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Celtic 1 - Inverness Caledonian 3
"Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious" (The Sun)
Issue No 333 Monday 14th February 2000
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AGENDA
Minutes and Matters Arising
1. News: Nurse-led Unit, Court Supper Club, Bailrigg House, Statutes Revision,
Inaugural lectures, Voting on Clause 28, Week's events.
2. Visitorial Jurisdiction and English Law
3. Readers' Letters: Dave Orr, M. Merriman (bis), Prof Gareth Williams, Prof
McClintock, Gerry Steele
4. Small Ads: Trip to The Cavern, Exclusive Bargain Concert Offer, Lunchtime
Music, Another cleaner wanted, Seminars, Creativity Workshop, Room in
Galgate, Macintosh.
MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING
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Hilton Dawson MP missed Court because he was on a Unicef trip to
Romania visiting children's institutions, street children and children
with HIV and AIDS. He is one of Unicef's Parliamentary ambassadors,
helping to lead an international campaign. He sent his apologies.
No responses at all from the Management School to our Millennium
editorial denouncing branding and capitalist profiteering. Can this
mean they agree with it? [See Inkytext 329 Part I]
1. NEWS
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NURSE-LED UNIT: Friday afternoon's crunch meeting of the working party
set up by Council was another triumph for the relaxed and low-key
negotiating skills of Pro-VC Whitaker. After a gruelling three-hour
session there was a feeling amongst all present that there was a real
hope of improving health care on campus. It is now a matter of
re-building trust and cooperation with the health centre doctors and
finalizing details of the planned new health centre, whose 'footprint'
could accommodate a nursing unit....
The meeting opened by deciding that the nurse-led unit could not go
ahead in its present form. Even before the meeting an extremely
detailed position paper had been sent to the Secretary by SU President
Rob Massey. This itemized the elements highlighted by the recent meeting
with the Area Health Authority which made it clear that the unit
envisaged would effectively worsen health provision.
The new premises are believed not to be furnished, save for curtains.
The post of nurse-manager (admin grade 2) had been re-advertized with a
closing date of February 11th. This post was offered as a job-share to
two people in September. It will now be filled, it being believed that
there is a job to be done in relation to health-awareness, etc.
The working party, which will now report to Council, consisted of the
Secretary, the Director of Resources, students Rob Massy and Eric
Greiff, Gay Webb and Clare Hensman (lay members) with Mr Whitaker in
the chair.
A Students' Union press release prepared in anticipation of an
alternative outcome now becomes a collector's item. There are obvious
lessons to be learnt from this sorry saga, in which mistaken procedures
were observed at every level of our governance. One hopes these errors
will be noted and henceforward avoided, with or without explicit
post-mortem.
BEST WISHES TO HELEN MCKIE now Pro-VC Davies' secretary. Her departure
as office manager for Resources leaves the Buildings department even
more beleaguered. Growing concern over the absence of an announcement
about a new Director of Estates three weeks after the interviews.
NEW HEALTH CENTRE: It seems clear that this is going to be built (at
no cost to us) and must open in 18 months time (August 2001). Public
discussion is now needed of alternative uses for Bailrigg House.
FEBRUARY 25th (FRIDAY WEEK) sees another meeting of the Court Supper
Club, at which lay members of the Court mix with academics and other
members of the university - but mainly with each other. Those supping
pay for their food and refreshment. On this occasion, the Academic
Registrar, Pro-VC Whitaker and the Editor will perform a triple act,
introducing the laity to the pre-history of the University and an
insider's view of its workings. The editor will speak on a favourite
subject: 'Vice-Chancellors Past and Present'. Text anon.
THE WORKING PARTY ON REVISION OF THE CHARTER AND STATUTES meets again
this week. Comments submitted to it have mainly centred, for entirely
mistaken reasons, on the relatively trivial question of membership of
the university. A lengthy case for ceasing what is seen as unfounded
discrimination was submitted by trades unions. Support for a widening
of the definition seems to be universal... minus two, those two being
Professor Rowe and the editor. The latter tries to state the difficulty
as he sees it below, but fears that visitorial jurisdiction may
effectively be lost.
