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t

he CVCP has recently is ueda Code of RecommendedPractice for oversea tudents

tudying for higher degree in thenited Kingdom. The Code

encourage institutions to examine theirown arrangements and to a ses whetherthey need to expand or revi e them in alocal code of practice.

M uch of the ode refers to practiceprior to a tudent's admi ion.

niver ities are trongly advised toestabli ha tudent' English languagecompetence before arrival in the 'K.When a tudent is admitted without a

sati factory knowledge of Engli h, freelanguage tuition hould be provided.Considerable emphasis is placedthroughout on the provi ion ofinformation to students and, whererelevant, ponsors. This should include:notification of the length, co t andmethod of assessment of the cour e;decisions to regi ter a student for a

preparatory course which increase thelength of the total regi tration; detailedand accurate information about atudent's right of acces to laboratorie ,

equipment and library facilitie .Once the student i enrolled in an

institution, much of the responsibility forgood practice lies with the academicsupervisor. upervi ors need to beparticularly sen itive to the need ofoverseas students, on which guidanceshould be offered by the institution, andshould promote their integration into thestudent community. ix-monthlyprogress reports should be prepared, anda report hould be made to a student's

pon oring authority at lea t annually,with the tudent uitably informed. Inthe e reports, the upervisor should bereali tic in the asse ment of the timelikely to be required by the student tocomplete the course. If problems arise,the in titution hould have a clearprocedure for a tudent' transfer to adifferent cour e or institution.

he Acting Principal will shortlyinstitute discussions with a view tointroducing a King's code of practice forthe next academic year. Copies of thereport entitled The Managemmt 0/ flig/ur

Degrees Undertaken by Overseas Students

are available from the School Offices.

A bel/erdeal/or

(){)IT"Seas students?

There are currently

276 overseas

postgraduale

students at King's

and 523undergraduates

(thest figures do not

include EC

students).

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talked about the problems cau ed by theinteraction between prescribed

medicine and mediCines bought overthe counter.

The Plrysics Department's exhibition inthe Great Ilall to promote their ubject

to chool children ( ee page 6) receivedsome lively airplay on GLR.

Jil/ Mackod Clork, Professor of 'u ing,wa featured in The Times when theBritish ~edical ociation' surve

revealed that women are ignoring the

danger of moking during pregnancy.

In their own study for the Health

EducatIOn uthorit, Profes or ~acleod

Clark and Karen Jone drew a profile of

women mo t likely to ignore anti­

smoking advice, ie those with either nopartner or an un upportive one, who areunemployed and poorly educated, havefriends who smoke and whosepregnancy was unplanned. They alsofou nd that many of thosc who do giveup start again soon after their baby is

born.

John .Speight, ResearcJz Fellow, Centre forDefence Studies, wa interviewed on CI,RNews following the publication of the

All-Party Common DefenceCommittee Report into the Army. Col

peight explained that the Committeefelt that the previous Defence Secretary,Tom King, had gone too far in hisReport on the armed forces, OptionsforChange. It had advocated reductions inthe ire of the Army and, ome felt thatif it wa implemented, the Army wou Idbe greatly over-stretched. He thought

that criticism by this Committee wasinevitable even though Malcolm

Rifkind, the current Secretary of State

for Defence, had already made a partial

climb down on this issue just a few daysbefore the Committee published its

Report.

John Martin, Professor ofCardiO'UasculorScience, KCSMD, appeared on theBBCl 's Six O'Clock /\ews after hi workon heart di ea e wa published. lIefou nd that the over-prod uction of nitricoxide gas in the heart muscle might be a

cau e of the di ease of dilatedcardiomyopathy. This is when the heartbecomes grossly enlarged and leads to

heart failure. It affects thou ands of

people in Britain and is a common

rea on for heart tran plant.

Alon athan, Boots Lecturer/Practitioner inthe Department ofPharmacy, poke on aBBC Radio Lancashire programme in

the run up to the publication ofa leaflet

to be distributed by P andpharmaci called Mixing Medicine. I le

John flead, Senior Lecturer in Education,was on one of the seric of threeprogrammes entitled Culture Closh onBBC 2. It examined the old dichotomybetween science and the arts and DrHead poke about the factors whichdetermine why peoplc choo e science aopposed to arts ubjects. The interviewalso explored how this choice affectssociety and the fact that science tends to

be a male-dominated subject.

John Langdon, Professor ofOral andMaxillofacial Surgery, KCSMD, took partin Radio 4's Today programme followingthe disappearance of a Securicor vandri er with over 1 million. Profes orLangdon explained how a per on couldalter their appearancc to avoid

recognition (and In this ca e, capture) by

having facial urgery. For example, thejaw line can be altered or the shape of

the nose changed.

I.ynn fraser, Reader In DevelopmentalBiology, appeared In The Obseroer' frontpage tory reporting the claims of therecently e tabli hed London enderClinic which tate It I able todetermine the ex of a child for couple .There ha been deep scepticism aboutthe effectivene of the technlq ue

employed b the linlc to separate male

and female-determining perm to

cn ure ex clection. Or Frasercndorsed this view saying 'there i no

evidence that uch a technique could

eparate them in any effective way.'

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The Bennell Street Estate, before and afterthe work ofthe DICE ProjectJeaturedrecently in The Times (See opposite page fordetails)

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Profes or Allcc Coleman

Department of Geography

manoda) [>ICI~ ha Identlfi d

o 10dern fovcmcnt ar hltemak It dl - ,eu or parent 0 e ereise

natural ontrol o\er their children, or to

hand on cl.II d tradition 10 an

effc t1\;e \4a,.

