Comment 081 October 1994

allLO DFounded I

the College Newsletter

Follo""illg ill his/0/7efootsteps: The College's lieu:: Deal/, the Ret:d Dr Richard Burridge(Iefr) p/(/lIred ill/he COllllllil1ee RoolII before his ills/alla/ioll al/d lieellsillg seroice, with /hl!Righ/ Rl"i:d Dtn:id Hope, I.ord Bishop ofLOlldoll al/d the Prillcipal.

o elopm otru t pro p r

T he 199~ Annual Fund ha~

n.:eei\ cd over £3~5,OOO in

donarion~ from ~raff,

graduare~ and friend~ of rhe College

rhi~ i~ an our~randing ~rarr ro our

Annual Fund. Gifr~ arc conrinuing ro

be received from graduare~ who were

approached by direcr mail; in facr 5%

have responded which i way above

normal direcr mail re_ponse of 2%.

There is a furrher £~7,OOO, promi ...cd

on rhe relephone, rhar wc hope will

come in before rhe ycar cnd ....

The Tru~r has had rwo meerings

and made a number of dcci ion ... [()

alloeare fund (har will have a real

impacr on rhe College communiry.

summary of rheir deci~ion follow~:

• Threc K ,LA Posrgraduare

'rudenr hip compri ing a ...cholarship

of £6,300 pa and a £2,000 bursary ro

commence in January 199 .

• £30,352 (Q purcha e collecrions on

CD RO I for re earch purposes (sce

li ... r arrached).

• £ 12,000 ro purcha'e hjgh-u~e books

for undergraduare s(udenr~.

• £3,200 for CD RO I player~ for use

in (he ledical and Denri'rry, i\lu~ic

COI//il/ued 011 page 1Yz0

T he .ollege\ new Dean, rhe

Re\d [ r Richard ,\Ian

Burridge was imralled and

licen cd wirh due pomp by rhe Righr

Revd Da\'id Hope, Lord Bi ... llOp of

London, in rhe College hapel on

Thursday 13 Ocrober. Before rht:

~ervice Or Burridge and rhe Bishop

garhered wirh rhe Principal in fronr of

rhe painring of rwo former Deans of

rhe College.

The Dean \ duries include verall

respon ibiliry for rhe worship of (he

College hapel; over iglu of rhe

Chaplaincy ream; pro\'i ion of mU ... lc In

rhe Chapel; organi ing cour es for (he

KC: a pecial re pon ibiliry for (ho e

ceking ordinarion; invoh'emen( wirh

rhe general pasroral care of sraff and

rudenr , and eonrriburing ro rhe wider

life of rhe church and communiry. [n

addirion Dr Burridge, who is a qualified

reacher and c1assi al scholar, will be

reaching a fir r year rheology cour con

rhe Gospels.

An inrerview wirh Or Burridge

appears on page live of (his i sue of

COlIJllletI/.

e opm nt ru t p 0 per 01 medal

ame Elizabeth utler- 10elected lce- hair of ollege

ounCI

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nglneerlnger Ice

uLanne Price. who graduated

from King' Di\'i ion of Life

eiences thi year with a fir t

cia s honour degree, has been

a\\ arded the Ronald \\'illiam Gold

\lcdal by the 'hartered In tirute of

El1\ironmenral Health a the best

en\'ironmenral health graduate in the

CK. The sih'er medal wa awarded ro

a rudenr from Salford Cni\'ersity and

the bronze ro a tudenr from L'lsterLTniversity.

ngineering ervlces arc

available from the cienrific

workshop at the In tirute of

Ophthalmology.

The work hop specialises in the

de ign. con truction and en'ieing of

instruments and appararus.

ervice arc a\'ailable ro academic

staff, technicians and research

srudenr. Further information from

Paul Johnson, enior re earch officcr

on 0171-608 6809.

he copy deadline for the next

issue of Commellt i Friday

ovember 18. Don't forget ro

send in phorographs a well if pos ible.

• Le Ro/Jen f.letrolliqlle ( 79.-)

• 19, 1 Sl1Iall.1rea Cmslls ( 1,7: 01• 1991 Cmsus (£2. -(0)

• Cluuml Rheumalology ( '691 )

• Dmlol Dl''i.;elopl1lf'lll ( :21)

• COloloKue ofPrillled .l/usir ill the BritishIjbrory 10 19(1() (£3,500)

• Biblioleros sill frolllem.r (£ 1,450)

• Hflllsord 19 -199-1( 3,750)

Fi\'e year pre-paid subscription ro the

followinl?; dictionaries:

• Dirliollol)' ofNfllllml Pror!urls

• Dirfiollflry ofOrgflllir Compoullds

• Dirliollary of1110rf!:(/Ilir COII/poulld,

(£10,000)

Toral: £30,352

Jo gnew, Developmenr Direeror

and was the chairman of the inquiry

inro alleged child scx abu e inCleveland in 1990. She was made a

Presenration Fellow of the Council in

199\ and became a member of the

ollege Council la t year.

'ir Jame Spooner has been re

elected as Chairman of the Council,and ir Brian Pearce as Treasurer.

(mmilllled/rom paKe olle)

and Old Libraries.

• £ 15.200 for computing equipmenr In

the new H umanities Libra~.

• £1,140 for an exrra work sration in

the \Iedical and Denri t~· Libra~.

• 62,,'00 ro link the Hampstead hall

of re idence with the main frame in

the College and in rail \ 2 workstation

• £32,000 ro pro\ ide equipmenr for the

new I?;ym ro be built on the roof of theSrudenrs' l'nion building - ubject wbuilding approval (see page If'II).

CD R01\1 collection w be

pureha cd:

• PaIJ1ler~'i IlIdex 10 Ihe Times, 1790 -19(15

(.IvUOO)• Bodleillll I,illrory pre-19Z0 Calaloglle of

Prillled Books (£995)

ame Elizabeth Burler-Sloss

ha been elected Viee

Chairman of the College

Council, following the stepping down

of Sir John Cadogan from this po tin

July.Dame Elizabeth is a highly

respected member of the judiciary. the

counrry's first woman Lord of Appeal,

ing's studentcho ar hip

In national Pharmacolog

he British Pharmacological

• ociet;' ha again awarded onc

of its pre tigious BPS

Inrercalated B c wards ro a sccond

year preclinical medical rudenr atKing's. Thi year they ha\'e made ju t

eight of these awards throughout thc

l K from a large group of applicants of

a \'e~' high calibre. Our deservingrecipienr was Daniel coffing (right)

who wa the out tanding rudenr of theyear, coming rop in the overall

preclinical \IBBS rankings.

Daniel will be taking courses

il1\'oh'ing cell and neuropharmacology

during his inrercalated B c as well a

performing a research project. TheBPS as e or were particularly truck

by his plans ro work with Or Jon

Robbin on a cell culrure project

involving the rudy of poras ium

channels u ing patch clump

techniques. This i an in \'ogue area in

which the Pharmacology Group atKing' is making imporranr

conrributions.

Or J R Hoult. Pharmacology

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Sir PflU/ Giro/flllIi, C/lflil7l1fll/ ojC/fI\O Holdil1~splc; ,lIrSlflltley KfI/IlIS, Cnflil7l1flll,

KII/!?:'s Hefl//nrOrl'; Projl'ssor,ldritll/ r,dd/eslOl1e, Dl'fll1, Fflm/Iy ojC/il1iro/ ,lIedimll'

KGSI/D. ol1d.!!r Jficnae/ Cross. Cnief Pnfll7l1fllis/, A'il1g's H('{///nrore, p/rll"e i/ems il1lo a

/illle mpslI/e "nien ff'i// be bllried ill/ne joulldmiolls ojMe 1If'iJ.!' G/a\'(/ Pnfll7l1f/{)' a/ Killg's

CO//i'Ke Hospi/ftl. !':lIob/illg ff'orks Irflt.'l' a/reod)1 slarled fllld 1nl' buildill!?: is due to be

comp/fled ill/ne /a/e flulullIlI oj /995.

r a formal garhenng at the

Porwgue e -\mba ador'

Rc Idel1l:e 111 eptember, and

in rhe pre ence of rhe Amba ador anu

other im ited gue r , rhe Presiuenr of

rhe InStI[lItc1 Camoes. LlIf Adao ua

Fonseea. presenred a cheque to the

Principal of King's College Lonuon for

£100.000 to complemenr rhc

cnd(l\\menr or rhe Prince Henr. the

'a\ igaror Chair of Porrugucse Histcl~

ar rhe College.

