Comment 023 April 1987

King's College London (KQC) newsletter

KING'S SECURES COR WALL HOUSE The new term opened on a po itive note with the new that the Department of the Environment had given approval to the College's imaginative plan to acquire the lea e of Cornwall Hou e.

Sin e early March King' ha been urgently finali ing plans \\ ilh a private backer and talking with the relevant government ministers. A meeting with Kenneth Baker on March 20 imlJcated that there was ignifk:ant interest in the scheme and a fuller suhmis ion was requested. subsequent meeting with Mr Christopher Chope.

Under Secretary of State at the Department of the E:nvironment, on March 25, also Indicated potential support for the approach. Thi, support was confirmed in a letter of April 8 from Chri topher Chope in which he aid: "I was very interested to hear of your imaginative new proposals for acqUiring Cornwall House without recourse to public funds .... 1 was ready to accept this as constitutJllg an offer made within the

end-March deadline I had set but I wanted to discu s your propo al with, icholas Ridley before taking the matter further.

I am now glad to tell you tlwt he entirely hare my view that we should proceed with negotiation for a sale on the lines you have proposed."

Thc way IS now open for King's 10 acquire the Cornwall House Lease. This can he achieved by a unique and unprecedented alliance With private commercial backers.

To reach this POJllt has taken long, detailed and patient negotiation and stdl mlll:h work needs to be done in conjunction with both the University and the UGC to ensure the final realisation of the plans.

Further detail of developmenls will he released as soon as they are available.

Created in part thank to the STER bequest and partly as an I ntercollegiate I nitiative, [he University of London Language and Communication Centre i being set up within King's College.

The Centre i. e pecially aimed at language training for student in scient ific, technological and indu trial fields, who WIsh to acquire a knowledge of any language in theIr own speciahsed field. I1 also offer English as a foreign Language to foreign tudenls who wish to study in their own peclalised area in reat Britain.

The Language and Communication Centre will offer a variety of other services, to niversity of London ~Iudenls and others who become members of the enlre: these \ervices include self-tutoring computer facilities, an audio-visual library catering for differnt language levels, a Conference/ eminar area, and short IntenSIve L'ourses to various specifications as and when reqUired, nOI only for language learning but for a whole range of communicative skills in a foreign language (interviewing, writing reports, delivering speeches!

Conlert.'ncl's el c.).

Cour\es in any language can he arrJnged (nolonl in Ihe "uropean languages) in order 10 prepare for internationalisatIon in ledlnlcal, IIldU\lrial, sLienl illc and comIlll'rLlal alllvlties.

1 hl' Centre will he operational a\ Irom OLlober 1<) 7. Lnquirles related to the wor)... Jnd tkvelopmenl 01 the ('entre can be dllecled In Dolore\ Dilner. L/O thl' Frl'ndl Department on eXI\. 2 00,2402

Original members of the King's 1959 staff cricket team, pictured at the rccenl long service awards reception. From left to right are; Professor Deeley, nr S'lencer, Dr Shennan, frofessor Cox and Dr Smilh.

A service 01 thanksgl\ ing IS to bl' hl'ld 101' the life ot Professor Peter Baker. SeD. foRS. Halllburlon Professor ul Physiology and Fellow 01 K ing's College London.

The servicl' will take place at 5.30pl11 on Thursda}' 14 May, I ~ 7. in the Chapel.

King's College, Strand campus.

D The Land e Re earch nit, attached to the Geography Department, originated from the econd Land tili ation Surve of Britain, launched in 1960 by lice oleman. With the help of 3000 volunteel', mo tly geography graduate, the whole country wa surveyed on thou ands of large- cale map, and new method were developed for interpreting the 250 types of land use they portrayed. Many planning failures were revealed, and the sub equent ta k of the Research nit has been a deeper study of each problem use, ranging from dereliction to land potential for forestry.

The present focus of study is problem housing. In a five-year project, funded by The Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, large cale maps were again u ed to urv y all the housing in an area of 50 sq. km, which proved to include over 4000 blocks of flats. Fifteen types of ocial breakdown have been u. ed as test mea ure and these are found to be sy tematically WoI' e as the design of the blocks include progressively more of 16 design feature now identified as deleterious. They include overhead walkways linking block to block, which prove to be the strongest factor in the spread of crime, and the. haring of the same grounds by different block, which is termed 'confused space' and is the most powerful factor in maximising the volume of crime. If the ize of the block exceed the number of people who can know each other by sight, there i a state of anonymity, which encourages criminal. to feel afely unidentified, while a lack of individual front gardens along a street deprives toddlers of a critical opportunity to learn respect for other people' property, so that they tend to grow up more vandalistic.

The effect of poor design upon child-rearing emerges a a stronger factor in social breakdown than many apparently ohvious social cause such as poverty and unemployment. This offers great hope, as faulty design is easier to change than ocial deprivation, and all the example of design improvement carried out to date have brough t su bstan t ial benefit. .

For example, the removal of overhead walkways halved the crime raIl' in one estate and reduced burglary hy 5S% in anot her. The. e feat ures were oft en demanded as e ape routes by the Fire ervice, but thL'y ,eem 10 increase the incidence of fires as well as crime. One estate where 72 blocks are linked together by 'streets in thl' sky' has onc fire pCI' five dwellings reI' annum, as well a~ needing frequent lift-rescue services, while a well de igned estate in till' ~ame borough has had only one fire pCI' 720 dwellings. Arson appears to be part of the pi.lllern of ocial breakdllwn caused hy mi.guided deSign.

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Splitting up a block into malleI' elf-contained section ha proved to reduce antisocial behaviour and vandal damage 0 much that the co t of management i greatly reduced. dding front and ba k gardens to ground-floor flats ha had a profoundly sociali ing effect upon children - and we have to remem bel' that the average age of the British crim inal i 14.7 years.

In the best example to date, five different design were impro ed in the ame block, with the result that litter, graffiti, excrement, vandali m and crime disappeared, mental illness was relieved, and the neighbouring park cea ed to be a dangerou place. A nearby estate of the same age and design had the same amount of improvement money pent on it but no design changes were included and it quickly relapsed to all the previou form of environmental degredation with one crime per dwelling per year. Design improvement (DJ) is therefore bringing hope to many e tates where other form of improvement have failed. Anti-burglar devices, for example, may make residents feel safer indoors, but they do not make it any safer to go out after dark. Containing crime by a fortre -like approach may merely di place it elsewhere, but design change appears to tackle a major cause of problem behaviour and actually cure it.

This re earch has att racted the hostility of the Department of the Environment, which promoted all the features now being criticised, through its design guides subsidies and awards. However, the finding have been ex tremely well received by people with fir t hand experience of the problem estates; tenants, local housing officers, the police, church workers, child psychiatri ts, etc. And most recently, the Policy Unit at 0.10 Downing Street has been taking a constructive interest, so there may be an orportunity to initiate a wave of change in British housing and in all the social problems generated by child-rearing in defective homes.

TELLECTUAL

[t i~ clearly in the best intere ts of the College and of the Inventor that ideas which may lead to increasing income to both the College and the Inventor are patented and commercially exploited.

