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1<) 4- ) David Roll, Deputy College .Secrelary, Planning and Resources, commenls on Ihe Colltge's financial oul/ook for Ihe nexl financial year. arlier th is year we were concerned with the effects of the policies outlined in the autumn I 93 Chancellor' Budget tatement, and pecifically how the national policy with regard to cutbacks in studel1l recruitment might be implemented at in titutional le el. An early indication from the IIEFCE sugge ted that tho e institutions with an overall tudel1l intake growth between 0 tober 1992 and October I 9 of more than seven per cent could expect to bear the brunt of the cutbacks. Since the College's growth pattern over this period was approximately 12 per cent. the financial situation looked fairly serious and, more importantly, the delivery of our trategic Plan appeared to be at ri k. In parallel with comidering contingenc plam to manage the financial e fects of possible student

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While the King's appointment will be his fir t large-scale commitment to un iversity teach ing, he has held previou iSlting profe or hip and fellow hips In everal American universitie , including Princeton, the tate C niver ity of. 'ew York at l3uffalo, the Univer ity of Colorado at Boulder, and warthmore College, Pennsylvania.

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ing' is set to welcome the leading Briti h composer Sir Ilarrison Birtwistle a it first Profe sor of Composition. The College's newl -created Ilenry Purcell hair IS the only permanent! e tablished profe orship of composition in the country, and the mo t pre tigiou position for a compo er that the Briti h academic world can offer. The acceptance of the po t by one of the world' greatest living composer confirm the position of the Department of Music at King' a the leading univer ity department of music in Britain. ir Ilarrison said of hi appointment: 'I have done a con iderable amount of compo~ition teaching over the year,

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especially in the nited States, but never for a long period. The King's Chair will gi e me the chance to u e my experience for the benefit of young composers and to develop a composition c1as in the heart of I,ondon.' ir Ilarri on will teach mainly postgraduate tudents at King's from eptember and will be head of the Divi ion of ompo ition within the Department of M usie. He i al 0 the Compo er-in-Re idence for the London Philharmonic Orche tra ba ed at London' outh Bank, and the two appointments e tablish hi pre ence at the centre of musical life in London.

Sir I Iarri~on. who is particularly well-known a an opera and theatre

The C or ull-tlme tudents ubject area \\hich hen Councd-determined IOta e tar et i he number of tudent eligIble or Council funding a de "ined 10 the 1 I1 E E urvey enroled in I . For medicine, den I tc) and IOI1Ial teacher rrainin , he C . are de ermined by re erence to the agreed IOta e target.

The. 1 \ or each 10 ltution relate only to tudem 10 re pecr of whom publici -funded ee are paid, and is set 0 that 10 aggregate aero all in titution the do not e ceed the total number for which the Council ha received lUition-fee compenatJon for Council-funded in tllUtlOns. The :VI :'\ i therefore the total number of award holders for" horn tUition fee compen atlon I' payable.

In respon e to repre entatlon about difficullle In managing the recruitmem prace s the 'ouncd has agreed to allow a margin above the 1:\. , . of 1. - per cent, \\ hich Institutions may recruit but in re pect of which lUltlon fee compen atlon \... dl not be raid. RecrUitment beyond thl level will give flse to a penalty at the level of the reSidual fee which an In.,tltutlon \ dl gam 10 respect of each student recruited higher than the MA. :'\. Th u . excess tudent will yie1d no net mcome, 10 addition, the Councdlmends to reduce the grant for 1995-96 in respect of those institution which over-recruit In 1 94-95.

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, formal In p ace with o "icer 0 the f undlOg C. lIncd with re ard to acceptance 0 the College' [fate IC Plan.

.\Ithough the HEFCE doe not 10 pracllce formally accept lO,titutional plan , 10 ca e where the man lal a pee of the plan breach the term and condition ofrhe Financial \1emorandum formal con IrmarlOn I required, In ourca e, bccau co the slgnlficam lOve tmem in taff ratlonall atlon and refurbl,hmelH. our "trateglc Plan doe, brea home of the I manclal 'vlemorandum condlllOns and ,0 the I¡ undlng CounCil'., reclfil clearance was required. Perversely, the ne~otlatlon with the I' undmg Council for acceptancc of our ~trateglc Plan had a major beaflng on the FundlOg Council's rollc toward, King', College with regard to Implememlng the student cutback progr mme.

In effcet, the Funding Councd ha., recognised that the Collcgc'> long-term financial health dcpend upon delivering its rrategic Plan and, ince one of the major components of the Plan IS student growrh, con tram ing lIJdem recruitmem would ultimately have had qUite erious repercu .,ions, 'I he Fundmg Council ha therefore allocated to the College a student target \\hl(;h - at lea t for 1 4-( 5 - wdl enable the growth plan [0 be u ttuned, 'I he prace 0 studem number control, \\ hich is contained in the College' Funding funding agreemem, IS determlOed by the allocation of two sets of number: a set of Contract tudent :'\umbers (C . 's) based on the 1993 Illgher Ed ucation tudents Early tatlstics (If ESE ) urvey; â&#x20AC;˘ a Maximum ggregate tuden . 'umber (M :'\) up to which fee compen atlon will be payable,

In general terms, given lUdent recruitmem up to target, the financial outlook for the urrem year and 199 - 5 i., likely to be preci,ely in accord with the rrategic Plan. It I fairly clear now, that given the ab,ence of further radical policy change b Go ernment, the. trateglc Plan finanCial objective srecificall . a manclally robu t mstllUlIon - wdl beachlcved. In this rc pect It IS plea Ing to report that the detailed budget for 19 4-95 indicate Significant operating urpluse for most 'chool and although these are of eour e ab orbed by restruclUring co ts, ince 19 4-95 is the last year of the re tructuring programmc, the outlook for 1 5-96 and be ond i a planned: le fairly healthy.

he. panl hand Engll h departmen have jointly inaugur ted a ne" degree programme 10 I: nlted tate and Latin ;\mencan lUdie,.\ pdot IOta e of nlOe tudem ha JU t 101 hed It fir t )ear 0 the our-year programme. The programme Itself which will invol e third year erne ter 10 the Cnited -'tates and Latin America, wa officially launched b the Principal in ollege on Tue day 10 May. The Prmcipal prai ed the re ourcefulne of the department in finding new ways In ",hich to emplo exi ting kills in radicall new direction, and hi remark'> prefaced two lecture on L nlted State and Latin Amenca given by eminent academiCS in the field.

Enc \10ttram, Profe or Ementu in the I'.nglish Department and a dl>tlOgulshed pioneer of ,\menean tudle~ In Bfltain, gave a paper on American Studies In Bntain and F.urope, and he was followed by Professor Jean Franeo of Columbia LJniver Ity, . 'ew York who~e paper wa entitled: Shifting Boundan'es: Latin American Cultural Studies and Unittd Staus Hegenomy.

The two peaker ralked to a re ponsive audience in a well-filled lecture hall, and their lectures were followed by a rcception in the ommittee Room which wa attended by, among others, the Councillor and Third. ecrerary of the Peruvian Emba , the Fir t Secretary of the Mexican Emba y, Professor BulmerThoma of the In titute of Latin ,\merican tudies, Profe or Gordon Brother~tonc of the niver ityof Indiana, Profe or Janet Batel and David Ilook of the English and panl h Departments, and Profcs or Harry Ife, I lead of the hool of 11 umanltles.

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The. 'orth Korean' refu al [0 allo\\ inspection of their nuclear facilitie by the We t wa reported on Radio 4' Today programme and Channel 4 't!fI:!S in which DrMartin ' 'as, Lecturer in the Deparlment of War Studies, appeared.

He al 0 poke on the World ervice about outh African arm trade. ollowing their paper in the Lancet, John Martin. Professor ofCardiovascular Science and Stuart Campbell, Professor ofObstelrics, KCSMD, were in great demand. Their research had shown that drug-releasing kin patehe , similar to those u ed by smoker to help wean them off cigarettes, could help prevent premature births.

They found that applying the patche to the abdomens of women in premature labour rapid I stopped their contraction. l1etween them they appeared on .\'ewsnight, Today, and in The Times.

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Professor Roger Wi/liams. DireClor oflite Institute ofUver Studies appeared on Wooldn'dgeon Whisky on BBC2 diseu ing the effects of alcohol on the liver.

Professor William tressed the dangers of exceeding afe limits, particularly so in women who, because of various genetic/metabolic differences, can be very suseeptible to the effects of even . ocial drinking' levels. The fact that some alcohol protects against heart disease is only one plus again t the many negative that could result from rai ing the presently e rablished safe limits.

An article in Bello magazine examined the case of a young woman who was diagno ed a having Munchau en yndrome by proxy, the same illness from whieh the nurse and child murderer, l1everly Allitt, uffered. In trying to explain the condition, in which adult - u ually mothers - harm children in their care, mainly to get attention, Dr Simon Wessdy, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine.

KCSMD, aid,' ometimes the mother has a hi tory of abu e herself, wh ich leaves her feeling deprived. Making her child ill is one way to receive warmth and attention from the medical profe ion without admitting to her own emotional problems.'

An article In the Independent on Sunday highlighted the mi ery adole cents can uffer at the hands of their peer if

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they gro\\ up the 'wrong' hape or ize: too rail or too short, too fat or too thin.

The ef ect of teenage ob e. ion with body hape are borne out in the increa ing number of girl who develop eating di orders uch as anorexia nervo a or bulimia. The article cited the urvey conducted by Jane Thomas.

Lecturer in the Department of. 'utrition nd Dietetics. It howed that among 12to 13- ear olds, a fifth of boy and twofifths of girl wanted to 10 e weight.

Anthea 7i'nker, Professor ofSocial Gerontology and Ilead ofthe Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, appeared on the Today programme commenting on the Royal College of Physician Report, Ensuring equity and quality ofcare for elderly people.

An article in the European looked at the 'de erti fication' of outhern Europe \\ h ich ha been caused by 0 ergrazing, intensive agriculture, poor irrigation and se era I years of 10\ rainfall. John Thornes. Professor of Physical Geography, and Co-ordinator ofthe EC's Medalus project to revirali e Europe' de ertified pa ture ,explained the problems pain was having and how they could be solved.

Dr Clive Page, Reader in Pharmacology, recently gave a lecture in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, which led to an appearance on CBC Television discussing his researeh on asthma.

Dr Conor Gearly. Reader in Law and Director ofthe Civil Liberlies Research Unit, was much quoted following the Chinook helicopter crash which killed Z- people involved in anti-terrori m operations in . 'orthern Ireland. He commented in the Guardian on the e erity of the security etback, pointing out that the con equences of the death were even more shattering than if the RUC' top bras had been on the ill-fated night. 'The e men will have been at the cutting edge of antiterrori t operation '. He wa al 0 quoted in the Daily Express, the Birmingham Evening Post and appeared on ewsbeat, the Nicky Campbell ShOfJ)) on Radio 1 and on C~ '.