,................ he Centre for Defence

Sruuies in conjunction \\ irh

prcss (Programme ~ r POSt

Communist. 'ccurity Srudies) has JlI r

completcd thc admini rrarion f onc of

rhc European l nion\ PI IARE

programmes, running a '>eries of four

inrernational seminars in The Ilague,

Arhens, Ljubljana and. ofia for a

group of Easr European scholars.

Following rhe success of this

programme the European L'nion has

named rhe Cenrre a~ one of rhe

winners of the TA I. (Technical

Assistancc ro the I) competirion,

and the 'DS is ro run a comparable

programme durin(!; 199-, again in

conjuncrion with the PP ", in

London and Tiblisi, in Georgia. ome

rwent)- swdcnr from the Cl.

counrrie will be ekcrcd ro

parri ipare in these cour es, which will

rake place during the spring and

summer of 1995.

ensures thar rhe clinical rcsponsibilities

for rhe posr covcr a hospiral based

deparrmenr and links with rhe

Depanmenr of Clinical Pharmacology

as well as complemenring rhe research

inrere r of rhe l'nivcrsiry's Pharmacy

Practice L' nir.

The time capsule marks the carr

of rhe e cxciring plans. 1 he capsulc

will ha\'e irems of hisrorical and

conrcmporary ignificance relating to

pharmaceurical sen'ice ar borh King's

ollege Hospiral and Glaxo Holdings

plc. It will also conrain exrra tS from a

projecr on rhe pharmaceutical

applicarions of planrs which has been

undcrraken by biology pupils from

Bi hophalr School, l'xbridge as parr of

Glaxo' Indusrry and Schools Liaison

Programme. The capsule is specially

eonsrructed our of non-perishable

plasrie and is scaled by welding. Irs

final position under the new pharmacy

will be marked by a plaque.

On 27 'eptember, Sir Paul

Girolami, hairman ofGlaxo

Holding plc, visited Denmark

Hill for a ceremony [0 mark rhe srarr of

\\ ork on a four floor pharmacy projecr

sired ar rhe hean of the h pica!.

Pharmacy i a kcy supporr sen'ice,

respomible for upplying six million

doses of medicarion each year ar a eosr

of £7 million. The new pharmacy,

who e completed cosr is e rimared ro

be £2.1 m, has recei\"cd a mo r

generous gifr from Glaxo whose rotal

upporr has amounred ro £I.Tm. Ir

will operate from a pecially designed

building meering the needs of all

parienrs cared for in King's. Iso

included will be a rerail unir and an

cademic Pracriee uite [()

ac ommodare Jecwres, meerings and

privare swdy.

The first joinr appoinrmenr

bemeen the Ho. piral and the

deparrml:nr of Pharmacy at King'

n the newsAlgae - one solution to globalwarming?Pr fe or Da\'id Hall of rhe Di\'i ion of

Life ' ience appeared on The SilleO'Clock XffJrS in an item about a ne\\

way of rackling global warming. He

explained how the u e of algae could

be one method, linked wirh orher , by

which carbon dioxide level in rhe

armosphere could be reduced, Algae,

like orher plant, need carbondioxide

to grow, and a coiled structure in which

the algae were kept was hown wirh

carbon dioxide being bubbled through.

Profcs or Hall wa also interviewed for

German and Swiss television, and his

colleague )'0 hitomo \\'aranabe will

present detail of their re earch to the

econd International Conference on

Carbon Dioxide Removal in Kyoto,

Japan. ar the end of October.

HaitiJohn lacDonald, Professor of

International Business, and a specialisr

on Latin- merica, ha been

interviewed many time' by S/':v Newsabout rhe situation in Hairi, comparing

rhe governments in Cuba and Haiti,

Library update

Aanyone who vi ited the trand

building during the ummcrwill know, a major enlargement

and refurbishment of the Library

entrance area on the fir r floor has

raken place, finishing ju t in rime for

the rart of se ion. Alrhough ir i only

part of the work nece ary for the

crearion of the planned unified Library

erving rhe H umanitie , rhe addirional

shelving, ear and cireularion space

ha\'c already improved rhe 'en'iee the

Library offer.

An Informarion Sen'ice Room is

now available for the use of rhe

exi ring CD-RO~I collection, and

thank to the generosity of the

Development Fund (see page /wo), there

will be se\'en new Humaniries 0-RO I products, improved faciliries for

their use, and a number of

their relation hip with the L' nited

. rate. and i uc concerning refugec

from the twO countries.

Observing electionsThe Guardiall had a feature on

academics which included ~I ue

Willert, Re earch Fcllow in the entrc

for Defen c rudies. ~(s \\'illcrt i

currently in ~(ozambique, acting a a

C. obsen'er for the elections there.

Glad to be greyThe Education upplement of TheGuardiall had a section on senior

citizen to coincide with ge Concern

week. Profes 'or Anrhea Tinker,

Professor of ocial Gerontology,

featured in everal article discus ing

uch issue a the increase in the

clderly population which will occur

over the next 20 years, and older

people being wooed back to work.

Knowing the way outAn article on euthana ia in TheEcollomist featured Professor lan

Kennedy, Head of the School of Law

and Professor of ledical Law and

microcomputers for public use.n enclo. cd area i also available

where the Library is offering extra help

in using LIBERT S, fore 'ample, and

which may be booked by an 'one

wishing to hold eminar using Library

material. t other time5 the room i

available for 'noi y' u ers, such a small

groups who wish to work together.

New opening hours for StrandHumanities libraries

The Embankment and trand

Building Libraries are now open from

09.00 until 20.00 I nday to Thur day,and 09.00 until 19.00 on Friday - a small

compensation for the delay in

completing the building work in

Embankment Library. It is a pity that

we were not able to go ahead with the

consolidation of the humanitie librarie.

Ethic. Talking about legi lation and

the burden on doctor \\ ho ha\'e to

make deci ions alone and without

knowing what con equencc they face,

he aid:·It cannot be fair to doctor to

pre ent them with a ituation in which

they have to gue whether people will

ubsequently endor e what they have

done or whether, if they gue s wrong,

the law will be applied in all ir rigour

and they will face a charge of murder.'

Mapping to match boneA new technique using -ray sources

to locatc the mall, grirry particles

which cau eo teoarthriti wa the

ubject of a re earch item in The Higher.Or Chris Buckley of the Department of

Phy ics, talked about the newe t

aspect of rhe technique called chemical

stage mapping to develop a alcium

pho phate which i more compatible

with bone.

Buddhist boomOr Sue HamiltOn, lecturer in Indian

Religions, was interviewed by the Dai~v

Mail for an article on the growing

popularity of Buddhism in Britain.

New members of the King'sL1BERTAS consortium

ers of the King's LIBERT S

cataloguc may have di covered that

three new librarie now record their

holding on our LIBERTAS. They are

1 ormanby College (part of rheightingale [n titute of Tursing), the

Courtauld In titute of Art and TheInstitute of P ychiatry. i ormanby i

part of King' , so it tOck i available

to King' user. but the Courtauld

[n titute and the Institure of

Psychiatry material is not generally

available (though we hope to agree

limited acce to the Courtauld'

collecrions soon).

