Campus Bulletin, No. 9, October 3 to 17, 1988

UNrvvtSfT"f OF NEWCA.STU! I!I ARCHIVES SERIAL mpus Number 9 24.B The University of Newcastle

October 3 to 17. 1988. -Bulletin Registration: NHB3127

AMALGAMATION

The governing councils of the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Institute of Higher Education have agreed to proceed towards an amalgamation of the two lnatitutlons. \ Procedures to Implement the ,,~~Islon. set out In a Heads of Agreement. have been adopted by the Councils (on September 22 by the HlHE Council and by the l')ersuy·s Council on September The two councils have decided to set up an Amalgamation Implementation Committee to address priority matters and a Joint Committee of both councils to make recommendations to the councils. The councils have agreed to amalgamate to form a consoUdated University which. as a member of the Unified National System of higher education proposed by the r ",era! Government will provide a , lprehenslve range of teaching programmes leading: to awards at • Professor MoIgan and Or Huzley after their CounclJa agreed to all levels of higher education; procedures for amalgamation. pursue excellence In scholarship. profile; legislative and legal preserves positions. Industrial research and teaching; and matters; academic structure; agreements and salaries , ,tribute to the economic and Industrial relations and staffing; . consequent on amalgamation and , Aural development of the administration and support provides for full consultations community. services; and student services. with stall unions. The Institute and the Membership will comprise equal Students enrolled In or on' University will now Inform the representation from each leave of absence at the time of State and Federal Ministers for Institution. amalgamation shall not be Education of the decision and Mter receiving reports from adversely alfected In their courses. 'shall work co-operatively. the working parties the A1C will positively and expeditiously advise the Joint Committee of both The councils shall Invite the towards Implementation of the councils. which will comprise 10 graduate bodies (Convocations) of structures and processes entailed representatives from the the two Institutions to provide In amalgamation'. University Council and 10 from the adVice through the AIC on The Amalgamation HlHE Council. arrangements for membership of Implementation Committee will The Councils agreed that the the Convocation In the comprise the Chancellor (or her consolidated University. nominee). the Vice-Chancellor. and Joint Committee would submit the two Deputy Vice-Chancellors regular reports on progress made The Council of either from the University and the with the priority matters and that Institution may provide the President (or his nominee). the members of both campuses would Council of the other Institution Principal. the Deputy Principal be kept Informed. Further with written notice that this and the Bursar from the Institute. members ofthe Council will be able agreement will be terminated and The committee will establish to participate In the discussions. thence become null and void 30 working parties to address separate The Heads of Agreement. days from the date of Issue of the Issues such as the educational among other things. speCifically notice. ....

.< 2 'Reputation must each a separately Identifiable The final ranking of body.' applications. and be maintained' This trlpartlde system did recommendations to Council. will not only have tradition and' be undertaken by the LMERC Identity - it was also the most Committee In November. effective way for the three bodies to The LMERC Committee has carry out their vastly different Identified the following areas for roles for the benefit of all students. Investigation, and established Ms AlIson Klnder. appropriate priorities therefor. Vice-President of the Union. said the Union was about to embark on High PrIority Its first major expansion since • Identifying and quantifying ·1974. The project was the non-point sources (runoID of culmination of many years of sediment, nutrient and other planning by various Boards of the pollutant loading. Union. • Quantifying rates of 'The effect of Increased sedimentation. statistical student numbers has been a· treatment of existing data sets. challenge for recent Boards to • Fate of diffuse sources loadlngs meet.' Ms Klnder said. The Board - pollution budget for the lake. has had to review all aspects of the • Effects of diffuse sources - water Unlon's operations In order to meet chemistry. sediment structure the demands placed on It In the and chemiStry. ecology (seagra~ • MrDavid Yee 1980s.' changes and algae fiorlstlcs). 11 If the amalgamated University la to The planned development • Controls - priorities and be a first rate institution, then the and extensions to the Union would techniques/methodologies. first rate reputation and traditio"" reinforce the Institution as the • Planning requirements for the of the University of Newcastle must cultural and social focus of the Implementation of runoff be maintained. University. con trois. -) Mr Davld Yee. the President -rhe Union Is an Integral part • Development of useh•. of the Union. said this during the of University life. It provides a monitoring tools. social framework In which people - toasts at the 26th Annual Union of all backgrounds. ethnic origins Medium PrIority Dinner on September 16. and disciplines can come together • Fish stocks/fishing pressure. Among the 116 people who to partiCipate In activities, form • Protection and management of attended were special guests. the friendships and exchange Ideas. wetIands, particularly those Chancellor. Or Elizabeth Evatt. the 'This Is the true spirit of the important to the fish resources Vice-Chancellor. Professor K. Union _ whether It takes place and water quality of the lake. Morgan. the Dean of Students. Professor K. Dutton. who was over a cup of coffee. In Engineering Low PrIority Master of Ceremonies. and Past Frat boat races or In the Autonomy • Transfer of toxtc metals between Presidents, Ms Loretta O·Donnell. Day billy carl derby.' she said. water sediment and blota. Mr Paul Drlnkwater. Mr Chrls • Effects of thermal discharge. ,) Tola and Presidents and Managers $4,000 for • Point source nutrients. from other Unions. • Effects of boating. Honorary Life Membership environmental • Enhanced tidal flushing. was conferred upon Mr Tola and Mrs Freda Bartlett. who Is retiring research from the Union In October after 25 The City of Lake Macquarie has set years of service. aside $4,000 to support two Mr Yee said he believed the honours projects at the University Union was set to take on a stronger In 1989. role In the University. whether it EEOandAA liked it or not. as the University The Council has assigned seminar series abdicated Its responsibilities for priorities to preferred research traditional areas for the sake of aJ'eas (see below) and applications The series continues on October 'fiscal restraint" and 'economic are Invited for project support In 4 with Betty Little. the pragmatism'. However. the Union any of these categories. Aboriginal Liaison Officer with was still Viable. despite a Additional Information may ODEOPE. speaking at 12.30 pm University that was broke. be sought from Or R. Kldd. the on her personal experiences. The future of the Institution Environment Officer. Lake Macquarie City Council. The final seminar will be held Is uncertain with amalgamation on October 11, with Or Sue upon us. Administrative Centre. Speers Point (telephone: 58 5333. Willis. EEO Co-ordinator at ·AB. the Institution enters Its Macquarie University. speaking' third decade. we are slowly Extension 312). AppllcaUons should be on Changes In General Staff building reputations and Levels in the Terttruy Sector. traditions that are so much a part submitted to Or Kldd before October of the "prestige" universities' 14. The venue Is the Audio Visual around the world. Applicants are advised to Theatre In the Auchmuty 'The building of these discuss possible project topics with Ubrary and all are welcome to traditions Is not only In the the Head of Department and attend. University but also In the Union. prospective supervisors before the SRC and the Sports Union -. writing to the Council. 3 projected onto multi-screens from nine projectors. The projectors are linked through dissolve units In banks of three to a four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder which controls each dissolve unit. Three tracks of the tape are pulsed with Inaudible pulses to activate the projectors through the dissolve units. The fourth track carries the commentary and music. Mr Vlc Rooney, well-known In Newcastle and Sydney acting circles. recorded the voice. The excellent photographs used In the presentation were produced In the photographic section under the direction of Mr Bruce Turnbull and the graphics were prepared by Mrs Cheryl Grant. -Staff within the Audio-visual Section of the Unit were responsible for researching ) • Medical School's history - prcjected on three walls archives of the Auchmuty Library. Newcastle Regional Library and the Unit. explains: 'We set out to Newcastle Herald for historical Nine projectors produce a programme about the material. in a.