This includes inventions for work sronsored b Research 'ourlcils as the Research Council. hi.lve au thorised King's College to undertake the exrloitation of inventions arising from research funded by the AFRC, the E RC, the MRC, the NERC and the SERC. Indeed, the College is charged by the Research ouneil to en. ure that academic taff review their work frequently so that all palentahle idea are explored. Formerly, Invention of this

kind had to be offered to RD /BTG but thi i no longer the ca e.

[I', in the cour e of your work, you make an invention or other original work whi h may be ommercially exploitable you hould report it to the College via the A si tant ollege Secretary, Judy Staight, who will dJ cus with you how tep may be taken to protect and exploit the invention.

It is very important that you contact Judy Staight before relea ing the idea at a seminar or in a publication, and before entering into any agreements with outside bodie .

The net income from a patent or licencing agreement is apportioned between the Inventor and the College, a follows;

________ f First 4,000 ext 12,500 ext 20,000 ext ) 00,000 ext 200,000 In exces of 336,500

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0 25 40 50 60 662/3

Further details can be obtained from your contract of employment.

There are a number of aspects which must be considered before a patent application is made. When you notify Judy Staight that you have a patentable idea she will send you some brief questions concerning the novelty of your invention, the size of the market and possible existing products, and the names of any companies you know who may be interested in marketing the product.

Taking out a patent is a costly activity.

Whcre practicable, the College would expect uch funding to come from outside sou rces, e.g. BTG or Research Corporation.

However, there may be occasions when the College would be willing to finance patent applications if alternative means are not available.

In order to take informed decisions on patenting, the College has set up a Patent Committee to consider all inventions and ideas and determine which are suitable for patenting. The hairman of the Patent Committee is Mr K Groves (Director, KCL Enterprises), the members arc Professor D Robin on, Biochemistry, Dr R K Dixon, Civil Engineering, Dr B E Cau ton, Conservative Dentistry Department of the Medical School. (If you feel the membership of the Committee creates problems for the confidentiality of your invention you should di cuss this with Mr Groves.)

Judy Staight will pass the information concerning your invention, in the strictest

conflden 'e, to the member of the Commillee for con ideratlon. The Commlllee ma} a '} ou to attend a meellng.

It 111 be the re pon Iblllr} 01 the In entor tu approa.. h o.;ompanl \\ nh a \ le\\ to h ,en mg hi her Imenrion. Ken Grme I a a1lablt: to a I t m he pro edun:., whlo.;h mu t be l:ardull~ negollaled partiCUldrly where hu:m:mg royallle. arc Imoleu, The con ern 01 the Patent Commit tee 1 to provlue the In entor \\. ith protection 101' the Idea 0 that it Lan be more alely UIS\..U cd \\.Ilh compame .

There are everal routes open to the Patent Committee. One poslbility IS to place the Idea bel ore the BTG or lhe Re earch Corporation. Borh the e concerns wlll undertake patentmg and hcem.mg to companies m exchange for an apportionment 01 royallles bet ween them dves and the College, The CommJltee may alternatively decIde to apply for a K, European or overseas patent A soon as a patent application IS filed then the Inventor IS a bit: to approat.:h companle wllh the Idea.

The deci ion 10 apply tor a paten I in t.:ountries other than the K wlll depend upon the market to be explored, IternatlvL'ly, the Patent Commlltee may deo.;lde that no patent dppht.:allOn w1l1 be made, m which ca'e the Inventor is Iree to make an application hun/herself.

11 the Committee de\..illes to patent. you will he asked to diSCUSS the idea with a Patent Agent. Patent gents will be selected by the COlllmlltee on the grounds 01 their expertise In the ubject area of the invention. The Patent Agent may then make searches to determine whether any similar idea has been patented or published.

THE SURVEY OF BOOK LICE I DOMESTIC KITCHE S DEP RTME T OF BIOLOGY You may remember that last autumn wc asked members 01 College to take part In a survey. s parI of a larger researt.:h project lundell by FRC on the blOlog}, population dynamiC and pest stalUs of a small inse\..t, called the booklouse (Uposcdls hostfl chophilus), we were Interested to find out how \..ommon it wa in domestl\.. kil\..hens. Wc senl a 'hooklou e kit'. l:onIstlllg of five "traps" and a questionnaire, 10 everyone on the pa} roll of KJIlg' '01lege and designated October 1<) 6 as "Booklouse Month"! dditlOnally a furthcr 200 kits were dlstributt::d to friends and coni ads around Great Britain.

Of the 10lal of I 00 households asked 10 take pilrt, a gratifying 30'/0 (541) re~pon颅 ded hy returning their questionnaire and '路traps". Of these, 14.4% (7 ) t.:ontained U{Joscdi.1 eggs, nymphs or adults. All ap-

parently empty "trap -, \\cre incubated lor one month and then rc-e.\amllled 101' 1Il C ts. There wa . no ~ignill'ant bia ro the 1Il Id en 'C ot booklJ e wirh an} partieul.lr regIOn or the o.;ountf}, nor ~ nh hou ehold m Itle a oppo ed to rural area.

Bc Ide boo hee. the trap were al 0 aurat \ e to c\eral other t] pe 01 arthropod, partll:ularly mite, and moth and heetk lan ae. Howc\ er therc a no corn:latlon bet een the pre enee 01 one in. ect With othcr.

In general the une} produo.;ed notati tlcally Igllllicant relatlon 'hip between Ihe prcence of booklicc and other lactor .

For e ample the questlonnalrt:: data ho\\.ed no correlation between the inCIdence of booklice and any envIronmental charactentic. of the hou ehold su -h as the prc ence, ab ence or com blnatlon 01 conden ation problem~. central heatll1g or dou ble glaLmg. I or was there any corn~l颅 alion between the way 111 whIch dry load. were stored (clther in their ongmal pa\..kagmg or in other container) or where Ihey wt::re kept (111 cupboards or cold larder~) anll the presence of booklll:e in the "traps" The questionnaire also asked about peoplc'. shopping habits and although there wa~ no Ignlficant correlation of mcidence of hooklJce with Irequency 01 renewal 01 dry loods, n was lI1teresting to see how long stores of certam loods were kept. the a erage ratt:: of replacmg flour and rice being 11.51 and <).43 weeks respet.:llvcly.

Bookli<.:e were not lound to bt' a~sociated with any ~pel:lfle retad outlet or brand ot flour.

re and wc would welcome an} contact In thl- arca.

We would IJ e to thank all 01 .ou \\. ho roo pan, manJged to remember hen: . ou had hIdden rhe "trap" and returned I h m ro u . Tho e pl"ople that alll thc} \\1 hec.J to no\\. \\ hJ y, a m theIr" r.Jp .. ha\e been told bur an} onc l"I e \\ I hmg to Imd ut an\. ntadDrBr}anTurnaor Hannah buc.Je-Ro'\by m the Dcpartml'nt of Biology. Ken mgton CampU ext. _lJ21.

Thb uney \\.3 the ubject 01 a pre enlatlon 101' the 11) ~ Bnti~h Crop ProtectIon (oun .. " ympo lum on Stored Product Pe t ontrol held at Readmg nlver ny at the end 01 ~arch Bryan Turner

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The two letters In the :\1 arch editIOn ot CO:\1:\1L T werc but a small mdleatlon of the interest arou ed by Mark' moving account in the February is ue. I know that a number of people have wnllcn directl) to hun e pres IIlg their appreCIation of his commentary on the klndne sol the King's 'ollege t.:ommunity. He has al 0 been invited to take a short break with onc member 01 staff at his home by the Thamcs. The College Council has al'o conveyec.J Its good wishes to him. HIS letter was rcferred to by the PrinCIpal durlllg the last 路ount.:il meeting.

