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No 6319

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Vol cxliv No 2

pp. 17–26

Notices

Calendar

8 October, Tuesday. Full Term begins. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House (see below).

20 October, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., The Reverend Dr N. Sagovsky, CL, Canon Emeritus of Westminster Abbey and Whitelands Professorial Fellow, University of Roehampton. End of first quarter of Michaelmas Term.

22 October, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.

26 October, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m.

Discussions at 2 p.m.

Congregations

8 October

26 October, Saturday at 11 a.m.

22 October

30 November, Saturday at 2 p.m.

5 November

19 November

3 December

Notice of a Discussion on Tuesday, 8 October 2013

The Vice-Chancellor invites those qualified under the regulations for Discussions (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 103) to attend a Discussion in the Senate-House, on Tuesday, 8 October 2013, at 2 p.m., for the discussion of:

1. Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 12 July 2013, on the alteration and refurbishment of the Arup Building on the New Museums site (Reporter, 6316, 2012–13, p. 751).

2. Report of the General Board, dated 10 July 2013, on the establishment of two Professorships in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Reporter, 6316, 2012–13, p. 753).

3. Eighteenth Report of the Board of Scrutiny, dated 5 July 2013 (Reporter, 6316, 2012–13, p. 753).

Notice of benefactions

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that he has accepted with gratitude the following benefactions, of which both the capital and the income may be used:

(i)benefactions of £1 million from the Polonsky Foundation and £500,000 from Cambridge in America following a donation from Dr Leonard Polonsky, to support the Digital Library for the 21st Century Project at the University Library;

(ii)benefactions of £350,000 from the Second J. A. Littman Foundation and £250,000 from the Polonsky Foundation, to be applied towards the purchase of the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection jointly by the University Library and by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Election to the Council

2 October 2013

Bye-election of a member in class (a) (Heads of Colleges)

The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that an election is to be held of one person to serve as a member of the Council in class (a) (Heads of Colleges) until 31 December 2014, in place of Professor R. D. Lethbridge, F, who has resigned with effect from 26 September 2013.

In order to be eligible a candidate for election must be nominated on a paper sent to the Vice-Chancellor at the Old Schools so as to reach him not later than noon on Friday, 8 November. The paper must contain (a) a statement signed by two members of the Regent House, nominating the candidate for election and (b) a statement signed by the candidate certifying that he or she consents to be so nominated. The candidate should also provide a curriculum vitae (see below).

The Vice-Chancellor would be obliged if nominations could be delivered to the Registrary’s Secretary in the Old Schools during office hours. Nominations will be published as they are received; the complete list of nominations will be published in the Reporter on Wednesday, 13 November.

In accordance with the regulations governing the election (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 110), each person nominated for election is required to send to the Registrary, not later than noon on Friday, 8 November, a statement of her or his curriculum vitae for distribution to members of the Regent House with the voting papers. It is suggested that such a statement should be of not more than 500 words in length, and that it should cover the following points:

The candidate’s present position in the University.

Previous posts held, whether in Cambridge or in other universities or outside the university system, with dates.

A note of the candidate’s particular interests within the field of University business.

If there is more than one candidate, an election will be conducted by ballot, under the Single Transferable Vote regulations. Online voting will open at 9 a.m. on Monday, 18 November and close at 5 p.m. on Monday, 2 December. Hard-copy voting papers will be distributed not later than Thursday, 21 November to those who have opted before 6 November 2013 to continue to receive them; the last date for the return of voting papers will be 5 p.m. on Monday, 2 December. Members of the Regent House can opt to continue to receive hard-copy voting papers by emailing their name, CRSid, and the University or College address to which voting papers should be sent from a Cambridge email account to ballots@admin.cam.ac.uk.

Roll of the Regent House

1 October 2013

The draft Roll of the Regent House for the academical year 2013–14 (i.e. the list of names which it is proposed to place on the Roll when it is promulgated in November) was published in the Reporter, Special Number 1, on 1 October 2013.

Members of the Regent House are asked to check the list and to make sure that their entries are correct. They should note that the Roll constitutes the list of eligible voters for any elections to the Council or ballots that may be called during the following academical year. Notice of any corrections or amendments should be sent in writing to the Registrary at the Old Schools as soon as possible; any corrections received by 22 October will be incorporated in the definitive Roll, which is to be promulgated on 6 November 2013.

Lecture-list 2013–14

The lecture-list for 2013–14 is available at https://www.timetable.cam.ac.uk. Courses are listed in alphabetical order, with a drop-down box for each part providing either a link to a departmental website where the relevant timetable can be accessed, or a calendar version of the timetable.

University Combination Room

The Combination Room is open for the use of current members and retired members on the Roll of the Regent House. Visiting academics may also be issued with access cards, on nomination by their College or Department. The Combination Room will be open from Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., unless notified in the Reporter otherwise.

Details of how to gain access to the University Combination Room can be found at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/combinationroom/.

Notice by the Editor of the Reporter

The Cambridge University Reporter appears each Wednesday during Term. Special Numbers are also published from time to time.

Editorial

Notices for publication in the Reporter should be sent to the Editor, Cambridge University Reporter, Registrary’s Office, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TN (tel. 01223 332305, email reporter.editor@admin.cam.ac.uk). Copy, preferably in electronic form, should be sent as early as possible in the week before publication; short notices will be accepted up to 4 p.m. on Thursday for publication the following Wednesday. Inclusion is subject to availability of space.

Internet

In response to the Data Protection Act 1998, certain material published in the online Reporter (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/) will be restricted to those with internet access on the University of Cambridge network (i.e. the Cam domain).

Examination results statistics

Examination results statistics for 2013 are now available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/offices/planning/student/examinations/index.html (accessible only to those in the Cam domain). Student statistics and related data are available from the Student Statistics Office website at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/planning/sso/.

Statutes and Ordinances 2013

The 2013 edition of the University’s Statutes and Ordinances has now been published online at: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/. Amendments are published termly as a collated list available from the top of the homepage, and editions from previous years, dating back to 2008, are available for reference at the bottom.

Cambridge Pocket Diary: Correction

In the list of University Officers in the current Cambridge Pocket Diary (p. 300), C. J. Edmonds (Dr Caroline Edmonds) should be shown as Secretary of the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine.