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ewsletter
he College held two
pre entation ceremonies forthe first time this year, and
for the first time u ed the Central Ilall,Westminster instead of the Royal
Festival Hall. More graduate - 1,400
than ever before were presented to the
Chairman of Council and the Acting
Principal, Professor Arthur Lucas.
They were watched and applauded by
some 3,400 family members and friend.
The new venue provided an
appropriately grand euing which was
enhanced by the addition of
architectural 'tubes' sporting the new
College logo, and contributed an
excellent backdrop for official andunofficial photographs. I t was,
however, uncomfortabl crowded at
ome points, and the College IS
currently looking at ways to alleviate
this problem.
Two Presentation Fello\\ were
admitted, with College Orator John
Muir providing eloquent tributes to the
life and work of Sir Thomas Ilingham,
Member of Council and the new
Master of the Rolls, and Mr Maurice
Wohl, property dealer and
philanthropist, and a particularly
generous donor to KCSM D.
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PresentationDayat King'Opposiu: Proftssor Arthur Lucas, SIr
Jamts Spooner (Chairman ofCounc:l),
John Muir, (Colltge Orator) and
Prtstntation Ft/lows, Mr Maunct \.\loM
(left) and Lord Justice Bingham
Bt/ow: the ctremony in full swing with
backdrop specially created by Pentagram,
who desigrud the n('ffl) College marque.
BOl/om: part ofthe procession waiting to
enter the hall.
P e
n 1 September senior
officer of the College
braved the height and the
element [0 climb ontO the roof of
Cornvvall House Annexe and raise a new
College flag, bearing our marque. This
vI-as to celebrate D-Day - the day when
the College' new corporate visual
identity wa Introduced. After months of
planning and consultation the College
went public and proudly displayed its
new marque to the outside world, with
the two flags specially commissioned for
the trand Campus and Cornwall
Hou e, new stationery, a host of leaflets,
brochures, newsletter, posters,
advcrtlsement , display stand, followed
shortly after by the Postgraduate
Pro pectus. Later in the month we used
the opportunity of the Pre entation
Ceremonies to splash our identity boldy
acro s We tminster Central Hall.
Reaction to date has been very
positive from all staff, but there is still a
lot of work to be done. The next
undergraduate prospectus, our principle
recruiting [001, will have to be
developed in the new style. Work i in
progress with the College's annual
report. Many more publications have
to be re-styled. A manual of guidelines
for those who wish to produce their
own artwork for simple publications is
being developed and we will keep all
who are interested in this area
informed as to it progress. The
College's exterior signs are being
looked at.. 'ew van livery will have to
be commissioned.
A [0 bc expected With such a major
exerCise, there are a few teeth Ing
problem. We are still working on
computer templates and while we can
offer a current version of the stationery
template on a :vIAC disk, we would
like to improve it further. We still have
to solve the problem of recreating these
for PC u ers with in the College. As
soon as we have these ready we will let
all readers know. In the meantime if
staff have any particular querie about
the new identity please contact the
Press and Publications Office on
exten ion 3202 who will try to assist.
hnstine jamleson
Publications Officer
COIJl1JleJl!
tell uu
In he
hh n t ar e.
p\'a bra dl.
ren ind 0-
'f here \\ 're no 'er, clear me~sage~
"or u t ta C on'anJ in edl m
Comm t and In commi >Ionmg the ne\\
de~1 'n I he general le el of
alls "action with the ne\\~lctter seems
Isurprl m I) ?!) high and. \\here there
\'a~ critici m, one set 0 "Iew \\a~
o t n balanced out b another. for
cxampk. four people thought \\le
lhdn't arr nough from thc. lence
choob, "hd- three thulJ"ht \\e didn't
ha 'e enough rom IllJmanltle~and
La", and fi e peopl"~ plea to have
more about the ,>oelal li e 0 the
Colkge \\a 0 I-"ct b) another i c
people m,t1nwinm' the. \\ould likc to
~ce Ic~., of thi., in the nc".,lcttcr. So on
the~e count we reckon \le may be
getting it about right.
There \\a , ho\\c\er. a .,ubst:lntlal
moan ( rom 10 respondcnts) that the
material In Gomment \\'a~ out-o -date by
the tlmc the) reccl\led It. mee we arc
vcr) careful only to Include event on
dates that arc a ter the dispatch date
from the printer's, \\C thll1k the delay
In '>ome people' rCCl:I"ing the
ne\\'~letter must be caused by Internal
factors,o wc arc sending a request
"\lith thi editiOn to departmental
ecr rle and -hers \-\I ha di tnbute
Co.m t ado oa.,qulc I as
the an.
While \e do pe lally commission
some rt I "'hlch \-\le thlll ill be of
u e or lot re t to mo t readers, or fun
to read, \\le Impl do not ha e time to
\\fite m ch oursehe and our malO
ore I., material \-\I hi hi submitted to
u~. \\ ch we edit 0 try to mamtalll a
balan e e"eral responden as ed for
more new about re eareh projee , and
\\le \\ould be happ) to earr more in
thiS line, pro",ded It I reasonably short
and bear m mind the interescs of the
non-specialist reader.
I people thought that Comment was
'tOO e tabll~hment orientated', This is
difficult to Judge. beeau e It depend
on your stand pomt, and on where the
balance lie between mforming people
o College policy In articles that are,
me"ltabl.,likel to be wrmen b
cnlOr College staff, and allowing
others to ha 'e their sa). We ery rarely
get an. thing ~ettlng out alternative
pomt of View, but we are happy to
carT) these a~ pieces by named
individuals or as letters to the Editor.
'I here were al 0 several reque cs for
profiles of academiC departmencs or
group of non-academic staff, and we
agree that the e would be u eful. We
think thi needs to be done on a more
organised baSIS, 0 we will aim to
eomml~Slon these specially, tarting
with those units that are of interest to
most members of the College.
\10st people were not keen on the
idea of more advertisements, and
claimed not to read them anyway. We
" ill continue to take small ads free, and
display advert",mg on a covering-our
cost baSIS. :\ rate card for the latter is
available from the Pres and
Puhllcatlons Office on ext 3202.
Chr"lIne Kenyan Jone
Director of Public Relation
Pro/lSSo Arthur Lucas and Barry I/e
raISe the College's new flag on the ro%/
Cornwall /louse Annexe on J September,
The flag bears the logo designed byPentagram and was commissioned to mark
the introductIon 0/the Colleges new
corporate visual idenoty (see update on
page Z)
Page
':'vIanagement Group' has been
en hflned in the new College
Committee, prOViding a clear! visible
Inter ace bet\i\een office-holder and the
committee )stem.
Wc con Idered the operation of the
AcademiC Roard and ItS tanding
Committee, and came to the conclusion
that the tandll1g Committee had
functioned rea onably well. We have,
however, recommended that Standing
Committee papers should be made
more accessible by full copies being
lodged in chool Offices and the
Librarie ,and that - in order for
members of the 130ard to have a stronger
influence on the affairs of the College
the Academic Board should meet termly
to debate substantive issues and thus
inform ub equent policy-making
processes.
The Working Group recommended
that greater cffort hou Id be made to
enhance lay participation in the work of
the Appointed Committee of the
Council, and that the appointment of lay
membcrs to chair for the Amenities
Committee, the Estates Policy
Committee, the afety Policy
Committee and the Staffing Policy
Committee should be considered. On
the same lines, we considered there was
a need to synthesize the business of the
Appointed Committees, and the new
ollege Committee, for the benefit of
the Council (particularly its lay
component, and especially with regard
to major policy is ue such a the
Strategic Plan, the structure of the
academic year and the intended merger
with C:'vI D ); the formation of the new
tanding Committee of Council is
intended to meet this purpo e. For
Imilar rea on it ha been agreed that
the chairs of Appointed Committee
who are not members of Council hould
be required to attend Council meetings.
In considering our recommendations,
the Council agreed that the President of
the Student' union should receive
unre er ed paper of the College
Committee and, although he or she will
not be a member, the President and
other member of the College will be
in ited to join meetings of the
Committee on occasion. The papers of
the College Committee - other than
reserved bu iness - will be made freely
available, but it i expected that these
will normally be in the form of action
notes rather than full minutes.
and taffing Policy Committee), the
Prlllcipal (or Vice-Pflnclpal), one
academic taff member of the Council,
one non-academic member of the
Council, and the President of the
'tudents' Cnion, plus the College
Secretar as secretary of the Committee.
The Committee will meet twice a year
with the College Committee to re lew
major poli('y deci ion; It will act for the
Council \1 hen It IS not practical or a full
meeting of Council to DC called. and will
In general considcr business referred to
It by the Council.
'I he Council has nO\1 agreed these
recommendation and. a. a re ult, the
Planning and I{esourcc Committee and
the AcademiC Policy Group have been
dissolvcd.
One of the Working Group's main
criticisms of the previou~ structure was
that the P1:Inn ing and Hcsources
Commlttce - formed In rcsponse to the
College merger and the Jarrett tudies
of 198-, to help reconcile the conflict
between academic aspiration and
resource availability - had in practice
proved eumhersome and less-than
effecti\e, mainly because of its size.
