King's College London (KQC) newsletter

KING'S SECURES CORWALL HOUSEThe new term opened on a po itive note with the new that the Department of theEnvironment had given approval to the College's imaginative plan to acquire the lea eof Cornwall Hou e.

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

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

Sin e early March King' ha been urgentlyfinali ing plans \\ ilh a private backer andtalking with the relevant governmentministers. A meeting with Kenneth Bakeron March 20 imlJcated that there was ig­nifk:ant interest in the scheme and a fullersuhmis ion was requested. subsequentmeeting with Mr Christopher Chope.Under Secretary of State at the Depart­ment of the E:nvironment, on March 25,also Indicated potential support for theapproach. Thi, support was confirmed ina letter of April 8 from Chri topher Chopein which he aid:

"I was very interested to hear of yourimaginative new proposals for acqUiringCornwall House without recourse topublic funds .... 1 was ready to accept thisas constitutJllg an offer made within the

end-March deadline I had set but I wantedto discu s your propo al with, icholasRidley before taking the matter further.I am now glad to tell you tlwt he entirelyhare my view that we should proceed

with negotiation for a sale on the lines youhave proposed."

Thc way IS now open for King's 10 acquirethe Cornwall House Lease. This can heachieved by a unique and unprecedentedalliance With private commercial backers.To reach this POJllt has taken long, detailedand patient negotiation and stdl mlll:h workneeds to be done in conjunction with boththe University and the UGC to ensure thefinal realisation of the plans.

Further detail of developmenls will hereleased as soon as they are available.

The Centre i. e pecially aimed at languagetraining for student in scient ific, technol­ogical and indu trial fields, who WIsh toacquire a knowledge of any language intheIr own speciahsed field. I1 also offerEnglish as a foreign Language to foreigntudenls who wish to study in their ownpeclalised area in reat Britain.

The Language and Communication Centrewill offer a variety of other services, to

niversity of London ~Iudenls and otherswho become members of the enlre:these \ervices include self-tutoring compu­ter facilities, an audio-visual library cater­ing for differnt language levels, a Confer­ence/ eminar area, and short IntenSIveL'ourses to various specifications as andwhen reqUired, nOI only for language lear­ning but for a whole range of communic­ative skills in a foreign language (intervie­wing, writing reports, delivering speeches!Conlert.'ncl's el c.).

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

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

A service 01 thanksgl\ ing IS to bl' hl'ld 101'

the life ot Professor Peter Baker. SeD.foRS. Halllburlon Professor ul Physiologyand Fellow 01 King's College London.The servicl' will take place at 5.30pl11 onThursda}' 14 May, I ~ 7. in the Chapel.King's College, Strand campus.

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The Land e Re earch nit, attached tothe Geography Department, originatedfrom the econd Land tili ation Surveof Britain, launched in 1960 by lice

oleman. With the help of 3000 volunt­eel', mo tly geography graduate, thewhole country wa surveyed on thou andsof large- cale map, and new methodwere developed for interpreting the 250types of land use they portrayed. Manyplanning failures were revealed, and thesub equent ta k of the Research nit hasbeen a deeper study of each problem use,ranging from dereliction to land potentialfor forestry.

The present focus of study is problem hou­sing. In a five-year project, funded byThe Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust,large cale maps were again u ed to urv yall the housing in an area of 50 sq. km,which proved to include over 4000 blocksof flats. Fifteen types of ocial breakdownhave been u. ed as test mea ure and theseare found to be sy tematically WoI' e asthe design of the blocks include progressi­vely more of 16 design feature now iden­tified as deleterious. They include over­head walkways linking block to block,which prove to be the strongest factor inthe spread of crime, and the. haring of thesame grounds by different block, whichis termed 'confused space' and is the mostpowerful factor in maximising the volumeof crime. If the ize of the block exceedthe number of people who can know eachother by sight, there i a state of anonym­ity, which encourages criminal. to feelafely unidentified, while a lack of indivi­

dual front gardens along a street deprivestoddlers of a critical opportunity to learnrespect for other people' property, sothat they tend to grow up more vandalis­tic.

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

For example, the removal of overheadwalkways halved the crime raIl' in one es­tate and reduced burglary hy 5S% in ano-ther. The. e feat ures were oft en demandedas e ape routes by the Fire ervice, butthL'y ,eem 10 increase the incidence offires as well as crime. One estate where72 blocks are linked together by 'streetsin thl' sky' has onc fire pCI' five dwellingsreI' annum, as well a~ needing frequentlift-rescue services, while a well de ignedestate in till' ~ame borough has had onlyone fire pCI' 720 dwellings. Arson appearsto be part of the pi.lllern of ocial break­dllwn caused hy mi.guided deSign.

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Splitting up a block into malleI' elf-cont­ained section ha proved to reduce anti­social behaviour and vandal damage 0

much that the co t of management i grea­tly reduced. dding front and ba k gard­ens to ground-floor flats ha had a profou­ndly sociali ing effect upon children - andwe have to remem bel' that the average ageof the British crim inal i 14.7 years.

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

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

TELLECTUAL

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

This includes inventions for work srons­ored b Research 'ourlcils as the ResearchCouncil. hi.lve au thorised King's Collegeto undertake the exrloitation of inven­tions arising from research funded by theAFRC, the E RC, the MRC, the NERCand the SERC. Indeed, the College ischarged by the Research ouneil to en-. ure that academic taff review their workfrequently so that all palentahle idea areexplored. Formerly, Invention of this

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

[I', in the cour e of your work, you makean invention or other original work whi hmay be ommercially exploitable youhould report it to the College via the A ­

si tant ollege Secretary, Judy Staight,who will dJ cus with you how tep maybe taken to protect and exploit the inven­tion.

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

The net income from a patent or licencingagreement is apportioned between theInventor and the College, a follows;

Inven tor() ollege________ f ~ ~

First 4,000 100 0ext 12,500 75 25ext 20,000 60 40ext ) 00,000 50 50ext 200,000 40 60

In excesof 336,500 33 1/3 662/3

Further details can be obtained from yourcontract of employment.

There are a number of aspects which mustbe considered before a patent applicationis made. When you notify Judy Staightthat you have a patentable idea she willsend you some brief questions concerningthe novelty of your invention, the size ofthe market and possible existing products,and the names of any companies you knowwho may be interested in marketing theproduct.

Taking out a patent is a costly activity.Whcre practicable, the College would ex­pect uch funding to come from outsidesou rces, e.g. BTG or Research Corporation.However, there may be occasions whenthe College would be willing to financepatent applications if alternative meansare not available.

In order to take informed decisions on pa­tenting, the College has set up a PatentCommittee to consider all inventions andideas and determine which are suitable forpatenting. The hairman of the PatentCommittee is Mr K Groves (Director, KCLEnterprises), the members arc ProfessorD Robin on, Biochemistry, Dr R K Dixon,Civil Engineering, Dr B E Cau ton, Cons­ervative Dentistry Department of the Med­ical School. (If you feel the membershipof the Committee creates problems forthe confidentiality of your invention youshould di cuss this with Mr Groves.)

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

Bryan Turner

re and wc would welcome an} contactIn thl- arca.

