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Part II
Issue No 329b Tuesday 25th January 2000
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AGENDA
Minutes and Amendments
5. Readers' Letters: Prof Pott's Whale, Project Management, Paris,
Child Cancer Research, Ruskin's sentences, Ruskin's Mother, Ritz Hotel,
Tim Potter, Marcus Merriman, Dave Robinson's farewell.
6. Small Ads: Booking form for Heaven, Evening Food at the Venue, Book Vouchers
Single Walkers wanted, Gala Concert, The Gregson, Graphics card wanted,
Jumble Sale, housing, Lord Inglewood, Furniture for sale, Institute for
Teaching and Learning, PSION 3A wanted, Word Magic, Live Music at
Yorkshire House, etc.
MINUTES AND AMENDMENTS
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Sorry - confused WINIFRED Nicholson with WILHELMINA Barnes-Graham.
Phallus impudicus is the Stinking Morell, not ragwort. It is NOT
curently on display but can be found at the virtual exhibition of Flora
Londinensis at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/peterscott/flora.htm
It MAY be put on display as a response to public demand.
5. READERS' LETTERS
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I am the secretary of the Project Management Division and my colleague
Alan Haydock has told me about Inkytext! Thank you for putting me on
the distribution list!
Claire Cawley
[NOTE: You're welcome. What on earth is the Project Management
Division and what projects are you managing? (Ed.)]
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After seeing the recent Inkytext and the information about Tim Potter
and the Whale Skeleton in Bio Science - as part of our Art/Science
Exhibition we have a photograph of Prof Potts and members of the
grounds dept when the Whale Skeleton was exhumed. We have a number of
skeletons at present and many other items on loan from Biological
Sciences including a Deaths-head Hawk Moth found in Bolton-le-Sands -
the size of which causes gasps of horror!
Julia Carradus
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RE: Young Adult Cancer Sufferers and their Parents. Would it be
possible to publicise via Inkytext a research project that is being
undertaken by the Institute for Health Research?
The research is being funded by donations made in memory of George
Easton (son of Geoff Easton from Marketing) who was a second year
philosophy student at Lancaster when he died last March from cancer. It
will be investigating how parents cope with a child's life threatening
illness when that child is a young adult.
There seems to be little research in this area and the approach being
taken is to appeal for personal accounts from parents who have had
experience of supporting an 18 to 25 year old with cancer. These
accounts can be written or tape recorded. Could readers of Inkytext
please pass this appeal on to friends, family or colleagues who have
gone through this experience?
We are approaching as many cancer support organisations as we can
think of as well as hospices, local newspapers etc. However if anyone
can think of other media by which we could get in touch with these
parents we would be most grateful to hear about it. Further information
about the research can be obtained from Dr. Carol Thomas, tel 01524
594092. email c.thomas@lancaster.ac.uk or Dr. Anne Grinyer, tel 01524
65201 ext 92677. email a.grinyer@lancaster.ac.uk The institute for
Health Research, Alexandra Square, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1
4YT
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Alas! I myself discovered the photos of the Editor in '70s France
shortly before I left Lancaster in 1997. How I wished that I'd known of
them while I was deputy editor of SCAN. The photo of him dossing down
is priceless. It would have been ideal for the rent rise furore of that
year...
As for those who are interested, the photos are still available in
their own little niche in cyberspace. A moment's work will discover
them...
Nick Bardsley
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The blurb for my forthcoming book states me to be "now one of the
longest serving members of staff" at the University. I wonder if,
indeed, I am not THE longest serving member of staff. Here are the
technical facts. I was first appointed [not by the University, but by
the committee established to set it up] as a Temporary [read = one
year] Assistant Lecturer in History commencing on 1 September 1964.
That appointment terminated on 31 August 1965 although in January I had
been reappointed to a permanent post commencing 1 September 1966.
During the academic year 1965-66, I gave three lectures for the
department as was paid to do so. My 25 Years of Service certificate was
awarded by Harry in 1989 = service from 1964.
However, my FSSU contributions for 1964-65 were repaid me when I left
in 1965 (and bought me some handsome prints) and my then permanent FSSU
= USS dates from 1966. It could thus be argued that my claim to be
father of the house should be dated from October 1966, not September
1964.