More important matters were highlighted at Court and will also need to
be discussed, notably the proposed loss from Council of local authority
appointed members.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INAUGURAL LECTURES? They seem to occur only
sporadically despite the glut of new chairs. Prof Denver's, on 50 years
of election studies, takes place on March 1st and Prof Segal's, on myth
and make-belief, three weeks later.
HILTON DAWSON MP voted against the retention of Clause 28. Geraldine
Smith MP voted to retain it.
THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Senate steering committee meets this afternoon;
tomorrow see a Bars Committee and a lunchless lunch for HoDs; UMAG on
Wednesday as usual and Associated Institutions in the afternoon;
Promotions Committee meets all day Thursday and Finance on Friday.
2. VISITORIAL JURISDICTION AND ENGLISH LAW
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[With acknowledgements to an excellent article by PWF Whalley on the
history and origins of the concept which can be found at:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/anthropology/Rindos/
Law/visitor.html]
The role of Visitor is a quaint and peculiarly English quiddity of
Law. It was prominent in the news in 1998 when Lord Jauncey of
Tullichettle acted for the Queen, in her role as Visitor to Westminster
Abbey, in the vexed case of the dismissal of the organist and choir
master, Dr Martin Neary.
It is all the more bizarre in that the person acting on behalf of the
Visitor, although s/he will be normally be learned in the law and
expected broadly to apply it, is not _required_ to respect the letter
of the law, except perhaps with regard to so-called 'natural justice'
(right to a hearing, etc.)
It is certainly a privilege, i.e. only conceded to some, but a
precious one, some would say, in certain rare circumstances, a
necessary one if "Justice" is to be obtained and the character of an
institution to be maintained.
Not of course that achieving some abstract Justice is the main
function of English law. That is a philosophically idealist,
continental notion. The function of the law is to resolve disputes
according to the law and to put an end to them: to 'hear' and to
'determine', 'oyer et terminer' as the Anglo-Norman French of the early
statutes puts it.
But some disputes can only ever be resolved at great length and
enormous cost with recourse to barristers, QCs, the High Court and
beyond. This is simply not an option for everyone, the more so with
every successive cut-back in legal aid.
In particular there are some delicate but valuable institutions,
ancient cathedrals and universities amongst them, whose members cannot
be expected to have the resources to allow them to take advantage of
the full panoply of legal functions. Worse: their fundamental functions
or continuing existence may be incompatible with interminable lawsuits.
In recognition of this, such bodies are empowered to exercise their
own jurisdiction over their members. But this involves mainly the
laity, and can often give rise to wince-making legal improprieties that
might seem entirely to vitiate further action, often inequitably. Nor
do internal tribunals, for example, have the power to sub poena or
sentence for contempt, which can make it still more difficult for them
to establish the facts.
The function of the Visitor is to ensure that the essential purposes
of an institution (the wishes of its founder, for example) are
fulfilled when internal disciplinary procedures break down or reach an
impasse. Sometimes in effect this can _only_ be achieved if a final
decision is reached speedily - where a student's degree course is at
stake, for example.
The judgement given by Sir John Holt in Philips v. Bury (1694) (90
E.R. 198) is the locus classicus on Visitors. He indicates the essence
of the office as follows:
"... the office of Visitor by the common law is to judge according to
the statutes of the College, to expel and deprive upon just occasions
and to hear appeals of course. And from him and from him only the party
grieved ought to have redress; in him the founder have reposed so
entire confidence that he will administer justice impartially that his
determinations are final and examinable in no other court whatsoever."
The concept has been emphatically endorsed most recently in 1992 by
the House of Lords in R. v. Lord President of the Privy Council, ex
parte Page, ([1992] 3 W.L.R. 1112) where Lord Griffiths suggested that
"...the value of the visitorial jurisdiction is that it is swift, cheap
and final".
More recently still, in November 1995, the Court of Appeal ruled that
the courts cannot touch ACCA's (Association of Certified Accountants)
internal management but the Lord Chancellor has Visitorial
jurisdiction. (In Mr Adabayo Bakole -v- Chartered Association of
Certified Accountants). Here, Lord Justice Ward quoted the Master of
the Rolls' judgement in Attorney General -v- The Dedham School (1857).
