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teaching pattern mu t for example, alIo-\vtho e course which use the majority of theacademic year or teachin (rather thanexamination) in the fir t and econd rearto continue to have at least 26 weeks ofteaching, and pre erably 2 ; above all it

OPEN DAY SUCCESS

The specific pattern 0 teaching was notdecided. A small working party has maderecommendation, which are now underdebate and con ultation.

A number of considerations wiJl affect thefinal de ision, which must pre erve thestrengths of the present system. The

Despite the mclement weather, King's Open Day on 28 April was successful In attracting over1500 vISItors to the College. This year a new format was devised for the day featlmngindividual School introductions and a central programme which included concerts by theMusic Department and the King's Singers, displays of the work of the Language andCommunication Centre and the Computer Centre and a talk from the tudents' Union.

Di cu sions about the trucrure of theacademic year, whether to offer teaching inthe summer, and whether to use summerteaching to offer fast track degrees, havebeen cau ing confu ion among member ofthe College, mainly because these separateis ues have become run together as ifdeci ion about the first entailed deci ionabout the other. They do not. It i veryimportant that the decisions be made asseparate decisions, each on it own merits.Just because omething is po sible it doesnot mean it is desirable.

Semesterisationand a I thatProfessor Arthur Lucas, Vice Principal withresponsibility for academic planning, wntes:

I set out below some of the background,and some of the i sue still to be resolved. Indoing so I thank the member of theCollege who have written to me withsuggestions and concerns. The commonconcerns are addressed here.

Terminology'Semesterisation' (for want of a better term- there is no suggestion that teaching beorganised in six-month blocks!) is theprimary issue. At present the Collegeoperates its undergraduate teaching in twomain patterns: one based on terms, the otherbased on emesters. This split of pattern hasfor the last three or four years been causingmajor problems in booking centrallytimetabled classrooms, especially fromJanuary to Easter. To make effective use ofthe limited teaching space available,especially on the Strand, it is necessary tohave a uniform undergraduate teachingpattern. After recurrent debate over threeyears, the Standing Committee finallydecided that the pattern should be auniform one, based on semesters. Thisdecision is in line with the dominant trend

in the UK. Potential students in the Anatomy Department.

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mu t be con is tent with the patterns withinthe remainder of the Univer ity of London,

o that intercollegiate teaching i pre eryed

and enhanced. (At pre ent there i notcomplete uniformity in vacation datebetween the chools of the University, and

it i nece ary for a College to take a lead in

making a firm proposal for the date thathould be followed. King's i the econd

largest chool of the Univer it)' and hould

be taking a lead. ) There are also is uerelated to teaching continuity: hould ateaching block be broken by a major

vacation?

RecommendationsThe Working Party recommended that:

• the teaching blocks be of 13 weeks,oupled with an additional two week

period available for examinations in each'semester';

• that teaching in the first semester becompleted b Christma;

• that there be a twO week break betweenthe end of teaching in the first semesterand the tart of the examination periodat the beginning of the second. (Studentswithout an examination would thenhave a four week break betweenteaching periods;)

• that Easter not be a substantial vacation,but be treated as a series of publicholidays, with the exact numbers ofdays of closure in addition to GoodFriday and Easter Monday still to bedetermined.

Summer teaching?Summer teaching would be pos ible underthis scheme, with another 'standard'semester period available. Whether it is

practicable was tested by looking at twopossible model , one involving the creation

of a new set of course units to be taughtonly in the summer and which would

cohere with an existing degree pattern andavoid replication of units, and a secondinvolving the duplication of existingmodules. Both were possible.

It is a separate question whether the use ofthe summer for standard undergraduatecourse units is desirable. (Remember, inconsidering the issues, that there exist now

some courses, including someundergraduate ones, that ha e a teachingperiod substantially in excess of thestandard 30 weeks: some non-clinical

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onnalPattern 1Panem :1

Departments now teach well into August

and begin by the third week of eptember.)

I believe that it is desirable that thepossibility for teachin in the summer is

pre erved. The change in participation ratethat are planned, with a move to anentitlement for higher education for

substantially more than the currentminority, means that it cannot be assumedthat the present pattern of academic yearswill be desirable or possible for all whowish to participate. It is also clear that thereare strong pres ures to accommodate theincreased numbers of rudents without a

corresponding capital programme to buildmore institutions with 'classrooms and

teaching laboratorie left empty for 22

weeks in the year'. (While this is not true of

all classrooms at King's, it is close enoughto the truth to be difficult to rebut.)

Leave and other issuesIf summer teaching is introduced, then anumber of issues arise, for all categories ofstaff and for students.

There will be a need to reconsider thepatterns of leave for non-academic staff,whose contracts now make assumptionsabout the nature of vacation and term time.For example, it will no longer be defensibleto assume that library, computer centre anddepartmental support taff take their leavein vacations; as in many service industries,leave times will be pread and rostered, notconcentrated into a small period of the year.This should allow taff to take lea e at other

times of the year, depending on their ownand their department's circumstances.

There are other issues that will need to beexamined, not least of which will be the

need to have some classrooms andlaboratories out of action for one semesterto allow essential repair and maintenance tobe done. School Office and Registry staffwill have to cope with additionaladministration related to teaching in non­

traditional periods, and will not be able to

count on period free of student demandsfor regular annual tasks such as archivingrecords. Account will need to be taken ofthe e demands when planning for change.

ummerRe earchTea hTeach

For academic taff, it will be ne e ary to

ensure that there i no increa e in avera e

teaching load per annum, otherwise theywill be le able to ensure that theyundertake the re earch component of their

contracts. I use the term average here,because I believe that ome staff, at someperiods of their research cycle, mightbenefit from the possibility of having twoadjacent emesters free of undergraduate

teaching. This could be arranged byteaching in either of the following patterns,the first of which would have a 'normal'

load in each year, the second by having one'heavy' and one 'light' year. (In Table I the

term 'teach' i u ed to represent a periodwhen undergraduate teaching takes place; itdoe not imply that no re earch is done atthat period. imilarly, in the 're earch'period there may be some preparation forteaching, and often teaching of post­

graduates.)

There are other patterns that would stillproduce an average teaching commitmentthe ame as at present, with the 'researchseme ter' being taken at different periods indifferent years. (In my own ca e, forexample, work in archives would be easier

to sustain in January to March, withouthaving to compete with the large influx of

foreign scholars in June to September.)

Students and grantsFor students, the advent of summer courses,

coupled with increasing u e of credittransfer chemes, would allow moreflexibility in the time of the year in which

they studied. Experience abroad suggeststhat as higher education moves toward a'mass system' we will find studentsswitching back and forward between full­and part-time modes, with the 'part-time'

sometimes being full-time study in oneseme ter, with none, or a light load, in theremainder of a year.

