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t
he CVCP has recently is ueda Code of RecommendedPractice for oversea tudents
tudying for higher degree in thenited Kingdom. The Code
encourage institutions to examine theirown arrangements and to a ses whetherthey need to expand or revi e them in alocal code of practice.
M uch of the ode refers to practiceprior to a tudent's admi ion.
niver ities are trongly advised toestabli ha tudent' English languagecompetence before arrival in the 'K.When a tudent is admitted without a
sati factory knowledge of Engli h, freelanguage tuition hould be provided.Considerable emphasis is placedthroughout on the provi ion ofinformation to students and, whererelevant, ponsors. This should include:notification of the length, co t andmethod of assessment of the cour e;decisions to regi ter a student for a
preparatory course which increase thelength of the total regi tration; detailedand accurate information about atudent's right of acces to laboratorie ,
equipment and library facilitie .Once the student i enrolled in an
institution, much of the responsibility forgood practice lies with the academicsupervisor. upervi ors need to beparticularly sen itive to the need ofoverseas students, on which guidanceshould be offered by the institution, andshould promote their integration into thestudent community. ix-monthlyprogress reports should be prepared, anda report hould be made to a student's
pon oring authority at lea t annually,with the tudent uitably informed. Inthe e reports, the upervisor should bereali tic in the asse ment of the timelikely to be required by the student tocomplete the course. If problems arise,the in titution hould have a clearprocedure for a tudent' transfer to adifferent cour e or institution.
he Acting Principal will shortlyinstitute discussions with a view tointroducing a King's code of practice forthe next academic year. Copies of thereport entitled The Managemmt 0/ flig/ur
Degrees Undertaken by Overseas Students
are available from the School Offices.
A bel/erdeal/or
(){)IT"Seas students?
There are currently
276 overseas
postgraduale
students at King's
and 523undergraduates
(thest figures do not
include EC
students).
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talked about the problems cau ed by theinteraction between prescribed
medicine and mediCines bought overthe counter.
The Plrysics Department's exhibition inthe Great Ilall to promote their ubject
to chool children ( ee page 6) receivedsome lively airplay on GLR.
Jil/ Mackod Clork, Professor of 'u ing,wa featured in The Times when theBritish ~edical ociation' surve
revealed that women are ignoring the
danger of moking during pregnancy.
In their own study for the Health
EducatIOn uthorit, Profes or ~acleod
Clark and Karen Jone drew a profile of
women mo t likely to ignore anti
smoking advice, ie those with either nopartner or an un upportive one, who areunemployed and poorly educated, havefriends who smoke and whosepregnancy was unplanned. They alsofou nd that many of thosc who do giveup start again soon after their baby is
born.
John .Speight, ResearcJz Fellow, Centre forDefence Studies, wa interviewed on CI,RNews following the publication of the
All-Party Common DefenceCommittee Report into the Army. Col
peight explained that the Committeefelt that the previous Defence Secretary,Tom King, had gone too far in hisReport on the armed forces, OptionsforChange. It had advocated reductions inthe ire of the Army and, ome felt thatif it wa implemented, the Army wou Idbe greatly over-stretched. He thought
that criticism by this Committee wasinevitable even though Malcolm
Rifkind, the current Secretary of State
for Defence, had already made a partial
climb down on this issue just a few daysbefore the Committee published its
Report.
John Martin, Professor ofCardiO'UasculorScience, KCSMD, appeared on theBBCl 's Six O'Clock /\ews after hi workon heart di ea e wa published. lIefou nd that the over-prod uction of nitricoxide gas in the heart muscle might be a
cau e of the di ease of dilatedcardiomyopathy. This is when the heartbecomes grossly enlarged and leads to
heart failure. It affects thou ands of
people in Britain and is a common
rea on for heart tran plant.
Alon athan, Boots Lecturer/Practitioner inthe Department ofPharmacy, poke on aBBC Radio Lancashire programme in
the run up to the publication ofa leaflet
to be distributed by P andpharmaci called Mixing Medicine. I le
John flead, Senior Lecturer in Education,was on one of the seric of threeprogrammes entitled Culture Closh onBBC 2. It examined the old dichotomybetween science and the arts and DrHead poke about the factors whichdetermine why peoplc choo e science aopposed to arts ubjects. The interviewalso explored how this choice affectssociety and the fact that science tends to
be a male-dominated subject.
John Langdon, Professor ofOral andMaxillofacial Surgery, KCSMD, took partin Radio 4's Today programme followingthe disappearance of a Securicor vandri er with over 1 million. Profes orLangdon explained how a per on couldalter their appearancc to avoid
recognition (and In this ca e, capture) by
having facial urgery. For example, thejaw line can be altered or the shape of
the nose changed.
I.ynn fraser, Reader In DevelopmentalBiology, appeared In The Obseroer' frontpage tory reporting the claims of therecently e tabli hed London enderClinic which tate It I able todetermine the ex of a child for couple .There ha been deep scepticism aboutthe effectivene of the technlq ue
employed b the linlc to separate male
and female-determining perm to
cn ure ex clection. Or Frasercndorsed this view saying 'there i no
evidence that uch a technique could
eparate them in any effective way.'
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The Bennell Street Estate, before and afterthe work ofthe DICE ProjectJeaturedrecently in The Times (See opposite page fordetails)
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Profes or Allcc Coleman
Department of Geography
manoda) [>ICI~ ha Identlfi d
o 10dern fovcmcnt ar hltemak It dl - ,eu or parent 0 e ereise
natural ontrol o\er their children, or to
hand on cl.II d tradition 10 an
effc t1\;e \4a,.
