COMMUNITY ISSUE Study of school ~ helps to build ~ AMAGAZINE FORTHE UNlVERSI'IY high tech cities Registered by Australia Post - publication No. VBG0435 ,NUMBER 5-89 / JULY 28, 1989 A research project may J18ve the way for mnltlradal, bIgb teclmology cities or the future. For the past five years, a community of "You can call it a pilot project for a hi­ about 200 Japanese businessmen and their tech city. where the new technology of a Women in the' pulpit: fammes have been living in Morwell manufacturing type for processing raw working for a consonium set up to explore materials - is a little different from the the possibilities of brown coal - oil idea of hi-tech in electronics. " The church goes on liquefaction. Such hi-tech cities of the future might The end product is used primarily for have something like 50,000 Japanese and When the women's liheration movement spilled over Into the establbbed generating electricity. 50,000 Australians living together. so by chnrch in the 19605, congregations around the world began to contemplate The Japanese "sojourners". who spend looking at a microcosm in Gippsland, the possibility of female ministers. three to five years here, become part of the researchers can learn something about in­ In an era of rapid change, as one speaker local Australian community in areas such teraction between Japanese and Australian at a recent Monash seminar on "Women in as work, schools and shopping. communities. ministry" observed, many churches were The obvious problem of how Japanese At a recent Japanese Studies conference caught with their platitudes down. children can be educated in a traditional in Sydney. Dr Mouer was approached by a For an instituli-:m which espouses the way has been solved al a local primary number of people working on the idea of noblest of freedoms, said Professor Ed schooL multifunction polis who wanted to know Lehman, the church has traditionally Based on a New Zealand model. a small more about the Morwell project. overlooked women as ministers. Japanese school has been set up within the " When congregations first encounter the Conimercial Road Primary SchooL Dr Mouer predicts that Australia will prospect of a woman as their pastor, they Japanese students condoue their advanc­ become increasingly integrated with what generate typical • horror stories' about the ed language studies and mathematics with is happening in Japan ...It's a kind of consequences - declining church roles, leachers brought from Japan, and then join global trend, " he said. declining budgets. people moving away," Australian students for the rest of their Early indications are that the Japanese said Proressor Lehman, professor of subjects. community of about 75 per cent families sociology at the State University of New According to senior lecturer Dr Ross and 25 per cent single men has meshed Mouer, co-ordinator of the Japanese York, Broekpon. very well with their Australian surround­ "Research indicates that they are just Studies Centre, this solves the problem of ings, and there appears to have been no that - stories - they don't come true. But keeping up with Japan's rigorous examina­ local opposition to their presence. then neither does any miraculous organisa­ tion based education system, while allow­ Said Dr Mouer: . 'There's an awful lot of tional renewal occur - the church simply ing the youngsters to make Australian goodwill towards Japan .. . there' s a lot goes on. friends. of economic opponunism· in that . If there's Most church members approve the idea "They get this interaction while relain­ racism there.. people are happy to overlook of women's ordination in principle, but op­ • Professor Ed Lehman of New York. ing the abiHty to keep up in those two areas it if the dollar is the bottom line. " pose its implementation because they are they need for their examination," Dr The author or studies of women in afraid it will hun the local congregation, Mouer said. Dr Mouer and his fellow co-ordinator of ministry in the United Kingdom and the he said. The role of the Japanese Studies Centre the research project, Professor Jiri USA, Professor Lehman is a recognised Professor Lehman was speaking at the has been to conduct research on the pr0- Neuslupny . believe the results they will authority on churchgoers' anitudes to seminar organised by Dr Gary Bouma or ject, and this may be used later by people gain at the conclusion of the study in 18 clergywomen. Anthropology and Sociology and spon· investigating the development of multi months time will be extremely imponant in But his surveys or congr.:gations on two sored by the Chrislian Research Associa­ function polis - the high technology cities helping to plan for much larger cities in the continents have raised more questions than tion and the National Centre for Research of the twenty-first century. future. they have answered. and [)c:velopment in Australian Studies at • Continued page 2 Monash. Expand your horizons In the next year, Monash University win be expanding Its range of courses giving students a wider choice and a great~ opportunity io tailor their studies more closely to their needs. The expansion began earlier this year with the signing ofan affiliation agreement with the Gippsland Instilute of Advanced Education, an important provider or distance education. The Monash/Gipps­ land association now has been recognised by the Federal Government as a National Distance Education Centre, and will be providing many courses, panicularIy pro­ ressional courses, to external students. Monash also is in the process of amal­ gamating with the Chisholm Institute of The Monash Medical Centre will again Technology in Caulfield and Frankston. be open, to let students have a look at Vic­ So Ihis year's Open Day - on Sunday 6 toria's newest and mosl exciting hospital August from 10.30 am to 4 .30 pm - will complex. And there will be the usual be presenting a new Monash, a Monash fascinating engineering displays, the which is expanding its own and your Chemical Magic Show, videos, talks, com­ horizons. Not only will the usual courses puter simulalions, music, rood , spons and and careers advice be available, bul also lots, lots more. • Australian and Japanese primary students learn the art of coexistence at Morwell's representacives from Gippsland and Chis­ Come along and see us and "Expand Commerc1al Road Primary School. Photo - John Clark holm will be present. Your Horizons" at Monash. Dean of Engineering's dOctoral citation Monash honors great multicultural engineer ) Chancellor, Sir Arvi Parbo is a great Australian. He has demonstrated what can be achieved by taking a positive approach in uncertain circumstances. He was born in Estonia. which saw Ger­ Managing Director of Western Mining. man and Russian occupation in turn. In­ The rest, as they say. is history. Engineer fluenced by an interest in engineering and Parbo was on his way. He understood the in roc~s and minerals, he attended the opponunities that Australia offered, and Clausthal Mining Academy in Gennany seized them. intJne4iately after the war. Eager to leave Engineer Parbo joined Western Mining the atmosphere of gloom and destruction, Corpdration as an Underground Surveyor he soUght a country where there was work, at Bullfinch, Western AUstralia in April • The Chancellor of Monash University. Sir George Lush. congratulaies Sir AM Parbo on food and f....rom 10 progress. We "'" 1956. and served as Underground his honorary doctorate in Engineering. lucky thaI he chose Australia and not Manager, Nevoria Mine, from 1958 to In June 1986, he relinquished the posi­ Member, fellow• Councillor, Patron or Canada. 