-v. show Faculty·s history. Equipment used for the 'Most of us tend to think that presentation was kindly loaned by .)highllght of the Faculty of the FacuJty history commenced In the Instructional Media Unit of the Medicine'. lOth Anniversary 1973 with the tabling of the Federal Institute of Higher Education. the Celebrations was a Review Day, Parliament of the Karmel Report Auchmuty Library Audio-visual whlch highlighted the Faculty's recommending a Medical School In Section and the Maritime Services development since Its first Intake Newcastle. . Board. whose co-operation Is of students In 1978. 'In fact. the first moves for gratefully acknowledged. The review. held on the establishment of a medical September 7. Incorporated a series school go back to 1957. Pressure of Expo-style media displays. over some 16 years from the Royal Including five vldeotapes produced Newcastle Hospital. the Central by the Medical Communications and Northern Medical Association, Proposed Unified Unit detailing the Faculty's the University, the Trades Hall. National System I \lovatlve educational Council. political parties and •. )gramme. its community many other groups In the Region The Australian Vice-Chancellors' orientation and research activities had galvanised support from the Committee is to seek further over the decade. local community for "their clarification from the Federal A hlghligh t was the medical school".' Government about Its proposed presentation of a multi-projector The Lord Mayor, Alderman Unified National System. 110-vlsual programme on the John McNaughton. has been so At a meeting In Canberra, the ,_Aory of the Faculty of Medicine. Impressed with the programme AVCC decided not to advise The programme was repeated on a that he has requested it be shown to members whether to Join the number of occasions throughout the Newcastle Council and System until further discussions the day for conference delegates. Executive Officers as an example of with the Minister for Employment. staff of the Faculty and hospitals. what community pressure can Education and Training. Mr Invited parliamentarians and achieve In Newcastle. Dawklns. community representatives. the Mr Daniel Is arranging a The Chairman of the AVCC. Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor number of repeat screenings of the and representatives of the Professor John Scott. said that . programme in the near fut~re while the universities welcomed University of Newcastle. follOWing many requests froen many of the reforms of the White The programme was Faculty. Hospital and University Paper on higher education, there researched and produced by the staff. remained concerns about how far Medical Communications Unit. The Faculty was fortunate in the Government would Intrude Into under the direction of the Unlt·s receiving funding to produce the the operations of the universities Audio-visual Co-ordinator. Mr programme and the five video tapes and over the funding of research. Philllp L1oyd. who was responsible from the W.K. KelJogg Foundation. for writing the script. Nine slide USA, which generously supported Professor Scott said that the projectors were used to project a the Faculty with funding In 1975 to Institutions had until the end of October to decide whether to join sweep of images around the walls of Initiate its Innovative educational curriculum. the System.. Those decisions would the lecture theatre. be made ultimately by the Mr Adrlan Daniel. Director For the technically minded, governing bodies of Individual of the Medical Communications the programme has some 360 slides universities. • There will be neither loss or Staff body opposes gain In salary or formal status Senate addresses repeal of Un! Act for any member of the academic staff of The University of' three main issues The University'. Staff AIIaoclation Newcastle and HIHE as a result At a meeting of Senate on believe. that amalgamation mould of amalgamation. In this September 22 called to di8CUSS. be IICCOmplltohed by amendmenbl to context It should be amalgamation three I ••ues the University of Newcastle Act acknowledged that a received apecla1 attention. &Dd not by a new A<:t. professorial mnk does not exist l1Ie ...... qfthB consolfdateit A special general meeting of InHIHE. the Association on September 22 University...,.. The University has directed the Executive to present • After an interim period Heads of an established record earned for Its this viewpoint strenuously when Departments, Deans, and excellence In research, teaching the working parties address the Directors of the new stxth and scholarship over the last two Issues Involved In amalgamation. school will be elected or decades, and Senate saw no reason Speakers claimed that If the appointed In the same manner for a change of name. Act were replaced by a new Act as they are In the other schools. Legislation W h il e there would be a risk of staff of the • In accordance with FAUSA acknowledging the need to consult amalgamated University looslng policies on university, with parliamentary drafting conditions they wished to preserve government, amalgamation wtll authorities on the style of and gains made as a result of not derogate from the proper amendments, It was felt that the University government having decision-making role of the' University should avoid the repeal been reviewed a few years ago. Senate or Its equivalent In the of Its legislation, as this process The meeting also decided to consolidated University. may ·result In the loss of provisions ask the Executive to meet with the that the University wished t') Executives of the staff associations • The Interim Council of the preserve, and to the imposition of .. at the Hunter Institute of Higher consolidated University will style of legislation that was, on Education and present to staff of consist of the Council of The balance, less appropriate to the the consolidated University the University of Newcastle, which needs of the consolidated advantages of amalgamation being will remain the supreme University than the exlstlnt! effected under the present Act. governing authority of the legislation, as amended. '. ) The President (Mr R Mackie) University augmented by a· The size and composition 0.1 spoke In support of an Executive small number of persons the Councllfor the consolidated motion which put forward nominated by the governing University - While noting the proposals for Inclusion In the. body of HIHE. views expressed In the White Paper 'Heads of Agreement· between the • The Council of the consolidated on the need to keep the size of University and the HIHE, which University shall be constituted university councils to a sets out the procedure for In the same fashion as The manageable level, Senate felt that amalgamation. University of Newcastle's there were advantages that should The meeting endorsed the present Council. This entails, not be foregone In having a Counen motion, which made a number of inter alta, that no category of with adequate r~presentatlon from .suggestlons, inclUding: persons now represented in the academic staff, the general Council shall Incur a relative staff, students and Convocation. • The name of the consolidated loss or gain In the number of Its There was a perception of a coune") University will remain 'The representatives. having 50 per cent of Its membel University of Newcastle'. selected from representative • Convocation of HI HE will, groups. • The current Industrial relations become part of Convocation of arrangements and agreements the consolidated University. It was resolved to: within the University will • Endorse the Vice-Chancellor'. remain In force. • The final academic and recommendation that counc) administrative structures for • There will be no reduction In agree to the amalgamation (; , . the newly amalgamated the University with the Hunter staff working conditions. The Institution shall be approved entire academic staff of the Institute of Higher Education to only after proper consultation form a consolidated University consolidated University will with affected unions and, where fall under the same conditions In accordance with the proposed appropriate with the Students' Heads of Agreement document. of employment as far as Association. appointment, promotion, OSP • Endorse the proposals for an leave, long service leave etc are Academic Senate set out In the concerned. working paper 'Academic • During and after amalgamation Structures after there will be no spill of Changes in Heads Amalgamation', and poSitions. of Departments • Advise Council that Senate Is of • There will be no Involuntary the opinion that the name of the redundancies and Assoc. Professor RW. Glbberd has consolidated University after retrenchments as a result of been appointed Acting Head of the amalgamation should be 'The amalgamation. Department ·of Statistics until University of Newcastle.' October 7. • No fixed-term pOSitions at presen texis tlng a t the Mr D.W. Palmer Is Acting Head of University will be abollSqed as a the Department of Classics until result of amalgamation. February 8, 198\}: .'