Parental inOuence I much moreere tlve 10 hou ehold. that have their
0" n eparate terntory With front door
Ieadtn~ Into cn 10 cd front garden and
ba doo" IcadlOg IOto enclosed b ckgarden. ew-bulld hou e can achieve
thl', and 0 can eXI ting hou es With thehclp ot l>ICI,-t. pc rearrangements. ,\
thlld pproa h "to convert ~round·noorlat or maISCJl1e[[e~ tnto quasl-house~
\\ Ith Imilar lea tu re so that they haveno Internal conta t with the block above.
[ p talr dwellings are then divided
IOto sub-blocks" Ith on Iy four to six
dwelllOgs aces Ible from any given
enerancc, On the Ben nett treet I: state
there \4ere formerly 19 IOterconneetln)?:
entrances givtng unre tncted access to
% d\\'ellings. 'I hiS resulted 10 acompletely anony mous character for the
area, where criminals could wanderunidentified; but now there IS a better
community spirit among the smaller
number ofhou eholds 10 each sub
block.At grou nd level the plethora of
alleyway ha been replaced by a parse
network of through road. The alleys
have been scaled by extending house
gardens acro thcm, or by converting
them into ide paths wlthlO the curtilage
of semi-detached homes. Because there
arc fewer ways to filter through the
estate, there i a bigger public presence
on each road, which I added to by
people tending the new garden. There
IS a much safer atmosphere and both
cnme and the fear of cnme have
dlmtnl hed. Drug pu hcr arc also
baulked as their escapewa s have been
blocked.
In I the DICE te m, \4hlch lIed,
con ulted the re ident~ about heir
problems and proposed a de ignImprovement olution \4hi h in plied
them with new hope. 'I he could '>ee
the force of the proposcd change. andout of a 100% tenant vote, 9 % voted 10
favour. 'I hc communlt. Ie.lder nolonger felt over\4hclmingl oppre d,a the funding brought h DICE
trengthened their hand, and he\' have
\~orked vel) closely \\Ith me and m)team, a alo have the city archlte ts,
surveyors, hOUSing manager and other
staff. The vanou stages of de Ign had
to be ve([ed c1oscly, after which there
was a five month delay \4hde '1Khael
Ileseltine considered the heme and
finally gave hi~ approval, although
proposed work on the ite where drug
pushlOg took place was cxcluded and
thiS was a big disappOintment. The
project went out to tender forcontractor's bids and work began on site10 late 1991. Complction I~ cxpected in
mid-I993.Onc of the conditions which makes
the DICE ehemcs a controllcd
experiment is the provIso that the same
tenants hould be kept In occupancy
before, during and after the con tructlOn
work. To minlmi c the duration of
living on a budding Site, the work was
~eheduled for an earl beginning and
completion at one end of the e tate,
followed b treatment of ~ucce slve
section toward the mher cnd. '1 his
approach has paid dividcnds. Forexample, [ wa~ recently asked to speak
o a lady who objected to what needed
to be done at the edge of her garden,
and after she heard the explanation he
replied, 'Well, I'm not convinced, but
I've seen what you've done at the other
cnd, 0 I'll goalong With you'.
It may be difficult for people to envisage
the changes, but seeing is believing.
. 'ow another Manchester estate wants
DICE to prepare a scheme there.
other crime, Ro 109 11 ter umula'ed
a er than I could c1earc,.era I I
Ida
Three year ago the tenants of the
Bennett treet E tate were 10 uch
despair that they felt the only solution
wa a mass exodu , leaving all their
Modern Movement buildings to be
demoli hed, There had been three
murder incidents and a great deal of
The 'I Hnc of22 Janua aporTc L IProfmor All« Cokmon, kad of Ilri' DICI',fDt' Improv I ConI liedExpmmmls) ProJUl, IS rTi IIy ~/ing
ffPitlr Ma I" city councrlhrs andIn~city rtgm"alion txfJms 10 discuss rwltal canbe done 10 reduce crime on Irousing eSlaltS. AI
tire md ofIosI )tor I ~ ear-oldJolrnBmjamtn Slanley ~as shOI al close range In
a laKeaway slrop in Moss SIde, ~lrere lirebaCK alleys andcul-de-sacs allOfJ1J dfllg gong10 of/hod tlreirgoods and extl qUICkly ,\'0fJ1J
plo are underw;ay 10 deslroy lire ral flInrand reploce tIrem WIIIr It!rraced Irou,es r::-~11r
gardms Tire Irope IS Ilral tlllr new urban!o)oul could rui. t Io~kssness
In Ir" book Ctopia on 'I nal, publlSlrwln/9 '5, ProfmorColemon poslulotts a link
be/Wem lire plrysicol desi ofmodmtIrouslng eslales and vandalism, clrild cnme,
graf!i". lill" andgm"al squalor anddelinqumcy Site of/e lite evidmce ofliteseven Itousing motes wltlclr are currmtlybeing improvedalong lite lines site Irassuggeslt!d 10 SIrOllV Ilral lire ef/uls ofdektenousdtSign con be reversed. Tltefirsl DIC[~sclteme Iras jusl bem compkted on lite RogersESlale in TOf!JJI!r Ilamkls, easl LondonTwo [1YJt-Slorey blocks conlaining 120flolsnow look like ntfIl) developmenls, yel tlltSe
maltS ~ere idmlified by DICE,from among
Iltousands ofeSlates, os among lire fIl)Orsl in
Rrilain. The £4 million solulion Iras been 10
reduce lite anonymity oflite Itomes All 20groundfloor flols Irove bem . m IIrClr OfJ1Jnmlrances andgard. . A ntfIl) lift, ,jtlr a
gloss fronlltos been inslalled and lite blocksIltemselves 1r0'Ut bem sub-d. Ided. rwucrngaccess 10 only /Wo or Iltree d_IIlngs.