Wc were also interested to find out how people wou Id respond to find ing book lit.:e in their food. 20% said they would throw the food away and do nothing else. Considering those who said they would seck some compensation then, assumIng that all l:omplamts to shops were pa. cd on, the product manufacturer would be unlikely to become aware of more than 50% 01 infe tations. l:.nvironmental Health Offit.:es would only hear of about 3% of infestations.

ThiS type 01 positive reaction. together With the fact that his thoughts were made so widely available in the college newsletter, has heen of psychologIcal valut:: to Mark. He has plenty of time to t.:ontemplate his situation and to thlllk about what might have been. Unless he can get acces to peoplc's attention it i quite po sible that he would become demoralised. I believe thi t.:omc out trongly in hi Ictter to hImself.

The malll findings of this survey contradi\..t the un ubstantiated food mdustry vIews that a) hookllce are t.:ommon hou ehold pests and h) that their int.:rease is due to pCt.:ific features of the hou ehold environment. The lack of any t.:orrelations in the data trongly sugge t that book Iice appear in house~ on a ranc.Jom hasis. Infestation of food products before they are hought by Ihe publiC would he expet.:ted to produce Just such a random pallern.

The que tions posed by J IIlty e1son last month were, "I the Mark Bailey ppeal stIli open?" and "To whom may I send a contnhutlon?". The short answer to the first is cs. To the. el:ond I would reply to Mark Bailey, 16 Mount Plea'ant, Dis 1\orfolk. The due a to what to send was outlined III Jean Hunt's note when she mentioned the alue of belonging to our t.:ommunity and al. 0 his knowlllg that his friends and colleagues arc still concerned for him.

We hope to repeat this survey again in Ocloher j l) 7, hopefully increasing the number of household. involved and also covering a wider area. Last year a num her of people suggestec.J including st.:hools and wc would appreciate any contads with teachers who may be interested. 10 the obvious next areas for sa III pling arc food sto-

n on-going personal correspondence, partIcularly on t.:asseltes would he a most valuahle and indeed a vcry rewarding way of keeping that "bright and steady glow" alight for Mark. Poetry and prose readings and dist.:u. ions arc very much to his liking: al 0 he has a very lively interest in music,

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particularly of the dasslcal and operatIc ariety. I hould add that hi intere ts go way beyond the preferences mentIOned.

Whether and how we should keep a fund open for :vi ark and other needy cases is a matter for careful con ideration. I would he happy to act a the collector for an Idea which ma}' emerge and al 0 to keep the College informed through the e pages hould a feasible cheme be proposed. I am also prepared to arrange a di cus Ion for tho e who wish it.

Ken Bromfield

WHEATSTO E LABORATORY SALE The Whealstone Laboratory at King' i probably the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in Europe. The laboratory wa named after Sir harle Wheatstone, who bequeathed about 1500 books and equipment worth, in I 75, about ÂŁ1000 to the College. Wheatstone was the first Professor of xperimental Philosophy (Experimental Physics) when he was appointed in I 34. In the 41 year period up until his death, Wheatstone wa involved with many of the great developments in physic of the 19 century, particularly in the field of electricity. He was knighted for his work on the electric telegraph, and is considered by many to be the father of Ielecomm un ications (t ransmission of mes ages over distances) and telemet ry (transmission of measurement over distances). He is best remembered for hi electrical 'bridge', but in fact he did not invent it!

In the century .mce Wheat tone's death the Phy ics department ha accumulated a large amount of teaching apparatu , which has causedtorage problem.

Increa cd by the arrIval of new equipment from the other olleges following the merger. Old equipment ha. b en retrieved from it hiding place, under lecture theatre and in attic rooms. A great deal of this equipment was used for teaching in the period between the two world war but mo,t i of little u e In today' teach'Ing laboratory, When as embled, the surplu equipment covered I" en benche in the Physic laboratory! It wa decided that the item which were clo ely COllllccted to Wheat. tone and his successors in the Physic department should be retained and a proper di, play made 0 Ihat the College's history could be seen by visitors..

The new display is in 'C corridor, near the Principal' Office.

The remaining equipment was examined by experts from the cience Museum the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford and the Whipple Mu, cum at Cambridge, and the Phy ics department ha trllnsferred a few items to those 1l1USeUms in order to complement their respective collections. The remaining items were old on 5 March at Christie's, South Kensington. The catalogue of the Sale contained a brief article on, anti a photograph of, Wheat tone, together with ,ome old photographs of the Laboratorie which conveyed vividly the atmosphere of the ollege in the last century. It is hoped that the money raised will gal towards refurbishing t he Physics Laboratories.

Professor Norman Clarke

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The relocatIon of the Per onnel Office was completed on 31 t 1arch 19 7 and the whole department J now sItuated In the 'orfolk Budding. If you WI h for any help or advice, member of the department can be contacted a follow: S2521 Mi s Marjone Young (Personnel Officer) 334, orfolk Building S2511 Mi s Helen Shield (Departmental Secretary) 334, orfolk Building S2765 Mr Geoffrey Cuthbert (A sistant Personnel Officer - Academic and Research Staff) 215, orfolkBuiJding S2765 Mrs Sue Campbell (Assistant) 215, orfolk Building S2765 Mrs Pam Bearman (Secretarial Assi tant) 215, orfolk Building S22 8 Mrs Lynne Hughes (Assistant PcrS2300 sonncl Officer - All non-teaching Staff) 331, orfolk Building S22 Miss Karen Bayliss (As istant Clerical and Academic Related Staff) 331, orfolk Building S2300 Mi. Christine Crewe (A sistant Technical and Related Staff) 333, orfolk Building S 2362 Mrs Ann Phillip. (Assistant Manual and Ancillary Staff) :n I, orfolk Building S2288) Miss Clare Booker and S 2300) Miss J oannc J ackson (Secretarial S 236 2) Assistants) 333 , orfolk Building

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Thur day 7 May A Pub)l\; LeclUre in the Departmenl 01 Spanl.h o TH.\::. FIFTH CE TE DIS 0 ERY OF THE MERI S TOPIA Carlos Fuente, imon Bolivar Profes r, Univer ity of ambridge S.30pm, Room 2C, Strand campu

Wedne day 13 May Half day meeting on the Regulation of Photo~ynlhetic Carbon Metabolism, being held by the Plant Sciences Special Interest Group l~W T.\::.CH IQ .IS J THE PURS IT OF OLD PROBLEM Profes,or D Walker, FR, ni er~ity of Sheffield 2路5.30pm, lien Theatre, Ken ington campus Thursday 28 May War Sludle. Annual Lcclun: LLI.\::.D D.\::.CEPTIO IN THL SI.;CO 'D WORLD WAR Professor Sir Michael How<Jrd, CBI::, MC, Rl'gius Profes~or of Modern History, Oxford University

DEP RTME T OF HISTORY A 0 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIE CE SEMI ARS Wednesday 6 May

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Wednesday 13 May PHILO OPHY '\D RTIFICI L I TLLLlGL 0: Dr R Garigli,lno, UniVL'r~ily of DlIrhdm Wednesday 20 May DO WI~ L:.I:D L:.W PAR DIGM I-OR I::.VOLUTlO R BIOLOGY? Dr M W Hu, The Open University

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Friday IS May 1'0\ RDS Ell IR OF LIFE Profesor P B Gahan, KCL 7.00pm, Food Science Lecture Theatre Kensington campu .