Parental inOuence I much moreere tlve 10 hou ehold. that have their

0" n eparate terntory With front door

Ieadtn~ Into cn 10 cd front garden and

ba doo" IcadlOg IOto enclosed b ckgarden. ew-bulld hou e can achieve

thl', and 0 can eXI ting hou es With thehclp ot l>ICI,-t. pc rearrangements. ,\

thlld pproa h "to convert ~round·noorlat or maISCJl1e[[e~ tnto quasl-house~

\\ Ith Imilar lea tu re so that they haveno Internal conta t with the block above.

[ p talr dwellings are then divided

IOto sub-blocks" Ith on Iy four to six

dwelllOgs aces Ible from any given

enerancc, On the Ben nett treet I: state

there \4ere formerly 19 IOterconneetln)?:

entrances givtng unre tncted access to

% d\\'ellings. 'I hiS resulted 10 acompletely anony mous character for the

area, where criminals could wanderunidentified; but now there IS a better

community spirit among the smaller

number ofhou eholds 10 each sub­

block.At grou nd level the plethora of

alleyway ha been replaced by a parse

network of through road. The alleys

have been scaled by extending house

gardens acro thcm, or by converting

them into ide paths wlthlO the curtilage

of semi-detached homes. Because there

arc fewer ways to filter through the

estate, there i a bigger public presence

on each road, which I added to by

people tending the new garden. There

IS a much safer atmosphere and both

cnme and the fear of cnme have

dlmtnl hed. Drug pu hcr arc also

baulked as their escapewa s have been

blocked.

In I the DICE te m, \4hlch lIed,

con ulted the re ident~ about heir

problems and proposed a de ign­Improvement olution \4hi h in plied

them with new hope. 'I he could '>ee

the force of the proposcd change. andout of a 100% tenant vote, 9 % voted 10

favour. 'I hc communlt. Ie.lder nolonger felt over\4hclmingl oppre d,a the funding brought h DICE

trengthened their hand, and he\' have

\~orked vel) closely \\Ith me and m)team, a alo have the city archlte ts,

surveyors, hOUSing manager and other

staff. The vanou stages of de Ign had

to be ve([ed c1oscly, after which there

was a five month delay \4hde '1Khael

Ileseltine considered the heme and

finally gave hi~ approval, although

proposed work on the ite where drug­

pushlOg took place was cxcluded and

thiS was a big disappOintment. The

project went out to tender forcontractor's bids and work began on site10 late 1991. Complction I~ cxpected in

mid-I993.Onc of the conditions which makes

the DICE ehemcs a controllcd

experiment is the provIso that the same

tenants hould be kept In occupancy

before, during and after the con tructlOn

work. To minlmi c the duration of

living on a budding Site, the work was

~eheduled for an earl beginning and

completion at one end of the e tate,

followed b treatment of ~ucce slve

section toward the mher cnd. '1 his

approach has paid dividcnds. Forexample, [ wa~ recently asked to speak

o a lady who objected to what needed

to be done at the edge of her garden,

and after she heard the explanation he

replied, 'Well, I'm not convinced, but

I've seen what you've done at the other

cnd, 0 I'll goalong With you'.

It may be difficult for people to envisage

the changes, but seeing is believing.

. 'ow another Manchester estate wants

DICE to prepare a scheme there.

other crime, Ro 109 11 ter umula'ed

a er than I could c1earc,.era I I

Ida

Three year ago the tenants of the

Bennett treet E tate were 10 uch

despair that they felt the only solution

wa a mass exodu , leaving all their

Modern Movement buildings to be

demoli hed, There had been three

murder incidents and a great deal of

The 'I Hnc of22 Janua aporTc L IProfmor All« Cokmon, kad of Ilri' DICI',fDt' Improv I ConI liedExpmmmls) ProJUl, IS rTi IIy ~/ing

ffPitlr Ma I" city councrlhrs andIn~city rtgm"alion txfJms 10 discuss rwltal canbe done 10 reduce crime on Irousing eSlaltS. AI

tire md ofIosI )tor I ~ ear-oldJolrnBmjamtn Slanley ~as shOI al close range In

a laKeaway slrop in Moss SIde, ~lrere lirebaCK alleys andcul-de-sacs allOfJ1J dfllg gong10 of/hod tlreirgoods and extl qUICkly ,\'0fJ1J

plo are underw;ay 10 deslroy lire ral flInrand reploce tIrem WIIIr It!rraced Irou,es r::-~11r

gardms Tire Irope IS Ilral tlllr new urban!o)oul could rui. t Io~kssness

In Ir" book Ctopia on 'I nal, publlSlrwln/9 '5, ProfmorColemon poslulotts a link

be/Wem lire plrysicol desi ofmodmtIrouslng eslales and vandalism, clrild cnme,

graf!i". lill" andgm"al squalor anddelinqumcy Site of/e lite evidmce ofliteseven Itousing motes wltlclr are currmtlybeing improvedalong lite lines site Irassuggeslt!d 10 SIrOllV Ilral lire ef/uls ofdektenousdtSign con be reversed. Tltefirsl DIC[~sclteme Iras jusl bem compkted on lite RogersESlale in TOf!JJI!r Ilamkls, easl LondonTwo [1YJt-Slorey blocks conlaining 120flolsnow look like ntfIl) developmenls, yel tlltSe

maltS ~ere idmlified by DICE,from among

Iltousands ofeSlates, os among lire fIl)Orsl in

Rrilain. The £4 million solulion Iras been 10

reduce lite anonymity oflite Itomes All 20groundfloor flols Irove bem . m IIrClr OfJ1Jnmlrances andgard. . A ntfIl) lift, ,jtlr a

gloss fronlltos been inslalled and lite blocksIltemselves 1r0'Ut bem sub-d. Ided. rwucrngaccess 10 only /Wo or Iltree d_IIlngs.