The Working Group pointed out that
mo t of the planning for the Strategic
Plan had in fact been carried out by the
'\cademic Policy Group.
We abo drew attention to the fa t that
informal management group, in our
case the I\cademle Policy Group, are
II1crea. ingly ommon In higher
education a institution see the need to
re pond swiftly to external demands and
opportunities, to define and te t policy
options and to prepare Implementation
trategies against a background of
competing demands for limited
re.ource. Ilowcver, the fact that these
groups are not part of the formal
committee tructure can create tenSion,
and the duality of decision-making
through a mixture of formal and
informal systems can be a source of
frustration and confusion. C nder the
new system, therefore, the concept of a
eett
The Council 01 ils July meelmg agreed 10
some imporlonl changes 10 Ihe commiflee
struclure ofthe College. Bill SI. de, Ihe
College Secretory, here describes the changes
and Ihe Ihinking Ihotled 10 them.
The Planning and Resource
Committee in June commis ioned a
small Working Group - consisting of
Professor Ife, Professor Kennedy, the
Deputy ecretary (Planning and
Re ources) and myself - to con ider and
make recommendations on the
governance and committee structure of
the College.
The major recommendation of our
report to Council in July was the
formation of two new committees and
the dissolution of two others:
- a College Committee compfl ing the
Principal, the Vice-Principal, the Ilcad
of chools and the enior Officers.
This Committee will be accountable
both to the Council and to the Academic
Board through its Standing Committce.
Its terms of referencc will be policy
formulation (as distinct from policy
determination which will rcmain within
the remit of the Council and thc
Academic Board), planning, monitoring
performance, resource distribution, and
superintending the day-to-da
execution of the College's bu iness.
The Committee will meet weekly in
hort e ion to upcrintend and co
ordinate day-to-day College bu ines ,
and monthly in longer ses ion to
deliberate more substanti e i sues.
The Chairman of Council or hi
nominee will have ex officio right of
attendance and will receive Committee
papers.
- a Standing Committee of Council,
whose members will be the Chairman
(or Vice-Chairman) of Council, the lay
Chairman (or, if the Chairman is not a
lay -member, another lay-member) of
each of the six Appointed Committees
of the Council (being the Delegacy of
KCSMD, Amenities Committee,
Estates Policy Committee, Finance
Committee, afety Policy Committee
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Council, but a replacement is being
sought for Profes or L .'v1 Bethell, who is
leaving the Cniversity. Professor P F
tott ha been appointed as a member
of Council after consultation with
Westminster City Council. Professor
L llowell and Or P J Whitfield have
been elected a new professorial and
non-professorial representatives on
Council. The new Student members of
Council are Ben Eiger (President of
KCL C); Susie Gentleman (Vice-
Pre ident, Welfare and Education) and
imon Forbes (Treasurer). Viq Ahmed
(Publications abbatical) will be an
observer.
Council membershipThe follo\\ing members of Council have
retired" ith effect from the end of the
1991-92 ses,ion:
'ir Robin :\uld
Profe sor I .. I Ilethell
vIr J \' \lulr
Professor, 'orma Rimier
Profe~~or F E G Cox
Or \1 J Laird
and chairn1cnrffii1:
Sir James pooner
Sir John Cadogan
Chairman
he Council at its meeting on
1 October re-elected the
existing Chairman, ice
Chairman and Treasurer to scrve for the
1992-93 sess ion:
Vice
Chairman
Finance Mr P C Macnamara
Safety Policy Professor R NI 11 ill
Estates Policy Professor S W E Earle~
he three new divisions in the
chool are as follows:
Biomedlcol SClI!rlCI!S (now expanded to
include BiophySICS and the Strand
based 13 iochem is try);
Heolth Scil!rlCl!s (which remains the same
as before);
LifeScil!rlCl!S (which includes the old
Bio phere Division, Immunology and
Ken ington-based Biochemistry).
Studt1lt members
Jonathon Kohn
John Ilouchln
'ick I-Ia) monds
Susle Saar)
. ir Jarne~ Spooner and \lr J K Wright,who completed their term~ of office at
the end of the last eS~lon, have been
reappointed: Sir James for three years
and VIr Wright (at hiS request) for one.
VIr John Williams, Chairman of KCLA,
replaces Sir Robin Auld as a member of
Council. Professor C :vi Kauffman
continues to represent the enate on
.'v1rJV.'v1ulr
.'v1r P C .'v1acnamara.
taffing Policy Professor R .\11 Griffiths
Amenitie
Treasurer
Council has elected the follo\\ ing
Chairmen of Committee:
Pa c:
The Hampstead Campus
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Cerry Ifuglres, lire College Bu ar, rwn"tesabout the College's n c mpus
O n 1 'eptember King'
ac U1red the major portion of
the Hamp tead Campus
formerly o\Vned by Queen Y1ary and
We tfield College, containing
residential accommodation for ome 550
tu dents. An agreement for King's to
have exclUSiVe use of about 60 per cent
of the accommodation in an adjacent
hall of residence, wh ich for the
immediate future will remain in the
ownership ofQY1W, will bring the tOtal
nu mber of residential places on the
Campu avail:Jble for King's students to
~ome 600.
The College Council appro ed plans
to acquire the Campus for long-term
development in 19 9. Council's
deci ion \\a ba<;ed on the need to
maintain the College's 0 erall
re idential capacity, following the
intended disposal of the Kensington and
Chelsea Campuses and their integral
halls of residence, tOgether with
Y1alcolm Gavin Ilall and Ilalliday Hall
(di posed of in 1991)-allplannedas
part of the College'S development of the
Thameslde ampus.
Through circumstances which were
unforeseen in 1989, thc acquisition of
Ilampstead Campus has occurred in
advance of the disposal of other
properties. Th is ha se erely trained
the College's financial situation, but the
Immediate benefit to student is an
increase of some 30 per cent in the
number of re Idential places a ailable in
properties managed by the College.
Therefore, until such time as market
conditions are conducive to the disposal
of properties, the increa ed provision of
bed pace is a ery welcome but
temporary bonus. There is, however,
cope for longer-term development of
residential facilities at Hampstead, and
to this end the Finance ommittee ha
approved funds for a tudy to determine
the feasibility of new build at the
Campus.
The Hampstead Campus is situated
at Kidderpore !\venue, 'NW3. The
residences divide almost equally north
and south of the Avenue and are
contained in a mix of propertie built
bet\Veen I 90 and 1970. .ntil now the
Campus ha provided fully-catered
accommodation, but work will start
shortl on a rollll1g programme of
refurbi hment which among other
improvement, will pro ide kitchen and
dll1ll1g facilities on each floor of
Il1dl Idual re Idences to enable residents
to cater for themselve . The first phase
of the work, which will cOSt some 2
million, will concentrate on the older
building and is due for completion in
1994. In the meantime, a pay-as-you-eat
cafeteria \ViII be available to residents to
u pplement the existing self-catering
facilitie and provide ervices for visitors
during vacations.
Included in the premises acquired at
Ilampstead is the Library building, with
an area which totals 2,7 0 square metres
on even floor. It will immediately
provide much needed space for book
stOrage and, a the Campus develops,
will pre ent the opportunity to increase
stud and ocial space for residents.
Y1 iss Susan James had been appointed
re ident Campus ervices Manager, and
he is re ponsible to the Bursar for the
admini tration and day-tO-day
management of the Campus. She is
assisted by Y1 is J i11 owray.
Y1 iss Angela Cole has been appointed
resident Warden, and she is responsible
to the Bursar for the pa tOral care and
welfare of residents.
The official address of the Campus is:
The Ilampstead Campus
King's College London
Kidderpore Avenue
London. I'W3 7ST
Telephone 071-4353564.
Once the .\IIichaelmas Term has settled
down, we intend to arrange a
familiari ation visit to the Campus for
staff: in particu lar, those who have a
College or departmental responsibility
for the admission and/or welfare of
students. Details will be published in a
future ed ition of Comment and circulated
to Heads of chools and Departments.
In the meantime, any queries concerned
with Hampstead Campus should be
addressed to Susan James at Hampstead
or to Gerry H ughes at the Strand
Campus (tel 071-873 2377).
'Igelllolder
Director of the Dc clop mental Biology
Ccntre
- a Join re ear h proposal on 'Crowd
de ectlon and anagement in an
under<>ro nd ) tern using Image
proce 10 prese nted to
CO 'ICYT;
- C A H, onda Ltda. KCL and the
antla<>o Ln erground Will continue
collabor tion In the use of Image
proce ing ·or the management and
control 0 underground trains. Joint
re earch programme on transputer-
ba ed parallel y tems \ ill be explored
betw -en L' ·\CII and KCL
- a JOint research programme on
transputer applications was established
at LTF .1 ('\Igorithmic paralleli ation
through me ge passlllg). Further
collaboration In the area of Digital
Ignal Proce Ing will be explored.
Thi wdl Include work to be based at
KCL on high performance computing
s stcms for modelling load in rotatory
giant mdl , real-time computing
system~ or digital control of vector
controlled AC dnve and Image
proces IIlg and pattern recogllltlon
applied to mineral proces 109.
