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Poetry Please

Androula Pistolas, a postgraduate in EURO, was the runner-up in this year's Robin Lee poetry prize. The Robin Lee Poetry Prize is awarded annually and the competition is open to all students and staff of the University (except members of faculty). Cash prizes are awarded to the Winner and Runner-up. Entrants may submit up to four poems - totalling no more than 100 lines in all. Forms may be obtained from: Joanna Cheetham, School of English and American Studies, Arts B239, ext. 2154.

Closing date: Friday 5 February 1999.

My Mother's House

I have to walk through spiders' webs
when I visit my mother's house.
They cling to my face like a warm hand
Whose fingers have found their way into my mouth.

I never know which room she is in,
but I always know she is there.
I listen out for the heartbeat
and find it in my fingertips,
beating, like a small hard-skinned drum,
whose face is wind-dried and slow-sunned.

If I blow up at the ceiling her words fall down to me,
but dissolve on my tongue
before I have even tasted them,
or fly out of the high dusty windows
free as children.

Once, I heard her laughing in the garden,
and caught a glinting glimpse of her,
dragging her mud-caked soul across the grass,
from which old secrets flew up to the moon-shy sky
in startled whispers.

Androula Pistolas

PEOPLE

Dr Sid Lloyd (ENGG) has been awarded the F C Williams Premium by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, for his paper 'Variable structure adaptive control of robot manipulators' (with Dr H Yu).

Festus Megae who gained a Master's degree in Economics in 1970 was elected 3rd ever President of Botswana earlier on this year.

Helen Wallace, Director of the Sussex European Institute, was nominated as one of 500 "Women of the Year" by the charity of the same name.

John Gribbin, has just published 'In Search of SUSY' and, with Dr Simon Goodwin, 'Empire of the Sun'. Both are currently available in the University Bookshop.

Geoffrey Sampson (COGS) was appointed a member of the Executive Board of ELSNET, the European language and Speech "Network of Excellence". He is currently the only Board member from the English-speaking European nations, which contain almost a quarter of the member sites.

Ian McEwan, Sussex graduate, was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel 'Amsterdam.'

Dr Antje Wiener donated £1,000 to start up an "Ariadne" fund to help research students at the Sussex European Institute, especially from central and eastern Europe, with their research expenses.

Dorothy Sheridan has been invited to become the President of a newly formed European Association - Association Europeenne pour l'Autobiogriphie. The Association is primarily concerned with non-elite life histories.

Andrew Robinson, Anglican Chaplan at Sussex, was last Friday made a Canon of Chichester Cathedral. He has been with the University since 1976 and is also Priest in charge of the Parish of Stanmer with Falmer.

Professor Peter Townsend received an an honorary lifetime membership award for his services to the sport of fencing. The award was presented to him on Tuesday 10 November 1998.

Want to celebrate the millenium in California?

Applications are now being accepted for the William and Olivia Allaway Scholarship 1999/2000 which enables a Sussex undergraduate to spend a year at the University of California. The scholarship will be awarded by an essay competition which is open to students currently in their first year (or third year of a four year programme) on all courses except those which involve a compulsory year abroad. The deadline is Friday 27 November. Please contact Liz Wingfield in Arts B150 for further details and an application form.

Friday 20th November 9.30 am to 6 pm.
Media and Migration Workshop
sponsored by Centre for Migration Research and CulCom Media Representations of Migrants; Media and the Politics of Identity; Albanian Migration to Italy; The North African Experience. CCS Conference Room, Essex House. Contact Nancy Wood for details: n.wood@sussex.ac.uk

Music Maestros

Success for Two Music students:

Jeroen Speak, a 2nd year Dphil Musical Composition student from New Zealand won the Asian Composers Competition held in Taipei, Taiwan at the Asian Composer's Festival. Ten countries were represented including New Zealand, Australia and Israel as well as Asian countries. On an all-expenses-paid trip, Jeroen was presented with a cheque for £1,000 for his string quartet Auxetos which is part of his PhD submission.

The Trustees of the Sir Thomas Beecham Trust have established, in perpetuity, a scholarship at the University for undergraduate Music students. Hannah Baxter, 2nd Year Twentieth Century Music Studies student, has been awarded the Scholarship. She will be receiving £250 per annum for three years.

Whoops!

In the Bulletin on 23 October we published John Postgate's book NITROGEN FIXATION as costing £45 when in fact the recommended price is £11.95. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Sussex ranked 7 in UK Top 10

In 1997 Sussex was not in the top ten at all, so this represents a real achievement and a challenge for 1999. The application form for these awards is a long and complex one, and success in the competition requires a great deal of effort on the part of students, prospective supervisors and programme convenors. Congratulations to all!

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