We inviled ProfessorCokman lolellComment mon aboul DICE andlr"fIl)Ork
on 0 Manclresler I!SlOte.
he Centre for the .. tud of
onfllct at thc L' nlvcrlty of
lil ter i compJling a Regl ter
of current and recent (po t 19 )re earch on all a peets of life, work and
ociety In 'orthern Ireland (nolju t
connected With conflIct). They would
like to hear from taffand postgraduate
student~who are doing or have recently
complcted relevant re earch. Please
send dctail , including the name of the
re earcher, the title of the research, the
date of completion and contact detail to
Ciaran 0 Maolain, Information Officer,
Lniversity of Clster, Coleraine, Co
Londonderry, 13'1'52 1 A, ~orthcrn
Ireland; or telephone for a que tionnaire
to 0265 44141 cxtn 416 or 4666.
Billy Cleary looking very dapper at his
leaving party. Billy joined 'he Portering
Staffsix yeors ago, brightening up 'he lives
01011 those who got to know him at 'he
Strand, with his dueiful disposition, kind
words and ballroom dancing. It's not
goodbye though as he is going to work in the
Senior Common Room covering Cathy
lIealy's matermty leave.
1e In
nthea Tinker, Profe or of
SOCial Gerontology, has been
appointed a a \1ini terlal
adviser on a new group which aim to
make the mo t of the talent. of older
workers and to encourage cmployer to
abandon age di nmination 10 all their
personnel policie , including
recruitment and training.
The fir t meeting of the d i ory
Group wa chaired by Employment
Mini ter Patrick McLoughlin.
r Alan Bittles, Reader in the
Department of Anatomy and
f Iuman Biology, recently
took part in the American As ociation
for the dvancement of ience
Meeting held in 130 ton.
The AAA meeting i one of the mo t
pre tigiou gathering of the scientific
community in America and it i fairly
unusual for Briti h academICS to be
Invited to organi e and present the
se si on . The meeting attracts great
pre S attention with over 500 reporters
covering the event.
Or l3ittle's paper was entitled
De'erminants and Consequences 0111uman
Inbreeding: A Global Perspective.
Marriages between close relati es are
generally rare in 'orth America and
We tern Europe, yet in :'-Jorth and sub-
aharan Africa, We t, Central and much
of South Asia, consanguineou marriages
are contracted by 20-55% of the
popu lation. During the la t 40 years
inhabitant of these region have begun
to migrate to more developed countrie
and the prevalence of con anguineou
marriage and biological effects of human
inbreeding have become topic of
increa ing intere t to health
professionals.
Dr Philip Adey, .. enior Lecturer in
the Department of Education, also
attended the /\..c, meeting and lead a
workshop on hire earch on the
promotion of thinking skills in cience.
rafe sor RE Surge has been
eleeted a Life Member of Clare
Ilall, University of Cambridge,
whieh include associated academic
benefits, particularly with re pect to
research. Following hi leave in the
Michaelma term, 1992 (when he wa~
appointed Visiting Fellow at Clare flail)
three joint re earch project between
King' Phy ic Department and the
Cavendi h Laboratory, Cambridge are
now either in place or under di cussion.
All these projects relate to aspects of
re earch into X-ray microscopy and the
associated fabrication of the mallest
regular man-made structure worldwide.
ome staff will already be aware
that f larry M usselwh ite i
moving to a base at the Strand as
Deputy College Secretary (Medicine
and Dentistry) with a College-wide
responsibility for the promotion of
medicine, dentistry and health-related
studie .
As a consequence Jennifer I3riggs has
been appointed as Head of Secretariat of
the hool of Medicine and 0 ntistry,
and will manage the chool'
administration locally on behalfofthe
Dean of the hool. Jenniferwill be
circulating a detailed statement in due
cour e etting out the trueture of her
admini tration and the re pon ibilitie
of individual officers.
The Principal's Office ha recclved a
note from Ann Worlock (Lord Edmund
Davie 'daughter) thanking everyone at
King' for their kind messages of
ympathy, following the death of her
father
Ju t to let you know, since the Directorywas mailed a couple of weeks ago, we
have been inundated by the press with
requests for extra copies. So be
prepared for calls!
Stop Press..Stop Press..Stop Press
\1e1anie Gardner
Pres and Information Officer
am extremel pleased to be able to
report that the Diruto ofExpntsha no~ been publl hed and
re ec well the breath of ubJects andexpenence available throughout 109'
It ha been wldel dl tnbuted to the
media. rom. 'er;;s at Y; to FarmIngToday. from Cosmopo/il n to Computer""eekry, and about 00 other! If you
kno~ of any other Journalists!
new papers/magazlOe /programme
which you think hould recei e a copy,
gl e me a ring and if it hasn't already
been sent, it will be.A a re ult of producing the Directory
we hope to achieve greater media
coverage for King' and raise the profile
of the College, which hopefully willhave the beneficial knock-on effect of
increa 109 tudent application, gran
etc.Wc wdl be producing a set of baSIC
gUidelines 10 the near future to helpwhen dealing With the media which will
be available to all tho e who want them.
We al 0 plan to arrange ome talks by
people experienced in thi area to which
everyone will be IOvited.