Can anyone still in full time employment in the University (Colin
Adams apart) equal or beat this record? Details, please. I retire in
2007, so one day will make it.
Marcus Merriman
60 this may 3rd coming.
[NOTE: I presume Prof Mansfield FRS, David Steel, Colin Lyas and
Martin Edmonds no longer count as being employed full-time? And Prof
Bevington may no longer be employed but he's here every day! (Ed)]
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Thanks for this tribute to Ruskin, even if it is lukewarm in parts.
However, let's not forget that Ruskin's mother did him a great deal of
psychological harm, which accounted for his failure in marriage.
Thought you might like to see this sonnet which I wrote some years ago
(and had published in a poets' magazine):
Oh, so you like to watch the children laugh,
To see them at the Punch and Judy show
To listen to their gleeful shouts and half
To share in the unbridled, artless glow
Of childhood, to you rigorously denied
No gold and scarlet puppets yours to treasure
A bible-bound and narrow-minded pride
Gave ball and cart for toys, your only pleasure.
Now to this voice you aim your just defiance:
'tis sinful thus to while away the time
Children were made for moulding to compliance
and play with gaudy dolls - and girls - a crime'.
Did Ruskin's mental traumas in old age
Reflect a childhood seized with inner rage?
That arose out something I was reading that Ruskin was having lunch in
the London home of Charles Eliot Norton, who knew that Ruskin 'liked to
watch the children laugh' and so arranged for a Punch and Judy show to
be in the street outside his house. I thought that was very touching
and the poem materialised out of it. Now do you think Ruskin is without
feeling?
R. Anderson
[NOTE: I am a critic as he was, not his probation officer. I am sure
all sorts of explanations can be found for why he was as he was, but
that needn't alter one's judgement or mitigate the sentence. I wouldn't
have called my piece lukwarm - I'd have said 'exasperated'. (Ed.)]
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Now that I am at the university I am finding inkytext an interesting
read so keep up the good work. You helped me find a flat, now for an
improved social life. Thanks.
Paul Craggs
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I wandered into the Ritz in London one weekday afternoon, a million
years ago, freshly arrived from the colonies, when I was in need of a
cup of coffee and a sit down. A vast echoing marble hall stretched
before me, but a stern guardian glided (glid?) out to intercept me with
a look more fiery than a flaming sword. The jeans and trainers
infra-red alert had gone off in his head before I was aware of his
existence.
He looked over the top of my head, and informed me that,
unfortunately, the tables were booked. There were probably about a
hundred of them - all delightful, inviting little white-painted
cast-iron tables with three chairs or so dotted around each - and if
there were any people lucky enough to have been vouchsafed entry to
take tea in that hallowed cavern, they were so far away that I couldn't
see them.
"All of them?" I asked incredulously. The M-D gave a deliberately
studied look at my feet before he replied "I'm afraid so, Madam."
I beat a humbled retreat on that occasion but on every subsequent
eviction from anywhere for any reason whatsoever have retorted proudly
"I've been thrown out of better places than this, you know!"
Waht you say about shoes is true, and the Ex-colonials' Guide to
Getting Away with It offers the following advice: Smile disarmingly at
the doorman and stand too close for him to be able to look down...
Jessica Abrahams
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I can't let the death of Tim Potter pass without sharing my particular
memories of him. In my first year here (74/5, back in the mists of
time) I had one of the Bowland flats, and Tim had the one next door.
Our paths rarely crossed in any significant way until one night, at
around 2 in the morning, when there was an unholy row and a thundering
of fists on what I thought was my door. I was in two minds as to
whether to open it or to call security, when there was a
wood-splintering crash.
I got minimally dressed and did open the door, to find that Tim's door
had been knocked clean off its hinges by all or some of the dazed and
drunken folk who stood around (or, in one case, were spreadeagled over
the door and the floor, passed out).
It transpired that they had been out drinking (surprise, surprise) and
that when other sources of alcohol were exhausted they had determined
that Tim's flat was one place they could be sure of getting more. And
they weren't about to let the fact that Tim wasn't in affect that
decision.
Fortunately Tim appeared shortly after this. He never blinked at the
state of his door, stepped over it and his inert friend, offered us all
whisky, and then started plying those who really needed it with strong
coffee - the perfect host and gentleman. We were real neighbours
thereafter. Sad that he's gone so young.