Ann LeeInformation ervices Librarian

fof eIn [he fir [ut:l Cflt.: 0 inrcn ic\ ith member 0 (oll-ue t I . (O!lllll 11/ mlk w hc Re d

Dr Ri hard Burridgc, ne\\ I, -in [,lie I [ c no Kin!!'

Hnl"lI drdyou joill Kil1KS?

On the fir t of Augu t 199-t\1 'hal "1"1'1" )'OU doillg beforehand?

I wa Chaplain at the L'niver i~' of

Exeter and I al 0 lectured part-time in

theology and cia ic. Before that I wa

in pari h mini [J~: in Bromle)' Pari h

Church in I\:ent and prior [Q ordinationI taught clas ic for five year at

evenoaks chool.

Why didyoll deride 10 bemflle ordained.?It i n't omething you decide; it'

omething you are called [0. In manywa s I ran from it for eight year. While

I was a swdent at Oxford e eral

people ugge ted that I might be being

called [0 ordination and the idea

terrified me. A a teacher I wa5

involved in the Church, preaching in a

lay capacity and I wa rather hoping

that God would be happy with that,but in the end he put hi. foor down

and [Old me it wa time [0 get rev'd up!

When did you discover yourfailh.?While I wa at Oxford swdying

clas ics I wa investigating que tionsuch a what is uuth, why is there

beauty in the world and what i ju tice.

In the course of my wdy of fir t

cenwry records about Jesus ofazareth I became convinccd that

uuth, ju tice and beaury could only be

found in the concept of God and that

Je u of azareth was God' revelation

of himself [0 the human race.

So ill sOllle ways it was all empitiraldiscovery':>

Yes, bur an empirical di coverywith an experiential dimcnsion, in the

en e that you can do all the empirical

work and look at the hi wrical records

and try and a e s who Jesu was, butyou move on [0 an experiential level

when you ay, well God, if you'rethere, how abour lerting on? That wa

when I reali ed that in many way God

had been active in my life since mybapti m a a baby. The difference was

that od had been commirted [0 me

while I wasn't committed [0 him.

Did that moke yOll feel lucry?• '0, becau eT think that God i

commined [0 everybody and Je u

want u ro re pond [0 him. member

of staff said omething w me last week

310n tho e line - ho\\' fonunate I wa

[0 have a belief when mo t peoplewould like [0 believe in omething, I

think the current earch through new

religion, new philosophie , new ideas

i a ymprom of the fact that the oldwe tern cientific rational belief that

ciencc is going [0 olve all our

problem has broken down, cience

answers the questions it ets out [0

an wer - it will tell us how the univer e

work5 bur it won't tell u fe'hy, One of

the mOSt e traordinary things in

contcmporary intellecwal thought is

the way in which many leading

cientist arc active, practising

Chri tians. John Polkinghornc at

ambridge i an ob iou example.What (Ire your duties as Deall.?

According [0 the College Srawte

the Dean i charged with ensuring that

the religiou purposes of the college

are carried our. ecording [0 the

current mi ion tatement that i seenin various way, in particular helping [0

create a caring ethos in the community.

I would hopc [0 be involved in caringfor everybody, irrespcctive of belief or

background, staff and swdent alike. Ihave specific responsibilitics for the

wor hip of the chapel and over ight of

the chaplaincy team. There is al 0 the

unique and very important

qualification, the KC which function

out of the Dean' office. I 0 pan of

the Dean' re ponsibilitie i the

relationship between the ollege and

both the wider church and the wider

community. I ee thi in term of being

able [0 interpret what' going on in

higher education a it relates [0 the

Church and, I would like [0 ugge t,

what the Church might have [0 ay [0

education, panicularly when education

policy seems hell bent on aping

monerari t value,

)'ou "ouldll't agrel" that hi '/reI' education

and thl" church are both I"qua/~v cOllcemedto pUI bums 011 seats':>

I am anxious about the pu h fornumber in higher education a

colleagues are asked ro teach morewdent with fewer re ouree ' The

intere ting thing about the mini try of

the Church of England as the

e rabli hed hurch of the COUntry i

that we are there regardle of whetherpeople park their bums on a pew or

nor. People ome and want [0 talk

regardle s of whether they believe or

not - the hurch i not a 'member ..only' club,

Hnat ore your hopes (IS 1I~' Deall?That I might be able [0 play my

role alongside the rest of thc College ingoing forward intO the new

opportunities that are confronting the

College in a way that i in the best

intere t of ociety at large, of the

Church and the ollege it elf and in away that enables the maximum benefit

to the individual staff and tudents. I

would hope that a dean I could raise

tho e que tions of truth and value,

here in the heart of an institutionwhich is committed to the pursuit of

exactly tho e thing.

How do Yolt relax outside work.?The mini -try i not a nine-to-five

job. I have a wife and two little girl ;

we live in Highgate and enjoy goingcycling as a family, I al 0 enjoy

swimming, reading and mu ic. I u ed

to play a bit of golf when I wa in

Exeter but I ha en't managed to get around in here, 0 if anyone want to

give me a game ...

Ifyou were especially prone to 0111" oftheseven deadly sins, which one might it be?

For most clergymen who are calledto the role of helping people, which i a

tremendous joy and privilege, the great

temptation i to think thatyolt have to

be doing everything all the time - the

sin of pride.

D1 ntl t

94 brint g ther at In

uropean pace

Con truction La\\conference

Pauline GaleCentre for Construction Law

- ......-he Cemre for Construction

Law in the chool of

Engineering held its sevemh

Annual Conference ar King' on 16

Seprember.The ,ubjecr was RisJ', llfollagelllflll

allr! ProC/lrell/eIIl ill GOllslmC/ioll and this

ycar's sponsor was the Construction

Industry Rescarch and Informarion

As ociation (Cl RIA). The conference

amacted approximarely \ 80 delegares

from as far away as Canada andGreece all of whom were either in rhe

con uucrion indusrry or lawyer. OrPeter Bran by, rhe Direeror General of

CIRI chaired rhe conference and Ir

i\1 ichael Latham gave rhe ke note

address.s in previou year rhe papers arc

now being updated and will be

publi hed in book form by the Cemre.

L<.:fc 1Ii'11/I I'o~ l.jonlli'r ElatrrJlllr eElf'{tnml f:lIgillunllg.l1 C sllldelll &c'ilh

Ihe DiKilol Sigllol Processor lesl bedforIlIlId II/obile sOlellile romll/lJlIiroliolls lIllhe-Ilh IlIlemlll/ollal Europeoll Spore .igellf','(ES. \) Workshop olllhe oppliollre ofdigilal processillg lechlliqlles 10 space

Call/Ill 1111iraliolls.The U"od.'shop, a joilll 'cmlllre be~'fell

Ihe ESA, Hollallr! Ollr! IheGOlIIlIIUlliroliollS Resl'flrrh Croup al Killg'slook pit/et illlhe Greol HoIIfrolll 261028

Seplell/ber.The sof~'are forlhe DSP lesl bed

projl'lt U"os produred by Ihe Dfparlml'lll of

EleClrOllic & Flerlnrol EI/gillfl'lillg alKillg '.\.

et?

John Pear onDcparrmem of Electrical Engineering

uni\'er irie and commercial

organi ations. wirh 30 parricipamsfrom rhe UK including eight from the

BBC World er.·ice.ocially. the highpoims of rhe

e\'enr were a rwo-hour river crui e in

ideal weather and the formal dinner.

In addirion many parricipams enjoyed

their own extra-work hop acrivitie

uch a theatre and concerr visits.