Issues of eligibility for grant on an 'in-and­out' pattern need to be addressed byGovernment, an issue that will be forced bythe decreased value of the non-fee part ofstudent support. While it remains necessaryfor students to earn to supplement grant orto repay loans, some may find it easier to

The e tablishment of this central facility willprovide a focal point for the promotion ofcollaborative cell and molecular biolo ywithin the chool and further clo er contactwith the Divi ion of the Faculty of Life,Ba ic Medical and Health ciences. Currentinitiative under way include the moleculargenetic analy i of normal and leukeamichaematopoie i , with particular emphasi onmyeloid leukaemias and myeloid celldifferentiation and the molecular geneticanalysis of the retroviallife cycle, e peciallytho e mechanisms involved in theintegration of provirus into the host cellgenome.

major new development to suppormole ular biolo . re earch has beene tabli hed at Km ' based at the DenmarkHill campu . The. lole ular .fedl ine nito Kin'" Colle e hool 0 Medicine andDenti try wa officially laun hed on 23March by Pro e or ir James Black, FR ,inthe company 0 the College's Prin ipal, DrJohn Beynon Professor Michael Peckham,Director of R&D in the Department ofHealth and Mr lan Gainsford, Dean of the

chool. The openin ceremony waspreceded b. a presentation made by theUnit' Director and originator, Dr FarzinFarzaneh, on the aims and activitie of thenew Unit.

MOLECULARMEDICINE UNIT

OPENS

Lo al Edu a ion Authori y i obli cd,under he urren rul ,to pay rant or - 2week at he appropriate rate per weekbeyond h 3" wee tandard.I the Colle e de ide 00 er ummerour e there will need to be a eparate

de isi n about whe her to permi ast trackde ree , and I 0, whether to limit them topeci 'ied de ree pro ramme .

It i very important to re 0 ni e that fasttrack de ree are only bein on idered asan addition to the traditional pattern. I donot believe that it would be po ible for theCollege to offer fa t track degree as theonly method of tudyin or anundergraduate degree' it is certainly notdesirable.

Dates and deci ionIn the hort term, we mu t determine theemester date for the Academ ic Year 1993/

1994 by June 1992. ummer cour e needfurther di cu ion and market research; anacademic deci ion need to be taken aboutwhether to allow fa t track degree. I wouldhope tho e deci ion will be taken by the

ollege it elf, and not forced upon it byoutside agencies. It is therefore important tocontinue the detailed consideration of theimplications of summer teaching, with aview to taking a decision, no later thanChristmas 1992, and preferably earlier. Iwould particularly welcome individualcomment on summer teaching and fast trackdegrees, with the understanding that thecomments would be fed into debate unlessmarked confidential.

-ind employmen in period other than theummer.

I is unli ely 0 be po ible 'or alldepartmen to mount ummer our eevery year. Tho e with a mall number 0

ta' may tnd i parti ularly di i ult.ther will Ind i e ier, and perhap

de irable, to 0 er ummer our e as thenorm. I do not believe that the olle ewould ind it po ible for all Departmentto mount a full ran eo cour e or threeerne ter in every year.

Paradoxically, the problem of studentsupport may be le s for students on a fasttrack degree, for if a full-time cour eextend for 45 weeks or more, then the

Fa t track degreeso-called 'fast tra k de ree ' become

po ible if ummer teachin is offered. Atudent could obtain as much tea hin a

now, under the ame condition of tud}and examination, but within two calendaryear rather than three. There would be letime for reflection and acation readin ,and there would be le s time for 0 ialmaturation. The con equence of the e10 se would depend to a great extent onindividual circum tance . Entrant whohave had a period in the work force maynot uffer from the decrea ed opportunityfor per onal maturation; tudent incour e that are more technical may notlose by the loss of vacation reading time,wherea those in the more literary ubjectsmight.

Dr Farzaneh (centre) and his team with Professor Sir James Black, FRS . ho opened the Unit.

The refurbishing of the laboratorie in theRayne Institute was made possible by agrant from the Univer ity of London. Thedevelopment of thi initiative wa identifieda a priority in the chool's cademic Planand this wa endorsed by the College'sRe earch trategy Committee whichearmarked additional re ource to upportthe purchase of major items of equipment.An initial allocation from the Committee of£18,7 to pump-prime the Unit' syntheticoligonucleotide utility has been amplyrewarded: the revenue from this service isnow £12, per annum. In addition, over£550,000 has been attracted by the Unit inthe past eighteen month from varioussources, including the Cancer Re earchCampaign (£145,000), the Medical ResearchCouncil (£118,000) and the LeukaemiaResearch Fund (£200,000). This has enabledDr Farzaneh to build up his support team of15 re earch workers.

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RECRUITING IN CYPRUSCORPORATE VISUAL

IDENTITY UPDATE

John Mltlr, Vlce-Prinapal, External RelatIOns, writes about hIS recent recruitment visitto Cyprus.

All staff are welcome ro anend.

The Corporate isual Identiry AdvisoryGroup under the chairman hip of Profe sorBarry Ife has been progre ing it work inthe development of a new vi ual identity forthe Colle e ( ee Comment 0 59) and isplea cd ro announce that it ha appointedleading graphic designers Penra ram roundertake this contracr. Penta ram arerenowned for their designs for publi herFaber and Faber, the Guardian new paper,L10yd of London, the Vicroria and AlbertMuseum and The Design Council, ro namea few of their clients.

Work is well in hand for the launch of thenew identity at the beginning of eptemberbut taff will have the opporrunit)' ofpreviewing the identiry before thi date. Aerie of Open Meetings i planned ro unveil

the identity ro staff at the differentcampu es in order to explain how the newdesign wa conceived and how it is intendedthat it hould be used in a variery ofapplications ranging from stationeryadvertisements and publiciry material roexternal decoration. The Open Meetingswill take place on Tuesday 26 May at thefollowing times:

15.30 - 17.30

12.30 - 14.30

09.30 - 11.30KCSMD, Denmark HillMain Lecture TheatreKensington CampusAlien Lecrure TheatreStrand Campus

ew Theatre

] al 0 visited Or George Georghallides, theDirecror of the Cyprus Research Centre, rodi cuss preliminary propo al for aconference on Cypru ro be held in King'in the week preceding the CommonwealthPrime Minister' Conference in ico ia in1993. More details will follow from theCentre for Hellenic Srudies.

Our alumni once again helped u verycon tructively. The Pre ident of KCLA(Cypru ), Mr Theodoro . icolaide ,arran ed an e ening reception at a plea antre taurant 0 that prospective tudent andtheir parenrs could meet parents of ptesenrsrudents, as well as me, in le s formalcircum tance .