"“Where the Crown funds a charity, this court treats the Crown as the
permanent authority and Visitor of the charity, unless where the Crown
has thought fit to appoint a special Visitor: and in these cases, it is
necessary to apply to the Lord Chancellor, by petition, in his
visitorial character, to exercise jurisdiction on behalf of the Crown
as Visitor."
The principal issue raised by the continued recognition of Visitorial
jurisdiction concerns its relationship with the jurisdiction of other
courts. As Whalley says, the traditional view in Common Law is that
matters properly falling within the competence of the Visitor may not
be decided by the courts and that Visitors' decisions will not be
subject to judicial review, except in instances of error of law on the
face of the record or where the Visitor has failed to observe the rules
of natural justice.
In practice, the Visitor only really intervenes in matters relating to
membership of the chartered body. Or of course removal of
membership.... Thus a member of a chartered body who is also an
employee of that body can make a case for appealing to the Visitor
while also availing themself of rights of appeal to other bodies under
employment legislation.
This was the case of academic staff in universities pre-1988 and can
seem potentially to create conflicts of jurisdiction. The Visitor is
not meant to be a _substitute_ for the Employment Tribunal. To make
this abundantly clear the statutes introduced in 1988 a specific
prohibition, preventing academic staff from having recourse to the
Visitor in matters relating to their dismissal from employment.
It is this that creates the anomaly that exercises Professor Rowe and
which is the basis of his doubts about a widening of university
membership. If non-academic staff were members and thus allowed
recourse in relation to their unfair dismissal, the only effective
advantage membership might confer, they would be singularly privileged
in relation to academic staff, from whom this right was specifically
removed in 1988.
My concerns are slightly different. By focussing on the definition of
'member' people are committing a terrible sin of nominalism. One can
play with names as much as one likes. We can call all hospital
employees 'health service members' if we like but that won't make the
porter a nurse or a surgeon, nor does it make her/his need for Medical
Defence insurance, for example, so great. What it will do is muddy the
waters. One can well imagine Mr Milburn, when our shortage of doctors
or nurses is referred to, suddenly bringing out figures for 'health
service members'.
What is at issue hinges on a mistaken distaste for discrimination. Not
all discrimination is unreasonable. Of course we should treat all
employees with equal respect and dignity. And we should give them all a
right to representation and to choose their own representatives,
another apparent privilege of 'membership' which has already been
conceded.
But being discriminating is the business universities are in:
discriminating right from wrong, truth from falsehood, IIis from IIiis.
Such discrimination is not something to be ashamed of. On the contrary
it is our very raison d'etre. Discrimination is what gives words their
very meanings.
True, Maoist students in 1968 did indeed demand the same mark for
everyone, arguing that this was required by true egalitarianism. This
alas defeats its own purpose. "A IIi for everyone" is not a helpful
cause simply because, were it realised, a IIi would cease to be worth
having, precisely because it no longer discriminates. If everyone has a
IIi no one has a IIi.
So with appeals to the visitor. If everyone employed by Lancaster or
otherwise associated with it can appeal to the Visitor why not everyone
employed by anyone? Surely it is unfair that university employees
should enjoy a privilege not shared by bank workers, nurses, civil
servants, etc.?
Many will find this argument appealing. I prolly do myself, but
recognize that it effectively means the end of visitorial jurisdiction
and at best its replacement by some kind of ombudsperson service or
small claims court.
Perhaps that is as it should be. After all that presumably must be the
situation in those 'new' universities which are not chartered but
incorporated under the Companies Act. And indeed, having written this
far, I begin to feel that perhaps visitorial jurisdiction is indeed
redundant. For employees at any rate. This would be a matter for
regret, true, for it is almost the last vestige of the perhaps mythical
'academic freedom', but hardly a catastrophe given its rarity and
sometimes controversial character.
For present students, however, the Visitor offers an important final
recourse in cases of failure or exclusion perceived as injust, and
membership of the university clearly matters. (The ancient Scottish
universities call it 'citizenship', the status of _civis
universitatis_.) For ex-students, i.e. graduates, less so.