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r Ilchael, 'el on 0 the Department 0 , utntlon and Dietetic ....eleomed gue t and pea er to a one-da~ eminar entitled 110 Mu DOls tI Gos//o I.z'U.:which wal> held at the, . u leld Foundation on 2 Ma) to publiCI e the work of the Family Budget Cnit (FBL) on li Ing co t and living tandard .

The origin of the FD go back to I 5. ",hen a group of 0 ial lemi t came together at the London School 0 I~connmlc to dl cu the po l>lbdlt) of reVI ing budget tandard . methodolog in the Cl'. In I 7. the FBl became an edu aLlonal c.harit} and pm.ate limited compan~. \\ nh three obJective: '10 advance the education 0 the public In all matters relating to comparative living tandard and the co ~ of liVing throughout the Lnlted KlOgdom ') 0 carr out re earch IIHO the economic requiremem and consumer preferences of families of di ferent composition. for each ma in component of a t)- pica I family budget • To publi. h the useful result of such work, From the e mall beginning a complex, multi-di clplinary enterprise requiring structured inputs from nutrJtlonit!>, home economist, hOUSing. fuel and uan port speCialists, oClal policy analyst and computer programmer, ha been reated: and the validlt)- of bUdget standard' methodnlog) has been re-e ..tabli hed In the I 1', I, undamental re car h undertaken at the LnlverSlty of York, . hcfficld I bllam L niver Ity and hcre at King' In the I epartmem of. 'utrition and DletCtlcs culminated in the fir t budgets bei ng completed In ovember 1992 and published in 1 'I he seminar wa addressed b)\Ill's (jlm Lester, Archy Klrkwood and Donald f)ewar (Shadow SCCrCt r) for Social. ecurity», lead ing members of medical, legal. hou Ing, finanCial,

money adviee and credit control in itution, and b, member of he FB C I cl (IlermlOne Par er. Direc or.

Or, fichael , 'el on, hair. and Profe or Jonathan Brad ha", (Cnl\,erslt ofYor ), It a tracted imere t rom Parliament and local governmen orgal1l lion in olved with eon umer credit and deb , voluntary. group and health profe ional. and genera ed li el) debate on health and the problem of people in debt, and the Implication 0 budget tandards for health and financial management.

Further information on the work of the Family Dudget Cnit n be obtained from Or Mlchael el on or Charlotte Town. end at the r epartment of, 'utntlon and Dietetic. Kensington,

h If he Monitoring and Asse sment Research Centre (MARC) was jointly re pon ible with the C:" En ironment and Development Committee for the CK for organising a conference on Ilea/lit and l!ul!nvironmen/ on 9 May in the Old Refectory, Kensington Campu , The conference focused on the activitie of the Government and of non-governmental organisations with respect to the current L K agenda on health and the environment and to the commitmems made in re ponse to the L 'Conference on I',n ironmem and Ikvclopment In Rio de Janeiro in 1 92, I.ord Ennab chaired the lonference and ke note presentations \vere given b Profesor John ,\ hton (Liverpool I nlverslty) on the urban environmem, by • Ir Donald ,\cheson (former 'hlef \lcdical Officcr) on the new agenda on health and the environmcnt and hy Dr. ocrates I,ltSIOS of \-\'110 on the International agenda. Dawn I'rimarolo :VfP and '1Im Yeo ,\Ill' presented different Views of pnorltle~ and future action, 'I he onference wa attended b)almost 100 representallves of non-

go\ernmental organisation, bu ine and IOd u tT). rel>Carch orgal1lsation . local authon le and health authonlle . to ether .... 1 h a number 0 King' ta and ruden . Wor 10 group identified current I ues and priori tie durin the conference .... hlch formed the ba loa report presented to the ommi ion on u tainable I evelopment at I meeting late In \lay, The Con erence on Ilealth and the EnVironment I part of a continuing programme of actl It related to the RIO Conference - tho e Intere ted hould contact John Jackson at ~f RC ext 433 ,fax 071- 3753 6).

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ancer re earch at King' was highlighted in the May i ue of Commenl, following the opening of the gene therap laboratory in the Department of Molecular Medicine in the Rayne In titute."1 hi programme has received a further boost, with the recruitment of two new basic scienti ts to the Department of Surgery. In an initiative led by Professor Adrian Eddleston, Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine, two non-clinical lecturer po t 'Were established to replace a retirement within the Department of Surgery, and the _chool wa able to altract Dr Jonathon Morri and Dr'llmothy Crook from the Ludwig I n~t1tute for Cancer Research. The two have collaborated for a number of ear~ at the Ludwig, and are working at the leading edge of research in signal transduction in mitogenesi ,and in the interaction between viral oncoprotein and the tumour suppres or gene 1'53.

They will continue to develop their previous work on human papilloma virus and cervical cancer, an interest which will produce collaboration with the extensive work on gynaecological malignancy which is already well established in the Medical School.

Funding has been granted by the Joint Research Committee for a Ph 0 tudent hip to carry out work in thi area, which will commence in the ummer.

ain thru t The mai n thru t of oncological \\ ork within the Department of Surgery itself are in cancer of the pancrea , liver and bile ducts and aloin breast cancer.

Cancer of the pa ncreas remai ns one of the major killers in the C K, and most conventional treatment prove ineffective. I have an international referral practice for the much le s common tumour of the bile ducts: these small but lethal tumours are extremely difficult to manage, and little i known about their cause. \11~s Ku hbinder Mandair ha ju~t

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commenced a PhD. tudent hip in the Department, funded by the. outh Ea t Thame Locall Organized Re earch Programme, to examll1e hormone receptor in pancreatic and biliary cancer, while Doctor \10rri and Crook plan to earch for fundamental genetic alteration in the e tumour.

V;ith regard to brea t cancer, King' has a multidi ciplinary team in olved in creening and therapy: a new consultant urgeon will be appointed in the autumn to work principally in thi area, who will al 0 develop joint work with the urgical Oncolog Laboratory.

The capital co t of etting up this new laboratory within the Department of urgery in the Ra ne In titute wa generously upported b a donation of

Biology Group, at which research worker from everal department presented their on-going programme and thl proved a valuable forum for the exchange of idea. Or Farzin Farzaneh' propo ed programme for immune gene therap ,de cribed in \la ' Commenl, i one uch interdepartmental collaboration, and the e exciting and innovative programme hould keep King' in the forefront of basie and applied cancer research.

ÂŁ100,000 from the King's Medical Research Tru t. This is only the . econd time such a large capital inve tment has been agreed by the Trust, and mark the recognition by the Tru tee of the importance of thi new development for the Medical chool.

One of the main aim of the e appointments i to facilitate ollaborative work among~t everal department. in the Medical chool and between the Medical chool and the chool of Life, Basic Medical and Ilealth ciences, and a number of joint ~tudies arc already planned ith the Departments of Molecular Medicine, Ilaematology, G naecology and Oral urgery. In January I chaired the inaugural meeting of a new ancer

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he Bml h are aid to be a nation of animal lover and do 10 er In particular. om e en million dog are kept a pet, yet each ear more than 140,000 dog are 10 t, abandoned or tray .. 1any of these cnd up in shelters where they are often kept in rows of pen within enclo cd building. imilar faeilitie are u cd to house dog in kennel for other rea on , for example during training or u~e a ~uide or 'hearing' dog~ or \\ hile belngared for following ~urgery or medical treatment. .\ major problem for u h kennel~ I~ the high nOI e level cau~ed by the dog~ barking. Indi idual do'~ can produ e bark With sound level~ In exces of 100 dB :PL (eqUivalent to a road dnll at 5m). Although the exact nature of the bark vane With breed, levels ranging from 5路122 dB have been measured In kennels hOUSing groups of dogs.

'I he mammalian ear IS damaged Irreparably by prolonged exposure to high sound levels. For humans exposure to sounds of over 0 dB for eight hour can cause damage and so permanent hearing impairment.

Workers exposed to ueh conditions ha ve to be offered ear protection. In the past therefore, the problem of nOise In dog kennel ha been addre sed mainly from the human POint ofvle\v. Effort. have been made to reduce the nuisance of ound to surrounding areas b buildln' earth bank around kennel compounds and by planting hedge and trce . Where nece sar kennel staff may be I'>sued \V Ith ca r prote tor .

Ilowever the problem al 0 needs to be rack led from 'the dog's pOint of view'. Dogs are generall very en Itlve to sound; their auditory ensivity is up to four time greater than that of humans. It therefore seem likely that their hearing could be damaged by prolonged exposure to loud sounds just as human hearing i . The dogs cannot

e cape from the noi e In ennels and .... hile the' ma adapt 0 such hi h ound le\ el there al 0 the p ibility that they may u er a ute or prolon ed tre .

Or \ll1l1gan, rom he Department of Ph)' iolo and I, in collaboration WI h Or Robert 11 ubreeht o the Cni\er Itle Federation or Animal V'elfare (CF \\\) and Dr B hield from the Cnl\'er It) 0 the outh Ban ,are Inve tlgatlOg the animal welfare a pecLS 0 noi e le 'el In dog kennelling. FundlOg from CF Wand from the Dog' Ilome, Batter ea ha provided or a po t doctoral worker - Dr .\ Peyvandl, an expert on building acou tic and de ign - who IS underraklng a surve of ound level In a varlet' of dlf erent dog kennelllOg faeilltle . Dog can al 0 hear to much higher freq uencies than the human ear; frequencle'> that arc not covered by mo,>t '>ound level meters. f)r Pey vandl IS there ore measunng sound level at frequency ranges both \\lthlO the human hearing range and also extending beyond It. lie I Inve tigatlOg the preel e nature of the sounds to which the dogs are exposed from barking and from husbandry pro edures by making derailed analy cs of rape recordings and he i monitoring the actiVities of dogs and staff and studying kennel con~truetion.

A major aim of the project I'> to provide guidelines on the care and housing of dogs to promote a quieter environment that is beneficial to kennel raff, neighbours and especially to the dogs themselves.

It i hoped that comparing kennel with high and With low noise levels will give some indication of the factors that stimulate high levels of barking and contnbute to the high degree of noi e.

Doctors Sales and Vlilligan would be pleased to hear from other member of the College who have an Intcre tin ound and particularly 10 sound mea urement and anal)'sl .