We inviled ProfessorCokman lolellComment mon aboul DICE andlr"fIl)Ork

on 0 Manclresler I!SlOte.

he Centre for the .. tud of

onfllct at thc L' nlvcrlty of

lil ter i compJling a Regl ter

of current and recent (po t 19 )re earch on all a peets of life, work and

ociety In 'orthern Ireland (nolju t

connected With conflIct). They would

like to hear from taffand postgraduate

student~who are doing or have recently

complcted relevant re earch. Please

send dctail , including the name of the

re earcher, the title of the research, the

date of completion and contact detail to

Ciaran 0 Maolain, Information Officer,

Lniversity of Clster, Coleraine, Co

Londonderry, 13'1'52 1 A, ~orthcrn

Ireland; or telephone for a que tionnaire

to 0265 44141 cxtn 416 or 4666.

Billy Cleary looking very dapper at his

leaving party. Billy joined 'he Portering

Staffsix yeors ago, brightening up 'he lives

01011 those who got to know him at 'he

Strand, with his dueiful disposition, kind

words and ballroom dancing. It's not

goodbye though as he is going to work in the

Senior Common Room covering Cathy

lIealy's matermty leave.

1e In

nthea Tinker, Profe or of

SOCial Gerontology, has been

appointed a a \1ini terlal

adviser on a new group which aim to

make the mo t of the talent. of older

workers and to encourage cmployer to

abandon age di nmination 10 all their

personnel policie , including

recruitment and training.

The fir t meeting of the d i ory

Group wa chaired by Employment

Mini ter Patrick McLoughlin.

r Alan Bittles, Reader in the

Department of Anatomy and

f Iuman Biology, recently

took part in the American As ociation

for the dvancement of ience

Meeting held in 130 ton.

The AAA meeting i one of the mo t

pre tigiou gathering of the scientific

community in America and it i fairly

unusual for Briti h academICS to be

Invited to organi e and present the

se si on . The meeting attracts great

pre S attention with over 500 reporters

covering the event.

Or l3ittle's paper was entitled

De'erminants and Consequences 0111uman

Inbreeding: A Global Perspective.

Marriages between close relati es are

generally rare in 'orth America and

We tern Europe, yet in :'-Jorth and sub-

aharan Africa, We t, Central and much

of South Asia, consanguineou marriages

are contracted by 20-55% of the

popu lation. During the la t 40 years

inhabitant of these region have begun

to migrate to more developed countrie

and the prevalence of con anguineou

marriage and biological effects of human

inbreeding have become topic of

increa ing intere t to health

professionals.

Dr Philip Adey, .. enior Lecturer in

the Department of Education, also

attended the /\..c, meeting and lead a

workshop on hire earch on the

promotion of thinking skills in cience.

rafe sor RE Surge has been

eleeted a Life Member of Clare

Ilall, University of Cambridge,

whieh include associated academic

benefits, particularly with re pect to

research. Following hi leave in the

Michaelma term, 1992 (when he wa~

appointed Visiting Fellow at Clare flail)

three joint re earch project between

King' Phy ic Department and the

Cavendi h Laboratory, Cambridge are

now either in place or under di cussion.

All these projects relate to aspects of

re earch into X-ray microscopy and the

associated fabrication of the mallest

regular man-made structure worldwide.

ome staff will already be aware

that f larry M usselwh ite i

moving to a base at the Strand as

Deputy College Secretary (Medicine

and Dentistry) with a College-wide

responsibility for the promotion of

medicine, dentistry and health-related

studie .

As a consequence Jennifer I3riggs has

been appointed as Head of Secretariat of

the hool of Medicine and 0 ntistry,

and will manage the chool'

administration locally on behalfofthe

Dean of the hool. Jenniferwill be

circulating a detailed statement in due

cour e etting out the trueture of her

admini tration and the re pon ibilitie

of individual officers.

The Principal's Office ha recclved a

note from Ann Worlock (Lord Edmund

Davie 'daughter) thanking everyone at

King' for their kind messages of

ympathy, following the death of her

father

Ju t to let you know, since the Directorywas mailed a couple of weeks ago, we

have been inundated by the press with

requests for extra copies. So be

prepared for calls!

Stop Press..Stop Press..Stop Press

\1e1anie Gardner

Pres and Information Officer

am extremel pleased to be able to

report that the Diruto ofExpntsha no~ been publl hed and

re ec well the breath of ubJects andexpenence available throughout 109'

It ha been wldel dl tnbuted to the

media. rom. 'er;;s at Y; to FarmIngToday. from Cosmopo/il n to Computer""eekry, and about 00 other! If you

kno~ of any other Journalists!

new papers/magazlOe /programme

which you think hould recei e a copy,

gl e me a ring and if it hasn't already

been sent, it will be.A a re ult of producing the Directory

we hope to achieve greater media

coverage for King' and raise the profile

of the College, which hopefully willhave the beneficial knock-on effect of

increa 109 tudent application, gran

etc.Wc wdl be producing a set of baSIC

gUidelines 10 the near future to helpwhen dealing With the media which will

be available to all tho e who want them.

We al 0 plan to arrange ome talks by

people experienced in thi area to which

everyone will be IOvited.