Employees are different. What actually discriminates between various
categories of university employee is not so much rank but how much they
get paid. Much would change were that not so. Seeking gratification in
a change of title is a paltry substitute for a pay-rise. Or, in the
case of most of us, pay-cut.
My own belief is that everyone should get paid the same, to the extent
that they do their job diligently and competently, whatever that job
may be, and due allowance being given to their familial needs. This
notion is violently unpopular and widely ridiculed, which merely
encourages one to believe that something so feared must have much to
commend it. It prolly originates with the 19th century French utopians,
and is developed in George Bernard Shaw's _An Intelligent Woman's Guide
to Capitalism, Communism, Socialism and Fascism_, one of the first ever
Pelicans. Highly recommended.
A change of name and an imaginary change of status are poor
substitutes for that.
Bibliography:
Bridge, J.W. : 'Keeping Peace in the Universities : The Role of the
Visitor' (1970) 86 L.Q.R. 531.
Caldwell, J.L. : 'The Visitor and the Visited : Judicial Review of
Universities' (1982) 1 Canterbury Law Review, 307.
Smith, P.M. : 'The Exclusive Jurisdiction of the University Visitor'
(1981) 97 L.Q.R. 610.
Price, D.M. & Whalley, P.W.F. : 'THE UNIVERSITY VISITOR & UNIVERSITY
GOVERNANCE. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol. 18,
(July 1996) no. 1, p. 45.
3. READERS' LETTERS
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Please provide me (rather all my female students who are going with me
on an historical tour of Paris in March) a version francais(e?) of your
Metro rant. I never knew the French used such Americanismes as
"shit-eating" [a phrase I thought my brother coined in 1949]. Mangeur
de merde?
Any how fils d'une putain I can do, but really I want a full text of
the entire thing. Merci mille fois.
Marcus Merriman,
[NOTE: Espece de sale goujat! Refoule'! Fils de putain cacophage!
Qu'est-ce qu'elle dirait, ta femme, hein? Mais non - tu n'es pas assez
homme pour en avoir! Et ta mere? Elle aussi est enfant de Gomorrhe?
(Ed.)]
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for the random consequences NEWS
Ian Edmondson-Noble
PS Cheers for the beer last Friday.
[NOTE: Were you there?? I didn't recognize you! (Ed.)]
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As a long standing Parisophile can I say how much I have enjoyed your
advice to Stuart Riley. I've printed it out and shall use some of the
tips on future visits. But I do find myself wondering whether Stuart
feels a bit like the person who casually asked Marcel whether he liked
sponge cakes.
Gareth Williams
Centre for Higher Education Studies
Lifelong Learning Academic Group
Institute of Education
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Many thanks for your generous comments about the Physics "TQA" result
in Inkytext 332. As anybody who has undergone the Subject Review
process will realise, it involved every member of the Department (and
many outside it) in a huge amount of additional work, often requiring
significant creativity and imagination. But may I just acknowledge the
special roles played by three individuals? Professor Keith Wigmore
masterminded the whole exercise from within the Department: he started
planning in 1997 and, by a process of persuasion and exhortation,
managed to build up just the right creative level of anxiety in his
colleagues! Mrs Chris Harmer, the Physics Teaching Secretary, accepted
responsibility for the contents of the Baseroom including all its files
- a huge task shouldered and completed to a superlative standard on top
of her normal work. Advice and help from Roger Cook in the Planning
Office were quite indispensible, both before the event, and also during
it in his roles as Institutional Facilitator and - in practice - QAA
Psychologist!
The physicists are naturally delighted at their 23/24, but they are
also acutely aware that it is a score for the whole university, not
just the department, its students and graduates. The Library, ISS,
Careers, Colleges, Student Support, Staff Development, the Students'
Union, the IENS Faculty committees, the Undergraduate Studies
Committee, the VC's Office... and many many others... were all subject
to questions and scrutiny. If even one of them had faltered, marks
could have been deducted.
So, a very big thank-you to everyone concerned!
Peter McClintock, Head of Physics.