KCL \\i11 be a ked to participate in a
C. 'IDO-funded proJect on indu trial
robotiCS III hazardous environments.
ReCiprocal Visits to KCL by CTF ~
academiCS wdl be organised.
- collaborative research work on
Computer Aided oftware Engineering
( A. E) or real-time systems will be
explored further with CACH.
ReCiprocal viSIts to KCL by CACII
academiCS will be organised.
Or Vela tin has been appointed
Visiting Professor in the Institute of
Informatlc to trengthen and formalise
"nks between the two institutions.
Other area of potential collaboration
With the e unl er ltIe include
multimedia for computer-assi ted
learnlllg, blOengllleerlng, remote
senslOg, Ind ustrlal quality control,
regional state administration. For
further detad please contact Or
cia tin on ext 2665, E-mail: .velastin.
L Jeml
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1- h It 'alonget~ n, \\orse 'ERC
\\0 Id con Id re bli hlO re :lr<.h
10 itute 0 heir 0\\ n \\ h Ich wo Id
:1110 n Co n iI to e. ert he nee I)
control nd :I--ord more con Idence in
he re urn) on their in men, In m
le \ 'lOg" College \\0 I 0 \\ell to
heed ch \\ rnings an create a senes
o re ear h centres \\hl hare well-
und d, ha e clear and cx:u)ed remit
an \\ hlch C' n be een b the outside
world a) pl:l es \\here re~arch money
would be \\ell spem. It IS our hope that
the Dcvelopmental BlOlog'y Re ear h
Cen re lone uch cen re and that Its
,uccesses will help totlmulate the
ormatlon of other centre) In our clence
chool at King' which have Similar
ambitions.
- at l;Sf\CII an Image I'rocessing
LaboratOry wa established with
financial backing from a local computer
'>ystems su ppl ier (~onda Ltda);
r ~erglO \c1a'>tln (Vision and
RobotiC Lab, Dcpartment
o Electronl<. and l:.lectncal
Engineering) recently VISited three
Chilean univer)itles In a programme to
explore potential academiC links With
King's College London, funded by the
Royal ~uclcty and the Chilean. 'ational
')clencc and '1 echnology /{e'>earch
Council (CO ·ICY'!').
-I he tour, which lastcd four week
IIlcluded the department,> of Informatlc
EngineerlOg (l;nlverslty ~antlago de
Chile, L. ACII), Electronic
Cl cchnical Cnlver~lty Fedenco anta
v1aria, CTF \1),lnformatic
Engllleenng (L'I F 1) and the
In titute of Informatlcs (Lnlver~lty
\ustral d' Chile. L \CI I) \\here Or
Vela,>tln gavc tcchnlcal talk to
;ludlence~of morc than 50 academiCS
and ,wdents.:\ number ofmecung to
c plore academiC collaboration werc
hcld at each host In tltutlon, rcsultlllg
III the followlIlg preliminary
Jgreemcnt :
he De 'elopmental l3iolo
Reseach Centre \\a ormall,
opened b Ir. 1ar RlChmon
head of the ERC, on 7 Jul), The
opening ceremony \\as attended no
only b the member~ 0 the Centre but
al 0 b 'member 0 the College
IOlere ted 10 re earch management. It
provided an excellent forum or the
discus Ion of key Issue 10 the current
climate of re earch funding 10
uni erslties. 'We were honoured to have
presentation from both te\\art
utherland and \!lark Richmond, [\\00
the mo t influential vOices 10 unlverslt)
management in BritalO toda , Both
trongly emphasised the need or
flexible structures for the management
of re earch; both IOdlcated that, in the
clence , the traditional departmental
structures may be mappropriate for the
neces ary concentration 0 e ort 10 more
focu ed area of re earch Intere~t during
a time of limited resources. ~parattng
the management and fundtng of
re earch and teach 109 was me itable and
nece sary; a situation which demanded
innovations in staff management.
Several suggestions were made ranging
from making up part of sta f alary from
research grants to novel career paths for
teaching orientated staff to ensure
appropriate recognition and staff
development. rood for thought!
ir \!lark concentrated his remarks on
the type of university en ironment he
wi hed to see created to ensure the be t
and most efficient use of ERC money.
With the breakdown of the old dual
upport ystem and the tran fer of fund~
to the re earch council E RC will
become even more picky about where it
put its money. That money \\ ill go
preferentially to in titutions which ha e
developed the necessary research
support infrastucture to en ure that
effective research can
be done.
ir Mark was clearly worned by what
he ha een in many universitie which
have not yet shed the trad itional
departmental ethos of support for a
broad range of research intere ts and are
not sufficiently discriminating about the
support and funding of research. lie
reluctantly went as far as to suggest that
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kept clo ely informed of the progre s of
the dl cu ion, and Acting Principal
Profes or Arth ur Lucas reported to the
College Council 10 July that ir Bernard
had expres ed support for the merger 'as
a model for others to follow'. A report
publi hed b the King's Fund (no
relatIOn!) on the uture of medical
education In London had quoted a
figure of200 a the annual medical
tudent intake for a merged chool, but
ir Bernard told Profes or Lucas that he
accepted that thi was too low, although
he was not prepared to hazard a guess as
to what the appropriate figure might be,given that some loss of places in London
was seen as inevitable.
L' \1 DS was formed in 1982 from the
merger of t Thomas's Hospital edical
ehool and Guy' Ilospital Medical_chool. 't Thomas's Ho pital (which
ha it root in a religious house founded
in the eventh century, and was named
after t Thomas a 13ecket in 1176) ha
been in eructing medical student since
1553. Guy's I lospital (which was
originally an offshoot of St Thomas's)
ha bcen teaching medicine ince the
early eighteenth century.
Like the current King's College
chool of \1edicine and Dentistry, the
new ehool will be one of six Schools
within King's. The realisation of the
aims of the merger is dependent upon
the pre-elinieal and biomedical eienees
of the merged institution being
physically integrated in a mixed
environment, and it is hoped this can be
achieved at Cornwall House. Council
heard in July that ir Bernard
Tomlinson had expressed his concern
about the fall-back position for the
merger if the conver ion of Cornwall
Ilouse for Life Sciences proved
impo sible, and that he had mentioned
the campu of t Thomas' as an
alternative.
The union ha been agreed in
principle by the L niversity of London.
It \-\ ill be progressed by a Joint Policy
Committee which will comprise the
chairmen of the governing bodies of
King' and of L\1 DS, and the Principals
and senior staff of the two institutions.
The Committee will appoint ad hoc
working parties on subjects such as Pre
clinical Studies; Clinical Medicine;
Clinical Dentistry; Legal aspects
(including staffing, estates and
constitutional matters) and Finance.
Jomt pre release Isued b
KlOg' and the LllIted \1edleal
:lnd Dental. choo!> of G y's
and t'1 homas' 110 pltal (L 1D ) 10
Jul) announced that L \11) pl3n to
unite \\Ith KlOg' .
The CounCIl 0 King's and the
CouncilofC,ovcrnorso L\lD have
agreed in prlOclple to the union, which
will be progr<:s cd through a Joint polic)
committee.
DI cu ion began 10 1990 between
the two IOstitution With a view to
enhancing medical education in
London. The major alms were:
- to ensur<: that more medical and
dental students ar<: educated In a multi
facult) environment (rather than in an
In,tltUtlOn dcdlcated onl) to medical
and dcntal education), and to promote
opportllnltl<:'> for colla!Jor:ltIon bet\\een
the medical and dcntal school and the
other biomedical and scientific
disciplines J\ailabl . In King' ;
- to brmg together t\l'O very trong
biomcclic3.1 and pre-clmical science
bases, and unparalleled clinical
re our es \\ ithin the. outh East Thame
Region. to form one of the country's
largest medical and dental teaching
centres, and to prOVide the trongest
pos ible ,>clencc base for teaching
3.nd rc'>c:lfch.
Plans for the union wcre \-\ell under
way befor<: th<: Governmcnt set up, in
October 1991, The London Inquiry into
the provision of health s<:rviees in
London. chaired by Sir llernard
Tomlinson. The Committee, which is
expected to r<:port thiS month, has been
omerger
Lord BUllerfield (left), Chairman ollhe
Council ofGovernors of Ihe Uniltd Medical
and Denial Schools of Guy's and SIThomas's Hospilals (UMDS) and Sir
lames Spooner, Chairman ofIhe Council ofKing's, drink a loasl on Ihe lerroce ofIhe
House ofLords to plans to unile their Iwo
institutions.
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· 'at onal Library, and author of man
boo • e!>a and articles onPOrt ese i tOf) and contemporary
"ocre
· b 'T onl Huberman i the new
permanent. full-lime Departmental
ecretary.
On I .\ugu t the Department of
Palaeography became part of the
Department of Engli h.
The Department of History and
Philosoph of cience has now merged
with the Department of Philosophy,
and from 1 August will be known as
the Cnit for Philosophy and eienee.
