King's College London (KQC) newsletter

After five and a half years at King' ,the Dean will be moving to thi very major job in theChurch of ngland in the early summer.

The Revd. Richard Harrie , Dean of the College, has been nominated by the Queen forthe po t of Bi hop of Oxford.

GFORSE

Dr Raphael Caldera, former President ofVenezuela about to deliver the 1986 Com­memorati~n Oration. An edited version ofhis speech is reproduced inside.

At the ourt meeting on ovember 26.the m er ity gave tTOng backlOg to theCollege' plan for the lea e purchase anddevelopment of CornVvall Hou e. TheCourt received a detailed paper outhmngthree cO ted configuration for rationalis­ation: rationalisation of tho e departmentpre ently on split site: rationalisation ofrelated department, and rationali ation 01thc Vvhole ollege on the 'Thameslde Cam­pu' the Strand, Drury Lane and Corn-~ all Hou e. The third proposal i co tcdat a nct figure of £ IOM with recurrent "av­ings of £2.4M per year - the mo t financ­ially, a well as academically. attractive o~

the configurations. The detailed paper WIllnow be forwarded to the G with fullfederal endorsement of the ornwall Housepropo al.

TED BISHOP

Oxford is one of the largest dioce e in the country, encompas ing the counties of Oxford­shire Buckingham hire and Berkshire and Revd. Harries will preside over 2,222 squareacres', 823 churches and 455 stipendi;ry clergy. He will be aided in this task by threearea bishops, and so will act in part a Chairman of the Board for his dioce e.

DEA APPOIOFOXFORD

OF CVCP

Professor Sir Mark Richmond FRS, Vice­Chancellor of the University of Manchester,is to be the next Chairman of the Commi­ttee of Vice~hanceUorsand Principal.He will take over from the present Chair­man Mr Maurice Shock, Vice~hancellorof the University of Leicester, in July 1987

Sir Mark, 55, became a mem ber of theCommittee five years ago, when he took uphis appointment at Manche ter. Since thenhe has chaired a number of key CVCP com­mittees, such as those on exploitation ofinventions and performance indicators. Hehas been as ociated particularly with the

efficiency of univer ities and their relationwith industry, and wa a member of theJarratt Committee. He is currently chair­109 a group looking at financial managem­ent in universities.

Before becoming a Vice-Chancellor, Prof-e or Richmond was a re earch scientist.He was Head of the Department of Bacter­iology at the University of Bristol where heran a large research team. He becameFellow of the Royal Society in 19 O.

He has erved on the ouncil of the Scienceand Engineering Research Council, and onthe Board of the Pu bUc Health LaboratoryService. Professor Richmond was knightedin the last Queen's Birthday Honours List.

His wife, Shirley is a medical consultantin Virology. They have three children, onelson and two daughter, the youngest ofwhom i a university student. He listsamong hi leisure interests, hill-walking,gardening and going to the opera.

Commenting on his election to the CVCPChairmanship, Sir Mark said 'The Commit­tee of Vice~hancellorsand Principals isevolving fa t with Government daily inter­vening more in university affairs. And thatinevita bly affects the task of the Chairman.The two years following Septem ber 1987are likely to be pretty eventful for the uni­versities. If nothing else the period is likelyto embrace a General F.Jection.

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Work to support teacher in schools, withspecial meetings and courses, and by prod­ucing new materials, book , videos, video­discs, and computer-associated learningprogrammes.

Course to re-train teacher of other u b­ject , attract in qualified people from otheroccupation, enhance qualifications of tu­dent from other areas.

To put thi right we need at lea t 1.000more qualified teacher. But we al. 0 needto teach more science to more pupil: thi1. a polic.y et out in the D Policy Docu­ment Science 5-16 i ued in 19' -. gainthis ould require 500 to 1.000 more tea­chers. We are losing about Of of the tea­ching force each year, i.e. 600, and thisproportion is rising. The supply of newlyqualified phy ic teacher i about 300 to400 each year. The chool population will I

fall at about 4% to 5% each year until 1991- but then it tart to rise. It i very unli­kely that we can ever catch up with thehortage, and we actually need to in rea e

the number attracted into the hortageareas, i.e. to do much better than we areat the moment.

Work to help parents and the public to ap­preciate the needs and opportunitie .

The downward piral is: fewer teacherlead to poorer work in chools lead tofewer tudent lead to fewer graduateleads to even fewer teacher. Thi must bereversed. The 5 I exhibits at the RoyalInstitution howed how higher educationis trying to do this now, including:

Response

Problems

Work with teachers to attract pupils, byvisits of experts to schools and other specialevents in schools, or by bringing pupils intoadvanced laboratories to show the widerscope and interest of the subjects.

In the longer term improving access tohigher education by special 'secondchance and other introductory courses toyoung or mature people without theusual qualifications.

ew initiatives are a heavy burden wheninstitutions' overall budget are contract­ing. Courses which provide students are atangible activity which can claim resourcesBUT work in schools and elsewhere to att­ract or inspire these student to come canhave little to show in the hort term, is notdirectly related to research or teaching costindices, so does not get support. So wecould get more and more courses chasingfewer and fewer students. There is a needfor co-operation between LEAs, the DESand the various institutions who have there ources to help. But the structures andthe mean of funding often encourage com­petition rather than co-operation: thisneeds reviewing.

A parallel line of enquiry will examine therole of the cell' 'power-houses' the mito­chondria in this process. The gues is thatstructural changes in the mitochondria aff­ect the ease with which they are able togenerate the energy needed to dispo e ofaltered proteins.

CongratulatIon are due to all the above forhelping to en ure that the Academic Devel­opment Fund is off to an impressive startthat should stimulate others in future to gofor ADF 'acorn' funding and with it thechance for turdy new growth. Bids forawards from the 1987-88 Fund will beought early in J987.

Finally, a propo.al from Miss Joan Bli s(Centre for Educational Studie.) to e tab­!ish a teacher network in cience education1 re be supported from the ADF with anaward of £3 ,000. The Centre is itself con­tributing a like sum and additional re ourcewill be provided by Homerton College inCam bridge - the area in which much of thebasic re earch will be carried out. The tea­cher net work aim' to explore, at a funda­mental level, children' varying idea aboutcience, in particular, mechanic, and to

tran late the implication of the re earchfinding into improved teaching techniquesin science education.