ThiS type 01 positive reaction. togetherWith the fact that his thoughts were madeso widely available in the college newslet­ter, has heen of psychologIcal valut:: toMark. He has plenty of time to t.:ontemp­late his situation and to thlllk about whatmight have been. Unless he can get accesto peoplc's attention it i quite po siblethat he would become demoralised. I bel­ieve thi t.:omc out trongly in hi Ictterto hImself.

ILEY FOOT OTEM

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

We would IJ e to thank all 01 .ou \\. horoo pan, manJged to remember hen:. ou had hIdden rhe "trap" and returnedI h m ro u . Tho e pl"ople that alll thc}\\1 hec.J to no\\. \\ hJ y, a m theIr" r.Jp ..ha\e been told bur an} onc l"I e \\ I hmg toImd ut an\. ntadDrBr}anTurnaorHannah buc.Je-Ro'\by m the Dcpartml'ntof Biology. Ken mgton CampU ext. _lJ21.Thb uney \\.3 the ubject 01 a pre enla­tlon 101' the 11) ~ Bnti~h Crop ProtectIon(oun.. " ympo lum on Stored ProductPe t ontrol held at Readmg nlver nyat the end 01 ~arch

The questionnaire also asked about peo­plc'. shopping habits and although therewa~ no Ignlficant correlation of mcidenceof hooklJce with Irequency 01 renewal 01dry loods, n was lI1teresting to see howlong stores of certam loods were kept. thea erage ratt:: of replacmg flour and rice be­ing 11.51 and <).43 weeks respet.:llvcly.Bookli<.:e were not lound to bt' a~sociatedwith any ~pel:lfle retad outlet or brand otflour.

Wc were also interested to find out howpeople wou Id respond to find ing book lit.:ein their food. 20% said they would throwthe food away and do nothing else. Con­sidering those who said they would secksome compensation then, assumIng thatall l:omplamts to shops were pa. cd on,the product manufacturer would be un­likely to become aware of more than 50%01 infe tations. l:.nvironmental HealthOffit.:es would only hear of about 3% ofinfestations.

parently empty "trap -, \\cre incubatedlor one month and then rc-e.\amllled 101'1Il C ts. There wa . no ~ignill'ant bia rothe 1Il Iden 'C ot booklJ e wirh an} partie­ul.lr regIOn or the o.;ountf}, nor ~ nh hou e­hold m Itle a oppo ed to rural area.Bc Ide boo hee. the trap were al 0 aura-

t \ e to c\eral other t] pe 01 arthropod,partll:ularly mite, and moth and heetklan ae. Howc\ er therc a no corn:latlonbet een the pre enee 01 one in. ect Withothcr.

In general the une} produo.;ed notati tl­cally Igllllicant relatlon 'hip between Iheprcence of booklicc and other lactor .For e ample the questlonnalrt:: data ho\\.­ed no correlation between the inCIdenceof booklice and any envIronmental chara­ctentic. of the hou ehold su -h as theprc ence, ab ence or com blnatlon 01 con­den ation problem~. central heatll1g ordou ble glaLmg. I or was there any corn~l­

alion between the way 111 whIch dry load.were stored (clther in their ongmal pa\..k­agmg or in other container) or where Iheywt::re kept (111 cupboards or cold larder~)

anll the presence of booklll:e in the "traps"

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

THE SURVEY OF BOOK LICE IDOMESTIC KITCHE S

DEP RTME T OF BIOLOGY

11 the Committee de\..illes to patent. youwill he asked to diSCUSS the idea with aPatent Agent. Patent gents will be selec­ted by the COlllmlltee on the grounds 01their expertise In the ubject area of theinvention. The Patent Agent may thenmake searches to determine whether anysimilar idea has been patented or published.

There are everal routes open to the PatentCommittee. One poslbility IS to placethe Idea bel ore the BTG or lhe Re earchCorporation. Borh the e concerns wlllundertake patentmg and hcem.mg to com­panies m exchange for an apportionment01 royallles bet ween them dves and theCollege, The CommJltee may alternative­ly decIde to apply for a K, European oroverseas patent A soon as a patent app­lication IS filed then the Inventor IS a bit:to approat.:h companle wllh the Idea.The deci ion 10 apply tor a paten I in t.:oun­tries other than the K wlll depend uponthe market to be explored, IternatlvL'ly,the Patent Commlltee may deo.;lde that nopatent dppht.:allOn w1l1 be made, m whichca'e the Inventor is Iree to make an appli­cation hun/herself.

It 111 be the re pon Iblllr} 01 the In entortu approa.. h o.;ompanl \\ nh a \ le\\ to h ,­en mg hi her Imenrion. Ken Grme Ia a1lablt: to a I t m he pro edun:.,whlo.;h mu t be l:ardull~ negollaled parti­CUldrly where hu:m:mg royallle. arc Imol-eu, The con ern 01 the Patent Commit

tee 1 to provlue the In entor \\. ith protec­tion 101' the Idea 0 that it Lan be morealely UIS\..U cd \\.Ilh compame .

You may remember that last autumn wcasked members 01 College to take part Ina survey. s parI of a larger researt.:h pro-ject lundell by FRC on the blOlog}, pop­ulation dynamiC and pest stalUs of a smallinse\..t, called the booklouse (Uposcdlshostfl chophilus), we were Interested tofind out how \..ommon it wa in domestl\..kil\..hens. Wc senl a 'hooklou e kit'. l:on-Istlllg of five "traps" and a questionnaire,

10 everyone on the pa} roll of KJIlg' '01­lege and designated October 1<) 6 as"Booklouse Month"! dditlOnally a fur-thcr 200 kits were dlstributt::d to friendsand coni ads around Great Britain.

Of the 10lal of I 00 households asked 10take pilrt, a gratifying 30'/0 (541) re~pon­

ded hy returning their questionnaire and'·traps". Of these, 14.4% (7 ) t.:ontainedU{Joscdi.1 eggs, nymphs or adults. All ap-

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

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

The que tions posed by J IIlty e1son lastmonth were, "I the Mark Bailey ppealstIli open?" and "To whom may I send acontnhutlon?". The short answer to thefirst is cs. To the. el:ond I would reply

to Mark Bailey, 16 Mount Plea'ant, Dis1\orfolk. The due a to what to send wasoutlined III Jean Hunt's note when shementioned the alue of belonging to ourt.:ommunity and al. 0 his knowlllg that hisfriends and colleagues arc still concernedfor him.