In the meantime, if you have any

querie regarding any a pectofthepre s, please don't he itate to contact

me. imilarly, if you need advice orhelp promoting a research projcct or

event to the press, get in touch.\1any thanks again to all those who

took part and who e brains I picked and

advice I ought during its compilation; I

am mo t grateful. nfortunately we

cannot send a copy to everyone, but ifyou would like to see the Dirutory, we

have sent copies to Heads of

Department and hool dministrative

Officer.

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f.J

ord Ju lice Butler-. 10 w

gue t of honour at a dlOner at

KlOg' ollege London on 2

February held for tuden who

participated 10 the 19 1- I 92 diploma

course 10 Child ProteCtion.

A ter the diploma award ceremon

Lord Ju tlce Butler- 10 gave a

thoughtful peech 10 which he

di cu sed various a peets of childprotection work and the limitation of

the la~ in thi area.

The dinner wa held to mark the

award of the Child Protection Diplomasgiven jointl by KlOg' College Londonand the London hool of Economic,

The course is an unu ual one in that it is

multl-dlsclpllOary, offenng only a

limited number of place to experienced

practitioner from SIX profeSSional

group In the child protection field ­

these comprise oheltor, police officer,

magi trates, ocial worker, guardian ad

litem and officers from the Official

Solicitor's Department. The primary

aim ofthe cour e i to examine the

inter-relationship between child carelaw and practice in the light of current

research literature on chdd exual andphysical abuse.

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J CannlOg

" LGO Branch SecretaryLibra!). \1anresa Road

or men and women. \re )'OU

feeling your age? (Iave you

10 t that youthful outline' \re

you feeling the tre of everyday life?

I he answer to these problem IS to join

the Staff Keep Fit In Room B2 (next to

Reprographic), trand Campus on

Wed ne day at 12.15. A 45-mlO ute class

costs 1.50. We cater for all levels of

fime s. (Please wear comfortable

clothing and trainers).

From leflta right: Jane Fortln (KCf,), LordJusttee Butler-Sfoss, Arthur Benham (a

graduate receiving his certificate) andJudith/larlIDin (LSE)

LGO. 'L PE and COIl E

ha..e voted natlonall,. b. a

lar e majont). to merge IOtO

one uOlon called L: I 0 rhl ~i11

have I. million member and ~dl bethe lar e t union in BmaJO. ·\t ' ng'

thi mean that our clerical-related.manual and health taff will be united 10

the same unIOn from I Jul' 1KCL .. \LGO welcome our I PI',

and 01 { E colleague and loo

forward to working together inL:. '1.0 '

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'I ony Day

Centre for \,1ental Ilealth • ervlce

Developmem

other speaker included Fiona alidcott,

Pre Ident Elect of the Ro al College ofP ych iatri ts, It bury Di tnct General

\1anager Alan Fender and \1artm Eede,

Director of the. 'ational chizophrenia

Fellow hip.

undred of potential physic

studems flooded IOto the

Great Ilall recently to attend

a Joint Institute of Physics/King'sDepartment of Phy ic Exhibition.

With over 30 different exhibit and

stand there wa plenty for them to see

and do - many of the demon trations

were designed to be 'hand on' 0 the

children could conduct the experiments

themselves and di cover the result at

fir t hand.

Exhibitors were from King' and

several other universitie. ome of the

King's projects on display were those of

second year Phy ics tudents who were

explaining their own research work to

the visitors.

A particular attraction was the

demonstration, given by Dr CyrilIsenbergofthe Univer ityofKent, of

surface tension and viscosity using

bubble. lie wa attempting to produce

the world's biggest bubble that

afternoon and he certainly did manage

some e tremely large ones, as well as

different haped one and one which

people could tand inside - all with the

aid of half a car tyre, a hoop and plenty

of fairy liqUid!

nother popular exhibit was theexperimental bassoon which i thc

re earch projeet of Dr Edgar Brown in

Phy ic . lie has developed anelectronically operated bassoon which it

i hoped will improve the tone of the

traditional in trument and make it more

reliable to play.

Credit should go to tho e involved in

organl ing the event, ~r Seweryn

Chomet for co-ordinating the exhihition,

and the Phy ics technicians who did all

the behind-the cenes work.

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n \1onday 8 February 1993,

Tim Yeo, Parliamentary

L nder Sccretary of tate for

Ilealth, poke at a major seminar

organised Joimly by Kmg's Collegc

London Centre for \1ental Ilealth

Services Developmem and the

Edinburgh International cience

Festi al. 'I he eminar, which took place

at the Royal. ociet in London, was

entitled Meeting Ihe needs - service solutionsIn mentalhealth sen.,ices. 1t challenged

those responsible for providing mental

health care to re pond to the needs of

people With mental health problem.

The nature of those need were spelt

out earlier In the day by the Centre for

\1ental Ilealth Services Development,

which reported it initial view after

spending a ycar and a half in the field

with health and local authorities.Following the \1 mister's contribution,

Kelley Rlclzardson fomll'rf) ofthe Registry

writesDear I· riends,

Further to my lengthy speech. I just

wanted to thank everybody for your

wi hes of good luck at my leaving party

and also for your overwhelming

genero it).

Thank you to everyone who came to

the party, 1 hope you enjoyed it

(guaranteed if you tried the punch!) and

I'll see you at the next one. All the best.

Derek Evered

Emeritus Reader m Biochemistry

Chelsea College

decl Inn to filter down through all the

ub-committees, but thl did not happen

on an) nn ~ hich I ser'ved. inee then 1

have read that cyanide, which denve

from tobacco moke, when eombmed

with 'vltamm 812 (cobalamm) form

c anocobalamin. If this I not converted

back to cobalamin, anti ltamm

propertie may remain which can lead to

damage to the nerve .