... 5 President Alison Klnder, Jullan Chrlstopher Little, Chrls Foteff and Glenn Integrity Beatty & Brlan Trustworthy Blrkefeld (duo nomination). • Treasurer Sebastian Alexander Dlessel, Astrid anHuef, Michael Jameson, John Blshton and Glenn Integrity Beatty and Brlan Trustworthy Birkefeld. Womens' Officer Julle Johnson, Samantha Jane Pearl and Melissa Jones. Honorary Secretary ,Catherlne Anne Jameson, Frank De Vltls, Mlchael Bedford and Glenn Integrity Beatty and Brlan Trustworthy Blrkefeld. Intercampus Liaison Officer Omar Jamal, Milton Okopoulos, Derek N. Wlgmore and Glenn Integrity Beatty and Brlan Trustworthy Blrkefeld. Media Officer Mr Falck said everyone was Vanessa Bates and Natalle Aerobithon - last Invited to partiCipate In the Downing and Grahame Cooper and afternoon. . which would be Eddle O·Reilly. ~'ftop for overseas fun-fllJed and healthy. ~tudents Participants should obtain pledge forms from the Auchmuty Rich and varied The Univeraity's five Rotary Sports Centre office or any Pablo's International Scholara wlII return Liquor Mart. papers home in a few weeks. In the 'Partlclpants are expected to rundown to their departure, they obtain monetary pledges from commemorate have included an unusual families, friends and neighbours Thomas Hobbes fuDd-ralslng event. for each hour of aerobics they They will attempt to raise a complete: he said. The Departments of English. worthwhile sum to donate to the Prizes would be awarded to HIstory and Phllosophy combined Rotary Foundation's Polio Plus the partiCipants who collected the on September 9 to commemorate Campaign. most money for the polio the quarter-centenary of the birth "\ The visiting students will' ca~palgn. of Thomas Hobbea in 1588 by ,bId an aeroblthon, an aerobics means of an Interdisciplinary 'session lasting three hours. In the Elections for conference entitled Hobbes and His Auchmuty Sports Centre on Contemporaries. Sunday. October 9. beginning at 2 SRC leaders The richness. variety and pm. When Campus Bulletin went to number of papers offered by \ They have named the event press elections were being held to members of the University .,iIe Aerobics Plus for Polio Plus. flll positions on the SRC's 1989 revealed seventeenth-century Troy Falck. Frank Moran, executive. studies as an area both of Nancy Bohannon. Debra Bateman, Voting was scheduled to close achlevemen t and potential, amply Deena Caldwell. and Cralg on September 30 and the names of supported by the excellent Caldwell. from the United states. the successful candidates were to be resources of the Auchmuty Library and Janet Wllklnson, from Great announced on October 4. (detailed In a paper by Elizabeth Britain. are appreciative of the Following the reSignation of Guilford). support given by their sponsors the President of the Students' Three visiting speakers and keen to assist the polio Association. Mr Glenn Beatty, the , further enhanced the occasion with campaign with a successful Vice-President, Mr Chrls Foteff ,excellent papers on Hobbes and function. became Acting President. RhetOriC, Hobbesand Power and At the' University they were Mr Foteff said whoever was · MUton and the English Revolution. sponsored by various local Rotary elected President for 1989 was able · Despite a relentless schedule Clubs for studies that las.ted for to assume office on October 1, when • offering a dozen papers In a Single approximately a year. Mr Beatty's reSignation became ,day, audience numbers remained Aerobics Plus for Polio Plus effective, or take up duties next i high throughout, with students and will support the Rotary February. Should the new members of the general public Foundation's campaign, which President defer taking up office. he Included. The only complaints alms at raising a minimum of $120 (Mr Fotefl) would continue to serve i heard concerned the surfeit of million to supply polio vaccine to as Acting President. i riches and consequent lack of time, more than half-a-bllllon children The following students were ,other than tea and lunch breaks, In the world. The event will be nominated for election to the · for further discussion of the papers sponsored by Pablo's Liquor Marts. executive: and their Implications. Holy Scriptures reqUire a humble . freedom and dignity of women 6 LETTERS reader who shows reverence and should seriously question whether fear toward the Word of God and or not Justice Elnfeld has shown Dear Sir, constantly says teach me, teach an adequate understanding of the me, teach me: meaning and effect of sexual Certain material which was So what Is Professor PUmer's harassment as an abuse of male printed In Opus originated from position? There seems to be no . power and should voice their Professor lan PlImer. There are doubt amongst the readers of Opus. concern. many statements I take exception In the Letters to the Editor, Saint to. However, in most cases no Hubert, Optlmus Maxlmus and Susan Jones, reference Is given, so they can Quaslmodo all understand his EEO Co-ordinator. safely be Ignored. But the thing position as being hostile toward that concerns me most Is that he evengellcal Christianity In seems to write as a defender of general. orthodox Christianity, to defend us New appointments against terrorist fundamentalists David Malcolm, sects. To do this, he attacks the Computing Centre. for the AVCC credibility of the Bible I How can this be? ProCeaaor Brian WUaon. May I ask Professor Pllmer If Vice-Chancellor of the University he In fact claims to be a Christian? Dear Sir, of Queensland. has been elected as And if so, what does he understand the next Chairman of the a Christian to be? e.g. Some would Pressure Is mounting to have Auatralian Vice-Chancellora' say a Christian Is someone who Justice Marcus Elnfeld, President Committee. tries to live a morally upright life, of the Human Rights and Equal 0 'I at someone who was born in a Professor Wilson. who Is _ Opportunity Commission, removed present Deputy-Chairman, wlll Christian country, or someone who from sexual harassment cases after goes to church. I personally reject take up his appointment on a recent judgment he handed down January 1 nex! year when the term all these definitions, so would be In a New South Wales case. very Interested In Professor of the present Chairman. Professor Although Justice Elnfeld found John Scatt, expires. (\, Plimer's answers to my two that Dr Attalah Shelban had been questions. guilty of sexual harassment The Vice-Chancellor of fli'e It Is perfectly understandable against three women while they Australian National University, when atheists attack the Bible, were employed as his receptionists, Professor Laurle Nlchol, has been affirming as It does the existence of he refused to award them any elected Deputy-Chairman. a creator God. Humanists too must compensation for loss of wages or Professor Wilson has been attack any Idea that allows the Injury to feelings. Vice-Chancellor of the University existence of a supreme being. Justice Elnfeld found that Dr· of Queensland since 1979. He was According to humanists, Man Is Shelban had Indulged In previously Vice-President the ultimate reality, which means 'occaslonal, mild If aggravating (Academic) and Professor of that they logically must have touching, momentary, Astronomy at Slmon Fraser religious faith In evolution, which Insignificant though unwanted University In Canada. they do. See the humanist holding, and sporadic, assertive If manifesto I points 1 and 2. So It Is Professor Nlchol has b~,\" unwanted attempts at closer· Vice-Chancellor of ANU shJ' to be expected that people who have physical or facial contact'. He espoused the reUglon of Humanism March this year. He was previouslY went on to say that 'women with Vice-Chancellor of the University . may be blgotted against the Bible normal experiences ... know very and Christianity. of New England. an appOintment well the various ways In which which he took up In 1985. A Newcastle branch of some men occasionally behave', Skeptics Inc. (of which Professor suggesting that women should be· Pllmer Is a member) was reported able to treat such behaviour as having been formed In Campus IIghily. Justice Elnfeld did say, at Bulletin No 4 of June 27, 1988. the beginning of the jUdgment, that These people are sceptical of 'women and men are equally anything that entails the existence entitled to and must receive, by of the supernatural, which Includes legal means If necessary, full a II miracles In the Bible: personal respect and unhindered Everything from the people of access to work of their choice'. But Israel crossing the Red Sea on dry the net effect of his judgment was, ground (Ex. 14:23) while the In my opinion, a negation of this Egyptian army were drowned (Ex. view. 14:28) right up to the splitting of A leading judge and a number the Mount of Olives when God's feet of academics have criticised will stand there (Zech. 14:4). Justice Elnfeld's judgment and Orthodox Christianity on the have called for him to be removed other hand Is founded on the divine from heartng such cases. On The • Professor Brian Wllson Inspiration of the Bible. 