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

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The relocatIon of the Per onnel Officewas completed on 31 t 1arch 19 7 andthe whole department J now sItuated Inthe 'orfolk Budding. If you WI h for anyhelp or advice, member of the depart­ment can be contacted a follow:

S2521 Mi s Marjone Young (PersonnelOfficer)334, orfolk Building

S2511 Mi s Helen Shield (DepartmentalSecretary)334, orfolk Building

S2765 Mr Geoffrey Cuthbert (A sistantPersonnel Officer - Academic andResearch Staff)215, orfolkBuiJding

S2765 Mrs Sue Campbell (Assistant)215, orfolk Building

S2765 Mrs Pam Bearman (SecretarialAssi tant)215, orfolk Building

S22 8 Mrs Lynne Hughes (Assistant Pcr­S2300 sonncl Officer - All non-teaching

Staff)331, orfolk Building

S22 Miss Karen Bayliss (As istantClerical and Academic RelatedStaff)331, orfolk Building

S2300 Mi. Christine Crewe (A sistantTechnical and Related Staff)333, orfolk Building

S 2362 Mrs Ann Phillip. (Assistant ­Manual and Ancillary Staff):n I, orfolk Building

S2288) Miss Clare Booker andS 2300) Miss Joannc J ackson (SecretarialS 236 2) Assistants)

333 , orfolk Building

particularly of the dasslcal and operatIcariety. I hould add that hi intere ts go

way beyond the preferences mentIOned.

Whether and how we should keep a fundopen for :vi ark and other needy cases is amatter for careful con ideration. I wouldhe happy to act a the collector for anIdea which ma}' emerge and al 0 to keepthe College informed through the e pageshould a feasible cheme be proposed. I

am also prepared to arrange a di cus Ionfor tho e who wish it.

Ken Bromfield

WHEATSTO E LABORATORYSALE

The Whealstone Laboratory at King' iprobably the oldest purpose-built physicslaboratory in Europe. The laboratory wanamed after Sir harle Wheatstone, whobequeathed about 1500 books and equip­ment worth, in I 75, about £1000 to theCollege. Wheatstone was the first Prof­essor of xperimental Philosophy(Experimental Physics) when he wasappointed in I 34. In the 41 year periodup until his death, Wheatstone wa invol­ved with many of the great developmentsin physic of the 19 century, particularlyin the field of electricity. He was knightedfor his work on the electric telegraph, andis considered by many to be the father ofIelecomm un ications (t ransmission ofmes ages over distances) and telemet ry(transmission of measurement over dist­ances). He is best remembered for hielectrical 'bridge', but in fact he did notinvent it!

In the century .mce Wheat tone's deaththe Phy ics department ha accumulateda large amount of teaching apparatu ,which has causedtorage problem.Increa cd by the arrIval of new equipmentfrom the other olleges following themerger. Old equipment ha. b en retrievedfrom it hiding place, under lecture thea­tre and in attic rooms. A great deal ofthis equipment was used for teaching inthe period between the two world warbut mo,t i of little u e In today' teach'­Ing laboratory, When as embled, thesurplu equipment covered I" en benchein the Physic laboratory! It wa decidedthat the item which were clo ely COllll­

ccted to Wheat. tone and his successors inthe Physic department should be retainedand a proper di, play made 0 Ihat theCollege's history could be seen by visitors..The new display is in 'C corridor, near thePrincipal' Office.

The remaining equipment was examinedby experts from the cience Museum theMuseum of the History of Science at Ox­ford and the Whipple Mu, cum at Cam­bridge, and the Phy ics department hatrllnsferred a few items to those 1l1USeUmsin order to complement their respectivecollections. The remaining items wereold on 5 March at Christie's, South Ken­

sington. The catalogue of the Sale con­tained a brief article on, anti a photographof, Wheat tone, together with ,ome oldphotographs of the Laboratorie whichconveyed vividly the atmosphere of the

ollege in the last century. It is hopedthat the money raised will gal towardsrefurbishing t he Physics Laboratories.

Professor Norman Clarke

EW PERSO EL OFFICE

The C!uction In progress

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LECTURES MEETINGS AND SEMINARS

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U rVERSITY OF LO DOGOLDSMITH'S COLLEGE

Monday 1 MayInaugural LectureTHI::. L WS 0 THE ROM A SMr M H Crawford, Professor of ncientHi~tory

Wednesday 20 MayLIO ISM THE 'R CIAL STAGE190 -)919David Vital, Hchrew Un ivcrsily of J erusale

U IVERSITY COLLEGE LO DOPUBLIC LECTURES

Thursday 7 Mayo BI::.I G TO G I::.-TII::.DSII' Randolph Quirk, Presidenl of theBritish cademy

SASpm, The George Wood Theatre,Gold mith' College

Friday IS May1'0\ RDS Ell IR OF LIFEProfesor P B Gahan, KCL

7.00pm, Food Science Lecture TheatreKensington campu .

Wedne day 20 MaySO IAL IMPLI 1'10 OF BIOLO IC-AL SCIE I.;

Profe sor Maunce Wilkins, I-RS, KCL'haired by Paul Black

Wedne day 13 MayRI::.LlGIO ED 1'10 '-OR THISGE ERATIOLinJa Smith, CI::.SChdired by Davld Hams

2,1 pm, Room I B06, trand campu

ednesday 3 JuneARE THER[ RI:. OLl1'10,' I..:1 THDIATI ')Ms Dunmore, Wolf on College, 0 ford

Wednesday 27 MayA COMMO, E E THL:.ORY OF MOT­10 : A TH ·ORETIC LAD EMPIRIC­AL APPROACH TO HILDREIDE S ABO l' DVI AMICSJoan Bliss, SChair d by John Head

CE TRE FOR EO C no L TUDlESSE I ARS

Wednesday 3 JuneRI: I: RCH A D DI.:VI:.LOPME T I 1

AD LT OC TION L I:.D C 1'10Dr W Bridge, ewham CommunilYCollegeChaireJ hy Tany Man, ell

Wednesday 6 MayLY IS 'D I TI::RPRETATIO 0

ALTER ATl CO C 1'1'10' 1PHYSICSGdlina Anikee a, University of LagosChaired by Tony Man ell

Thur day 7 MayA Pub)l\; LeclUre in the Departmenl 01Spanl.ho TH.\::. FIFTH CE TEDIS 0 ERY OF THE

MERI S TOPIACarlos Fuente, imon Bolivar Profes r,Univer ity of ambridgeS.30pm, Room 2C, Strand campu

Thursday 28 MayWar Sludle. Annual Lcclun:

LLI.\::.D D.\::.CEPTIO IN THL SI.;CO 'DWORLD WARProfessor Sir Michael How<Jrd, CBI::, MC,Rl'gius Profes~or of Modern History,Oxford University

Wedne day 13 MayHalf day meeting on the Regulation ofPhoto~ynlhetic Carbon Metabolism, beingheld by the Plant Sciences Special InterestGroupl~W T.\::.CH IQ .IS J THE PURS IT

OF OLD PROBLEMProfes,or D Walker, FR, ni er~ity ofSheffield2·5.30pm, lien Theatre, Ken ington cam­pus

P Bue L T RES

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

Wednesday 6 May1111::. MOLL:.ClLl· I I BIOLOGY. ClIl 1-ISTR Y D PH ICSDr R G Woolky, Trent PolyleLhmc

Wednesday 13 MayPHILO OPHY '\D RTIFICI LI TLLLlGL 0:Dr R Garigli,lno, UniVL'r~ily of DlIrhdm

