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SlVen top-ranking researclr universitiesOxford, Cambridge, University College London, Batlr, King's College London, Mancltester and Sussex - Irad tlreir increases capped at 15 per cent. ' (['he I Iigher, 26 February 1993,jront page story)

King's College ha moved from being an institution that required a ' afety-net' to one whose funding increase wa 'capped'. Our improved re earch ratings just before Christmas have now translated into the maximum permitted growth in 'R' income, and our growth in tudent numbers ha been rewarded by some competitively awarded 'marginal teaching' funding. Ifwe take into account the safety net we had la t time, our real rate of increa e in funding i about 8.7%, not the 3.6% calculated by the I lE FCE and published in the press.

This would move us from the equal 113th po ition hown in Tire lIiglrerof26 Pebruary, to about 40th. Within the 'old' universitie of . ngland, onl nine ach ieved an increase larger than th is. ntil we get from the HEFCE the fine detail of the allocations, we cannot identify the exact amounts attributable to each co t centre, and can not make a

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fine a scssment of our likely budget for next ession. It does however make our task ea ier: the magn itude of the revi ion of our trategic plan is not as great as it would have been without the very good research growth. The effect of pump-priming from our Re earch trategy Committee is evident in the re ult ; it has proved to have been money well spent.

We cannot rest on thcse laurel, for we still have some way to go to be as strong as I would like. To balance our budgets, and to achieve a surplus for imaginative inve tment in ite amenitie and repair, academic initiatives, and tudent ervice , we still have to achieve all the reduction in taff co ts that we had built into the trategic plan, piu ome more than we forecast in that plan.

The announcement of funding is further evidence of the strength of our plan; we are well on the way to achieving it. The hard work and pain have begun to reap reward. We now have more of the tool to finish the job. Don't flinch now.

Clrristoplrer lIogwood CBE Iras joined King's as a Visiting Professor and is pictured Irere during Iris first Master Class in tire Music Department (see page 4 for tire article, 'Two distinguislred appointments in Music').

Professor Arthur Luca Acting Principal

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Dr Pttff Clorlt, Smior Ucturff in tht Sociohgy of Rdigion, was inundated with reque ts for explanation and comment from journalist during the ongoing violent iege at Waeo in Texas of cult leader Oavid Kore h and hi follower.

Or Clarke received 0 er 50 reque ts for comment and wa interviewed by, among t other, untralTV, BBC RadIo Bdfost, the BBC World Seroia, the Xrlroy Programmt and many local radio tation about why such cults emerge, why they appeal to people and the extent to whieh they brain-wash their followers.

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Dr AIon Billies, Rtadtr in /luman Biohgy, was featured heavily in the press following hi attendance at the annual meeting of the American As ociation for the Advancement of Science in Boston la t month. ~ew paper including the Observer, the Independent and the ew York Times covered hi finding after he told the meeting that laws banning marriages between first cousins are unnecessary, and it is possible that genetic problem may, in fact, actually be reduced by inbreeding. J le also pointed out that there are many places in the world where marriage between close relatives are commonplace. ince the meeting Dr Bittles has taken part in a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 and he was also interviewed on the BBC World Service News. The New Scientist and Science (the world's largest-selling science journal) have also published his concl us ions,

Drlames Cow, Reuarclr O/ftcff, Centrtfor Defence Studits appeared on IT. 's NtfWS at 12.30, in which he discussed the usefulness of the recent CS food airdrops in Bosnia. He concluded that although the exercise was a step in the right direction, it was little more than a political gesture demonstrating that the S had arrived.

Or Cow wa also quoted in Wales on Sunday, in which he discussed why there were currently arou nd 1000 Western 'mercenaries' in Bosnia. lIe believed that the geographical accessibility of 130snia was a major factor, and concluded that it wa difficult to know what difference the 'mercenaries' make to the situation there.