7.30 Report on the ABC on Wherever and whenever Thursday, September 22, the judge Christianity has been successful In denied that there had been any Improving the lot of man, Its pressure from the Prime Minister exponents have taken the view for him to step down. I believe all expressed by Martin Luther - The . people who are concerned with the Cralg Webb, of Kotara High School. 7 Janelle Pearce. of BeImont High School and Andrew Frith, of Merewether High School. Belmont High School was also awarded the special school prize of $2,000 worth of computer equipment for the school displaying the keenest Interest In the competition. The schools competition was initiated by the Head of the Department of Geology, Professor Ian Plimer, to highlight the Importance of resource Industries, particularly coal mining, to Australia's economy. Entrants had to prepare an essay, poster or IllOdel on several coal mining related subjects, Collieries Division Manager Personnel, Mr Alan Priestly, said the competition attracted many high quality entries from students in Newcastle and Wollongong. The judges found it extremely hard to decide between • Professor Eric Hall and Mr V.S. Ananthan. Professor Hall some of the entries. The winning supervised 'Ananth's' PhD programme• entry from Newcastle was a joint :). effort submitted on a computer program which the judges felt Postgraduate off showed a great deal of innovation, Belmont High considering the ages of the to Denmark successful in students. 'I am confident the same high An Indian postgraduate student In schools standard will continue during next Materials Engineering will leave competition year's competition,' he said. the campus soon to take up a prestigious research position In Belmont High School achieved Denmark. outstanding results In the V.S. Ananthan has accepted competition for schoolchildren The Third Annual . 'l{' appointment as Visiting sponsored by BHP Collieries llentlst at the ruso National Division, Ansett Airlines and the Dinner of the =boratory In RoskUde. University's Department of Geology. Board of Assisted by Professor Eric Hall, 'Ananth' has completed work Each year the competition Environmental on macroscopic and microscopic has grown In status. This year 128 Studies pects of Luders bands In mild schoolchildren In the Hunter, I and submitted his thesis for a Illawarra and Campbelltown will be held on :5hD degree. districts submitted entries. Wednesday. November 2. 1988 FIrst prize went to Jason Lear in the He said the ruso National and Luke Manhood, who attend Laboratory was a nuclear research Southern Cross LOlUlge, Belmont High School. for their University Unum establishment, with a Department JOint entry. Both students and of Metallurgy, to which he would be 6.30 for 7 pm their teacher will win an all TIckets: $20 attached. The Technical Director, expenses paid trip to Central Professor Nlels Hansen, was Queensland to Inspect a giant BHP Dinner Chairman: Interested In Luders bands In mild open cut coal mine and a coal Dr Howard Brldgman steel. loader before Ilylng to Brisbane to Guest Speaker: 'Ananth', who is single, Came spend two days at Expo 88, Pl-ofessor Jobn Burton to this University In 1985 after Their prize also Includes a (Professor of Natural Resources, graduating from the Indian trip down a BHP coal mine and University of New England). Institute of Technology In Kampur visits to a coal washery. a power with BAppSc and MMet de,,-ees. station and a steel plant in the To secure a place at the dinner Newcastle area, The students will please send $20 for each ticket to He has lived in a small flat at be accompanied by their winning the Secretary of the Board. Jesmond and Is In two minds about counterparts from Wollongong. Please make cheques etc. leaving the University, '1 have had Four other local high school payable to 'The University of a very nice time - everybody has . Newcastle: been helpful- but I also have to be students were commended for the high standard of their entries. Secure your place by October 31. serious about my career.' They were Andrew Lojszczky and '1

8 ·talk blind people through complex environments.' He and Dr Parkes have been comrades in research for many years. Professor Gollege added: 'One of my Interests Is In building electronic aids for blind people. such as computer and navigational systems. 'The tactile audio device Is one of the most Interesting developments I have come across. It has everything that Dr Parkes claims. being both an Information and a teaching system. The system can probably be enlarged to take In an enormous range of subJects.' Professor Golledge. who Is Professor of Behavioural Geography at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California, was born at Dungog. He holds degrees from the UnlversltA I) of New England, the University 01' Canterbury. New Zealand. and the University of Iowa. US. He has been severely vision-Impaired since 1984. '" Dr Parkes calls his devlc" NOMAD after a guide dog belongtng , to a blind student at the University who had contributed enormously to his understanding. Three manufacturers. one • Dr Don Parkes and Professor Reg Golledge with the new aid for Australian and two overseas, have the blind. recently expressed Interest In manufacture. also agreed to back further tests on Tactile-audio the production of an Inexpensive prototype. Resource graphics for Professor Golledge said the Submissions the blind tnventlon had the potential to help an enormous number of for 1989 visually-Impaired and bltnd people 'It'. incredibly easy for a blind !The past practice of requesting tn that It tncluded their ears tn the person to use,' say. Profesaor Regl department. to submit written Golledge, 'and has great potential as communication and learning exercise. requests for resources for the, an Information and teaching, follOWing year Is to be; ~, system.' Professor Golledge last discontinued. ,,'J The recently blind University worked with Dr Parkes at the Instead the newly-formed of California academic. during a, Institute of Behavioural Sciences Budget Sub-Committee will this, recent visit to the University. gave for five months In 1986. He year receive 1989 resource! his evaluation of a new device returned to Newcastle for further submissions from Heads of which allows bltnd people to hear. ' collaborative work. He and Dr Departments via an tntervlew. ' as well as feel. Information on Par\<.es presented papers at the The Deputy Vice-Chancellor tactile maps or other tactile International Psychological Union (Academic) and the Deputy graphics. such as graphs. diagrams. ' Congress and the International 'Chairman of Senate have building plans, even simple Geographical Union Congress In together already conducted a coloured pictures. sydney tn August on blindness and number of interviews and are: The device Is the brain-child mobility. , expected to complete the' of Dr Don Parkes. of the Institute of Professor Golledge hopes to Interviews of all academic and Behavioural Sciences. Mr Richard return to the University of academic service departments Dear. of the Computing Centre. Newcastle next year on a US tn the near future. The Royal Guide Dogs' National Science Foundation The Bursar and I will Association of Australia and a Grant to work with Dr Parkes on conduct Interviews with all number of blind people. as well as' navigation, mobility. orientation general departments starting those who teach and work with the and cognitive maps for the blind. late tn October. blind. have given the new product In particular he will work with Dr L.F. Hennessy. their strong support. The RGDA Parkes on another tnventlon of Dr Deputy Vice-Chancellor through SEETEC's Director In Parkes·. presentlY known as a WAI (AdmJnistration). Melbourne, Dr Tony Heyes. has, Finder. a device that will literally 9 be slow in those areas where this year by the Council's Advisory AFFIRMATIVE women had been traditionally Committee on Affirmative Action ACTION disadvantaged by schooling. The and Equal Opportunity and obvious cases are academic endorsed by the Council Itself. The University had a visit the positions which require advanced Perhaps early next year, after other day from the DIrector of the work In mathematics and science. the AffIrmative Action Agency has Affirmative Action Agency. Valerle This does not let us 'off the had the opportunity to evaluate our Pratt. The visit was part of the hook'. The University has an second report, we will ask Valerle seminar series organised by the obligation to