The 1996 ESA workshop will take

place in Barc<.:lona.

some popular products, the expan ion

of KIS. rhe campu informarion

ysrem, including rhe developmem ofa '\'irwal Library' ba ed on World

Wide Web technology, the pro\'ision of

irem from back runs of chemi uy

journals electronically, and con idering

how King' mighr be involved in the

propo ed Arr and Humanitie Dam

Cemre.Fuwre i sue of COII/menl will carry

arricles on each of rhese projecrs and

how rhey are developing.

~!argarerSamman

Strand Building Library

the electronic library here

0, nor quire yer - bur the nexr

ix ro nine momhs will sec

King's inve tigating ome of

rhe po ibiliries.Information. er.·ice and

Sysrem , rhe Library and Computing

entre inrend (Q runix projecrs

relaring (Q electronic information

during rhis academic year, and hope ro

make a significam impact on

information provi ion in rhe College.

A number of raff have been secondedfrom their usual duries (Q work on a

review of the mediared online search

er.'ice offered by the Library; the

insrallarion of a CD-Ra!'! network for

hi~ c~ ptie ~(fIng uenote the

~th Imernational European

'pace Agenc~ (ES\j

Workshop on the Application of

Digital Signal Proce ~ing T<.:chnique'w . ·pae<.: Communieatiom, held in the

Great Hall at King' from 26 lO 2 '

Seprember. It was jointly organi~ed by

memb<.:r' of the Communication,

Re earch Group from within the

D<.:partmem of Eleeuical Engineering

at King's, and the ESA in Holland.

Thi, bi<.:nnial ev<.:m brings

rogether lOp European re,earch

worker~ and applicarion~<.:ngineers, in

an informal atmo~phere (() learn abour

th<.: latest de\'c1opmem~ in ,oftware

and hardware reehniqu<.:s within rheir

uad<.: and at the ame rimc pro\ ides an

opporruniry for them (Q ger (Q know

each orher bener. The evem was

sponsored by EL:TEL T and

INi\! RSAT, the major uans

European organi arion conccrned

which gave rhe proceeding a ~trong

satellit<.: communication flavour.Further inpUl camc from I TELSAT,

Asua and thc Canadian Space Agency

Almost 100 people anendeu all or

parr of rhe workshop which comprised

22 papers and four dcmonstrations.

One hundred and rwem coumrie'

were repre emed with a good mix of

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Prof or onald Tai mirh

Sta fews

Profe~~or Donald :-Jaismith wa~

pre ented with a gla~~ bowl byfriend~ and colleagues from the

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics

ro mark hi. retirement at the end of. eptember after 28 year~ at QueenElizabeth College and King' .

The bowl was ~pecially

commissioncd and engraved in

Edinburgh by \Irs :\Iison Geissler. Itdepict aspcct~ of Profes or. ai,mith·sacademic and personal interest~.

Pictured \I ith Professor. ai~mith

are (left) Or Da,·id Richardson, a

former PhD student and now GroupChief Scientist at. estlc CK Ltd, and(rif;hl) Or Peter Baillie of the Di, ision

of Biomedical Sciences.

Or 'like Tindal

Page

Friend and colleagues gatheredin the Committee Room rocelebrate the retirement of Or

like Tindal of the lechaniealEngineering Department on 30September. Dr Tindal ha been atKing' for thirty-three year, alecturer, senior lecturer and for a year,

as head of hi department.To mark the occasion Or Tindal

was presented with a crystal decanter,a pint beer mug and a cheque which heplans ro invest in a hi-fi y tem.From lefllo right: Professor Stanley

Ear/es; ,1/rs Delia Tinda/; Dr ,11ife

Tindal; Dr ,Ifichael Yianneskis.

r'

riend and colleaguefare' ell toa t to or

raI e aIn n1an

1 chanical. .ngIn rIng

Teaching in Higher Educationhort course and work hop

I vor Kingman and partner. Joan,

enjoy a celebratory drink at the

parry ro mark his retiremenr from

the POSt of Cellar I\lanager, on 29

September. [vor, an a~piring arrist, was

T he LTniver ity of London

[n tirute of Edu ation

provide a range of II ork~hop~

and cour e which offer thc

opporruniry ro meet colleague from

other departmenrs and college :

One day courseDei.:eloping high quality teaching andleoming ill departments - for head of

departmenr or deputie

Two day coursesExtended reading skillsDeveloping and monogillg distollceleoming coursesProblem-based leomingTeochillg study skillsResearch supervisioll

presenred with an easel and sel'eral

canvases by the College Catering

Officer, Peter Hoffman, as well as an

engraved KCLA tankard as a reminder

of hi' 27 year~ at King's.

Three day courseCoursefor experienced lecturers

The In tirute also offer~ an ~I 10

Higher and Profe ional Education,

and Advanced Diploma in Higher

Education rudie and a Ph O/~IPhil

programme.

If you would like more

information on any of these course or

po tgraduate tudies. please ring or

write ro:

Or Roy Cox or Janet Harding,

Cenrre for Higher Education rudie,

"9 Gordon 'quare,

London WC I HOT.

Tel 0171-612 63 'or 0171-612 6362.

Or ~I Ylannc.:~ki , [lead of the

Deparrmc.:nr of ~Ie<.hanilal

Engineering, Wa\ elected J

Felloll of the In tirution of

\Iechanical Engincer\ on 21

September 199~.

Dr Jame F \\'hidbourne II ill join

dlC Dcparrmcnr a\ Iccrurer in

:'o.lechanical Engincl:fing from

1 Ocrobcr 199~.

Profe orndrew Grubb

Profe\\or ,\ndrew Grubb,

prel iou\l~ reader in ~ledical

Lall in the School of Law. has

been promorc.:d ro Profe \or of Health

Care Law at King\ with effect from

1 October. He i~ the joinr author with

Professor lan Kennedy of the standard

text-book ,llediml Lore (Bunerworrh),

and an experr on medical law and

ethic, the law relating to docror5 and

their patienrs, and the health service.

lU'iic in Am~terdam

Professor Laurenee Dreyfu ,

Direcror of the Cenrre for

Advanced Performance rudies,

ha reeenrly appeared at the

Coneerrgebouw in Amsterdam ague t

arrist of the Van Wassenar

Competition for Early I\lusie, where

he was featured in a recital a well a

giving ma tcr c1a'i'ie and a lectUrc

drawn from hi forthcoming book. Bachand the Pal/ems ofll1f.:elllion.

Promotion to 'eniorLecrurer

T he following member of taff

have been promoted ro enior

Lecrurer:

Or lark Peakman, Deparrment of

Immunology, KC 1\10.Or Paul Booron, Oeparrmenr of

General Practice et Primary Care,

KC 10Or nne tephenson, Oeparrmenr of

General Practice C! Primary Care,

KCS 10.

Pagc l)

lumni cne\\ tud

ntribut t fund fornt 01 n ?n1n lUtn

Students'•nlon

news

Aoon J plJnning permi ion i

granred, onc of the mo t

e,\uting de\ c1opmenr., 0 the

la t fe\\ \ear \\ III be undef\\a~ on the

wp ofTuru' ,

KCLA provide £32,000 for newgym equipment.King' . rudenr.,' l'nion i., .,et [() plug a

lonp; apparenr gap in port'> facilitie.,

thank. [0 the p;enero.,ir~ of former

~rudenr." The con~rrunlOnof J roof

[Op ~ m on the \Iacadam Building i.,

W be financed b\ KlOg'" College

London .\Iumni ,\.,.,ociation,

The gym. \\ hlch onglOalh ran IOW

planning difficultle,. ,hould ger the go

ahead bv '\;0\ ember and bulldlOj; \\ III

be completed by \larch. h \\ ill be a

con.,iderable e'\ten,ion of the "porrlOg

faeilitie., eurrenrl~ a\ailablc [() King'"

'>rudenr.,.