Richard Dutton
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Let the artifice be apparent: a Ruskin sentence is like a vision of an
anaconda with a spastic colon. Viz.:
"I need not here repeat, of what was then advanced, more than the
statement which I believe will meet with general acceptance, that
things in other respects alike, as in their substance, or uses, or
outward forms, are noble or ignoble in proportion to the fullness of
the life which either they themselves enjoy, or of whose action they
bear the evidence, as sea sands are made beautiful by their bearing the
seal of the motion of the waters. And this is especially true of all
objects which bear upon them the impress of the highest order of
creative life, that is to say, of the mind of man : they become noble
or ignoble in proportion to the amount of the energy of that mind which
has visibly been employed upon them." (The Lamp of Life)
Ruskin can be thanked for giving W.G. - The Skald - Collingwood a job,
thus sustaining the son - Robin Collingwood, who kept Alisdair McKee
amused (for he originally studied philosophy specialising in
Aesthetics); also the daughters Dora, Ursula etc who kept the
translator of Remy de Gourmont, and biographer of Oscar Wilde, Arthur
Ransome, amused. And the grandson Roger Altounyan who discovered
anti-asthma drug - Intal
See http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/coll/collingwood.html
Also http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/media/index2.html
which has movies of Roger A; For the discovery of Sodium Cromoglycate [Intal]
see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/media/ALTOUN1.MOV
and for the invention of the Spinhaler
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/media/ALTOUN2.MOV
However I agree, as Viv Stanshall sang about his talented tortoise,
"part from that he can't play buggerall".
Oh pleas dinna torture my tortie,
it ay nay his fault at all
he may seem a little bit naughtie
but he's played at the Albert Hall
He's no good with strings
he just can't fret the things
ah it's no that he's naughtie
piano's his forte
part from that he can't play buggerall
Ian Edmondson-Noble http://cres1.lancs.ac.uk/~esarie/ian.htm
DoB pre yesterday DoD #1524 MHM 12x2 Gad i mi fyned trwy dy dir
[NOTE: Awesome, man! Fancy you knowing about Ship's Boy Roger and the
discovery of Intal. Based on an ancient Egyptian root remedy, I
believe, and no known adverse side effects. But not enough for the
likes of me alas. (Ed)
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At last I finally leave the University to start a new life. I will
miss the pleasant environment of the campus and all the friends I have
made here. I will certainly miss the area having lived here for over 30
years, being a local. It is hard tearing myself away, but now I really
must go. Then again, the area I am moving to is unbelievably beautiful,
so perhaps I wont miss this place that much and it is certainly a
better job I am going to.
A good sense of humour is needed to work here. Some of the things that
go on are difficult to believe and the problems are self evident. The
... management can be quite ... creative. My stress left my soul the
day I handed in my resignation.
Perhaps investing in people should be a priority over investing
reserves in financial schemes with risk and human factors should be
given more consideration.
To all my friends that are still here, a fond farewell and good luck.
Dr David Robinson
Escaped from ISS
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6. SMALL ADS
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Lancaster University's Art & Science Collections
Peter Scott Gallery
17th January - 24th March 2000
Mon - Fri 11 - 4pm & Thursday Eve 6 - 8.30
Substantial and varied collections have been acquired by Lancaster
University in its relatively short history. As well as the more widely
known art collections which are housed in the Peter Scott Gallery and
the Ruskin Library, there are a number of other collections which are
rarely seen other than by those in the specific department where they
are kept.
Exhibits include : Alligator and Dolphin Skeletons, Herbarium Specimens
- from Biological Sciences teaching and reference collection;
Butterflies and moths - from Biological Sciences extensive insect
collection (The collection consists of 6000 species of mainly British
insects.)
The University Library's Special Collections are represented in this
exhibition by William Curtis's 'Flora Londinensis' of 1777. These
botanical illustrations were prepared to show the agricultural and
medicinal usage of plants growing in a 10 mile radius of London.
The much admired exhibition poster (#1.00) and invitiation cards (Blank
50p) are available from the gallery.
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DOUBLE CHEESE & ONION
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CHILLI CHEESE
Cheesy & Spicy 1.85
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Cheese & Tuna plus a touch of Hot Deep South 1.85
CHICKEN, SMOKED BACON & SWEETCORN
Delicious combination of our Special Dressings 2.00
All Pitta Breads have a fresh salad base with our fillings on top.
