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What the papers say..

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CHEMISTRY AT SUSSEX was the subject of a full page article in the Independent this week, following Sir Harry Kroto's Nobel Prize award. The article looks at the development of chemistry here at Sussex and how cross disciplinary collaboration has provided a fertile environment for top quality research. For, as the article points out, Sir Harry is the third chemistry Nobel laureate to be associated with Sussex. Archer Martin won the prize in l952 (before coming to Sussex) and in l975 Sir John Cornforth won it for his study of biologically important molecules. According to the article, "An old undergraduate prospectus makes the point that there is something special about the place. Its cover shows a map of Britain with each university's position denoted by a Bunsen burner. The only burner with a flame issuing from it is the one for Sussex. The message: "only Sussex can light your fire." That particular cover, incidentally, was designed by Harry Kroto.

IN AN ARTICLE published on the front cover of the Independent (11 Oct) Dr Paul Norman's (CLS) critical report, European Police Co-operation, denounces the National Criminal Intelligence Service. He accuses the NCIS, which is the Home Secretary's attempt at a British FBI, of failing to to pick up the movements of paedophiles who move from one police force area to another. Paul also attacks them for devoting "few resources" to fight sex tourism, and in being interested only in disrupting sex tourists' activities rather than trying to help secure convictions.

IN RESPONSE TO Vicki Oysten's crusade to implement a law that recognises reckless rape, Prof. Jennifer Temkin (CLS) asks: "Why should there be a separate offence for reckless behaviour? The attitude of the law is that people who deliberately take the risk of harming others commit the offence", (Guardian 10 Oct). Rather she advocates a system that recognises when a man honestly believes that a woman is consenting.

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Friday October 25th 1996