On this occasion it was not po sible ro vi itMr George Paraskevaide , a Fellow of theCollege, the father of an old srudenr andone of our most generous benefacrors. Heand his son were abroad but they sent theirbest wishes and the hope that in theAutumn they will take part in the formalceremony of opening and blessing thehandsome office which Mr Paraskevaideshas given for the u e of the College andKCLA (Cyprus) in the centre of Nicosia. Ifall goes well it will be opened, blessed andsprinkled with holy water by a GreekOrthodox priest (who al 0 happens ro be aKing's graduate!).

Profe or E M Deeley (Electronic andElectri al En ineerin ) and I repre enredthe ollege at the recenr Briti h ouncilRecruitmenr Fair in icosia, Cyprus. TheFair wa very well atrended and rudenrcame from many parts of the i land; about175 were inrerviewed and useful contactwa al renewed with a number of schoolhead and coun ellors. The balance ofinterest wa very much as in the past withEngineering, Management and Law leadingthe field. Mo t higher educationin tirution from the UK were repre entedand, in the few interval of a busyprogramme, most experienced again thewarm and generou welcome that Cypriotsextend ro vi iror .

A major initiative this year was Profes orDeeley' vi it ro the Higher TechnicalInstitute in ico ia; thi is a well­established in tirution with good three-yearDiploma courses in Engineering. As are ult of Professor Deeley' meetings at theInstitute, it will now be pos ible for]n titute studenr who have obtained a verygood aggregate score in the Diploma roapply for entry ro the econd year of ourundergraduate Engineering courses. This ispotentially a source of excellent rudenrs forthe College, and the opportunity ro apply roKing' on the e terms ha been warmlywelcomed on the island.

Plea e note that if ou need to reprint yourexisting stationery before 1 eptember onlyorder sufficent stocks to last you till then asthe new design will be introduced by that date.

Members of the College who visited HongKong in February to attend the BritishEducation Fair were entertained to lunch bytrustees and officers of the K C WongEducation Foundation. Front row (fromleft) John Muir, Jennifer Jackson, Dr S KFong (Director ofthe Bank of China andTrustee), Barrie Morgan. Mr K H Wong(Trustee and Secretary) is on the left in theback row. Twenty King's postgraduatestudents are supported by K C Wongscholarships at present.

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Mooting success for King's Law students

Around 3 full-time academic taff belongto BM. The di cipline included arebiochemistry, biophy ics, chemi try,microbiology, nutrition, pharmacy,pharmacology, physiology and taff fromthe Medical chool. In 1990-91 over £2.5million in grants wa awarded to groupmembers from a wide variety of sources.

KING'S COLLEGECENTRE FOR THE STUDYOF METALS IN BIOLOGYAND MEDICINE (MBM)

The new Group has evolved from a researchstrategy grant which was awarded primarilyro establish a centre for the study of thechemi try, molecular biology and strucrureof tran ition-metal protein. It soonbecame clear that the expertise at King'cover a wider range of metal inve ti ationsthan originally thought and thetran formation of the new group recogni ethi fact.

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A new interdis iplinary re ear h roupinha been e rabli hed the 'Kin ' Colle eCentre for the rudr 0 _1etal in Biolo yand .1edi ine' (known internally a the

~1BJ\1 Group).

The metal tudied include iron, copper,nickel, cadmium, manganese, thallium,aluminium, lead, zinc, gold, cobalt andchromium. The aim of MBM i to tudy therole of metal in biology and medicine,encompassing both pure and appliedresearch. Given the broad range of thesubject the centre intends to facilitateinterdisciplinary research collaboration,marrying phy ical and chemical techniquewith biological and clinical problem .

The Group will be based in the new'Atkins' Divi ion at the Kensington site.However, the research activities take place

in laboratories at several College sites andinvolve collaborations across the School and

College.

John WrigglesworthBiomolecular ciences

Another ucce ful venture undertaken thisyear by the chool of Law in a lmilar fieldwas the chool' fir t ever ClientInterviewing Competition, held in January.This activity usefully complementSmootin ,being concerned with the out-of­court side of a lawyer' job where mootingfocuse upon advocac} in court.

(.111 third year student ). Pe er Gn in wasawarded the prize or the be t individualmooter in the inal. \'\ hat made the team'svi rory even more remarkable was the a that the studen were all based at the

UnJver it) 0 Pari I or the duration 0 thecompetition and had ro make do wi h noa ademi as isrance at all rom member 0the aculry .

The piaure shows the eight finalists in thecompetition with winners Alex Cheungand Adam Smith in the centre. On the farright isJane Widger, a King's law graduatenow working with Withers, who played therole ofthe client in the final.

The competition was initiated inconjunction with City olicitor, ither,and held in the firm' conference rooms.Thirty second and third year King's Lawtuden in team of rwo, played the part of

qualified olicitor, with lawyer fromWithers acting as confu ed and distres edclients eeking legal advice. The tudentwere given valuable trainin over two day,a well as a rare in ight into the workingenvironment of a City-based practice.

In re en year. he hoolo Law haenjoyed an ou undin repu ation in heield o' mootin competi IOn . Three year

a 0, ucce in the Ob5er.-er Compe itionor unJver HIe and pol; e~hnl in the

Uni cd Kin dom lead ro an appearan e andvi rory at the omm nweahh udent~100un Compelllion held in. ew Zealand.. 'ow, the ea hievement have beenrowned b} the remarkable vi rory 0 a

team 0 tudent from rhe En li hand

Fren h Law our e in the Je upInternational Law Moot held in

a hingron DC in April.

The competition imulate a formal trial inwhich twO team play the role of lawyeradvi ing the oppo ing parties. It is theirtask ro submit detailed written brief

outlining their le .11 argument and then roargue the ca e orally in front of the court,re ponding ro any que tion put by thejudge a they go. Team - well over ahundred in all at the outSet - qualified forthe final stage of the competition b.winning national heats. Then the nationalwinner headed for ashingron for a weekof concentrated activity. The King'student beat Hong Kong, Au tria and the

United tate in the opening tage andCanada in the emi-final before emerging ao erall victors by defeating ingapore in thefinal.

The team con isted of David Reid and PeterGriffin (both graduated 1991), ina Ellin,Hywel Robin on, Wendy Barnard,

arianne Potter and Pierre Lastenou e

New RespiratoryPharmacology Unit atDenmark Hill

A NEW NAME IN LIGHTS IN DRURY LANE

Dr C Pa e (Pharmacology, Manre a Road)and Dr J Co tello (Thora ic Medi ine,Denmark Hill) have recently been awarded£5 to fund the con truction of a newRe earch Floor to hou e a Re piratoryPharmacology Unit within the exi tingDepartment of Thoracic Medicine.