HIGHER EDUCATIO WORKSFOR SCHOOLS

Fifty-one universities, polytechnics andcolleges came together o'n ovem ber 24to present to Government, local authorit­ies and employers ways in which the nat­ional shortage of math , phy ics and tech­nology teachers can be met. The meetingand related exhibition was held at the Roy­all nstitution and was chaired by ProfessorPaul Black, Head of the King's Centre forEducational Studies and President of theAssociation of Science Education. He out­lined the problems facing us as follows:-

Problem

The consultative document issued by theDES last July show how seriou the prob­lem is. For example in physics, for second­ary school teaching there are about 7,500posts. Of these, 150 are unfilled. Moreeriously, the proportion of physics tuition

now being given to pupils by teachers withno qualification in physics is about 18%.

The panel had more than twenty bid toexamine and grade. The aggregate of thesums reque ted by applicants ea ily reach­ed £250,000, giving the moderators noea y ta k in choosing just a hand ful of pro­jects to be the first recipients of ADF fund­ing.

Four inlportant new academic departureare singled out in the award announ edrecently by the Principal. The major award(£22,000) goes to Mr Dominic Rathbone inClas ics, to help set up a research groupwhich will investigate the hi tory of Graeco­-Roman Egypt through computer-assistedanalysis of papyrological documentationa cro s di ciplinary study that enjoy fullbacking from the Faculty of Arts andMusic and hould pioneer new understand­ing of a thousand years of Egyptian Hi tory(c330 BC - AD 640). The technological'pin-off in terms of developing expertisein the growth area of computing for thehumanities will also not be negligible.

£7,000 goes to Professor Alan Roger ofElectronic & Electrical Engineering astart-up finance to give a boost to investi­

gation into new uses of optical fibre formeasurement sensing, particularly of largestructures such as building, planes, andspace craft. Optical fibre measurement cancheck for safety in electrical supply sy ternsand provide detailed information about thebehaviour in tructures of vibrations orstrains which could be dangerous unle scarefully controlled at the design stage.

A joint project in Life Sciences, pu t toget­her by Dr Alan Hipkiss (Biochemistry) andDr Alan BittIes (Anatomy and Human Bio­logy) receive £6,000. Ageing is attractinga lot of attention at the moment: andKing's is already in the forefront of researchinto the social aspects of gerontology. TheHipki /BittJes initiative will look at mole­cular and cellular aspect of ageing and con­centrate first on recent evidence that alter­ed proteins accumulate in cells that are get­ting old because of a deterioration of themechanism which normally removes them.

In May/June bid were invited for the fIrstADF awards. Fa<.ultie were asked to makea preliminary election of applicationswhere the likely ou tlay wa in the region of£20,000 or above. Department or individ­ual were encouraged to apply directly formaller grants (below £ I0.000) , and ex ter­

nal moderator, including Dr Jack Edelmanof RHM Research Lld (a former memberof the staff of pre-merger Q EC and now onthe College Council) and the Principal.

Toward the end of la t e ion, the College earmarked £350 000 to form the capital withwhich to establi h an Academic Development Fund. The aim of the Fund i to timulatethe germination of ne idea within King' which hold promi e of academic growth anddevelopment, in it wide t en e. In principle any initiative which ha cope for aidingand abetting the academic development of the College can be con idered for an awardfrom the income accruing annually to the Fund (between £35,000 . £40 000).

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THE C DEMIC DEVELOPME T F

talion on the London nderground (that11 he tation are on the urrent London

It was hard 'or moving that ne\\ marble monument into the hurchyard. It wavery hea\'y! [ note: not. tarble Arch or .10nument )

The vi ar made the mi take of .... alklIlg under the painter' ladder.

It one was a very young royal prince going up to one' bed and wanting omething tocuddle, one might take .........

Perhaps thl i \\here the young ociety ladie might be found.

We made an unfortunate mi take leaving that plate of cold meat out on the table whenwe went on our ummer holidays.

People who are ill often feel better when they go there.

You borrowed it from me, so it mu t be.......

Perhap thi i where Mother Brown enjoyed herself. [ note: there are two pos ibleanswers for thi one: find both of them 1

9. Keep it in the dark!

10. The doting admire (perhap now middle-aged? sat at the feet of the inger in hirocking chair and aid ......... !..

11. The farmer tripped up while looking at his field of ripening cereal.

12. nght royal man \ ho erve' the drink. in this pub.

13. The archaeologi t looked at the new site and tarted to dig, and a new excavation hadcome into eXistence.

14. This mormng did not seem like a morning at all.

1-. When you wrote down Tue th Dec 19 6' a the date of the event, it wa not quitewhat you intended.

16. When making a lot of soup, the cook might be advised to let a bucket down thl hole!

17. The modern pop tar would no doubt have told the famous philopopher and mathem­atician that he dId not appreciate his pop mu ic.

I . The campanologist took his tape measure and got out of his car.

J9. The society lady, suitably dressed up for Royal Ascot, wa very annoyed when shesaw her friend's new creation was the same as her own.

20. The scout master exclaimed to his troup that the men had just finished putting upthe big tent.

21. The boy had torn a lot of pages out of the musical dictionary.

22. A small exclu ive convent.

23. Prince Charles painted his elder son' room to match the lawn.

24. There was a big battle in the road.

25. The physics teacher dropped his bottle of Ouorescein dye while crossing the river.

26. Where Prince Charles leaves hi car. [ two answers 127. Am ber nectar for roo ters.

28. The Pleiades.

29. After the children at the seaside had built their large sand castle with its moat, theyconnected it up to the stream to fill it with water.

30. The young lady had to make a choice: to share with her boyfriend or to buy a placeof her own to live.

3 I. These men have dark habits.

32. Frodo Baggins moved his finger to signal to the nt.

33. The tramp sat in the road drinking his tin of Coke; then he put it down.

34. It's one of those eastenders yet again!

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Each of he lue. i . our mind i

Tran pon ~fap.

