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Honorary Editor: Judith Vidal-Hall +44 (0)1865 284622 Book by emailing Ex Officio: Helen King [email protected] [email protected] or Contents From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 Devaki Jain Lecture: Eudine Barriteau 69 From the SAS President – Hugh Sutherland 3 From the JCR – Gagan Khurana 72 From the Principal – Helen King 4 Student News 73 From the Librarian – Clare White 7 College News 76 From the Development Office – Kate Davy 10 Fellows’ News 78 Community Week and Giving Day 13 Alumnae publications 80 Alex on Giving 14 Events 81 COSARAF Foundation - Jonathan Freeman 15 College News: Aim for Oxford 82 Anniversaries: Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act - Jo Delahunty 18 Darcey Bussell at St Anne’s - Thomas Robertson 83 Anniversaries: The women who made Ireland - Patrick Gaul 22 Alumnae News 85 Anniversaries: Forty years on - Roger Crisp 26 Human Papilloma Virus - Diane Ackerley 87 Weidenfield Translation Prize - JVH 29 Silly Monkeys - Robert Gardner 90 Tribute: Amos Oz - Jonathan Freedland 31 Prison Reading Groups - Sarah Turvey 91 Centre for Personalised Medicine - Jason Torres 34 Self Publishing - Ann Revill 94 Anniversaries: Iris Murdoch Centenary 36 Publications 96 Oxford Letter - Sister Frances Dominica ASSP 39 In Memoriam 99 Careers: Peace keeping with the UN - Peter N Due 42 Obituaries 100 Domestic Bursar - John Banbrook 44 Donations 112 Profile: Raymond Killick 46 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2019 119 Profile: Tom Ilube 49 SAS Branch reports 51 SAS London - Adam Smith 57 Gaudy Seminar 2018: Howard Hotson 59 Russell Taylor column 67 From the Editor From the SAS President Future Imperfect Look to the future HUGH SUTHERLAND A year of nationwide uncertainty sixth form students from the North East. As ever, space prevents my doing justice It's a time of change in the College or ambition a representative body before and behind countered by the This is a key aspect of the University and to everything in the issue. To mention just and the University. Is it also time and cannot have a formal voice in the progress of important initiatives in St Anne’s outreach programme committed a few pieces that reflect issues currently to rethink the role and purpose governance or running of the College. the University and St Anne’s to ensuring that the opportunities of an in the news: Jason Torres unpicks the of the SAS? An obvious purpose we could take up is Oxford education are accessible to all, tangled ethics of genetic engineering; Forgive me if I begin by more or less Defining the purpose of the St Anne’s fund raising. There is a point of view that regardless of background. Sister Frances Dominica challenges us with repeating myself. Little has changed for Society is difficult. We have a ship, we says that the prospect of being asked for the news that in one of the UK’s richest the better in the UK in the past year, if A project that has been significantly are captains of our destiny, but we lack a money is a barrier to members engaging cities, rough sleeping has doubled in the anything, things are worse: the Brexit furthered by the support of the COSARAF mission. The constitution of the Society with the SAS. Raising funds through past year; and though we may think we live impasse, a mind-numbing contest for the Foundation’s Sheikh Family Scholarship uses wording which is wide in scope and charging for events is disproportionately in unprecedented times, Adam Smith and Tory leadership and a toxic internecine Programme for Muslim students in which potential for interpretation: ‘preserve risky: it is quite hard to make an event Howard Hotson remind us that even the branches in facilitating members meeting, battle in the Labour Party continue to St Anne’s is a key participant. This unique and strengthen links’, ‘keeping in touch’, successful and harder still to reliably most intractable contemporary issues have exchanging ideas and making friendships dominate the media, while the ‘democratic project will significantly advance diversity ‘the exchange of ideas’. That wording is return a surplus. Oxford has a reputation parallels in the past. where they live. Having gone out into the deficit’ of our parliamentary system in the University and begin to redress admirable in its lack of constraints, but also as an accumulation of great wealth and world with what our time at St Anne’s gave and a loss of faith in politics generally the paucity of Muslim students in UK We don’t get a lot of feedback on The Ship a bit vague and so not much help in setting power. Fund raising from the wider public us, there will be a time to acknowledge is increasingly apparent. Thanks to the Universities. but one of the few comments we have out a mission or objectives. Much of the is a big ask so members are an important that influence, to return and to give back, inimitable Alex and his creator Russell had was that unlike many publications hard work with which the Society became source of donations and a validation of the Once again, we have some important but that must be at a time and in a way we Taylor we need say no more on this. circulating around the University, our involved in the past is now done wholly donations of others. But fund raising is an anniversaries to celebrate. While 1918 saw decide. magazine was ‘totally unthrowawayable’. by capable and dedicated professionals activity that is increasingly tightly regulated Meanwhile, neither the University nor the granting of the vote and the right to And that, of course, is entirely due to the – maintaining a directory of members, and must be done in a way that ensures This is the final year of my tenure as St Anne’s has allowed events to block sit as MPs to (some) women, Jo Delahunty variety, range, experience and skill of our organising events, encouraging donations.