The fund have been obtained from twocharitable sources the Mortimer andTheresa Sackler Foundation (£350,000) andthe Welton Trust (£150,000).

Furthermore, Dr C Page and Dr J Price (theConsultant Paediatrician within theDepartment of Thoracic Medicine) haverecently been awarded a (Wo year grantfrom the Wellcome Trust to inve tigate'Theinfluence of environmental factor on thedevelopment of persistant bronchial hyper­responsi veness'.

The creation of this RespiratoryPharmacology Unit will provide anexcellent environment for PhD and MDstudents wishing to carry out fundamentalresearch into the cellular and molecularaspects of respiratory disease such asasthma. Furthermore, the floor willundoubtedly attract Post Doctoral Fellowsand foreign research workers and increaseour research trength in the field ofrespiratory research.

Dr Clive PagePharmacology

Central Research Fund

The Central Research Fund has beeninstituted for the purpose of making grantsto members of the University (other thanpresent undergraduate students and thoseregistered for a taught Master's degree)engaged on specific project of research, toassist with the provisions of specialmaterials, apparatus and travel costs.Applications are considered each term andthe next closing date for applications is7 September 1992. Forms of applicationand further particulars may be obtainedfrom the Central Research Fund Section,Room 21 A, enate House.Tel: 071-636 8000 ext 3147.

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Toward the Holborn end of Drury Lane£la hin light and neon i ns (and a queuefor return) indicate where Cats eem etto run for ever. Directly oppo ite i a long­running King' College production knownin shorthand as 'Biophy ics' or just 'DruryLane', which now eems et to outrun itsrival with a new 25-year lease from theMercers' Company and a new name - TheRandall In titute.

Even before there were moves to re-alignLife Sciences Division and independentlyof those, scienti tS from Biomolecular

ciences and the Anatomy and HumanBiology Group of Biomedical cienceswere charting areas of common interest.These contacts gained their own momentumonce the College agreed to provide £25 ,00to refurbish laboratories enabling someAnatomy staff to move from the Strand.Five Anatomy staff and four Biomoleculartaff took this opportunity to formalise

their common research interests byestablishing the Developmental BiologyResearch Centre. An impressive scientificconference has been planned for July.which Sir Mark Richmond, FR , Chairmanof the Science and Engineering ResearchCouncil will attend, as will Professor

tewart Sutherland as Vice-Chancellor ofthe University. Members of the Centrehave already had great success in attractingresearch funding and the expectation is thatthere will soon come a point wherefunding-bodies will want to consolidatetheir investment by providing grants to theInstitute as well as to individual .

In this last respect, the Medical ResearchCouncil has been showing the way foryears: there has always been an MRC Unitin the Drury Lane Building. This is a majorsource of research funding within theCollege and continues to be a criticalcontributor to the research strengths ofLife Sciences. MRC staff have not been

pared upheaval by refurbishment andbuilder; the MRC ha inanced thecon olidation of it accommodation, bothfor it intrin ic merits and to optimi ethe use of available pace, with the re ultthat every previou ly pare cornerthroughout the buildino is now u edand the MRC Muscle Cell Motility Unitfind it elf together on one floor for thefir t time.

The e fields of interest are complementedby the established Biophy ics grouping,where there i an increasing investment inX-ray cry tallography. The juxtapo ing ofthe e active re earch groups with commoninterest mean that members of theRandalllnstitute look forward to the futurewith zest and confidence. But why theRandall? Well, King's rightly ha a sen eof history. Professor Sir John Randall, FR ,(1905-1984) came to King's in 1946 asWheat tone Professor of Phy ic , alreadydistinguished by his crucial contribution(with HAH Boor) to the development ofradar in the Second World War - thecavity magnetron being today universallyfamiliar in the microwave oven. ir Johncounts as one of the founders of modernmolecular biology and could be said to bethe inventOr of biophysics His energyresulted in King's acquiring the presentbuilding in Drury Lane - with generoussupport from the Wellcome Tru t.

The e Biophysics Laboratories were openedin 1963 by HM Queen Elizabeth the QueenMother and it is both fitting and happy thatHer Majesty's granddaughter and succe soras Chancellor of the University, HRH thePrincess Royal. is to formally open TheRandalllnstitute in the autumn.

Derek DrummieDivisional AdministratorBiomolecular Sciences

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STAFF NEWS

Colm Chinnery, the auaioneer

SPORTS & SOCIALCLUB

The Annual General Meeting of the King'sCollege ports & ocial Club was held inthe bar on Wedne day 25 March. The mainitem on the agenda wa the election ofofficer. Your new committee i as follow:

ChairVice ChairSecretaryTreasurerBar teward

eil pencerPeter HowardLynne]ohn onteve Blomer

Len Ayling

The. 'ash Chair 0 Civil En ineerin atKin's Colle e ha been rede i nated b,' theUniver ity and is now the. a h Chair ~En ineerin Law.

John Uff QC, the Director of the Centre 0

Construction Law at King' has beenappointed to the new Chair. He originallytudied Civil Engineering at King's and later

gained his PhD by research in RockMechanics. After a period working inconsulting engineering he re-qualified inlaw and has practi ed a a barrister since197 , pecialisin in building and civilengineering. He wa a Vi iting Professor tothe Department of Civil Engineering andbecame Director of the Centre ofConstruction Law when it was et up in19 7, at the invitation of the then principal,tewan utherland. Profe or Uf is the

author of several books includinConstruction Law (5th ed. 1991). He hasbeen involved in commis ioned works fromthe DTI, MOD and IRIA, has writtenextensively for legal journals and i a well­known conference speaker. In addition tohis legal practice he has acted as arbitrator inmany construction dispute here and inmany parrs of the world.

Appointment to New Chairof Engineering Law

Profe or Leonard Harvey, formerCervame Profe sor and Head of theDepanmenr of Spanish and pani h­American rudies (King's)

Mr Maurice ohl Property Developer andphilamhropi t

Mr John Muir, Vice-Principal, ExternalRelations and College Orator (King's)

Pre entation FellowRt Hon Lord Justice Bingham LordJustice 0 Appeal and a Member 0 Council

FellowProfes or Lawrence Freedman Profe orof ar rudie and Head of the Depanmemof ar tudle (King's)

The name 0 the new Pre emation Fellowand Fellow 0 the Colle e have beenannoun ed. They are as ollow :

College Fellowships

Mr John Eliot Gardiner Conductor

Profe or Arthur Luca , Vice-Principaland Head of the chool of Education(King's)

Vote of thanks were given to MikeHarrington, the retiring trea urer, for hismany year of dedicated service to the Cluband to Colin Chinnery who al 0 resignedfrom the committee.