4.30-6.30pm, Room 3.020, Hud onBuilding, Chel ea campu

KI G'S EPIC SEMI AR

Tuesday 26 \1ayfVPOLOGY OF I:. RLV I-RF CH

I::.PIC M ' CRIPTProfe~sor lan Short, Blrl..beck College

S.30pm, Room GOS, Strand campu

Wedne 'day 27 May1'HEJI:.WSOFE TI:R E ROPE191 -1939: S IMIL 1'10 ,ACT LT-

RI ATIO I, 1'10 ALlSMI:.I.I"<J Mendlesohn. Hebrew niversityofJ crusdlcm

Wedne day 3 June1 he WilJiam Townsend LectureTHI::. ,R D M I:RMrClemenl Greenherg

S.30pm

Wednesday 20 MayDO WI~ L:.I:D L:.W PAR DIGM I-ORI::.VOLUTlO R BIOLOGY?Dr M W Hu, The Open University

Wedne.day 27 MayTHE SOCIOLOGY OF A MILlTARVn-CH OLOGV: B LLlSTIC MISSILI:STI::LLA R-II LRTI L G lOA C I·Dr D Ma 'Ken/ie, Universil 01 EJinbllrgh

DEPARTME T OF MECHA ICALE GI EERI G RESEARCH SEMI AR

Wedne day 3 JuneC D liD S r RY : U I.; R'SEXPI::RIE Cl::.Dr L D Sl'nevlr;.ttne, KC

3.30-4.30pm, Room 2BO ,Strand campus

THE BRITISH AC DEMY

Wednesday 13 May'111e 1987 PhilusophicaJ Lecture

I DERST DI G LOGICALCO STA TS: A REA LIST'S ACCO I l'Prol'cssnr Christopher Peacocke, KCL

5.00pm. The British Academy

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Tue day 16 June 1987

E D OF SESSIO DI ER

THE ROY L SOCIETY ome of hiS happic t day, and he rcmall1­ed an at;tive researcher at Plymouth forthe rest of his lite. Hi mitial progre.s mre. ean.h was 0 rapId that he \Va. electedto a Rc. earch ellowship at Emmanuelm 1962. hI wa unu ually quick prefer­ment. He later became a 111 er Ity Dem­onstrator ( 1963), a ni er )ty Lecturer(1966) and a Tutor of Lmmanuel. v hllestill In Cambridge. he erved a an I:.dJlorof the Journal of Physiology, and a. Sec­retary and Chairman of the I:.ditorlalBoard.

Peter Baker came to King's as the Hallibur­ton Professor in Iln:, and sel ahout imp­roving l he research hase of the PhysiologyDepartment. By this time his own resear­ches had diversified widely and includedthe mechanisms of fertili/ation and exoc­yto.is. The laller became the main focusof his work at King's. Together with Der­ek Knight, he studied the details of themechanism by which granules of adrenal­lI1e, stored inside adrenal medullary cells,fuse with the cell membrane. The result­ing discharge of the granular contents (orexocytosis) to the exterior of the cell ser­ved as a model for the ecretion of thehormone adrenaline into the blood slream.This work was recogni/ed by the MedicalRl'search Council hy the award of a grantto set up a" ecretory Mechani m Group"at King's in 19 3. By lhi lime. however,Pl'ter had received many awards and hon­our., including a Zoological Society Medal(1975). elected FRS ()976) and the cDdegree ( 19 0).

DUring the Sixties, Peter Baker became in­terested in the cellular metaboli m of cal­cium ions, an area of Physiology 111 whichhe subsequently made many importantdiscoveries. Onc of these is "Sodium-Cal­cium exchange". Thi term deSCribes amechanism within cell membrane' whichbrings about the exchange of calcium ion,from II1slde the cell, With sodium ions,from outside. It is particularly Importantin the functioning of nerve cells and heartmuscle. He continued to work on it forthe remainder of hi life. and wa husyorganlsmg the first internatIOnal sympos­Ium on Sodium-ealeium exchange at thetime of his death. This sympo. ium willbe held in July.

Within King's, Peter Baker served twiceas Dean of the Faculty of Basic MedicalSciences(1977-79 and 193- 6).andonmany commiUe<'s. Hi most con. picuou.'ervice wa. to maslermind the College'sdcfel1l.e again. I Lord Flower' ( 1979) pro­posals to reorganise Medical I:.ducation.These would have involved the abandon­ment of preclinical medical teaching atKing's. He set about this with characteri-tic energy, organising the production of

p<lpers whic.:h demolished the argument.adv<lnced hy Flowers, pUll ing forwardcounter-proposals. and mailing them indi­vidually to all member of thl' Senate.These elJort. were highly un;esslul. andled to thl' defeat of thl' Flowers' plan.

c) Centre and Periphery.piu many other vaned u bJe(;( urtherdetail, includll1g registration form. maybe obtall1ed from:-Or David MorleyBAAFortre. House23 Savile RowLondon v 1 I B(Tel: 01 7346010 exl. 342)The clo ing date for regl. tration i 7 July.

STAFF NEWS

PETER FREDERICK BAKER

OBITUARIES

Peter Frederick Baker, Halliburton Prof­essor. and Head of the Department ofPhysiology since I ens, dIed uddenlyonMarch 10th. He wa. born at Lincoln in1939. where his father was Chief Librarianand Curator of the City Museum, and ed­ucated at Lincoln School. From there, hewon an open. cholarship in atural Scien­ces to Emmanuel College, Cambridge,where he graduated with a 1st in Biochem­istry in 1960. From the very start of hicareer. Pl'ler showed an 0 erwhelming en­thusia m for research. Whilst till an und­ergraduate, he published a paper on" ph,id Behaviour on Healthy and on Yellows­virus-infeded sugar heet" in lhe Annalsof Applied Biology. fter graduating. heentered the Phy iological Laboratory Cam­bridge, as a re. earch student under AlanHodgkin. 10 work on the relationship bet­ween ion transport and metabolism innerve fibres of the crab and the squid.

quid can only be studied at the Lahorat­ory of the Marine Biologilal . ociationin Plymouth. It wa. there that Pcterpl'nt

UAL MEETI GB.A.A.S. A

The traditional I:.nd of Se 'sion Dinnerwill this year be held on Tuesday 16 Junein the Main Refectory, Macadam Building,

trand campus at 7pm. herry will beserved from 6.30pm in the lower SeniorCommon Room (South West Block).

This is an opportunity for members oltheCollege and their guests to meet In pleas­ant surroundings and is also the occasionwhen we say goodbye to those membersof staff who are retiring and who will beinvited with their wives or husbands asgue t. of the College.

The cost of the Dinner i t 15.50 per per­son including sherry. wine and port.Those intending to be present at the Din­ner are a ked to complete the form on theback page and return it with a cheque madepayable to King's College London to M r PJ Gilbert, Assistant Secretary, Room 2B,Main Building, Strand campu not laterthan Monday I June. Since eating i limit­ed applications will be dealt with on afirst come, first served basi .

The British A sodation for the Advance­ment of Science i. holding its AnnualMeeting for 1987 at The Queen's I1Iver-ity of Belfast, from 24-2 August 1987.