Their logo \\a de Igned by Fou a e, .... ho al 0 dre .... Regglc the lion or 109' me ocle rapldl expanded to IOclude other unlversitie and be ame the L niver i ie Federation in ..... Ithough It I no'-" independent o the Lniver Itle (It I entlrel' unded b 路oluntaI) contributIon ), it draw it member hip rom graduate, tudent and people '-"Ith imliar qualification. L:F \\' fund re earch Into animal .... elfare through vacation tudent hip and grant to re carch worker IOcludlOg those In uni er jtie and college ...... 0 King' tudent have reccived vacation tudenrship.

Through it re!>eareh work and publ ication L: FAW promote better live for anlmal~ In zoo, laboratorle , helter and in the wild a well as for pet and farm animal. I raff al 0 give ralk to undergraduate Including King's undergraduate'> In the Olv",ion of Life, Clences, Anyone Interested in the work of LF!\\\' or In becoming a member should conract me on ext 453 .

The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) The Lniversitie Federation for Animal Welfare (UF W) has a long association With King's, It was fou nded in 1926 as the University of London Animal Welfare. ociety and its first president was the Pnncipal of King's.

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ellow hip of the College i the highe t honour King's can be toW, and it is awardcd to those individual who, in the judgement of the ommitlee of Resident Fellows, have distinguished themselvc by making a major contribution in academic or public life.

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1994's Presentation Fellow5 havc becn announced and the will be conferrcd at thc Presentation Ceremonie on 12 and 19 September 1994and 16January 1995.

At King' College. Cambridge. he read Engli h and Law. lie wa called to the Bar (\1iddle Temple) 111 1961 and made a Queen' Counsel in 1973. ince 1983 he ha al 0 been a QC in :-Jew South Wales. lie was Chairman of the Bar Council from 1985 to 1986.

Lord Alexander wa appointed Deputy Chairman of the Securities and Investment Board in January of this year, and ha\ erved as a non-exe utive director of RTZ since 1991. lie i also a \1cmber of the Go crnment's Panel on Sustainable Development which wa; launched carlicr thiS ear. From 1991 to 1993 he wa. a non-cxe utive director of the London tock Exchange.

Hc is a trustee of The Economist. and served a a tru tee of the :"ational Gallery (19 6-93). lIe i Chairman of the Council of J â&#x20AC;˘ '1'1 E, the all-party organi ation for law reform, and also of CRISL , the charity for the single homelc;s.

Richard Eyre, CBE Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre; Theatre, Film and Television Director

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Lord Alexander wa appointed Chairman of Kational We tmin ter Bank in 1989. Preceding that he had pur ued a very successful career in the legal profession, gaining a reputation as one of Britain' most succes ful barristcrs, chairing the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers for two year between 1987 and 19 9. In 1988 he was created a life peer in recognition of his work.

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Richard Eyre read Engli hat Peterhou e, Cambridge before embarking on a di tingui hed career panning theatre, film and television.

Ilc directed his first play, The Knack at the Phoenix Theatre.

Leice ter. lIe then moved to the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, first as As ociate Director and then as Director of Production, where hi production included Uncle Vanya and Macbeth. For three years running he won the STY Awards for the Best Prod uction in Scotland. lie also directed for the Edinburgh Festival.

From 1973 to 1978 he was Artistic Director at Nottingham Playhouse, with production including: The Comedians a nd The Cherry Orchard. In 19 1 he was appointed an Associate

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Director of the National Theatre and ha since directed over 15 productions, including Guys and Do//s which won the SWET and the tandard Award for Bc t Director; Futun'sts, which won the Time Out Award for Best Director, and The David IIare Trilo/{j.

Richard Eyre began his television career in 1978 when he joined the BBC as producer of Play for Today and produced and directed over 10 plays.

They include TIre Insurance Man, which won the Tokyo World Television Festival pecial Prize in 19 6, and the highl acclaimed Tumbledown which won the ltalia R I Prize, the BAFT Be t Televi ion Single Drama Award and the Ro al Televi ion ociety ward for Be tingle Drama.

Ili films include: The Ploughman's Lunch, which won the Standard Be t Film ward; Loose Connections, and Laughterhouse, which won the enice Film Festival Award for Best Film.

II is fi rst book, Utopia and Other Places, wa publi hed last year.

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BBC tele I ion pro ramme . includm 10 lecture on T I uf Duu e and the popular Youn clen I t -the 'tear lIe has been Pre dent 0 he Chemical oClet) 0 London. the 'atlOnal \ oclation or Cl ed hlldren, the.\ OClatlon r C1encc fo_ducatlon, and the Brltl h \ oClatlon or the .\dvancement 0 clen e. lie ha erved a a tru tec 0 thc Bml h \1useum, on the. clen e Re earch Council, ad"l or committees to the . 'ational Callef) , the cience \lu eum, the Cabinet Ad i ory Council on lence and 1 echnolog), and the Ilou e of Lord elect Committee on â&#x20AC;˘ lence and Technology.

1- ell ) \ 'I he follo\\ Ing have been clected I' cllo" \ of the College for 19()4:

Professor Harold Baum Sir Louis Blom-Cooper Professor Leslie Houlden Professor Trevor Jones Mr Harry Musselwhite Professor Curtis Price Mr John Williams Professor Harold Baum. BSc. PhD. CChem, FRSC, CBiol. FIBiol Ileod of Ihe School of I.ile, BoStc Medical and lIeollh Seunces, King's College London

lie has lectured Wldcl) at home and abroad and received many honour and award\, lI1c1udlng thc Order of \!lent. and the Dav , Rum ord, I-arada) and Copley :v1edal. 0 the I{oyal Society. lie holds over 0 honorary degrees from other unlversitlcs, a number of Ilonorary Professorships and Fellowships and IS an honorary member of many foreign academiCS. Lord Porter is Interested in \clentlfic education and the

Professor Ilaum joined Chel'>ca College In 196 a\ the first Profe or of Blochemlstf) and Ilead of the Ikpartment 0 Blochemi try.

When Chel ea College merged With KlI1g's and Queen Elizabeth in I 5 he v.as appointed a Deputy Ilead of the Department, becoming I lead and the Dean 0 Life. clenees in 19 7. lIe "a\ appOinted as I lead of the newly formed ,'chool 0 Life, BaSIC \1edleal and Ilealth S lenees in 19 9, a po t he has he Id or five years. lie IS an aetl c member of the Biochemical Soelct : Chairman of its Profcssional and blue tional Committee; member of the Council and the longest-servi ng memher of the I¡.xecutive Committee. lIe is a member of the Council of the Institutc of Biology; the Parliamentary AffairS

Committee 0 the Ro 'al OClct) 0 Cheml try; the [~ ecutlve Committee he European. OClatlon 0 lean o lence, and the Council 0 the Cl. nn Re earch Foundation. lie I on the edl ooal b rd 0 a number 0 pre tl IOU clentlfic journal. and I a I irector of he di ingui hed Clentl IC publl hlng eompan " Tay lor ci f- rancl Pro e or Baum ha trong Interna IOnallmk .. and \.. ill hortly be pendll1g hi abbatl I ear travelling \\ Idel) In order to develop world-\\ide collaboration m re ear h. Thl \\ill include a tay In I rael, where he I a Governor 0 Ben-Curion C nlver ity. lie may be be t known to many members of College for hi \\orldfamous book The BlOchemisls Songbook ( cc \larch Gummenl) In \.. hich he \et metaboliC pathways to musIc to make remembcrlng them Simpler and more fun.

Sir Louis Blom-Cooper. Kt, QC. FRSA Independenl COmmlJJlOn for Ihe !Iuldlngs Cenlres, .\'orlhern Irel. nd; 0 Judge of Ihe COUr!J ofAppeal, J si!'] and Cu msi!'] 'ir I.ouis I'> Internationally renowned for hi work in the area of public law and 111 the field of public adminl,>tration.

Ilis range of activities are reflected in hIS variou'> appointment.

I le gained hi 1.1 -13 from King's College London in 1952 and in the ame year wa called to the Bar (:v1lddle Temple). lIe wa made a Queen's Counsel in 1970anda Beneher 111 197 . For 12 ear, from 1966-7 ,he wa a member of the I lome. ecretary's ,\dvi ory ouncilon the Penal S) stem. _ ir Loul has led numerous public enquirle., commi sion and committees. II1cluding the Panel of InqUiry IntO the toddler, Jasmine Beckford' ,death (19 5); the Committee of Inquir into complaint,> about Ashworth 110 pital (1991-1992); the CommISsion of Inquiry into allegations of arson and political corruption in the Turks and Caicos blands (19 6). Ili'> Chairmanships include the I ndependent Committee for the 'upervision of Standards of Telephone Information ervices (198693); the :vlentalllealth Act ommission (19 7-94), the Commission on the I'

future of Occupational Therapy (19 9) and the Pre ouncil (l 9-90).

He i ice-President of the Howard League for Penal Reform, having erved a chairman for 10 year, and wa chairman of the BBC London Local Radio Advisory Council in the early I 70. He ha enjo ed clo e link with the academic world a Director of the Legal Re earch unit at Bedford College (1967- 2), and i iting Profe or to Queen \Ilary College, U niver ity of London (19 3- ).

He has publi hed exten ivelyon various a peets of the law and contributed to many learned journals.

The Revd Professor Leslie Houlden, MA Professor of TheoloJ':) and ACltng Dean

Profes or Iloulden joined King' in 1977 a Lecturer in :"ew Te tament tudie . lie went on to become a enior Lecturer and then Profe or of Theolog in 19 7. He was Dean of the former faculty ofTheolog and Religious tudies (19 6- ) and I-lead of the Department of Biblical tudie (1988-89). This is his third period a Acting Dean.

He has published widely and is author of 14 books and numerou articles. lIe was Co-editor of Theology (1983-91) and was joint editor of the Diclionary of Biblical Inlerprelalion ( 1990), wh ich has become a sta ndard work of reference; and co-editor of The World's Religions (1991), with re ponsibility for Christian it and judai m. lIe is one of the leading figures in the world of academic theology and in nglican theological education in this country. He was a member of the Theology and Religious tudies panel in the last HEFCE Re earch Selectivity Exercise, and ha been a member of nglican Liturgical and Doctrine Commi sions.

The publication of a Fest chrift in his honour later this year confirms the high standing in which he is held.

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Professor Trevor Jones, BPharm, PhD,FPS Execulive Direclor, The We//come Foundalion; Member of King's College Council

Profe or Trevor lone ha enjoyed a ery di tinguished career in the pharmaceutical industry. fter five ear lecturing in pharmaceutic at the Univer ity of l'ottingham, he joined Boots as their Head of Development and then moved to Welleome, firstly a Director of Technical Development and then as Director of Research Development and Medical, responsible for all R & D activitie outside the SA. In recognition of hi contribution to the pharmaceutical world he ha been awarded a rellow hip of the Royal Pharmaceutical ociety, the Ilarri on Memorial \Iledal and a Gold \Iledal from Comeniu Lniver ity and honorary degree from the L ni ersities of Athens and trathclyde.