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Thursday 7 May BI::.I G TO G I::.-TII::.D SII' Randolph Quirk, Presidenl of the British cademy

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Wedne day 20 May SO IAL IMPLI 1'10 OF BIOLO ICAL SCIE I.; Profe sor Maunce Wilkins, I-RS, KCL 'haired by Paul Black Wednesday 27 May A COMMO, E E THL:.ORY OF MOT10 : A TH 路ORETIC LAD EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO HILDRE IDE S ABO l' DVI AMICS Joan Bliss, S Chair d by John Head

SASpm, The George Wood Theatre, Gold mith' College U IVERSITY COLLEGE LO DO PUBLIC LECTURES Monday 1 May Inaugural Lecture THI::. L WS 0 THE ROM A S Mr M H Crawford, Professor of

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Wednesday 3 June RI: I: RCH A D DI.:VI:.LOPME T I AD LT OC TION L I:.D C 1'10 Dr W Bridge, ewham CommunilY College ChaireJ hy Tany Man, ell

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Tuesday 26 \1ay fVPOLOGY OF I:. RLV I-RF CH I::.PIC M ' CRIPT Profe~sor lan Short, Blrl..beck College S.30pm, Room GOS, Strand campu

DEPARTME T OF MECHA ICAL E GI EERI G RESEARCH SEMI AR Wedne day 3 June

C D liD S r RY : Wedne.day 27 May THE SOCIOLOGY OF A MILlTARV n-CH OLOGV: B LLlSTIC MISSILI: STI::LLA R-II LRTI L G lOA C I路 Dr D Ma 'Ken/ie, Universil 01 EJinbllrgh

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Dr L D Sl'nevlr;.ttne, KC 3.30-4.30pm, Room 2BO ,Strand campus

Wednesday 20 May LIO ISM THE 'R CIAL STAGE 190 -)919 David Vital, Hchrew Un ivcrsily of J erusale Wedne 'day 27 May 1'HEJI:.WSOFE TI:R E ROPE 191 -1939: S IMIL 1'10 ,ACT LTRI ATIO I, 1'10 ALlSM I:.I.I"<J Mendlesohn. Hebrew niversityof J crusdlcm Wedne day 3 June 1 he WilJiam Townsend Lecture THI::. ,R D M I:R MrClemenl Greenherg S.30pm

THE BRITISH AC DEMY Wednesday 13 May '111e 1987 PhilusophicaJ Lecture I DERST DI G LOGICAL CO STA TS: A REA LIST'S ACCO Prol'cssnr Christopher Peacocke, KCL

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THE ROY L SOCIETY Thur day 14 May The Croonlan Lecture PROTO, '-MOTI E OSMOE 'lYME MLCHA I M I YTO 'HROMl:.

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BY KIll. Or P 0 Mltchell. FRS Tue day 19 May Evening Technology Lecture PERT SY T MS: ARTIFI IAL INTELLlGE CE CO rES OF GE Mr B W Oakley Thur day 21 and Friday 22 May Di CU.SlOn Meeting 1 RACERS I 1 HI:. OCEA Professor H Charnock, FR ,Professor J I:. Lovelock, FRS. Or P S Liss and Or M Whit field

c) Centre and Periphery. piu many other vaned u bJe(;( urther detail, includll1g registration form. may be obtall1ed from:Or David Morley BAA Fortre. House 23 Savile Row London v 1 I B (Tel: 01 7346010 exl. 342) The clo ing date for regl. tration i 7 July.

STAFF NEWS OBITUARIES PETER FREDERICK BAKER

Thursday 2 and Friday 29 May Discussion Meet ing MITOCHO DRIAL BIOGE ESl Proft: or C J Leaver. FRS and Or 0 M Lon dale

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Tue day 16 June 1987 The traditional I:.nd of Se 'sion Dinner will this year be held on Tuesday 16 June in the Main Refectory, Macadam Building, trand campus at 7pm. herry will be served from 6.30pm in the lower Senior Common Room (South West Block).

This is an opportunity for members olthe College and their guests to meet In pleasant surroundings and is also the occasion when we say goodbye to those members of staff who are retiring and who will be invited with their wives or husbands as gue t. of the College.

The cost of the Dinner i t 15.50 per person including sherry. wine and port.

Those intending to be present at the Dinner are a ked to complete the form on the back page and return it with a cheque made payable to King's College London to M r P J Gilbert, Assistant Secretary, Room 2B, Main Building, Strand campu not later than Monday I June. Since eating i limited applications will be dealt with on a first come, first served basi .

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UAL MEETI G

The British A sodation for the Advancement of Science i. holding its Annual Meeting for 1987 at The Queen's I1Iverity of Belfast, from 24-2 August 1987.

The major themes of the meeting ""ill be a) Science and our Surrounding, b) Science, echnology and 1ndustry.

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Peter Frederick Baker, Halliburton Professor. and Head of the Department of Physiology since I ens, dIed uddenlyon March 10th. He wa. born at Lincoln in 1939. where his father was Chief Librarian and Curator of the City Museum, and educated at Lincoln School. From there, he won an open. cholarship in atural Sciences to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a 1st in Biochemistry in 1960. From the very start of hi career. Pl'ler showed an 0 erwhelming enthusia m for research. Whilst till an undergraduate, he published a paper on" ph, id Behaviour on Healthy and on Yellowsvirus-infeded sugar heet" in lhe Annals of Applied Biology. fter graduating. he entered the Phy iological Laboratory Cambridge, as a re. earch student under Alan Hodgkin. 10 work on the relationship between ion transport and metabolism in nerve fibres of the crab and the squid. quid can only be studied at the Lahoratory of the Marine Biologilal . ociation in Plymouth. It wa. there that Pcterpl'nt

ome of hiS happic t day, and he rcmall1ed an at;tive researcher at Plymouth for the rest of his lite. Hi mitial progre.s m re. ean.h was 0 rapId that he \Va. elected to a Rc. earch ellowship at Emmanuel m 1962. hI wa unu ually quick preferment. He later became a 111 er Ity Demonstrator ( 1963), a ni er )ty Lecturer (1966) and a Tutor of Lmmanuel. v hlle still In Cambridge. he erved a an I:.dJlor of the Journal of Physiology, and a. Secretary and Chairman of the I:.ditorlal Board.

DUring the Sixties, Peter Baker became interested in the cellular metaboli m of calcium ions, an area of Physiology 111 which he subsequently made many important discoveries. Onc of these is "Sodium-Calcium exchange". Thi term deSCribes a mechanism within cell membrane' which brings about the exchange of calcium ion, from II1slde the cell, With sodium ions, from outside. It is particularly Important in the functioning of nerve cells and heart muscle. He continued to work on it for the remainder of hi life. and wa husy organlsmg the first internatIOnal symposIum on Sodium-ealeium exchange at the time of his death. This sympo. ium will be held in July.