A reminder to members of ollege thatLord Cameron's autobiography, IN THEMIDST OF THI GS, is now publi hed, byRodder and Stoughton, and available,price £ J 2.95, from Hatchard and mostbook hop.

Tea hers of mathemati ,phy i and te h­nolog} are not to blame. They are doinga fir 1J Job, there areJu I not enough 01

hem. We mu t re ogni e heir great 'alueand give them lar be ter pport Ilh te h­m ian help, equipment. book nd otherma erial . The} mu t be encouraged tobdic\'e in Iheir 0\\ n impOrt ne, and in(l it:ty" apprecia Ion of th ir \\ ork.

The ollege have engaged W.S. Atkin &Partners, on ulting Engineer, to carry outextended energy urvey encompa sing thewhole of the Strand complex.

It is anticipated that this work will take upto about three month. The W.S. Atkinsengineer directly involved are Mr DavidFoster and Mr Charles Payne. Where nec­es ary they will make themselves known tooccupiers of the various spaces, labs, andoffices prior to carrying out any surveywork within a particular area. It is not ant­icipated that any plant or machinery willneed to be interfered with.

Co-operation and assistance in furtheringthe survey will be much appreciated.

A nswers in the January edition.

Alan Fairboum, Department of Computing

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LATIN AMERICA, DEMOCRACY A D EUROPE

THE 19 6 CO E OR TIO ORATIO

Deli ered b

Or R PH EL CALDER

former Pre ident of Venezuela

on

Monday December 1st

(An Edited Text)

To a Venezuelan England is always an object of affection andadmiration. Simon Bolrvar, Francisco de Miranda and AndnfBello, the three most eminent figures in our history held in spec­ial esteem this ountry which I am honoured to visit.

Bolivar, in his famous speech of Ango tura on 15th FebruaryI 19, said 'Rome and Great Britain are the out tanding nationsto he num hered among the ancient and modern world. Bothwere born to rule and to be free. But both were founded, noton brilliant concepts of liberty but on olid foundations~ Fran­cisco de Miranda, General of the Armies of the French Revolu­tion, guest of Catherine II of Rus ia, permanent representativeamong the highest personalitie at the Court of St lames, hadhi residence in London, then 27 Grafton Street, today, 58 Graf­ton Way. It was not merely the home of his family but also akind of permanent school, awakening and teaching the consci­ence and concept of an independent Hispano America. AndresBello, philo opher poet,legi lator, lawyer, diplomat, lived inLondon for nineteen years. During this time he not only deep­ened hi knowledge of International law and philosophy, but hewrote the first great American poems which have been consider­ed as the manifesto of the literary independence of the SouthAmerican continent.

For us these links through Bolfvar, Miranda and Bello, remainpre-eminent. The invitation to King's College has been accept­ed by me as a double privilege which oblige me to state loyallymy ideas and preoccupation about the current structure of dem­ocracy in Latin America and what he aspires and needs fromEurope. If in the course of this commemorative lecture I touchon themes to which you may be su ceptible, I ask you before­hand to excuse me and try to under tand that it i my duty tofulfill to the hilt my respon ibility and to manife t with clearsincerity those out tanding a pects concerning the actual situa­tion of Latin America and what it implie for the Europeanworld from whom we have received the fundamental deposit ofour cultural values.

In 19 01 had the privilege to tate in a lecture which I deliveredat the Institute of Directors in London what I aw as the 'pros­pects for democracy in Latin America'. You may recall that atthat time the military were replacing by force many democrat­ic regime in numerous Latin American countrie which had hadin titutional traditions. I aid that this antidemocratic currentcould not la t. Allow me to recall ome of these thoughts whichI then stated: 'The balance at the end of each of these periodsof authoritarian rule could not have been more negative. Thethe is that the uppression of freedom is necessary for develop­ment has not been borne ou t by facts, since freedom and demo­cratic institutionality constitute the greatest inducement andmost powerful stimulus to the programmes of development.Thus stating my opinions a regard the pro pect for democra­cy in Latin America, I dare to give a clearly optimistic answer.This optimism does not spring from a facile conception of the

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political development of our countries: I know that democracyhas to overcome very strong enemie , has to find a way that re­jects both the oppressive violence of dominant clas e or ectors,and the revolutionary violence of radical groups, which wouldtake u to new form of autocracy and who e action i manife t­ed in the repudiable phenomenon of terrorism. 1 k now full wellthat the fight for the definite establi hment of democratic inst­itution in Latin America in general, is a trascendcntaJ ta k whicwhich annot be limited to the domain of politics, but ha to ex­tend to that of social ju tice in order to achieve an economic de-elopment capable of offering their people a life that i human

and a participation of the totality of man, in the economic andcultural process. 1 continued on the ame occasion: I ba e myoptimism on factors of great significance: in the first place, onthe already mentioned conscience of Latin America, secondlyon the historical truth that while regimes of force tend to takerefuge in quietistic situation to which a sense of self-pre ervat­ion impel them, open discu ion, ideological pluralism, the frankposing of problems, and even the vehemence with which so ialinju tices are presented and with which accomplishments gain­ed through meritorious effort are denied, constitute a perman­ent stimulus for programmes indispensible to development. Tothis must be added the patent failure of the regimes of forcethat have been incapable of solving the most elementary a pectsof the tran formation of their respective realities'.

Today we face a new onslaught: the return of democracy afterthe sad and traumatic failure experienced by the governmentsof force.

The proces of transition from autocracy to democracy i noteasy. The new democracies have to face grave situations, and itis necessary that this be understood by the We tern world asthey can mistakenly believe that with the devolution of powerto governments popularly elected, all is solved. In my speech of1980, to which I have already referred)1 gave this warning, not­withstanding that the democratic recuperation had not yet tak­en place: 'Of cour e, the uccess of a new democratic institut­ionality in Latin Ameri a is linked to the work that can be donefor the transformation of our economic and social conditionsinto a model of society that raises the quality of life and offersall hum ble human beings the possibility of a better life. Facingproblems such as marginality and finding solutions to others,such as housing, nutrition education and health, implies a con­siderable effort which needs the understanding, support andcollaboration of nations that have achieved greater economic de­velopment through industrialisation. Latin America need a highdegree of understanding and aid from countries such as those ofEurope, with which it has deep ties'.