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Profmor Andrew Ashworth, EdmundDavies Profmor ofCnminal Low and CnminalJustia, took part in Radio 4' Low In Action, di u ing the inadequacie of the penal tem In re pect of young offender. He pointed out that a many as two-third of tho e leaving bor tal and detention centre re-offended within two year, which ugge t that change in the tem are nece ary. An article in the Guardian al 0 quoted Profe or hworth on the same IS ue: 'Criminologi t are generally good at saying what won't work. We are le s good at coming up with sugge tions a to what will.'

Dr Tom Sanders, Reader In utrition, received wide pread pre coverage, particularly from the Daify Mail, the Dalfy Express and the Sunday Telegraph following a recent nutrition conference in London. The reports alleged that vegetarians were putting their health at ri k from nutritional deficiencies of iron, vitamin 1312 and vitamin O. In response Or Sanders and his colleague, Or Sheela Reddy who also spoke at the conference on the diets of women, wrote to the Daify Mail to set the record straight; 'prOViding vegetarian diets are scnsibly elected, they can be adequate..... we are concerned that some young women are eating poor diets because they have not compensated for the omis ion of meat', In the same week Or anders made a personal appearance on the Food and Drink Programme, (13I3C2) to help celebrate 1 ational Chip Week! In an attempt to combat the nation's 'fear of frying', he advised that if the chips were large and cooked in hot vegetable oil they were a healthier option.

Mrs Charlolle RouecJri, Lecturer in Byzontine Language and Literature, i the author of a timely book entitled Per/omle and Partisans at Aphrodisias, which was the subject of discu sion in the Times. As the is ue of today's troubled youth rages on, the book reveal that the problem of violent and dangerous teenagers date a far back as twenty centuries ago. The answer found in Aphrodisia wa for the young men to work off excess energy in the gymnasium or by partaking in competitive game. Mr Roueche came

In the. "ew continued to the depre Ing conclu ion that ince the begInning 0 hi to the oung male has used hi urplu hormone to the detriment of iety, unle an alternative outlet i provided for thi .

Dr Martin Ovsos, Lalur~r in tlu Dq;ortm 10/WorSludirs, h appeared on BBC Breok/osl 'tlll'S, BBC World S"lIia Tdeuision tlll'S, C '/\' and Sky ]V tlll'S on the basis of research carried out by the Department of War tudies which in olves monitoring proliferation and the arm trade in the Middle East.

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ord trathclyde, Parliamentary Under Secretary of tate at the Department of the Environment, came to King' on 24 February to launch Energy Experl, a new curriculum pack jointly developed by a team headed by Or Margaret ox of the Centre for Educational tudies, and the Advi ory Unit for Microtechnology In Education of Ilertfordshire COUnty Council.

The pack i de igned for use by secondary school students and eonsi ts of software, teachers' curriculum guide and student booklets. Computer modelling is a relatively new way of teaching and Energy Exp~rl is one of the first such packages to be developed for school learning. Using the pack, students will be able to apply computer modelling to several different school ubjects, relating information technology skill to real practical needs and application in the highl topical area of energy. They could, for instance, collect data about the heating system in their own home, recording how long it is switched on and at what temperature, and then apply this information to build a model using the oftware which will help to determine how energy could be employed more efficiently.

The project has been supported by British Gas, Research Machines PLC and the ational Council for Education Technology.

'Almo t every item of every weekly meeting of the I lead of hool and the College Officers eventually returns to space: the lack of it, the quality of it, or Its location in a plaee we cannot effectively use it.

'In the _ ummer of 1 92 the nited Medical and Dental chool of t 'fhomas's and Guy's ( MDS) and Kmg' ollege agreed in principle to merge. Feasibility discu ions had been going on for ome time, and we agreed to merge ahead of the recommendations of ir Bernard Tomlinson's committee.

Therefore why didn't we get on with the original plan and re-locate the life science and ba ic medical sciences in an enlarged Cornwall House? The imple practical an wer to that que tion i that we have not been able to sell one of the major propertie that was

nece sary to finance that plan. '\lore importantl however, the po Ibtli of one of Guy' or Thomas's ho pital clo ing has meant that additional option for the College ha e opened up. If enough space became a aalable e could reopen con ideratlon of acating the trand site altogether.