Peter Baker came to King's as the Halliburton Professor in Iln:, and sel ahout improving l he research hase of the Physiology Department. By this time his own researches had diversified widely and included the mechanisms of fertili/ation and exocyto.is. The laller became the main focus of his work at King's. Together with Derek Knight, he studied the details of the mechanism by which granules of adrenallI1e, stored inside adrenal medullary cells, fuse with the cell membrane. The resulting discharge of the granular contents (or exocytosis) to the exterior of the cell served as a model for the ecretion of the hormone adrenaline into the blood slream.

This work was recogni/ed by the Medical Rl'search Council hy the award of a grant to set up a" ecretory Mechani m Group" at King's in 19 3. By lhi lime. however, Pl'ter had received many awards and honour., including a Zoological Society Medal (1975). elected FRS ()976) and the cD degree ( 19 0).

Within King's, Peter Baker served twice as Dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences(1977-79 and 193- 6).andon many commiUe<'s. Hi most con. picuou. 'ervice wa. to maslermind the College's dcfel1l.e again. I Lord Flower' ( 1979) proposals to reorganise Medical I:.ducation.

These would have involved the abandonment of preclinical medical teaching at King's. He set about this with characteritic energy, organising the production of p<lpers whic.:h demolished the argument. adv<lnced hy Flowers, pUll ing forward counter-proposals. and mailing them individually to all member of thl' Senate.

These elJort. were highly un;esslul. and led to thl' defeat of thl' Flowers' plan.

fter this, Petcr contributed igniflcantly ni er.ity affairs. He wa elected to Senate in 19 I. and ubsequently erved on . everal niver Ily working parlle dealing with the futurc of edu ation In Mcdiclne and the Biological Science. He \ a elected a Fellow of King' College In 19 5. to

Peter Bal< 1" eminence in hiubject led to many demand on his time from outSide the niversity. He wa frequently asked to lecture abroad, he co-authored onc book ( alcium Movement in xcitable elb. with Reuter, 1975), edited three othcr (The Squid Axon, Recent Advances in Physiology and a forthcoming volume for thc Handbook of Expcrimental Pharmacology), and was Chairman of a CIBA oundalion Sympo. ium on "Calcium and the ell"( 1985). He wa an Editor of the Journal of Membrane Biology, the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Phy iology and Cell Calcium at the time of his death, as well as being a member of the Committee of the Physiological ociety and the Bntish repr sentative on the InternatIOnal Union of Physiological ciences. He was also a Member of the ompany of Biologi t路, the Board of the Marine Biological ociation, the Medical Research Council euro. ciences Board (latterly Chairman) and committees of the Royal ociety. Mo.t recently. he had become a member of thc Agriculture and Food Research Council, a post which he greatly cnJoyed, a at hcart he regardcd himsclf more a biologist than a physiologist. As if all this wa' not enough. he also found the time to be Chairman of hi parish council (Bourn, in Cambridgeshire), Chairman of the Board of Governors of the village school, and Chairman of the local planning committee. It was not all work, however. His main pastime was atural History. Pcter had an abiding interest in insects, which formed the subJcct of his early research, and found fruition in photography, and in charting the progres ion of Dutch Elm di case in his locality.

Pel er had a friendly, ou t ward-going personal it y. and rarely, if ever. showed signs of ang(路r. He had tremendous l'nergy and dri e, typified by his incredible walking pa<;e! More importantly, he had a wonderful ability to cncourage research and enthu iasm in others. There was nothing he liked more than discussing science with whoe er wa willing to talk. However, his greate. t gift was in the production of ideas.

He had an amazingly fertile mind, and thought not only about the fields in which he was working, but over an enormou range encom passing most of modern B iology. His rescarch tudenl. and members of hi group were kept supplied with more ideas for experiments than they could possihly lollow up. His generosity INentmucb wider, to include all the members of his Deparlment, and many other ~cientists in Britain and around the world. His death will mean a sad loss for a very large COIllmunity.

De pite the vast range of hi work an d achievement. Peter Baker enjoyed an active and happy family life with hi wife Phylli . and their four children. Luey. Sara, Alexander and Ch rJotle. Our thought go out to them in the traged of their bereavement. We all owe Peter a debt for the tremendous gift he brought to King's. Were he still with u , we kno~ he would have gone on to e en greater ucc e.

PROFESSOR DO ALD HOLROYDE HEY - A APPRECIATlO

erved as A si tant Principal. Donald Hey playcd a promment part in Illver ity affaIr and also erved on the Council and Finance CommJltee of Chel ea 'ollege, helping that College in it路 tran ition to the statu of a ehool of London niversity. niquely he wa a Fellow of King's 01lege, Imperial College. and hel ea College a well a of hi a/mer mater niver ity ollege Swan ea, which al 0 conferred upon him an honorary doctorate.

Donald H y was a scienti t of international repute, who was the fir t to realise that although many reactions in solution of organic compounds involved ionic species, there wa another clas of reactions involving neutral intermediates which he termed free radicals. Although Hey will be chiefly remembered scientifically as a founding father of Free Radical Chemistry, he al 0 made important contributions to the synthesis of alkaloid, teroids, and aromatic compounds. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955.

During the war Hey advised the Government on air raid precautions against chemicals, and in po.t war years he was active in Civil Defence.

Donald Hey had a genial and fair minded personality, and he was regarded wit h great affection by all who knew him. He was a devout member of the Church of England, and he was deputy organi tat his local church in Tadworth. His recreational interest werc mu ic and gardening, and he alway . appreciated letter and visit from his former colleagues and students in whose careers he took a great interest. His wife Jessie to wholll he had been marrieu for fifty-onc year, died in 1982 and he found this very hard to bear.

He is survived by their son and daughter.

Donald Holroyde Hey who died on 21 st January at the age of 82 was appointed Professor of Chemistry at King's Collcge in 194-, and he served the ollege with distinction until his retirement in 1971. t the time of his appointment the Department of Chemistry was everely damaged due to wartime bombs and rocket However Donald Hey worked with A J IImand to refurbi h and re-equip the laboratorie 0 that teaching and research could flourish and to enable the influx of ex- ervicemen to be successfully managed.

In 1950 Hey succeeded Allmand a Daniell Professor and Head of Department, and under his guidance the Department gained an international reputation for research. Many of hi colleagues and students in the Department were to become professors; eight were to be elected Fellows of the Royal ocicty. Donald Hey served a term as Dean of the Faculty of atural Science and had lengthy periods of membership 0 the Delegacy and Finance Committee of the University of London King's College, and the ounciJ and r-inance Committee of King' College taking an active interet in the theological activities 01 King's. During 1962-6 he

With the death of Donald Hey, King's has lost a truc friend and staunch supporter.

A memorial service held in the College 'hapel on March 16th was a fitting tribute to hi achievements and his devotion and service to the College.

CHA GE OF

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As from the start of the urn mer term on 22nd April, Penny Whipps, Departmental Secretary for the Departmcnt of Anatomy and Human Biology, wishes to revert to the use of her maiden name, Penny de Magry. She hope that this will not cause too much confusion.

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PREMIUM

Mr John Loveles of the Civil I:.ngineering Department has heen awarded the Palin Pri/.e of the Institution of Water Engineers and Scientists for his paper entitled "Offshore Break waters - Some ew Design Considerations" .