Key figure'> \\ ho petitioned the

[)e\'elopmenr Tru.,{, \\ hich ra..,e.,

fund., for \\ ork and proJen., {hrougholJ{

{he College, included {he College

Principal. Profe.,sor .\rrhur Luea." Lay

:-'lember'> of {he College,

repre.,enrari\e., of {he KCL,\, and {he

Scudenr.,' l nion.

La.,{ year {he Tru.,{ rai.,ed c)\'er

£300,000 mainly from former mcmber~

of {he college, keen {() aid the

education of {heir .,ucee,>,>or.,. The

L' nion'" bid for £32,000 of {hi., mone\

[() pro\'ide (he gym and "pon.,

equipmenr wa., .,ucce.,.,fully

negotiated, The rru.,{ aho agrel.:d [()

prc)\ ide £63,000 for CD Rom

equipmenr in the ne\\ 'rrand Library,

and another £63,000 for rwehe ne\\

computer (ermlOa)., \\ I{hin {he

Hamps{ead campu.,. The rru.,{ i., .11.,0gi\ ing £24,000 {() fund pCJ'>{gradua{e

re.,l.:arc..h. (See p{/~es fll/e e r..:o for rt'porl,j

rudenr ' l-nlun Prt: .denr

Gha an KJnan aid '"Th., I a grc.:at

de\elopmenr for rudenr, at KlOg' ;

the: imprc)\ e:menr 0 porr,facllltle •

an importanr pan of en uring that

rudl.:nr gl.:{ {he be.,t from {heir collcge:

and rude nr., , L'nlOn. I{ I~ realh great

tha{ pa ( rudenr of King.., \\l.:re able

to conrrlbu{e in uch a gcnerou \\ ay."

Thc ~ m \\ ill di play a plaque

reeogl1l,ing the generosity of the

College De\dopmenr Tru [.

The reasons and processesbehind the development.~ orry-.,e\en percenr of srudenr., a{

King'" re,ponded {() ex{eJl'>I\'e market

rc earc..h undl.:rraken by Gallup on it.,

hehalf, To gauge the aerual demand

for a gym, .,cudenr., were a.,ked

\\ hc{her {he\ would bc \\ IIling [() IM\

£25 pc.:r {crm {() U.,C a . 'cudcnr.,' l' nion

multi ~m/fi{J1e.,.,cenrre a{ {hl.: Hand

.,nc. I· orty-one per cenr responded {()

.,ay {hat {hey \\ ould be \ery \\ illing copay {hi., .,UIll. The eonrrac{ ha., been

awarded {() The RIce Group, the .,amt:

company that buil{ Turu'" on the

founh and fifth OO()f'> of the \Iaeadam

Building. The expected eo.,{ of {hc

enrire projec..r \\ ill be in e ....t:c.,., of

£200,O(JO, \\ ith {he College financing

{he major parr of {his by a loan {() be

repaid over fi\e year.,.

.\ member~hip fee of around £50per year for .,rudem., i., amicipa{ed, It

i., el1\i.,a~ed {hat {he joining fee for

.,raff \\ ould be 111 {he region of £ 0, and

£100 for pa.,{ .,rudem and {he general

public. The Srudenr.,·l'l1Ion bclie\c.,

(hat neighbouring eompanie., would be

imere.,{ed in /?;ym member.,hip,

therd)\ allcm ing {he ~'m [() bc opencd

throughout {he year and .,rreng{hcning

link., with {he local community.

omen' Safe Trao port er Ice

The Women's t;afe Transport

.,eryiee will eonrinul: {() run

and i., a\'ailable {() all female

.,rudem., of King"'.

The minibu., .,y'tem \\ hich \\ as in

operation la.,{ year ha., been replaced

by {he u~e of minicab." as rhe .,eheme

originally jnrended. The sen iel.: will

run durin~ all major e\'ems {hroughoU{

{he year.

The Reach

Sedia

Guardian/tudent

ard

aterfront bar- ne paint andcheaper drink

T he Waterfront bar has been

de orated o\'er the ummer

and i no\\' fre hly \'arnished,

re-carpeted and re-painted. The bar

ha abo been to ked with new beer,

biner , wines and cider and e\'eral

reduction have been made in the

price of drinks.

T he hortli t for the

Guardian/ US Sw dent

Media award was recently

released with judges "particularly

impre sed with the overall

improvements in tandard ," The

award, which are being presented at a

ceremony at King's, will be judged by

a variery of media luminaries,

including the former Daily Mirror

Ediror Roy Green dale, Channel

Four's Swan Cosgrove and the

Education Editor of The Guardifll/,

James 'leikle,

Among the nominee are Phillip

shworth of ROAR and Sam Faulkner

of the LOl/dol/ tudfllt in the

Photographer of the Year category,

long ide the winner of the Be t

College ew paper for the last twO

years, the LOl/doll Student, King's Bel/ch

ha also been shortlisted for College1agazine of the Year. The

presentation will take plaee on

Sawrday 22 Ocrober.

forter

rohip

Hipgroo

hi\ year ha een the tart of

'Loo e' a new Sawrda) night

\'enue in Tuw'. dmis ion

4 :'T.' or£5 normal admi sion, andrun from L,OO til 02.00, The e\ening

i advertised in the London press a

being a night of 'hip groo\'e for

groO\'y hip\ter ' and i al 0 open to

non-swdent , Riverman Promotions

arc the brains behind the scheme

which i packing the crowd in on

aturda nights; the. are working withDan and, usan from Hazard ,ounry,

the regular Thur day night at The

l 'nder\\'orld, The popularity of the

cvening seem due to the va t mix of

music played, the eheap price of

drink in the Waterfront and Tutu' ,

and the casual dress code.

Reggie' bar atKensington

T he Reach is the name of a

new bar that ha been built on

the fifth floor of the lacadam

Building over the ummer vacation.

Overlooking the Thame , the bar will

provide another alternative to the

Waterfront and the lower bar in Turu's

and ca e pressure on staff. The Reaeh

is the first stage of the proposed multi

gym POrt faciliry that is to be built on

the roof of the Macadam Building.{See

article 01/ previous page),

T he Kensington ite has een

the development of the area

in the hall behind the bar.Entitled Reggie' after the K L

concrete lion ma COt, the area will be

u ed as a coffee lounge during the dayand a gig/parry venue in the evenings.

It will al 0 provide a new wdent

study faciliry and house the nion site

office, Reggie' will serve bOttled

beer, a new election of wine andpirit and health drinks,

lan Franklin, Vice-President

Representation & wdent ffair

·rtlng outme t r

Bi~arre thing, thesc scme ter ;

they eem ro have crept up on

e\'eryone in a nasty way, Pan~

of College didn't eem quite urc

when e\'eryone wa due back, Tho e

\\ ho \\ ere in the know, kept their

wisdom to them elve. and appeared ro

refer enquiries ro an un~u peeting areathat didn't have a clue, The wdent'

llnion had a couple of week le s ro

prepare (like gening a bar built in a

maner of days) and you had less time

ro \wan around your re~pective corners

of the globe. ow that it' happened,

what do you think of it all?

The system ha mixed origins.

Onc way ro cope with more swdents

in a tighter space i ro modulari e

coursc·. This had happened for a

while, with course broken mid-way by

long holidays. An extreme solurion

would be ro have thrce fifteen-week

terms, with swdents choosing ro

anend two per year. Alternatively,

maybe degrees could be earned within

two ycar . Easy ro ee how problem

with this led ro the twelve-thineen

five nifry compromi e now at King's.

This is not without it hiccups.

Somc LE s have problems

administering funding like this. Somc

depanments have exams straight after

the Chri tmas holidays, Some,

awarding the same degree, don't.

Whatever the experience thisear, don't expect the twelve-thineen

fi e formula ro be a la ting olution.

Having one College . tem in i olationro anOther can be asking for trouble,

How desirable is it for courses ro beginbcforc Clearing i over, for example?

It would be a huge ta k to bring

rogether so many independent

componenrs, namel the entire

education infrastrucwre and all itspin-offs. Everything from A-levelre ult , to the same stan date forcour e and exams, would be a

ignificant breakthrough,

If you think that thi on of

interference is desirable, or pos ible,

dream on ...

an1'nd h

Ti~ n: rart di

1a

In th pr ntI n fbr a t cancer

Dr Ht/m lrismlOn, leC!urtr in lireDepanml'fll o/Xulnl/on andDfl'M/rs Iras rtr. 11/~\ PUblf Ired {/

book m/ltledTamoxlfcn: :".Iolecular

ba i of u e in cancer treacmem and

prel·cmion. Hert sire desrnbl'f ruml orkon Ilris dntK.

urremly chere icon iderable imere c

in che pocential use of che drug

camoxifen noc only co crcac brea c

cancer bue al 0 co prevent it. Thc

po sible role of camoxifen a a major

chemopreventacive agent ha actracced

comroversy relacing co che po ibiliry

of harmful long-cerm ide effecc of

cherapy wich chi drug. Howeler, ic i

becoming apparent chac che finding of

tamoxifen is a D.' damaging agent

cau~ing liver cancer in racs I noc

u ually che ca e in humans.

Endomerrial cancer and recinopachy

may scill be a problem in some ca e

and clearly individual involved in

prophylaxi~ require careful monicoring.

In addicion, po sible beneficial side

effecc of camoxifen chcrapy, ~uch as

proceccion again c cardiova cular

l'ni\ er"ir\ of Lonuon Tru~t

fund~ for rec.;earch "rant ...

APplication are inviced from

members of che niver icy

(ocher chan pre ent

undergraduace wdent and chose

regiscered for a caughc lascer'

degree) for re earch grant co as isc

peeifi projecc of research wich che

provi ion of expense such as pecial

macerial ,apparaw and travel coses.

The 10 ing dace for applicarion will

be Friday 16 December 1994.

pplicant hould noce rhar rhe

omminee will noc award grants

retrospeccively i.e., for expen es

incurred before che ouccome of che

ommiccee is known.

pplicacion form and further

particulars may be obcained from che

Admini traCOr of Re earch Grant ,

niversicy of London, enare Hue,

Room 21a, Malec Streer, London,

W lE 7HU. Telephone: 0171-636

8000 exr 3147.

l' I~C 12

di e e and 0 reoporo i (bone 10 and

chinning) are emcrgin~. The e

beneficial e er, in particular rhe

ardloproce nl e accion 0 camoxl en,

may be ke~ facror in predlcclng che

likely n k:benefic ranon of

prophylacric ramoxifen treacment in

orherwi e healchy women. hee

women have been alculaced ro be ar

ri k of del'eloping breasc cancer and

following rhe identificarion of a brea r

cancer u cepribilicy gene rhi i likely

w be decermined in rhe future b

generic creening rechniques.

The benefi ial effe r f

ramoxifen on 0 ceoporo i and hean

di~t:a e are re laced w ir abilicy ro

mimic rhe accion of natural oestrogens

co lower blood chole rerol le\'els.

Tamoxifen is an effecrive antioxidant

and can prore r human low den icy

lipoprorein (LOLl parcicles again c

che oxidacive damage cau ed by free

radicals chac is a ociaced wich

achero c1erosi . The oestrogenic

accion of camoxifcn arc in addicion wics well characceri cd abilicy co block

che growch- rimulacing accions of

Conference on Rcscan:h In

Cancer ursing

T he Department of ur ing

scudie i holding a

conference on 23 l\larch 1995

entirled Researclr in Cancer J ursing. The

aim of rhe conference is ro enable

nur e interesred in chi ubjecc ro

meec rogecher and exchange idea .

Re earch i ues in cancer nur ing will

be addre ed and a number of scudie

which have been compleced or are

currencly being undertaken by nur e

will be pre ented. Topic include: che

panern of facigue in pacient receiving

chemocherapy; finding from che

Macmillan Praccice Development OIr

Delphi urvey on re earch prioririe ;

che experience of deach and dying

from che per peccive of fellow

pacient .

The venue will be che Grcac Hall,

rrand Campu and further

informacion i available from andra

Peros: 071-872 3024 (exc 3024).

oe trO en in brea r cancer cell (ic

annoe rrogen acnon). An Imp rtant

area of re earch for che mure I che

del'elopment 0 new denl'arjl'e of

camoxifen aimed ac ol"ercoming che

problem 0 rhe del elopment of

el'entual re I can e ro ramoxifen char

frequendYoccur durin ramoxi en

trearmenr for brea r cancer, Finally. Ir

i of grear Inrere r rhar certain plant

produces (e.g. rho e derived from oya)

concain compound rhar acr a weak

oe trogen (phyco-oestrogens) and

appear co compere wirh and block rhe

growrh promoring effecr of

endogenou oestrogen in brea~r cancer

ell , In a imilar manner ro ramoxifen

icself. These phyro-oestrogens may be

narure' I'er ion of ramoxifen and

tudie on rhe mechani m of a rion of

rhe e compound in relarion ro dietary

approache co rhe prevention of brea~r

cancer arc also likely ro be of grear

value in rhe future.

Tallloxifen: ,lloleclllarbasis o/lIse in canarIri'almml and prroffllion, i published by

John Wiley, Chiehe rer.

I·.SRC eminur unudi~Cll Ion

illiam olesbury, che

ecrecary of rhe Economic

and ocial Research

ouncil (E R ), will be paying a vi ir

co rhe ollege on Thur day 17

, ovember; rhe firsr for some year. 1\lr

ole bury will pre ent a seminar on

rhe current policies of rhe E R co be

followed by a di cu ion e ion and

buffer lunch.

All raff arc welcome co chi event

which will cake place in che Council

Room ac rhe crand ampu. Pica e

re pond co Loui e adal, Academic

candards eccion, ornwall Hou e by

londay 14, ovember if you wi h co

anend 0 rhac cacering arrangements

can be finalised in advance.

European Cnion funding Framework 1\ update The Walk of H pe

F ramework 1\' i now under way

with ad\'ance call for propo al

published on 1- eptember

1994 for borh ACT ( dvanced

Communication Te hnologies) and

I\[T (Indu trial '\[aterial and

Technologie ) programmes. Both

programme will call formally on 15

December 1994. On 29 eptember the

following programme were formally

arproved by the Research ouncil:

• Telematics• Standards, 1\[easurements ei Testing

• [arinc Sciences and Technologie(1\1 T)

• griculture & Fisherie (AI R)

• Informarion Technologie

• on-nuclear Energy ontrollednuclear fu ion (jOl LE (£ THER.i\[IE)

This means thar rhe first call for

propo als for each of rhe above

programme i \'ery likely ro be on 15

December 1994, with a closing dare of

1 1\[arch 1995. The closing date for

this call will rherefore be 15june 1995.

The ommission has finally

revised its application form ro a much

more u er-friendly document! In rhe

past. the Commi ion ha been

tronglyeririei ed for rhe unwieldy and

exten i\'e derail required on irs

tandard form . The new form is much

horter, clearer and an ea ily be

phoroeopied or faxed. An electronic

formar i currenrly being on idered

bur ir i unlikely ro be ready for the

fir t call for propo als. Plea e contacr

Geraldine Barry (ext 3319) or ara

Kelly (ext 3321) for a drafr of the form.

eminar on the forthcoming

BI01\[ED programme has been

arranged for 9 November from l·tOO ro

16.30 in the Old Medical 'chool at

Denmark Hill. Or Liam O'Toole from

the Internarional Office of the IR

will pre ent the latest informarion onBIO,\[ED. His talk will be

upplcmented by David Brin (I3rirish

Council) who will advi c on making

succe ful contracts. If you would like

ro anend bur have nor already recei\'ed

a regi trarion form, pica e contact ara

on exr 3321 a oon a' po sible.