We mu t therefore explore that po ibilJty, for the academic ad antages that would accrue to ha 109 the whole College on a ingle ite would be enormou , and we would generate annual cash savings a ociated with multi-site operations that would allow ignlficant inve tment in our academic infra tructure - to the benefit of tuden and taff alike. • ince the pos ibilities for achieving thi are real, and would simultaneou Iy help solve the accommodation problems of ome arm of the government, we ha e been ery active in en uring that vi ionary idea are actively planted in Whitehall, in the Regional llealth uthority, and elsewhere. You can see evidence ofthi activity in the Lords' debate and in the Time. We need to explore every avenue of achieving the unity of the College, and enhancing its capacity to lead in teaching, to lead in re eareh, and to lead in service to the community. '

From kft 10 righI Mr Bob Frazer, Direclor o/CuslomerSeroices 01 Bn'lislt Cas; Lord SIralhc/yde, and Professor Lucas

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he Centre for Advanced performance tudies (jointly run by King's and the Royal Academy of Mu ic) welcomes two distinguished new staff this term who will make a significant contribution to the teach ing of music performance studies in London.

Both appointments renect the aim of the Centre (which wa launched in autumn 199 I and is the fir t of its kind in the country): to bring together the strength of a university and a music conservatoire and thus offer unique opportunities to young performers to combine high-level training with an academic study of music.

Professor Laurence Dreyfus, formerly of Stanford niversity, California, arrived on 1 March to take up a full-time professorship and the overall headship of the Centre. He will bring to the Centre his international distinction as a cholar, particularly of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as a performer on the viola da gamba, and as a teacher of musical performance and musicology.

He ha studied at the Juilliard School, at Columbia University and at the Royal Conservatory in Brussel , and ha taught at Columbia, Yale and at the niversity of Chicago as well as Stanford. He has published widely on aspects of Bach' music, particularly tho e related to performance practice in Baroque music, and he has recorded work by Bach, Marais and F orq ueray.

Professor Dreyfus hopes to give his inaugural lecture at King' on Ram as Critic ofEnliglltenment as soon as possible, and Comment shall be announcing the date, time and venue when the lecture has been et up.

He will be also be giving a recital on the viola da gamba at 19.30 on 17 May, in the Duke's Hall at the Royal Academy of M usic. The programme will include two sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach and French Baroque works by Marais and F orq ueray. page 4

Entrance to the concert is free but by ticket only: to obtain tickets telephone the Ro al cademy of M usic on 071-4 7 2763.

Chri topher Ilogwood CBE, the founder and Director of the cademyof • ncient Mu ic, ha al 0 joined the Centre as a isiting Professor. He will give about six e ions a year, lecturing and coaching tudents in aspects of performance-based tudie. Mr Hogwood ha pioneered hi toricallyaware performance of Baroque and Classical music, and i well-known as a harpsichordist, conductor, musicologi t and broadcaster, with many keyboard and orchestral recordings to his credit.

He gave his first master-class at King's on 16 February.

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new national survey by the Age Concern In titute of Gerontology at King's reveals that, de pite some improvement in room temperatures since the last major research study in 1972, many elderly people are still living in excessively cold homes, putting them at risk of hypothermia and cold-related illne ses.

The report, Cold Comfort: a National survey ofelderly peopk in winter, was written by Ann Salvage of ACIOG and published on 26 February. It identifies the main problems as poor heating systems, the high cost of heating and poverty among the elderly.

energy and environmental policie can as i t in dealing with the problem.

The report i available, price 19.95 from ge Concern England, Dept AC, 12 London Road, London 164ER.

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he Royal Photographic ociety ha awarded its pre tigious Rodman Medal to Profe sor Ronald E Burge of the Department of Physic for his outstanding work on the X-ray micro cope.

The micro cope is likely to bring about a very sub tantial improvement in the understanding of biological function and tructure.

Professor Surge was a pupil of ir John Randall who led the team that di covered the tructure of D. A in the 50 . Ili current work on X-ray micro copy is in the tradition of ir John Randall, ie, the deliberate application of the technique and methods used traditionally in physics and chemi try, to the investigation of biological systems.