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Re: DOES CHRIS WOODHEAD NEED MONEY .... ? It has never crossed my mind
that INKYTEXT's editor is on wages or that he had an excess of time on
his hands and I'm sure - if pressed - he might come up with a
life-saving tip .....
Gerry Steele
Economics
[NOTE: True, I suppose. I can't help getting in digs at someone so
patently dim who doesn't remotely realise it and who is so opinionated.
As for life-saving tips: in the case of hyper-acute asthma, while
sitting waiting for the ambulance, spread the knees as wide as
possible, place the back of the forearms on the thighs and try to blow
out gently. And never cough more than three times without trying to
take a breath. (Ed)]
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Goscinny (of Asterix) is dead too. He died some time ago, on an
exercise bicycle.
Meg Twycross
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I am delighted to stand in the shadow of Margaret Gardner; any person
would be. But I can get round her (few people can, or would wish to) by
saying "teaching member of staff" or tossing in yet another red
herring: being a member of a college. I gave the first ever after
dinner speech to Bowland in December 1965: I have both it and my ticket
still.
However, both those templates I find repugnant. We are all members of
a single organic community and the divisions of which you Brit
academics are so fond: Teaching Staff as against Administrators;
Library Staff and Secretaries; Assistant Staff I find wearisome. I was
once an Assistant Lecturer and always wondered why I was not invited to
be a member of the Assistant Staff House. So as far as I am concerned
Margaret beats me months down, although I should like to research that
term: "initial appointment".
By the way, speaking of old timers, I have not noticed it mentioned
that the Bar Licensee of The County College, Doreen Whalley, has just
been awarded her 25 Years of Service Certificate. To service in that
position so long and so devotedly is not service: it is a life
sentence. Triples all round, say I.
If I bow to Margaret, David Travers, likewise, is no mean contender. I
taught his wife in 1964! But I need to know the actual date of his
appointment. His name does not appear (as does mine) in the 1964-66
prospectus. Moreover, Alan Holland's most certainly does not appear
even in the 1965-67 prospectus (see below); nor does that of David
Lyth. So I am confused. So is David, who has just informed me that my
year away should not count against me.
Sandy's contribution, whilst not quite displaying poor memory, does
muddy the waters (Hume did that a lot). I never said "permanent member
of staff" or implied "continuous service" for obvious reasons. The nub
of my question was "longest service" of people still working full time.
I thus sought to exclude (doubtless most unfairly) golden oldies like
Martin Edmonds who have taken early retirement even though they have
been "bought back" to teach part time. That also excludes Michael
Heale, appointed in 1965 who by rights should actually stand shoulder
to shoulder with me. If ghosts count (e.g. the wholly admirable John
Bevington: my first Principal), then surely Russell Price still should
march in our platoon.
My name, for what it is worth, was printed as a member of staff in the
"1964-65 and 1965-66 Prospectus". In the next one, also for joint
years: "Academic Years 1965-66 and 1966-67", again I appear, although
with the notation "appointment commences October 1966".
The only other person whose name appears in both publications is Colin
Adams. What we need to do is to consult Sheila Braithwaite's famously
meticulous and accurate diary of appointments which she used to keep in
her desk. Is it still in the Secretary's Office or did she take it home
with her?
M Merriman
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I feel I must respond to Ms Maynard's response to my correspondence.
Under no circumstances, is what I wrote "lyrical": even the list of
ships which makes up most of Homer's Iliad is more lyrical than the
rubbish I wrote. If Ms Maynard deems my scribblings to be amusing, she
has no one to blame but herself.
Logically, the majority of writers must be dead, and reading some
"living" authors one might conclude that they be better off so. I agree
that Catherine Deneuve is old enough to be my mother but simply
asserting that she is "unobtainable" (as opposed to unattainable) is
not supported by any empirical evidence. Has Ms Maynard tried? If so,
when. If not, then her claim is unsupported.
As to the "observations of last night": it was not in my bar that any
"attractive young girls", let alone women, were handcuffed to bars.
What Ms Maynard gets up to in the privacy of Lonsdale bar on a Thursday
is, Licensing Laws and the licensee excepting, up to her.
