Comment 066 January 1993

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e peclall plea mg to ee a 5 on the science ide of the College: the new Dlvi Ion of Life Icnces attamed one of only three such ratings in the 'applied' category.

'We must not concentrate only on our 5 , and overlook other ignificant gains.

The Division of Health Sciences showed itS trength with a 4 rating in all of itS constitUentS: GerOntology,

lufollOffiJing comments by /he Ac/ing Principal are /aien from

ur mg, 'utritlon, and Pharmacy. In 'ur ing, Kmg'shasoneofthethree tOp-rated DepartmentS in the country.

We were very pleased to see the steady Improvement of Electric and Electronic Engineering being confirmed by a 4 rating (which will be corrected to a 4A rating after correspondence with the 11 EFCE). That part of Mechanical Engineering retained in the Strategic

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'The College received the generally good news from the Research ssessment Exercise juSt after the last Comment was published. There have been many "league table" produced, but they all suffer from the difficulty of companng like-with-like. Even compari ons with the last exercise are difficult, because this time it was po sible to submit for asse smem the work of less than the full number of academic staff. But no matter what Icague table we use, the resultS are good for this College. They confirm us as one of the major research institUtions in the artS area, with Law, German, POftugue e, and HistOry Joining our previous S-rated departmentS of War tudies, Classics, Philosophy, Theology, M usic and Education, which all retained their ratings. In addition, it was

King's Report - a ntfIP magazine-slyle annual reporl on the flZIori of //ze Colkgl!, emphasising King's con/ribution /0 /lte flZIorid /hrouglt /eaclting and research, flZIas published /his mon/It. See fur/Iter de/ails on page 4.

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Plan also had itS qualiry recognised by being awarded a 4. The result vindicates the decision to concentrate on 'mechatronics', and it augur well for the future, especially when coupled with the very trong undergraduate recruitment that these aspectS of engineering achieved in OctOber. We al 0 achieved a pleasing 4 for Hospital Ba ed Clinical SubjectS (the assessment that M DS received for all of itS clinical subjects).

'There were some disappointmentS, especially the reduction from a 4 to a 3 in preclinical sciences. The disappointment there was a little offset by the private commentS the HEFCE made to us: "The Neurodegeneration Research Centre, Developmental Biology Research Centre, and Va cular Biology Research Centre were more

highly rated". We had similar commentS about other unitS. The HEFCE "noted that the research in Analytical Pharmacology was world class"; and that in Pure Mathematics "some of the work is outStanding". On Music, King's was "panicularly commended". On Physiotherapy, which we submitted despite it having little time to establish a research record, we were told that the Depanment "was considered to have ignificant potential for the future".

'If we compare our ach ievementS with the aim of our strategic plan, that "every major academic activiry shall, within five years, be rated for research at a level of 4 or 5" we can see that we have made significant progress to that end, with six more unitS at that level than we had last time. We Still have some way to go, especially in the sciences and medicine,

but we have made a good start..

'These good research resultS give us more of wh ich we can be proud, to go alongside the generally high "corporate spirit" that is detectable as I move around the College. We must maintain that spirit as we face the funding difficulties caused by the new government policy on "fees only" studentS. There will be difficulties; there will be tOugh decisions to take; life will nOt be easy; and there is no guarantee of a stable political environment in which to plan.

'In 1993, keep up the research record, and prepare for the assessment of teaching qualiry. Above all, hold your head high, as a member of a College that has renewed, and is now consolidating, itS traditions of strength.'

e c ollowing a joint initiative by King's and University College London, the Collegiate Council of the University of London has recommended that the Schools of the Universiry should introduce a Structure for the academic year based on semeSters, following either the pattern of a 12 week teaching block before Christmas, followed by 13 weeks teaching in the spring and a five week examination period in early summer; or 12 weeks before Christmas, 12 weeks in the spring and six weeks in early summer for examinations.

The new pattern will operate from autumn 1994. Term dates for the 1993-94 academic year will be as previously agreed: ie 30 eptember to 10 December 1993; 10 January to 18 March 1994 and 25 April to I July 1994.

In order to enable colleagues to plan their research and vacation patterns, the Acting Principal has asked Comment to print the recommended University of London semester dates (UCL is continuing to refer to them as 'term dates') which will be operated by King's and UCL. These will be as follows:

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Winter Seme ter 1994-95 26 Sept-16 Dec

/995-96 25 Sept-15 Dec

1996-97 23 Sept-13 Dec

1997-98 22 Sept-12 Dec

1998-99 28 Sept-18 Dec

Spring Semester

Summer Semester

9 Jan-7 Apr (or 16 Jan-7 Apr)

I- May-2 June (or 1 May--9 June)

8 Jan-3 Apr (or 15 Jan-3 Apr)

29 Apr-31 May (or 29 Apr-7 June)

6 Jan-ll Apr (or 13 Jan-ll Apr)

5 May--6 June (or 5 May¡-13 June)

5 Jan-3 Apr (or 12 Jan-3 Apr)

27 Apr-29 May (or 27 Apr-5 June)

11 Jan-16Apr (or 18 Jan-16 Apr)

10 May-I I June (or IOMay-18June)

• 0 attempt has been made to compensate for the early May bank holiday, as this currently falls within term. There might, however, potentially be a difficulry for studentS

travelling back to College over the bank holiday weekend.

Discussions with staff unions about consequential changes are expected to be put in motion shonly.

La r. Cl Fntdm n, Proftssorof ar Sludits n III oftJu Depor/menl of W r I- teS Inghl) piclurtd tA Dr Ef'"' Im K rs of Deportment on tAt oa sron oftAt pub ica/lon oftAnr ok, fbtlo Itfl) The GulfConnlct 1 1 1: Dlplomac) and War In the 'e \\ orld Tlte Ilming oflhe publica/lon IS p rt I. rly 'PI SI ubk br. s again In Ih I P rl of tAt orld Tht Iounclt oftAt book cOlflCflied lilt Ihis )tar's Lsddell lIarl Cenlrt for Milttary Arcltitles Annual Lalurt gtfXn by Proftssor Frudman, enlilledThe Gulf Conniet and the British Wa In Warfare.

John Plrl, Emen'lus Proftssor In Iht Departmenl ofMu:robiolo has caused quite a Stir (or should we ay [Ink!) with hi latest work a reported in the Cuardian and /\'tffI) SClenllSl. I Ie has

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dl covered a wa co oh"e Europe's mounting problem of ewage di posal, which after 19 cannot be dumped at ea. lie ha found that a baCteria pre ent In hor e manure ean break do",n sewage, leaving only treated water: it then dige tS itSelf1 imon Wtss0, Senior LtClurtr In Iht Departmenl of Psychological Mtdicint, KCSMD, was on Radio 4 's Mtdicint

Oml explaining the re ults of a national survey on the treatment of mentally ill offenders, condueted by scaff at King's.

The resultS showed that they should be diverted away from cuscody and the criminal justice system and referred co the '11 for medical help.

Lawrtnct Frtufman, ProftssorofWar Sludits and Iltad oflht Deparlmenl of War ludits, has been very busy reeently as activity begin again In the Gulf and his book on thl subJect is pub" hed.

Among thc programme he has appearcd on are Radio 4' Today, Tht Nine O'Clock ....'efJi;S, Channel 4 'tffI)S, Radio )'s .vefJi;sbeal, and G LR 's lunch time

news discu sing the milicary and political issue of the ltuation.