Baked Potatoes with butter and a salad garnish.
SERVED FROM 6pm till 9pm
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HEAVEN
A Symposium That Will Break Your Heart
in collaboration with CAIR
Centre for Art International Research, Liverpool John Moores University
Saturday 19 February 2000 Registration at 10.00am
Tate Liverpool's current show, HEAVEN An Exhibition That Will Break
Your Heart, raises a range of currently topical issues around ideas of
spirituality, identity and desire, and continues to receive interesting
press coverage.
In response to this exhibition, this one day symposium explores
philosophical, theological and art historical notions of heaven, their
impact on contemporary culture and manifestation in an increasingly
secular society.
Speakers include: Paul Fletcher, Dept. of Religious Studies,
University of Lancaster; Prof. Graham Ward, Dept. of Religious Studies,
University of Manchester; Dr Colin Cruise, Dept. of Art and Design
History, University of Staffordshire; Sean Cole, Victoria and Albert
Museum; and Doreet LeVitte Harten, curator of HEAVEN. Chair: Prof.
Jeffery Richards, Dept. of Cultural History, University of Lancaster,
co-editor of Diana, The Making of a Media Saint.
Subjects include: The Iconography of Angels in Popular Culture;
Dressing the Male Body; Icons; Desire and Censorship; Alternative
Spiritual Messages in Nineteenth Century British Art.
Look up Heaven on http://heaven.komed.de or go to www.tate.org.uk
Pre-booking essential. To book a place please complete and return the
slip below, including proof of concessionary status to: Elisa
Oliver,Tate Liverpool, Education Department, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3
4BB, making cheques payable to Tate Gallery Liverpool
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BOOKING FORM
Tickets: 30 pounds, 15 pounds concessions (students, unemployed).
Price includes lunch and entry to Heaven [SIC]
Name
Address
Postcode
Telephone no. E-Mail address
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PSION 3A: I little while ago someone advertised a Psion 3a for sale.
Has it been sold, if not , please could the seller contact me: Sally
Wigmore swigmore@globalnet.co.uk OR: Does anyone else have a Psion
Series 3a that has a good screen still and they want to sell on? (my
screen is fading rapidly!) Many thanks.
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JUMBLE SALE:
Forton Village Hall
Saturday 29th January 10am-11.30am
Admission 20p
In aid of registered charity No 0176236
Forton Pre School Playgroup.
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The Gregson Centre, Moorgate , Lancaster is the only place to be on
Saturday 5th of Feb if you are excited by new music in an acoustic
setting.
The venue is putting on a special bill featuring three NW acts who
are creating some of the most original new pop and rock songs and
sounds around.
The Wisemen are a duo who take some cues from the likes of The Byrds,
Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen and ach ieve a beautiful, acoustic
blend.
The Puma-Sutras are an inimitable three piece who take the intimacy
of Neil young to new and sometimes weird places. This rare switch to
acoustic instruments will be a good opportunity to check out their
3-part harmonies,and to pick up their CDEP!
Expect banjos, bongos and some rousing Folk-rock from Lancaster's
answer to The Band ,The Pier Group. These fiery multi- instrumentalists
can write a great tune.
Admission to this talent-fest is 4.50/3.50.The doors will open
at 8.Ring the Gregson on 01524 849959 for further details.
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WANTED: 2/3 Bedroom House wanted for small family to rent in Lancaster
or Galgate. Must have GCH and DG. Any availabilities please contact
h.ernstberger@lancaster.ac.uk or ext. 94364
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WORD-MAGIC http://go.to/Word-Magic :We can offer a fast, reliable,
sensibly priced service in the following areas: - Proof-reading -
Copy-editing - Re-writing - Word Processing - Layout Editing - English
as a second language - Curriculum Vitae / Resume Writing - Translation
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SINGLE WALKERS: Footloose is a recently formed club in the South Lakes
that is for singles who are keen on walking. They already have over 50
members between the ages of 30 and 65, mainly living in the Barrow,
Ulverston and Kendal areas. Walks are planned for the next 10 sundays,
mainly in the lakes, as well as weekly pub nights and other less formal
social events. There is a possibility of a lancaster group forming,
with their first social gathering being the ghosts and murderers walk
on the evening of 27 January, followed by a drink or two. If you would
like to learn more, please phone Paul on 01524 84 77 49.