Dr Stuart \1illigan

Biomedical Sciences DIVIsion

A reply from the Acling Pn'nllpal:

I agree that the terminology IS

important. however, the College has formany year had a mix of 'semester' and

'term' dates. To use 'term' for what

used to be called 'semetcr' would cause

a sense of onfusion in the transitional

period.

Dear Editor

The College policy towards smoking

(Comment 0 (6) reminds me of a

previous debate upon the ubJect at one

of the con tltuent colleges of KCL.

.... t a meeting of the Senate ('\cademic

Board) at Chelsea College 10 the early

1970 I mO'ved that we hould ban

smokmg at our meetmgs. About SIX

members (lOcluding thc prevIOus

Prmcipal) smoked small cigars to the

di comfort of the other fifty members.

The dcbatc spanned over several

meetmgs until finally I produccd my

coup de grace - passive smokmg by a

non-smoker double the carbon

monoxide level in the blood (a paper In

the BMJ), the battle was won - the

Committee voted to ban smokmg at Its

meetings. As a corollary, I expected this

Dear Editor

Thank you for publi hmg the date of

the teaching pattern over the next fe~

year , m the last i sue of Comment

i lowever, 1 find the contmued u e of

'seme ter' Irritating and confu 109.

Semester refers to a IX month penod

(OED). It I nor an appropnate

description for any of the proposed 12,

12 and 6 weeks teach mg/examl natIOn

periods especially when the published

timetable en vi age three consecutive

'semester' between September and

mid-June. I note that l·CI. is

continu 109 to refer to 'terms', Ila 109

agreed the dare with LCL, could we

not ha've accepted the correct

nome nclature'

of Law, the Crown Prosecution Service,

the European taffing Unit of the

Cabinet Office, the Government Legal

Service, Lawyer in Local Government

and the Inns of Court and General

Council ofthe Bar.

The student attending included law

students, and some from other

di cipline seeking information about

entering the legal profe ion. We asked

tudents for their comments which were

on the whole very favourable:

'It was a lot le crammed than last

year, because it wa held over two days';

'publicity was good, eg booklet inpigeon holes' (Law Student); 'meeting

lawyer from variou firms i the mo t

important part'; 'very useful, good

selection of firms'; 'need more firms

outside London'; 'I would have liked

talks on olicitors' interview and

application '; 'could have been geared to

help non-law people more'; 'friendly

helpful people'.

The visiting exhibitor were pleased

with the venue, the admini tration and

the quantity and quality of students andgenerally felt that this year's event had

been improved by being held over two

days.

n I If

hi year's Law Information

Fair was held over two daysbecause the level of intere t

was so high. Almo t one thousand

students attended the r-air organised by

the Career Advisory Service in

collaboration with the Law School, held

in the Great Ilall on 8 and 9 February.

Amongst the 41 exhibitors there were

many firms of solicitors and the College

Colin Bailey and Le le Martin

Careers Advi ers

of a pos ible 7 and two rated it a S.The fir t of these work hop was held

in the week following the Graduation

Ceremony in eptember la t year and

others are scheduled for next term once

Finals are complete. Any King'sgraduates interested in forthcomingworkshops should contact the areers

rvice and are entitled to usc the

facilities we offer at any time.

r h

n the ame day that the

national pre s carried details

of the depre sed job

pro pect for graduates in 1993, sevenKing's graduate (five men and twowomen) who graduated in 1992 and

were still looking for employment,

attended a one-day work hop on

FJleclive Job Searclz organi ed by the

College Careers ervice.

Their range of po ible intere t.!

covered international law,

environmental protection, the Police

Force, public affairs, computing and

ports related career; ome of the

attendees were till undecided.

lJ ing a number of short practicalexercises, their skill and understanding

of the following were te ted and

extended: selection interview skill ;

aptitude tests; writing a C ; completing

an application form; job information

source; elf-knowledge; career planning

Those attending were asked to

evaluate the course: five rated it as 6 out

Department of Byzantine & ModemGreek StudiesLee ure a~ , 7 30 In 'ne Coune I Roo ,

S rana Ca 0 s

16 MarchPe er B,en (Frede le Sessions Beebe

'35 Professor 10 he Art of Wrl ,ng,

Oa mou h COl ege, uSA)

The re-emergence 0 Gree proseIC Ion In the 19th and 20th cen unes

Department of War StudiesAnnua Lee ure a 7 5 n Room

2B08, S and Campus

John Gaddis (Harmswo h Pro essor

o American his ory, Ox ord

Unlversl y)

Cold war history and the post-Cold

War world

Department of ChemistryLee'Ures a' . 6 30 r ~oor" • BOO,

S'rana Ca""p s

2 March~e BV'or::lro'essor 0Llgh rehe

The Maxwell Society LecturesAll lee ures WI a e place m Room 2C

( am BUilding), S ra d rom

400- 500

1 MarchOr T J Ha ( Ing's)

OptiCS In he Cityl Learn 0 explol

order. chaos. compe I IOn and

regulatIOn

Centre for Medical law and EthicsA ee"v'es oor'" • 304 'ror'" •3 00-. t 00 S'ra'lO Camp 5

Aa ss or tree, 0 a ~ e e1 March::lro'essor Jo Fin

Co ege 0 ordl

The alue 0 human Ii e and he nghl

odea h

8 MarchOr Clar e (UnlverSI y 0

Birmingham)