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King' ollege i plea cd to announ e the follo""ing recent appointment " Brian Bond' prole or hip wiU be entitled 'Proteor of Militar, HI tory' lice Coleman ha heen appointed Profe or ot eography Edward Deele ha been appointed Profe or of -Iectrontc and Electrical r ngineering D a id Hay ton ha been appOinted Profes or in the Faculty of Law Paul 0 'H iggin ha been appointed Profe or in the Faculty of Laws Chri topher Peacocke' profe or'hip will be entitled The Susan tebbing Chair of Philo ophy'

W RDS The ollege end congratulation to Profe or Gu tav Born of Pharmacology on hi two re ent award. He ha received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of clence from Brown niversity, SA, and from I' lJniver ite Rene-De carte dl' Pari, France, the title of Docteur HonOriS Causa. ongratulations are al 0 extended to Profe sor John Pirt, Head of the Department of Microbiology, who has received an Honorary DSc from the University of Kent al Canterbury.

FELLOWSHIP OF A.A.A.S. FOR DR. BRIA BOYCOTT Dr Brian Boycott, of the MRC Cell Biophy ic nit at Drury Lane. ha~ rl.'cently been elected a~ a Fellow of the ml'rican ociation for the dvancement 01 Science. His name wa pre ented to the Council with the following citation:"For research in functional anatomy of the brain and behavior of cephalopods, and for work on the structure, function, and quantification of the vertebrate retina. ,.

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CO RT DEP RTME T PPOI TME T

ROY L OCIETY RE E RCH RD

Peter J Griffith ,M . urrentl Deputy Clerk of the Court. ""Ill be ome Cler' 01 the Court. He v. III have overall re pon Jbilit> for the work of the Court Department, and v. ill work 10 el> wllh the Unlver IlJi' Prin -ipal on federal, finant.:lal and plannmg m lters.

The Royal O<.ICl, Paul Instrument Fund ha awarded a re earch grant of 0.000 o\cr t 0 }ears to Pro e or A J Roger ot the Department of Electronl and LIe 路tncal ngllleering

lan Budden. MA, PhD, currently i tant Clerk of the Court. Will become Deputy Clerk of the Court ith re pon ibility for the legal and general work of the Department, and for the servi ing of ourt meeting.

Henry M Green. BA, FCC , IB, currently Finance Officer of the nited Medical and Dental Schools of Guy' and St Thomas's Hospital, will become Financial Secretary to the ourt and head of the Finance and Stati 路tic Divi ion of the Court Department.

These appointment will lake effect from I ugu t 19 7, on the n:tLrement of J S Roderll;k, MC. BA, the pre ent Clerk of the Court.

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The po. sibilities afforded by the technique currently are exciting considerable mterest for a broad range of indu trial use, in a variely of application areas.

The new approach, which will lIlvol c tate-of-I he-an method in both Optics and electronics, seeks to provide the basl~ for a Viable new industrial measurement technology.

LECTURER LU CHTlME GROUP FOR STAFF In a busy institution fev. opponunille are provided for people to meet acro departmental boundaries in an informal and relaxed atmo phere. This lunchtime discus. ion group, initiated by 'hri Moody thl' College Chaplain, and ather Alexander Fo.tiropoulos, Ihe Orthodox haplain, is an atlcmpt to provide onc such opportunity.

The first meeting will be in Room 436.

Strand Building, at I pm on Tuesday 5 May and thercafter al the same time on Tuesdays until the cnd of term. The meetings will last 50 minute starling with a bre<ld and chee e nack and con I inu ing with discus. ion on a tOPiC introduced by a different membl'r of the group each week. Thl topk do not havl' to bl" of a religiou kind: thl'y ma rclatl' to onl"s work. past experience or spedal areas of intcre t. ugge tions will be gladly receied and di cused at thl' fir. t meeting.

All members of sta". academic and otherwi 'C, are most wl'lcome.

AME CORRECTlO Wc would like to ;Ipologlse for an incor-

Miss Cate Folland bas been appointed As istant Accommodation O,ficer with responsibility for the management of the Short-Life Scheme. Cate took up her post on 23rd March and is ba cd al the Ken ington Office.

The re earch III attempt to e tabli h the pnn 'iples for a fundamentally nev. approat.h to the subject of distributed oplJcalftbre mea urement en ing a te hntque whercb> any phy i -al field 'an be mea ured continuously as a function of po Illon along the length of an optical fibre.

recl entry in the telephone directory.

Thc corn:ct ion applies to D I' A W Park ins of the Department of Chemist ry, v. hose initials werl' unfortunately given as AM. Wc arc sorry for any inconvienience Ihi may havl' eau cc!.

W RDED PhD

Mi s J BJi ,lecturer in the Cenlre for Educallonal Studies, has recently been awarded a PhD of the niversity of London.

LIBRARY NEWS

SA EMO EY: RETURN OR RE EW YOUR BOOKS 0 TlME STR D CAMPUS:29 pril I~ till' date when item~ borrowl'd on tcrmly loan from thl' Strand Campus Libranes are due bilck. Fines will be charged on anything not returned or renewed by 5 ilY. nil'S an item has been reserved for another reader. it may bl' rl'newt'd by telephone. The number to ring IS 0 I ~36 5454, and the switchboard i. manned belwl'en l)am and 6pm. .k for the appropriall' ex Icnsion:Embankment Library French Library Laws Library Music Library

2312 2676

2313 2394

Old Library trand Building Library (for Level 1-4) Strand Le el 5

2675 2132 ~_

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CHELSEA CAMP S:In respon e to public demand, for a trial period hel ea Campu Librarie will accept renewal reque t by telephone, provided that the item concerned are not. eriously 0 erdue and ha e not been recalled for another reader. From time to time reader will be asked to bring books into the Library for checking.

11 reque t for renewal, including those for item borrowed from Coleridge and Pulton Place Libraries, will be handled through the Manresa Road Library on 01-351248 exl.

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the Faculty of EducatIon. The Coleridge Library will be open a follows until 19 June, after which the hour will be reviewed in the light of u e:Mon 0900 - ~OOO Tue 0900 - 2030 Wed 0900 - 2000 Thur 0900 - 2030 Fri 0900 - 1700

work is to be opened by the Chancellor and HRH Princess Anne on 2 Mayat I I am and the opening ceremony Will be replayed for local vie ing.

The udio isual Service nit only has clerical taff available to take book ing. during the time of J ) am to 2.30pm.

Plea e could anyone reque ling equipment contact the unit just between the e time at the Strand ite.

STOCK RA TIO ALlSATIO During the Ea ter vacation re idual Biology and Phy ic stock were moved from the Coleridge Library to the Queen Elizabeth Library and Strand Level 5 respectively.

We have di covered a batch of old but unused C55 audio cassette, which we are offering for. ale at 20p each, at the Strand site.

The Library

Audio Vi ual Service Unit

LIBRARY SECURITY er of the Embankment Library will be aware of the trials carried out la t term to a . e s the suitability of a security system for that part of the Library. The sy t m passed the te ts with flying colours, and wa in tailed just before

NEWS ROUND-UP AUSTRALIA CELEBRATIO

aster.

Any reader wearing a heart pacemaker who wishe to use the Embankment Library is advised to contact the staff at the issue desk (exl. 2312) before entering the Library.