Profes or Burge is currently undertaking negotiations with the Cavendi h Laboratory Cambridge on collaborative projects on X-ray microscopy.

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French Ilonour The survey found that: one third of elderly people use no heating at all in their bedrooms (during either the day or the night); despite increases in average room temperatures, a high proportion of older people are still living in homes which are colder than recently recommended by the World Health Organ isation; nearly a quarter of respondents said they had to cut back on other things (usually food or clothing) in order to stay warm in winter.

Ann alvage recommends that the Government should establish as a matter of urgency an inter-departmental working party to con ider the issue of fuel poverty and ways in which social,

arianne Simon, Lectrice in the French Department, ha received the honour of being a ked by the French Mini try of Culture to pre ent, at the Ecole lormale Superieure in Pari, a Hommage oJean Tordieu, at which the famous poet Jean Tardieu will himselfbe present.

British Studie at King's or th~ suond y~ar running, a group of university t~acltm from th~ fomur CucltoslO'Uaiio (nOffl) ~ Cuclt and SIO'Uak RepublUs} altmd~d a Bn"tish Studi~s course held at the Englislz Languag~ Unit and sponsored by flu British Council. Participants camefrom the universities of Bratislava, PresO'U, Bmo and Pra~ as well as the Pedagogical Faculty at Hradec Kra/~.

One ofthe studm/s Dr Jarmilo MothejzikO'Ua Associate Professor of IIJ~ Philosophical Faculty, Charles Univmity Prague, gave /he foll{)f1i)ing commen/s on the course: 'British Studies i a relatively new discipline in our countries, discouraged under the old regimes, but now flourishing with the help of nativespeaker lecturer sent by the Briti h Council.

'It is not easy to find common ground for specialists in different areas of what is known in Middle Europe as 'philology', yet this course has managed to do just that. The carefully balanced combination of different subjects incorporating literature, lingu istics, relevant aspects of sociology, economics, politics, history, geography and popular culture and media not only catered for our professional interests but effectively filled gaps in our knowledge that we sometimes had not known were there.

'An integral part of the course - and a much appreciated one - was getting to know culture "on the spot". All of us enjoyed the guided trips to Windsor, Oxford, Greenwich, the Houses of Parliament, Sir John Soane' Museum and the informal chat in the pub afterwards. We also enjoyed the moveable feast of walking around the City of London and the performance of Priestly's An Inspec/orCalls at the ational Theatre was unforgettable.

'We met a lot of nice, co-operative and friendly people both on campus and in the City and lodging with British families enabled us to glimp e the domestic scene and practise everyday English. Much more could be written about this course and more prai e heaped upon it. I would like to thank the British Council, the organisers and

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Should this course form part of a new tradition of British Studie at King's, let me say long live the tradition.'

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he purpose of this scheme is to allow established scholars, typically in mid-career, time to undertake an approved programmes of research while relieved of their normal commitments of teach ing and administration. The awards are made for two years from the beginning of autumn 1994, and are made direct to the applicant's employing institution to cover the cost of replacement teaching.

The Academy invites applications from serving members of academic staff of institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom. It is expected that twelve awards will be available to be taken up in autumn 1994. The closing date for applications via employing institutions is 31 July 1993. Details of the scheme and application forms are currently available from the Humanities School Office.

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he Council of the College is seeking to fill the post of Dean of the College from I August 1993 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Dean has the responsibility for ensuring that the religious purposes of the College are effectively maintained and carried out.

The Dean i required to be an ordained minister of the Church of England. The post is open to both priests and deacons (men or women). It is expected that the Dean will be a person of some distinction who will be able to use the opportunities offered by the post to make a significant contribution to the churches and the community.

Any member of the College who would like to put forward names of persons who might be considered for this post should send them in confidence to Peter Gilbert, Assi tant Secretary, ext 2667, from whom further particulars may be obtained.