Micltael Clorh, E:uculifJt DirtClOr oflltt Cenlre for Defenct Sludits ha also been in demand, appearing on Tltt Nint O'Clock News, C N tffI)S, and World Stroict ews co explain the legality of the allied action under the resolution.

Harold Baum, IItad oflhtScltool of Lift, BasIC lIeallh and Medical Scierues featured in an article in Tht Daily Telegraph about creating a clence soap opera co make

the ubJect more accesSible co people.

Profe or ÂŁ3aum first proposed the idea four years ago, In pired by Tht Arcltt , saYing, 'The firm h public know more about agriculture than it could reasonabl be expeCted co, Simply by virtue of Tht Arcltt. areer development a a scienti t is mueh more dynamic than that, ay, of a chartered accountant. ' Timol/ry Pelm, Professor ofClinical Biocltemislry and Ilead ofIltt Deparlmenl of Clinical Biocltemislry, KCSMD, talked about the seasonal problem of hangovers around Christmas and ew Year on the Food and Drink Programmt (Radio 4). lie explaincd the causes and effectS of over indulging and the best way co treat hangovers if unable co drink in modcratlOn, namely: avoid chcap red wine and drink plene of water co prevent deh dration.

Flnall ,arc you watching OplrallOn Ilospilal, Granada's six-pare documencary on King's College J10 plcal? It IS on Channel 4 at 20.30 on a Tue day night and i about the eventS of the la t year at King's as it prepare for T ru t tatus and th e problems faced by the new Chief Executive, Derek mith.

Don 'Iforgello lel Iht Press and Publicalions OfflCt know, on ex! 3202 ofany ilems Ihal could befealured in Ihis column.

King' Report hope that most staff will by now have seen a copy of the new King's Report (featured on the front page).

This is a magazine-style publication which gives what we intend to be a lively, attractive and above all readable account of a cross-section of the College's work, both in teaching and in research.

We hope that colleagues will not only find it of interest themselves but will also pass it on to a wide range of their contacts outSide King's, in order to help publicise the College.

We have used the Comment mailing list to end the Report out within the College, but we have asked those who distribute it in departmentS etc if, instead of autOmatically passing one copy to each member of staff, they would ask staff to share copies in an appropriate way. This will enable some copies to be kept in the department, unit or office and provided, for example, with research funding applications, to visitOrs coming to the College, and to anyone likely to be interested in the College's work. We would be most grateful if heads of department could encourage this to be done.

Further copies of the Report are available from this Office. We have already distributed it widely within the Government, Parliament, Civil Service, press and broadcasting media, research councils, funding council, industry, business and commerce, local borough councils, and to many people connected with the College.

We are already beginning to consider the second edition of the Report. For this, as for the current edition, we will attempt to maintain a balance of material from different Schools and departmentS, and we would be grateful if colleagues would let us know (in the form of a half-page memorandum) of items that might be appropriate for inclusion next time.

I hope you will enjoy reading the Report, and look forward to having your commentS. Christine Kenyon lones Director of Public Relations

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College Paper owards the end of last year a member of the Institute of Liver tudies at the Medical School mailed the Registrars of a number of universities with a letter and questionnaire to complete about their own institution. The intention was to use any data returned to produce a guide to higher education. Although this was a private venture the letter was sent Out on Institute headed paper.

Colleagues are reminded that College stationery may not be used for personal purposes or initiatives: doing so can convey a misleading impression to recipients that the communication is an official one from King's.

written on behalf of the College to the 1inister with responsibility for higher education detailing the difficulties associated with current Government polic to abolish automatic membership of student unions (which i currently extended to all tudentS at further and higher education institutions). The letter was drafted in consultation with KCL . The Minister had responded by sending a senior official of the Department for Education to discuss the matter with the Acting Principal and KCL officers, and to see the operations of KCLS ,and it was hoped that the College's views would have some impact.

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ecently the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering mounted an exhibition within the DTI stand at the Design Engineering Show held at the National Exhibition Centre. The space is offered to selected Universities and Research Institutes who work in the sensor technology area and King's was one of the twelve institutions to win a place.

The day was very successful, and we hope to gain some direct research funding as a result. On this occasion the stand pace wa free, but often in these hard times organisers have some spaces vacant a few weeks before exhibitions are due to be held, and it is possible to negotiate for a very cheap rates something well worth considering!

Alan Kent Technical AdministratOr, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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he Council has authorised the College to seek buyers for three College properties: Malcolm Gavin and Lightfoot Halls of Residence, and College House at Manresa Road.

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ollowing unanimous agreement in the Student Representative Council, the President of KCLSU moved a motion asking December's meeting of the Academic Board to endorse the principle of anonymous marking, and there was broad support for this. The matter is on the agenda of the College Boards of Examiners, and will be discussed alongside other issues relating to examination policy and procedure - at this term's meeting of the Standing Committee of the Academic Board.

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r P C Macnamara has resigned from the Treasurership of the College, after a very important period of service from March 1985, with effect from the end of December 1992. Mr Brian G Pearse has been elected Treasurer in his stead, initially for the remainder of this academic year.

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rofes or \ illla.m Rowe and Dr \ IVlan chelllng have been awarded the Kalhenne inger Ko acs Pnze from the odern Language Association of Amenca, for their book MtmOry ond Modernil'y: PopulorCul/urt in La/in Amtrico, published by erso Books. The book is a pioneer study on popular culwre in Lalln America and combines a crUliny of the eclectic field of orally tran mitted ballads, mual performance, popular religIOn, telenovelas and rock musIc, With di cu ions of the role of popular memory a an archl e In time of violence and repression.

The Prize was established In I 0 by a gift from Kathenne Inger Kovacs' family and consists of a certificate and a cheque for 1,000. Professor Kovacs was a peclali tin panish and Latin mencan Illerawre and film, and taught at tanford University, the University of outhern California and WhiUler ollege.

The Prize was one of seven Modern Language Association awards, presented on 2 December 1992 in 'ew York City.

, 'ER.e grant rank Hibbert and Kelth Jones in the Chemi uy Department have been awarded a £272,000 gram by the ERC BiOtechnology DirectOrate to study the bioluminescence of the Common Piddock, P!zolos docl'ylus.

A the animal lives down holes which it bores imo chalk, its ability to emit light as the result of bioluminescence seems rather esOteric. The emission of light by P!zolos doctylus has been known since the time of Pliny, but only in the past few years have [Wo biochemists, Jan and Robert Knight, been able to isolale and produce an uluapure bioluminescent glycoprotein named Pholasin®. Many bioluminescem systems involve a small molecule (lhe luciferin) which acts as a subslrale for an enzyme (the luciferase)

whilSt other system In 01 e a photOprOtem v.ith a small molecule which acts as the lummphore. The aim of the v. or al Kmg's, in collaboralion wllh ' nighl lentlfic Ltd, IS lO isolale and determme the suucwre of the small molecule In oh'ed In lhe blOlummescence of the plddock. ThiS WIll enable us [Q explore the mechanism by which IIghlls produced and allow us [Q s mhesise the luminophore and its analogues. It i then imended [Q combine the synthetic Juminophore with recombinant Pholasin glycoprOtein (studies on the preparation of recombinant Pholasin gylcoprotein via gene cloning also funded by ERC BiOtechnology DirectOrate are being undertaken at Exeter Cnlversity b John Bryam). This could give acce s to Pholasin® without endangering the nawral population of this rare mollusc.