Most of the major areas of the Library are now protected by security y terns, to the benefit, we feel, of all member of the College. The next area we hould like to protect is Strand LevelS. We already have the hardware made redundant by the conversion of the Strand Building Library. but at present lack the funds for installing it.

PHOTOCOPYING KE SI GTO CAMPUS:Following the closure of the Educational id and Reprographic nit at the Kensington Campu., there is likely to be a very heavy demand on photocopiers in the Queen Elizabeth Library. Plans are in hand to increase our photocopying capacity. ers are reminded that their Fie i'ards may be used with Library photocopier at all three campuses.

PHOTOCOPY I G SURVEY:During the week beginning 27 pnl. wc ~hall be a~king members of the College 10 tdl us what they would like In the way of pholocopier provision within the LIbrary.

Quesllonnaire are available now from all Library i sue de ks. and hould be returned, either in person or in the intcrnalmail to any part of the Library by 5 May.

OPENING HOURS COLERIDGE L1BRARY:evening opening hours al the Coleridge Library have been modified to provide a better service for part-time students In

[n a May dawn of 17 7 the first fleet sailed to found the Australian Colony. To celebrate the bicentenary of this event a tasting of Australian wines has been organi ed on the King's Road site.

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Date: Time: Place: Price:

Friday May 6.30pm The Hamilton Room ÂŁ7

The tasting will be tutored by the wine con, ultant Helen Vcrdcourt.

Ticket. which lllUSt be puchased in advance, can be obtained from John Barker Centre for Educational Studies, King's ' ROad Site. Room 5.216.

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The udio \ isual nit has quite c\'Cn: staffing problelll~ a~ a re ult of the staff free/c. t Kensinglon \\e have had vacani po h for over a year and now we havc no .,taff resident at fhi., sill'. Thl' traml al.,o i> sufft'ring because there IS onc vacJnt post. and probk-ms of illne~s. For Ihe tlllle being wc arc not abk- 10 gUMantee serviLe Irom any of Ihe A ud io \ !.Sual ervicl' Units as thne WIll be redeployment to COPI' wil h ellll'fgenl'ies.

Livl'nel is starting to get Sllme real u~e and Room 3B23 is tn be used for small group Iran miSSion. Room 2B23 is alsn equipped \\ith the cabling for u~e in larger leelure ~ilUallons. The Audio Visual Service nit is now ahle to sel up pract in' sessions within the lrand ite for potentwl users. In view 01 the current staff siluatlOn it would be hest 10 fil in praetil'l' .es ions afler the end of May. The nel-

K.Q.C, SlX-A-SIDE CRICKET DAY 1986 With the ice and snow, hopefully, behind us, and the daffodils blooming, thoughts of the forthcoming cricket sea on begin to surface. The gentle sound of leather on willow epitomises all the characteristics of a tranquil English summer's evening.

The six-a-side cri ket day is nothing like this at all!

0, that's not quite true. As a speclator sharing a picnic hamper with friends in the corner of Petersham field, near Ham House, feeding the horse ... it is typical rural England. For the re t of us. read on ...

Last year's compel it ion was the first joint onc, though it had been running at the former Q.E.C. since the early 1970 when live Wilkinson organised the first al the suggestion of a physic undergraduate. 54 teams entered last year from all three campu es, and several teams comprised players from all three. My little prayer on awaking on iX-a-side day is always for sunshine - and if nOI, no rain. Well, the sun shone and Ihe matche played on three pitches were under way by 10.30am. foull advantage wa~ taken of the lovely \CIting near the river, and the new hard and gra s tl'nnis courts receiwd maximum u.c.

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Thl' allernoon \ a puncluated by several interruplions. though not for rain. The ilrrival 01 a red hdicopll'r hovering over /lam Polo field nex t door prompted teve Whiting to announce on the PA sy~tem Ihat all should go and \\e!l;ome Di and Charlcs. This left the 3 cricket gallle devoid of spect ators as . cores raced to the l'<'nce ... which prompted the chopper to hop over the trees into Ham House grounds. ubscquenlly, of course, wc upstaged Lord~ with not onc but fj e \lreakns in the final.

Though eVl'nts do get behind "lhl'duk-, particularly when the beer bl'gins to rIO\\,

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Y.C did manag~ to pia) th~ final m r~a onable hght. Thl.... won by" JII} Can DJn<.:.: . oY.·· the} "er~" JII} an't Dan\..\..·· lh~ ) CJr belore BJtllng e.:ond Jnd ha mg ··B.:nldorm Boy'" 3 run In over. lhe) won Ilh an over to pare. mu h to th~ delight ot lh~ 3 la e and 3 lad Irom Food SClen\..etall tcam- mu t be mixed). Both Imah t were pre ented y.l\h KQC 1-3- Ide trophic and a bottle 01 bu bbl). the mem ber. 01 the w mnmg learn ea\..h re<.:elv ing a mall hield .. all) Can Dan\..<.: • 0 .. al 0 put mon<.:) on lhemelve~ when "Hone t Joc" opcned y.llh odd~ of 33-1 at 1 I am. 0 our eftorts to rai e a bit of moncy for Bob Geldot y.ere cuppen:d.

The evening tinl hed with a barbeque and JaLZ band in the marquee. together With a dL <':0. Coache ~huttled between Kensington and the ground, the last leavmg the ground around midnight. We dldn'l find anyone asleep in lhe hedgerow next morning!

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It takes dO/en~ of people to make these o<.:<.:asions a su<.:ce s from lhe corers and umplrcs to thc barmaid and chet .

However, I y.ould particularly hke to thank tcve Whiting for look 109 afler the non-{.ri\..ketmg part. of us, and S tuart Ander. on, the ground man, for lcnding the ground for ~u\.h an occa 'IOn, thereby makmg It so enJuyable. We hope to hold thiS year's evcnt on Thur day 1 June.

See you there. otices giving arrangements for entering team will be posted on the 3 \;ampu es early in the term.

Fred Armitage

SEL" 1986-1987 The latest isue of KI G'S CO LL, umber 36, has recently been pUbIJshld. 'opies of this Journal of the Faculty of Laws, Kmg' ollege London, are available at£3.9l)(or£I.9t} for taffand sludents of the College} from the PoneI" Off Ice or lhe Laws Facully,

PERSO AL SECURITY A repon and recommendations for IInproVlOg general .ecurity on the Strand (ampus recently re\;eived from lhe local rime Prevention OftlLer, \;ontained a ~uggestlon that female members of the College particularly should consider carrying a "Shrillalarm" for their per onal protection both in and ou t of College.

The tudenls' nion shop, situated on the firs! floor of the Macadam building, ha alarms in stock and available for sale toallmembersofthe 01legeat£1.70 ea<.:h with refills at £ 1.1 O.

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Baroness TrumpinglOn, Minister oJ State Jor Health, haplng her blood pressure dlecked bl' I rances Bunn.

G AID - "MOT FOR

S' On Thur day 12 February eight 3rd year nursing undergraduates spent the day In the Trocadero, PIccadilly Circus, dispensing indiVIdual health adVice to the public. ursing lecturers Sandra Lask and Mona Fordham plus Health I.:.ducatlon Research urses Sheila Haverty and Sally Kendall giJve baLk-up support. Money was raist::d lor nursing and midwifery projects III Eriursing id treiJ. Burma and Honduras.