In the meantime, if you have any
querie regarding any a pectofthepre s, please don't he itate to contact
me. imilarly, if you need advice orhelp promoting a research projcct or
event to the press, get in touch.\1any thanks again to all those who
took part and who e brains I picked and
advice I ought during its compilation; I
am mo t grateful. nfortunately we
cannot send a copy to everyone, but ifyou would like to see the Dirutory, we
have sent copies to Heads of
Department and hool dministrative
Officer.
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f.J
ord Ju lice Butler-. 10 w
gue t of honour at a dlOner at
KlOg' ollege London on 2
February held for tuden who
participated 10 the 19 1- I 92 diploma
course 10 Child ProteCtion.
A ter the diploma award ceremon
Lord Ju tlce Butler- 10 gave a
thoughtful peech 10 which he
di cu sed various a peets of childprotection work and the limitation of
the la~ in thi area.
The dinner wa held to mark the
award of the Child Protection Diplomasgiven jointl by KlOg' College Londonand the London hool of Economic,
The course is an unu ual one in that it is
multl-dlsclpllOary, offenng only a
limited number of place to experienced
practitioner from SIX profeSSional
group In the child protection field
these comprise oheltor, police officer,
magi trates, ocial worker, guardian ad
litem and officers from the Official
Solicitor's Department. The primary
aim ofthe cour e i to examine the
inter-relationship between child carelaw and practice in the light of current
research literature on chdd exual andphysical abuse.
r
J CannlOg
" LGO Branch SecretaryLibra!). \1anresa Road
or men and women. \re )'OU
feeling your age? (Iave you
10 t that youthful outline' \re
you feeling the tre of everyday life?
I he answer to these problem IS to join
the Staff Keep Fit In Room B2 (next to
Reprographic), trand Campus on
Wed ne day at 12.15. A 45-mlO ute class
costs 1.50. We cater for all levels of
fime s. (Please wear comfortable
clothing and trainers).
From leflta right: Jane Fortln (KCf,), LordJusttee Butler-Sfoss, Arthur Benham (a
graduate receiving his certificate) andJudith/larlIDin (LSE)
LGO. 'L PE and COIl E
ha..e voted natlonall,. b. a
lar e majont). to merge IOtO
one uOlon called L: I 0 rhl ~i11
have I. million member and ~dl bethe lar e t union in BmaJO. ·\t ' ng'
thi mean that our clerical-related.manual and health taff will be united 10
the same unIOn from I Jul' 1KCL .. \LGO welcome our I PI',
and 01 { E colleague and loo
forward to working together inL:. '1.0 '
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'I ony Day
Centre for \,1ental Ilealth • ervlce
Developmem
other speaker included Fiona alidcott,
Pre Ident Elect of the Ro al College ofP ych iatri ts, It bury Di tnct General
\1anager Alan Fender and \1artm Eede,
Director of the. 'ational chizophrenia
Fellow hip.
undred of potential physic
studems flooded IOto the
Great Ilall recently to attend
a Joint Institute of Physics/King'sDepartment of Phy ic Exhibition.
With over 30 different exhibit and
stand there wa plenty for them to see
and do - many of the demon trations
were designed to be 'hand on' 0 the
children could conduct the experiments
themselves and di cover the result at
fir t hand.
Exhibitors were from King' and
several other universitie. ome of the
King's projects on display were those of
second year Phy ics tudents who were
explaining their own research work to
the visitors.
A particular attraction was the
demonstration, given by Dr CyrilIsenbergofthe Univer ityofKent, of
surface tension and viscosity using
bubble. lie wa attempting to produce
the world's biggest bubble that
afternoon and he certainly did manage
some e tremely large ones, as well as
different haped one and one which
people could tand inside - all with the
aid of half a car tyre, a hoop and plenty
of fairy liqUid!
nother popular exhibit was theexperimental bassoon which i thc
re earch projeet of Dr Edgar Brown in
Phy ic . lie has developed anelectronically operated bassoon which it
i hoped will improve the tone of the
traditional in trument and make it more
reliable to play.
Credit should go to tho e involved in
organl ing the event, ~r Seweryn
Chomet for co-ordinating the exhihition,
and the Phy ics technicians who did all
the behind-the cenes work.
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n \1onday 8 February 1993,
Tim Yeo, Parliamentary
L nder Sccretary of tate for
Ilealth, poke at a major seminar
organised Joimly by Kmg's Collegc
London Centre for \1ental Ilealth
Services Developmem and the
Edinburgh International cience
Festi al. 'I he eminar, which took place
at the Royal. ociet in London, was
entitled Meeting Ihe needs - service solutionsIn mentalhealth sen.,ices. 1t challenged
those responsible for providing mental
health care to re pond to the needs of
people With mental health problem.
The nature of those need were spelt
out earlier In the day by the Centre for
\1ental Ilealth Services Development,
which reported it initial view after
spending a ycar and a half in the field
with health and local authorities.Following the \1 mister's contribution,
Kelley Rlclzardson fomll'rf) ofthe Registry
writesDear I· riends,
Further to my lengthy speech. I just
wanted to thank everybody for your
wi hes of good luck at my leaving party
and also for your overwhelming
genero it).
Thank you to everyone who came to
the party, 1 hope you enjoyed it
(guaranteed if you tried the punch!) and
I'll see you at the next one. All the best.
Derek Evered
Emeritus Reader m Biochemistry
Chelsea College
decl Inn to filter down through all the
ub-committees, but thl did not happen
on an) nn ~ hich I ser'ved. inee then 1
have read that cyanide, which denve
from tobacco moke, when eombmed
with 'vltamm 812 (cobalamm) form
c anocobalamin. If this I not converted
back to cobalamin, anti ltamm
propertie may remain which can lead to
damage to the nerve .