examine Its Pratt back to the campus for a EEO Unit and others on Issues employment profile. Ros Cameron review of the progress we are seen relating to women and EEO will be presenting In a future Issue to be maktng or not making. And, generally. of the Bulletin an analysis of our perhaps, then we might be able to The Affirmative Action employment profile which shows demonstrate a greater Interest and Agency Is the Commonwealth up the balance of opportunities commitment through the Government body set up under the between men and women attendance of members of staff. Affirmative Action Act 1986 to employees of the University. That administer the legislation. to balance Is decidedly unequal, In Lance Hennessy, advise and aSSist relevant favour of men, In a way that cannot Director of Affirmative Action. employers In the development and be Justified In a fair and Implementation of their democratic society or on grounds of affirmative action programs. to effiCiency. General staff Issue gUidelines on how to We are 20 years on from the formulate a program. to receive days when women could only development pilot become temporary employees If "'d evaluate annual reports from The Assistant EEO Co-ordinator :ofu.ployers. and to Involve Itself In they married, or were put off If they became pregnant. But, as I've attended a Management Skills for research and educational Women course this year organised functions. written hefore, there Is really a by the Office of the Director of very long way to go before our Valerie Pratt's seminar was Equal Opportunities In Public fOrmatlVe and stimulating. Her society can claim to have given a Employment. The course required , Ic was Progress of J\t1lnnative 'falr go' to Its women. participants to develop a ~ction in Tertiary Institutions. The pity of Ms Pratt's work-based project which she did, She began by recalling the seminar was that It was so poorly this pilot Is the result: Justification for a deliberate policy attended. Perhaps we could have of affirmative action: the fact that done more to publiCise It through Commun Icatlon Skills and women were hardly represented at this medium. Perhaps there Is also Assertiveness all In senior academic and a feeling that 'EEO and all that' has Presenter: Or Monica Hayes administrative positions In become a considerable Irritant Ttme: 9 am to 12.30 pm universities, the fact that so many around the campus, and that 'It Dates: October 24 and 31 women were locked Into lower-paid doesn't concern me'. Whatever the Target audience: all general staff, occupations with little scope for reason for the poor turnout, the particularly EEO target groups (two advancement. She said that Bob University can hardly relax on half-day sessIons). Hawke had made the point that If these Issues. It can clatm to have men make up 50 per cent of this made progress, through Its EEO Career Development Jtlon's bralnpower, why weren't Management Plan, In removing the Presenters: Roslyn Cameron they 50 per cent of the general more obvious dlscrlmlnatlons and Helen Parker workforce? setting up the basic conditions for a SusanJones She outlined the progress future equality. But that equality TIme: 9 am to Noon being made by companies and wUl be very much In the future - Date: October 20 '1' her education Institutions In not this century - unless the Target Audience: female general etlng the reporting University now follows through staff. reqUirements of the AA Act. This with a range of supportive poliCies Cross-Cultural Training seemed to convey that most were and actions to demonstrate a real commitment. Presenters: Trudy MlIls-Evers making reasonable efforts to Julie Kiem respond although there appeared to I suggested to Ms Pratt that TIme: 10 am to Noon be less than total commitment to the Agency's response to the Date: November 16 early or significant change. University's first report to the Target audience: all general staff. As I saw It, an Important part Agency had been somewhat severe. of her presentation was to dispose The Agency had summed up our Meeting Procedure of the myth that affirmative action report as giving her the tmpresslon Presenters: Frank Hawkins i Involved setting quotas or that 'the University has failed to Julie Klem breaching the merit principle. She take seriously the requirements of Date: November 4 specifically noted that the 'forward the legislation and has mistakenly Target audience: all general staff. estimates' or ·targets' which were concluded that no real action was required to be set under the Act necessary for It to meet the fresh The venue for all of the were not necessarily numerical obligation placed on It (by the abovementioned courses will be the ones. They could be detailed plans Affirmative Action Act).' Audio-visual Section In the or the expectations which would We wlll be submitting our Auchmuty Library. result from detailed plans. second report In the near future If you would like to attend Ms Pratt also appeared to and I am hopeful that It wlll be any of these courses please acknowledge that movement somewhat more convincing. telephone Cathy Bergqulst at towards equality or a better especially given the range of Extension 473 or the EEO Unit at balance of men and women would Initiatives which have been agreed Extension 317 or 58 7380. 'I 10 The working parIy was set up following calls by the Federal Government for the development of a set of Indicators which could be used to publicly assess the work of higher education Institutions In both teachtng and research. The reporl. which has been circulated for comment, argues that the best use of performance Indicators Is as raw material for a more sophisticated process of assessment. rather than as an end In themselves. It warns against a Simplistic use of such measures and suggests that their main role should be as Indicators rather than proof of performance. The Indlcalors should be designed to measure the effectiveness of teaching and research (which accounts for 85 per cent of tnstltutlons' budgets) rather than Issues such as telephone an'" cleaning costs. '1_ The report suggests several Indicators to help In the assessment of teaching and curriculum. research. al)t) professional services.) For example. Indicators under the teachtng and curriculum category Include measures to determine student demand for courses; the quality of enrolling students; how quickly students complete their courses; and the employment patterns of an Instltutlon's graduates. • Mr Bill Llnklater One of the more controversial suggestions Is that students should Auchmuty services and associated· evaluate teaching and subjects 0 11"\,' ) educational technology In regular basis. Such assessment.J Library has supporting undergraduate not standard practice at present. Instruction and training and said' although some departments space that at Swlnburne he was conduct surveys of students on an advantage responsible as Librarian for the ad hoc basis. As well. a number of provision of these services In the ' student unions have carried (n') ) The new University Librarian is Institute. surveys of what students think \l impressed by the Auchmuty Aged 44. Mr Llnklater Is their lecturers. generally for Library's expanded facilities. married with two teenage sons and publication tn student newspapers. Mr Bill Llnklater. who will a daughter. succeed Mr Flowers after he retires According to the working at the end of this year. said Slage party. the Indicators for research liB, of the library. completed and Move for students performance should Include the occupied this year. provided to assess staff number and value of research excellent facilities In terms of grants. the ratio of publications flexible space. ,,~uClents should assess their and conference presentations per lecturer. as part of a formal At Swlnburne Institute of academic staff; and the number of proce.. of monitoring academic postgraduate degrees completed. Technology In Melbourne. where performance, according to a he Is Librarian. the library enjoyed preliminary report released by The report Is seen as an the latest Information technology Australian university and college Important first step In defining resources but lacked funding to organlutions. more precise measures of the work expand space. The report on performance of colleges and universities. It has Mr Llnklater spoke to tndlcators has been developed by a been Circulated for comment. Once Campus Bulletin during a brief joint working party of the finalised the Indicators will be visit to the University on Australian Vice-Chancellors' tested In a number of universities September 28. Committee and the Australian and colleges nex! year. The testing He mentioned his strong Committee of Directors and wUl be done on a joint basiS with Interest In the role of audio-visual Prln~lpals. the Federal Government. 11 form of a youth award.' The Board has also joined forces this year with the Newcastle Blcentennlal Community Committee and NBN produce the Hunter Kids' Book.