Therefore, it i es ential to be aware that the success of democ­racy, re-implanted in those Latin American countries which hadfallen under the boot of tyrants and in those countries who 01­idly maintained democratic in titutions in the midst of those

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£7or e ..Huple, \ e have the probkm of the e 'ternal debt, I:or 'n­ell b~ the tault 0 tho e governm fit 0 LI htor ountCl LO\\.ar­Lis the cxeclltlv ' :lnLl director 01 IflanCI'l11ll lltutt n . ,lOxiouto inve t their urplu lund wJlhout reali ing that the~ wereemharldn!! on a L1angnou. venture fCllm WhICh I would be verydifficult to extrkate them elve Th evere weight of the debt(even though relativel mall. compare to the hudget anLl det­il:ils of the great power' j \ery great tor tho e debtor ..:ountne~

tll fulfil!. It hOllld he noted that to a great e tent the de t \\ain"rea elL> the lInJu tJlIeu and u unou rat 0 lntere t irnpo ­eu on the houlder f the Thtrld World \\ hi h "Quill not bearlIch hea\:> hurden .

I al1l among tho e \\ ha believe th It ""e uebtor countrie mu tpay and \ViII be able to pa~ m the future he commltmenh un­dertaken. b It t do thl , it IS es ntIal tor a complete n.'VI ion ofthe exi t1ng Sill Ilion. The resourc \\ hkh we could inve tinoruer to ..Iti ty ha e obligation must t:ome trom InternatIOnalt:omrnerce But every time that an Iso!alloni t polll':. i appliedhy the Inuu.tClah eu nauons anu their market are clo ed to ubecause of a prate ·tionist policy. the adllevement of our re­solve becomes l'v'er harder and tlte demand at he InternationalMonctar> 'lInd I!encrally guided by mon tarL t preo cupation .pla..:e our peapl' in ltudtions ever morl' tragic than that ""hichwe tat:e at prc'ent

I have put torwaru the need that tho e institution uch a theWorld Bank a slime the eXisting t:redits against our countries,granting exceptIonal conditions 'ut:h a' a long term payment anda low rate <If interest and that the World Bank negotiatl' with thl'the private credit r bank' the term \\[th which they can recup­erate their loan. The e would uppo ea. u bsidy, of cour e, onthe part of those rkh countries in ordl'r to ab orb the differenceand ri k ""hich the World Bank \~ould a ume. But the propor­tion which each one would undertake would evidenlly ha etabe relatively mall in proportion to their financial re our 'e andat the ame time obtaining with thi a ret:uperation of those bank-ing in tilution who are undergoing difficultle beLau'e of theuclay of payment by the debtor cOllntrie . The ex-Prune Min­iter of rrance Raymond Barre in a ret:ent visit ""hkh he madeto ene7uela aid that hi country a well a the r'ederal Repub­lic of Germany and Japan. \V ill incline toward such a propo albut in order to achieve thi . the nited KlIlgdol\l and the 'nitt:uState would have to back it. ThL would mean that the thercapitali t countrie would follow uit, and their quota of partic­ipatIOn In the ub iuy would be convenient and feasible. In the

nited State it elf it has been recogni... ed that the problem ofthe external debt is not imply economic hut of high politicalsigl1lficance. People as distinguI hed a Or Henry Klssinger andthe ex-Amba adre s Jean Kirkpatrid.. br>th at ""horn no-onecould accuse of being demagogue or left \~ lllg, support the sol­ution. A ne\ Mar. hall Plan ha been talked of. The onginalMarshall Plan achieved the incredible. 'lllt:e war reparatlOns nolonger fell entirely on the vanqul'!wd countlie . The initiativeof the Marshall Plan aveu r'urope anu the world ot what couldhave been a cata trophe. Today this should be bl ught aboutby necessity. The nited States has a fiscal defiCIt which is over200 billion dollar per year: thi re. t Its rights to criticisethe policy of debt 0 the developing countrie., who have been

pay ing intere t lor the "apllJI re"eh ed and in renumeration forIhe t hnol f> uflphed, quanti ie \\ hich perhap ex eed tho e

I al ori all> a" ep d

Central, merica ha be ome one of the riti al entre of thepohLIcal ""orld There are ome who fear It ould become an­other \ let I am or follow thl' traglt: path of the Middle 'a t. Inorder to erradl ate guerrilla \ IOlen 'e. military help may be lIldI ­pen. able but tundamentally it i, economic help that I needed.Thi wnomit: upport mu t be refle 'ted in the openll1g up ofmarket, anu the e t.lbli hll1ent of inter hanging onditIOn tortho e tate to otler heir people the po ibility of a..:hie\ing abetter hIe.

\ m> ountry i an oil exporter, the most important in thewhole of LatIn \merica, wIlh proven re erves for the future inthe Orin(lco OIl Belt. the grlate t In the We tern world, J wishto danty ""hat I have behl'ved and ustal.l1ed. We arc memberof or C In 19 7 4 when I c.ame to London to inaugurate the,tatue of the Liberator Imon Bol(var, the exploitation of orth

ea oil was increa ing. I had the opportunity of stating III aspeet:h in an wer to Mr Callaghan, the Foreign Secretary, thatit appeared pos ible the time would come when the nitcd Kmg-dom would wish to be a member of OP . '. aturaUy, this wasa friendly expre sion. But the fact that the United Kingdom,

orway, Mexico, Egypt and Trinidad-Tobago and some otherexporters of crudes and their products are not mem bers of OPECshould not imply that they have to keep themselve apart fromit. And even less hould not wage a \\ ar price which t:an onlyre ult in damage and financial loss to all. A commodity a essen­tial as I oil, demand world under tanding. I believe that a con­ference with the principal exporting countrie , mdu trialised orin the proce s of development, hould take place without delayin order to establish fair prices, thus protecting producer andconsumer from the dramatic ri e and fall which risk. the futuretabllIty of the market. qUllibrium between demand and up-

ply is nece ary. a Oexibility of movement e entia!. moderat­ion in price llIay be convenient so that norm that are e tabli h­eo may protect humanity frolll the economic cata trophe thatthe oil market produce But some rational agreement must bel'cun~d.