\ I C iC\\!edit: I I
he 1 93 Medical Law Review
will be published three times
a year by Oxford University
Press in a soeiation with the Centre of
:vledlcal Law and Ethics, at King's and
i edited by Profe sor lan Kennedy and
Andrew Grubb. The Review is a
cholarly journal intended for academics,
lawyers, legal practlOners, law students
and others interested in health care and
law. Each i sue will contain an
extensive commentary on recent
developments in medical law in the K,
and one I sue each year will contain a
commentary ection on recent
de elopments in the Commonwealth,
the Cnited tates of America, or
Europe.
Article are InVited on any aspect of
medical law and should be between
4,000 and 10,000 \\ords. ubmissions or
any correspondence on editorial matters
should be ent to the editors at the
Centre of Medical Law and Ethics,
King's College London, Strand, London
WC2R 2L . Tel 071-873 2382.For further informa/ion and a free
sample copy, please con/aCl: journals
Marketing Department, Oxford Uni'Ui!rsity
Press, Pinkhill House, Sou/hfield Road,
Eynsham, Oxford OX8 Uj.
· Ir. bdool aflm \ a d ha been
3ppolnted Lecturer m Ponugue e
HI tor,. He I a ormer tudent of
Kln l1 College London, and JOin the
Department following a Lectureship at
Leed Lni er i .
Pro e sor P J• l:mhall, Rhodes Pro es or
o Imperial I Il>tOf) , h been elected a
Fello\ o'the Sri I hA adem.
rom I OCtO r 1 2
Pro e or'\ Porter (Ilistory) ha been
appointed to the Rhodes Chair of
Imperiallli tOry from I OctOber I 3.
PrCJfe,sor _ t vart utherland, \ Ice·
Chancellor 0 - the C nlVerslt 0 London
and former Principal of King's, has also
been elected a Fellow 0 the British
Academy.
I) ·p.lrtnl om () IJ Htu ut.: t: \..
Br:1I.11 I.l n ud le
[)r Jane l{ohcrtS ( English) has h cn
made pplfe" or uf Engli h rom I
OCtoher I 'J'J2.
Professor I ony Davle, \Uectronlc
Electrical I~nglneenng)was made an
honorary member of the preSidency at
the graduation ceremony of the Faculty
of Electrical Engineering of the
Technical LnIVer Ity of Budapest on
I Jul .durlngwhlehhega eashort
speech (in English!). ThiS i believed
to be the first occasion at which there
has been International repre cntatlon at
thcir gradLJJtion ceremony. 'I he
C nlversity claims to he the olde t
'Technical L'nIVerslty' In Europe.
Professor Davies al 0 participated as an
OfficlJI Examiner 111 the defcnce of aDoctOral') hesls at the'f echnlcal
Cnl er Ity of Dresden In August. Such
an in Italion rom a LnlVersity in East
Germany would have bcen Virtually
Impo Ible pnor to German Lnlfication.
Dr l3ernhard V. el" has JOined the
Centre or Philosophical tud,e as
.\sslstant DirectOr for 1992 3.
New staff as of 1 October
V1anuel Villa erde Cabral, Prince
Henry the :"avigator Professor of
Portuguese History. Professor Cabral i.
a former DirectOr of the Portuguese
Several King's staff have received
notable academic honours in recent
months.
Profes or F E G Cox has been
appointed Gresham Profes or of Phy ic.
Profes or Cox is the first biologist to
hold this office, which date back to the
eventeenth century and has been held
by many eminent men of ciencc
Including ir ChristOphcr Wren.
Or M M Mackenzie (Philosophy) has
been appointed a Reader in Philosphy
1 -Pr n 1
On the recommendation 0 the Ac 109Principal, the College Council ha.-,
appointed Professor Richard \1 Gn Ith
as ice-Principal from 1 August 19 2 or
a year In the first instance. Profe sor
Grimth was born in Wales and
educated at Lancing College and King'
College Cambridge. He was a Fcllo>\ of
Iwyn College Cambridge for IX years.
a Fellow of Braseno e College Oxford
for ten years, and Professor of French at
the University of Wales College 0
Cardiff for 13 year.
He took up the Chair of French at
King's in 1990 and I al 0 Director of the
Re earch Centre for Twentleth-Centur
Cultural tudie. He ha er>ed on a '
number of public bod.e including the
Welsh Arts Council, the Central Bureau
for Educational i It and Exchange
and the General Ad I ory Cou nCI I of the
BBC. He is currently a memher of the
Iligher Education founding Council for
Wales. He wa recently made a
Freeman of the City of London.
Professor tanley Earle of the chool 0
Physical Science and Engineering wa
elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy
of Engineering at its July meeting.
Profes or ir John Cadogan, Ice·
Chairman of Council has al 0 been
elected a Fellow of the RAE.
John Mark, Senior Lecturer in
Economics in the King's Management
Centre, has been elected a foellow of the
Royal Statistical Society, London.
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1· tal rPettiAlaslair's It/e and work were remembered
al a mosl moving memorial service in lire
Colkg/! Clrapel on 7 Oclober, aI/ended byAlaslair's wife and Iris mOlher, Ihe
Principal, and many ofA laslair's friends,
colkagues andfonner colleagues. Tire
service included ekmenlS of several faiths: il
was kd by lire Dean and included Anglican
Irymns and ended wilh Ihe Colkge prayer,
bUI il also rejkCled Alaslair's links wilh Ihe
Friends (Quakers), and Ihe address was
given by Professor Harold Baum who Irad
jusl come from lire synagogue where he had
been involved inlheservice for Yom
Kippur.
The lexl of Professor Baum 's
address was as follows:
, 'Alastair would have been wrylamused to have known that he
would be the cause of my
speaking in this Anglican Chapel which
he loved, in a Quaker-inspired service
on, of all days, Yom Kippur, the JewishDay of Atonement. He would also have
been amused that I am reading this
address, since I always boast that I speak
better without notes. Frankly, I don't
trust my emotions today; given free flow
they would embarrass you, and prevent
me from doing justice to his memory. Ihave come here from my Synagogue,
where we have just completed thatsection of our day-long service when we
remember our dead loved ones, a
section which opens with 'This day we
remember those who enriched our lives
with love and beauty, with kindness and
compa ion, with thoughtfulne and
understanding'. And it is in that way
that we remember Alastair today.
"He was born in Renfrew, cotland
on 16 May, 1946, went to school in
Paisley and took an MA in English
Language and Literature at Glasgow
niversity in 1968. There he developed
his life-long interest in Anglo-Saxon and
Medieval literature, and there he met
his wife, Sarah, working on her the is in
Middle English. He joined King's
College as an Administrative Assistant
on his graduation in 1968 and spent his
entire working life either here or at
Chelsea College; working his way up,
through being Academic Registrar at
Chelsea and Deputy Academic
i'age 1v
Regl trar in King's College after the
merger, to being the Admlnistratl e
Officer of the chool 0 Life, Basic
:v1edical and Health cien e from the
time of its setting up.
"I3y that time I had already known
:\Ia tair well for well over ten years,
(indeed we were virtual academic twins,
ince I joined Chelsea College in theyear when he first joined King's), and I
had no qualms about head-hunting himfor my chool as soon a the pOSt wa
establi hed. I already was \ ell aware of
his total expertise in everything from
L'niver it I{egulations to Registry
procedures, from rules for home
students to personnel management. Ialso had per onal knowledge of his
limitles energ , his analytical capacity,
his total il1legrit and above all his
courte y, helpfulness, kindnes and
genero it). I believe that the
ubsequel1l success of our _chool show
how right I was in that choice.'·On Yom Kippur I frequently reflect
on the nature of free will and the humanspirit that wc call mind. As a s ientist, I
see the mind as operating within the
physical world but according to laws far
outside of simple :"ewtOnian
determinism; I also believe that the
mind evolved, and am intrigued at the
hypothesis that the original selective
advantage i:l in one creature being able
to think about what another might do. If
that is really so, then the mind has been
selected for empathy; and by that
criterion Ai:l tJ.ir's was truly a highlyevolved sou I.
"He was brought up in the
Presbyterian tradition, but became a
Quaker. In both senses he was a good
friend. nd his ensitivity and gentle
humoureds mpath were not just
reserved for his close associates. He was
a wonderful student coun ellor and his
work for the tu den t creche is sti 11
warml reml.:mbered, as is his role in the
LT."Bur AlastJ.ir wasn't just a nice
bureaucrat. lie was a man of many parts;
a cultivated man, a 10 er of literature,
music and Scotch whiske and an
extraordinary conversationalist. In the
early '70s a collcague in the Registry, in
desperation at Alastair's appalling
scrawl, gave him a Puffin book on
handwriting. His scrawl did not improve,
but thus began his passion for
calligraphy. I le became a Member of
the ocietyof cribes and Illuminators,
and taught an adult class in that subject
and his immaculate craftsmanship today
adorn man a proud certificate from
thiS College.
"On the Da of AtOnement we say
'You open the Book of Remembrance
and it speak for itself, for every man has
signed it with his deeds'. Look atAla tair's wonderful calligraphic picture
o the first er es of the Book ofGenesi ,and ou will see the man, in
the tyle, sentiment and perfection of all
he tried to do.