Long commitment to Rugby Club Mr Frans Henskens. Senior Tutor in Computer Science, is highly . esteemed by past and present University Rugby Club ph!yers. The club has benefited considerably from Mr Henskens' commitment to the sport. I He commenced playing In . 1972 whilst a student and In July il this year played his 200th game for University. Only three ,or four players have achieved this long period of service. , ,I e From left: Dr Chrlstopher PoDnltz, Mm J. Carver, Mr Krlstopher Frans Henskens played for ~ ! SakmU8llemm, Mr A11an McLachlan, Ms Yvette Chrlst1snse, the Ftrsts for several seasons. In Profe880r Keith Morgan and Ms Fay ZWlcky. 1975 and 1986 he was a partiCipant In the grand finals of lower grade ~Verse read in Institute In Victoria. won the teams. $6,000 senior section. University's Fourths were the Art Gallery Robert Carver. a Canberra defeated by Wanderers 0-4 In the poet. currently completing a PhD grand final on September 22 and thesis at Oxford University. unfortunately the loss was England, won a special probably Mr Henskens' last game. Blcentennlal prize of $4,000 for 'I think I am finished,' he said. 'I Under 25 poets. have two young sons to consider Mr Saknussemm's winning and I will stay In the club as a selection of eight poems, Say When, selector,' Call to Worship, Lesson at the Previously a teacher at Millpond, Juice tn the Pail, Newcastle High School, he became Midwtves and Men, Avalanche Senior Tutor at the start of this Ultes, Lowering Him into the Tank year and Is continuing his studies and Alligator Wishes, recount a for a PhD degree In computer tensely competitive father and son science. relationship fought out against a backdrop of North American trout-stream and forests. Mr Carver's poems. a sequence entitled Feasttng with Solipststs. were pralsed for their dream-like narratives by this year's judges. Ms Fay ZwIcky, from Perth, Mr Andrew Taylor, from

I Adelaide, and Dr Chrlstopher • PoIInltz, from the Department of English. Copies of The International

~ Termtnal are available from the Department of English for $12 I each. Board President. Mr Allan McLachlan, said it was decided to offer the youth award as an encouragement for young Australian writers. 'The Board views the Mattara Poetry Prize as its traditional contribution to the arts. In this Blcentennlal year, we decided to make a special contribution In the . eMr Frans Henskens 12 Tax threat this change of direction. that there would be a shortfall of • The earmarking of about 25 per about 18,000 exemptions In the to research cent of these funds, which the honours and postgraduate area. The Federal Government's Government had always argued 'The universities recognise so-called graduate till< threatens would be open for competitive that as the postgraduate research the future of Australia's research bidding from researchers. for area Is vital for the future of the effort, accorcUng to the Australlan specific Government-designated nation it Is likely that the bulk of Vice-Chancellors' Committee. activities. the exemptions will be allocated to The AVCC has expressed • Reports of controversy these students,' he said. 'The strong concern that the Higher surrounding the ARC, 12.000 w11l effectively cover all Education Contribution Scheme particularly efforts to change research PhDs but this process w111 wUl be a serious deterrent to the composition of ARC almost certainly reduce the thousands of honours and specialist advisory committees, flow-through of students to postgraduate students. w1th a potential weakening of postgraduate levels In future years. The Chairman of the AVCC. the committees' expertise and 'The Government has made it . Professor John Scott. said that Independence. The universIties clear that it wants to see a greater Vice-Chancellors were worned that valued broad Input Into these research output from universities. the limited number of exemptions committees. but members must yet It betrays a very superficlal aVallable under the scheme would be chosen for their expertise: unders tanding of the kind of reduce the numbers of young people . judgement and commitment to long-term support needed to prepared to continue to higher excellence rather than because achieve this.' degree studies. they represented particular In a statement issued after a Interest groups. Tales from meeting of the AVCC In Canberra On postgraduate training Professor Scott said that Professor Scott said that the 32 years' play ·n) postgraduate training was one of several concerns the AVCC had exemptions from the HECS which' Past and present players from the about the future direction of had been offered by the University Cricket Club paused Government fell far short of the Australian research. during matches played o~ numbers of postgraduate and Professor Scott sald that the September 3 so this photograp)>> AVCC strongly supported the honours students In the system. could be taken.- At present there were about Federal Government's efforts to The Reunion, held during define national research priorities 30.000 such students, yet the Government would walve the HECS Open Days. began with a lO-over as part of Its efforts to Improve the competition, which was contested nation's research performance. It for about half that number only. The Government had said that by four teams. The Past players welcomed the consultative process took the honours on the day. launched by the Australian universities would be able to allocate some of the 15,000· The highlight of the Reunion Research Council to develop a list' was a dinner held at night In the of broad priorities. exemptions to honours and masters coursework students but Staff House. which attracted more However. the AVCC remained than 110 past and present players. concerned about: the Government had not been' prepared to Increase the number of Some Past players came from • The transfer of funds from the exemptions. as far afield as Tasmania, universities' operating grants to' He sald that 3,000 of the Melbourne and Canberra. 1'\ the ARC for re-allocation. The 15,000 exemptions had already Entertainment Included ',V AVCC believed that the been earmarked by the poetry recital by Norman Talbot Government should put more' Government for professional' and plenty of tales from the club's money Into research to finance upgrading of teachers. 'Ibis meant' 32 years of competition crtcket. I , 13 : i • Communication In the Workplace for People of a I Non-English Speaking Background - October 6 and 7. • Assertion Skills for People Incurrtng Repetition InJurtes In the New South Wales Government - October 31 to November 1 plus November 28. • Job Skills for People with Disabilities - October 18 and 19 plus November 11. DetaIls on all the above courses are available at the EEO Unit (Extension 317).