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WANTED GRAPHICS CARD: for local primary school computer, so that it
can run programmes that require 256 colours, an ISA SVGA graphics
card. Please contact Alan Waters on A.Waters@lancs.ac.uk or extension
92433.
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INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING
Wednesday 2nd February at 1.30 in Faraday Colloquium Room
The Institute for Learning and Teaching was set up following the
recommendations of the Dearing report to raise the status and profile
of teaching in HE and to accredit HE teachers.
A meeting for all those who teach and support teaching at Lancaster is
being held on Wednesday 2nd February at 1.30 in Faraday Colloquium
Room. The main speaker will be Professor Sally Brown, Director of
Membership Services at the ILT. She will speak about the work of the
ILT and the benefits it is hoping to offer members. There will also be
some discussion about the process for applying for membership and also
the opportunity to feedback ideas to the ILT on how we would like to
see it developing as a professional organisation.
This meeting has been convened by the Higher Education Development
Centre. Any queries about the meeting or about the ILT in general can
be made to Terry Wareham (t.wareham@lancaster.ac.uk). Information about
the ILT can be found at their web site: http://www.ilt.ac.uk
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Thursday 27th January 7.30pm
FRIENDS OF LANCASTER CONCERTS' GALA EVENING
Marius Stravinsky (violin)
Eleonora Bekova (piano)
Prokofiev Five melodies Op 35 bis
Cesar Franck Sonata in A
Stravinsky Divertimento The Fairy's Kiss
Debussy arr. Heifitz Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Ravel Tzigane
Two Russian performers from Kazakhstan who combine youthful fire with
mature artistry.
Fund-raising event on behalf of the Friends of Lancaster Concerts'
Appeal
Tickets 10.00, 7.50 (9.50, 7.00 conc) Students 5.00
Evening dress optional.
BOX OFFICE 5-93729
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Lord Inglewood, former junior minister at the department of National
Heritage and former MEP will talk on "UK Government and EU
Institutions" at 2.00 p.m. on Monday 31 January in Lecture Theatre 1 in
the Management School.
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FOR SALE: Double bed with 4 drawers, 30.00; Double bed, 25.00;
Wardrobe combination, 2 single robes with 3 drawers in middle, top
storage, teak effect, 50.00; 2 double wardrobes white, 20.00 each;
Dressing table white, 20.00; 3 drawer chest, 10.00; 5 drawer chest,
20.00; Fridge "Lec" H33ins W20ins D18ins with 2 star freezer
compartment, 40.00; Small electric cooker, white, "DeLonghi", 4 rings,
low level grill, 50.00; Hotpoint Aquarius washing machine 1000 Delux,
75.00; Parker Knoll reclining chair, brown, 40.00; 2 seater settee with
matching rocking chair, beige, 50.00. Viewing Saturday 29th January
only Tel Susan 423105 to arrange time.
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HOUSE TO RENT: 3 bedroomed furnished house available for rent in
Galgate, Close to schools, and University. Briefly comprising 3
bedrooms, lounge, four piece bathroom suite, separate dining room and
kitchen (fully fitted, gas central heating, gardens to front and rear,
off-road parking for up to four vehicles, would suit visiting academics
or postgraduate students. 400 pounds pcm, available from 1st March
2000. Further details please contact k.gammon@lancaster.ac.uk or ring
594172
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FOR RENT - 2-bedroomed first floor flat, centrally heated in the
centre of Garstang, with garage and parking space. Close to all
amenities and bus routes to the University. 350 pounds per calendar
month. Contact: Pennie Drinkall on 594177 or 01524 792106
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Week 4: MONDAY 31 January
Joint Sociology/Science Studies Seminar
Cavendish Lecture Theatre, Frankland Lecture Theatres
16.15-18.00
Bruno Latour
(Sociology, Ecole des Mines de Paris)
'The Politics of Nature'
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LIVE MUSIC AT THE YORKSHIRE HOUSE
SCOUT and Solanas
This Friday Night (28th Jan)
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ONWARDS AND UPWARDS - ANOTHER SPIFFING ISSUE NEXT TIME