After the AGM Andrew Tatham waspre emed with a bottle of 'The Macallan'whi ky for winning the photo competition.There then followed a charity auction whichraised in excess of £200 for St ]oseph'sHospice. Lots included an original MikeHarrington watercolour, which attractedsome fierce bidding. Among the noveltyitem were a BCCI credit card and a pair ofused Odour Eaters!

MemberMemberMemberMemberMemberCo-Opted Member

Glyn BakerDebs Co seyLes DisleySarah SharpFred RoberrPaul Lefon

Professor Vff

The ash Chair is a pan-time appoimmem,reflecting the work of the Cemre ofConstruction Law who e principal activityis a part-time M c degree in Con tructionLaw and Arbitration, spread over two years.The Cemre currently has over 10 srudemwhose attendance at the College is for themo t pan after normal hours.

Higher Education FundingCouncil for Wales

ore detailed bio raphies of all the Fellowwill appear in the next edition of Comment.

Profe sor Richard Griffiths - Professor ofFrench - has accepted an invitation tobecome a member of the Higher EducationFunding Council for Wales. ProfessorGriffiths wa formerly Professor and VicePrincipal at Univer ity College Cardiff andmember of the Wel h Arts Council.

Mis ybil Rosenfeld, Theatre Historian

Dr Roger Williams, Director, Instirute ofLiver rudies, (KC MD)

Mr John Wright, JP, former Underecretary, Overseas Developmem

Admini tration, Foreign and CommonwealthOffice; and a Member of Council

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End of Session DinnerFriday 3 JulyThe traditional End of e ion Dinner willthi year be held on Friday 3 July in theRiver Room, trand Campus at 19.15.

herry will be erved in the Lower eniorCommon Room, outh West Block from1 .45. Dress i informal.

This is an opportunity for member of theCollege and their guests to meet in pleasantsurroundings and is also the occasion whenwe say goodbye to those member of staffwho are retiring and who will be invited tothe dinner with their wives or hu band aguests of the College.

The Dinner is being offered at a pecialconcessionary price of £16.50 per personincluding herry, wine and port. Avegetarian meal can also be provided onrequest. Groups of colleagues may a k tobe seated together.

Those intending to be present at the Dinnerare asked to complete an application form,obtainable from me and return it with acheque made payable to King's CollegeLondon, to Mr P J Gilbert, AssistantSecretary, Room 2B, Main Building, StrandCampus, not later than Friday 5 June.

Peter GilbertAssistant Secretary

Safeway award

The Department of Pharmacy has beenawarded the' afeway Prize for Excellence'.The supermarket chain awards 20 suchprizes to Universities and Polytechnics inthe UK in recognition of a significantcontribution of a degree course to the needsof the business environment.

Safeway now operate 50 pharmacies in theirstores and the award reflects the high regardin which the pharmacy practice componentof the King's degree course is held.

The award consists of a £100 annual prizeand an engraved glass trophy, and will beawarded to the tudent pre enting the bestproject in the final year of the cour e. Theaward will be presented at a specialceremony to be held at Safeway headquaterson June 25.

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STAFF NEWSSocial Club Charity Night

The ocia! Club invite member of theColle e to a Charity i ht bein held onFriday 5 June at 17.3 to celebrate theirmagnificent effort in rai ing over £1, forthe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.A raffle will be held on the night to try andincrease this total. All the money will gotowards the training of a new guide dog.

pecial guests, Mrs Anne Thair, the GuideDogs for the Blind Regional AppealsManager, and her own dog, Yvonne, will bethere. Mrs Thair will make a presentationof a photograph of a recently qualifiedguide dog, called 'King', to MikeHarringron on behalf of the Club, inrecognition of the donation.

The Club has a plendid track record forhelping charities. In the last twelve months£218.03 has been raised for the ationalChildren's Home and £146.56 for StJoseph's Ho pice together with the£1007.35 collected for the Guide Dogs forthe Blind Association.

Thanks (and a pat on the head!!) to all thosewho have helped to raise money for theseworthy causes.

Lynne JohnsonSecretary, Sports and Social Club

KCLA Summer EventSaturday 27 JuneFor this year's KCLA Summer Event wehave arranged a private viewing of theCourtauld Institute GaJlerie .

The evening will begin with a reception andintroductory talk at 18. 0 in the mainentrance foyer of the College. Guests willbe free to look around the Galleriesbetween 18.30 and 20.30, and our speaker,Ann Thackray, will be available to answerquestions. A buffet supper and drinks willbe served in the Great Hall at King's from19.30. The all-inclusive price is £19.50 perperson.

Please contact Caroline Bartholomew in theAlumnus Office (Room MB10 CornwallHouse, ext 3052) if you would like to come.

The Courtauld Institute Galleries

Arnold Rosen TravelAward

The Department of Pharmacy has et up anaward in memory of Dr Arnold Ro en whodied two years a o. rnold worked atKing' for over 3 year and headed a largere earch chool. Thi award, initiated byProfe or Gorr d, i intended to helppostgraduate tudent with their conferencetravel expense.

Professor Gorrod ask that if you wish tomake a contribution, however small, plea esend a cheque, made payable to King's

ollege London, to Ian Clarkson, FinanceOffice, King's College London, trand,London WC2R 2L , or to Profe sorGorrod.

Please mark the cheque clearly on the back- Arnold Rosen Travel Award XKB 41

Since this initiative was started Arnold'swife Verna has also tragically pa sed away.Professor Gorrod writes 'I am sorry to

bring further sad news of Verna. You willall be aware of their clo e relationships withstaff and students, the underprivileged andthe civic and academic communitie . Theyboth had a strong social con cience and willlong be sadly missed by their extendedfamilies.'

AFRC GrantProfessor Bill Bradbeer has recently beenawarded an AFRC grant for £73,855 forre earch into the 'Control of metabolicfluxe through chloropia t and cyto olicphosphoglycerate kinases in transformedplants'

STAFF NEWS

DISCIPLINE IN THE LIBRARY

The Library taff are becoming increa in Iy concerned about the difficultie of maintaininan atmo phere suitable for seriou work and quiet study in the library. In recent year agrowing number of studentS seem unaware of how to behave in a library. A library i aplace both staff and tudents have to work. Chatting, eating and drinking have no pia e inthis working environment. The rule are designed to ensure that reader work undisturbedand to ensure that no damage is done to book, furnishing and computer equipment. adly,a growing minority of student are taking little or no notice when asked to observe theLibrary Rules, and on toO many occasions become abusive to the Library staff.

After much discussion at internal Library staff meetings the problem wa aired at recentmeetings of the Users' Committees and the Library Committee. Academic members ofthese committees have been very upportive and have made several useful uggestions.

From the start of the Summer term all Library staff will be making a particular effort toenforce the rules. Any student repeatedly refusing to behave in an orderly manner will bereported to their tutor and may have their borrowing privileges in the Library removed.