peaking of European-Latin rnerican relation 1 cannot butmention here a matter which mu t be dealt with ympatheticallybut WIth all the sincerity it de erve . Thi is the exi ting prob­lems of Anglo-Argentine relation due to what yOll call the Fal­klands and we the Malvina . In 19 2 when I brieOy visited Lon­don I was invited to meet the Prime Minister. I told her verydearly the attitude of the people of Latin America regarding theconnict ""hich at that time was at it height. She replied thatshe could not understand how the democratic government ofVene7uela could back the Argentine military dictatorship viol­ator 01 human right. I endeavoured to explain as well a 1 couldthat it wa not solidarity between governments but olidaritybetween Latin American people. It was a principle of our Am­ericani m, what I have called the Pluralistic Solidarity of Latin

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Dr Caldera at the reception following the oration.

America. The government can be of the right or of the left,democra ie or dictator hips, con ervative or revolutionarie ,but over and above all thi exists the fundamental brotherhoodof our people. I mu t repeat here today without the lea t doubt,that in this matter all the Latin American people stand shoulderto houlder with Argentina and that we genuinely wish the Brit­ish policy will be directed toward a.iu t solution. We are con­vinced that thi will lead to the ironing ou t of many difficultiesbetween u and will facilitate the interchange of our traditionalfriend hip between our continent and this great and admiredcountry.

I must admit that over the last few years the nited Kingdomha developed a growing intere t in Latin America and this isalso true of all Europe. Many of the better univer ities have La­tin American departments. I had had a pecial pleasure in acce­pting Profe sor Sutherland' invitation to give this commemor­ative lecture as I consider it an honour to Latin America. King'sCollege was one of the first to undertake Hispanic and Latin Am­American tudies. We wi h these studies well and will give allthe backing wc can. The government of Venezuela establi hedthe Simon Solivar chair at Cambridge University and a fellow­ship at Oxford University bearing the illustrious name of AndnfsBello. Through this chair and fellow hip and the variou in tit­utes for Latin American studies directed by most knowledgeableprofessors who understand and sympathise with us, a most im­portant link of friendship ha been developed which on no acc­ount must be allowed to ~ane since it is of great importance toboth of us academically and economically. 1 repeat what 1 haveoften expressed, the desire that the number of British studentsshould be greater than it has been, ince often the e institutionshad had a majority of Latin Americans. It is you student wewant,a we both need each other, but i also evident that theremust be a greater interest in the problem of our development.A late dear friend of mine wrote in 1965 to me: 'Here in Eng­land there are encouraging igns of a new outburst of interest illLatin America - an interest not 0 much in possibilities of in­creased trade with the countrie of Latin America a in the his­tory and the culture of the Latin American nations. All, or al­most all, our universities, both old and new, now have depart­ment devoted to Latin American studies, and two years ago a'Society for Latin American studies' was founded, mainly forthe purpose of enabling these various university department tokeep in touch with each other - it interest and its discussionsare rather academic in character, and I sometime find myselfwanting to get up and shout 'but all this has very little to dowith Latin American realities - with the fle h-and-blood humanbeings of the area, their intere ts and activities, their strugglesand their achievement! However, even an academic intere t is

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better than no intere t at aIr. Thl remark wa also hacked hythe notion of development: 'There 1 till far too trong a tend­enc~ - Belloch aid - even among people \\ ho ought to kno~ be­tter, to regard 'development' a a purely economic problem, toequate 'underdevelopment' \\ith povert)-, and to imagint.' thatan~ and e\er~ gift or loan or im'e tment or 'technical coopera­tion'l bound to promote development. 'Den'lopment'i a un­i\'cr al human proces and If we \\ ant to under tand the develop­ment problem 01 ( ay) a Latin Ameri an country, we ought tobegin b~ trying to under tand our own.'

The truth i that there is till much ground to be covered. Gro­~ th. ac ording to a phra e Irom Paul \'1' Enc. c1h:a 'PopulorumProgre sio', must be for all men and for the whole of each man.That i, to ay, for the human being, with its nece Hies and mat­enal and piritual po sibilities, and not only for the privilegedgroups of the population. This i a tremendou challenge for theLatin American democracies. It is not our wish that the wealth­ie. t countries give u money indiscriminately but that theyshould help us to attain our growth by removing those oh taclewhich prevent us from so doing. It is this path which LatinAmerica ees more clearly every day, and that herein lie therelation hip with the Western world. The five hundred year ofthe discovery of America or bett~r aid, the meeting of Americaand Europe and the re t of the then kno\\ n world, will trength­en the e link despite the multiple and partially expre ed an ­wers given which often do not seem to make ensc. Amencaneed Europe: Latin America, in order to facilitate its growth\I hil:h is indispen able to democracy and peace: 'orth America,because the exce se and errors which some of it political lead­ers and entrepreneurs commit, may find a rea onable equilibrium'and JU t limitation for an ever clo er entente betwcen Europeami Latin America. We do not need gifts from Europe. It isomething much more. It i a new way of being, a new way ofacting, new under tanding, Great Britain and Ireland played agreat role towards the independence of Latin America. ] tru tthat through the influence of its great thinker and with thehelp of the universities, urope will fulfill an out tanding rolein Latin America's struggle to achieve its growth/he way todevelopment is the surest path not only for peace as Pope PaulVI said, but also to affirm it democracy,

His Excellency Dr Jose Salcedo-Bastardo, the Venezuelan Amb­assador, presenting the 34-volume Memorias del General O'Learto the College.

SHOUTl G LOUD A D CLEAR ABOUT SUBSTA TlAL RESERVOIROF EXCELLE CE

Ken Groves wa appointed Director, KCL Re earch Enterpri e in ovember. The e en­ce of hi task i to increa e the indu trial funding of college re earch and strengthen therelation hip with Government, the European Commi ion and other agencie concernedwith re earch programme . Here he outline ome of hi objectives.