The gram at King' is to upport [Wo postdoctOral research fellows and to purcha e equipment needed for the proJect. \ e are now searching for SUitable candidates to JOin us in tackling thiS exciting problem, spanning a wide range of sCience from protein cheml try to reaction mechanism.

Frank Hibbert (lead of Chemistry

CIu:t.-'tdier a wa rd he Chemistry Departmem is pleased to announce that Dr Robert Poll er, who is Emeritu Reader in the Department has been honoured by the award of the C!zl!VOlitr dons I'Ordrt dts Polmts Acodemiquts from the French Government. This i partly in recognition of his work in establishing lhe ERAS 1 C exchange of swdents between our Departmem and the Chemistry Department of the Cniversity of Bordeaux. Following from this fir l ERASMU exchange, which was established in 19 ,the Department has expanded lhe scheme to include universities in Germany, Ilaly and Spain.

P!z% "tJP!z 0/ /!zt lig!z/-emi//ing orgon ond cords 0/ P!zolos dOClylus; /!zt p!zolos fJ»OS slimuloltd 10 lumintset ond /!zt p!z%gropll fJ»OS loktn in emi//td lig!z/.

Pc ricidc dcrccrion devclopment e earch will begin this January in lhe Department of Chemi uy and the DiVision of Life lences in the Devtlopmen/o/OnSlrtOm Biosenso for Ptslit:idt DtltClion.

Thc project IS supportcd by a grant of £466, ·00 from the Commission of the European Communities. The award has been made to Dr I AS Lewis (project coordinatOr), Dr H P BcnnettO, bOth in the Depanment ofChemisuy, and Dr J R Mason in the Division of Life Sciences.

It is in collaboration with research groups at lhe rnstiwte of Ecology of the Technical University of Berlin and The Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. The award to King's, the coordinating instiwte, is for £296,000 wilh the remainder being distributed be[Ween Professors F hiller and poD Hansen in Germany. It has material and praCtical UppOrt from GEC plc.

Yolk wagcn currccrion n issue ' 0 6S of Commen/ we incorrectly stated lhat the Department of War Swdies had received a £24,000 gram from the Volkswagen Foundation to run a uaining programme for scholars from post-communist Europe. The grant rcceived was, in fact, £240,000. We apologise for th is error.

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rofessor I&dzard Grifjilhs describes lIze mosl recenl ofthe King's Humanities Researc/z Centres.

The Centre for Twentieth Century Cultural Studies was founded in May 1992. ItS aims are to build upon the area of twentieth-century re earch Within King's in which there is already con Iderable shared interdisciplinary interest, and to encourage collaborative re earch ventures both within the College and with colleagues in Britain and abroad. Other major activities will consist of conferences, lectures and publications, including eventually a journal. A series of occasional papers and monographs is already under way.

There are five initial areas of specializa tion: 1 Colonialism andposl-colonialism. The participants include members of the English, French, HistOry, Portuguese, Spanish and War Studies departments.

One of the Section's first major activities will be a conference in the 1993-4 academic year, entitled Colonial armies

and indigenous POpulolions.

2 The Adam Arc/zivt. The international Journal Adam is central to rwentiethcentury international cultural histOry. King' has bought the extensive archive of the journal, and a calalogue raisonni has now been produced which will provide the basis for wide-ranging research. A publication programme is already under way. An annual Adam lecture is given by an internationallyknown literary figure.

3 Anlisemilism. Specialists from the French, German, HistOry and War tudies departmentS are all interested in this copic, and a number of publications have already been produced. A collaborative research project is planned on the Discourse ofSocial Antisemilism.

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Stephan Schreiner of the Insticutu m Judaicum at Ti.igingen.

4 Women's Studit.r. There is a wideranging interest in interdisciplinary research on this subject, involving the discourse of gender, feminist literature, and cultural stereotypes.

5 Conseroalivism and Fascism. There are specialists in the French, German, HistOry, Portugue e, pani h and War Scudies departmentS on the relationship between variou forms of the Right, and a number of books and articles have already been published. The Section's first event will be a lecture by Professor Kenneth Minogue of LSE ( a member of the Centre' Board). For the academic year 1993-4 a conference is planned, in collaboration with the Institute of Romance cudies, on Fascisl

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The Board of the Centre contains representatives from our tWO neighbours, the COlJrtauld Insticute and the London chool of Economics. The membership is as follows: Professor Richard Griffiths, DirectOr (French); Or Vanessa Davies, Assistant DirectOr (Adam consultant); Professor Lawrence Freedman (War Studies); Professor Helder Macedo (Portuguese); Professor Richard Overy (HistOry); Professor John White (German); Professor Kenneth Minogue (London School of Economics); Or arah Wilson (Courtauld Institute).

ollowing itS successful launch with Blackwell Publishers of the new quarterly Business EtMcs. A European View (of which Vo12, no I is now available), the Centre is currently planning to inaugurate a series of one-day King's College Conferences on Elhical Business. Speakers will be invited for their eminence and expertise on the

topic chosen for each conference and there will be plentiful provision for di cuss ion and exchange of views and experience among the invited partiCipantS. In order to gauge the market for 'ethical business', to elicit initial interest and mainly co ensure a choice of tOpics which the business community and other consider relevant, the Centre's Conferences Committee is circulating a questionnaire among leading business figures and others in the City and elsewhere in the UK. Mindful of the business maxim, KISS ('keep it short and simple'), the questionnaire invites people to indicate their ethical interest in as many or as few tOpics as they wi h on a list of uggestions provided.

Partnership in the conferences, of which at least twO are planned for the coming year, is being negotiated between the Centre and major British companies.

Copies of the conference questionnaire and further information are available from the Centre's office, Room 190, trand, ext 2587, where Professor Jack Mahoney and Mrs Anne Burrows will also welcome comments and suggestions. Tell your bank manager!

Philosophy of marhcmaric he Centre for Philosophical Studies was pleased to welcome three of Britain's most eminent mathematicians to King's for a conference entitled Malhemalicians

on Ihe philosoplry ofmathematics.

Professors Roger Penrose (of Wad ham College, Oxford), Sir Michacl Atiyah (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Sir Christopher Zeeman (Hertford College, Oxford) were invited to give their views on the philosophy of mathematics.

This provided the rest of us with a rare opportunity to hear mathematicians of the highest calibre renecting on the nature of their discipline. [n the event, over three hundred people attended the conference; a demonstration of the high esteem in which our speakers are held and of the excitement generated by th is inter-disciplinary approach.

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0110 ng a penod 0 e penmemal ull da\ opening on aturdays m the Old Llbrani, "e have decided to continue to o er thIS ervlce to our reader or the ne t (WO terms. Please make sure that \our tudems know that thl part of the LIbrary IS now open 9.30 to 17.30 each aturda during term. We are aware that not all students have access to all the books the need to consult, however. the Old Library does provide a qUIet place in which student can work PhotOcop\ 109 machines are available, a are the mIcrocomputers in Room 14D. We hope that this service will prove use ul to an mcreasing number of tudents. For the first tIme thl year, we ""ill al 0 be open on the aturday pnor to Bank Ilolldays.