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

Tue day 19 MayEvening Technology Lecture

PERT SY T MS: ARTIFI IALINTELLlGE CE CO rES OF GEMr B W Oakley

Thursday 2 and Friday 29 MayDiscussion Meet ingMITOCHO DRIAL BIOGE ESlProft: or C J Leaver. FRS andOr 0 M Lon dale

Thur day 21 and Friday 22 MayDi CU.SlOn Meeting1 RACERS I 1 HI:. OCEAProfessor H Charnock, FR ,ProfessorJ I:. Lovelock, FRS. Or P S Liss andOr M Whit field

Thur day 14 MayThe Croonlan LecturePROTO, '-MOTI E OSMOE 'lYMEMLCHA I M I YTO 'HROMl:.

Y TEMS: RIATIO 0 THI:.Ml:.BY KIll.Or P 0 Mltchell. FRS

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

Peter Bal< 1" eminence in hiubject ledto many demand on his time from out­Side the niversity. He wa frequentlyasked to lecture abroad, he co-authoredonc book ( alcium Movement in xcitable

elb. with Reuter, 1975), edited threeothcr (The Squid Axon, Recent Advanc­es in Physiology and a forthcoming vol­ume for thc Handbook of ExpcrimentalPharmacology), and was Chairman of aCIBA oundalion Sympo. ium on "Cal­cium and the ell"( 1985). He wa an Ed­itor of the Journal of Membrane Biology,the Quarterly Journal of ExperimentalPhy iology and Cell Calcium at the timeof his death, as well as being a member ofthe Committee of the Physiological oci­ety and the Bntish repr sentative on the

InternatIOnal Union of Physiological cie­nces. He was also a Member of the om­pany of Biologi t·, the Board of the Mar­ine Biological ociation, the MedicalResearch Council euro. ciences Board(latterly Chairman) and committees of theRoyal ociety. Mo.t recently. he had be­come a member of thc Agriculture andFood Research Council, a post which hegreatly cnJoyed, a at hcart he regardcdhimsclf more a biologist than a physiolo­gist. As if all this wa' not enough. he alsofound the time to be Chairman of hi par­ish council (Bourn, in Cambridgeshire),Chairman of the Board of Governors ofthe village school, and Chairman of thelocal planning committee. It was not allwork, however. His main pastime was

atural History. Pcter had an abiding in­terest in insects, which formed the subJcctof his early research, and found fruitionin photography, and in charting the prog­res ion of Dutch Elm di case in his locality.

Pel er had a friendly, ou tward-going pers­onal it y. and rarely, if ever. showed signsof ang(·r. He had tremendous l'nergy anddri e, typified by his incredible walkingpa<;e! More importantly, he had a wond­erful ability to cncourage research and en­thu iasm in others. There was nothing heliked more than discussing science withwhoe er wa willing to talk. However, hisgreate. t gift was in the production of ideas.He had an amazingly fertile mind, andthought not only about the fields in whichhe was working, but over an enormourange encom passing most of modern Biol­ogy. His rescarch tudenl. and membersof hi group were kept supplied with moreideas for experiments than they could pos­sihly lollow up. His generosity INentmucbwider, to include all the members of hisDeparlment, and many other ~cientists inBritain and around the world. His deathwill mean a sad loss for a very large COIll­

munity.

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

PROFESSOR DO ALD HOLROYDEHEY - A APPRECIATlO

Donald Holroyde Hey who died on 21 stJanuary at the age of 82 was appointedProfessor of Chemistry at King's Collcgein 194-, and he served the ollege withdistinction until his retirement in 1971.

t the time of his appointment the Dep­artment of Chemistry was everely dam­aged due to wartime bombs and rocketHowever Donald Hey worked with A J

IImand to refurbi h and re-equip thelaboratorie 0 that teaching and researchcould flourish and to enable the influx ofex- ervicemen to be successfully managed.In 1950 Hey succeeded Allmand a Dan­iell Professor and Head of Department,and under his guidance the Departmentgained an international reputation for re­search. Many of hi colleagues and stud­ents in the Department were to becomeprofessors; eight were to be elected Fell­ows of the Royal ocicty. Donald Heyserved a term as Dean of the Faculty of

atural Science and had lengthy periodsof membership 0 the Delegacy and Fin­ance Committee of the University of Lon­don King's College, and the ounciJ andr-inance Committee of King' College tak­ing an active interet in the theologicalactivities 01 King's. During 1962-6 he

erved as A si tant Principal. Donald Heyplaycd a promment part in Illver ity af­faIr and also erved on the Council andFinance CommJltee of Chel ea 'ollege,helping that College in it· tran ition to thestatu of a ehool of London niversity.

niquely he wa a Fellow of King's 01­lege, Imperial College. and hel ea Collegea well a of hi a/mer mater niver ity

ollege Swan ea, which al 0 conferred up­on him an honorary doctorate.

Donald H y was a scienti t of internatio­nal repute, who was the fir t to realisethat although many reactions in solutionof organic compounds involved ionic spe­cies, there wa another clas of reactionsinvolving neutral intermediates which hetermed free radicals. Although Hey willbe chiefly remembered scientifically as afounding father of Free Radical Chemist­ry, he al 0 made important contributionsto the synthesis of alkaloid, teroids, andaromatic compounds. He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1955.During the war Hey advised the Govern­ment on air raid precautions against che­micals, and in po.t war years he was ac­tive in Civil Defence.

Donald Hey had a genial and fair mindedpersonality, and he was regarded wit hgreat affection by all who knew him. Hewas a devout member of the Church of

England, and he was deputy organi tathis local church in Tadworth. His recrea­tional interest werc mu ic and gardening,and he alway . appreciated letter and vis­it from his former colleagues and stud­ents in whose careers he took a great int­erest. His wife Jessie to wholll he hadbeen marrieu for fifty-onc year, died in1982 and he found this very hard to bear.He is survived by their son and daughter.

With the death of Donald Hey, King's haslost a truc friend and staunch supporter.A memorial service held in the College'hapel on March 16th was a fitting tribute

to hi achievements and his devotion andservice to the College.

CHA GE OF AME

As from the start of the urn mer term on22nd April, Penny Whipps, DepartmentalSecretary for the Departmcnt of Anatomyand Human Biology, wishes to revert tothe use of her maiden name, Penny deMagry. She hope that this will not causetoo much confusion.

PAll PREMIUM

Mr John Loveles of the Civil I:.ngineeringDepartment has heen awarded the PalinPri/.e of the Institution of Water Engineersand Scientists for his paper entitled "Off­shore Break waters - Some ew DesignConsiderations".

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PPO T~E T CO RT DEP RTME TPPOI TME T

ROY L OCIETY RE E RCHRD

LECTURER W RDED PhD

LIBRARY NEWS

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Embankment LibraryFrench LibraryLaws LibraryMusic Library

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

The new approach, which will lIlvol ctate-of-I he-an method in both Optics

and electronics, seeks to provide the basl~

for a Viable new industrial measurementtechnology.

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

Mi s J BJi ,lecturer in the Cenlre forEducallonal Studies, has recently beenawarded a PhD of the niversity of Lon­don.