KW GROVES

(representing staff atthe Medical and DentalSchool)

(representing staff basedat ACIOG and othersocial science, law andethics staff)

Cameron Swift

Janet AskhamTony Warne

If you would like further informationplease contact one of the above or RachelStuchbury the ACIOG Administrator/Secretary at 552 King' Road. ext 3626.

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Ro amund Herbert (representing staff inLife Science)

A Liaison Committee has been e tablishedto link the Institute of Gerontology, otherstaff of the College, and those at Age Con­cern England with a research or teachinginterest in gerontology. Among other act­ivities the Committee will circulate a reg­ular ewsletter to all those on the Insti­tute's circulation list. The membership ofthe Liaison Committee is as follows:

see an initial requiremen t for ome wellproduced literature telling companie inthe area we have cho en. and the wider co­mmercial world, what our kill are and the\\ ay in which they an work with u formutual benefit. Similarly our relation hip,with the media in the e area will need Itrengthening, and we need to make known

through the editorial page not only of sci­entifi journal. but al 0 tho e technicaljournal read by industry \ hat i happen­ing in the ollege. Other i ual aid may bebe needed.

AGE CONCERN INSTiTUTE OFGERONTOLOGY

But these are early days, aIJ I have attempt­ed to do in thi hort note is to fly a fewkite. What we need to do now i to coll­ate ideas from within the College a to howthe general work of business liai on can bepur ued and the priority areas which weforesee a bringing the greatest benefit.Thi i very much a preliminary tatementof how I ee the activity developing. I shalllook forward to receiving idea from myacademic colleagues on how we can makethe work effective. I suggest that there isa sen e of urgency in this. In common withother niversity institution, the Collegehas een its financial basis weakened withthe relative decline in funding from trad­itional ource. This underline the impor­tance of widening upport for a wellthough t ou t re earch strategy. 0 ne of theobjectives of King's must be to become amost powerful College in the University ofLondon. I intend that the work which Ishall lead will make a contribution to thisaim.

There is a general feeling in some tradition­al busines es that if you make a bettermouse trap, the world will beat the path toyour door to buy it. I do not believe it. Itis very necessary in business to keep peopleregularly informed of the benefits they willobtain from doing business with you anduniversity research expertise is no excep­tion. We need to shout hard and clear ab­out the sub tantial reservoir of excellencethat resides in King's College and thereforethe public relations activity demanded bymy work will require careful thought. I

The econd area of priority that uggestsitself is immediate and closer relation withone or two industry areas which have signi­ficant companies within them. If we aregoing to increase industry funding of ourresearch experti e then industry will expectto have a clear idea of the benefits that itwill gain and the costs that it will incur.After all, well run companie regard researchas part of their overall corporate programmequalifying for a defined part of the totalbudget. Programmes are constructed onthe basis of benefits to be received and jud­ged on that ba i . Unless these benefits canbe clearly defined companies are reluctantto spend money on them. Sponsored Uni­versity research is no exception to thisrule. Thu if we can build up an associat­ion with individual companies within clear­ly defined industrial group with a progra­mme of research projects jointly agreed, 1would expect research funding from Indus­try to be more easily achieved. I will wishto play a significant part in the discussionswith the companies concerned and thesejoint programmes should lead on to greateropportunities for consultancy by mem bersof the academic staff and the developmentof other services. This process, of course,will have to be managed and I wiIJ be giv­ing considerable thought to the formal org­anisation structure under which it can besuccessfully developed. Rest assured thatit will not be a bureaucratic one. It couldstart with a club concept'.

thi . Commi IOn pon ored re earch pro­Ject are a reflection of a general trategydeveloped in Bru el. This has becomemore formali ed with the e tabli hmenr ofthe framework programme for re earchand development. The new programme for1987 - 1991 i currently before the Councilof Ministers. I would expect the College tobe able to influence the thinking behindthese strategies and not just accept themonce they are developed, but this will re­quire considerable refinement in our app­roach to relation hips with the Communityand its in titutions.

I am grateful to Comment for giving me theopportunity of talking about the way in\ hich I ee my job (.f Director. K L Re-earch Enterpri e developing. The basic

concept of the job i imple. Translating itinto a reality i going to be extremely de­manding and difficult. It will only workwith the enthu ia tic ooperation of myacademic colleagues who are at the sharpend of re earch and development. My taskwill be to act partly as a cataly t and tobring a greater understanding into the Coll­ege of what industry require and the wayindu try approaches problem . Howeverlet me ay at the outset that having startedon an extensive programme of consultationin the College I have been very impressednot only by the level of expertise that re­sides here but al 0 by the friendline ofmy reception. In addition, the open mind­ed approach with which people have dis­cussed ideas about how my job can be madeeffective, makes me confident that succeswill be achieved.

At present I have already i olated one ortwo areas which might show some usefulresult. It eem to me that we need tosharpen up the way in which we make sub­missions for grant-aided research to organ­isations uch as Research Council and ur­opean Commission. My experience with thelatter has demonstrated that it is no goodmaking an excellent submis ion unless youhave undertaken a fair amount of ground­work to inform those both in the Commi­sion and the various supporting committ­

ees which assess reque ts for funding of thereasons why your submission merits accep­tance. Ideally, one likes to do more than

There is no ideal way of approaching a jobof this nature. I see my fir t priority as get­ting a much better understanding than Icurrently have about the scope of work un­dertaken in the various departments and theway in which that work is progressed. Forthis reason I have initiated discu sions withDeans of the relevant facultie and with theencouragement of the Principal talked todifferent group of intere ts within the Col­lege. I am also making wider contact at anacademic level with those whose researchareas I feel could be capable of further in­dustrial involvement. With increasing know­ledge it will be my objective to establishsome priority areas for action. If the roadto Hell i paved with good intentions I amsure that the road to successful indu trialliaison could be following clo e behind. Itis therefore necessary to have ome limitedand early priorities and it is on these that Iwill be working during the early weeks ofmy appointment.

