WHAT NEXT FOR ASIA? STEPHEN GREEN EXPLORES THE GROWTH OF ASIA’S ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRY THE FUTURE OF OXFORD, 25 YEARS ON BY CHRIS PATTEN WOMEN IN THE CHURCH? THE CHAPLAIN’S VIEW ON RIGHT REVEREND MOTHERS THE EXETER COLLEGE MAGAZINE ISSUE 8 AUTUMN 2005 TRAVELLING IN ITALY, ASIA, NORTH AMERICA WWW.EXETERCOLLEGE.NET SCHOLARS WRITE HOME REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD TANZANIA, BURMA, GAMBIA, GHANA CONSERVATION OR MASS EXTINCTION? RESEARCH IN THE ANDES PLUS ASTROPHYSICS, AUTHORS AND ART • FINANCE, FIGURES AND FUNDING • COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI NEWS WELCOME TO EXON Contents Overall, the College won 25 Firsts out of from his latest book. Dame Antonia Byatt 92 students sitting Final examinations. Of talked about the process of composition, Rector’s address 1 Editorial the five biochemists, four took firsts this Lord Butler about his report and the year, and three of them were in the top background to the Iraq War and Lord College News I hope that you will enjoy this year’s five for the University. Judith Toning took Patten, the University’s Chancellor, about News in Brief 2 issue of Exon and find its ‘new look’ easy the top First in the University in theology Europe and university education. For both Forging A Link: Exeter Careers and Internship Scheme 4 to navigate. We have tried to provide (having given birth to Tobias only a month the American and the British elections, Profile: Dr John Maddicott 5 a sense of the breadth of academic before). Iason Gabriel took the top First we erected a big television screen in Farewell to Rector Marilyn Butler 6 excellence and extra-curricular in History and Politics, Lucy Simmonds the Hall, and students stayed up all High Flyer: Justin Bronder’s Star-Gazing 7 activity of this fine institution, both the second best First in Physiological night to watch the result. We celebrated The American Dream: David Heales’s North American Travel Scholarship 8 in terms of life here at the College, Sciences, Nicholas Johnston the top Thanksgiving in Hall, complete with Fragile Nature: Conservation in the Andes 10 and amongst our wider community First in Classics and English and Jane pecan, pumpkin and apple pie, and of Old Members and Friends. There Goodenough the fourth best First in Burns Night in January, with a bagpiper University News is a wealth of talent and repository of Greats. All four of our graduate lawyers in the front quad. For many students, it News in Brief 12 commitment on show here: from an won distinctions in their BCL exam, and was their first encounter with haggis. In The Re-Education of Oxford 13 expedition to the Magnetic North Pole Tarunabh Khaitan won two distinguished February, we held a packed New Orleans Chris Patten’s Radcliffe Lecture: Oxford 25 years on 14 to helping the children of Africa; from University prizes. jazz concert in the Hall, preceded by a discovering new particles to assessing There have been other triumphs. Angela parade along Turl Street. Rector’s Address Fundraising the growing role of Asia in the world. Palmer, our Fine Arts student, had a There has been lots of building. Hardship: The Facts 18 sculpture accepted for exhibition in the Refurbishing the kitchen involved the Donors: Young, Smart and Absent 19 As we begin to think about celebrating Frances Cairncross took up office as Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. construction of a temporary kitchen in Roman Holiday 19 our 700th anniversary in 2014, we are Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in The Women’s First Eight won blades at Brasenose Lane. Magically, the kitchen Book ’em: JCR Book Grant Scheme 19 increasingly aware that, in order to October 2004. She previously worked at Eights Week. Rebecca Ting won a rowing staff continued to produce delicious ExVac 2005: The Other Side of Life in Oxford 20 flourish, the College must continue The Economist. She chairs the Economic Blue. Laura Richards and Sarah Dunstone meals from a long wooden hut. Staircases Ringing Around: Fundraising by Phone 21 to be renewed and reinvigorated by and Social Research Council, and is won Blues for Women’s Rugby, and John 4-6 were re-roofed and refurbished. The each successive generation. Over the President of the British Association. Bradshaw for Men’s Rugby. Matthew Lodgings had a facelift too: the first floor Feature last twelve months, the Rector and I Green and Duncan Brown made a has become a light and airy flat. More A Top Banker’s View: The Rise and Rise of Asia by Stephen Green 22 have travelled many thousands of It has been a momentous year. Having surrealist film which won Film Cuppers. changes are under way. Sadly, the large miles around the world to renew and come from a sheltered life in international Our main student band, ‘The Hammer vs chestnut tree at the end of the Fellows’ Viewpoint build relationships with Exonians, journalism and 20 years on The Economist the Snake’, won the University’s Bands Garden has