"You may be su prised to learn that at
school and niversity he was very
involved in the Boy co ut movement. In
that connection he climbed most of
Scotland' major mountains and was an
acknowledged expert and instructor in
the t ing of knot. He was a keen
cyclist, and Sarah paints a charmingly
ludicrous picture of Alastair, cycling
through I lolland on a bright yellow
:v1olton bike with 16 inch wheels and
drop handlebars. I n recent years hedeveloped a passion for the language
and culture of China, and through his
visits there had already established
himself a an important College link
with that country. Truly one can say that
the elements were so mixed in him that
:"ature might stand up and say to all the
world, "This was a man".
"13 ut the state of man is not always a
happy one. On Yom Kippur we say 'On
this day it is sealed, who shall be atpeace and who shall be tormented'.
Alastair tragically had his inner torment
and, to our sorrow, sought and made his
own peace. But to the extent that the
empathetic oul imprints itself on the
minds it interacts with, he is still with
us. As we say: 'His soul is bound up in
the bond of Iife. The death of the one
we now remember leaves a gaping hole
in our lives, but we are gratefUl for the
gift of his life'.
"The condolences we received at the
chool Office on the news of Ala tair's
death were as if we ourselves has
uffered a family bereavement. Well, we
were a kind of family. But our truecondolences must go to his closest loved
ones, arah and particularly his mother.
:v1ay the su pport of their faiths and their
clo e friends, and the deep sympathy of
this congregation sustain them as we all
remember our friend, Alastair
Pettigrew."
t 'L L hThe Vision and Robotics Laboratory
( ignals, Circuits and y tems
Research Group, Department of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering)
has recently taken delivery of
DIADEM a powerful multi-processor
system containing up to 36
asynchronously-coupled processors,
serial communications and analog!
digital conversion facilities. This is a
novel computer architecture
developed by British Aerospace
Defense Ltd. (Dynamics Division) and
is on a long loan to Professor A C
Davies and Or S A Velastin to tudy
real-time system architectures and
high-level hierarchical control sy. tems
for multiple-agent robotic en ironment .
PhD student Xia Fei will de elop
various 'demonstrators' starting with
the simulation of sensor-based path
planning algorithms for multiple (20 or
more) non-cooperative mobile robots
that have to avoid objects and each
other (this study also has application
to SE RC-funded work by the above
academics on image processing
techniques for automated detection
and analysis of crowds in confined
areas). Work will then culminate with a
scheme for high-level task sharing
between two or more assembly robots
co-operating in a single task (eg lifting
and placing a heavy object). I t is
expected that this collaborative
research programme between British
Aerospace Defence Ltd and King's will
improve the College' tanding in
robotics and formal design methods for
real-time computer ystems. For
further details, please contact Or
Velastin on ext 2665, E-mail: s.velastin
C\\ C Larc.h gm. \\ If ,cJThe Centre for Heat Tran fer and Fluid
Flow Measurement has received
notification that the award of the
following grants has been approved:
1 DrYianneskisandDr uen:£92,710
from the Process Engineering
Committee of SERC, for the
experimental investigation of flow
patterns and mixing characteristics of
stirred ve sel .
2 Or ianne kis: 12 ,657 ECL: from
the EC for a JOuLE 11 Programme
Project concerned with the effects of
fouling on the e ficiency of heat
exchangers in lignite utility boilers. The
project is in collaboration with the
Aerodynamics Lab of the :"ational
Tech nical niversity of Athens and the
Public Power Corporation of Greece
(Total EC contribution to all partners is
2 5,977 ECL:s).
3 Dr Yianne k,s: 0,000 ECL:s from the
EC for a JOL: LE I I Programme Project
concerned with the optimisation of
>tirred chemical reactors.. fhe project is
in collaboration with ten other European
Cniversities and three companies in
Germany, France, Ilolland, Portugal,
Uritain, Greece and Italy (Total EC
contribution to all partners is expected
to bc about 700,000 ECL:s).
Division of Engineering
Or:vl I' Clode and Or IJ :-\ Fenner have
received £30 I ,59 from the Teaching
Company Scheme ('reS) for a
theoretical and experimental
investigation of the Conform extrusion
process.
Or:vl P Clode has received funding for a
continuation of involvement in the joint
European Project, TE\1PlS The EC
funded project is conccrncd with the
e tabli hment of an In ·titute of Y1etal
Forming at the u ni er ity of ibiu,
Romania. The project i also in
collaboration with the L ni ersit of
Stuttgart, Germany, L ni ersityof
Ilannover, German and Cniversity of
Leuven, Belgium. (Total I::C
contribution equal> 72,000 ECl).
Ccmral Re. earch FundThe Central Research Fund has been
instituted for the purpo e of making
grants to members of the niversity
(other than present undergraduate
student and those registered for a
taught :vIaster's degree) cngaged on
specific projects of research, to assist
with the provi ion of pecial materials,
apparatus and travel costs. Applications
are con Idered or each term and the
next closll1g date for applications is
7 December 1992. Forms of application
and further particular may be obtained
from the Central Re earch Fund
ectlon, enate Hou e, Room 21a,
:vIalet treet, London, WCI E 7H . Tel
071-636000,ext3147.
(;ran In uppOrt of publiJ Ju ( niL, of licnc:c
Grants are available for new or
continuing activities or initiatives
directly concerned with the promotion
of the public understanding of science.
Over one hundred grants have already
been awarded for projects including:
science in theatre, dance and art;
travelling shows; science workshops and
eq uipment grants.
Applicants are asked to show clearly
how their proposal relates to the public
under tanding of science and if
uccessful, will be required to submit a
brier written report on how the grant
was used.
All applicants must be resident in the
UK. The maximum sum available for
an individual grant is £3,000 and
allocations will often be less than this
amount. The closing date for
applications are 31 March and 31
October each year, late applications will
be considered at the next round.
Application forms are available from Or
Ali on Evans, The Royal Society, 6
Carlron House Terrace, London SWIY
SAG. Tel 071-839 5561, ext 219.
LIB \-Cd·.I(J) I-cllow hipTru
Ciba-Geigy •Ace' Awards 1993
1995
The e awards will be made to research
groups to stimulate collaboration with
re earch group at Continental
European institutions in the fields of
chemi try, biochemistry, chemical
technology, chemical engineering and
biology. The awards will be made to
as i t the cost of short visits in each
direction between the collaborating
institutions by members of either of
the two research groups involved.
aluc of the Awards: £1,500 per
annum.
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tI) left nd Cltn/re tn /he ph%
the r meetln ',.
John Pcar,on, ('l'Inl/KCL Llal,on)
rote, or 1de Dlmltrovski of
the L n.\er'l . of kOPJe
\ !'>Ited the Centre for Ileat
'I rans er and )'Iuld flow :'vleasurement
tram 15 to I July. 'I he ISlt wa
ponsored by an EC I EY1PL grant
and helped to establish collaboration
bet\\een the re earch actl 11Ies of
KlI1g's and <';koPJe in the field of
rcclproGatlng engines. Also vi iting the
Ccntre wa, 1)r Zhen<.pang Liao,
/\ .. ,OClale Professor of the East Ch Ina
Institute of Technology from 25
ovember I')91 to 24 September,
,ponsorcd by the British Council. It
provided an excellent opportunity for
the cstabli hment of an academic link
and the completion of two projects
related to the nO\\ 111 reciprocatll1g
engine manifold
nat,on\\lde sGheme for oung
people to rend a ycar \\or Ing
in Indu,tr) be 'ore t rring their
UI1l\er It. GUIH <:. S aned It,. outh
l:a t'rn D, I Ion opcrCltlon 'rom an
office n King, I· le r n \" nd )·.Ie\..trlul
"n 'lnccnng Ikp' rtment In I . \fter
It cu nti full. e r 01' oper tion, a
Pre ·ntJ.t1on Ihy leas held 111 the
COIJl1 II Hoom, on 30 J I IH: I ')2, to sho\\
pro pec I e employers and other ho\\
w ce si dl. the schcmc h:l' been
wor 1O/!. \t thl' meell'lg, \\ hiGh \\:1
.lttendcd b. 0 cr 50 pcoplc, se\cn at the
,tudent'ln thc photograph \\ere c ch
Introduled lJ thclr sllpcr\ "or, and then
~a\c a I' mlllutc talk on the work they
11:Id done d Urlllg the year. \n eighth
,tIJdcnt calkcd on hOle thc tralnmg had
helped them.
.\11 the,e prese nratlons \\ ere
excellently prepared and de hvered \\ Ith
high qualit overheads and, 10 one case.
,lldes. \1uch ofthc \~ork deSCribed leas
computer-b:l,ed but \"mercu a \\ide
vanet) of tOpics rom :l\Sc:ssmcnt of old
:lite lan well In I.ondlln to library
facilities in Leatherhc:ld 1hey \\orked
for a range of eompanle, lIldudlng
Continuing EducationProgramme 1992-93The Continuing Education Programme
for J992-93 has now been pnnted and
some copie have been sent to each
School. Being the fim of its kind there
are bound to be errors and oml ions, or
which your Indulgence i craved, but to
some extent It should be regarded as a
pilot run for something bigger and
better next year and your comments and
suggestions will be welcome.