Dr Stuart \1illigan
Biomedical Sciences DIVIsion
A reply from the Acling Pn'nllpal:
I agree that the terminology IS
important. however, the College has formany year had a mix of 'semester' and
'term' dates. To use 'term' for what
used to be called 'semetcr' would cause
a sense of onfusion in the transitional
period.
Dear Editor
The College policy towards smoking
(Comment 0 (6) reminds me of a
previous debate upon the ubJect at one
of the con tltuent colleges of KCL.
.... t a meeting of the Senate ('\cademic
Board) at Chelsea College 10 the early
1970 I mO'ved that we hould ban
smokmg at our meetmgs. About SIX
members (lOcluding thc prevIOus
Prmcipal) smoked small cigars to the
di comfort of the other fifty members.
The dcbatc spanned over several
meetmgs until finally I produccd my
coup de grace - passive smokmg by a
non-smoker double the carbon
monoxide level in the blood (a paper In
the BMJ), the battle was won - the
Committee voted to ban smokmg at Its
meetings. As a corollary, I expected this
Dear Editor
Thank you for publi hmg the date of
the teaching pattern over the next fe~
year , m the last i sue of Comment
i lowever, 1 find the contmued u e of
'seme ter' Irritating and confu 109.
Semester refers to a IX month penod
(OED). It I nor an appropnate
description for any of the proposed 12,
12 and 6 weeks teach mg/examl natIOn
periods especially when the published
timetable en vi age three consecutive
'semester' between September and
mid-June. I note that l·CI. is
continu 109 to refer to 'terms', Ila 109
agreed the dare with LCL, could we
not ha've accepted the correct
nome nclature'
of Law, the Crown Prosecution Service,
the European taffing Unit of the
Cabinet Office, the Government Legal
Service, Lawyer in Local Government
and the Inns of Court and General
Council ofthe Bar.
The student attending included law
students, and some from other
di cipline seeking information about
entering the legal profe ion. We asked
tudents for their comments which were
on the whole very favourable:
'It was a lot le crammed than last
year, because it wa held over two days';
'publicity was good, eg booklet inpigeon holes' (Law Student); 'meeting
lawyer from variou firms i the mo t
important part'; 'very useful, good
selection of firms'; 'need more firms
outside London'; 'I would have liked
talks on olicitors' interview and
application '; 'could have been geared to
help non-law people more'; 'friendly
helpful people'.
The visiting exhibitor were pleased
with the venue, the admini tration and
the quantity and quality of students andgenerally felt that this year's event had
been improved by being held over two
days.
n I If
hi year's Law Information
Fair was held over two daysbecause the level of intere t
was so high. Almo t one thousand
students attended the r-air organised by
the Career Advisory Service in
collaboration with the Law School, held
in the Great Ilall on 8 and 9 February.
Amongst the 41 exhibitors there were
many firms of solicitors and the College
Colin Bailey and Le le Martin
Careers Advi ers
of a pos ible 7 and two rated it a S.The fir t of these work hop was held
in the week following the Graduation
Ceremony in eptember la t year and
others are scheduled for next term once
Finals are complete. Any King'sgraduates interested in forthcomingworkshops should contact the areers
rvice and are entitled to usc the
facilities we offer at any time.
r h
n the ame day that the
national pre s carried details
of the depre sed job
pro pect for graduates in 1993, sevenKing's graduate (five men and twowomen) who graduated in 1992 and
were still looking for employment,
attended a one-day work hop on
FJleclive Job Searclz organi ed by the
College Careers ervice.
Their range of po ible intere t.!
covered international law,
environmental protection, the Police
Force, public affairs, computing and
ports related career; ome of the
attendees were till undecided.
lJ ing a number of short practicalexercises, their skill and understanding
of the following were te ted and
extended: selection interview skill ;
aptitude tests; writing a C ; completing
an application form; job information
source; elf-knowledge; career planning
Those attending were asked to
evaluate the course: five rated it as 6 out
Department of Byzantine & ModemGreek StudiesLee ure a~ , 7 30 In 'ne Coune I Roo ,
S rana Ca 0 s
16 MarchPe er B,en (Frede le Sessions Beebe
'35 Professor 10 he Art of Wrl ,ng,
Oa mou h COl ege, uSA)
The re-emergence 0 Gree proseIC Ion In the 19th and 20th cen unes
Department of War StudiesAnnua Lee ure a 7 5 n Room
2B08, S and Campus
John Gaddis (Harmswo h Pro essor
o American his ory, Ox ord
Unlversl y)
Cold war history and the post-Cold
War world
Department of ChemistryLee'Ures a' . 6 30 r ~oor" • BOO,
S'rana Ca""p s
2 March~e BV'or::lro'essor 0Llgh rehe
The Maxwell Society LecturesAll lee ures WI a e place m Room 2C
( am BUilding), S ra d rom
400- 500
1 MarchOr T J Ha ( Ing's)
OptiCS In he Cityl Learn 0 explol
order. chaos. compe I IOn and
regulatIOn
Centre for Medical law and EthicsA ee"v'es oor'" • 304 'ror'" •3 00-. t 00 S'ra'lO Camp 5
Aa ss or tree, 0 a ~ e e1 March::lro'essor Jo Fin
Co ege 0 ordl
The alue 0 human Ii e and he nghl
odea h
8 MarchOr Clar e (UnlverSI y 0
Birmingham)
The nse, fall and nse (?) of nuclear
physIcs In the UK
1S MarchOr CameIta Gabnel ( Ing's)
O,electnc spectroscopy
The British Institute of HumanRights2 March
ew Theatre, S rand Campus, rom
3 00-14 00 All welcome, admissiontree
Pe er Du fy (Barns er, Visl Ing Fellow
o he Unlversl y 0 London, Edl or 0
e European Human Rights Reports)
Refugee Issues assessing the record
of the European Convention on
Human Rlgh s
Physiological SocietyG L Brown Lee ure 993 a 7 30 In
Room 3B20, Strand Campus
Or Jonalhan Ashmore (Oepartmen of
PhYSiology, University of Bns 01)
The cellular machinery of heanng
Centre for Philosophical StudiesLee ure Room 229, S rand Campus,
500
3 MarchProfessor John Hie
Jews. Chnstlans, Muslims· do we all
worship the same God?