10.30 Fir t e ion (Room 3B_O)

,; 00 Second Ses ion (Room 3B 20)

Final e ion (Room 3B20)

Peter H ancarrov. l Wooll onCollege. ambridge): 'The Inputand Output of Exotic harader'Da\'id Martin (Director, u toma­ted Service, The Britl h Library):'Optic;al Di Development at theBnti h Library',

Chairman: Dr Peter Dcnley (We t­field College)

Davld Holmes (Bri tol Polytechnic: 'Source of Statistical Knowledgfor Humanists'Richard Simp on (Warburg (n~t­

Itute): 'Academic Publishing ver­su Desktop PublishlOg - theMerits of Postscript'Sebastian Rahtz (Univer ity ofSoutham pton): 'Electronic Pub­Ii hing in Archaeology'

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L SER ELOCIM TRY APPLI ATIO SI I 'TER L OMB STIO E GI EFLOWS'

Dr M. Yianneskis, LecturerMechanical Engineering Department

Chairman: Dr Andrev. Byerley

Dr W J Ho saLk: 'Optic I Compu­ting'Dr ,1artin Frost 'Prohl m 01 n­dly 109 Current PopulatIon andEmploymen Cen u M terial'Chri tian Kay (L nJver ity 0 Gla-gov.) and DrJane Robert

'Word . World. and Computer:The Hi torical The auru~ 01 Cng­li h.

Chalrm;!n: PrOle or RO I WI bey

Friday. 12 December

DEPARTME T OF MECHANICALE GI EERING RESEARCH SEMI AR

CO FERE 'CE 0 COMP T G THEHUMA TIES

The Very R evd Sydney Evans (right) \\ith lames Colliston. Sl at a reception followinghis leelL/re 'The Faculty of Theology Origins and Developmenc', This Special FacultyLeclllre in Theology was given at King son ovember 11 as parr of the Unh'ersity ofLondun S 150cll annh'ersary celebrations.

LECTURES, MEETINGS AND SEMINARS

Part of the exhibition accompanying the lecture

J UARY] AUGURALLECTURES I THE DEPARTME TOF PHYSICS

Thursday 8 JanuaryTHE LIMITS OF RESOLUTlOE.R. Pike, FRS, lerk Maxwell Profe sorof Theoretical Physics.

S.30pm, The ew Theatre, Strand Campus

This is the first in a series of 10 lectures,continuing each Thursday thereafter at3.1Spm in room 28A until 12 March.

Monday 12 JanuaryTHROWI G SOME LIGHT 0 D FECTSI SILICOProfessor E.C, Lilghtowler~, Professor ofExperimental Physics.

2.00pm, Room 2C, Strand Campus

Wednesday 28 January 1987, 3.1Spm­4.1Spm, Room 2B08, Strand campus

KJNG'S EPIC SEMI AR

Monday 26 January 1987 at 5.00 p.m. :Or R. BEATO : 'The Greek Chanson degeste: Digenes Akrites'

Room 330, Strand campus

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RESEARCH SEMINARS SPRI G 19 7 :FOOD SCIE CE DfYISIO

Main EntranceLibraryLibrary

nion Shop

KensingtonMis Lind ey Coules Main Building

COLLEGE CHRISTMAS CARDSOW VAILABLE

Thi year' card depi t one of the Iconin the College Chapel. and i available inred or blue. The can be bought from thefollowing people:

StrandMrJoeMayMr Derek LawOr Ann KnockMrs Briggs

PROF.ESSOR BROW HO OURED

NEWS ROUND-UP

The University of Durham is to award anHonorary D.Litt to Profe or Julian Brown.Illne prevent Julian Brown receiving thehonour In per on but uch i the regard inlA hich he i held that Durham are to makethe notable exception of conferring thehonour ill absencia. Our congratulationto Profe sor Brown and our good wi hefor a peedy recovery.

Or Diana nder on (Brit­i h lndu trial BiologicalRe earch 0 i tlon)Genetic toxicology in thefood indu try

Or T Galliard (Lord RankResearch Centre)Wholemeal flour: u e andabuse

5.30pm, Food Science Lecture Theatre,Kensington campus

January 28

January 14

STAFF NEWS

OBITUARY

MR D.S. MILLER

WE'RE MOVING

Please note that King's College Short-Lifeand Head-Lease sections of the Accommo­dation Office are moving from LightfootHall, Chelsea Campu to Kensington Cam­pus.

ChelseaMr John Harden'sSecretary(552 King's Road)

Mr John Wornham(Manresa Road)

Room 2-305

Main lodge at MainBuilding

We are sorry to record the death, last monthof Mr. D.S. Miller, Research Fellow andLecturer in the Department of Food and

utritional Studie ince 1963.

EQUIPMENT GRANT TO DR P. R.GORDON-WEEKS

The Wellcome Trust ha awarded a specialequipment grant of £36,529 to Dr. P.R.Gordon-Weeks of the Departmenfof Ana­tomy & Human Biology for an ultracentri­fuge to continue his work on the biologyof nerve growth cones. This grant has beenawarded under the Wellcome Trust's Major

quipment Scheme.

LAW LECTURER LEAVES FOR NEWAPPOINTME T

Dr Janet M Dine, Lecturer in the Facultyof Law at King's College London, hasbeen appointed Senior Re earch Fellow inCompany and ommercial Law at the Inst­itute of Advance Legal Studie. niversityof London.

PHARMACY ROLE AT I STlTUTE

Dr A.E. Theobold, Lecturer in pharmacyha been de ignated Honorary Senior lect­urer in Radiopharmacy at the Institute ofCancer Research.

The move will take place on riday 12thDecember 19 6 and therefore all futurecorre pondence and enquiries hould besent or made to:

Student ServicesRegistry HutsKensington CampusCampden Hill RoadLO DO W87AH

Tel: 937 5411

THE FITTEST DEPARTMENT INTHE COLLEGE?