ProJcct 11 dCII he LIbrary I about to embark on a new prOject concerned with the stOrage and retrieval of Greek bIbliographic record.

Project !!elen is a twO year proJect, funded by the European Community, to investigate the Standards used for the representation of Greek charaCter on computer ystems and the problems of thc tran literation of Greek material intO Roman characters.

There are five participating In C1CutlOns: university of Bradford, King's College London, UnIversity of Crete, entre for 'eohellenlc Re earch and then College.

The project is planned to develop advanced transliteraClon oftware whIch will convert material aucomatlcally from Roman characters into Greek character; and the problem of Greek names which may be translated rather than transliterated will also be investigated.

Information will be gathered on vanous tandards used in the scorage of Greek records. Software will be developed to enable record to be stOred or displayed in either Greek or Roman characters. Each InStitution has been given specific responsibility for different aspeCts of the project. The Library at

Kmg's will be re pon Ible for the tran hteraClon, name and -fARC reports and will be con nbutmg to other aspects of the oftware de Ign. -\ emmar will be held In Greece tov.ard the end of the firSt year, and a econd eminar will be held el ev.here, in the ollowmg )ear. It I Intended that variou method of publiCity will be used throughout the project to promote awarenes of the Issue involved and to sugge t solution.

During the runnmg of the project it IS hoped that the final retro-<:onver ion of our Modern Greek collection will be completed and thac, eventually, we will be able to display our own records in Greek characters, rather than in transliterated form on I .

h round ward were made co the followmg po traduate tudents and taff at Kmg' , by the Central Research Fund Commiccee (Autumn Term 1992): . Galley (po tgraduate student), £ 125.33 for the purchase of a Dyna link 624P Modem 2400 I3A '0: a study of parallel uperprimitivity testing.

TJ Girven(part-time postgraduate student}, 900 towards the co t of cravel to and within Mexico and additional maintenance expenses: research into Tijuana; cultural formations in a border area.

I E Long (part-time postgraduate student, £907.10 for the COSt of travel to LicclehamptOn, Tonbndge Wells, TauntOn, Bridgewater and additional maintenance expense: a tudy of power relations and council house provision in ru ra I areas.

E PutCIck (pare-time postgraduate tudent), £200 tOward the cost of travel to Ege ford, additional maintenance ex pen es and tape: a tudy of women, discipleship and chari matic authority in the RaJneesh movement.

R crohm (Professor of IlistOrical Musicology), £3,300 for the COSt of microfilms: a study of drama per musica in Venice c.16 0-1740.

1 phant Lion Q tlon I remember an occasion during the Lord ,1ayor's how in London when a lion was gored to death by elephants on the Embankment. At the time, around the late I 20, I was a young boy. r have found no reference to the event since.

Can readers shed any light?

The above question was printed in the Guardian's' 'ace and Queries' on 13 'ovember 1992, and a repl from . E Blake, an alumnus of King's followed. ( ee In Touch, 1991 and pring 1 2 editions.)

Reply [ was a student at King's College London, from 1927-31 and the incident took place m eIther 192 or 1929. cu tOmary, tudents gathered on the Embankment close to the rear entrance of the College, with a life-sized model of a roaring lion, called Reggie, painted red and mounted on a wooden platform. each part of the Lord Mayor's show passed they raIsed Reggie aloft and cheered. \i hen the elephants passed they turned on the students. Mounted police scaccered and the students, with Reggie, dodged across to the river side of the Embankment and hid from view.

After a while the elephanc keepers gac their animals under concrol again and the procession resumed. I was one of the students already on the river side of the Embankment and saw it all.

The evening's London press made much of the affair. '0 one was hurt to my knowledge, Reggie survived and the press suggestion that the Students were Irresponsibly provocative were strongly denied by the President of the students' union.

Pollution corrcction e were mislead by an article in the E'CXrIing Standard, on 20 ovember 1992 which stated that the Air Pollution MonitOring Scheme was coming to King's; in fact it is going to be part of UMDS.

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ouncil has endorsed recommendations put forward by the taffing Committee and the afet Policy Committee for important new staff policies in the areas of: equal opportunities AIDS in the workplace alcohol and drug abu e moking Council also agreed a code of practice for dealing with exual and racial hara sment in the work place.

A full report of the new policies and guide-lines will be in the next is ue of Comment, and in the meantime the major points of the new policies are outlined here. taff are referred to the Per onnel taff for full details of implementation and for copies of the policy papers and the code of practice on hara sment.

Equal opportunities The College confirms its commitment to a comprehensive policy of equal opportunity in employment in which individuals are selected, trained, appraised, promoted and otherwi e treated olely on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.

The policy statement sets out the College's intentions to maintain a fair working environment for all staff and students and to set in place policies and procedures to ensure the aim is fulfilled.

The Code of Practice for Sexual and Racial Harassment is applicable to both taff and students and the guide-lines aim to assist anyone seeking help and upport.

AIDS The College sets out what its policy will be should it become known than an employee is HIV positive or has AID .

The aim i to provide more information and promote greater understanding of the illness, and to provide support so that no-one with this illnes should feel i olated or victimi ed.

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Alcohol and drug abuse Thi policy ets out College procedure for helping taff with problem of alcohol or drug abuse to help themselve.

Smoking The College endorses the view that so far as is reasonably practicable, the preferences of both smokers and nonsmokers alike are to be respected.

However, since it is the function of the new policy to reduce expo ure to tobacco moke the preference of nonsmokers will be paramount if they are in conflict with the wi hes of smoker.

The policy will be implemented in a gradual way within the College from next term.

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he next half term play scheme will take place from 15 to 19 February 1993. The scheme is available for children of staff and students at the old cost of ÂŁ7 per day. It will be held from 9.00-17.00 in Room 82, the Gym. Ten children are needed to participate each day in order for the scheme to fund it elf, so plea e contact usie Gentleman, ext 1245, as soon as possible to reserve your place. If your child's halfterrn runs between different dates please let Su ie know so that he can look into arranging an alternative play scheme.

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lease bring any items for auction to the Social Club (before 15 March), all item welcome, ie humorous, interesting, expensive! All proceed go to Charity. For further details please contact Lynn Johnson, ocial Club Secretary, ext 2535.

he King' College Gilbert & ulli an ociety present /olont/ze on Wedne day 10 February, Thur da 11 February, Frida 12 February. For further details please contact Michele Par on ,College crerary' Office, ext 229 .

A Burn' ~ight Supper will be held on Thursday 28 January in the River Re tau rant. The evening will begin with a reception in the Lower Common Room at 18.30.

The enior Common Room is celebrating St David's Day on 1 March at 17.30 with a traditional light supper in the Lower Common Room. A Welsh harpist from the Royal Academy of Mu ic will be entertaining the members with a repertoire of national mu ic.

The Sports and Social Club would like to announce detail ofthi year's Valentine's Dance. It will be held on Friday 12 February, from 19.00 to midnight in the Great Hall. There will be a buffet dinner, with two free bottles of wine per table, live mu ie and a charity raffle in aid of the National Children's Home. Tickets cost ÂŁ6.00, and are available from the Social Club and Committee Member.

Publication Grants he Athlone Press has access to fund to assist in the publication of speciali ed monographs by younger academics, whose publication would not be po sible on normal commercial terms.

The requirements are that thi be the author's first book, that it is of publishable standard and that the author is on the teaching staff of a college or institution of the University of London.