died. It is being taken down. Chaplain: On Right Reverend Mothers and Regaining the Initiative 27 and to present a vision of the College magazine, I have been thrown in at tournament. We now have wireless Internet access Synergism in the Soup: Rethinking Education in Rural Tanzania 28 with the education of the human mind the deep end of the tumultuous world There have been a number of goings in a number of parts of the college, Siamon Gordon: You, Me and HIV 30 and spirit at its core. We have met of higher education. Luckily, Exeter and comings. Siamon Gordon, Professor including the Fellows’ Garden, where it Gambia: A Country in Need 31 with support and enthusiasm as well College has been just as welcoming and of Cellular Pathology, retires. He has was launched with a ceremony at which Frank Close: Shining Light 32 as good advice and wisdom from all supportive as I had hoped. done great work in South Africa to tell I symbolically cut a wire. The College’s our Old Members and Friends and we True, this is a difficult time for all youngsters about HIV-AIDS and how to web site, our shop window on the world, Alumni look forward to the challenges ahead universities and for Oxford colleges avoid infection (see p30). We have also has been redesigned. News from Old Members 34 knowing that we are not alone. So we in particular. Even with the increase lost Victor Lee, who has taught chemistry The College’s Old Members and friends Crossing the Pond: The Symbiosis Between Exeter and Williams College 36 say again: thank you. in tuition fees, the money we get from for three years; and Jacqueline Rattray, are enormously supportive. In particular, A Room of Our Own: The Saskatchewan Story 37 students and the government together who held the Queen Sophia Junior Sir Ronald Cohen made the College a From Exeter to Exmoor: Richard Blackmore’s Lorna Doone 38 Jonathan Snicker adds up to less than half the true cost of Research Fellowship. Katherine Turner, tremendously generous donation, which Early Days: Michael Dryland 39 Director of Development teaching an undergraduate. And students our Williams Fellow, crossed the Atlantic will underpin the campaign we are From Suez to Exeter in 1948: Alfred Dale 40 find accommodation in Oxford very to Mary Baldwin College in Virginia; and launching this year to raise the money to I’ll Be Your Guide: Patrick Heinecke Climbs Mount Afajato 41 expensive. I spend a lot of time with the Caroline Warman, who taught French for endow a Fellowship in Modern History. Bella Italia: Tales of a Writer in Exile 42 Fellows working on ways to alleviate two years, crossed the Turl to Jesus College. He is easily the College’s most generous A Remarkable Career: Ed Harris’s Incredible Journey 44 student hardship. Heidi Stalla, Junior Dean for the past five donor of modern times. In the coming Around the World in 51 days: Christopher Sumner’s East Asia Travel Scholarship 46 However, the College overall is optimistic years, has gone to New York University year, we face the challenge of restoring Arctic Dreams: Journey to the Pole 47 and cheerful. Our Fellows have had a – taking with her the College cat. Among the Chapel. Two of its windows are in Obituaries 48 number of splendid achievements –not our new arrivals is Jane Hiddleston, who alarmingly bad shape, and the stone work An Outstanding Student of Exeter College: U Pe Maung Tin 49 A Public Zone Production. just academic. Sandy Fredman became becomes Fellow in French. She thus takes is crumbling. We need to raise £2.2m to www.zonecontent.com a Fellow of the British Academy, Shamita over the fellowship that her father held put it in safe shape. And we will continue Back Section ph: 020 7267 4774 Das became a Fellow of the American with such distinction. She was the top to need the help of all our Old Members Publisher: Jonathan Simmons Who’s Who? Busters, 1967 Matriculands and Aunt Sally 50 Editorial Director: Emma Sorensen Geophysical Union and Gillian Griffiths choice of the students who sat through to sustain our wonderful academic Test Your Knowledge: Exeter Quizlet 51 Production Co-ordinator: Harriet Mancey-Barratt a Fellow of the Academy of Medical mock tutorials by all candidates for the reputation and to continue to support the Dear Rector: Humour From the 1960s 52 Designer: Gregory Mills Sciences. Jonathan Herring, Faramerz job. We also greet Hugh Gazzard as the unique but expensive tutorial system. Dates For Your Diary 53 Exeter College Editorial Team: Dhaboiwala, and Kathryn Graddy all new Williams Fellow and Lecturer in I welcome visits from Old Members Some Honours and Apppointments, Honorary Fellows, College Information 54 Frances Cairncross, Jonathan Snicker, Megan Daffern, produced baby girls, and Keith Brain, our English, James Kennedy as the new Fellow – including young ones! There is lots to Lucy Stallworthy, Katrina Hancock, Mary Smith Intern: Katherine Chapman pharmacologist, broke the feminine run in Geratology, Gareth Wood as the new show you – and by the time you read with a son.