For 12 years he was a member of the Medicine Commission of the Department of Ilealth and now serves on the Cabinet Office Advi ory Group on the Human Genome and the :--Juffield Council of Bioethics Experts Group on Human Tissues.

Profe sor jones has a 30 year association with the College, beginning when he joined Chelsea College as an undergraduate. He gained hi BPharm and then went on to study for his PhD which he was awarded with two year later. He retains his strong connections in his role of Visiting Professor to the Department of Pharmacy, as one of the new King' Trustee, and as an active member of ollege Council.

Mr Harry Musselwhite, BA, AKC, Barrister \'ecretary of the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Ilospitals, andformer Deputy College Secretary of King's and SecretoryofKCSMD

Mr Mu elwhite's a sociation with King's College London began in 1962 when he joined the Department of Spanish as an undergraduate. He has enjoyed a di tinguished career with King's College chool of Medicine and Dentistry, which he fir t joined in J968 as an Administrative Assistant. After a

ear pent as Assistant ecretary of The enate of the Four Inn of Court and the Bar, he returned to KC \Il D a jOll1t Dental dmini trator. lIe wa appointed Deputy ecretary of the chool in 19 J and ecretary two year later. lIe wa appointed a Deputy allege eeretary in 19 J le pia ed an important role in the de elopment of KC \Il D over nearly 20 year and he i credited for effecting a mooth merger of the chool into King' since the amalgamation of the two institutions in J983, Hi recent appointment as eeretaryof MD will mean he will play a vital role in negotiations about the merger of King' and UM D .

Immediately prior to taking up hi po ition at \Il D on I Apri I 1994, he acted a ollege ecretary to the London Ilospital \Iledical College and wa involved in the early merger di cussion between that College and t Bartholomew's Hospital and Queen \Ilary and Westfield College.

Professor Curtis Price, BMus. MA. PhD King Edward Professor of Music and Head ofthe Deparlmenl ofMusic, King's College London

Professor Price is Head of the leading Department of Mu ie in the country and in hi own right i acknowledged to be a world-class musicologist. He is a leading authority on English and Italian music and the Engli h stage in the eventeenth and eighteenth ccnturie .

J le began his academic career at v'a hington uni er it ,US, before coming to King's in 19 2 a a lecturer.

He rose to become Reader in 1985 and King Edward Professor of M usic and Head of Department in 19 Hi out tanding cholarship has earned him world-wide recognition and many honours and awards, including the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicology Society and the Dent Medal from the Royal Musical A sociation. Professor Price i a Governor and Director of the Royal Academy of M usie; Chairman of the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation and lifetime Vice-President of the Royal Mu ieal Association. lie is the Honorary Secretary of

the Purcell ociet and wa re pon Ible or authentica 10 a pre.. lOu I. undl co\ered manu npt b\ Purcelll t .'ear.

Mr John G Williams, BA, MIPA Ch rml ,King s Colleg~ 1.0 on .1,so tlon nd M ber 0/ Ing s Colkge (,oun I

\.1 r Wilham • connection .,.,ith KlOg' go back over 30 year, starting \\Ith hi undergraduate day 10 the Department o panl h where he obtained hi B.\ 10 panl h \\ ith French.

I1I working life has been pent in the world ofadverti ing. Ili carecr began a~ a COP) \\-lIter, n 109 to bc omc a Creati e Upcl'-Isor and workmg in. ew York for even year. lie Jomed \1c ann-Enckson a reatlve Dllector before Joming 'trcets Communications a their Creative Director. lie ha been mvol ed with K 'L .... at a mo t crucial tage of Its development with the mergers of King' , Queen L~li7..abelh and Chel ea College and the general ralsmg of awarene~ and enhanCing of actl illes. lie redesigned the aociation's newsletter and edited it for a numbcr of ycars. lie is a very active Challman and gl es generou Iy of hi time and hospitality In keeping past students in touch with their old College. Ili dedicated leader hip has contributed significantl to the increa em membership of KCLA and alo to the success uI start to the Development Campaign,

n n 2 :vi ay , the Centre for Phdo ophlcal • LUdie welcomed the respected Imgul t. philo opher and political activl t, Profe or 'oam horn k to King' . Profe or Chom k ,who is based at the :vias achu ett In titute of 1 echnology, delivered his lecture, L.inguistics from on inltmolist perspective, to a full house in the. 'ew Theatre.

The event proved so popular that it was neces sary to turn many people away.

( ( lie 'e ( I hi eptember will be the econd anniver ary of the launch of King' new corporate identity. I am ure you will agree that the new publication and tationeryare ery dlstlnctl e, and that it would be good to tart the new academic year in eptember with all of the College adopting the College's Identity and tyle for all their stationery and publi ation . If you need any as istance In the above mallers the Pre s and Publications Office, ext 3202 will be plea ed to help you.

Professor Arthur Lucas The Principal

n ~10nday 16 May I 94, the journal Diologos: /lel/mic StudIes Revi(!'lfl) was launched With the kind a i tance ofthe Ilellenlc Foundation and the London Ilellenic ociety.

Diologos i the only journal of itS cope in English. ItS purview i Greek language and litcrature, Greek hi tory and archaeology, Greek culture and thought, present and past. It will be, above all, a journal of dialogue and debate in Hellenic tudies. The first issue includes a previous unpublished paper by the late RP Winnington Ingram entitled The Unity 0/ the Phaedru a well a article by Robin Cormack. Peter Mackridge. Robin Os borne. Ruth ebb and :vIark :vIazower, review by Graham Gould and tephen Ilalliwell. and tran lation

by Edmund Keelly and Dimitri Gondica of Yanni RitSo. and of Ilomer by Oliver Taplin. The editors are Professor :vi ichael ilk, Classic. and Or David Rick, Byzantine and :vi odern Greek, and the busine editor is Dr Graham Gould. The editorial board draw on expertise in the K and abroad. opies of Diologos can be purcha ed by subscription from Frank Cas, ewbury Ilouse, 890-900 Eastern Avenue, ewbury Park, Ilford, Essex IG2 7H 11. Subscription rate: Institution: £40, Individuals: £22.

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'( he following promotions and ne~ appointment ha e been announced.

They are effective from I October 1994, unle 路otherwi e tated.

Appointments to Chairs

Professor Jeremy Adler has heen appointed to the Chair of German and as Ilead of the Department of German, effective from I September 1994. I le is currently Professor of Modern European Language and Literaturc~ at Queen Mary and We tfield College. lie replaces Profe sor Roy Wisby \\ho i retlri ng.

The Rev Dr Miclzae/ Banner has bccn appointed to the F D \1auricc Chair of Moral and ocial Theology and will take up his appointment on I January 1995. lie is currently Dean of Chapel at Peterhou e and Director of . tudies in Philo ophy and Theolog , Cambridge. lie replaces Profes or Jack Mahoney who left to take up the Dixon' Chair of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the London Business choo!.

Professor Paul lie/m was appointed to the Chair of Ilistory and Philosophy of Religion in October 1993. Profe,~or I (elm joined King's from the niversit of Liverpool where he wa, a Reader in Philosophy. lie replaccd Profes or Keith Ward who i no\\ Regiu Profe or of Dlvinit at ChrlStchurch College, Oxford.

Professor Juditlz Herrin ha been appointed to the Chair of Late ntique and Byzantine tudie. he is currently at Princeton niver ity where he is the tanley J Seeger Ilellenic Fund Profe sor of 13 zantine Ili tory.. he replaces Professor Averil Cameron \\ ho is leaving to become Wardcn of Keeble College, Oxford.

Dr Tom Sanders, Reader in Nutrition in the Department of i\:utrition and Dietetics at King's, has been appointed to the Chair of :" utrition and Dietetic. lIe replace Profes or Donald :"aismith who is retiring.

3irrhda Promotion to Professor The following have becn a\\arded per onal chair: Dr Ilarold Camsu, Reader In . 'eonatal Paediatric, ha heen promoted to Profe or of:" eonatology. effecti e from I January 1994.

DrCatlzen'ne Ceissler, Ilead of the Department of. 'utrition and Dietetics, has been promoted to Professor of l\ utrition.

Dr Donald Cillies, Rcadcr in Ilistory and Philosophy of Science, has been promoted to Profe'>Sor of Philo ophy of. cien e and \1athcmatic,.

Dr Wal' r Crar.ur has been appointed as Profcs or of Bioph sical Chemistry. lie is a senior member of the taff of the \1 RC ba,ed at the Randall In titutc.

Dr Trevor IIall. Reader in Phy ics, ha bcen promoted to Profe sor of Optoelectronic .

Dr Cio ina Mie/i路 Vergani, enior Lecturer in the Department of Child llealth, has been promoted to Profes. or of Paediatric Ilepatology.

Dr Linda Newson, Reader in the Department of Geography, has been promoted to Profcssor of Geography.

DrClive Page, Reader in Pharmacology. has bcen promoted to Professor of Pharmacology.

Dr Roger Williams, Director of the In titute of Liver Studies, ha been promoted to Professor of Ilepatolog , effective from I I May 1994.

I!< nour Ken Bromfield, MBE The Queen' 13lrthday Ilonour urprlsed one member of the College.

Ken Bromfield, Training Officer for non-teaching taff in the. taff Development and Training Gnit of the Personnel Department, learnt that he had been awarded a n M nE for servi e, to Iligher Education.

Ken has been ba. cd in the Personnel Department for five years and in that time has developed and coordinated a comprehensive training programme for non-teaching taff.

Before joining Per onnel, Ken wa the Departmental Superintendent for the Dcpartment of 13iochemi try, a poition he held for many years and carricd out to extremely high standards.

While in that role, Ken\ intere. tin trall1ing broadened and developed. lie wa Chairman of the Liniver ity of London Tcchnical. tafTTraining Committec and a Member of the London Lniversity/paddington College Liaison Committee. lie assi ted the I1ritish Council for Iligher Education Over5Cas contribllting to technical projects and training at un iversities abroad.

Unfortunately Ken i in hospital after an operation and wc wi h him a speedy recovery. Ken conta ted Comment specially from hospital to thank hi friends and colleagues at King's for all their help and support.

Lord Quirk

Promotion to Reader The following havc bccn promoted to

Reader. f)r David Beiglzton to Reader in Oral M icrobiolog .

Or Robert Blackburn to Reader in Law. f)r Trevor Clarkson to Reader in Communication tem .

Dr Mark Evenst to Readcr in II i torical Musicology.

Mrs Clzar/olle Roueclzito Reader in Classical and 13yzantine Greek.