Where courses took place at the
beginning of eptember they have been
omitted, because we knew we could not
publish by then; our apologies and wc
hope to do better next time. llowever. If
your course does not appear, and IS not
in the above category, it cou Id just be
(
Continuing Education Records1991-92Thl I po Itlvel the la t call f.,r the
above records, the dreaded purple
forms. If you ran a short com e, or an
non-degree cour c, or a conference,
provided there was an attendance ee
the odds are it hould be included In the
Continuing Education Record. If III
doubt contact the Contlnu Ing I',ducatlon
C nit on exten ion 3055,
The I ligher Education Funding
Council has juSt announced that In
re pect of 1991-92 the CE Returns \\ ill
again form the ba IS of the Ir own
monitonng of continuing education
activity in the universitie ; this mean,
that whether we indicated for 1993/4
will be materially affected by our
showing in this exercise.
Senior CIBA-GEIGY Fellowships
These ellow hip are a a a' e to
lecturer, enior lec urer or reader In
the field of chemlstr). bio eml t .'
chemical technolo,,:. cheml
engineering and biolog ,p:l I tar) 10
It relation to cheml tf). I e
are made orapeno 0 0 rto12
month. for the amount 0' ~ 12,000 per
annum piu tra 'elhng expcn e
Application forms are 0 umablc
from: The ecretalJ, The CII3 \.
GEIGY Fellowship rrus . Hll e.
Road, . 1acclesfield, Che h re K 10
2. X Tel 0625421 33. 'I he clo ing
date I unday I . 'ovemocr 19'J2.
P gc 12
IcePen IOn PI
E very year the University of
London awards PURPLES to
its distinguished sportsmen
and women.
,. qual Opporwnitic
This year the following students of
King's College have been awarded a
full Purple for distinction in their
respective Sports whilst representing
the University
he College has recently
arranged a 'topping up'
pension scheme with Allied
Dunbar to run alongside the University
u perann uation Schemes.
The scheme, which under current
legislation may prove to be more
beneficial than free standing AVC
pension plans, although administered by
the College, is entirely funded by
employee contributions.
In conjunction with the pension
cheme, for those staff wishing to pursue
the possibility of enhanced pension
benefits, Allied Dunbar are offering a
Pension Planning Service. This Service
is pro ided free of charge and without
commitment, by M r Alister H unter
Blair, a Financial Planning Consultant
representing the Allied Dunbar Group
of Companies.
1f any member of staff is interested in
taking up this service and it may be of
particular interest to staff who cannot
achieve maximum pensionable service,
further details can be obtained from the
Deputy College Secretary (ext 2556).
.\\\.lrLl of l"niH:r It) Purple
G J Conroy (Engineering) for Assoc
Football
T:\ harp (Physics) for Assoc Football
M [larry (french) for Athletics
B .sher (E ngi neeri ng/B us Studies) for
Cricket
J Collyer (\ilaths) for Fencing
K chmitt (Law) for Fencing
1'! Parker (Physics) for Hockey
(Women)
Professor Keith Ewing has accepted an
appointment as the College's Equal
Opportunities Officer.
It has been drawn to my attention that
my article on the restructuring ofthe
chool of Life, Basic ~edical and
Health eiences. in the last i ue of
Comm I, implied that. natom and
Human Biology is ba cd only at the
[[and. That i certain Iy not the case.
Whilst the bulk of the teaching of that
Group, to both pre-clinical and science
students, does take place there, a
significant number of staff are based at
Drury Lane. Indeed, the
Deve lopmen tal Biology Research
Centre largely evolved from the research
staff from Anatomy and Iluman Biology,
and the Centre's Director. Or :'\'igel
Holder, is one of that group. Thi
physical separation between the
research ba,e of academiC staff and
where they teach is a feature of how our
chool has to operate. En possonl, it can
lead to misunderstandings as to the full
extent of our teaching commitments.
Profes or Harold Baum
I lead of 'chool of Life, Basic \iledical
and Health Sciences
((er
Dear King's College
I reali e that this may seem like an
un usual start to a letter. Perhap the rest
of this note might explain why I would
want to address everyone at King's.
Being told by doctors at Charing Cross
Hospital that I had contracted
Icukaemia was not eas . It did cast a
shadow over me and the rest of my
family. Howevcr, since then, the
concern and love of friends has been a
great boost to our morale.
In this re pect wc could not ha e
wi hed for a morc uplifting re ponse
than that frcel given by staff at King's.
I have continucd to receive cards, letters
and good wi he from people I know
and some I don't. Someone once told
me about the community spirit at the
College. I have been work ing at the
'trand for just a few weeks. The
kindness from so many of you has made
me feel like I have been part of the
College for years. More importantly, I
am sure that the King's community has
helped me to keep my chin up. I am
ure that this will help my recovery.
Bless you :111.
haplainc.,\
he taff Discu sion Group, an
informal group that nnee
fortnightly 0 er lunch, with
occasional speakers, to share concern
on any issue will be starting on
Thursdays from 15 October
There is a distinguished line-up of
preachers for the College Eucharist on
Wednesdays at 13.10, taking the title' If
( only had one Sermon to preach'.
During the term there will be three
lunch time open seminars with guest
speakers Anthony Bloom, Helen
Alexander and Eric James on 20 and 27
October and 3 :'\.'ovember respectively.
Choral Evensong has been
rescheduled to Tuesdays this year, at
17.30. In addition to this service the
choir will sing Solemn Vespers on 27
October, there will be a equence of
Readings and Music on 17 ~ovember,
and Compline with the er ice of Light
on I and 8 December.
There are two Organ Recitals on 12October and 16 l ovember and the
Annual Requiem Mas for All Souls is
on Monday 2 ovember at 18.00. Once
again you are invited to send in names
of departed friends and relatives you
would like to be remembered at the
mass. The setting is the rarely heard
Misso pro dejunc/is by Duarte Lobo.
The Advent Carol Service will be
held over three evenings during 2, 3 and
4 December. Free tickets are available
from 9 ovember, and they can be sent
to you on request.
(fyou are thinking of getting married.
or producing offspring (or great
offspring), please remember that the
Chapel is available to any member of
staff for family weddings, baptisms, or
services of anniversaries. Incidentally
the Chapel has just been decorated.
The new Chaplaincy Assistant is
Shaun Richards, replacing Jenny Rogers,
he will be with us for a year before
training for the priesthood. Do call in
and say hello.
Philip Chester
College Chaplain
Bill I (utchin on, Main Desk Porter
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Rec cl ng cheme y,.elcome
the ne'" that Ken ing on
"Co nC11 re to auncholle Ion 0 - recyclable
m:lterJaI m. pnl I 3. All local
a thontles \\ere required to present
rec, c1mg plan to the Department of
the ['.nvlronment b -\ugust thl year,
but the Ro. al Borough seems
determmed to go one step better by
becoming the Irst local authOrity 111
London to introduce door-to-door
collectl no recyclable waste, B 19 6
It expect to be recyclmg 15,000 tonne
o rubbish a year out of a total of 0,000tonnc (at present the loluotar)
~chemc recycle about 1500 tonne ).
0' he Government urget I for all local
authontlcs to rcc}c1e 25% of their
v.a te b. the 'car 2000.Ken IIlgton and Chebea claim that
thclr s heme will run at a profit.
mainl} due to the high price which
London boroughs have to pay for
dumpll1g rubbish in landfill outlde
London Door-to-door collections will
bc based on household putting out
rubbi~h In twO contamers - one for all
recyclable materials (paper, glass, can ,
pla,>tic . textile) and one for all the
other 'dirty' rubbish. Recyclable
materials will be dumped in one half of
the ~peclally-adapted"dustbin lorries"
and subsequently sorted at the
recycling depot at Cremorne Wharf,
Chel ea. Companies and institutions
such as Kmg's College will receive
mformatlon m .ovember about special
arrangements for their rubbi h
collection, and council officers will be
Vi iting the Kensmgton Campu to
a~certaln need. Kmg's will have the
option of separate collection of office
papcr, new~papers, plastiCS, glass,
textile and can, for which rebates will
be offered agamst the cost of waste
collection
Although thiS v.ill result in the loss of
mcome for the Ken~mgtonCampu
Recycling Scheme (we have collected
about £1 0 so far from the sale of office
paper and can~), we are delighted that
recycl ing IS now 'official' and likely to
bccome part of dai Iy King's College
practice at Kensington, as well as the
Chcl~ea Campus. Ilaranguing the
Council over Its slowness in providing
rer 1
Information sourcesIl} -ar th • rr ,t Imf Jrtan urce of
m Jrmat: n \la, the general
pro'pec.tu' It I\as used hy more than
OC'{; Jf:l I re,pundent , :\t a 10\ler
le d, :lItho gh 0 Interest m terms of
recru Itmc nt str:ltegie" arc
departmenul materials, e peclally m
Geography, and tal Ing to nlver Ity
students. King' Open Day I\as
gratifylngh "f,nlficant:h a ,ourct: 0
mformatl)n . j were local Iligher
[·.d ucation faHs e~peLI:llly or I1I tor)
With a ~peclallnitiatlve 111 Kent last
ycar. Campus tour" will probably
Improvc in u"efulne~~ a'> the Open Day
ha" done over the last "urvcy two years
ago. 'I he College Ideo i~ a small but
neces ary tool. \'islt~ by King's sta f to
'>chool bring intangible benefits belied
by the ir low ratmg. 'I hey arc an
mfluence on ,>ubJect te:lLhers (sec
above, ad~ i~cr ) which ~hou Id not be
dicollnted.