The nse, fall and nse (?) of nuclear

physIcs In the UK

1S MarchOr CameIta Gabnel ( Ing's)

O,electnc spectroscopy

The British Institute of HumanRights2 March

ew Theatre, S rand Campus, rom

3 00-14 00 All welcome, admissiontree

Pe er Du fy (Barns er, Visl Ing Fellow

o he Unlversl y 0 London, Edl or 0

e European Human Rights Reports)

Refugee Issues assessing the record

of the European Convention on

Human Rlgh s

Physiological SocietyG L Brown Lee ure 993 a 7 30 In

Room 3B20, Strand Campus

Or Jonalhan Ashmore (Oepartmen of

PhYSiology, University of Bns 01)

The cellular machinery of heanng

Centre for Philosophical StudiesLee ure Room 229, S rand Campus,

500

3 MarchProfessor John Hie

Jews. Chnstlans, Muslims· do we all

worship the same God?

8 MarchThe Grea Hall, 730

he Paul Slegha Memorial Lee ure

(sponsored by Granada TelevIsion)

H,s Honour Judge S ephen TUmlm,

HM Chief Inspee or 0 Pnsons or

England & Wales

The State of the Pnsons

Centre for late Antique & MedievalStudies

ursday, Room 28A, 1730, S rand

Campus

11 MarchProfessor Ma ye De Jong (Utreeh )

Writing and power In the Early Middle

Ages. the case of the Heavenly

Letters

p

mm r

Department of Electronic andElectrical Engineering ResearchSeminarsHeld on Thursdays a 13 00-14 00,Room 1 A. ain Building, Sand4 MarchChris ine Thomas (British AerospaceDefence, Dynamics)

oORIS - An Integrated Approach toSystem Design

18 MarchDr Roger Fairwood (Department ofElectronic and Electrical Engineering,University of Surrey)A framework for generic visualrecognition of 3-0 objects

25 MarchTo be announced

Biomedical Sciences Division ­Physiology and Vascular BiologySeminarsHeld on Wednesdays at 16.30-17.30in the Physiology Lecture Theatre,Kensington Campus3 MarchProfessor Norman Staines(Immunology Group, King's)Taming autoimmunttv

10 MarchDr Di Newham (Physiotherapy Group,King's)Voluntary activation of human skeletalmuscle

17 MarchDr Bob Wallis (CIBA Horsham)Hirudin, from leach to man

24 MarchDr S ewart Sage (PhysiologicalLaboratory, Cambridge)Endotheltal cell signalling:electrophysiological studies on intactvessels

Humanities Computing SeminarCommittee Room 18.0016 MarchProfessor Barry Ife (King's)The Corpus of Contemporary Spantshproject

History and Philosophy of ScienceSeminarsHeld on Thursdays a 14.15 in Room1B22, S rand Campus4 MarchPro essor Anas aSlos Brenner(Universl e de oulouse, Le irail)ScientifiC development accordmg to

Duhem's later philosophy

11 MarchProfessor David Papineau (King's)

ConscIOusness and the antipatheticfallacy

18 MarchDr David Gooding (University of Bath)Simulating real experiments

The Randall SeminarsThe Randall Institute, 26-29 DruryLane WC2All seminars start promp Iya 17.00,unless otherwise stated. Drinksa terwards in the Re ectory.

1 MarchProfessor Jean Thomas (Departmento Biochemis ry, CambridgeUniversity)Chromatin structure and geneactivation

8 MarchDr John Scholes (The Randall Institute,King's)Leukocytes in the nervous system

15 MarchDr Michael Robertson (MRC Centreor Protein Engineering, Cambridge)Phage dIsplay and E coli expression ofthe high affinity IgE receptor-subunitectodomain

Age Concern Institute ofGerontology Seminar15.40-17.00, Room 3/8 CornwallHouse Annexe9 MarchProfessor Michael Bury (RoyalHolloway & Bedford ew College)A study of elderly people aged 90 andover: findings and methodology

The Randall InstituteDevelopmental Biology SeminarsAll Seminars start promp Iya 17.00unless 0 herwlse sated3 MarchDr Gill ay (Ches er Bea ty Researc

Labora ories)Gene expressIOn in haematopoietic

progenttor cells

10 MarchDr Jon Clar e (Ana omy and CellBiology, U DS)Segmental organisation and celllineage restrictions in the chickembryo hindbrain

17 MarchDr Alastair Reith (Ludwig Institute forCancer Research, London)Receptor tyrosine kinase signallingand the regulation of mousedevelopment

24 MarchProfessor Peter Andrews (Universityof Sheffield)Retinoic acid and differentiation in EC

cells

Byzantine and Modern GreekSeminarsMondays, Room B6, 17.301 MarchDr Ruth Webb (King's)

Language in the late Byzantineeducational system

8 MarchChristopher Robinson (Oxford)

Place in the early poetry of Ritsos

15 MarchProfessor Ihor Sevcenko (Harvard)Byzantine and the west in the tenthcentury

2 MarchGltmpses 0 Paradise

John Ta e er s a world amouscomposer, who graduated rom heRo a Academy 0 us'c and fesgained public acclaim a theperformance by he LondonSin onle a of hiS drama IC can a a TheWhale In 965 Over he years thecon empla Ive Side of hiS na ure haslead him In spltltual directions and hiScommtment to he RUSSian OrthodoxChurch IS now eVident In all hiS worn 1992 John Tavener wascommissioned 10 wnte works forseveral major UK musIc fes IvalsIncluding Chel enham, Ches er andthe Aldeburgh More recently he hasreceived commiSSions from theAus ralian Chamber Orches ra and heMusIcians Benevolent Fund. He wasalso he subJec of a recent BBCdocumen ary by Geoffrey Haydon,entitled Gltmpses of ParadIse andscreened for the irst time onteleVISion In ovember 1992

Jo n a ener be a rng abo ISI e ano wor as a co poser 0 sac ed

sca'30 eCape 'SDe 0110 ed by a seq ence 0 readngsand us c (b a ener) or Len a soa ng place n e C ape A

recep ,on In e Comml ee Room Willbe 'eld a e ards and s a' and'r'ends w shlng 0 a end s ouldcon ac he Chaplaincy on ex 2373.