IS organised by the ursing Times III conJunclion with WiJr on Want. Save the Children's Fund and Oxlam.

SECO D RESEARCH BULLETI KCL Re earch Entcrpri e ha issued a Second Bulletin covering the following headings:The I::sprit 11 Programme Grant 101' (o-operatlon III 111l?her Ldu\.ation 7/ 9 "Buildlng 2000" "BRAL HumiJn I-rontierChallenge" The I::I.:("s I'ourlh I.:.nvlronmental Action Programme DTI Co-ordinator lor Advan\;ed Sensors Gallium Arsenide Initiative I ()!l7 Ivey (onlerenee COJllaCI Research I:nterprlscs at the Kensington \.ampus (ext 474/394) for further details.

Results of the Students UnIOn eJecllons tor posts III It} 7 IS arc as lollows,a) Sabbatical po!>t: CommunicatIOns Sabbati\.al LIS! AIR Tl:.G!:R-LI:.WIS Fmance & Admllllstration Sabbatll:al lA SOr'FI: Strand Site SiJhballcal ICK 1I0PKI S Chelsea SIte SabbiJlical PI::.

Y(HALTO Kensington Site Sabbatical TI'vl MACKU:Y

b) Executive po t!>: l:.xternal flail'S Olll<.:er PAUL BOLTO I:.IC\.llOns Olll<.:er I j DAWSO [:ntertainmenh Officer D RRL (11 MBERLAI:-" Welfare Of lice I' HI:. THLR MAGRILL Site Representative, Chelsea l:.LLEl\ H DLEY Site Repre 'cntative, Slrand TI'vl HAILI.S c) Chair of UGM !>: JOI THA LLY d) Other non- abbatieal posts: CheJ!>ea ite Committee DiscoOfficcr DaveMc eiJney PublicilY Ollicer Paul Bolton Sub-LdJlor Christopher Burnham Sports 01 ricer Lynda King

trand Site Committee Overseas Student Offi er Rag Officer Secretary to ommittee Sports Officer Student Community ction Officer ub-Editor

S enkatranga lan Daw on Tim Haile John Water S Da ies Frances Pearson

PERSO AL COMME T CIVIL ENGINEERING: A Letter from Profe or George England, King's Profe sor of Mechanics and Structure Under the University and ollege rationalisation of academic subject areas, King's is to t:ease teaching undergraduate single honours t:ivil engineering courses. There is no merger with Queen Mary College a is widely b lieved. This come at a time when the Department wa preparing to embark on a new MEng undergraduate course in ivil Engineering Law & Management. This course had guaranteed support from the legal profession and wa aimed at satisfying the current and growing needs of the t:onstruction industry with regard to law and arbitration in particular.

However because of the relatively small ize of the K ing's Civil Engineering Department, pressures were imposed towards forming a merger between the civil engineering department of K Land QMC. The King's staff believed that for a merger to be succes ful it would need 10 be on the Strand ite where high standards could be maintained - in recent years King's Civil Engineering Department has produced a higher proportion of its graduates wit h first and upper econd class honours degrees and a greater number of trained PhD graduates per member of staff, than any other London College. A propo al to merge on the King's site was therefore made by the Department but this was not accepted by the University.

A consequence of this, coupled with the ollege' belief that the Univer.ity would in future withhold the re our e normally allocated to civil engineering at King' if a merger was not formed at QM , wa that the ollege, through the recommendation of it Planning and Re ource om· mittee "to agree to dist:ontinue the admiion of undergraduate students to ingle honour' ivil Engineering course ", made a propo al to the University whit:h would retain, ome civil engineering re ourt:es for reallocation to the Fat:Ulty of Engineering. The University have at:t:epted this proposal and are to divide the King' 'ivil engineering resourt:es equally bt:tween K Land QM but without any arrangement for the transfer of staff.

The Ci il Engineering staff are cont:erned Ihat the deci ion to withd raw from U.g.

teaching constitute a multiple los to the College which ha now incurred the financial burden of supporting the departmental laff on dimini hing resource from the niver ity and without any re ource accruing from the fees of overseas undergraduate IUdent. There i an additional burden in that Mathematic service teaching [Q the department will no longer take place: thu rendering additional academic taff without financial up port. Before these change the Department was COSI effective and therefore elf- upporting.

The future is uncertain but if the financial burden is to e minimi ed existing civil engineering staff mu t continue to train research students in areas where they have established expertise. Plans are in hand to introduce a MSt: course containing law and management material.

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MANRESA ROAD CommenT has been asked to clarify that the library referred to in the Comment ExTra of March ~5 is the Public Library Building, not the College Library.

AMSTRAD FOR SALE An AMSTRAD PCW 256 i offereJ for sale, t:omplete with keyboard. printer, uscr's manual, working dist:s one and two and some spare Jisc . The following additional software and books arc al 0 included :Software: I) Card Bo 2) Condor I 3) CP/M pIu disc and guide Books:

I) Mastering the Amslrad PCW _56/ 5 I 2 ~) Step by Step Guide 10 'LOCOSC R I PT' 3) CP/M plus guide

The purcha. e prke for thl' total package would be approx. £.650. Tht: selling price ofrered for a qukk cash sale i £375.

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VAT CHARGES FOR CATERING SERVICES A recently agreed between the CV P and Customs and Excise,Catering Services supplied in outlets where the majority of user are OT students will be ubject to VAT. The College Catering Department has a number of outlets where the majority or all of our customers are staff and vi itors.

It is regretted that the department cannot absorb this extra cost, therefore price in the outlet concerned have been increased to covcr VAT at the standard rate.

THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF AIDS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, ORGANISED BY LONDO SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE This t:Onfcrence will be held at Ihe Barbit:an entre in London on 8-10 March 198, and is being organised in association with World Health Organisation and Emap Madaran Exhibitions Ltd. The cost of the Conference i £250, and a £50 depo it is required by July 15th 1987 to guarantee registration, al this price. Induded in the fee arc a Cocktail Reception, admi sion to the Conferencc, all work ing papers and t:offecs.

It is hopcd that the Conference will concentrate on an in-depth analysis and evaluation of the demographit:, economit:, psychological and educational aspet:t of the IDS problem, based on ihe results of current research. Further information will be upplied with a ccond announcemt:nt, including in trut:tions for ubmision. If you wish to present paper or postn sessions. pica. e write indi 'ating SUb.ll't:t mattcr to:'nnf. ZZ =map Maclaren Exhibitions Lld PO Box 13 Token House 79- I High Street Croydon CR 9 3S

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Ova 2-00 cour care h ted m the: ne"" edition 0 the Br lIsh 0niH'f.filles' (dude /() (jradualt! Swdy the authontatl\e gUIde tor graduate: "'ho vant to update Ih'lr III and hroad<:n theIr horlll:n ,

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bout -l()';G, of the mlormatlon relate. 10 new course and InitIative. l:atermg for the demand. 01 graduate~, bot h from home and abroad.

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n mc.rcasmg number of cour e an~ taIlored d irel:tl} to the market. ome are de~lgned to meet the need. of over ea students, such as:Tropical Crop forage Proces. 109 and RegIOnal Planning for Developing ountnes

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