Advisers' influence
Gcne'" s bJe t teac.hcr are seen a
more 1\ n I I han are'r t :l hers,
13 t net In ome non-s hool bJ Cs
uch a RadIOgraph}, Pharmac., Lall
and European tudie~ where careers
ad iser Ilcre more Important P rents
were :It I ast as important a, school
frlcnd b t ,tudent already at
unl cr,lty Ilcre often more Influential
than clther >chool riends or parent .
Further Information
Chart~ i1lu~tratlng the re~ults of the
'>urvey m more detail arc available rom
the 'tudcnt RecrUitment and
Exchange Office. If thl analy IS"
U eful to, chools and department, the
tudcl1t Recruitment and Exchange
o ficer \\ould valuc comment" and
sugge~[Jon; for further ~urveys.
. ndit Kino-e
o
Dr VtTU/IO F r. nu offne ~fudenf
Rtcrulfmmf and EuI: n I!J OffiCI!
,ummarius flu fin I gr of Hi of 60
tnfl!fVl candid. fI!S f; omfour S oo/s nd
/5 departmmfs oftlu Co/kgt pp )tngfor
mfT) fO King's in /992 flu 'Uf'C.1:) e:. s
cond ud by tUparfmtnfS f fht:lr
Infl!fVltf11)S belWeen aUfumn / 9/ and
spn'ng /992. The home fOfJ:;n of respondenfs
has been noted bUf not, as jet, Inc/u I!d in
any analysis.
Educational background
The ratio of indepcndent hoe I to
further/higher educational background
varie between Humanltlc,> and the
clence . Laws and Engincering have
apparently the highe~t rccrultment
from FE, with Geography and
Pharmacy the lowe t. 1 he I' E ,ector
probably repre en~ an area for
mcreased targettlng by most "c.he ob.
The questionnaire did not separate
out mature student~ from those t:lkmg a
year out, and we aim to do till in future,
It is clear that there was some confusIOn
over 'tertiary colleges'; sometimcs thcsc
were included with sixth form collegc
and sometimes with FE.
Why choose King's7
There is agreement between chools
and departments that King's academic
reputation and the reputation 0
departments are thc mo t ~Ignlflcant
factors influencing thesc intcn iell
candidates' cholcc of Kmg's. The
chool of Law might be ~ll1gled out for
special mention in this context. The
choice of courses offcred is the ncxt
most significant factor overall;
departmental variation is worth noting.
. 'ext, King's central location followcd
by 'London Life' and entrance
requirements.
Trailing these are, interestingly,
availability of accommodation, the
multi-faculty nature of thc College and
finally proximity to home. It is clear
from comments that Londoners are
often glad to be near home while
candidates from further afield arc
hoping to get away.
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London accommodationwanted/American exchangeoffered Jan-Aug 93
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They would like ei her 0 ren or too er In exchange heir own spaciousNew England house ( 3 bedrooms, 2studies, compu er and prin er!) ont e edge of the lovely Smith campusat No hampton, ass; part 0 heFive College consortium in theConnectlcu Valley. Smith 0 lice andextensive library facilities could also
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Pep our elf up for winter by
coming along co the Staff Keep Fit
es lon~ at the trand. The
sessiOn> arc on Wednesdays at 12.15
111 Room B2 next to the
I~eprographicsCnit. Please wear
comfortable clothing and trainers
when you come along. The elasses
last for 45 minute and cost £1.50
per ses~ion. Everyone is welcome,
3 To 0 er the de.. elopmen 0 closer
1111 s bet\\ee chool and
nel h rill HI her Education
e~t:.tbli~hmcnt co their mutual beneflLI ntcre ted students would be
all ,(;ated a uper... or from the
DIVISion 0' LI e lences and a teacher
at a co-operating school, preferabl in
the'" Inicy of the rudent's term-time
10dgll1gs. rhese link~ would be
mediated b~ colleagues in our chool
0' Education, \.. ho will also be involved
In the team monicortng the educational
as \\cll a cientllc validity 0 the
proJcctThc pnJect to be undertaken would
II1vol .. e the development of
expeflments or cia u e todemumtrate important scientificpfl nel pie and/or co acq uIre speCificski 11.,
The I' ndtng of the project will be
suffiCient or up co fi e tu dent per
year from the College co enter the
scheme, and will cover travel and
consumable items as well as ineVitable
COSt., at thc collaborating schools. The
funds hould al~o cover the costs of
mectings of all of the chool and
College participants co exchange idea,
diSCUSS progress and present final,develuped material. An annual meeting
With the corresponulI1g group from
\1anchester might also be arranged,
and everalldeas are being discussed
for the di emination/publication of the
ncw teaching re ources developed by
participating students.
Watch thl space.
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~ an out(;ome oi an Inll atl 'e
'ram the Pro es~ional and
E u allon Comml tee 0 the
Biochemical oClety, I~hlch I chair),
our DI I Ion of LI e 'Ience (tOgether~Ith colleagues at the Lnlverslt of
\.1anche er) ha~ won a three-year
l. mtra t rom the D 'partmcnc for
l'.d (;atlun r mount a pilot cheme of
iinal ~car und 'r~rad at' proJecr aliled
to >chool t'adllng.'f h objective ot the scheme are:
1 'f 0 allo,", fin I year IJndergraduate> In
BJOchcml>tr), \\ho are l.OJlSIdeflngteachll1g a., a career, to g:lI11 first-hand
cxpcm:nce In "huuls o' the technique
:lnd urganl')all(Jn I' ppro.lches 0
teachll1g, partlulbrl. at a practical
level. (For the purpo>e 0 the contract,
an) student of a laboracor) -based'mulecular Id'c >ciellce' \\uuld be
eligdJlc. Indeed, the Department for
Edueatioll ,",ould also be keen, If
pas Ible, to recru It Chemi~try >cudents
into the scheme, and cui leagues ,n
Il hy51cal SCiences,", ha might \\ Ish topursue such an idca >hould cuntact me).
2 'j 0 develop wpport mateflal for the
use of practl.,lllg teacher> III illustrating,
by mean> of expeflmellts. selected
. peees uf the cUrrlcul m. Over a
period of tim<.: . .,uch material could bc
111 orporatcd illto a 'bank' 0
'xperimcntal protocols \\hich could be
made availablc to other tcachers, not
dlr etl) participating 111 the pilot
.,chcme.
a: :'on:e~,o~se a
Documents relating to King'sThe L'brar has se era spare cop es
0' Documents refaCIng to mg sCollege London 2 d Ed ,on 1933which depa e s or n eres edsa /s uden s ma e 0 a eCopies are ava ,ab e b ; e'e oea c arge or ex erna! pos ageI anyone wou'd e a copy, D easecon ac s J Canning, L brary,
anresa Road, ex 4858/4852
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Insititute of Advanced MusicalStudies
Yo are cordia 'y n I ed 0 a end heo 0 Ing co loq ,a 0 be ela d ring
the Icnae as TerrT' 1992 onednesdays a 17 00 ,n Roo G01,
Depa men 0 M SIC, ' Ing's College,152-153 S rand London C2.Admission IS ree, WI ou lIcke
28 OctoberSusan Ranktn (Emmanuel CollegeCambridge)Tenors and lheir mOlets
4 NovemberRobert Sam els (Lancas erUnl ersl y)
Schubert's double' reflections on DerDoppelganger
18 Novemberiels rabbe (Un, erslty 0
Copenhagen)
J C Bach's symphomes for doubleorchestra Gp 78 (Nos 7,3 and 5)
25 NovemberMalcolm Willlamson (Master 0 theQueen's MusIc)The composer will discuss his operaEnglish Eccentrtcs in the con ext ofhis work for the stage
2 DecemberArnold Whi tall (King's CollegeLondon)
A tale of two SISlers' Brunnhilde andWaltraute rn ACl I of Wagner'sGOt erdammer ng
Department of ComputerScienceColloquia will ake place In room 3DIn he Main Budding on Wednesdays,beginning a he new Ime 0 13.30
28 OctoberAlan u chlnsonAdjusClng bIas for rnductive rnference
4 NovemberRichard Overlll
ComputaClonal complexIty rn musIcanalysIs
11 Novemberar Plumbley
Information theory and neuralnetworks
18 Novemberarco Pellegr nl
Compu mg ormulas In Euclideanspace
25 NovemberRichard Overill
How 10 use a hypercube
These de ails are provisional. Pleasetelephone 071 -8732842 or 071 -8732588 or con irmation.