For further information please write to Mr Brian Southam, Chairman, The Athlone Press, 1 Park Drive, London NWI17SG.

·\ reminder from the Po R om lease remember to fill in one of the relevant form when sending an material·, apart from letter abroad. There are two type of form: the green Cl form (used for envelope , mall packets or jiffy bag) and the CP form (u ed for parcel ). The appropriate form i nccessary for cu tom regulation and must be filled in before delivering our parcel or packet to the Po t Room.

Both these forms can be obtained from the Post Room or the Post Office. If you are un ure which form to use plea e contact the Post Room, as the weight restrictions which determine what qualifies a a parcel or packet differ from country to country.

• Printed material, which can be posted under a pecial rate, whether a parcel or a packet, does not need a cu tom label.

But plea e note that all printed material must be open at both end, and must not include any corre pondence, all letter must be sent separately.

All the sections on the CP form mu t be completed otherwise your parcel will be delayed. Please pay special attention to the question asking you to specify the ervice required. It may help you to know that the International Economy Service refers to sea mail and co t half the price of the International Standard Service which is airmail. (The Imernational Datapost service can only be initiated from a Po t Office). In ca e of non-delivery you have an option to have the parcel returned to you or redirected to another addre in the country of the receiver (you will be charged for the second option).

Remember to sign the form at the bottom.

The Po t Team would be very grateful if you could make an effort to implement all these points. If you have any queries don't hesitate to contact Kc in ullivan, ext368J.

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Letter Dear Comment You ma know Jean Thomas, or you may have ne er heard of her. he i a young woman, 30 ear old, the mother of three children. he i part of Club 552 at Cornwall House where he was happily working until she had to go into hospital to try to fight off a generali ed cancer.

If you would like to contribute to a general collection which I am making for Jean I will be plea ed to receive your donations. Please make any cheques out directly to 'Jean Thoma '. The money would help Jean to look after her family if she cannot go back to work quickly enough.

Your help and genero ity will be very much appreciated. I would like to thank you in advance. :vIarianne Ilolmes :\ursing Re earch Unit (:"RU) Secretary 4th noor Cornwall House Annexe Ext3061

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Memorial Service will be held for John Freeman in the Chapel on Wednesday 27 January at

17.00.

A Memorial Service will be held for Anthony:vle ulty in the Chapel on Tue day 2 February at 12.00 noon.

A Memorial Service will be held for Profes or H P Winningcon-Ingram in the hapel on Tuesday 16 March at 17.30.

A Ytemorial Service will be held for Leonard Cotton in the Chapel of King's College Ho pital at 12.00 noon on Wednesday 10 :vIarch.

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ark Bailey and his parents have written to Comment to send their good wishes to all at King' for Christmas and the New Year. (:vIark used to work at King's but IS now suffering from multiple c1erosi .)

orrymeela Sunday will be held in Westminster Abbey on 14 March at 18.30. It will be preceded by a reception in King's Great Hall at 16.30.

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Dear Editor I must ay that I found the letter written

by Or J ilvester rather upsetting.

I was not fortunate enough to have known John Tyrrell, but I did know Ala tair Pettigrew quite well. I found him to be very plea ant and he always had time to peak to anyone whether a ecretary or head of department.

Everyone wa greeted in the same way, with a friendly smile.

I find it very sad that someone as young a Alastair died in the way he did. ~obody except Alastair knew the' rea ons behind his tragic death and let's face it, we all know about College speculation. o why notju t hope that whatever kind of life either man led, that they have now reached the final resting place and are at peace with God. Mandy Tapp Management Centre Dear Editor Ytany will commend you for publishing Or ilvester's triking letter in the December issue of your beautifully produced but still unremarkable organ.

It seems that the worm is beginning to turn and the Silvester Sliding Scale will help u to focus on the 1000 to 50 ratio as a mea ure of the importance of overworked bureaucrats - sorry, administrators - to undervalued academic in thi place. Or Silvester's definition has been echoing forlornly along the claustrophobic corridors of this crumbling edifice, but it may yet turn out to be the start of something new.

May I suggest that as partial relief to the present depre sing situation we adopt trategie Plan No 153 and send the Academic Registrar's office to the top of Senate I-louse, the Secretariat (sic!) to the top of Finchley Road and lock the Bursar in the men' downstairs loo until he promises to clean it at least once a week. I look forward to a lively response to this mi sive .... if you have the courage to publish it!

Seweryn Chomet Department of Physics

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Dear Editor I am very disappointed that. ou were unable to publI h the full obituary I wrote or John Freeman. I can under tand the need to lImit the length o contnbution but a liml 0 -0 word !>eem particularl) parsimoniou in the ca e of obituarie or member of taff 0 the Colle e. In m view ou hould for future cases mcrease the word limit to 7-0 word. The least a member of taff deserve IS a decent readable obituary m COmml1ll

Incidentally, I su pect that Harold Baum' addre sat Alastair Pettigrew's memorial ervlce a publi hed in COmml1ll was considerabl longer than 250 word. That wa a plendld addre which wa much deserved of Ala talr In my vlew it reinforce the pomt I make on the word limit of obituaries.

I Will be grateful If you will publish thl letter In COmml1ll Robm "lorse Head and Dean ofthe chool of Law The F.drlor commenlsI\S an experiment, we havc printed the obituaries that were ubmitted for thiS month's Comml1ll in full, Without edltmg them, and we would welcome colleague' views (not necessarily for publication - please indicate) on this and on how long and detailed obituaries in general should be. There are several issues to bear in mind: one i the que tion of what proportIon of a (generally 16-page) magazine the obltuanes hould oceupy (as a guide, an obituary 750 words long take up about half a page - which co ts some ÂŁ75 to produce - and the obituarie printed loppo itel range from 950 to 50 word long. Another issue is that the reader hip of Comm11l1 comprise the whole staff of the College, not just those who knew the subject of the obituary well ( 0 that it may be more appropriate to publish a full appreciation in a chool new letter, for instance). third point I that those subjects who are mo t eminent generally have long obituaries m the national press, which it does not seem appropriate to repeat in COmml1ll.

And finally, it is worth considering that the people who are best-known in King's may not always be tho e who were technically the most senior. We look forward to hearing your views.

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Obiruari leonard Thomas Cotton 1r Leonard Thomas Cotton _1Ch FRC FKC ormerl . Dean of ing' College hool of. 1edlcine and mor ing' ollege 110 pltal, died on 'ovember h, aged He was born on - December I 22.

Leonard Cotton, who died on . 'ovember at the age of , Will be remembered warmly b generations of medical and dental tudents and staff at King's College hool of \1edicme and Dentl try. Leonard was born in outh London on 5 December 1922 and wa educated at King' College chool, Wimbledon, before gomg on to Oriel College, Oxford, for pre-clInical tudie and thence to mg's College Ilospltal "ledical hool for hi clinical course.

Qualifying in 1946 with prize in surgery, he pent hi . 'atlonal ervice a a urgical peclalIst With the RAMC, achievmg Fellowship ofthc Royal Collcge of urgcon of England in I 50, and rcturncd to Kmg' Collcge Ilospltal in )951. These were formative years dUring which he wa surrounded by and worked with some great surgical character, ir ccil Wakeley, ir Edward :'-1 uir, Ilarold Edwards and Selwyn Taylor among them. During what little spare time he had left from a busy surgical job he tarted researching, mostly late into thc night, into the circulatory changes in ulcerated legs, work for which he gained his Master of urgery degree and King's prestigiou ir Charlton Briscoe Research Prize.

