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IC people scared?
IC's petition to Senate
From Anonymous, Imperial College
.".. Imperial College, where people are either not
inclined or permitted to have an active public voice against the merger (as
we are still dealing with the fall-out from the past three)"
"Keep up the good work, going to sound out opinion here about doing the same"
"No information is being shared at the moment, other than the official line (and we've also been advised to ignore the info from the Unions and UCL as being scaremongering, with no basis in reality), particularly any that may form ammunition for the dissenters"
Petition to their senate from staff at Imperial College
The following email has been received for Imperial College
There is much
debate at Imperial over the merger. The following quickly prepared petition was
presented to Senate last Wednesday, having been signed by approximately 10% of
faculty after two days of circulation. A motion proposed at Senate calling for
a referendum was ruled out of order by the Chair, the Rector.
In the open meeting in October, the Rector was asked, given broad support of the academics was required for a successful merger, whether there would be a referendum of
faculty on the issue. He replied that there would be no referendum, that Senate
was the correct forum for the views of the academics to be represented, and
that if Senate voted the merger down, it would be "a nonsense" to
proceed; the academics should contact members of Senate to express their views.
The Rector added that there must be broad support of the academics for a successful
merger.
The petition
Previous additions
of the Medical Schools to Imperial were handled by a postal ballot in the
predecessor to this Senate. This proposed merger is both qualitatively and
quantitatively of considerably greater magnitude, necessarily entailing, inter
alia, the end of Imperial as a separate identity. Oxford and Cambridge, the
institutions to which we might be compared, both have governing democratic
assemblies of all academics, the Congregation and Regent House respectively,
and both would hold a vote to establish broad support for an issue of this
magnitude.
Only six of your
membership is directly elected out of a total of fifty five. The Senate is
established to be representative more of the organisation of Imperial than the
academics. A vote of Senate would not claim, we think, to be representative of
the academic body as a whole, and perhaps very often for good reasons of
expediency. Expediency in this particular matter should not be an issue.
As the Rector says,
the decision to proceed with the merger should be based on facts. We agree with
the Rector that one fact is that broad support of the academics is necessary
for a successful merger. Another fact that could be obtained through a
referendum is whether this broad support exists.
Without a referendum
one of two situations will occur: the merger will proceed without broad
support; or a minority opposing merger will consider their views ignored and
will have no basis for reluctantly accepting a majority decision. One of these
situations is certain, and neither is desirable.
If Senate calls for
a referendum on merger, both of these situations can be avoided. The merger,
after due consideration of the facts of the case by the academics, will either
proceed with broad support or be rejected with, in both cases, a clear end to
the uncertainty.
We urge you all to
support any motion for a referendum of academic and academic-related staff as
the only way to properly determine a necessary condition for a successful
merger.
Igor Aleksander,
Gabor Chair in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Martin J. Allday,
Professor of Virology and Cell Biology
Jane Apperley,
Reader in Haematology >
Keith Barnham,
Professor of Physics
Paul Barton, Reader
in Molecular Biology
Julian J. Bommer,
Reader in Seismology
Frank Booy, Senior
Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Nigel J Brand,
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology
D R Brough, Senior
Lecturer in Computing
Martin R. Bridson,
Professor of Mathematics
Dave Briggs,
Professor of Environment and Health Sciences
Krysia Broda,
Senior Lecturer in Computing*
Richard Brown,
Lecturer in Aerodynamics
Nicholas R
Buenfeld, Professor of Concrete Structures
Adrian P. Butler,
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
David Caplin,
Professor in Physics
Michael Carabine,
Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
Peter Cawley,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Richard J.
Chandler, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Maria
Charalambides, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Nish Chaturvedi,
Professor of Clinical Epidemiolgy
Kim Christensen,
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Keith Clark,
Professor of Computing
J M C Clarke,
Reader in Stochastic Systems
Tom Clarke,
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Lesley Cohen,
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Robert Crane,
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Richard Craster,
Reader in Mathematics
Jim Cunningham,
Reader in Computer Science
Michael Damzen,
Reader in Physics
Brian Davies,
Professor of Medical Robotics
D J Dickinson,
Reader in Wood Science
Denis Doorly,
Reader in Aeronautics
Michele Dougherty,
Reader in Space Physics
Sophia
Drossopoulou, Reader in Computing
Ulrik Egede,
Lecturer in Physics
John Elgin,
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Mark C. Field,
Reader in Molecular Cell Biology
Matthew Foulkes,
Reader in Physics
Andrew Forrest,
Lecturer Mechanical Engineering
Amparo Galindo,
Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
Ugo Galvanetto,
Lecturer in Advanced Structures
J D Gibbon,
Professor in Mathematics
John Gibbons,
Lecturer in Mathematics
Duncan Gillies,
Reader in Computer Graphics and Vision
John Goldman,
Professor of Haematology
David Gosman,
Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Mino Green,
Professor of the Science of Electrical Devices
Chris Guy, Senior
Lecturer in Physics
Pablo Etchegoin,
Senior Lecturer in Physics
Joanna D. Haigh,
Professor of Atmospheric Physics
Walter Hayman,
Professor of Mathematics
David Herbert,
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Roger Hibberd,
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Roger E. Hobbs,
Professor of Structural Engineering
A.D. Hughes,
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology
Gary Hunt, Lecturer
in Civil Engineering
Lorenzo Iannucci,
Senior Lecturer in Airframe structures
R.I. Issa, Reader
in Thermofluid Mechanics
Alojz Ivankovic,
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
George Jackson,
Professor in Chemical Physics
Roy Jacobs, Reader
in Mathematical Physics
Mike Joffe, Reader
in Epidemiology and Public Health
Eileen Joyce,
Professor of Neuropsychiatry
Henrik Jeldtoft
Jensen, Professor of Mathematical Physics
W. P. Jones, Professor
of Mechanical Engineering
C. Juhasz, Reader
in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Kanagasabai
Ramachandra, Lecturer in Structures
R.Kandiyoti,
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Lester Kershenbaum.