The Library taff would be grateful if tutors would remind tudent of the following:

1. Quiet and good discipline should be maintained within the Library at all times.2. 0 food and drink may be brought into the Library.

King's site forSainsbury's

taff who live near Do Kennel Hill inouth London may nor have realised that

the new ainsbury's Foodstore there i builton land formerly owned b, the Medical

chool and the College. The ale hare ulted in several tangible benefitS forKing's, besides the development of the Iteproviding new facilitie for the area.

The ale will enable the College to create tennew medical teaching post at KC MD, andto make a ub tantial capital inve tment inthe 'King' 20 0' healthcare initiative atKing's College Hospital. The proceedhave al 0 as i ted in the purchase of theformer Westfield campus - oon to beopened a the King's Hampstead tudentVillage.

Please help the Library staff to make the Library a more pleasant place in which to study.

Equal Opportunities Monitoring at King's

My article in the January 1992 issue ofComment outlined the intention of theEqual Opportunitie Forum, to introduceEqual Opportunities Monitoring at King's.This is to ensure that our EqualOpportunities Policy is proving to beeffective, making King's an equal and fairenvironment within which to work.

The Equal Opportunities Forum at its lastmeeting in March 1992, ga e its approval tothe plans to introduce Equal OpportunitiesMonitoring across the College, and this willnow proceed.

The College's staff record system alreadyholds data on individuals' sex, marital statusand di ability, so the only furtherinformation we require in order to monitorthe effectiveness of our EqualOpportunities Policy concerns ethnicorigin. The information will be requestedfrom all staff categories and once collectedwill form a confidential statistical record/

database which will not be used for anypurpose other than the monitoring of theCollege's Equal Opportunities Policy.

Forms to collect the information will bedispatched shortly, and I should be gratefulif ou would complete the form and returnit, in the envelope provided, by the returndate.

Your co-operation in providing the data forthis exercise will be greatly appreciated andwill help to ensure that all members of theCollege's taff, both now and in the future,are gi en fair and equal opportunitie atwork. If you have any questions relating tothe monitoring exercise, plea e feel free tocontact your A i tant Personnel Officer ora member of the central Personnel Officefor assistance.

orma RinslerVice Principal

In lieu of the poor-quality portS pitchesthat used to be on the Dog Kennel Hill ite,the picturesque Griffin Sports Ground inDulwich (formerly owned by ain bury' )ha been acquired for King's tudents. Theywill al 0 have use of the four rebuilt squashcourts at Dog Kennel Hill, a well as accesto the all-weather pitch on the neighbouringlocal authority sportsground.

The College has contributed some £3million from the proceeds of the ale toimproving facilities on and around the sitefor local people. Among the development'sadvantages for people in the area - apartfrom the store itSelf - are a new, well-land caped public open space next to DogKennel Hill, including a recreation area; anda new pitch, floodlighting, club-house andstadium for Dulwich Hamlet Football Club.The Dulwich Hamlet's ground will remainin King's ownership, and the improvementhave given the DHFC a new lease of life.

The College is particularly pleased that theConstruction Manager for Mowlem' , thedevelopers of the site, was a graduate ofKing's.

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Siberian Summer

Pygmy Shrew

Dr Sara Churchfield ofBiosphere Sciences hasreceived wide publicity for her work withsmall mammals. Comment asked her todesmbe her field-trip to Siberia, whlch tookplace during last summer's attempted coup.

While other minds were concentrating on theextraordinary events unfurling in Moscowand t Petersburg last August, mine wasengrossed in the more immediate pr blem ofkeeping at bay the swarms of giantmosquitoes and biting blackflies as Iendea oured to collect data from my fieldite deep in the Taiga forest of central Siberia,

unaware of the political coup and itsrepercussions.

Supported by the Soviet Academy ofSciences and the Royal ociety, I was here atthe invitation of Russian zoologists to jointheir investigation of the dynamic of smallmammal populations in thi remotewildernes area, 3500 km from Mo cow. Myparticular interest was the remarkablediversity of hrew specie in this region, andthe ways in which these small, insectivorousmammals co-exist in the fore t. Amongstthem is one of the world's smallest mammals,the tiny Sorex minutissimus resembling a

large bumble bee in size and weighing a mere1.8g.

Our field station wa a mall iberian hamlet

on the banks of the huge Yenesei River. Oncea self-contained community of fisherman andhunters it was de erted, together with mostof the region's village, some 30 years ago aspart of the oviet resettlement programme. Itwas sub equently taken over by the Soviet

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eademy 0 ien e implementing anambitious pro ramme of environmentalresearch in the region. A there are no roadsor miles around a ce i by small, ancient

heli opters with skilled (but kami-kazimclined) pilo rom the li[tle town 0

Podkamennaya Tunguska ome 6 milesaway, or by boat along the river during thethree month hen it is i e-free. Itsremoteness has so far protected it fromcommercial exploitation, and it remains in apristine condition. Beyond the flood plain ofthe 2km-wide Yene ei River, the orest formsa den e reen blanket over the area,uninterrupted for 5 square miles,dissected only by rivers. Within it ismagnificence beyond compare with amixture of huge ilver birches, pines, firs andpruces. The forest floor is clothed in a

mantle of green mosses, lichens and horse-tails and bejewelled with a multitude ofspecies of fungi with bright red, orange,yellow and purple eaps, and cranberries andblueberrie .

These fruits of the forest formed a welcomeand necessary addition to our daily diet. Ourtaple was boiled buckwheat three times a

day which was enlivened with boiled fungi orfi h caught from the river, and occasionallyby tins of corned beef and auerkraut fromvarious sources. On party nights we had aspecial treat of small pancakes withcondensed milk and home-brewed vodkaflavoured with forest fruits or nuts. As the

Sara Churchfield

only foreign \'i itor there, I was treated toblack caviar resh from the hu e tur eonwhich were ocasionally cau he, a omewhatdubious pleasure as far as I was on emed,but not one to refuse and ri k 0 ense. Dailyablutions occurred outside with a bu ket 0

old water, or in the river if warm enou h.But washin was kept to a minimum in edisrobing made one immediate prey to theclouds of vora ious, biting in ects. Once aweek we had a glorious Russian sauna withboiling water teamin over a wood fire in asmall pine- cented hut.

ews of the coup did reach u the followingday as we casually tuned in to a variety ofcrackly Russian and English-speaking radiochannels, including the BBC World Service.The news that their new-found freedornswere being abruptly ended was greeted withashen faces by my Russian colleagues.Concern and helplessness increased as welearnt of demonstrations by the people andreprisals by the military, everyone fearing fortheir relatives at home in Moscow and StPetersburg. My immediate future seemedinsignificant in those moments, and I

mentally prepared my elf for a long stay iniberia, cursing my lack of thermal

underwear. But fears rapidly changed to joyand pride as demonstrations gained force,and suddenly it was all ended. The demise ofthe coup was celebrated in great force at ourfield station that night, with extra rations ofdried salt fish, pancakes and moonshinevodka as we set off our safety flares like hugefireworks, with multi-coloured sparksshowering the sky.