8 MarchThe Grea Hall, 730
he Paul Slegha Memorial Lee ure
(sponsored by Granada TelevIsion)
H,s Honour Judge S ephen TUmlm,
HM Chief Inspee or 0 Pnsons or
England & Wales
The State of the Pnsons
Centre for late Antique & MedievalStudies
ursday, Room 28A, 1730, S rand
Campus
11 MarchProfessor Ma ye De Jong (Utreeh )
Writing and power In the Early Middle
Ages. the case of the Heavenly
Letters
p
mm r
Department of Electronic andElectrical Engineering ResearchSeminarsHeld on Thursdays a 13 00-14 00,Room 1 A. ain Building, Sand4 MarchChris ine Thomas (British AerospaceDefence, Dynamics)
oORIS - An Integrated Approach toSystem Design
18 MarchDr Roger Fairwood (Department ofElectronic and Electrical Engineering,University of Surrey)A framework for generic visualrecognition of 3-0 objects
25 MarchTo be announced
Biomedical Sciences Division Physiology and Vascular BiologySeminarsHeld on Wednesdays at 16.30-17.30in the Physiology Lecture Theatre,Kensington Campus3 MarchProfessor Norman Staines(Immunology Group, King's)Taming autoimmunttv
10 MarchDr Di Newham (Physiotherapy Group,King's)Voluntary activation of human skeletalmuscle
17 MarchDr Bob Wallis (CIBA Horsham)Hirudin, from leach to man
24 MarchDr S ewart Sage (PhysiologicalLaboratory, Cambridge)Endotheltal cell signalling:electrophysiological studies on intactvessels
Humanities Computing SeminarCommittee Room 18.0016 MarchProfessor Barry Ife (King's)The Corpus of Contemporary Spantshproject
History and Philosophy of ScienceSeminarsHeld on Thursdays a 14.15 in Room1B22, S rand Campus4 MarchPro essor Anas aSlos Brenner(Universl e de oulouse, Le irail)ScientifiC development accordmg to
Duhem's later philosophy
11 MarchProfessor David Papineau (King's)
ConscIOusness and the antipatheticfallacy
18 MarchDr David Gooding (University of Bath)Simulating real experiments
The Randall SeminarsThe Randall Institute, 26-29 DruryLane WC2All seminars start promp Iya 17.00,unless otherwise stated. Drinksa terwards in the Re ectory.
1 MarchProfessor Jean Thomas (Departmento Biochemis ry, CambridgeUniversity)Chromatin structure and geneactivation
8 MarchDr John Scholes (The Randall Institute,King's)Leukocytes in the nervous system
15 MarchDr Michael Robertson (MRC Centreor Protein Engineering, Cambridge)Phage dIsplay and E coli expression ofthe high affinity IgE receptor-subunitectodomain
Age Concern Institute ofGerontology Seminar15.40-17.00, Room 3/8 CornwallHouse Annexe9 MarchProfessor Michael Bury (RoyalHolloway & Bedford ew College)A study of elderly people aged 90 andover: findings and methodology
The Randall InstituteDevelopmental Biology SeminarsAll Seminars start promp Iya 17.00unless 0 herwlse sated3 MarchDr Gill ay (Ches er Bea ty Researc
Labora ories)Gene expressIOn in haematopoietic
progenttor cells
10 MarchDr Jon Clar e (Ana omy and CellBiology, U DS)Segmental organisation and celllineage restrictions in the chickembryo hindbrain
17 MarchDr Alastair Reith (Ludwig Institute forCancer Research, London)Receptor tyrosine kinase signallingand the regulation of mousedevelopment
24 MarchProfessor Peter Andrews (Universityof Sheffield)Retinoic acid and differentiation in EC
cells
Byzantine and Modern GreekSeminarsMondays, Room B6, 17.301 MarchDr Ruth Webb (King's)
Language in the late Byzantineeducational system
8 MarchChristopher Robinson (Oxford)
Place in the early poetry of Ritsos
15 MarchProfessor Ihor Sevcenko (Harvard)Byzantine and the west in the tenthcentury
2 MarchGltmpses 0 Paradise
John Ta e er s a world amouscomposer, who graduated rom heRo a Academy 0 us'c and fesgained public acclaim a theperformance by he LondonSin onle a of hiS drama IC can a a TheWhale In 965 Over he years thecon empla Ive Side of hiS na ure haslead him In spltltual directions and hiScommtment to he RUSSian OrthodoxChurch IS now eVident In all hiS worn 1992 John Tavener wascommissioned 10 wnte works forseveral major UK musIc fes IvalsIncluding Chel enham, Ches er andthe Aldeburgh More recently he hasreceived commiSSions from theAus ralian Chamber Orches ra and heMusIcians Benevolent Fund. He wasalso he subJec of a recent BBCdocumen ary by Geoffrey Haydon,entitled Gltmpses of ParadIse andscreened for the irst time onteleVISion In ovember 1992
Jo n a ener be a rng abo ISI e ano wor as a co poser 0 sac ed
sca'30 eCape 'SDe 0110 ed by a seq ence 0 readngsand us c (b a ener) or Len a soa ng place n e C ape A
recep ,on In e Comml ee Room Willbe 'eld a e ards and s a' and'r'ends w shlng 0 a end s ouldcon ac he Chaplaincy on ex 2373.