Profes or ir Charle Randolph Quirk, former Vice-Chancellor of the G niver ity of London and onc of King' first Pre entation Fellows, became a life peer in the Queen', Birthday Ilonours.

,indol Icachin I rllt: Dr Jerem) 13roadhead, cnlor Rcgl trar at the \laud Icvand Ilcthlem Royal 110 pltal . ha bcen a\.\arded a teaching pnze b thc In uwte of P ychlatr}. In ugatcd b) Profeor Robin \1 urra of the Department of P yehologlcal \1edicine the prize aim to rcward the mo~t notable and appreciated contnbution to medical wdcnt teach ing b a member of the I n~titute of P~ chiatry'~ junior medical taff during the academic car.

Or Broadhead wa~ elected through consultation with ,enior memhers of the Department together \I Ith eedback from medical ,wdent, of the College. The £500 prIZe wa, ,ponored by andoz Pharmaceutical.

I krck Lcl\\ Derek La w, 0 irector 0 In formation Services and stems. has been elected a Fellow of the In tlWtc of InformatIOn 'cienti t . The a\\ard i. in recognition of Derek 's contribution to Information cience, particu larly in the area. of information technology. nctworking, information sy~tem~ management and the management of change. The citation for Fellowship refcr~ particularly to hi~ work in academic librarie and his involvement at a "!ationaJ, European and Illlernational level in initiatives 'ouch as the European Commi.,.,ion\ '1 clcmatics Programme and the EIJropean Library Plan as well a, his member hip of the Ilighcr Education Funding Council' Joint Information 'y. tem~ Committee. The award will be pre ented to Derek at the nnual General \leeting of the In titute on 15 • eptember.

Juhn'l.l lor John G 'I a 'Ior Profe or 0 Applied \1athematlcs and Director of the Centre for :"eural . 'ct\ ork<" ha, been elected "re ident of the International "'eural "!etworks So iety for 1995. In addition to the Presidency. ProfTaylor wi 11 be involved with the work of the Society during 19 4 and 1996. Prof Taylor IS currently Presidcnt of the )·.uropean '-'eural 0.'etwork Society.

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"rofe sor La\ rence Freedman from the Department of War .wdies gave the annual Erasmus Le ture of the Academia Europaea in Parma. Italy on 23 June. The title of his lecture was Power ond insecurity in I~urope.

British organisation wh ich seeks to promote acadcmic contacts bet\\een LK and I raeli cholar.

Thi was the fir t time cholar in Theology or Religiou Swdie had bcen invited to participate in this scheme.

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uring the Easter va ation Graham Stanton. Profes or of :"ew Testament. tudie .

Theology. led a group often LK 0:ew Testament cholar (including Dr Judith Lieu from King's) on a tudy LOur of Israel. The tour began with a colloquium entitled Toleronceand Inloltronce in F.orfy Judoism and Eorly Clzrislionity, with I raeli cholars in Jeru alem;thccolloquiumpaper \\ill be puhli. hed as a book.

Illghlight of the tour mcluded recent excavation~ in old Jeru alem.

Qumran, \1asada. Capernaum, and current excavation at Bet hean (Scythopoli ) and epphori (near "!azareth). King's 0:ew Testament tudents are already benefiting from the tlld tour, which wa~ spon ored by the Academic. tudy Group. a

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I undin Ir tthe ood ne~ ~ Folio" 10 ormal approval 0 the Framewor IV R ~m Budget or (reponed In the la t i ue). the European Parliament ha pa sed ele en of the peclfic re earch programmes. These are: • Information technolog) • Communication technology Telematlc Indu tnal and material technologie ~easurement and te tlOg technologie • ~anne cience and technologIes • Agriculture and fi herie • 'on-nuclear energy 'oclo-economic re earch J ralOlng and mobility of re earcher ooperation with Third World Countne Detailed programme for the e areas should be IS ued hort! .

Theoretically, first call for propo al could come in mid- eptember. The Industrial and :vlaterial Technology Project Office is definitely aimIng for this. Ilowever, it i expected that most call for proposal will be in December. :'-iow for the not so good news!

Five peclfic programme will not bc dl cu ed by Parliament until the next se ion In the utumn. These arc: • • • •

Environment Biotechnology Biomedicine and health re earch

Tran POrt DIssemination/application of technology Thi mean that call for proposals 10 these area will probabl be delayed until early 1995. Ilowever. It gIves U a little more time to prepare and identify suitable partner.

And finally ome very good news.

Congratulations to Profe or Alan Roger and Dr Vincent Ilanderek of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, who have recently been appointed coordinators of a 2 million EC advanced communication project under Framework III entitled, Advanced

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Stop press The Human Frontier clence Pro ram ha put out a call for propo al for research grants, fello" hips and network in Brain Function research and Biological Functions through :vlolecular Level pproaches. Grant (up to three years) require a partner hip between research teams of different countrie . whil t fellow hip (up to twO year) are for po tdoctoral research for young re earcher in a country other than theIr origin. inee the UK is an eligible country our partners or fello~ can be from any other country. The deadline IS I ptember 1994. Further InformatIOn from, ara Kelly on ext 3321. ~alcolm

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he Iligher Education Fundtng Council for England has announced that It will be inviting bid for development fundtng for continuing vocational education for the pe'riod 1995-6 to 1 -9.

Documentation has not yet arrived, but we expect to have to ubmit our bid 10 October.

In the previou round King's received £261 K for the years 1991-92 to 1993-94, and the equivalent of £24K at 19 9-90 prices for 1994-5. (The departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, l\.' ursing tudies, Education, and the Language and Communication Centre have been beneficiarie .).

Full details of the a sessment

crltena are pnnted 10 the new edition o Continuum. ucce will not be ea y.

I ugge t that 109' i unli el to produce propo al v.hlch are economic b. compari on v. ith he nev.

CniV"er Itie . and that v.e hould there ore concentrate on hi hi specialized course not ea il: obtainable el ev.here I hould li e to recelV"e outli ne propo al b 30 June at the late t 0 that there I time to con Ider" hat, if any. collaboration we hould ee ,and time for preubml Ion di cus Ion with the adVisors, in order that we may present our bid In the mo t ad antageou lIght.

J will of cour c be happ to dlscu any Idea at a preliminary tage.

I I juql he continuing education record forms for 1993-4 ha e now been ent to all chool.

ThiS year the 'niver itie tatlstlcal Records has a ked for them

by I October, rather than 1 . 'ovember a 10 the past. \ ill ou therefore plea e ensure that thcy arc all returned to thc ContinUing Education Cnit a soon as possible, and certainly no later than Friday 2 eptember.

If you ran a hort course, or any non-degree course, or a conference, provided there was an attendance fee the odds are it hould be included in the Continuing Education Record. If in doubt contact the Continuing Education Cnit on ext3055.

These record arc not only req u ired for the niversity tatistical Records, they al 0 form the basis of re ponse to the HEFCE monitoring of contin ulOg education.

If we do not want to sell ourselves hort we must make them as comprehen ive a po ible.

Valeric Davie Director, Continuing Education Cnit

th he tran fer of the Principal' Office to Cornwall Hou e ha brought about the need to provide an alternati e facility at the trand in which to 'meet and greet' and entertain VI P and other VI itor to the College.

To thi end room 28A, the formcr office of the Collegc Secretary situatcd in 13 Corridor trand Main Building, ha been set a idc for the use of members of the Collcge who from time to timc may need to entertain visitor in di crete urrounding and/or ho t a serviced lunch/dinner for a mall number of per ons for which other College dining facilities may not be appropriate. The room will eat comfortably a maximum of twelve per ons in a formal dining arrangement.

Room 213 will be known a 'The Principal's Dining Room' and may be reserved through the General Service Manager, Bob Redmond (ext 2037).

Catering arrangements should be made through the Collegc Catcring Officer, Peter Hoffman (ext 23"9).

Although the Principal's Dining Room i now available for u e there are ome refinements and minor decorations to be carried out wh ich arc intended to be completed during the su mmcr vacation.

Please note that the Principal's Dining Room is an entertainment facility which is not intended to be u cd for committee or other meeting purpo e .

The College Bur ar, Gerry H ughe , (ext 3309) would be plea ed to di cu s an queries concerning thi matter.

Graduale recruilers, staffand students celebrated IIle opening oftire new Strand Campus Caree Service offices, wlric/z are near tire Creat flail. Additional space tlrere represents a significant improvement over tire previous location.

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ith the approach of the long vacation, it may be that members of taff have visitor during the months of July, August and September and arc unable to accommodate them in their own residences. The Vacation Bureau is able to offer vi itors single and twin rooms on a bed and breakfa t ba i in anyone of seven hall of residence in central and inner London, and will be pleased to make reservations on your behalf.

It may be that members of staff living out of town will need to come into the centre and stay overnight and again accommodation i readily available from 2 July to 19 eptember inclu ive.

A coloured brochure and price list i available from: King's Campu Vacation Bureau King's College London, 552 King's Road, London, WIO OUA Tel 071-3"1601 J. Fax 071- 352 7376

( ombu tion meeting he Combustion Engines Group of the In ticution of \1echanical Engineers cho e King's for their meeting on Wedne day I May which was held in the Council Room. The group comprises about 20 member from industry and academia including Or Mike Yianneskis of the Centre for Ileat Tran fer and Fluid Flow Measurement.

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e r he gran 11 ted belo\.. ~erc recei\ed 10 the quarter endlO)? o \pnl ) . Detail 0 gr m under - ,000 are no gl"en. nor are exten Ion of exi tin rant or tho e which are confidential, but the amoun arc Included In the total or the department or unit.

Age Concern Institute of Gerontology Total grant, £24,320.

Anatomy and Human Biology Group Dr \1 \1aden, £25, < 0 (V,ellcome I ru~t) to ~upport a research project entitled IS retinolc aCid a chemotactic agent in the cemral nervou~ stem?'.

Dr I. C \1ahadevan, £36,49 (\\ ellcomc '1 rust) to support a research anal I of chromatln-a oClated slgnalltng respon es concomltam \\ Ith Immediate-early (I E) gene activation Jl~lOg a plasmld-ba ed model. '1 Olal ~rants, £62,17

Centre for Educational Studies Dr [) Ilam, ,ODD Ecu (£6,0 7 received)(EE ). Contribution towards the costs of providing human nghts courses for entral and eastern I~uropean student.. Prof S J Ball , £73,015 (Joseph Rownlree Foundation) to support a research project entitled 'local ed ucatlon au thoritics: accountability and control'. !'rof . J Hall, [)r " Cnbb, £66,777 (Can er Hellef'v1acmillan Fund) to upport a research project entitled 'families after cancer - the psychological context of sur I ing childhood cancer'. Total grant, £162,205.