In 1957 he was appointed a Consultant urgeon to King's College Hospital and urgical Tutor to King' College Ho pital :'-1edical chool, holding the latter po t until 1%5. It was at this time that he developed'his enduring re earch interest, fir t timulated during hi undergraduate days at Oriel College m Oxford, centred around the blood circulation of the leg, a field in which he was an internationally recognised authority. He al 0 came into contact with medical physici ts for the first time. An extremely productive partner hip was formed with a young medical physicist Or (now Professor) Jack Fowler. Their early investigations into the circulatory dynamic of varico e veins laid the foundation for a long life

intere t m circulatory haemod 'namlcs.

Hi paper on the anatomy and development of varIcose vein, publi hed in the Bmi h Journal 0 ur ery In 1 I, I till regarded as a semmal wor m he under tandmg 0 venou patholo ,and over the 'ears he y,as involved m y,ell over 100 research paper on venou and arterial disease.

In hiS po t a urglcal Tutor at Kmg' in I -7 he rapldl ' became recognised as one 0 the be t teacher of urgery that King' ha knoy,n. HI hortTextbook of urgery, orlgmally co-authored with hi colleague elwyn Taylor and Greig \lurra ,proved immensely popular and I still in print toda . Ili portfolio of books reflected his dedication to educatIon and included both a urgical Catechl m for hi tudents and a book for oung children explaining the mysteries of hospital. s an energetic young clinician he knew that the development of urgery could benefit from the close interaction of other dlsclplme. In 1 7, With the support of the Wate Foundation, he established at Kmg' a Biomechanics Re earch C nit which brought engmeers and urgeon together, a unique and far sighted development which he directed until his retirement. During those two decades a tream of young surgeons, engincer and scienti ts flowed through the department which under his guidance laid much of the scientific foundation for the management of vascular disea e and rapidly established an international reputation. It was of particular satisfaction to Leonard that the development wa recogni ed when, in 1972, he wa made a I-1unterian Profes or of the Royal College of urgeons of England for hi work on Biomedical Engineering in vascular urgery.

A man of prodigious energy and integrity, it was a natural development for Leonard to play an ever increasing role in the future of King's College Hospital :'-1edical School, first as Vice Dean and then Dean, a post which he held for ten year until his retirement in 1987. Those years were probably the most taxing for any Dean. The Todd and Flowers reports presaged enormous change, but while other medical schools were facing retrenchment, Leonard skilfully piloted King's College Ilospital Medical School back to amalgamation with King's College and to a rapid

expan ion of its research and teaching ba e. Thi drive wa founded on hi deep seated belief of the benefits of working with the basic science and placed the Medical School a a part of King' College in an immeasurably trengthened position for its future development. It was wholl appropriate that he was made a Fellow of King's College in 1983.

Leonard could present an outwardly rugged and formidable exterior which hid a very gentle and hy per on. He had a ready wit and those who got to know him better recognised hi tremendous interest in individuals whcther colleagues, students or hi patient. In his private life he believed firmly in the integrity of the family. His enduring love of his garden, the theatre and the arts was reflected in the warmth of hi home. Hi wifeJoan,whomhe married in 1946, was always cheerful and equally energetic, working in partnership with him on common aims for the benefit of the family and the ho pital they both loved. It was somehow fitting that he should end his da s in the care of his colleague at the hospital to which he gave so much. He leaves his wife, son, two daughter and two grandchildren.

Lord Edmund Davies Lord Edmund Davies, the former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who was famous for 'sending down' the Great Train Robbers, wa a Life ember of the Council and one of the College's longe t-standing Fellows. He was closely involved for many years with the Theological Department of King' as a Life Governor of the ouncil of the Department, and was the fir t Chairman of the 1 heological Trust. He became a Life member of the Council of the College in 1980. He was al 0 a grad uate of King's, having gained hi LLB here before going on to Oxford to read for the I3CL, and he later became an LLD of the University of London. He died in December, aged 86.

Helen Joseph (nee Fennell) Helen Joseph, veteran campaigner against apartheid in South Africa, died in Johannesburg on Christmas day at the age of87.

Mrs Joseph read Engli h at King's, graduating in 1927. After teaching in

India, he moved to outh frica in 1931. During the war he served as a welfare and information officer In the WAAF. Iler dutie stimulated her intere t in politics and led her to the tud of ocial science. fter the war \fIr Jo eph worked as acting director of a community centre for poor whites in the lums of Johanne burg, and in 1949 he e tablished two community centres for the coloured in Cape Town. In 1951 he became secretary of the multi-racial Tran vaal Clothing Industry Medical Aid Society.

It was not until he joined the antiapartheid movement in 1953 that she became politically active. he helped et up the Congress of Democrats and the Federation of outh African Women. After taking a leading role in the anti-pas law demon trations, she wa arrested and charged with treason in 1956. he eventually secured her acquittal from the charge in 1961. In the following year he became the first white woman in outh Africa to be placed under house arrest. Her re triction order lasted for nine years.

During that time she was al 0 banned from working for the Clothing Industry Medical Aid ociety because she entered a building where a trade union meeting was taking place. The restrictions were upended in 1971 when she underwent an operation for cancer. She soon resumed her antiapartheid activities, however, and in 1980 she was banned again for two years. But Mrs Jo eph was not exclusively dedicated to politic: in 1975 she gained a diploma in Theology from the niver ity of London. She wa also made a Fellow of King's in the same year.

Dr E Lester Smith Or E Lester Smith the discoverer of vitamin 1312 died at the age of . He was a graduate of Chcl ea Poly which later became Chelsea College, and thus a part of King's. An obituary of hi life wa covered in the Times Saturday 19 December 1992.

Reginald P Winnington-Ingram Reginald Pepy (Reg) WinningtonIngram, Emeritu , Professor of Ancienct Greek Language and Literature in the Department of Classics (1953-71) and Fellow of King's College London died on 3 Jan uary 1993, aged 88.

Born the son of a Rear-Admiral and nephew to the Bi hop of London who donated the doors for King's Chapel, he路 was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After holding a first lectureship at Manchester University, he moved to London in 1934 where he served successively as Reader in Classic at Birbeck College and Profe sor of Classics at Westfield College (1948), before his appointment to King' College in 1953.

Ilis specialist interest lay in the interpretation of ancient Greek tragedy and his principal publications in this area earned him an international reputation a one of the most original and influential scholars of his generation.

Euripedes and Dionysus (1948), a pioneering study of the Bacchae, was followed on hi retirement by ophocles: an Interpretation (1980) and tudies in Aeschylus (1983), distillations of idea which he had formed throughout his career, expressed with imagination and critical flair. He had an ancillary interest in the arcane subject of Greek music, publishing his earliest book (1936) on Mode in Ancient Greek M usic and writing the entry for Greek Music in Grove's Dictionary.

Reg is remembered with affection by staff in the Cia sics Department, several of whom were appointed by him. He was a dignified, stylish and preci e man, who e elf-deprecating modesty was relieved by a puckish sense of humour.