SA EMO EY: RETURN OR RE EWYOUR BOOKS 0 TlME

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

STR D CAMPUS:-29 pril I~ till' date when item~ borrowl'don tcrmly loan from thl' Strand CampusLibranes are due bilck. Fines will be char­ged on anything not returned or renewedby 5 ilY. nil'S an item has been reser­ved for another reader. it may bl' rl'newt'dby telephone. The number to ring IS 0 I~36 5454, and the switchboard i. mannedbelwl'en l)am and 6pm. .k for the app-ropriall' ex Icnsion:-

AME CORRECTlO

Wc would like to ;Ipologlse for an incor­recl entry in the telephone directory.Thc corn:ct ion applies to D I' A W Park insof the Department of Chemist ry, v. hoseinitials werl' unfortunately given as AM.Wc arc sorry for any inconvienience Ihimay havl' eau cc!.

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

The first meeting will be in Room 436.Strand Building, at I pm on Tuesday 5May and thercafter al the same time onTuesdays until the cnd of term. The mee­tings will last 50 minute starling with abre<ld and chee e nack and con I inu ingwith discus. ion on a tOPiC introduced bya different membl'r of the group eachweek. Thl topk do not havl' to bl" of areligiou kind: thl'y ma rclatl' to onl"swork. past experience or spedal areas ofintcre t. ugge tions will be gladly recei­ed and di cused at thl' fir. t meeting.

In a busy institution fev. opponunilleare provided for people to meet acrodepartmental boundaries in an informaland relaxed atmo phere. This lunchtimediscus. ion group, initiated by 'hri Moodythl' College Chaplain, and ather Alexan­der Fo.tiropoulos, Ihe Orthodox haplain,is an atlcmpt to provide onc such opport­unity.

LU CHTlME GROUP FORSTAFF

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

Peter J Griffith ,M . urrentl DeputyClerk of the Court. ""Ill be ome Cler' 01the Court. He v. III have overall re pon J­

bilit> for the work of the Court Depart­ment, and v. ill work 10 el> wllh the Unl­ver IlJi' Prin -ipal on federal, finant.:laland plannmg m lters.

Henry M Green. BA, FCC , IB, current­ly Finance Officer of the nited Medicaland Dental Schools of Guy' and St Tho­mas's Hospital, will become FinancialSecretary to the ourt and head of theFinance and Stati ·tic Divi ion of theCourt Department.

These appointment will lake effect fromI ugu t 19 7, on the n:tLrement of J SRoderll;k, MC. BA, the pre ent Clerk ofthe Court.

Dr Brian Boycott, of the MRC Cell Bio­phy ic nit at Drury Lane. ha~ rl.'centlybeen elected a~ a Fellow of the ml'rican

ociation for the dvancement 01 Sci­ence. His name wa pre ented to the Cou­ncil with the following citation:-"For research in functional anatomy ofthe brain and behavior of cephalopods,and for work on the structure, function,and quantification of the vertebrateretina. ,.

FELLOWSHIP OF A.A.A.S. FORDR. BRIA BOYCOTT

Edward Deele ha been appointed Prof­e or of -Iectrontc and Electrical r ngin­eering

Brian Bond' prole or hip wiU beentitled 'Proteor of Militar, HI tory'

Paul 0 'H iggin ha been appointed Prof­e or in the Faculty of Laws

ongratulations are al 0 extended to Prof­e sor John Pirt, Head of the Departmentof Microbiology, who has received anHonorary DSc from the University of Kental Canterbury.

lice Coleman ha heen appointed Prof­e or ot eography

King' ollege i plea cd to announ e thefollo""ing recent appointment "

D a id Hay ton ha been appOinted Prof­es or in the Faculty of Law

W RDS

Miss Cate Folland bas been appointedAs istant Accommodation O,ficer withresponsibility for the management of theShort-Life Scheme. Cate took up herpost on 23rd March and is ba cd al theKen ington Office.

EW ASSISTA T ACCOMMODA­TION OFFICER

Chri topher Peacocke' profe or'hip willbe entitled The Susan tebbing Chair ofPhilo ophy'

The ollege end congratulation toProfe or Gu tav Born of Pharmacology onhi two re ent award. He ha received anHonorary Degree of Doctor of clencefrom Brown niversity, SA, and fromI' lJniver ite Rene-De carte dl' Pari,France, the title of Docteur HonOriSCausa.

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CHELSEA CAMP S:-In respon e to public demand, for a trialperiod hel ea Campu Librarie will ac­cept renewal reque t by telephone, provi­ded that the item concerned are not. er­iously 0 erdue and ha e not been recalledfor another reader. From time to timereader will be asked to bring books intothe Library for checking. 11 reque t forrenewal, including those for item borro­wed from Coleridge and Pulton Place Lib­raries, will be handled through the Man­resa Road Library on 01-351248 exl.235 .

Old Librarytrand Building Library (for

Level 1-4)Strand Le el 5

2675

2132~_ 4

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

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

The Library

work is to be opened by the Chancellorand HRH Princess Anne on 2 MayatI I am and the opening ceremony Will bereplayed for local vie ing.

The udio isual Service nit only hasclerical taff available to take book ing.during the time of J ) am to 2.30pm.Plea e could anyone reque ling equipm­ent contact the unit just between the etime at the Strand ite.

We have di covered a batch of old butunused C55 audio cassette, which we areoffering for. ale at 20p each, at the Strandsite.

Audio Vi ual Service Unit

LIBRARY SECURITY

er of the Embankment Library will beaware of the trials carried out la t term toa . e s the suitability of a security systemfor that part of the Library. The sy t mpassed the te ts with flying colours, and

wa in tailed just before aster.

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

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

PHOTOCOPYING

KE SI GTO CAMPUS:-Following the closure of the Educational

id and Reprographic nit at the Ken­sington Campu., there is likely to be avery heavy demand on photocopiers inthe Queen Elizabeth Library. Plans are inhand to increase our photocopying capa­city. ers are reminded that their Fie i­'ards may be used with Library photo­copier at all three campuses.

PHOTOCOPY I G SURVEY:-During the week beginning 27 pnl. wc~hall be a~king members of the College 10

tdl us what they would like In the way ofpholocopier provision within the LIbrary.Quesllonnaire are available now from allLibrary i sue de ks. and hould be return­ed, either in person or in the intcrnalmailto any part of the Library by 5 May.

OPENING HOURS

COLERIDGE L1BRARY:-evening opening hours al the ColeridgeLibrary have been modified to provide abetter service for part-time students In

NEWS ROUND-UP

AUSTRALIACELEBRATIO

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

The Date: Friday MayThe Time: 6.30pmThe Place: The Hamilton RoomThe Price: £7

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

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

A,V. EWS

The udio \ isual nit has quite c\'Cn:staffing problelll~ a~ a re ult of the stafffree/c. t Kensinglon \\e have had vac­ani po h for over a year and now we havcno .,taff resident at fhi., sill'. Thl' tramlal.,o i> sufft'ring because there IS onc vac­Jnt post. and probk-ms of illne~s. For Ihetlllle being wc arc not abk- 10 gUManteeserviLe Irom any of Ihe A ud io \ !.Sual er­vicl' Units as thne WIll be redeploymentto COPI' wil h ellll'fgenl'ies.