The Department of Pharmacology tookpart in the Sunday Time ational FunRun in Hyde Park in September for thethird succe sive year. This time we hadtwo teams in the Fun Run, one all femaleand one all male. The sex discriminationact prevents us from telling you whichteam performed better, but we can saythat both teams finished in the top halfof all the teams taking part. The runnerswere: Catherine de Whalley, Sue Friend,Alan Gibson, Mike Hudspith, DavidLeake, Philip Moore, David Ogden, Christ­os Pagonis, Roxana Pagonis (co-opted),Judy Phillips, Sara Rankin, Deirdre Rob­ertson, John Tucker and Alexa vonUexkull. We received a total of two goldmedals and six silver medals. The moneywe raised in sponsorship was sent to theSave the Children Fund earmarked forthe African Famine.

They cost 35p each, or 30p if 5 or moreare purchased.

EWS FROM THE CATERI GOFFICER

KENSI GTON

Chri tine Wilson, Kensington Site CateringManager since the merger has recently leftthe department. Colleague will I am surejoin me in thanking her for her work forthe merged College, and for Queen Eliza­beth College which she joined in 1980. Iwish her every success in the future.

OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES

Michael Knibb has been promoted fromReader to Profe sor of Old Te tamentStudies, effective from 1st ovember 19 6.

We therefore now consider ourselves thefittest department in the College and chal­lenge any other department to prove uswrong by ubmitting their own team forthe Fun Run next year and beating us inthe Rankings.

We hope to appoint a new 'Site CateringManager'in the near future: in the mean ­time the Senior Supervisor Mr H Harperwill together with Miss Kennedy be respon­sible for the day to day operation of thedepartment. I would like to thank them,

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and the member of the Site Admini trat­ion who are a is ing them, for their supp­on during thi period

HO PIT LITY REQ E TS

The ne .... ha pHality torm mtroduced atIhe heginning 01 thi e -ion arc proving 01

benelH bo h to the department, and themajority 01 our u tamer. However. thereare ome department in College not u inghe e form, and It would a ist C tering

Servi e nd the Finance department ifthe e lorm - .... ere u ed whenever po ible.Supplle 01 thl torm can be obtained frommy office or from the Site Catering Mana­gers.

FO R EV FELLO\ SHIPSPH R\1 CY

P to tour ne\\, po tdodorallellow hiplor pharm eu ieal edu"atlon or re ear hwill be awarded by the niver ity of Lon­don in 19 ~.

The niver ity will pend about £63.000a year from a total of O\'er 600,000 be­queathed by he late Cyril W \1aplethorpewho died in 19 3, and glv n by hi .... idow,Margery. r Maplethorpe wa ~lanaging

Due tor of Hen and Hanbury from 1944to 196 -. and Pre Ident of the Pharmaceut­ical Society of Great Britain from 1963 to1965.

KI G'S THEOLOGIC L RE ID

The. utumn 19 6 edition 1 no.... pu bh h­d.

RiLhard Coggln on the ReligIOn 01 theOld To.' tament

John Todd on the Church

Philip We t on the Ethi' of War, in replyto Gordon Dun tan.

I neluded al 0 are review of reLent theolo­gical book.

CHRISTMAS GREETl GS

I .... ould like to thank all our customer fortheir valued busines and support during19 6, and WI h, on behalf of all the Cater­ing Sta f, everyone a very happy Chri tma ,and a pro perous 19

P. J. Hoffman

EWS

AUDIO VIS AL MA AGER

ick Bugg was appointed Manager of AudioVbual Services (KQC) on I t Dec 19!16.He can be contacted at the Strand on l:.xl.2386 and i located 10 Room 13B

CASSETTES AT lOp

The A.I).S.. (Strand) ha a large quantityof used audio cassette to dispose of :aseen'. Plea e call at Room 23B, after Ilam.

LIVE NET

The fellowships will be ba ed either in thePharmacy Dept. here or at the School ofPharmacy.

KI G'S COLLEGE SOCI L CL B

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

hamper full of Chri tma, goodies will beone of the prile raffled at the StrandSocial Club on Friday 19th December.

Ticket can be bought on the Strand fromLiz Auden-Davies, Christina Devereux, thePo t Room or the Social Clu b bar after 8 thDecember.

All proceed will go to charity.

COLLEGE NEW YEAR DANCE

Pril:e £2 (£ I for tudents of KQ ), fromFa 'ulty of Theology and Religiou tudiesOffice.

Visitors to the Careers Fair held at the Col­lege on 4 November.

XT EDITIO : Copy date Friday J an­uary 9 1987 for publication in the weekof January 19.

COMME T is produced by the King's Co)­lege London (KQC) Information Office onthe Strand campus.

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WE WISH ALL OUR READERS AMERRY CHRISTMAS A D AHAPPY EW YEAR!

The Committee of the King' CollegeSports and Social Club

You may have wondered what has happen­ed to the College ew Year Dance. TheDance is usually organised by the SocialClub on behalf of the College and i heldon the fir t Friday after the ew Year be­fore the tudents return to the MacadamBuilding. However, in 1987, it will not bepo sible to fit the Dance in before the newterm starts on January the 7th, and there­fore it has been proposed that we hold anEaster Dance during the Ea ter vacationinstead.

We hope that people won't miss the Dancetoo much in January but will look forwardto supporting the event in March or April.

POST ROOM PLEA!

Please do not tamp your departmentalcharge code onto internal mail it causesgreat confusion. Thankyou.

ntl! Octo her 19 7 the ervice will be ex­perimental, but teacher of inter collegiatecourse wi hing to u e the network, andother hould contact ick Bugg on Strand23 6

On the 12th ovember BT. made the finallink in the optical fibre that joins King'sto )mperial College, niversity College, andthe Univer ity of London Audio Visual Cen­Gentre. The fibre carrie simultaneouslyfour in-coming and four outgoing Videochannel to a swit hing centre within Sen­ate Hou e. Queen Mary College and the

niver ity Computer Centre are the nextgroup to be connected.

TELEPHO E DIRECTORY AM­E DME T

The num ber in the internal telephone dir­ectory for J oan Fennell, Conference Ad­ministrator at the King's Campus VacationBureau, has been incorrectly listed, Thenumber should read C3768, not C3678.

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