Geraldine Barry

KCL Enterpri e

Two ecuri[\' taff from

Li\ erpool L nJ\'er 1£)' will be

ropping off at King' in

. o\'ember during rheir charicy walk

from Edinburgh ro London ro rai e

fund for rhe Roy Ca £le Cau e for

Hope ppeal, for the con trucrion of

an International entre of Excellence

in Li\'erpool to combat lung can er.

john Collins and Ray Pullen will

pend rhree day ar Imperial ollege

bcfore \'i iting King' on 10nday 21

o\'ember between 14.00 and 15.15.

There will be a table in rhe foyer of

rhe Strand from where they will issue

covenant form. ponsorship forms are

also a\'ailable from rhe main de kat

the rrand.

john and Ray hope King' sraff

will pon or them direcrly or upporr

their walk in ome orher way: if ou

would like to do this, please contact:

Roy Ca £le Causc for Hope Appeal

PO Box 107

c/o Barclays Bank

4 \ ater Street

Liverpool.Tel: 0 1-1-2273636.

ontinuing education figures 1993 - 1994

School No of courses No of students Student hours FTEs*

92/93 93/94 92/93 93/94 92/93 93/94 92/93 93/94Education 41 48 804 912 35,522 15,796 118 53

Humanities 87 147 576 1,662 12,010 86,335 40 288

Law 39 16 726 931 18,025 12,099 60 40

Life Sciences 23 166 1,430 2,175 51,182 14,625 171 49

KCSMD 22 45 435 944 11,383 26,467 38 88

Physical Sciences 14 16 379 564 3,079 4,698 10 16

Non-school 25 - 607 - 64,926 216- -

Total 251 438 4,957 7,188 196,127 160,020 654 533

• One FTE = 300 student hours. Totals may not agree due to rounding. Table prepared by the Continuing Education Unit.

There ha been a decline in

FTEs, despite the increa e in

cour e run and number ofstudent anending. However. the drop

in the chool of Life cience, i due

in large parr ro a rechnical change, in

thar the I ursing 5tudie , parr-rime

degree srudent are now included in

the individuali ed record. , and not in

rhe continuing education record.

The e tudenrs accounted for 44.695

rudent-hour in 1992/3.

There have al 0 been decrea e ,

albeir much smaller one, in rhe

rudent-hours rerurned by gerontologyand life cience. These decrea e

have been parrly off er b increa e in

rhe !v[edical School return - ,439 from

ob retrics and gynaecology, and 6.218

from medical phy ics, neither of which

returned anyrhing la t year. The

increa e in rhe chool of Humanirie i

due to rhe inclusion of rhe English

Language nit., (65,705 student-

hour ), which was in rhe on- chool

category la tear. \ hile rhe chool of

Education ha increa ed borh the

number of courses and rudent, the

cour e have become shorter, due ro

rhe financial constrainrs on chool ,thus reducing rhe tudent-hours.

oncinuing Education Unir

f'agt.: 14

•otlces

1 c\\ from (he Kin u ' ~I ble

The Strand Campus'olleaj!;ue \\ ill rt.:ad cl cw here in (hi

i ue of (hc rc(in:mem of h or

Klngman. who for ?7 year ha heen

lookln af(cr (hc drink requirement

of our uand ha cd t.:U wmer .

AI(hough h or will nor be dlrecd~

replact.:d, wc imcnd (() con[lnuc (()

offer a comprehen,i\ c dnnk, cn ice a(

(he (rand and cu (()mcr an: a kcd (0

contact Dennl .\lIen or Pc(cr Duranton 234ljJI 057 In fuwre. Cu,tomt.:r arc

a ked (() gne (hem a, much notice a

po ible for 't.:n Ice, and arc poh[d)reminded (ha[ credit .,ale~ requirewflnen order.,. I\()f\ re[iremt:n[ doc,.

howe\·t:r. nece""J(a[e a thoroughre\ iew of (ht: drink, t.:n ice provided

b~ [he Ca(cring l)epaHmem. and

de[aib of an~ change., will bt: wiot:!)

circula(t:d once [ht: rt:\ it:\\ i, comple[c.

Cornwall HouseThe King\ Table I'> plca.,t:o w

announct: (ht: Imlnlnem opening of a

ne\\ Coffee Bar in [he main huildlng

of Cornwall Ilou,t:. Sirua(ed in Room

\!BZ 19, i[ will be open from 10.00 w

15.00 during [t:rm (imt:.

,\ new range of produc(., including

cappuccino coffec and filled bagucue.,

will. toge[her wi[h old favourite"~ bcavailable from (hi, outle( and wa(eh

Oll[ for exciting inrroducwry offer.,!The King\ Table i., aware (ha[

capacity in [he new oude( is limi[cd [Q

,ome 50 ~ea(s. and (herefort: a

cakeaway .,ef\'ice I'> available for all

produc(~.

Chelsea CampusThc uadi[ional Chebea Chri.,(mas

Iunch, onc of [he t:vem., of (he year,

will (akc place on Tue day, 20

December.pre-Iunch gla.,~ of wine, or .,of(

drink will be erved a[ 12.00 in (he

A sembly Hall, with a Carverv s(\. lelunch served a[ 12.15 in (he \'Iai~Refecwry.

The price is £6.95 per head, andhooking form, will be circula[ed

shordy. FUHher decail, can be

obcained from (he Chelsea Catering

Office on ex(ension~ 4907/49

P J Hoffman

Catering Officer

<.h em arol b~ c ndlelighr

The popular .\d\em aral en ICe b\candlellgh( wIII be held on (hree .

e\"enin' : '(J on:mber. I and ZDecember a( 17. '0. Ticke( ( recl arc

a\ ailabk from [he Chaplainc~ a( [he. uand from 1 ./)\ ember.

\11\ mt:mber of (.lff who would

hke w read a( one of (he t:nice'> i.,

a kco [0 conrat:( (he Chaplain. Fr

Philip Chc (t:r on 071- r 2373.

(Idem en ice confert:: nee

'f ht: Coun elling! P~ychQ[herap)

'ct:(ion of wdem. 'enice, i~ holding

J(, \nnual Conference on ~5

. '0\ embc.:r In (he Council Room from

10.O(J (() 16.00. The (ide of [his year'"

con ference 1'>: Sf/ldell! sl':\/lo/itl' ill fI

l"h{I/l~II/j!t'll'urolll//mf - I1l1pltr~f/fJ'" for

(I)/It'Kf 5/(/ff.Tht: ,>pcaker, arc \Iargarc(

Gardincr (Lt.:uurt:r and Tu(()r. CEl.),

King\ College London). Or RobenHale (Con,ulranc P,ychiaui,(

/p,>yt.hoanah,(, Ta\ i,wck and

POHnum ClII1IC'), ,\nn Ilc: no (I kad

of Coumcllll1g and Ad\ I'O~ Scn ICC'.

l' nivt:r,i[) of We,(mi",,(er).

\lcmber, offacul() and ~raff who

wish (() a((cnd ~hould appl~ a~ ,oon a~

pos.,iblc [() Cclia Cockburn, 2C SEB,

t:X( 2530. There is no conference fee

for King\ ~ollege scaff bu( anvonc

wishing [() have lunch/ refrc h:nencs i,

asked (0 concribu(e £12.

ome and join (he gho.,dy going,-on

in (he spooky ,urroundings of (he

College. 'ocial Club hallowe 'en PaHvon 2 Ocwber. Doors open a[ 19.00,'

admi((ancc is frce and food will be

available

ant:) dre, is op(ional bur (here

will be a prize for (he scarie (coswme!,\11 members of scaff and (heir gue,(s

are warmly invited. oman Lenyllllg on CX( 3354 for de(aib.

