whenever po ible.

Supplle 01 thl torm can be obtained from my office or from the Site Catering Managers.

The niver ity will pend about £63.000 a year from a total of O\'er 600,000 bequeathed by he late Cyril W \1aplethorpe who died in 19 3, and glv n by hi .... idow, Margery. r Maplethorpe wa ~lanaging Due tor of Hen and Hanbury from 1944 to 196 -. and Pre Ident of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain from 1963 to 1965.

CHRISTMAS GREETl GS I .... ould like to thank all our customer for their valued busines and support during 19 6, and WI h, on behalf of all the Catering Sta f, everyone a very happy Chri tma , and a pro perous 19

The fellowships will be ba ed either in the Pharmacy Dept. here or at the School of Pharmacy.

KI G'S THEOLOGIC L RE ID The. utumn 19 6 edition d.

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RiLhard Coggln on the ReligIOn 01 the Old To.' tament John Todd on the Church Philip We t on the Ethi' of War, in reply to Gordon Dun tan.

I neluded al 0 are review of reLent theological book.

Pril:e £2 (£ I for tudents of KQ ), from Fa 'ulty of Theology and Religiou tudies Office.

KI G'S COLLEGE SOCI L CL B P. J. Hoffman

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

EWS AUDIO VIS AL MA AGER ick Bugg was appointed Manager of Audio Vbual Services (KQC) on I t Dec 19!16.

He can be contacted at the Strand on l:.xl.

2386 and i located 10 Room 13B CASSETTES AT lOp

hamper full of Chri tma, goodies will be one of the prile raffled at the Strand Social Club on Friday 19th December.

Ticket can be bought on the Strand from Liz Auden-Davies, Christina Devereux, the Po t Room or the Social Clu b bar after 8 th December.

All proceed will go to charity.

The A.I).S . . (Strand) ha a large quantity of used audio cassette to dispose of :a seen'. Plea e call at Room 23B, after Ilam.

COLLEGE NEW YEAR DANCE LIVE NET On the 12th ovember BT. made the final link in the optical fibre that joins King's to ) mperial College, niversity College, and the Univer ity of London Audio Visual CenGentre. The fibre carrie simultaneously four in-coming and four outgoing Video channel to a swit hing centre within Senate Hou e. Queen Mary College and the niver ity Computer Centre are the next group to be connected. ntl! Octo her 19 7 the ervice will be experimental, but teacher of inter collegiate course wi hing to u e the network, and other hould contact ick Bugg on Strand 23 6

You may have wondered what has happened to the College ew Year Dance. The Dance is usually organised by the Social Club on behalf of the College and i held on the fir t Friday after the ew Year before the tudents return to the Macadam Building. However, in 1987, it will not be po sible to fit the Dance in before the new term starts on January the 7th, and therefore it has been proposed that we hold an Easter Dance during the Ea ter vacation instead.

We hope that people won't miss the Dance too much in January but will look forward to supporting the event in March or April.

The Committee of the King' College Sports and Social Club

TELEPHO E DIRECTORY AME DME T The num ber in the internal telephone directory for J oan Fennell, Conference Administrator at the King's Campus Vacation Bureau, has been incorrectly listed, The number should read C3768, not C3678.

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POST ROOM PLEA! Please do not tamp your departmental charge code onto internal mail it causes great confusion. Thankyou.

Visitors to the Careers Fair held at the College on 4 November.

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COMME T is produced by the King's Co)lege London (KQC) Information Office on the Strand campus.

XT EDITIO : Copy date Friday J anuary 9 1987 for publication in the week of January 19.

WE WISH ALL OUR READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS A D A HAPPY EW YEAR!