10 MarchCanon Anthony Harvey (CanonTheologian of Wes mrnster Abbey)
FaIth In the BIble
10 MarchThe Revd Philip Chester (King'sCollege Chaplarn)Title to be announced
10 MarchCiaran Crilly, vlolrn and Chau Yee Lo,piano
The College Euchans sermons to beheld dunng the Len Term 1993 on
Wednesdays at 13.10 Congrega lonallunch available after he service Allare welcome3 MarchCanon Stephen Platten (Archbishop ofCanterbury's EcumenicalSecretary)FaIth In doubt
Recitals3 MarchPhllip Rlordan, oboe and Phillp Bonser,c arrne
8 MarchJane Tuppen, lute and ElizabethDyes,oboe
17 MarchY,ng Hwee Chua, violin and athrynHannen , flute
Please note that copies of thesermons from the last hree years arefree and available from the Chaplaincy
11 Marcha ryn a ne " u e a d PIP
R orda ,oocem s c ay Po e c and 0 e Is
16 MarchA ge a Seo -Sm ,sop ano andLI dsey Rev- ,clan e
mus c B en, Bus a d R RBenne ,Schumann, Poulenc and
o egge
18 MarchJane uppen and C.ara LI ,'u e andpiano 0 nclude musIc by a ,nu
The Cen re for Medical Law andE h,cs rn conJunc Ion WI h he LawMedicine Center, Case WesternReserve University School 0 Law willbe holdrng a conference a Ing'sCollege London on 18-19 March Theconference entitled JustIce and Health
Care will commence a 13 00 on 18March and conclude on 18 00 on 19March Admission IS by rnvl atlononly For more Information pleasecon ac Andrew Grubb on 071-8732382
10 Marchlan e p (ormer 0, Un, ers ty 0
Manches e )B,ze 's Djamdeh
(
Departmen of MUSIC, 13 05 (please
nng 071-873 2029 to check onvenues either Grea Hall or G01)Admission IS free
Institute of Advanced MusicalStudies
ednesda s a I 7 00 In Roe GODepa e' 0, s c, 52-3
S ra d Admssron 'ree. W 0 cke3 March (14.30-16.30)SP F e AnnlversaCo posers' For m r) reduced b
ICO a Lel:anu (K ng's)
Concerts1 MarchPhilip Bonser, clarinet and John Page,horn musIc by Lu oslaws I andHrndeml h
4 MarchValane Koh and Chau Yee LomusIc for one and wo pianos
9 March, Great Hall, 19.30King's College Orchestra musIc bySibellus, Fran<;aix and Ravel
•
Tonbridge. Kent40 minutes to Charing Cro three
bedroom end of terrace house to let in
quiet road, close to station, Park and
High Street. Central heating, nice
outh-facing garden. Ideal for
commuter and family. £420 pcm.
Please call ext 1187 or tel 0732-365 041.
Guest RoomsAvailable for staff and vi iting academics
in two self-contained flats at theHamp tead campus for the special price
of £ I0.50 per guest, per night. There
are direct bus route to the Strand and
Kensington Campu cs and easy aece
to the Jubilee, orthern andMetropolitan lines. The flats are readily
aece sible by car with parking for gue ts
To book, or for further information,
please contact Campus Service on
071-435 3564.
Searching for a flat/house to rentre pon ible merican academic
couple eek a flat or hou e to rent in
London for a 13-month period from July
1 3 through to July 1994, the exact
date are negotiable. Preference is for
two or three bedrooms, with a separate
li ing room and a full equipped
kitchen; with a large refrigerator, clothe
washer and dryer. Two bathrooms are
preferred but one is acceptable; there
mu t be a hower/bath combination.Central heating is preferred, but our
main concem is that the place i warm in
the winter.
The preferred location is orth or
West London; within a fairly easy walk
to shopping and the tube or train. We
are prepared to keep an automobile if
there is easy parking. My wife i an
experienced gardener, so we would be
delighted to take care of a garden or
plants. The rent i negotiable.
First contact: John Porter, tel 071-873
21 2 or 0 1 692 4169
9.30 - 17.00
uring the Ea ter Vacation,
22 March - 23 pril 1993, the
Library will open as follows:
IOn opemn hou1-, er
Monreso Rd\!Ion - Fri
Garden flat in HampsteadOne bedroom; two eparate double
beds, two WC . Completely furni hed
including all kitchen appliances and
security sy tern. Available February, for
about four months at £200 per week or
eight month at £175. Tel 071-4354593
all hour.
Randall Instituteopen when Institute i open
All part ofthe Library will be closed
from 15.45 on April 7 until 9.30 on 14
pril. The Library does not open on
Saturdays during vacation.
Cottage wantedCottage sought for four weeks from
approximately 22 March, suitable for
one or two persons in Oxfordshire orWiltshire. Please contact Ingrid Persaud
on ext 2203.