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he succe sful candidates in the KCLS election for sabbatical posts next academic year were announced on Friday 26 February. Alex Bingham, previously the Chair of the Student Representative Council, will be the President, Gez Sammon, currently Football Club President will become Finance and Societies Sabbatical. ]ulian Porter was elected Vice-President and will be the first sabbatical for years to have done most of his studying at the Chelsea Campus. Alister Morgan, previously best known as one of King's top D]s, will be Publications and Communications Sabbatical taking on responsibility for Roar. Amongst the candidates' manifesto pledges were the continuance of the fight against voluntary membership of Student Unions, the furthering of opportunities for students at all sites and the regular and widespread appearance of Roar.

Ben Eiger President of KCLSU

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his year the May Ball is being held on Saturday 8 May 1993 in the magnificent Empire lapolean Ballroom at the Cafe Royal in Piccadilly. Renowned for its style and elegance, this suite plays host to Royal and Celebrity Galas.

The Ball will follow a similar programme as in previous years, of a reception, five course dinner and wine, and live entertainment until 1.00.

However, this year, despite annual inflation and the escalating cost of living, KCLS has managed to cut the price of the ticket by ÂŁ5.00 to ÂŁ45.00. An added bonus is that the bar prices at the Cafe Royal are comparable to nightclub prices.

For details on how to obtain tickets please contact the Students' Union.

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Lecture Department of Chemistry 4May ec ure 0 De e d Roo B06, Sada 630 Or A cLauc a ,FRS (0 ora) Free radicals, magne IC lelds, pylons and cell elephones

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emm r Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Seminars All seminars are eld on Thursdays between 13 00- 4 00 In Room A, aln Building, S rand

18 March Or Roger Falrwood (Oepartmen of Electronic and Elec IIcal Englneenng, University of Surrey) A framewor for genenc Visual recogmtlOn of 3-0 objects

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25 March To be announced

1 April Or Ghanbarl (University of Essex) Video compression and A TM networks

8 April Or ick Tyler (University College London) Knowledge, expenence or guesswork. a paradox m knowledge engineering?

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Thursday 29 April Ca dice ood, VIOl n Valarie 0 ,piano

Cunkrcncc Statistical Mechanics路 Statmech 9 Thursday 27 May, Strand This one-day conference will ollowa Similar orma 0 prevIous meetings of he senes and will consls of short contribu ed al s, 0 abou 20 mlnu es each, IOge her With three Invited lec urers 0 Penrose (Heno -Wa t), A ossa ows I (Torun) and P Grassberger (Wuppertal) Please note that there is no charge for his meeting The deadline for those wishing to contribute a tal IS 20 April (Title only required).

For urther de ails contac . 0 A Lavis, Ma hs (873 2240/2217, Email:D LAVIS@U .AC KCL.CC OAK) or G S. Joyce, PhYSICS (873 2168; Email:GJOYCE@UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK).

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22 April S ephen Payn er (Bri Ish Aerospace Defence, Dynamics) Formal methods for parallel systems an overview

29 April To be announced

The Randalllnstitute Developmental Biology Seminars Held in the Randalllnstitute Lecture Theatre, 26-29 Orury Lane. Please call 836-8851 on the days concerned to confirm the times of the seminars

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The Centre for the Study of Metals in Biology and Medicine The Second Annual Research Day will be held on Wednesday 24 March In C22 A Ins Building, KenSington The Centre was set up In 1992, as a result of a King's College Research Strategy Initiative to co-ordina e research on he roles of the metallic elements The focus on this subject has led to new funding opportuni les.

Membership of the Centre is open to any research workers (academic staff,

postdoc oral research staff, technical s aff, pos gradua e studen s) in he College, who have wor ed, or are in ending 0 wor in his area. This open meeting is an opportuni 0 ind ou wha 0 her groups in he Cen re are doing as he wor 0 he various departmen s comprising he Cen re will be highligh ed by presen ations by young scientis s.

The programme will start at 10.30 with a keynote lecture by Professor R J P Williams, FRS, entitled Metal ions and feedback control, followed by short presentations in the general areas of metals in health and disease metalloproteins and metals in the ' environment. Professor Cammack and Dr Wrigglesworth, are co-ordinating the mee ing and can be contaced for further details, ext 4264/4564.