Livl'nel is starting to get Sllme real u~e

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

K.Q.C, SlX-A-SIDE CRICKETDAY 1986

With the ice and snow, hopefully, behindus, and the daffodils blooming, thoughtsof the forthcoming cricket sea on beginto surface. The gentle sound of leatheron willow epitomises all the characteris­tics of a tranquil English summer's even­ing.

The six-a-side cri ket day is nothing likethis at all! 0, that's not quite true. Asa speclator sharing a picnic hamper withfriends in the corner of Petersham field,near Ham House, feeding the horse ...it is typical rural England. For the re t ofus. read on ...

Last year's compel it ion was the firstjoint onc, though it had been running atthe former Q.E.C. since the early 1970 J

when live Wilkinson organised the firstal the suggestion of a physic undergrad­uate. 54 teams entered last year from allthree campu es, and several teams comp­rised players from all three. My little pra­yer on awaking on iX-a-side day is alwaysfor sunshine - and if nOI, no rain. Well,the sun shone and Ihe matche played onthree pitches were under way by 10.30am.foull advantage wa~ taken of the lovely\CIting near the river, and the new hardand gra s tl'nnis courts receiwd maximumu.c.

Thl' allernoon \ a puncluated by severalinterruplions. though not for rain. Theilrrival 01 a red hdicopll'r hovering over

/lam Polo field nex t door prompted teveWhiting to announce on the PA sy~tem

Ihat all should go and \\e!l;ome Di andCharlcs. This left the 3 cricket gallle de­void of spect ators as . cores raced to thel'<'nce ... which prompted the chopper tohop over the trees into Ham Housegrounds. ubscquenlly, of course, wc up-staged Lord~ with not onc but fj e \lrea­kns in the final.

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

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c) Chair of UGM !>:JOI THA LLY

Results of the Students UnIOn eJecllonstor posts III It} 7 IS arc as lollows,-

a) Sabbatical po!>t:CommunicatIOns Sabbati\.al

LIS! AIR Tl:.G!:R-LI:.WISFmance & Admllllstration Sabbatll:allA SOr'FI:Strand Site SiJhballcal

ICK 1I0PKI SChelsea SIte SabbiJlicalPI::. Y(HALTOKensington Site SabbaticalTI'vl MACKU:Y

d) Other non- abbatieal posts:

b) Executive po t!>:l:.xternal flail'S Olll<.:erPAUL BOLTOI:.IC\.llOns Olll<.:erI j DAWSO[:ntertainmenh OfficerD RRL (11 MBERLAI:-"Welfare Of lice I'

HI:. THLR MAGRILLSite Representative, Chelseal:.LLEl\ H DLEYSite Repre 'cntative, SlrandTI'vl HAILI.S

CheJ!>ea ite CommitteeDiscoOfficcr DaveMc eiJneyPublicilY Ollicer Paul BoltonSub-LdJlor Christopher Burn­

hamSports 01 ricer Lynda King

G AID - "MOT FORS'

Baroness TrumpinglOn, Minister oJ StateJor Health, haplng her blood pressuredlecked bl' I rances Bunn.

COJllaCI Research I:nterprlscs at theKensington \.ampus (ext 474/394) forfurther details.

SECO D RESEARCH BULLETI

The I::sprit 11 ProgrammeGrant 101' (o-operatlon III 111l?herLdu\.ation 7/ 9"Buildlng 2000""BRAL HumiJn I-rontierChallenge"The I::I.:("s I'ourlh I.:.nvlronmental ActionProgrammeDTI Co-ordinator lor Advan\;ed SensorsGallium Arsenide InitiativeI ()!l7 Ivey (onlerenee

KCL Re earch Entcrpri e ha issued aSecond Bulletin covering the followingheadings:-

On Thur day 12 February eight 3rd yearnursing undergraduates spent the day Inthe Trocadero, PIccadilly Circus, dispen­sing indiVIdual health adVice to the public.

ursing lecturers Sandra Lask and MonaFordham plus Health I.:.ducatlon Research

urses Sheila Haverty and Sally KendallgiJve baLk-up support. Money was raist::dlor nursing and midwifery projects III Eri-treiJ. Burma and Honduras. ursing idIS organised by the ursing Times III con­Junclion with WiJr on Want. Save the Chil­dren's Fund and Oxlam.

SEL" 1986-1987

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

Y.C did manag~ to pia) th~ final m r~a on­able hght. Thl.... won by" JII} CanDJn<.:.: . oY.·· the} "er~" JII} an'tDan\..\..·· lh~ ) CJr belore BJtllng e.:ondJnd ha mg ··B.:nldorm Boy'" 3 runIn over. lhe) won Ilh an over to pare.mu h to th~ delight ot lh~ 3 la e and 3lad Irom Food SClen\..etall tcam- mu tbe mixed). Both Imah t were pre entedy.l\h KQC 1-3- Ide trophic and a bottle01 bu bbl). the mem ber. 01 the w mnmglearn ea\..h re<.:elv ing a mall hield .. all)Can Dan\..<.: • 0 .. al 0 put mon<.:) on lhem-elve~ when "Hone t Joc" opcned y.llhodd~ of 33-1 at 1Iam. 0 our eftorts torai e a bit of moncy for Bob Geldot y.erecuppen:d.

The latest isue of KI G'S CO LL,umber 36, has recently been pUbIJshld.

'opies of this Journal of the Faculty ofLaws, Kmg' ollege London, are availableat£3.9l)(or£I.9t} for taffand sludentsof the College} from the PoneI" Off Iceor lhe Laws Facully,

The evening tinl hed with a barbeque andJaLZ band in the marquee. together Witha dL <':0. Coache ~huttled between Ken­sington and the ground, the last leavmgthe ground around midnight. We dldn'lfind anyone asleep in lhe hedgerow nextmorning!

PERSO AL SECURITY

A repon and recommendations for IInpro­VlOg general .ecurity on the Strand (amp­us recently re\;eived from lhe local rimePrevention OftlLer, \;ontained a ~uggestlon

that female members of the College parti­cularly should consider carrying a "Shrill­alarm" for their per onal protection bothin and ou t of College.

Fred Armitage

It takes dO/en~ of people to make theseo<.:<.:asions a su<.:ce s from lhe corersand umplrcs to thc barmaid and chet .However, I y.ould particularly hke tothank tcve Whiting for look109 afler thenon-{.ri\..ketmg part. of us, and S tuartAnder. on, the ground man, for lcndingthe ground for ~u\.h an occa 'IOn, thereby

I makmg It so enJuyable. We hope to holdthiS year's evcnt on Thur day 1 June.See you there. otices giving arrange­ments for entering team will be postedon the 3 \;ampu es early in the term.

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

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VAT CHARGES FOR CATERINGSERVICES

This t:Onfcrence will be held at Ihe Barbi­t:an entre in London on 8-10 March 19-8, and is being organised in association

with World Health Organisation andEmap Madaran Exhibitions Ltd. The costof the Conference i £250, and a £50 dep­o it is required by July 15th 1987 to gua­rantee registration, al this price. Indudedin the fee arc a Cocktail Reception, admi ­sion to the Conferencc, all work ing papersand t:offecs.