Kensington CampusMan - Fri 9.30 - 17.30
Strand Campustrand Building Library
Mon - Fri 9.30 - 17.4-
Old Library
Man - Fri 9.30 - 17.45
Embankment Library
Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30
trand Level 5
Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30
u ic Library
Man - Fri 9.30 - 16.30
Coleridge Library
\!Ion - Fri 9.30 - 17.00 except
22 and 23 March 9.30 - 19.00
rnp un. e rn, r
oom 140 in the Old Library
now offer a range of computer
based facilitie to Library
user. There are eight Macinto h LCII
micro, and two PCs, pIu pecialised
equipment for LEXI on-line earching,
for the u e ofCD-ROMs and for the
Careers Centre Prospect service. Thefacilities are available from 9.00 until
20.30 on Mondays to Thur day. 9.00
until 18.30 on Fridays and 9.30 until
17.00 on aturday during termtime.
Library taff are u ually available to give
advice during the day, Monday to
Friday.
The facilities offered are:
MACS: Word 5, Macinto h Ra ics
PCs: Word for Windows 2, Excel 4.0
CD-ROM : CETEDOC Library ofChri tian Latin Texts, Modern
Language Association Inrernational
Bibliography, Thomas Aquina ,Opera
OmniaTwo printers are available for use with
the MACs, an Imagewriter (for which no
charge i made) and a La erwriter,
which charges Sp per sheet, and is
operated by a Library Flexicard
(photocopy card).
sers may book the MAC and the
CD workstation in advance, by
contacting the Enquiry Point in the Old
Library (ext 2424, direct line 071-873
2424). Members of the School of Law
may book a MAC for a maximum of two
hours a day, up to one week in advance,
other u ers may book 24 hr in advance.
Anyone may book the CD workstation,
again for a maximum of two hours a day,
again up to one week in advance.
Di k for use with the MAC and the
PC are available in the Library, or may
be purcha ed from the Computing
Centre.
P cl
..,
new leaflet - Inlroducing King's i being di tributed thi week to
those who are the initial contact
poin for Commml. The new leaflet ha
been produced by the Pre and
Publication Office in re pon e to
reque t from academic and non
academiC colleague to provide a brief
introduction to the College for those who
know little about it.
Departmen may wi h to send copies
to, for 10 tance, potential research
funder in mdu try or commerce; those
inVited to lecture at the ollege; short11 ted applicant for posts; overseas
contacts; and people participating in
short courses at King's. The leaflet WhyKing's, available from the Student
Recruitment Office, is more uitable for
sending to those offered undergraduate
places at the College.
Further copie of Inlroducing King's are
available free from the Pres and
Publication Office, ext 3202.
the rapid growth m demand for telecom
service 10 these Cl tie .
Their local numbers v,JlI al 0 beextended b ' the addition of an extradIgit a the tart of the eXI ting number.
. t the same time, all mternatlonal
diallmgcode ""ill change from the 010prefi to 00. Thi will bring the C 10to
line With the re t of Europe, as reqUired
b the E .
Anyone ordenng enough tatlonery to
take them beyond April 19 5 please take
note.
Chris Kenyon Jone
Director of Public Relation
ou will have seen from the
in ertion that un Life UnitService Ltd have arranged a
seminar in the ouncil Room onThursday 1J March 1993 at 18.00.
Whilst the College doe not in any
way sponsor this event or wish to
associate itself with personal financial
planning, the seminar could be useful
for members of staff who are
con idering seeking profes ional advice
about their per onal financial affairs or
planning for retirement.
have been a ed to write a paper
for the College mmittee about
internal communication in the
College. I would be glad to hear from
an member of taff who has view not
on I about Commml and the hool
new letter, but about an other way 10
which communication does (or doenod) take place in King' . Please giveme a ring as oon as po ible on ext3202 or drop me a qUick note (you can
fax to 071- 72 0214 or e-mail to the
nu mber given on the back of Commm/).
(
he last I l:e of Commml
mentioned the new Equal
Opportunltle Policy, the
policy on xuaJ and Raciall-iaras ment
and the Policy on AID at the Work place.he new', '0 moking' policy and the
policy on Jcohol and Drug buse atWork were also mentioned. In tead ofprinting the policies m Commml, we'vedecided It would be more effective toclrcu late copie of them to each member
of staff. Thi will be done hortly.
In the meantime, if you ha e any
quenes relating to the new pollcie ,
please contact the Personnel Officer for
our hool or area.
\1arjone Young
Director of Per onnel and Training
nyone requiring custom-madelaboratory glas ware or the
repair of such items please notethat at Manresa Road we have a fully
equipped work hop staffed by Fred
Duell who has over 40 year experience
and expertise. Charges are £30 per hour
plus materials. Please contact u for all
your glassblowing needs and advice or
as istance on laboratory gla sware: Fred
Duell, ext 4740 or Doug Grant, ext 4843.
DO Ball
Deputy College Secretary(Planning & Re ources)
ritish Telecom ha announced
that on 16 April 1995 all K
geographic area code will
have a J inserted after the initial O. For
example, the Dundee code changes
from 0382 to 01382; the London codes
change from 071 to 0171 and 081 to
0181; and so on.
Bristol, Leeds, Leicester,
. ottingham and heffield will each
receive entirely new code to help meet
nD
ur annual open day for
tudents, parents, teacher
and careers advisers will beheld at the trand and King'S College
School of Medicine and Denti try on
Friday 23 April 1993, between 10.30
13.00 and 14.00-16.30.
Further detail are available from
usanne French in the tudent
Recruitment & Exchanges Office at
Cornwall House, ext 3003.
Please note that vi its to KCSMD are
by ticket only.