Professor of Chemical Engineering*
Frank Kriwaczek,
Lecturer in Computing
J. Simon Kroll,
Professor of Paediatrics and Molecular Infectious Diseases
A. Kronenburg,
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Mike Laffan, Senior
Lecturer in Haematology
David Lane,
Professor of Molecular Haematology
Chris Lawrence,
Professor of Fluid Mechanics
Keith Leaver,
Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Michael A
Leschziner, Professor of Computational Aerodynamics
Chris Lee, Lecturer
in Physics
Derek Lee, Lecturer
in Physics
Mike Lee, Senior
Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Patrick Leevers,
Reader in Polymer Engineering
Martin Liebeck,
Professor, Dept of Mathematics
Mark Little, Senior
lecturer in Statistics
Andrew Livingston,
Professor in Chemical Engineering
Robert Lucas, Lecturer
in Neuroscience
Paul Luckham,
Professor of Particle Technology
Stefano Luzzatto,
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
Sandro Macchietto,
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Jonathan
P.Marangos, Professor of Laser Physics
A.J Marquis, Senior
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Clare Marshall,
Lecturer in Statistics
Ian Mathews, Reader
in Aeronautics
D Q Mayne,
Professor of Control Engineering
Peter McBrien,
Lecturerin Computing
Martin McCall,
Reader in Physics
Jonathan Mestel,
Reader in Applied Mathematics
Jonathan Morrison,
Reader in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Stephen Muggleton,
Professor of Computing
Patrick Naylor,
Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Jenny Nelson,
Lecturer in Physics
John B Newman,
Reader in Concrete Structures
Peter Nixon, Reader
in Biological Sciences
Bikash Pal,
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Milija Pavlovic,
Professor of Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Christos
Papavassiliou, Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Joaquim Peiro,
Senior Lecturer in Aeronautics
John Pendry,
Professor in Physics
Tom Pike, Senior
Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Martin Plenio,
Senior Lecturer in Physics
David M. Potts,
Professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics
Oliver Pretzel,
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Keith R Pullen,
Senior Lecturer in Energy Systems
Alan Purohit,
Senior Lecturer in Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine
Sebastian Reich,
Professor of Mathematics
Sylvia Richardson,
Professor of Biostatistics
Duncan Rogers,
Reader in Respiratory Pharmacology
Mary Ryan, Lecturer
in Materials
Fariba Sadri,
Senior Lecturer in Computing
Mortaza Sahibzada,
Lecturer in Materials
Sarada K. Sarma,
Reader in Engineering Seismology
Richard Sayles,
Reader in Mechanical Engineering
Michael Schachter,
Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics*
John Shrimpton,
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Murray Shanahan,
Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Spencer J. Sherwin,
Senior Lecturer in Aeronautics
Claire Shovlin,
Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine
Anne Staton-Bevan,
Senior Lecturer Materials
Geoff Stephenson,
Director of Mathematics Advice Centre
Nicholas J. Severs,
Professor of Cell Biology
Peter Sugden,
Professor of Cellular Biochemistry
Trevor Stuart,
Professor of Mathematics
Thierry Soldati,
Lecturer in Molecular Cell Biology
Pietro D Spanu,
Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Costas Sutis,
Professor of Aeronautics
Terry Tetley,
Reader in Lung Cell Biology
Simon Thom, Reader
Clinical Pharmacology
Michael J.
Thompson, Professor in Physics
Francesca Toni,
Lecturer in Computing
Ralf Toumi, Reader
in Physics
Neil Tsang,
Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Edward G.D.
Tuddenham, Professor of Haematology
Yvonne Unruh,
Lecturer in Physics
Christos
Vassilicos, Reader in Fluid Mechanics
Richard Vinter,
Professor in Control Theory
Robert Vollum,
Lecturer in Civil Engineering
M A Wadee, Lecturer
in Structural Mechanics
Simon Walker,
Reader in Computational Mechanics.
James Warner,
Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry
Barry Weightman,
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Gordon Williams,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Jim Williamson,
Professor of Materials
Keith Woodgate,
Lecturer in Aeronautics
George Weiss,
Reader in Control Theory
Boguslaw
Zegarlinski, Professor of Mathematics
Xiaodong Zhang,
Lecturer in Structural Biology
*Member of Senate