On my return to Moscow, a week after the

coup's end, 1 was taken on a pilgrimage to thenewly-designated historic sites where crowdshad mas ed, demonstrators fallen and tanks'

treads scarred roadways and lawns. On theKremlin, at a di crete distance from thecommunist flag, the old Russian czarist flagflew proudly. Lenin's tomb, once the Meccafor visiting Ru sians and foreigners alike, wasdeserted. The statue of the first director of

the KGB, and symbol of the communistregime, had been toppled leaving only itsmarble plinth on which the old Russian flaghad been erected and bunches of flowersthrown.

Dr Churchfield is running a course on smallmammals at Rogate later this month. See

page 13 for details.

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EVENTS .

SEMINARSElectronic and Electrical EngineerinDepartment Research eminarHeld on Thursday at 13. in Room llA,trand

4 JuneTransmission Elearon .~licroscoP'> ofElearonic MaterialsDr Anne taton-Bevan, Imperial College.

11 JuneGaAs Solar Cells for Space ApplicationsDr Trevor Cros , EEV Ltd

18 JuneGaAs based H eterojunaion BipolarTransistorsDr Peter Houston, heffield University.

For further information contactDr Ian Robenson, ext 2523.

Department of History andPhilosophy of Science SeminarsHeld on Thursdays at 2.15pm in Room lOC,Strand

14 MaySome Problems in the Philosophy ofProbabilityProfessor Howard Sobel, University ofToronto

21 MayA New Sort ofPseudo-ScienceDr Jerome R Ravetz, Research MethodsConsultancy

28 MayHume, Causation and the Theory ofIdeasDr Justin Broackes, Oriel College, xford

4 JuneRelativism is Absolutely FalseDr Jamie Whyte, Corpus Christi College,Cambridge

London Medieval Manuscripts SeminarHeld at 17.30 in the Palaeography Room,University Library, enate Hou e.

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LECTURESDepartment of B zantine and .Y1odernGreek tudie Public LectureThur day 21 May, 17.3Time Place and \Var In 'ovels by ;\./}n- zllS

and BeratisGeorgia Farinou- lalamatari, Univer iry ofThe aJoniki '

Committee Room, trand

Department of PalaeographyThur day 4 June, 17.3The makings of the eapolitan humanisticmanuscriptProfe sor AC de la Mare, King' CollegeLondonContact the Palaeography Department formore information, ext 3539

Annual Public Lecture in PalaeographyThursday 11 June, 17.30Cistercian manuscripts in England: thelibrary of Eberbach and the manuscriptholdings in London and OxfordDr igel Palmer, Reader in German, OxfordUniversityRoom 2B08, Strand

Centre for Philosophical StudiesIssues in Medical EthicsThe last in the present series of lecture heldin conjunction with the Cemre for MedicalLaw and Ethics

Thursday 28 May, 15.30 - 17.30Coucil RoomRights and the allocation ofscarce medicalresourcesDr James Griffin, Keble College Oxford

Centre for Philosophical tudiesVisitors'ProgrammeThursday 4 June, 17. 0, Room 1 COn the nature oflogical formProfessor Stephen eale, University ofCalifornia, BerkeJey

Inaugural Lecture

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Pro c or Davld Papineauew Theatre, trand

Thur day 2 May, 17.3The Jlediterranean EnvIronmental

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COLLOQUIAInstitute of Advanced Musical tudiesHeld on Wedne day at 17. in Room G

20 MayThe motets ofPhilippe de Vitry and thefourteenth-cemu.ry 'RenaIssance'Andrew Wathey, Royal Holloway andBedford ew ollege

27 MayBerg todayAmhony Pople, Lancaster University

10 JuneH andel's Cantatas: separating faa from

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CONFERENCEOne-Day Conference in tatisticalMechanics - tatmech-8

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King's and the General Election

Althou h you ha\ e probably had your ill of

he ele tion and i sub equen di eetion and

analy i , we thou ht it mi ht be u eful to

write a round-up pieee abou the resul 09 pril and how they af ect Kin's.

Department of Education andclence

The new line up at the DE i as follows:

The hadow Education e retary i Jack

rrav. and ndrew mlth I pokesman on

maner 0 hi her edu anon.

Edu ation and len e are hordy' to beeparated: the DE will become the

Department or Edu arion; and ience v.;1I

come under 'X'illiam Walde ra\'e (Chancellor

o the Du hr of Lan aster).

Edward Rowland (Lab,. IP for. lenhr

Tyd 11 and Rhy mney

An cia Rumbold Con" previou Iy. lini ter

t tate at the Home 0 ice and now deputy

party hairman; ~IP or. litcham and.10rden

Gary treeter (Con), lP for Plymouth

utton

Michacl Dutt, a former student, who stood

for the Conservatives in Leicester outh,

which Labour held

Bill Rammell, General Manager of StudentService, who stOod as the Labour candidate

for Harlow and only narrowly lost the seat

to Jerry Hayes (Con)

igel Bedrock (Green), a former student,who was a candidate in the outh We t

urrey constituency

ir Patrick 1ayhe\, Secretary of tate for

orthern Ireland, husband of Lady JeanMayhew who is a 1ember of College

Council.

The Hon ue Baring, a Member of ollege

Coun il, who stood as the Liberal Democrat

candidate in Hampshire East

David Ripley (Green), a former Phy ics

tudent, who was onc of the candidate m

Devize

Candidates'with CollegeConnectionsThere were a number of candidate with link

with Kmg' who stOod for ele tion but were

un ucce ful. They were:

Chris Shirley (Lib Dem), a former

mechanical engineering student, who stood

against Dudley Fishburn for the Ken ingtOn

seat.

If you know of anybody else, not mentioned

here, who ha connection with King' and

stood for election, succe sfully or not, please

let the Press and Publications Office know,

ext 3202.

trand (City and Westmmster South)Peter Brooke (Con) held his eat with a

majority of 12,969. He enjoy a close

relationship with the College and, in

recognition of this, was made one of the

ollege' fir t Pre entation Fellows in 1989

Michael Clark (Con), MP for Rochford

Cornwall House (Vauxhall)Kate Hoey (Lab) kept her seat with a

majority of 1 ,488.