Chemistry Dr C t\ Koh, £10,000 (Royal Society). ontnbutlon towards research expen e . ProfC B Ree e, 3 , 36 I~cu (£30, 23 approx)(EEC('v1arle Curie Fellowship» to support a research project entitled' ymhesl of nucleoside analogues'. Total grams, £257,2 0.

Clinical Biochemistry Or R Simpson, £36,472 (MRC) to support a research project entitled 'the regulation of iron metaboll m In inte tinal epthelial cells'. Dr R

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hemO<Jd. '2 .-r Departmcnt 0 Health) to uppOrt a re'>Carch proJcct into he 'cval uatlon 0 cry thropoietll1 i '. Or BJarn on, £22 -( ( I R ) to upport a re earch proJcct entitled 'inte lInal function in 1(1\ Il1 eeted patlen '. Profl Pc er . £1-6.000 (Lambeth, • outhwark and Le~ I ham Ilealth uthorlty) to support a re earch project entitled 'alcohol abuse propo al for coun ellll1g Il1 medical ward '. Total gran ,£264,966.

Geography Prof J 'I home, 7,000 (E

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Contnbution to~ard research ta co ; 2 2, - r~cu ( 21 -. appro (EE:C) th uppOrt a research project cn i led de ertlficauon proce 10 the \ledl erranean area and heir IOterltn ~ Ith the global climate 10tal rant, £2 ,543.

Haematology Dr. 1u 1I,£I-,OOO (\mgen-Roche) to

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support a re ean.. h project entitled 'the use of r-hl 1.-610 PI3PC transplantatIOn', . ) 2 ,ODD (The ·\re~.. . erono Group) to upport a research project entitled' the u e of r-hl 1.-6 in the mobilt atlon and engraftment of PBPC In haematologlcal maliganeles £1 5,01- (Elimination of Leukaemia Fund) to support a re earch project entitled 'mlOlmal re idual di ca e detection in leukaemia and lymphoma'. 'I otal grants, £ 3 ,015.

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Community Dental Health Prof S Celhler, 4 6.206 (Lambeth. _outhwark and l.ewl ham Ilealth \uthority) to uppOrt a rcscarch project entitled 'dental public health adVice'.

I otal grant, £436,206. £)

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Conservative Dentistry

'I otal grants, £1,163.

\.1r _ 13 Parker, 2 ,6 7 (\ctlOn Re earch) to support a research project entitled 'de"e1opment of intra-oral tongue operated remote control'. Total grants, £33, 87.

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Dental Sciences Dr l3elghton, £13,4 6 (,\etlon Research) to support a re eareh project entitled 'isolation of eancs and caries in pre-school children'. Total grants, £13,486.

Diabetes [)r \1 Edmond ,£60,000 (t\mgenRoche) to support a research project entitled 'Infection In cbabetlc foot and re ponse~·. '1 otal grants, £60,000.

Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dr V f\ Ilanderek, £ 1- .000 (Department of Transport) to support a re careh prOject entitled 'optical fibre en ors and their application to highway lructure '. 'I otal grants, 5,193.

General Practice J)r P 13ooton, £ 10,67 (Committee Postgraduate \1edical Education).

Contribution cowards a pilot study on non-principal CP . [)r J Dale, £40,900 (Bromley Ilealth Authority) to support a re earch project entitled 'evaluation of accident and emergency service' Total grant, £51,57 .

Prof ,\ Cameron, Dr I) Short (Computing Centre), £20, 35 IRe earch ~trategy and Re earch EqUipment Funds) to support a research proJe t entitled 'publication of machine readable texts on CD-RO'v1'.

Total grant, £20, 35.

Immunology Prof \'erganl, £65,195 (LORS) to upport a research project entitled 'prevention and abrogation of dlabete '; £5,300 (SELl lA) to support a rescarch proje t entitled 'immune activation and) IIV infection in ,\frlean '. Total grants, £73,215.

Law Prof t\ G Guest, £35,910 (EEC ER '\.H':) tudent bursaries In re pc t of the ' nglo-French Law Programme 19 -1993'. Total grants, £ 2,410.

Life Sciences Division Pro [) 0 Ilall, 39, 36 Ecu (£30, 2 approx)(EEC (\.larie Curie Fello\\~hip») to support a re~eareh project entitled 'photohydrogen production by immobilized cyanobacteria and photo ynthetic bacteria'.

Dr 0 II Davie , Or JJ :Y1 urphy, £91,857 (Leukaemia Research Fund) to su pport a re eareh project entitled 'development of t-cell mediated immunotherapy of leukaemia'. Prof I)

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Hall, 7,500 Ecu (£2 ,5 approx)(EE ) to upport a re earch project entitled 'novel technologie for the treatment of indu trial effluen u ing immobilized microalgae and aquatic plant '. Total gran . I 07.

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consumables for a research tudy entitled 'computational upport for biomolecular tructural tudie '. Prof H Could, £119,57" (Leukaemia Re earch Fund) to upport a re earch project entitled 'the mechani m of erythroid cell determination '; -5.4-- (Wellcome

Total gran ,£14,326.

Mathematics Prof R F treater, 30,909 Ecu (£23,523 approx)(EEC) to upport a re earch project entitled 'dynamics stocha tic complexity - theory and application' '.

Dr Y afarov (SERC Advanced Fello\ ) £9,443 (SERC) to support a re earch project entitled 'microlocal analysis and its applications to spectral theory'.

Total grants, £ 2,966.

Mechanical Engineering Total grant, £2,176.

Medicine Dr Zachar ,£97,129 (I3riti h Ileart Foundation) to upport a re earch project entitled 'regulation of p 125 focal adhe ion kinase in va cular ~mooth mu cle cells'; £234,175 (I3riti h Ileart Foundation) to uppOrt a research project entitled 'role of protein tyrosine kinases in vascular mu cle cells'. Dr ~ Robin on, £62 690 (flritish lleart Foundation). Re earch fcllowship. Total grant. £393,994.

Molecular Biology :vIichelle Peck ham, £74,000 (Human Capital and Mobility) to support a research project on the role of the m osin binding protein, protein-x, in muscle.

Molecular and Biophysics Group Dr R K Patient, £194,330 (MRC) to u pport research on 'the ignal ontrolling Ci\Ti\-2 expres ion and blood formation in the earl ertebrate embryo'. Dr B J unon, £ ,119 (Arthritis and Rheumatism Council) to upport a re eareh project entitled 'three-dimen ional trueture of human rheumatoid factors and their complexe with IgC Fe'. (Thi grant was jointl awarded to Dr M J Taus ig, Dr A Fein tein, FRC Babraham In titute and Dr B J unon, King' ). Prof R :vi , immons, $110,000 (£72, 4 approx)(lnternationallluman Frontier SCience Program) to upport a re earch project entitled 'international collaborative program', Dr B J utton, Dr M R ander on, Dr S D Dover, £72,560 ( ERC). Contribution toward theco tofequipmentand

Tru t) to upport a re earch tuden hip entitled 'a tudy of the regulation of the Bcl-2 gene in normal human 13 cell '. Dr B Cratzer, £3 ,934 (Muscular D trophy Group) to support a research project entitled 'conformation and function of dystrophin'. Total grants, £6 2,571.

Nursing studies (including the nursing research unit) Or owley, £76, 47 ( outh Ea t Thames Regional Ilealth uthority) to upport a re earch proje t entitled 'Primary Care Oevelopment Fund'.

Prof Redfem, Mr I, 'orman, Mr T \1 urrell , £221,120 (Department of Ilcalth) to support a re earch project entitled 'external review of nur ing development unit '. (Thi grant was jointly awarded to Prof Redfem, M r I ~orman. and :vir T :vIurrell C'\ursing Research Unit/Department of Nursing 'wdie , King's) and ProfC i'.'ormand (Department of Public Ilealth & Policy, London chool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine». The total amount awarded was £270,113. Total grants, £297,967.

Nutrition and Dietetics Dr P Ellis, £14,630 (Scientific Ilospital Supplies) to support a re ear h project entitled 'medium term effect of wheat bread containing partially hydrolysed guar gum on the metabolic control of non-insulin dependent diabetic patients'; £5.19 (, cientific 110 pital .'upplie ). Re earch on ultaney. Total grant, 53,632.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Or V Bolton, £47,17 (J RC) to upport a re eareh project entitled 'implantation in human-conceptu endometrial interaction '. Total grant , £47,17 .

Pharmacology Group Dr 0 Brain, £5,252 (F Iloffmann La Roche AC) to support a re eareh project entitled 'effect of REA/OOl on the oedema formation in the rat paw induced by saphenou nerve stimulation'. Prof J :vi Linleton. £45,174 (\1 RC) to u pport a research project entitled 'excitotoxicity induced

by repeated ethanol withdrawal in alvage, 44,7 J6 (M RC) to upport a re earch project entitled 'pathological role of nitric oxide in the ba al ganglia in relation to Parkin on' di ease'. Or H ambridge, Or 0 Brain, 4 64 ( rthriti and Rheumatism ouncil) to upport a re earch tudy of' ynovial blood flow in the rabbit: the effect of inflammation on the respon e to va oactive mediator '. Prof P Jenner, 94,157 Ecu (£71,559 approx)(E EC (Human Capital and Mobility» to upport re earch on 'the effect of drug treatment and neurotoxic insult on the urvival and function of dopamine cell tran plant '. Prof P Jenner, £39,652

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(M RC) to support a research project entitled 'the role of superoxide dismutase in protecting again t nigro triatal degeneration'. (This grant wa jointly awarded to Or V Clover (Queen harlolte' and hel ea Ho pital) Or A low ( niver ityof \ estmin ter) and Prof P Jenner (King' ». The total amount awarded was £125,256. Prof P Jenner, £55,455 (Wellcome Trust) to support a re earch tudent hip entitled 'involvement of brain cytochrome P-450 in the toxicity of MPTP and its analogue '. Total grants, £544,253.

Pharmacy ProfC Marrion, £9,800 (Farhang) re earch stlldentship. Prof J W Corrod, 100,000 OM (£39,565 approx)(Verum Foundation) to support research on 'the biological formation, di tribution and reactivity of iminium lone and their contribution to nicotine metabolism', Total grants, £80,842.

Philosophy Total grant. £ 10.655.

Physics Total grant, 599, 49.