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFER­ENCE, ORGANISED BY LONDOSCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICALMEDICINE

THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF AIDS

It is hopcd that the Conference will con­centrate on an in-depth analysis and eval­uation of the demographit:, economit:,psychological and educational aspet:t ofthe IDS problem, based on ihe resultsof current research. Further informationwill be upplied with a ccond announce­mt:nt, including in trut:tions for ubmis­ion. If you wish to present paper or

postn sessions. pica. e write indi 'atingSUb.ll't:t mattcr to:-'nnf. ZZ=map Maclaren Exhibitions LldPO Box 13Token House79- I High StreetCroydon CR 9 3S

A recently agreed between the CV P andCustoms and Excise,Catering Services sup­plied in outlets where the majority of us­er are OT students will be ubject toVAT.

M R Birch )Mr M A Kyne-Lill y) Ext. ~ 45Mrs E Wilkin )

Mr 0 McLeanM F TaylorMr J Thoma

The College Catering Department has anumber of outlets where the majority orall of our customers are staff and vi itors.It is regretted that the department cannotabsorb this extra cost, therefore price inthe outlet concerned have been increasedto covcr VAT at the standard rate.

The Students' nion now has its own ext­en ion on 36 5454:-

I) Mastering the AmslradPCW _56/ 5 I 2

~) Step by Step Guide 10

'LOCOSC R I PT'3) CP/M plus guide

Books:

FACTSHEET ~ 0 MEDICAL EOCATIO

OTE 0 ETH IC MATTERSI DEXES OF UNIVERSITY COSTSCVCP LEAFLET FOR MAT RESTUDE TSCODE OF PRACTICE 0 ACADEMICSTAFF TRAINING

CommenT has been asked to clarify thatthe library referred to in the CommentExTra of March ~5 is the Public LibraryBuilding, not the College Library.

An AMSTRAD PCW 256 i offereJ forsale, t:omplete with keyboard. printer,uscr's manual, working dist:s one and twoand some spare Jisc . The following addi­tional software and books arc al 0 includ­ed :-Software: I) Card Bo

2) Condor I3) CP/M pIu disc and guide

MANRESA ROAD

AMSTRAD FOR SALE

teaching constitute a multiple los to theCollege which ha now incurred the finan­cial burden of supporting the department­al laff on dimini hing resource from the

niver ity and without any re ource acc­ruing from the fees of overseas undergrad­uate IUdent. There i an additional bur­den in that Mathematic service teaching[Q the department will no longer takeplace: thu rendering additional academictaff without financial up port. Before

these change the Department was COSI

effective and therefore elf- upporting.

The future is uncertain but if the financ­ial burden is to e minimi ed existing civilengineering staff mu t continue to trainresearch students in areas where they haveestablished expertise. Plans are in handto introduce a MSt: course containing lawand management material.

The Information Office on the Strand hasreceived the following CP documentswhich are availahle for reference orcopying:-

The purcha. e prke for thl' total packagewould be approx. £.650. Tht: selling priceofrered for a qukk cash sale i £375.Plea e lelephoncOI ~ 6 904 (Bl'n).

CVCP INFORMATIO RECEIVED

S Da iesFrances Pearson

S enkatrangalan Daw onTim HaileJohn Water

A consequence of this, coupled with theollege' belief that the Univer.ity would

in future withhold the re our e normallyallocated to civil engineering at King' ifa merger was not formed at QM , wathat the ollege, through the recommen-dation of it Planning and Re ource om·mittee "to agree to dist:ontinue the admi-

ion of undergraduate students to inglehonour' ivil Engineering course ", madea propo al to the University whit:h wouldretain, ome civil engineering re ourt:esfor reallocation to the Fat:Ulty of Engin­eering. The University have at:t:epted thisproposal and are to divide the King' 'ivilengineering resourt:es equally bt:tweenK Land QM but without any arrange-ment for the transfer of staff.

Under the University and ollege ration­alisation of academic subject areas, King'sis to t:ease teaching undergraduate singlehonours t:ivil engineering courses. Thereis no merger with Queen Mary College ais widely b lieved. This come at a timewhen the Department wa preparing toembark on a new MEng undergraduatecourse in ivil Engineering Law & Manage­ment. This course had guaranteed supportfrom the legal profession and wa aimedat satisfying the current and growingneeds of the t:onstruction industry withregard to law and arbitration in particular.

However because of the relatively smallize of the King's Civil Engineering Dep­

artment, pressures were imposed towardsforming a merger between the civil engin­eering department of K Land QMC.The King's staff believed that for a mergerto be succes ful it would need 10 be onthe Strand ite where high standards couldbe maintained - in recent years King'sCivil Engineering Department has produc­ed a higher proportion of its graduateswit h first and upper econd class honoursdegrees and a greater number of trainedPhD graduates per member of staff, thanany other London College. A propo al tomerge on the King's site was thereforemade by the Department but this was notaccepted by the University.

CIVIL ENGINEERING: A Letter fromProfe or George England, King's Profe ­sor of Mechanics and Structure

trand Site CommitteeOverseas Student Offi erRag OfficerSecretary to ommitteeSports OfficerStudent Community

ction Officerub-Editor

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

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new course and InitIative. l:atermg forthe demand. 01 graduate~, bot h fromhome and abroad.

n mc.rcasmg number of cour e an~ taIl­ored d irel:tl} to the market. ome arede~lgned to meet the need. of over eastudents, such as:-

Tropical Crop forageProces. 109 and RegIOnal Planning forDeveloping ountnes

Some arc geared to specific oc.cupatlonslike:-

'hlld and dolescent Psyc.hlatryTransport Plannmg and ManagementMuseum and (,aller} dmlOl·tnJllon

Olhers relate to mdustry, suc.h as.­The \1.lnagement of Technologll;alChangeLnglnecnng ( onstrud Ion Project \1 an­agcmenl

Many course. suc.h as enginecnng andhusmess studies, 1Ot.ludL: proJccts wllh in­dustry dnd commerclall:ompanics.

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- lhe quahflcallon~aYoarded- the nature 01 gradu,lle ""or- lec ,gr;Jnt . and award- a de cnp Ion Of cach unlver it_ 10sll tu-tlon

The British L nn'ersll/l's' (juld< ll} GraduateStudy t thIrd edition) I pubh 'hed b} theA.,sol:lation of Commonwe:alth nJV.:flllefor the \Ommillee of \ Ic.e-(han dlorand Pnnc.lpals 01 the Lnlvcrsllle ot theLnlled Kingdom. and I' available from:-

The ociatlOn 01 Common""ealthLJniver ItlCSJohn Foster House36 Gordon Squan:London WC IH DPF

The ;\.atural I.:nvlronmL:nt ResL:an_h Coun­ul has announl:ed Ihat Il I'> prepared 10

.,upplL:menl re.,earc.h grant., 10 take account01 the natIOnally agr"ed pay :etllement.l'Ifet.tlvc from I Dcc.emhL:r 19 6 and I\1an:h 19 . RevisL:d award letlL:rs ""Ill beIssued by Ihe Cou 11\;11 as soon a., POSSI bk.

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