Computer based learning in undergraduate teaching A seminar programme concerned with the use 0 computer based learning for undergraduates has been jointly organised by the Computer Centre and the School of Education. The irst seminar in the series was held at KCSMD on Tuesday 9 March. This included a talk by Malcolm Waterfield of the CTI Centre for Medicine at Bristol, demonstrations of authoring tools, and opportunities for hands-on exploration of interactive programs.

Further seminars dealing with specific subject areas are scheduled for the summer term, beginning with Biology

on 27 April in Lecture Room B3 Kensington, to be followed by , Chemistry and Lawat he Strand (dates and venues to be arranged).

Further in ormation available from David Squires, ex 3107 or Harold Short. ex 2739.

Obituarie Norman Bisset . 'orman Bi set, Emeritu Profe or of Pharmacogno y in the Pharmacy Department at King' ,and the world' leading authority on dart and arrow poison ,died at the age of 67 on 12 February 1993.

Profe or Bisset joined the department in 1967 as a lecturer in pharmacogno y after graduating from Imperial College and spending ome time in the Netherlands and the Far East at the botanical gardens in Bogor, Java and then at the Forest Research Institute near Kuala Lumpur, where he took part in the phytochemical urvey of :'vfalaysia. lIe returned to Europe in 1962 where he took hi Ph D at the Centre lational des Recherches Scientifique at Gif-sur-Yvette near Paris.

His interest in arrow and dart poisons originated from tudy of the upas tree and SlrycJznos species in Asia, and he published on the history, taxonomy, chemi try and pharmacology of these plants. In order to read original references about arrow poisons, he learned Chinese. Hi interest grew until he became familiar with plants used in Africa and America as well as Asia. He supplied the world's leading experts in cardiac poisons with material and developed an interest in the cardenolides and alkaloids related to trychnine and curare (a paralysing poison u ed by South American Indians for their arrows). I-le was especially interested in

ethnopharmacology - the study of the use of natural sub tances in the medicine of ethnic groups and much involved with the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

His expertise was recognised with the award ofa D (London) in 19 5, invitation to peak at international cientific meetings and appointment a a consultant for the nited ations Industrial Development Organi ation.

Thi last work involved him in helping developing countries such as Rwanda Togo and iger develop their industrial production of medicinal plants.

Profe sor Hisset's work on the curative properties of plants also made him an expert on their darker ide, and he was known to take pleasure in offering advice with crime writer (after

checking that their murderous intention were academic and not practical).

Dr Peter Houghton Department of Pharmacy Gillian Lin cott wrote in the Indeptndtnl the following note on Professor Bis et in the Obituary section on 16 February 1993: 'Hi university study wa a kind of toxicologist wizard's cave. He would bowl a toppered gourd of curare acro s his de k to illustrate a point, or go hunting among shelves and cupboards for the poisoned arrows he was sure he had put omewhere. A writer would emerge from these ses ions grateful and relieved that uch a weight of deadly experti e should be allied to uch a mode t and genial personality.'

Howard Mayer Brown Howard Mayer Brown, the distingu ished mu icologist, has died aged 62 in Venice. He was King Edward Professor and Head of the Department of Music at King's between 1972 and 1974. Born and brought up in Los Angeles, he pent his undergraduate and graduate days at Harvard niversity. His earliest scholarly works - a study of music in the French secular theatre 1400-1500, and a bibliography of instrumental music printed in the 16th century - both became classics. He continued throughout his career to produce a flood of major works on Renaissance and Baroque music, and he was especially noted a one of the pioneers of the Early Mu ic performance movement.

Howard first met Thurston Dart, founder of the Faculty of Music at King' in 1%4 at Harvard. After Dart's premature death in 1971, he succeeded him as King Edward Professor.

Howard's time at King's was not altogether happy (he used to say, 'I felt closer to the British Library back in Chicago than when I was in the Strand'), but he left a legacy of excellent cholarship in the Department.