10 MarchCanon Anthony Harvey (CanonTheologian of Wes mrnster Abbey)

FaIth In the BIble

10 MarchThe Revd Philip Chester (King'sCollege Chaplarn)Title to be announced

10 MarchCiaran Crilly, vlolrn and Chau Yee Lo,piano

The College Euchans sermons to beheld dunng the Len Term 1993 on

Wednesdays at 13.10 Congrega lonallunch available after he service Allare welcome3 MarchCanon Stephen Platten (Archbishop ofCanterbury's EcumenicalSecretary)FaIth In doubt

Recitals3 MarchPhllip Rlordan, oboe and Phillp Bonser,c arrne

8 MarchJane Tuppen, lute and ElizabethDyes,oboe

17 MarchY,ng Hwee Chua, violin and athrynHannen , flute

Please note that copies of thesermons from the last hree years arefree and available from the Chaplaincy

11 Marcha ryn a ne " u e a d PIP

R orda ,oocem s c ay Po e c and 0 e Is

16 MarchA ge a Seo -Sm ,sop ano andLI dsey Rev- ,clan e

mus c B en, Bus a d R RBenne ,Schumann, Poulenc and

o egge

18 MarchJane uppen and C.ara LI ,'u e andpiano 0 nclude musIc by a ,nu

The Cen re for Medical Law andE h,cs rn conJunc Ion WI h he Law­Medicine Center, Case WesternReserve University School 0 Law willbe holdrng a conference a Ing'sCollege London on 18-19 March Theconference entitled JustIce and Health

Care will commence a 13 00 on 18March and conclude on 18 00 on 19March Admission IS by rnvl atlononly For more Information pleasecon ac Andrew Grubb on 071-8732382

10 Marchlan e p (ormer 0, Un, ers ty 0

Manches e )B,ze 's Djamdeh

(

Departmen of MUSIC, 13 05 (please

nng 071-873 2029 to check onvenues either Grea Hall or G01)Admission IS free

Institute of Advanced MusicalStudies

ednesda s a I 7 00 In Roe GODepa e' 0, s c, 52-3

S ra d Admssron 'ree. W 0 cke3 March (14.30-16.30)SP F e AnnlversaCo posers' For m r) reduced b

ICO a Lel:anu (K ng's)

Concerts1 MarchPhilip Bonser, clarinet and John Page,horn musIc by Lu oslaws I andHrndeml h

4 MarchValane Koh and Chau Yee LomusIc for one and wo pianos

9 March, Great Hall, 19.30King's College Orchestra musIc bySibellus, Fran<;aix and Ravel

•

Tonbridge. Kent40 minutes to Charing Cro three

bedroom end of terrace house to let in

quiet road, close to station, Park and

High Street. Central heating, nice

outh-facing garden. Ideal for

commuter and family. £420 pcm.

Please call ext 1187 or tel 0732-365 041.

Guest RoomsAvailable for staff and vi iting academics

in two self-contained flats at theHamp tead campus for the special price

of £ I0.50 per guest, per night. There

are direct bus route to the Strand and

Kensington Campu cs and easy aece

to the Jubilee, orthern andMetropolitan lines. The flats are readily

aece sible by car with parking for gue ts

To book, or for further information,

please contact Campus Service on

071-435 3564.

Searching for a flat/house to rentre pon ible merican academic

couple eek a flat or hou e to rent in

London for a 13-month period from July

1 3 through to July 1994, the exact

date are negotiable. Preference is for

two or three bedrooms, with a separate

li ing room and a full equipped

kitchen; with a large refrigerator, clothe

washer and dryer. Two bathrooms are

preferred but one is acceptable; there

mu t be a hower/bath combination.Central heating is preferred, but our

main concem is that the place i warm in

the winter.

The preferred location is orth or

West London; within a fairly easy walk

to shopping and the tube or train. We

are prepared to keep an automobile if

there is easy parking. My wife i an

experienced gardener, so we would be

delighted to take care of a garden or

plants. The rent i negotiable.

First contact: John Porter, tel 071-873

21 2 or 0 1 692 4169

9.30 - 17.00

uring the Ea ter Vacation,

22 March - 23 pril 1993, the

Library will open as follows:

IOn opemn hou1-, er

Monreso Rd\!Ion - Fri

Garden flat in HampsteadOne bedroom; two eparate double

beds, two WC . Completely furni hed

including all kitchen appliances and

security sy tern. Available February, for

about four months at £200 per week or

eight month at £175. Tel 071-4354593

all hour.

Randall Instituteopen when Institute i open

All part ofthe Library will be closed

from 15.45 on April 7 until 9.30 on 14

pril. The Library does not open on

Saturdays during vacation.

Cottage wantedCottage sought for four weeks from

approximately 22 March, suitable for

one or two persons in Oxfordshire orWiltshire. Please contact Ingrid Persaud

on ext 2203.