Hi lasting contribution to the life and succe of Classics at King's ha been the annual Greek play performed in the original language which he introduced upon his arrival in 1953, and which till contines today in unbroken tradition as a te timony to the vigour and sparkle first in pired by him forty years ago. A memorial service for him will be held in the College chapel on Tuesday 16 March at 17.30. The address will be delivered by Or John P Barron, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford.

Professor G B Waywell I lead of Department of Classics

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Public Lecture Centre for Medical Law and Ethics A ec res Roo BOO 0 '300â&#x20AC;˘ 4 00, Sad Ca p s Ad ss 0 , ee, 0 a IC e' 1 February P 0 esse Jo a s ICe Soc a E cs and Po c, nJ ers 0 aces er) In wha ways should we dlscnmma e agams disabIlity?

15 February Pro essor Lewls olpe, FRS (Pro essor 0 Biology as applied 0 ediclne, University College) SCIence. Moral and Immoral ales 24 February Pro essor aze Genn (Head 0 Depa men 0 Law, Queen ary and es leld College) Compensation for medical acclden s: research m progress

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The Maxwell Society Lectures All lee ures will a e place In Room 2C (Main Building). S rand from 14 001500 1 February Dr Juha Sedgbeer (Imperial College, London) Neutrinos, astrophysics and bIg accelerators 8 February Dr J Rarity, DRA Malvern What IS two photons?

15 February Pro essor E R Pi e FRS ( Ing's) Inverse problems In optiCS. Trouble With Hubble

Centre for Philosophical Studies Held in he Commi ee Room rom 17.30-19.30. (Please no e excep ions) 9 February Professor David Heyd (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Do numbers count? Philosophy and population policies 11 February Professor David Heyd (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

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25 February (Council Room) Professor Rona d Dwor I ( nl ers Co ege, 0 ord) Abortion, freedom and mformed deCISIons School of Law 7 February 8.00, Grea all, S rand Jac Bea on, Law Commissioner Restitution 0 taxes, duties, leVIes and other Imposts defmmg he scope of he WoolVVlch Prmclple

The British Institute of Human Rights All lec ures will be held in he ew Thea re, S rand Campus, rom 13 0014.00 All welcome, admission ree 9 February Davld Pannlc QC (Fellow of All Souls' College, Ox ord. Con ribu or of fortnlgh Iy column on legal opics 0 The Times) The European torture committee: settmg mternational custodial standards 16 February Professor Malcolm Shaw (Ironsides Ray & Vials Professor of Law, UniverSity 0 Leicester) States, mdividuals and minonties: the precanous balance

Department of Chemistry.

Lec ures a 16.30 In Room 1B06, Strand Campus 16 February Pro essor H A 0 Hill, FRS (Oxford) Bio-electrochemistry; proteins at surfaces and sensors

Centre for Hellenic Studies Second Runciman Lecture ew Theatre, Strand at 18.00 4 February Professor D Nicol AD 1354. A fateful year for Byzantium

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Resarch Seminars Held on Thursdays rom 13.00-14.00, Room 11 A. ain Building, S rand 28 January

Liza Alien, (C SA. University 0 Westminster) Darwmian Design for Cascaded Matched Filtering 4 February David Fraser (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, King's College London) Robots and Nets 11 February Or Takamasa Akiyama ( yoto University, Japan) Application of Neural Networks to Transport Problems 18 February RW Born (British Aerospace Defence, Dynamics) Experiences of using MASCOT-3 & Ada in Real-time Software Development 25 February Or Mehdi Noori (Marconi) Future Trends in Satelite Communications Biomedical Sciences Division Physiology and Vascular Biology Seminars Held on Wednesdays from 16.30 17 30 in he Physiology Lecture Thea re, Kensing on Campus 3 February Or Mark Marsh (Laboratory of Molecular Cell biology, University College London) Endocytosis and virus entry 10 February Professor Barry Halliwell (Biomedical Sciences Division, King's) A radical approach to human disease NB this Divisional Seminar will ta e place in room 3B20 on the Strand Campus and will start at 17.00 17 February Professor David Lane (Haematology

Uni, Charing Cross & Westmins er edical School) Molecular studies of the interactions of thrombm with its physiological mhlbitor, the serpm antithrombin 24 February Pro esser Bas len Gomperts (Physiology Departmen , University College London) What is calcium doing in secretion, anyway?

History and Philosophy of Science Seminars Held on Thursdays at 14.15 in Room 1B22, Strand Campus 4 February Or Murray Shanahan (Imperial College) Consciousness requires no explanatIOn 11 February S eve Russ (University of Warwick) Bolzano's analytic programme 18 February Professor Richard Gregory FRS (University of Bristol) Classifying illusions 25 February Or James Cussens (King's) Testing alternative logics in artificial intelligence Centre for Hellenic Studies Byzantine and Modern Greek Seminars 1 February Professor Averil Cameron (King's), Lyn Rodley (London), Andrew Louth (Goldsmith's) The Byzantine Saint discussion 0 e recent book by Catia Galatariotou, The Making of a Saint, The Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the Recluse, Cambridge 1991 8 February Amalia Arvaniti (Oxford)

1 February Or Yvonne Jones (Laboratory of olecular Biophysics, University 0 Ox ord) Crystal structure of the cell adhesion molecule C02 8 February Or John Gordon (Birmingham University Medical School) Life and Death of B Iymphocytes 15 February Or Jonathan Slack (Developmental Biology Unit, ICRF, Oxford) Fibroblast growth factor in early Xenopus development 22 February Or ancy Hogg (ICRF, Lincoln's Inn Field, London) Leucocyte integrin activation: the LFA 1 - ICAM interaction The Randalllnstitute Developmental Biology Seminars All seminars start promptly at 17.00 unless otherwise stated 3 February Professor Mark Noble (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London) From cell to tissue to neoplasm in fifty minutes 10 February Or Keith Willison (Chester Beatty Research Laboratories) Protein folding and trafficking during spermatogenesis 17 February Or Fatwan AI Mohanna (Physiology, University of London) Calcium dynamics in neurons 24 February Or Paul Martin (Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University of London) Cellular and molecular mechanisms of embryonic wound healing

The rhythm of Modern Greek from a linguistic perspective

Humanities Computing Programme

The Randall Seminars The Randalllnstitute, 26-29 Drury Lane WC2 All seminars start promptly at 17.00, unless otherwise stated. Drinks aherwards in the Refectory.

23 February Or Manfred Thaller (Max-PlanckInstitut fur Geschichte, Gottingen, Germany) Source oriented data processing: what are 'specifically historical' computer applications?

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ednesdays a 7 00 In Room GO USIC, 52-3 S rand Depa en 0 Admission ree, w, hou c e

3 February S ephen Ban leld (Un,vers y 0 Birmingham) Sondhelm and the melopoetlcs of vernacular song

10 February Jehoash Hirschberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The gamut. the hexachords, and modallabellmg as the conceprual world In French musIc of the fourteenth cenrury 17 February Rob Wegman ( ew College Ox ord) Jacob Obrecht at Ghent new d,scovenes

un crcnc Centre for Philosophical Studies Nations and citizens, a one-day con erence on Sa urday 6 February in he Commit ee Room, S rand 1030-11.30 Pro essor S ephen Clar (University of Liverpool) Nations and emprres 1145-1245 Professor Onora 0' eill (Principal of ewnham College, Cambridge) Justice, boundanes and Identities

Rogate Study Centre The Red House, Roga e, r Pe erseld GU31 5H Tel 0730821621, ax 0730 821151 Three courses will be held dUring he wee end 0 19-21 February 1993

Gilbert White: Pioneer Ecologist and Behavourist Tutor Dr June Chatfleld 1993 marks the bicen enary of he death of the Rev Gilbert Whi e, au hor of The Natural History of Selbourne, which has remained a classic 0 sCience and English Writing or over two cen uries ThiS course loo s at he development of Gilbert Wh, e's Ideas on animals, helf rela lonshlp 0 envlronmen and how hey behave a erlal Will come ro Wh, e's Journals, hiS boo and some personal le ers.