Ironically, he hoped to return to King's on a part-time basis after he was to have retired from the University of Chicago, where he had been Ferdinand Schevill Di tinguished Professor since 1976.

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aren . tuden and ta - 0 - he Pharmacology Group ga hered recentl~ m he Ga" m Room at ~1anresa R d for the annual Pharmacology prlze-gl"mg ceremony.

The meeting wa led by Profe Ilr Petcr Jenner v, ho v,eleomed Pro e or Ir Jame Black from the -\nal tlcal Pharmacology L: nit at the Ra :ne In tltutelKC MD)and DrPaul Leff. representmg the pan or .

The Pharrytacology Group are e peclall pleased to have uch trong ~upport from Pharmaceutical companIe~. v,ho generou I) provided 19 prize~ covering mo t of the academic aetivltle~ of their ~tudents at undergraduate. \1 and Ph D level . ,\fter thc pm.e-givlng "Ir Jame po e about the Important mic 0 experimental pharmacology' for the developmen of new therapeutic drug~ and congratulated the students (and parent) for thclr sterling efforLs. In all the evenmg v,a., a great success.

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he new Research Centre for Tv,entieth-Century Cu ltural Studle taged tv,o Important e"ent m Februal). The first, a lecture on .1n/IJmttllSm In tOff f.uropeon It/SIOf). 0 pOrllhol1S presenl, was given by Professor. tefan. hrelner. Director of the In titutumJudalcumofthe lnlver ity ofTiibingen. It wa attended by many speclali ts m Jev,lsh tudles. particularly by repre entatives of the Institute of Jewish Affair and of the Couneal of Christian and Jews. and by Rabbi Solomon of the Centre for the "tud of Jewl h-Chmtlan Relations. rhe econd, a lecture by Professor Kenneth :vi mogue entitled Is Conserool/sm ollosl developing 0 Ilteory? attracted a large audience Including many experts on contemporary politic. among them Professor Donald Cameron Watt. \1 rs. hlrley Letwin. Dr Peter tead. 1/ J\lfred Sherman. \1 r \1aurice Cowling and Baroness Thatcher.

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c\\ c1canln u contraCt s a re ult of normal and regular 'market testmg' the College has let the c1eanmg contracts for the trand. Cornwall I louse Main Building and ,\nnexe and Drury Lane sites to a new contractor, Executive Cleaning. rvlce. effective from 5 April 1993.

Their bid for our contracts was extremely competitive and was accompanied by a pre entation detailing a novel way of dealing with the cleaning requirements for the. trand site buildings. The most important new

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propo al .... a that a number of the c1eanIn operati e v,ould be available until ulte late In the day to carl) out more requen c1eanmp; 0 - 0I1e and o her public area. 'I he e nev, arran emcnt v, III hopefull. Improve tandard Ignl lcantl, and I .... ould be 'rate uti ta at the above location v,ould dlrec an~ commen n the nev, arrangemen 0 me. Please bear m mind that the nev, contraetor~ have to famalia/lse them~lve .... ith the complex geography of the Ite and therefore, dUring the initial settling-m period 'our tolerance and under tandmg ....ould be appreCiated.

Bob Redmond General er"ice \"1anager

01,111 d Rosewood Grand The 1 I3roadv,ood grand piano m the Dean's office belonged to hi ancestor and IS too big for his country cottage. u ltable for warm-hearted musiCian With antique tastes and empty flat. Call the Dean on 071- 73 2063.

Fa or Ren One bedroom, fully furnished flat with heated conservatory, close to Ilolland Park. Available from June 1 for onc year.

00 per month. Please eontat.t Peter Quinnonext440 or071-792 1659.

2 year Par -time research assls an ship The project is funded by the flome Offiee and Involve a tudy of the phy IOlogical re ponses of laboratory animals to sound. alary up to ÂŁ7, -00 pa.

Ilour totally negotiable. Plea e contact Or Jill ales, Life elence ,ext4-3 ;or Dr. tuart \1 alligan. Phy lolog , ext 2731.