Kensington CampusMan - Fri 9.30 - 17.30

Strand Campustrand Building Library

Mon - Fri 9.30 - 17.4-

Old Library

Man - Fri 9.30 - 17.45

Embankment Library

Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30

trand Level 5

Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30

u ic Library

Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30

Coleridge Library

\!Ion - Fri 9.30 - 17.00 except

22 and 23 March 9.30 - 19.00

rnp un. e rn, r

oom 140 in the Old Library

now offer a range of computer

based facilitie to Library

user. There are eight Macinto h LCII

micro, and two PCs, pIu pecialised

equipment for LEXI on-line earching,

for the u e ofCD-ROMs and for the

Careers Centre Prospect service. Thefacilities are available from 9.00 until

20.30 on Mondays to Thur day. 9.00

until 18.30 on Fridays and 9.30 until

17.00 on aturday during termtime.

Library taff are u ually available to give

advice during the day, Monday to

Friday.

The facilities offered are:

MACS: Word 5, Macinto h Ra ics

PCs: Word for Windows 2, Excel 4.0

CD-ROM : CETEDOC Library ofChri tian Latin Texts, Modern

Language Association Inrernational

Bibliography, Thomas Aquina ,Opera

OmniaTwo printers are available for use with

the MACs, an Imagewriter (for which no

charge i made) and a La erwriter,

which charges Sp per sheet, and is

operated by a Library Flexicard

(photocopy card).

sers may book the MAC and the

CD workstation in advance, by

contacting the Enquiry Point in the Old

Library (ext 2424, direct line 071-873

2424). Members of the School of Law

may book a MAC for a maximum of two

hours a day, up to one week in advance,

other u ers may book 24 hr in advance.

Anyone may book the CD workstation,

again for a maximum of two hours a day,

again up to one week in advance.

Di k for use with the MAC and the

PC are available in the Library, or may

be purcha ed from the Computing

Centre.

P cl

..,

new leaflet - Inlroducing King's ­i being di tributed thi week to

those who are the initial contact

poin for Commml. The new leaflet ha

been produced by the Pre and

Publication Office in re pon e to

reque t from academic and non­

academiC colleague to provide a brief

introduction to the College for those who

know little about it.

Departmen may wi h to send copies

to, for 10 tance, potential research

funder in mdu try or commerce; those

inVited to lecture at the ollege; short­11 ted applicant for posts; overseas

contacts; and people participating in

short courses at King's. The leaflet WhyKing's, available from the Student

Recruitment Office, is more uitable for

sending to those offered undergraduate

places at the College.

Further copie of Inlroducing King's are

available free from the Pres and

Publication Office, ext 3202.

the rapid growth m demand for telecom

service 10 these Cl tie .

Their local numbers v,JlI al 0 beextended b ' the addition of an extradIgit a the tart of the eXI ting number.

. t the same time, all mternatlonal

diallmgcode ""ill change from the 010prefi to 00. Thi will bring the C 10to

line With the re t of Europe, as reqUired

b the E .

Anyone ordenng enough tatlonery to

take them beyond April 19 5 please take

note.

Chris Kenyon Jone

Director of Public Relation

ou will have seen from the

in ertion that un Life UnitService Ltd have arranged a

seminar in the ouncil Room onThursday 1J March 1993 at 18.00.

Whilst the College doe not in any

way sponsor this event or wish to

associate itself with personal financial

planning, the seminar could be useful

for members of staff who are

con idering seeking profes ional advice

about their per onal financial affairs or

planning for retirement.

have been a ed to write a paper

for the College mmittee about

internal communication in the

College. I would be glad to hear from

an member of taff who has view not

on I about Commml and the hool

new letter, but about an other way 10

which communication does (or doenod) take place in King' . Please giveme a ring as oon as po ible on ext3202 or drop me a qUick note (you can

fax to 071- 72 0214 or e-mail to the

nu mber given on the back of Commm/).

(

he last I l:e of Commml

mentioned the new Equal

Opportunltle Policy, the

policy on xuaJ and Raciall-iaras ment

and the Policy on AID at the Work place.he new', '0 moking' policy and the

policy on Jcohol and Drug buse atWork were also mentioned. In tead ofprinting the policies m Commml, we'vedecided It would be more effective toclrcu late copie of them to each member

of staff. Thi will be done hortly.

In the meantime, if you ha e any

quenes relating to the new pollcie ,

please contact the Personnel Officer for

our hool or area.

\1arjone Young

Director of Per onnel and Training

nyone requiring custom-madelaboratory glas ware or the

repair of such items please notethat at Manresa Road we have a fully­

equipped work hop staffed by Fred

Duell who has over 40 year experience

and expertise. Charges are £30 per hour

plus materials. Please contact u for all

your glassblowing needs and advice or

as istance on laboratory gla sware: Fred

Duell, ext 4740 or Doug Grant, ext 4843.

DO Ball

Deputy College Secretary(Planning & Re ources)

ritish Telecom ha announced

that on 16 April 1995 all K

geographic area code will

have a J inserted after the initial O. For

example, the Dundee code changes

from 0382 to 01382; the London codes

change from 071 to 0171 and 081 to

0181; and so on.

Bristol, Leeds, Leicester,

. ottingham and heffield will each

receive entirely new code to help meet

nD

ur annual open day for

tudents, parents, teacher

and careers advisers will beheld at the trand and King'S College

School of Medicine and Denti try on

Friday 23 April 1993, between 10.30­

13.00 and 14.00-16.30.

Further detail are available from

usanne French in the tudent

Recruitment & Exchanges Office at

Cornwall House, ext 3003.

Please note that vi its to KCSMD are

by ticket only.