Uni could help with a Hunter brewery • Asaoc. Profeaaor S. Wame The Unlveraity could undoubtedly • Mr Graham Walker provide knowledle and akma the export potential and 'lirst Australian which would help in the resentment over the closure of the re-eatabllahinla Hunter brewery, CardlfT Brewery. President accordlnl to Mr Graham Walker, a 'The big questions are how At the 9th International Senlor Tutor in Malulgement. much of the Hunter market could Confederation for Thermal The Newcastle Herald be captured and whether the r'\,.~a1ysls (ICTAl Congress. held In recently reported that a Newcastle community would take to a local \Mrusalem. Professor S. 'St.J. consortium. formed after the brew,' he said. Warne. Associate Professor of closure of the Bond-owned Hunter Geology. commenced his four-year Brewery at Cardiff In August last term as President of the body. year. had met with principals of Environmental Professor Warne Is the first other brewing groups to consider Australian to be elected to this the possibilities of a Hunter Achievement position. Through Its affiliated brewery. National Societies. ICTA has some Mr Walker. who Is one of Award 4.000 members and Is responsible these Involved In assessing the Nominations for regular International proposal. said he was keen to be Congresses In dlfTerent parts of the aware of the assistance that could world. be available from within the The Board of Environmental " Also. through the working University. Studies requests nominations :;mmlttees of Its Scientific He could enVisage the for Its 1988 Environmental \Commission and Its links with desirability of many people from Achievement Award. The Board IUPAC. ongOing contributions at the University - geographers. gives preferential consideration the International level In the areas surveyors. chemical engineers. for the conferrtng of the Award of nomenclature. development of marketing. computing. ,to those Individuals or groups ~\lerence standards. calorlmetry. Information systems. quality iwho make their contribution to ,JIletlcs. polymers. earth sciences control - being briefed to make 'I' environmental achievement of and education Indicate Its other sure that. If the consortium their own Initiative. In their areas of responsibility. proceeded with the brewery. the 'own time and for no financial operation would be lean and reward. The Award will be Conferences, efficient. presented at the annual dinner 'Our Intention Is that the of the Board. tentatively seminars and brewery will have majority local scheduled for November 2. 1988. ownership and control thus the Nominations for the Award opportunities Hunter Valley will receive priority should be made to the Secretary on the public Issue: 'of the Board by FrIday. October The Office of the Director of Equal 14. All nominations must be In Opportunity In Public Employment Mr Walker said the situation writing. will run the following courses for where the Hunter was buying beer 1 members of the EEO target groups: For further Information from Sydney called Hunter Old was and full Instructions regarding • Assertiveness Training for ludicrous. nominations for the Award. People with Disabilities - Consortium members were contact The Secretary. Board of November 3 to 4 and December confident that all the Ingredients Environmental Studies. The 8. for the success of the Industry were University of Newcastle. New • Public Speaking and there: the strong tradition of South Wales. 2308 (telephone: Presentation Skills for 'brewing In the Hunter Valley. a 68 5634 or 68 57ll). MeI!lb:t:rs Qf EEO Target Groups • large enough, population to support - December 6. 7 and 8. Its own product. a port to develo" 14

Vacancies on PS A's executive

Following the reslgnatioo of the Secretary of the University's Sub-division of the PSA, Mrs Joan Allrldge, the Sub-division has called nominations for a successor. Nominations for not only election as Secretary but also Assistant Secretary and Committee Member (positions which have been vacant for some time) will close on October 7 .

• Before rain caused Twetfth Mght to move Indoom: from left Malva110 IDaYid Berthold), Ollvia (Lucy SkIIbeck), Fabla (Ange1a DaYies) and Feste (Michelle Oft'en). ,-- -, REVIEW Viola, as Interpreted by Suzanne ~ifi1@lW~ffJ Adamson, was a stoic with no sense of the game she was playing. The fJ{)@fJiJiJ@ ';) Twelfth Night lyricism and romance WrItten into her lines simply failed to Jell with flI1lUifi1@)Uifi1@ , The final performance of Twelfth the sombre tone / of her Night was astutely moved from Its ' presentation. Tony Anthony's [ffJ@/JWU@@ = , original site (near the fountain) to Toby Belch was not a rollicklng the Drama Studio. but perhaps a Jokester but a surly. sneerlng bully. week of rain and wind had already ~? ?1J1J? , dampened the spirits of the players Cross-casting women as Feste beyond revival. Their generally (Mlchelle Offen) and Fabian Going on Holidays? , lugubrious approach to the script: (Angela Davles) muddled the seemed quite at home In the dim meaning of some of Toby's Who checks your home - , dustiness of the Drama Studio. The references to Marla. Especially In WE 00 , Initial Idea was a good one: an Feste's case, It was distracting to Who feeds your animals - .) the point of annoyance: a open-air production of one of WE 00 , Shakespeare's sunniest, funniest flirtatious clown, neither Topsy Who collects your mail - WE 00 plays, taking advantage of the' nor gypsy, was simply somehow· wrong. Who waters your plants/lawns , perfumed surrounds of early -WEOO Spring evenings. Perhaps director As we have come to expect, Who checks/cleans your pool _ ') Jane Goodall will have another go ' technical aspects were well done. ' 'WE 00 \ at theatre-on-the-grass In a Adam Macauley's mlnstrels (Anlta Who mows your lawn before I klndlier season. Foley again and Flona Creed) set a yourreturn - WEOO Much of the wit and most of nice mood, as did the costumes by Who turns lights on/off at night , the fun one expected from the play Alexls Wolloff and Jacqueline -WEOO was, unfortunately, muffled or' Turton. Who has a good holiday - , missing. Only Brendan Strahan Odious though they are. YOU DO (Aguecheek) and Anlta Foley comparisons of this Twe!fth Night Who do you call - HOOJ>e I (MarIa) sparkled In the large cast. with the Drama Department's Minders They were both delightful. Davld recent Romeo and Juliet are Berthold's Malvolio would have Inevitable. Where Its pace was I am a committee member of the , been properly ridiculous In his' lively, this plodded. Where its ,Safety House Scheme with , pomposity If the rest of the players characterisations were colourful, profeSSional references. If I can had provided more contrast but" these were drab. Where It had great , be of any assistance In helping , with the exceptions noted, they charm and energy, this had little of you have a (worry-free) holiday were all mere variations on a grey either. Better weather would have , or for Informatlon:- , theme. helped, but It probably wouldn't have helped enough to have made , , Phllip Bilton-Smlth and Twelfth Night the complete PHONE: 477117 Lucy Skilbeck were sedate and pleasure It could have been. , noble - and rather dull - as Orslno ' - ARRANGEMENTS , and Olivla. Martin Davles was CONFIDENTIAL - , pleasantly sincere in smaller roles., by: DORRIT NESMITH :?