[ .L'lrun:
Victorian Society lecturesThe Vic orian Society is to hos aseries of lec ures on Victorian Churcharchl ec ure at King's. The aim is 0
look a church and chapel building inhe contex 0 he 19 h Century as a
W ole. The lec ures will take placefrom 7 Oc ober - 2 December.Ticke s are available from theVic orlan Society, 1 Priory Gardens,London W4 1n
Inaugural LectureKing's College School of Medicineand Den istryTuesday 17 November 1992,16.30
Professor I S Benjamin, Professor ofSurgeryLangenbuch to Laparoscope: thegrowth of a speciality
Main Lec ure Theatre,Medical School,Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ
The British Insitiute of HumanRightsPublic lunch Ime lec ure
17 November
Pr essor Rein A My liessonHuman rights during the transitionfrom cotallCarianism to democracy inthe former Soviet Union
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25 NovemberLord Co on-Da s. Cons ... :a :, S ...Be & CoT, e en ronmen pos - aas (lC
O'ga Isea 0
1800 eS rand
Columbus and his ages a se es 0 ec' res 0 De g e"
by Pro'essor Barry I'e to ar t e500 ann, ersary 0' COl MDuS'S' rs'oyage 0 A erica T e ec res are
open 0 all members 0 he College,and I IS hoped ha any COl eag eswill Ind hem 0 In erest 0
k owledge 0 Span sh s req IredThe lec ures are s aged ncollabora ion WI he Cont n ngEd ca Ion Uni and are open'O epublic or a ee 0' £40 or he courseAd he lec ures I be a 18 00 In
Room 3B20, S rand Bu d f'g
26 October1492 - the Firs Voyage
2 November1493 - he Re urn Voyage and I sImpliea Ions
9 November1493 - the Second Voyage
16 November1498 - Paradise Gained
23 November1502 - the inal Voyage
30 NovemberT e repercussions 0 e d sco e y
7 DecemberThe Old World and t e New
Centre for New ReligionsDepartment of Theology andReligious StudiesSaturdays, 09.30 0 1730, StrandCampus
21 NovemberRound Table: Islam In BrI aln
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=0' : ... --: e' ::Je"a Saoo ... t :.... e : :,,0
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Centre for Hellenic Studies29 - 31 0 :ooer Co ... ":: =1oorpS:'a ....o Ca p"s
T 1'0 or S'10P la e an qUi yandearly ISlam s a es. resources andarmIes
:cendance m ed p ease con acProfessor A er Carperon Cen"re 'or..,e er) c StUD es. 071-8732330
Mathematics21"0 Congress a: ema: cseo,-,cat on In So",: Ame' ca, 18-22Ju y 199 Santa Cata'llna, 8raz ~or
: r: e' nio, at 0 con act Ez aB onoel, Roo G8, ext 3165
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P /S olog Research Sem ars
sponsored by 'he Ph so oglca
Soc e
INTER TERM 1992On ednesdays 16 30 - 17 30 In hePhYSiology Lec ure Thea re
28 Oc oberDr Peter Adamson (King'sCollege London)Subcellular locaiJsatlon and posttranslatIOnal modlflca Ions of the P21
pro ems
4 NovemberDr Lea Pos on ( DS SThomas's Camp s)
Studies m Isolated hurran reslStanceartenes
11 NovemberDr Rob ason ( ot ,ng a
Unlversl y)
Visual entramment of the clfcadianclock from neurotransmitter signal to
gene expression
18 NovemberDr Andy Ramage (Royal Free Hospl al
Developmental BiologySeminars::.. ec- .. 'es:a :19 0 ace a: 17 00~ec .. 'e T.... ea:'e. :1a"lca Ins "e
"9'S CO ege _ondor 26-29 Dr_a e, 0 co C2B 5R_ Te 071-8368851
4 Novemberna YSls 0 cardiac gene regulation
Dr ge BrandDepar:(T'Ien 0 Card 0 noracicSurgery a ,ana ear & L ngInst lute
11 NovemberExpreSSion analySIS of he Axial geneIn wild i pe and mu an zebrafJshembryosD e Stra eImper a Cance' Researc F nd.Ox;oro
18 NovemberHomebox genes and the evolution ofer ebra e embryogenesIs
Dr Pe er HOI andDepar"men 0 Zoology. Ox ord
Randall Seminars at Drury Lane
26 OctoberRegulation of the actin cytoskeletonby the small GTP-bmdmg protems
rho/racDr A,an HaIns e 'or Cancer Research.
C es e' Bea y Labs
2 NovemberStruc ure 0 gelsoiJn segment 1- acemcompleDr Paul cLaug InLabora ory for Molecular Biology,Cambrloge
9 NovemberRetlnolc ACId' A morphogen in thedeveloping embryo?
Dr Malcolm MadenDB Re, Randall Ins itu e
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16 November
Scanning probe mlcroscopv ofblOmolecules' Current status andfuture potential.Dr Manyn Davies
Departmen 0 Pharmace IcalSciences, No ingham Unlversl y
23 November (Please note thiswill take place at 13.15)Mvogenesis in the mouseDr Margaret Buckingham
Ins itute Pasteur, Paris
30 November
Intracellular targeting of signaltransduction proteins bV lipIdmodifica tions.Dr Tony Magee
National Institute or MedicalResearch, Mill Hill
The seminars all ake place a 17 00except on 23 November 1992in the Lecture TheatreThe Randall Ins itu e, for address seepage 18.
Department of Byzantine andModern GreekMondays, 17.00, Room B6, ClassicsDepartment, Strand Campus
26 OctoberRichard Black (KCL)Europe's soft underbellv? Current
refugee movements to Greece
2 NovemberPamela Armstrong (Oxford/Belfast):Literature and religion in twelfthcentury Constantinople
9 NovemberErik Golds ein (Birmingham)The New Europe Group and the NewGreece, 1977-22
Centre for Late Antique andMedieval StudiesThursdays,17.30, Room 1B06
29 OctoberDr Jeff Opland (Honorary Pro essonalResearch Associate, SOAS)Scop and imbongi: reading praisepoems
12 NovemberDr L nda Pa erson ( ar IC)
arcabru
Department of PhilosophySe rnars ,n HIs ory and Pnilosophyo SCienceT ursdays at 14 15 rn Room 3801,S rand Ca p s
29 OctoberPro essor Brlan GoodWin (OpenUnl erslty)
A new approach to evolUtion: realismand generative processes m biologV
5 NovemberDr Roberto Garigliano (University ofDurham)
LOUTA' a computer sVsrem forhandlmg narurallanguage
12 NovemberA one-day con erence eld Join lywi h he Centre for PhilosophicalS udies and Gresham College,10.00 to 17.00, In the Grea Hall,S rand Admission ree without aleket
The three spea ers will bePro essor Sir Michael Atiyah,PreSident 0 the Royal Society,Professor Roger Penrose, Uni ersityof Oxford and Professor SirChristopher Zeeman Principal ofHertford College, Oxford andGresham Professor of Geometry
Blood Wedding - Opera
26 October to 7 November,19.45 at Jacob Street Sudios,Mill Street. London SE1.
The opera, rom he celebrated playby Fedenco Garcla Lorca, has beencomposed by Nicola LeFanu, SeniorLec urer in t e Depar men 0 usicat King's. The Depar ment isorganlzrng block bookrngs orst dents at he reduced ra es 0 £8and £14. Any student Wishing 0
make use 0 his 0 er should signhe notice on the first floor of he
M sic Department
bitu'lriSir Richard FrancisThe College learned with deep regret
In June of the death of ir Richard
Francis. Director General of the British
Council and a Presentation Fellow of
the College. ir Richard was awarded a
Pre entation Fellow hip in 1991 in
recognition of his work at the British
Council and also at the BBC, where he
rose from an Assistant Editor of
Panorama to :vtanaging Director of
BBC ({adio.
Bishop of ChelmsfordJohn Trillo, Bishop of Chelmsford from
1971 to 1985, was educated at King's
and later became a Fellow of the
College. He studied in the evenings
for his 130, but this did not prevent
him from achieving first-class honours,
and he went on to take his MTh and to
teach at the College from time to time.
He was Principal of l3ishop's
(theological) College, Cheshunt, before
becoming SUffragan bishop of Bedford
and then of Hertford, before being
elevated to Chelsmford. He was co
Chairman of the English Committee of
the Anglican/Roman Catholic
Il1ternational Commission.
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From top to bottom, left to fight:Keith Pnu rellru as Estates Officer, after
25 )ea at the College. Betl) Calbr. ah,
Did Haroey and Nonnan Slmmons retIre
from Finance after a colleClIt/e 66 years of
service un Wilson from the Post Room
retires after 20 yean service. Registry sa}
goodbye to Christina Kune, Df1VId Dat/us
(retin'ng after 23 years) and l.esley
Dinsdale. Finally External RelatIons lose
the invaluable seroius ofJOhn MUlr and
Dr Abe Lue, who retires after 32 years at
King's. They are pictured here at Dr Lue's
farewell presentation in the Council Room.
John Muir, who is standing down afterfour
yean as Viu-Principal in charge of
External Relations, can now befound In
the Department ofClassics. We wish them
good luck (and happy retirement) in their
futures.
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