Physiology Group Or 0 Tonge, Or J P Colding, Or P R Cordon-Week (Anatomy & Human Biology Croup), £29,3 9 (\1 RC) to su pport a research project entitled 'role of protein kina es during the growth of adult en ory axon '. Or C E ann, £151,353 (Wellcome Trust) to support a re earch project entitled 'dysfunction of the human endothelial cell Larginine tran porter and nitric oxide syntha e in diabetes and hyperglycaemia'. Or KC Pedley, ,349 (Royal ociety) contribution

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Or RP Clar , 2-,000 (Ran Prize Fund . Contribution to .... ard upportlfig the Thermal 81010 Re earch "nit. Or G . lann, Or J II welry, - -, 5 - (Wellcome Tru t) to support a research tudent hip entitled 'modulation 0 nitric oxide nthase and cular tone b en Ironmental oe trogemc chemIcal '. Or .. J Abbott.

ProfM W 8 8radbury, 7, 32 (:-"'1 RC) to support a re earch project entitled 'tran port of26 I, 67Ga and - Fe in cultured brain endothelium-role of complexes with sansferrin & other ligands'. Total grant, 352,3' .

Portuguese O. Psychological Medicine

Total grantS, £1,

ProfMurray, 05,9 (Yorkshire Ilealth Authoflty) to upport a research project entitled 'comparison 0 Inten ive and tandard case management'. Total grants, £605,9

Theology and Religious Studies Dr P 13 Clarke, £274,240 (I n mute for Research In Iluman Ilappines ) to su pport a research project entItled 'the role of Japane e 'ew Religions In the creation of new work ethic and the spread of Japanese cu lture In the West.

Total grants, £27,4790.

War Studies Prof L Freedman, Or B Ileuser, £28,000 (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) fellowship for overseas students. Total grant, £114,359.

Total amount awarded in the quarter, £6,659,281 Total grants awarded in the quarter (including supplements and extensions). 138

r -Oay ""a commemorated a little earlier In King' than in the re t of the country, on 1 March, at a Joint Llddell Ilart entre for Military Archi e and Department of War tudle conference which Included academic debate, \ eteran ' recollection, reading from the archives and an exhibition. Thi was followed by the annual lecture, al 0 on D-Oa ,gIven b Max Ila tlng , editor of The DaIry Telegraph. The follOWing extra ts give JU t a flavour of the tremendously rich re ources held in the archive at King's oncernlng D·Oay, which ha e been extenslvel) trawled a ba kground for media coverage of commemorative eventS.

Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 5 June 1944 It is very hard to believe that In a few hour the Cro s Channel invasion starts! [am very uneasy about the whole operation. At the be t it will fall so very very far hort of the expectations of the bulk of the people, namely all those who know nothing of its difficulties. At the worst it ma well be the mo t ghastl disaster of the whole war! I wish to God it was over.

Chester Wilmot, BBC war correspondent, 6 June 1944 This is Chester Wilmot broadca ting from a glider bound for France and invasion. J he fir t wave of the a saulting troop has already landed in France. They are the Paratroops· thou and of British and American paratroop who took off from many 'dromes in various parts of England only a few hour ago... On their seizing the ground behind the enemy lines, wc depend for the landing of the e gliders which form the second wave of the assault force ... From where I am, standing between the two pilot of this

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glider, I can see the navigation lightS of the tug 10 ront of u ,and al 0 to left and right, the na igatlon li ht of other tugs, and other glider bound on the same miSSion. Circling abo e from time to time, I can ee the ligh of the fighter creen, which i protecting u .

And looking back down the glider, there are seated - although I can't ee them In the half light - twenty ix officer and men. All laden up with equipment so heavtly that they can hardly walk. But the' e got to carry With them the mean by which the can Ight the moment they land.

They are no doubt wondering whether the parachuti t have succeeded In elzlng the ground on whl h we're gOing to land. But if the 're ""orned about it they gIve no igns of It... bove the roar of the air beating on the ide - on the wooden Ide of the gl ider - you ean 't hear their voices, Except occasionally you catch a snatch of a ong. Annie I.aune. The Mountains 0/ Morne. And I even heard 'em singing lAnd o/llope and Glory....

We've jut passed over the coast of France. And all around us from all over the coast, ack-ack fire is going up, away to the right, and away off to the left.

But in front of u ,there' nothing coming up at all. Except immediately over about half-right where there's a fair amount of tracer treaming up from roughly the area where we're going to land. '£ he moon i still hiding behind the cloud, but they've been firing a fair amount of heavy tuff up away over near Le Ilavre, where we've got a d i er ion goi ng on with other bombers. nd that has attracted mo t of their attention. I can see no sign of any of the other tug aircraft. No ign of any fires on the ground as the re ult of bombing. omething very heavy bur t ju t above u and brilliantly lit the cockpit.

Now the ground below is still showing no signs of enemy activity. I can sce away on our right the river

\\ hich i our main guide for coming In I on thc left of the river. nd there now I can ee the light which is to guide u in to our main landing ground. At lea t I hope it' the light that' to guide u . [t' come on and gone off again. It' hard to tell whether the light we ean ee at the moment are the lights of the landing zone or the light eOl up from enemy erey ignal , or even from aekack, but we shall very soon know.

up he bobbed; he had gone right under, Bren and all. V. e then began to wade a hard a we could. The water was now che t high and it ""a vcr hard going with all that kit on. The water had filled our ru ksack and wa in our blou e. e began to cur e Jerr and e eryone el e we could lay tongue to. oon we began to reach hallower water and we felt more of a target and wi hed we were back in deep water again. We tried to run but it only

Lance Corporal Morris, 6th Commando, 6 June 1944 Time wa now approx 0800 hour and the stand by order was given, though on looking 0 er the side there eemed to be a hell of a lot of water between u and the beach. The next move \ as by the \,'avy; at 0 .15 hours we heard 'Ramp Down' and they began to lide into the water. \Ne mo ed at theame time, and we were on the ramp before it had etded in the water and we were liding and running down iL We werc only poised in mid air for a plit 5econd but the feeling was one of a duck being held up for a target and all the gun in creation firing at you. We landed in the water with a plash, Curly Walker Bill Draper, Ginger Caldwell, myself and the la t of our Bren team, a York hire lad called Goodyear. I looked around and could not ee Bill an where, then

'ferry's shelling was gellingfiercer every second and shells were making large splashes in the water as they /ell around us '.

Lance Corporal C Mom's, 6 Commando.

Photograph/rom the BUSH collection, Liddell Ilart Centre for Military Archives.

to the landing zone, which

We could not make a bee-line off the beach but had to cut acro the front of the area where the battalion of the 'East Yorks' had been landed, upported b tank. Here wa a hell of a ight, for they had oon run into trouble, and had suffered heav ca ualtie . Bodie lay prawled all over the beach, some with leg, arm and head mi sing, the blood clotting in the wet and. Iso nearby some of the flail tanks had uffered mishaps and were burning fiercely. All thi and the moans and screams of tho e in agony blended with the hriek of bullets and whining of hell and wa a terrifying a pecL l\.'earby the RAMC lad were doing their stuff, dragging bodie out of the water and tending to the wounded on the bea h. They were brave lads these, and they called them non-combatants. I would not have changed place with them for a fortune. We truggled acro 5 the loose 5and, running, slipping and dodging, till finally we reached the top of the beach and clambered into the yard of a nearby house, where we quickl formed up and a check was made. A yet we had suffered no troop casualtie . We got moving again, for enemy nipers and mortar fire from acro the treet were getting our range.

cau ed pia hing, which we tried to avoid, even though we were wet through and soaked.

All around u wa a ma of figure bobbing up and down, also ome that didn't bob, but just sagged and were tossed around by the wave; some had already paid the price.

We made the beaeh at 0 .20 hours and all was confusion, or 0 it would have seemed to an spectators, had there been an ,but actually it wa a well rehearsed plan going into action, at least a far a ou r lot was concerned.

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igher education ha been a fa t changing entity 0 er the past quarter of a century, "'ith almo t a new Education Bill every year. The Imposition by the Government of new limits on student number and finance ha highlighted the need lor tight controls. But ha our philo ophy now mo ed toO far rom the onglnal concept of higher education, and are we forgetting the reason why we are all here: le learning and the development of human knowledge and understanding? :v1 mother actuall attendcd King's In the 50 ,and her abiding memory IS that after he had left, (In fact five years after) the porter on the Main Entrance till remembcred her name. The personal touch, and community, was upremely Important, and thiS howed in the way the College approached its tudents and staff. Ilow that differs with the present y tern, where many feel a facelc organisation runs an exam machine whose sole aim is to pull In as many tuden (and therefore as much money) a pos Ible, u Ing them a a commodity and then processing them out With a degree. The Importance of de elopment through educational expenence has now been relegated. to have Its place taken by Image, marketing and outward appearance. \nd whd t not putting do~~n the c Important factor, have \lC here at King's got the balance nght' Gone are the days of JCRs and CRs to be replaced by faceless, characterless refectories that do not encourage ocial debate, moving all of us away from personal diSCUSSions and

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intellectual development. Only the mo t dedicated of debater v.ould dare try ro ic off an open debate in any of the Ite re ecrorle or ear 0 bein told to hut up and mo~ e. lIar I . condUCive to conver atlon. o where ro from here? Do we continue to cram people In at the expense of our aim and objectl es?

Or do we reformulate the higher education equation giving greater weighting to ome of the les examorientated factor that make our uni er ities the en y 0 the ~\orld? It IS not a que tlon we at King' alone can an wer, hut It doe'> require all tho e in olved in higher education to try and make the change. If we don't, we are slmpl colluding With a policy that look to turn univerSitieS into effecti ely grammar chools, but In tead of -levels, you get a degree.

The introduction of the ridlculou ne\\ league table. Imply focus on exam related factors as being the only factor by which we judge our higher ed ucation. I have not seen one yet that looks at the quality of students' union, amount of ocial space per head, quality of sportsground or <]uality of pastoral care. For many at university, these are almost as

important a their degree, and I believe It I ""rong to influence ixth former' chOice of universl ""ith the e punou ht, ""hose accurac dubiou any v.a . \\'e 111 hi her education, are no longer the radi I of the 0, but v.e can till in uence a debate on our education. Let' et the agenda. Let' tart to dicta e the be t way to run higher education. We are the experts who live It da In, day out. urd ""e are the one \I ho know be t?

So long and Ihanks... Tlrt rtliring sabbalical team with I rofessor and M I,ucas. (Lejllo riglrl) lez Salmon, lulian Porler, AIex Binglram and Alisler Morgan

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n 12 May K L C held their annual 'Pre entation and Colours dinner' at the Cumberland J lote!. Thi event traditionally give the port men and women of King' the opportunity to celebrate the ach ievement of the pa t porting year; and there wa plenty to celebrate thi ear.