I have read some true French classics and I've read some true French
merde; some of the best French writing turns up in L'Equipe around the
time of _le Tour_.
I would admit that Goscinny and Sempe (together or alone) have greatly
enlivened culture in general. As I will keep my stimulating pursuits to
myself (and my credit card), I am off to read a living author, in
French bienqu'elle soit une traduction. Just in case Ms Maynard misses
the point it's a translation from English into French.
Et Beart, c'est Marianne, n'est-ce pas?
David Orr
[NOTE: Are you winding me up? Laetitia Casta is the new Marianne after
a vote by all 56 000 French mayors in which Emmanuelle and the others
were defeated. Quite nice, I suppose. but so far only a model.(Ed.)]
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4. SMALL ADS
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BOWLAND JCR are organising a coach trip to
THE CAVERN
(Liverpool)
featuring local band
SCOUT
plus other Live Bands and DJs
Friday 25th February
Tickets from Bowland Bar 1-2pm
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ANOTHER CLEANER WANTED - near Castle, initially one session of 2 hours
per week. Tel. Lynda, 841169
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Buy any number of tickets, in any combination, for any of the
following concerts until the end of term, at 5 pounds only.
10 Feb - Sorrel String Quartet
17 Feb - Moray Welsh (cello) and Martin Roscoe (piano)
24 Feb - Messiaen Quartet for the end of time
11 Mar - Orchestra of the Golden Age - Bach B minor Mass
16 Mar - Galliard Wind Ensemble with Murray McLachlan (piano)
(NB this offer EXCLUDES the concert on 2nd March - Emma Kirkby/Anthony
Rooley)
Just phone the box office on 93729, e-mail S.Birchall@lancaster.ac.uk
or drop into the box office, Jack Hylton Music Rooms, between 1 and 4pm
Monday - Thursday and quote 'Inkytext'.
THIS OFFER IS PART OF A CURRENT MARKET-RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUNDED BY
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND.
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A TWO DAY NON-RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP on Re-discovering and Recovering
Creativity to be led by Gillian Kelly at High Scaur Crag Famr,
Grasmere, Cumbria on Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th March 2000 at a
cost of 65 pounds - including tea and coffee (bring lunch to share)
For more details ring Gillian on 015394 33903, or to book a place send
a 20 pounds non-returnable deposit to Dillygarth, Loughrigg, Ambleside. LA22
9HZ.
Gillian Is a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice in South
Lakeland. She also works as a trainer with trainee psychotherapists at
the Chiron Centre for Holistic Pyschotherapy in London. She has a
background in theatre and in education. As well as acting as a
psychotherapist Gillian writes, acts and sings.
COME, HEAR!
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A series of lunch-time listening opportunities, presented as an
adjunct to a 2nd year undergraduate course on Sonic Art, and open to
all.
Venue: Jack Hylton Room (Great Hall Complex)
Fridays 1.10pm - 1.50pm, Weeks 6 - 11 (except week 10)
Week 6 (18 Feb) "EXTENSIONS"
A gentle introduction to the possibilities opened up by new ways of
thinking, new ways of playing, and new ways of making sound.
All welcome! Bring your ears; bring your lunch - preferably without
crisps or cellophane wrappers! Relax or concentrate as you wish. Forget
Bailrigg; explore exciting new realms!
[Come, Hear! is introduced by Lisa Whistlecroft and Steve Benner]
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Next seminar: Tuesday 15th February 4.15 for 4.30 in Furness Senior
Common Room Barbara Coulton (Lancaster) "Till the Conversion of the
Jews". Millenarian expectations in England in the 1650s: a Shropshire
perspective.
Subsequent seminar: Tuesday 29th February, 4.15 Fu SCR, Harry Cocks,
Manchester, 'Spirituality and the Homoerotic in Bolton's Whitman
Fellowship c. 1885-1900'
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Can't deliver... but happy to help plant it in its new orchard. Other
than having a bit of canker (i.e. it crashed) a year ago, Discovery is
crisp and fresh (it is in good working order). Contact Pascal Desmond
<mailto:pascal@gn.apc.org> 01524 388694
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