The (hird edition of (he leafle( IlnOf's

0" of Ki"g's covers public lecwres,open day~ and evems up uncil January

1995. If you require copies plea.,e ring

Pres~ and Publica(ions, CX( 3202.

ave ber even s18 NovemberThe Trustees of the HockerillEducational Foundation inviteacademic staff to attend the 1994Hockerill Lecture entitled:

A vision for the future of educationProfessor Tim Brighouse, MA(Oxon), Chief Education Officer,City of BirminghamNew Theatre, Strand, 20.15Tea and biscuits in the CouncilRoom, 17.15 to 18.00

RSVP 0 J Newman Esq., 51 PoleBarn Lane, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex,C0139NQ.

22 NovemberThe Halliburton lecture inPhysiologyEgg into embryo: ethics, cyclesand ionsProfessor Martin H Johnson MAPhD, Department of Anatomy,University of Cambridge17.30 in Lecture Theatre 3B20.Tea will be available beforehand,at 16.45 in the main entrance hall.

la 'well ociery Lecture.

14 NovemberGlassy metals, proteins, soapbubbles and the Giant's Causeway:making sense of disorder incondensed matter and materials.Professor John Finney, UniversityCollege, London.Room 2B08, Main Building14.00 to 15.00

21 NovemberThe arrest of time: thedevelopment of high speedphotographyOr M E J Holwill, King's College,Room 2B08, Main Building,14.00 to 15.00

, chool of HllmanitieDepartmem of ~lll ic

21 NovemberMusic by Purcell and Birtwistle tocelebrate the appointment of SirHarrison Birtwistle as first holderof the Henry Purcell Chair ofComposition.18.30, Great Hall.For admission to this concertplease apply to the School ofHumanities, telephone: 071-8732360.

5 DecemberKing's College Orchestra: works bySchubert, Cherubini and Weber.19.30, Great Hall.

8 DecemberRosalind Aden, piano.13.05, Room 6C.

Admission is free.

DBRC emmar at Drlll)Lane

2 OctoberSpecification of cell fate inDictyostelium developmentOr Rob Kay, LMB, Cambridge13.00

4 NovemberSignalling through the sevenlesspathway.Professor Ernst Hafen, Universityof Zurich13.00

9 NovemberSub-dividing the DrosophilaembryoOr Peter Lawrence, LMB,Cambridge13.00

16 NovemberMolecular mechanisms of celllineage choice.Or Tony Ford, Institute for CancerResearch13.00

23 NovemberRetinoic acid and regeneration inlower vertebratesOr Patricia Feretti, Institute of ChildHealth13.00

30 NovemberSry-related genes, Sox-l and Sox2, in early neural developmentOr Robin Lovell-Badge, NIMR13.00

Randall seminars at DruryLane

7 NovemberModelling cystic fibrosis: fromgene targeting to gene therapyOr Bill Colledge, Wellcome CRCInstitute, Cambridge17.00

14 NovemberSignals, signal reception andmorphogenetic cell movement inDictyosteliumProfessor Jeff Williams, UniversityCollege London17.00

21 NovemberAntibodies: Templates for drugdesignProfessor Tony Rees, Dept ofBiochemistry, Bath University17.00

28 NovemberScreening for inhibitors of tyrosinekinases for breast cancerchemotherapyOr Martin Page, WellcomeResearch Labs, Beckenham17.00

5 DecemberMolecular genetics and Psychiatry:The beginning of the end?Or Steve A Whatley, Institute ofPsychiatry, London17.00

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King's College LondonCornwall House AnnexWaterloo RoadLondonSE18WA

e ha\'e been ad\'i cd b~ the

Royal '-lail that in ordcr to

e'\pedlte the delj\'e~' of

mall it imend to allocate a 'Iarge u er'

po tcode for the cxclu ive u e of

Cornwall Hou;e. From 1 • ·o\cmber

the ne\\' po~tal address for all

department ~i{lJated at Corn\\all

I10u e/Corn\\all Hou e Annex Will be:

The Ro~ al mail will continuc to

run the e\i;tin~ po~tcode (. El TX)concurrentl~ \\ ith the nc\\ onc for a

perIod of 12 month\ from I 'm'ember

1994.

.\lcmber~ of staff respon~ible for

(;()mmis~ioning publications and

departmental stationery should en\ure

that all tho~e bearing the Cornwall

Ilou~c Annex address include the ne\\

po tcode at the ne t priming. I t may

be cOOleniem to make the change; a~

and when amendments are made to

reflect the new British Telecom 'TOcode which ha\ e been in u e since 1

.\ugu~t and \\ hich \\ ill become

obligarory from 16 April 1995.

ilIa to r nt\'illa in :'>Jerja - beautiful Spani~h

coa ral rown, ;lceps six. Stunning

mountain \·iew~. Available {() rent for

cheap wimer and \ummer Icts.

Telephone: 0734 867292.

d ertl Ing In

CoJllIJzeJl!

Full dctails and br<)Lhure~ arc a\ allable

from the Carcer~ en·ice.

Wednesday 9 NovemberScience, :::ngineering &Information Technology Fair11,00 to 16.00Finance Fair - 11,00 to 16,00Orgonrsoflons offmdlf/f( II1dude: . Inil}

Offirer; Arthur :lnde fII; LOf(/({J ('K l.td;

fondord 14l'; TOl/rl1l' Ross.

seminars on specific media topics).Ofj!OfWOflOfr ortmdrn'-' II1dud. . In/ond

Ref:mul'. IflIl'nloflono/ Hou'l'. rso,InJlllfJll' oPubIJr Rl'/oflons; AOf(on Po"l'

Vd; I.ondon Co/I. l' of Pmrrrn' ,

nformation Fair 199are r

Tuesday 8 NovemberGeneral Fair - 11.00 to 16.00Arts and Media Fair - 12.00 to14.30 (including a programme of

he King' areer In ormation

FaIr, organ! ed b~ the Career

en Ice, wIll be held on

Tue day and \Yedne dJ,9

'o\ember in the Great Hall. uand

Campu . On both day employer.

cour e pronder and prok IOnal

in munon \\ III be on hand {() an \\ er

que tion about their I fJ<r \ aLanlle~.'tudent \\ ill be able to find OUt \\ hat

Ort of graduate; the e organi~atlOns

require. training, prospect, number of

vacancies. etc. E \'em are a; follow~:

Plant

InglngLe onProfc~ ional ~inger with con~idcrable

performing and teaching cxperience

offer; private tuition {(J all abilitie~.

vailable at l'niversiry College

London, omacr S Coombe~, ALC~I.

afrer 19.00. Telephone:071- -+46 6 72

. ofthearred gardener \\ ill not have a

vegetable patch left ne t year unle~s

good homes are found for nearly

unlimited number of the following

pia m;: foxglo\'es; forger-me-nots;

eampanula; Chinese lanterns;

~Iichaelma dai ies; coltsfom; lemon

balm. Hou e pace i becoming

;everely restricted by population

explosion from pider plams.

Please ring 2029 (l\lusie

Departmem) if you would like some of

these plams. They would have to be

collected from the Strand ~ite. 0

charge, donation ro Oxfam

appreciated.

~ommem i~ willing to car~

advertising at thc Ediwr\ dl~cretion

for goods or ~en'ice~ that would be of

imerest ro King'~ staff. The co t~ arc

a follows:

Full page advert: £250Half page advert; £125Quarter page advert: £62.50Small ads (not more than 50words) are free to all staff.

Plea. e contact rhc Pre~s and

Publications office on e t 3202 if you

have an queries about advertising or

Comment in general.

GT H ughes, Bur~ar

CoIllllleIJIComment is the College'sregular newsletter, issued by thePress and Publications Office(ext 3202, fax 071-872 0212)each month during term time.Contributions for the nextedition should be received byFriday 18 November (if possibleon a 3,5" disk).Please note that the editorreserves the right to cut oramend articles as necessary,

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