KCLSU fund over lOO different port club and societie to date, offering students a wide range of pur uits to compliment their academic dutie . Around lOO students attended the dinner and received variou award for their contribution to spon at King' . The Principal and his Wife were kind enough to accept the Union' invitation to be 'guests of honour' and after a delightful meal Profes or rthur Lucu pre ented ome tudents with 'colours, laurels and honorary life membership' respectively. The Burt Brail ford awards for portsman and port woman of the year were awarded to Anthony Rakka for outstanding service to King's Football and Sarah Jowett for out tanding service to King's Hockey team. The night wa a triumph for the Students' Union and for all student who attended.

After the formalitie , the rest of the night's activitie were geared towards the time honoured student traditions of drinking and dancing (with the Principal and his wife readily accepting invitations in the latter category). :"ext year the Ritz... po ibly!

KCL . would particularly like to thank the Principal and his wife for taking time out to support the Union on thi occasion.

Kathy Banner, a PhD Pharmacology student, wa one of six K candidates to receive a travel scholar hip of£I,-OO from the UCB Institute of Allergy to present some of the Pharmacology Group's work at the American Thoracic ociety, Boston during \Ilay th i ear.

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The Pn'ncipaJ presents Anthony Rokka with the Burt BroiJsford award a5 Sportsman ofthe year.

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Would appreciate taying in a famil which al 0 has a teenage on intere ted in sport. Generous renumeratlon offered. Plea e contact igurd mend, Flnkenweg 11,3542 Langgan, German.

"1lchael Gan burg, Profe~ or of Pharmacology at Chel ea College mce 1 6 and at KIng' from I 5 lO 19 died on 21 \1ay. \1lchael wa born an Ed anburgh and was educated at Ilerlot School and the Lnlversit) of I~dlnburgh, where he obtained an honours degree In chemistry. After he obtained hiS doctorate, \1lchael moved to the Department of Pharmacology at the LJ ni erSlty of Bristol where hc establi hed hlm~elf as an out~tanding re earcher. lie devi\cd bioas~ays for the measurement of plasma concentration of hormones of the posterior pituitary gland, and used these to study the release and metaboli m of these hormones. I le then proceeded to study the mechanism involved in the torage and tran port of posterior pituitary hormone in the hypothalamu , in particular the significance of hormonebinding protein, neuroph sin. I le became Reader In Pharmacology at BrislOl in 19 0, and was awarded a D m 1964. fter a year as i Itlng Profe sor of Pharmacology at olumbia Cni er ity, :"ew York, Yllehael decided he needed to extend hiS Intere ts in pharmacology and al 0 to become involved in the training of students in the field. His dedication to the education of young pharmacologists remained throughout his academic career. lIe thus moved to Chelsea College, which at that time was the only College that offered a BSc degree in pharmacology. Michael

e tabli hed pharmacology a an independent department and built that department up to the point "'here it became he major producer 0 pharmacolo graduate in the Cnited •mgdom, a "'ell a;, a centre 0 e cellence m re earch lIe e tended hI o"'n "'or on protein banding tudie to the examination 0 the Ign ificance of the teroid binding protein in the developing brain, and al 0 led a team tud ing the meehanl m of dependence and tolerance to opiate drug. :\ con Clentlou academiC, ~llehael accepted more than hi fair share of re ponslbilitie . I le wa on the editorial board of the Journal of l~ndocnnol01!J for over twelve 'ears and a council member of the ociety for Endocrinology from I -73. lIe chaired thc Board of tudie in Pharmacology, the Workmg Part) on the intercalated 13 degree for medical tuden~, the Working Part for the 13. degrce in Toxicology and the peclal ,\dvlsor Committee on . ur~mg Studie . lIe was also a member of nine other committees of the Cnlverslty, mcluding Senate, and sat on the Council of liRE and the Rc earch Committee of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. lIe was Dean of Basic Medical eienees at King's from 19 6 until his retirement in I Michael will be remembered by hi colleague a a kind and thoughtful Ilead of Department. lie was always positive and felt that encouragement, rather than criticism, wa the wa to achieve a happy and productive teaching and research unit. lie went to great lengths to ensure that everyone wa made aware that he valued their contribution. A man aloof great modesty, Yl ichael' friend hip and example wdl be mi sed by hi colleague. We extend our mpathy to hiS Wife \1ajorie and hi children and grandchildren.

Dr Jack Bolting (Leeturerl enior Lecturer Chelsea College, King's College London 195919 0)

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12 July First Annual Education lecture from the Centre for Educational Studies Grea Hall, S rand Ca pus, 8 00 RaIsing standards In educatIon Pro essor S ewar Su herland, ViceChancellor 0 the Unlversl y 0 London and Her ajesty's Chle Inspector for Schools. For de ails contact Julie Bacon, ext 3189

III rnanltlc 27 June Department of Music lecture/Concert and Farewell Grea Hall, S rand Campus, 7.30 Celebra Ion of he wor of icola Lefanu who IS leaving ing's to become he new Head 0 MusIc at York Universi y

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29 June Institute of Advanced Musical Studies Colloquia Room 6C, Main Building, Strand Campus, 17 00 What does Compere quote? The riddle of the Chansons de regrets.

Clemens Goldberg, Berlin 30 June Department of Music Temple Church, 13.05 by kind permission of the Master of the Temple. Choir 0 the Departmen o Music: Heinrich Schutz and his contemporaries

5 -13 July London Summer School in Classics For fur her in ormatlon con ac argare Brown, Departmen of Classics, ex 2867 [ ,J\\

6July Institute for the Study and Treatment of Delinquency Fifth Eve Saville Memorial lecture Councd Room, Strand Campus, 18.30 The courts and the challenges of the multi-cultural society Sir Henry Broo e, Chairman 0 the

Law Commission, the Chairman of he E hnic inori ies AdvIsory Commit ee of he Judicial S' udies Board and a High Court judge.

T is lec ure series commemora es he con ribu ion made 0 ISTD, and o he wider ield 0 criminal JUS Ice,

by Eve Savdle BE, who died in 986 and served he Ins i u e as its General Sec re ary or hirty years.

There is no charge, but donations 0 the Eve Saville emorial Lec ure Fund, which ensures the continuance o these lectures for the future, will be appreciated. If you wish 0 attend please contact Julia Braggins, Tel ' 071-8732822. Fax 071-873 2823.

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27 June Randall Seminar The Randalllnstitute, Drury Lane, 17.00 Transcription factors in hemopoetic cell differentiation Dr Graham Goodwin, Institu e for Cancer Research, Fulham 11 July Randall Seminar The Randall Institute, Drury Lane, 17.00 8 Iymphocyte actIVation Professor Douglas Fearon, Wellcome Trust Immunology Unit, University of Cambridge

8-9 September European Conference on Gene Therapy of Cancer Focusing on the latest developments in gene ransfer systems; antisense and ribozyme based strategies; he role and use of tumour specific an igens, immune co-stimulators, and cyto ines in the induction of immune rejection 0 cancer; drug sensitivity/ resis ance gene delivery s ra egies; and adop ive immuno herapy.

Contact the Con erence Secretaria : European Conference on Gene Therapy 0 Cancer, The Rayne Institute, CSMD, 123 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9 U. Tel 071-346 3126 or fax 071-733 3877.

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beheve It wa And)' Warhol v. ho aid that everybod . I amou or \- minute. I \\ould h e to pro e thl adage and make orne of our graduating tuden famou for a fev. moment, although we hope that ome ma even 0 on to be famou for a lot longer.

I am attempting to increa e the pre coverage we receive for our graduation ceremonie . At pre ent we end tudent a press relea e (with the Registry mailing) encouraging them to fill in their own particular detail degree, ubJect, future plan etc - and to end It to their local new paper We are actuall) quite succe ful in thiS and want to budd upon it.

The aim I to find intere tlng or e pecially noteworthy informatIOn about our student and to find out about tho~e who have gained their degree In unu ual per onal circumstance. For example, has your department got identical tWin graduating with Firsts? Are a mother and on both graduating at the amc time? llave you got an octOgenarian planning to go on and study for a PhD? Do you get the picture? 11 I nced you to do i to ring me with your suggestion and I will ort the rest out.

Also, bear in mind over cas studcnts bccau e overseas publications e pecially welcome thi type of story.

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reunion for 196 graduate will bc held on 1 October 1994.

Participants, who will gather between 15.00 and 16.00, will be able to choose from a variety of activities in the late afternoon. They will come tOgcther at 18.30 for the Principal's Reception, which is followed at 19.30 by the Reunion Dinner in the Great Ilall. The guest peaker will be Sir John Hackett CBE, the then Principal.

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ucce ful in a variet) of v.alk of life. mong t tho e we are In touch with, Deryc \1aughan (Geo raph .) I Chairman and Chief Executive of alomon Brother Inc. the international In e trnent ban ; Laurie Green (Theology) I BI hop 0 Bo tol; tephen Wllhams (La\\) IS Compan ecretary of Cnde er; -\lex arlde (Law) i Liberal Democrat lember 0 Parliament for Montgomery.

The Reulllon Committee IS particular! anxiou that a man member of taff a po ible from this period attend. The KCLA Office will be extending a per onal inVitation to member of taff till in po t, but would appreciate receivlllg contact add res es for retired member of taff \ Ith \\hom colleagues are till in tOuch. I hope as man colleague as are able will JOin us for what proml e to be an enjoyable triP down memor) lane. More crucially, the day Will al 0 Increa e the bonding with a group of alumlll, v.ho are now at the apex of their careers, for the greater good of the College.

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Ilumber All area telephone codes will change on 16 April )99S 0 that' l' wi 11 be added after the initial '0' to all area codes. For example Inner London's code will become '017) '. The International access code will change from '010' to '00', to bring it into hne with other European countrle .

From the beglnnlllg of August both the new and the old code will be operational.

Please bear these change In mind when you are ordering College tationery, preparing publications, etc.

Bob Redmond General ervice Manager

The third edition ofthe \.{,:1 I's On 01 Ing's lea et v. ill be publi hed In eptember \ 4. If your department/unit/centre WI he lO pubhcise even for the next serne ter plea e send the detad to he Pre and Publication ffice at Cornwall Ilou e ;\nnexe

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A team from the chool of Medicine and Dentl try will be representing King' in an early round of the popular student quiz programme Unive i/} Challenge, which return to televi ion later thl year. The King' team effort wdl be recorded In Jul and is due to be tran mltled In the autumn on BBC 2.

Recognition Express, supphers of the ollege lapel-badge, have opened a new branch In the City of London.

Their new address i 321 E ex Road, London. 13P .'f elephone 071- 54 9061;fax071-7042 4.

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Thank you to everyone who took part in the ten-mile fundraising walk III May, which was in memory of Cathy Ilealy' eleven month old son, Lawrence, who recently died in King's College Ilospital (reported in Commenl number 7 ). The grand total raised for thc Children' Liver unit at the 110 pital wa. ÂŁ\,7 0, which wa over ÂŁ1,000 more than anticipated.