Dr June Cha leld IS a zoologls , ormerly WI h he a lonal useum 0 ales and the Gilbert Wh, e useum, Selbourne Cost reslden lal £7800 tuition only £55 00 The other wo courses are run In collaboration with the Centre for Extra Mural Studies, Blfbeck College, University 0 London

Biological and Ecological Data Analysis Tu ors Dr I e L.ewe 'yn and Dr S ep en a ers A sound prac Ical baSIS or ecological da a analYSIS be given by In roduclng pa icipan s 0 he range of parame PC descrip Ive sta IS ICS The course W I ensure s uden scan choose he correc analytical pa hway and also underta e he analyses TopIcs WIll be covered by reference 0 case s udles Apple aCIn osh compu ers Will be used but partiCipants are encouraged to bring their own machines and software This IS an approved Short Course for the Certlfica e In Ecology and Conserva Ion Dr i e L1ewellyn, Direc or of Roga e S udy Cen re, IS also an applied biologls and ecologls principally ,n eres ed In Insec s and their food plan s Or S ephen Water IS a bo anls , formerly a lec urer a Royal Holloway and Bed ord ew College.

Cos reslden ial £78 00 u Ion only £55 00 concessions £5500 (residen lal) £3200 ( ui ion only) All courses begin With dinner at 19 00 on Friday and end after ea on Sunday

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series of eleven national eminars to be held between March and Augu t 1993 is being organised by the Council for Environmental Education (CEE) as part of a project aimed at facilitating the development of environmental education policy and practice within further and higher education, with particular emphasis on the needs and expectations of business.

This is a project, entitled Education and Training for Business and the Environment was formulated in 1992 as a result of a Government White Paper This Common Inhm/ance - Bri/ain 's E11Vironmen/al Strategy. he seminars are as follows: Art, Design and the Performing Arts, Middle ex niversity; Built Environment, De Montfort niversity; Business and Management, niversity of Manchester; Engineering,University of Hertfordshire; Health and Social Services, niversity of Surrey; Humanities and Social Science, University of Wolverhampton; Rural Environment, niversity of Reading; Science and Technology, The Open University; Sport, Leisure, Ho pitality and Tourism; Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education There will also be two interdi ciplinary seminars: Adult and Continuing Education, ational Institute of Adult Continuing Education; Information Technology Kingston University The seminars will be the culmination of a research exercise to identify appropriate environmental content, skills and good practice within the educational areas.

For further information about thi project please contact: Shirley Ali Khan, ational Co-ordinator for Education and Training In Business and the Environment, Department of Environmental Sciences, niversity of Hertfordshire, Hatfield Campus, Hatfield, AL10 9AB. Te10707-284505 or Luke Millard, Council for Environmental Education, niversityof Reading, London Road, Reading, RG I 5AQ. Tel 0734-756061.

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S a Group on Tuesday lunchtimes in Room 78 (by indness of Or Judith Champ - the room is next to the Chaplaincy). Coffee and tea are provided. but bring your own lunch.

Meetings are informal, and this term will feature a number of short talks followed by discussion. Programmes will be available from 19 January - ask at the Chaplaincy for a copy.

Dates include 26 January. 9 February. 23 February and 9 March.

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25 February, 17.30 In ormal Eucharist wi h music from Taize 2 March, 17.30 Sequence of readings and music for Lent (with composer John Tavener) (there will be a reception after this service) The sermons at the College Eucharist on Wednesdays form a series entitled Faith in. ..

For full details of the Chaplaincy Diary. please contact the Chaplaincy.

hri tian Forum ector becomc Bi hop

ing's Christian Forum on Tuesday lunchtimes. with a speaker followed by discussion.

2 February Bishop Anthony Bloom Power and Society 16 February Canon Christopher Hill Is the Church of England Catholic?

2 March John Tavener Glimpses of Paradise

Organ Rccital On Mondays at 13.1 0 15 February Simon Lewis. Organ Scholar 1 March David Trendell, College Organist

pc ial cn'lcc 2 February, 17.30 Procession and sung Eucharist for Candlemass 4 February, 17.30 Sung Orthodox Vespers

he Revd Or Laurie Green, Team Rector of Poplar in the London Docklands development since 1989 is to succeed the retiring Rt Revd Derek Bond as Bishop of Bradwell in East Essex. Both Or Green and his wife are King's alumni.

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News on stationery templates for IBM/Word users We are pleased to report that the problems we have been experiencing in the development of computer templates for PCs have now been resolved. There are now templates available for the letterhead, memorandum and fax header layouts in the official style for tho e who u e MS Word 5.5 for DOS on IBM/IB compatible PCs. These have been developed as style sheets and if anyone would like a copy of them they are advised to contact David Powell in the Computing Centre who will be able to assist users installing the templates on their machines. There are also MS Word for Windows versions of these templates for those who require them and these can also be obtained from David Powell on ext 2818.

24 February, 13.10 Ash Wednesday Ecumenical Service for the start of Lent

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London Field ,Ua1 ton . ttractlve, ull) umi hed garden a compn In Ittlng room. bedroom, itchen, ho",er \'C; has gas central heating, w hing machine and telephone. Would Ult ingle person, couple or two harer .. 'on-smo er onl . 110 a v.eek, excluding bill. Tel 071-249 349 .

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la ne King's College Greek Play from the Clas ic Department this year celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a production of Electra

by Eunpedes. Following a tradition of thirty-nine years, the production will be taged In the original Greek.

Performance will take place in the 'ew Theatre from Wednesday 10 V1arch to aturday 13 ~arch at 19.30. In addItion, matinees commencing at 14.00 will be performed on Wedne day 10 and F nday 12 March. All tickets are pnced at 拢4.00, which include a complimentary programme and may be obtained by completing and returning the application form below.

To obtain the tickets of your fir t choice, you are strongly advised to return your correctly completed

application form together with the appropriate remittance a oon as possible. Ithough we will make every effort to accommodate everyone at the performance of their choice, we would be grateful if, when ordering tickets, you would state a econd preference. hould you have any urgent enquiries, or wish to check the availabIlity of seats for a particular performance, plea e contact Andrew Lebentz on 071- 732399.

It' pplicanon J'orrn Name Daytime Telephone :"umber

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路There i a 40p charge for tickets to be returned by post, otherwise please enclose a tamped addressed envelope. Please make cheques payable to King's Colkge Creek Ploy.

Return this form with remittance to: The Business Manager Department of Classics King's College trand London WC2R 2LS Tel 071-873 2399

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Contnb IOn for the ne edillon ho lid be received by mld-day Fnday 12 February, If po Ible on a 3.5 ' ~ac cll k. AlternatIvely contnbu or eould cnd their copy by I~-mall ( ha Comment). Please note the edItor reserve the right to amend Item.. a.. necessary.