<------15 submitted his entry for Qantas • Mr Lance E. Roberts, Senior Award. Attendant (Patrol), Buildings 'There are two critical areas and Grounds Division. Examination for broadcasters to consider: Mr • Mr James P. Walker, Attendant Result Notices Gleeson said. (patrol), Butldlngs and Grounds The first Is programming, Division. and and the other Is money. Public radio has very limited access to !he Re-Enrolment public purse and the advertising Resignations Kits dollar, so we have to look • Mrs Joan M. AlIrldge, elsewhere for funds. It's a constant Stenographer, Department of Examination result notices and challenge. Economics. re-enrolment kits will be 'There is much we can learn • Mr Roberto L. Milan, Clerk, available for collection between from American campus and Staff Office. ,2 and 6 pm from the Drama community broadcasters in this Studio on the followtng days: regard: Mr Gleeson plans to visit !he Wednesday, December 7 United States in March/April next P.osition in Education and Architecture. year and to have his report written CICS Thursday, December 8 in time for 1989 conference of the Mathematics and Economics PBAA. Ms Greta Davles has taken up a and Conunerce. secondment as Administrative , 'YlFriday, December 9 Assistant in the Centre for ' Arts, Science, Engineering and Industrial Control Science (Cl CS). Non-degree. Previously Departmental Secretary in the Department of [ Results and kits that have not Electrical and Computer ,been collected by Friday, Engineering, Ms Davies can now be ( December 9, will be mailed !hat contacted at Extension 582. evening. If you are not able to collect your results and kit please ensure that we have your correct mailing address. (Change of address fonns may be submitted at the Student VISIT OF Administration Office). Please Note: The change in BAKER ,procedure for collection of LECTURER re-enrolment kits is for this year only. In 1989 the Professor Davld Bragg, Baker :University will revert back to • Mr Brett Gleeson Lecturer for 1988, will visit the ~aving re-enrolment kits University on October 20 to , Jlvailable for collection in STAFF MOVES deliver three lectures. HIs visit , October. haa been arranged by the Royal Appointments Australasian College of Radiologists. • Mr Brian W. Mills, Laboratory Assistant, Faculty of Education. Professor Bragg is Professor of Radiology and Chainnan of )m to the US on • Mrs Arien G. Petrovlc. Administrative Assistant, !he Radiology Department at !he Qantas award Secretary's DiviSion. University of Utah. USA. • Or Meir Teitel, Research He will give the following Mr Brett Gleeson, Manager of Associate, Department of lectures: community radio station 2NUR Mechanical Engineering. has won a study trip to !he United • Mrs Lynnette D. Pezely, October 20, NEWMED n States, courtesy of Qantas. Laboratory Assistan t, Mr Gleeson won the Qantas The radiology oJthe new born Department of Biological chest. dUTerential diagnosis oJ Award for Excellence in Public Sciences. Broadcasting, which was common entitIEs, 12.15 pm and • Mr Stephen J. Watson, ADP The cummt position oJ organ announced at the Annual Manager, ADP Unit. Conference of the Public tmaging in oncolDgy, 1.15 om, Broadcasting Associati\>D of Retirements NEWMED I, Davld Maddison Australia (PBAA), which Theatre represents more !hen 70 public • Mrs Marcia M. Couper, radio stations. Stenographer, Department of Lungs and chest trauma: Mechanical Engineering. radiological pattems, Qantas will provide Mr. diagnostic approach, Gleeson with a return air ticket to • Mrs Elsie C. Kealy, Stenographer, Department of dUTerential consideration on the United States, where he will initial presentation, 3.45 pm, study listener-generated Drama. fund-raising techniques used by • Assoc. Professor Wlnston public broadcasts. He suggested McMlnn, Department of !hat !his area be studied when he History. 16

BUilding. EnqUiries: 68 5600 or 68 Diocese and Chaplains of this Diary of Events 5522. University and the HlHE. Guest speakers: Ray Kelly and (who Thesday. October 4. 12.30pm 11 am lived for 15 years on East ArmldaIe Entertainment In the Courtyard Department of History seminar Aboriginal Reserve, known as featuring Throbbing Popsters. entitled The Classical perspective 'Sllver CIty'. He was Influenced by Admission: free. and the Australian contezt. his grandfather. one of the few Speaker: Dr Bernle Curran. Venue: Initiated men of the 1pm LG22. McMullin Building. Department of Sociology seminar Armldale-Nambucca Heads area entitled Pundhen: Places of Noon and had the opportunity to learn Popular PIlgrimage In Java. Guest Department of Geology seminar from him.) Paul Cordon (who speaker: George gulnn (Indonesian entitled Stratabound scheelite comes from Brewarrina. and as he and Malayan Studies. University deposit of Mlttersm, Austria. grew up had a variety of contacts of Sydney). Venue: W326A. Guest speaker: Dr Oskar with bush elders of UIe Yampa Sociology Building. Thalhammer. Institute of tribe). Venue: K202. Medical Mineralogy & Petrology. Leoben. Sciences BuUdlng. 1pm Austria. Venue: CG04. Geology FrIday. October 14. 1 pm Mathematics/Industry seminar BuUdlng. entitled Biological Modelling. .Fllm Buffs' Club presents Woof Speaker: Dr Sean McElwaln. 7.30 tn 12.30 pm Woof. The Horses Mouth (Joyce Venue: VIII. Mathematics Club de Groove presents Vlnce Cary's wry novel starring A1ec Building. Jones (for the first time In Gulness) In the Common Room. Newcastle,and winner of the Star Admission: free. music awards) plus The Cool Dudes. Wednesday. Octnber 5. Noon Sunday. October 16. 2pm ) Department of Geology seminar TIckets: $8 (members) and $12 The Changing Face ofNewcsst1e-' entitled Uplift of granulite facles (non-members) are available a guided walk. leaving from Fort' terrains In the Arunta Block. from the Secondhand Bookshop. Scratchley. Enquiries: 68 5600 or Central Australia. Speaker: Dr 685522. Bill Collins. Venue: CG04. Geology '1Uesday. Octnber 11. Noon Lunchtime entertainment In the BuUdlng. Monday. October 17. 11 am .) Courtyard featuring A le z Department of History seminal Noon McComble. Admlsslon: free. entitled The ezpanslon of Entertainment In the Southern 1pm dependence: A.W. Jose and Cross Lounge featuring Kerln Department of Sociology seminar Australian naval policy Anders. Admtsslon: free. entitled The Gypsies: An 1904-1915. Guest speaker: Ross 2pm Endangered Species or Lamot. History. University of New Department of English seminar Post-industrial Nomads. Speaker: England. "" entilled My Serpent of Old NDe: the Ken Lee. Venue: W326A, Sociology BuUdlng. Noon case aglnst the Roman male. Department of Geology seminar Speaker: Assoc. Professor N. 1pm entitled The ezhalites of the Talbot. Venue: 132A. McMullln Mathematics/Industry seminar BIsckwoods Open Cut: a unique BUilding. entitled Polymers. Speaker: opportunity to study such Assoc. Professor Cllve Croxton. Thursday. Octnber 6. Noon lithologies In proximity to th" ) Venue: VIII. Mathematics Brokeh Hl11 lode. Speaker: M Department of Statistics seminar BuUdlng. entitled What they don't teach you Tony Wigglns. Venue: CG04. at Un! (yet). Guest speaker: Mr 4pm Geology BUilding. Frank Tuyl. BHP Newcastle. Department of Computer Science Venue: VI07. Mathematics seminar entitled The Use of '1Uesday. Octnber 18. 11.15 am BuUdlng. Large-Scale Data Bases and This year's Newcastle Lecture If',") Dictionaries. Guest speaker: Mary Political Economy will b, Noon Peterson. Australian Bureau of presented by Professor Geoffrey Movie: Shame In the Common Statistics. Venue: VIOl. B1alney (University of Melbourne). Room. Donation: 50cents. Mathematics BUilding. His topic will be Australia 1788-1988: Myths and Mirages. FrIday. October 7. 1 pm Wednesday. October 12. 1 pm Film Buffs' Club present Opening Entertainment In the Southern Night. Double Indemnity (classic Cross Lounge featuring Nola Advertisement Nolf thriller. the first to use the Wallaca. Admlsslon: free. narration style of the Hardbolled AuPalrGlrl School of American Writing) In the Thursday. October 13. Noon Ms Susanne Scherzo 19. Common Room. Admlsslon: free, German feature film entitled would like to come to Australia as PDngstausDug (English sub-titles) Monday. Octnber 10. 9am a an 'au pair' girl. In other words • .. Newsreel (Deutach1 ndsplegellln she Is looking for a position as Workshops on alcohol-related Audio-visual room A132., household help In return for board. problems. conducted by Dr Ian McMullln Building. Smith (Western Australia Alcohol lodging and pocketmoney and an and Drug Authority). 9am - The Noon opportunity to attend part-time Prevention of Alcohol-related Movie: Steel Dawn In the Common English classes. Her address Is C / Problems and 1.30 pm Room. Donation: 50 cents. Dr Wolfgang Huep (her uncle). Assessment. Treatment and 7.30 pm Schlosswaldweg 19. 6245 Evaluation of Programs for People Public lecture on The Beginning: L1ndenfels. German Federal with Alcohol-related Problems. Aboriginal Spirituality held In Republic. He telephone number Is: Venue: K202. Medical Sciences association with The Maltland (06172) 45101.