Ken ington (Kensmgton)Dudley Fishburn (Con) also held on to hisseat with a majority of 3,548

College Con tituencieIt i alway u eful to know who our 'local'

IPs are so we ha\'e li ted them below with

their constituencie in brackets:

Chel ea (Chelsea)icholas Scott (Con) also retained his seat

with a majority of 12,789 and i the new

ocial Security Minister

King's College chool of Medicine and

Dentistry (Dulwich)TessaJowell (Lab) took this eat with a

majority of 2,056 from Gerry Bowden (Con)

Alex Carlile (Lib Dem), P for Montgomery

MPs with College connectionsThere are a number of MP who are King'salumni. They include:

John MacGregor (Con) now the Transport

ecretary and a past ecretary of State for

Education and cience; MP for orfolkouth

ecretar of tate: John Panen

Mini ter of tate: Barones Blat h

Paruamentary Under- ecretary of tate:

igel Forman (with re pon ibiliry for highereducation)

Paliamentary Under- ecretaryof tate:

Eric Forth

John Patten, MP for Oxford We t and

Abingdon ince 1979, was originally destined

to pur ue an academic career, lecturing atxford Univer ity for ten years, before

changing tack to politic and the

Con ervative Party. He has enjoyed a

peedy rise in politics with pell at the

Home ffice, the Department of the

Environment, as Hou ing Minisrer, and atthe orthern Ireland Office. Before the

election he was Minister of tate at the Home

Office, a po t he had held since 1987.

According to the pres , he is regarded a a

clever politician, with complete mastery of

his brief, able to answer que tions from thedispatch box without notes. He has also

been credited with coining the phrase 'lager

louts'!

igel Forman i also academically minded:

he went to Oxford, Harvard, and u ex

Univer itie and has had pell on the elect

Committee on cience and Technology and

as ecretary of the Conservative backbench

education committee. It is aid he hold

more degree and diplomas than mo t vice­chancellor, let alone Tory MPs. He entered

the House of Commons in 1976 as the re ult

of a by-election for the con tituencyof

arshalton and WallingtOn. In his early

career he served a a Parliamentary Private

ecretary, first to ir Ian Gilmour and then

Dougla Hurd, and was PPS to igel

Law on, Chancellor of the Exchequer from1987 to 1989.

John Marek (Lab), MP for Wrexham Melanic Gardner

Pres and Publications Office

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in conjunction with

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announce their one day convention on Thursday 28 May,1992 entitled

"The Middle East TowardsThe Year 2000"

Our list of speakers includes: Dr. George Abed, DirectorGeneral of The Welfare Foundation; Mr. Mohammed Sid­Ahmed of AI-Ahram; The Right Hon. David Gore-Booth,Assistant Undersecretary (Middle East); Ms. Nadia Hijab,Regional Projects Officer UN, Mr. Youssef Ibrahim, New YorkTimes correspondent; Dr. Rana Kabbani, author of Europe'sMyths of Orient; Senator George McGovern; CongressmanPeter McCloskey, Dr. Roger Owen, Director of the Middle EastCentre at Oxford; Mr. Patrick Seale, author of Asad: TheStruQQle For The Middle East; Dr. Reza Sheikholeslami,Professor of Persian Studies, Oxford; Dr. Avi Shlaim, AlistairBuchan Reader of International Relations, Oxford; and Mr.Ghassan Tueni, former Lebanese Permanent Representativeto the UN.Student tickets are priced at £5 without lunch and £10 withlunch. Professor's tickets are priced at £20 with lunch.For further information call 0865-249115 or write to 11

Woodstock Court, Osberton Road, Oxford OX27NU

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British Academy K CWong Fellowship

Or Jirao Hao, a le rurer in Ancient GreeHJ tory at the. 'onheast 'ormal Uni efSl~

at Chan chun in China, i ana h d to theClas i Depanmen for 1992 as a holder of aBritish A ademy K C Won Fellow hIp. hei worlUn on a comparative rudy of thepeasant econom} 0 classical Athen andZhou dynasty China.

A previous pupil of her, Dr Yan Huang,completed hi PhD in this Department in1991, and is now a lecrurer in AncientHi tory at Fudan Universi~' in hanghai.

With the help of A i tant PrincipalAbraham Lue, the Classics Department aimto develop the e links and to support therenais an e of the srudy in China of ancientGreek and Roman civilization.

Profe or G B WaywellHead of Department of Classics

Windows revamped

Chnstzne ]amleson shows the Pnnapalthe nl!'",,-' dIsplay

Colleagues working at or vi iting the Strandwill have probably een the new displayboard that have been commi sioned for theMusic Room windows.

• Scholarships for postgraduatestudy in commonwealthcountries

Commonwelath Scholarships are offeredannually for srudy at Master's or Doctorallevel, providing rerum fares, fees andmaintenance and other allowances, in thefollowing Commonwealth countrie :Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India,Jamaica, ew Zealand, igeria, ierra Leone,

ri Lanka and Trinidad.

Candidates must normally be under 35 yearsof age and United Kingdom citizens (or otherCommonwealth citizens and Britishprotected persons) and permanently residentin the UK. As a minimum qualification, they

should hold, or expect to hold, a first orupper second class honours degree. Clo ingdate for applications is 30 October 1992. Forfuther information please conract: The JointSecretary, Commonwealth Scholar hipCommi sion (Overseas Awards) (PO),Association of Commonwealth Universities,

36 Gordon Square, London WCIH OPF.

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The boards have been designed to take fulladvantage of the windows' prime position,

and are ideal for grabbing the public'sattention. The design has a built-in flexibilitywhich allow material to be displayed in 3Dand at a variety of size. Another attractivefearure of the system is its versatility. Whenthe window are not displaying publicitymaterial specific to a certain event, they canbe used to display general information aboutKing'S. A series of even boards highlightsdiHerent aspects of the College, and serve asa reminder of our pre ence in the trand.

ince their commission the boards havealready been used successfully to adverti econferences, course ,and the recent Open

Day.

If you would iike to make u e of thewindow to adverti e an event, or book

launch for example, please contact Iona Leeor Christine ]amieson in the Press andPublications Office, exts 307113 74. We will

be pleased to advise you on a suirable formatfor your display and can help commi sion atailor-made de ign for your event.

Please contact us in good time as thewindows tend to get booked up quite far inadvance and display material takes time to

prepare.

Comment is the College' regular taffnew letter, is ued by the Pres andPublication Office (ext 32 2) three time

a term, with pecial editions if required.Contribution are welcomed from anymember of raff of the College. The emay take the form of, for example, newsof events or people, view on Collegematter, photos, items for ale. Pleasenote, the Editor reserves the right toamend items as necessary. If po sible,

plea e send your piece on an AppleMacintosh 3.5" Micro Floppydi k, using

Microsoft Word programme.Contributions for the next edition ofComment which will be the la t edition

this term should be received by mid-dayon Friday 5 June.