1960. tion of Managing Director and became Medal winner of too many other profes­ Allha! lime AUstralia required of its im. He held the position of lechnical assis­ Executive Chairman. sional organisations to ~ntion. migrlnts two years of service where plac­ .tant to the Managing Director from 1960 to He is, or has been, chairman of many of He was made a Knight Bachelor (or ser­ ed. The young man Arvi Parbo was first 1964 in , and returned to Australia's leading resource banking and vices to industry in January 1979, and was employ~ i~ a quarry. The two year. con­ Western Australia in 1964 as the com­ insurance companies, and recently became awarded the' Commander's Cross of the be consider~ tract would nowadays ex­ pany's Deputy General Superintendent. Chairman of Directors of the "Big Aust­ Order Of Meril of Ihe Federal Republic of ploitation, but many new Australians, Par­ Returning to Melbourne in February 1968, ralian", BHP. He has also been president Gennany in 1979. bo among them, used their experiences of he was appointed General Manager and or held senior executive positions on many Sir Arvi is a multiculturalist in the best factory or mining life as a springboard for became a Director in September 1970. professional, community and government sense: proud of his roots, but a dedicated achievement. Australia was then embark­ His sound technical understanding of the bodies including the Australian Minerals ing on the famous Snowy Mountains Industry Association, the Institute of and positive Australian. He is a respected mining industry , his broad knowledge and commentator on affairs of national impor­ scheme, the last great engineering project experience, and his flair for management Petroleum, and Australian Science and which captured the national imagination. Technology Council, the Business Council tance, in fact a great communicator, ensured his rapid rise. demonstrating always candour and emi­ Parbo, a man of action; chose to study of Australia, the AustralialJ~pan Society, engineering at the University of Adelaide. He was appointed Deputy Managing the Australian-Gennan Association and ne,nt good sense. Director in May 1971, and became and helped 10 support himself and his wife many others. Mr Chancellor, I present to you for ad­ by working as a tram conductor. Managing Director in November 1971. He is a Fellow of the Australian mission to the degree of Doctor of He graduated with first class honors in In Oclober 1974, Parbo was appoinled Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering honoris ·causa Arvi Hillar 1955. having by thaI lime attracted the al· Chairman and Managing Director of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the Parbo. tention of the late Bill Morgan. then Western Mining Corporation Limited. Institution of. Engineers, Australia. and a - Prot_ Peter Darvall Japan's musical maestro becomes faculty's first Fellow To the countless international honors he has received over the years, chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki, can now add the title of inaugural Fellow of Monash University's Faculty of Arts. Speaking at a reception in the Music been little parallel growth in cultural rela­ Auditorium to celebrate the announce­ tions . ment, the distinguished conductor/musi­ ..Australians know all about Japanese cian/author described his appointment as products, but nothing about our culture, so an opportunity to further the cultural ex­ I hope I can perform some function in change between Japan and Australia. building a bridge between the two coun­ tries. , . "There has been a great growth in trade between the two counlries, but there has Referring to his native and adopted lands. Mr Iwaki observed: "There are no politicians in Japan, but we do have culture • A highlight of the reception for Mr Iwaki and money . was the performance of a piece of music "In Australia we have politicians and composed in his honor by Anne Rudolph (pictured left), a postgraduate student in culture, but no money." Japanese music. Scored for the shaku­ Mr lwaki is no stranger to Monash. In hachi, the dan tranh (Vietnamese zither) 1985 he was awarded an honorary Doctor and the kapachi (Indonesian zither), the of Laws in recognition of his contribution musical tribute was based on four tones of the shakuhachi - hi, ro, yu, chi - that to Australia'S cultural life. and last year closely represented the conductor's name. was appointed chief adviser of the Music Department's new Japanese Mus ic Archive. He found that members of more liturgy and the 'Ieadership of the church • From page 1 As the faculty's inaugural Fellow, Mr marginal congregations - those struggling were the last female-free zones. Iwakj will advise on the development of to remain viable - tend to be more open to "At the altar there is no threat to "If you' re looking for an answer, such archival and teaching programs. as the church is basically opposed to women in ministry. masculine superiorily which is increasing­ female clergy or thai it is ready to move . "They have to. They simply cannot af­ ly under siege in the world outside. While forward, you're going to be disappointed, ford to ignore any possiblity of keeping the male clergy alone represent God, so God is for there is nothing at all monolithic in the church afloat. •. male and male is God. responses to women in ministry .., (One church executive greeted his fin­ .

A Monash zoologist recently obtained 1l00d evidence that the primitive annored fishes) look positively modern shelled deep sea squid, Nautilus Is still plentiful off the east coast of aod boring. " Australia. He and Dr Wentworth are particularly Dr Sherrie Wentworth caught three of interested in its visual system which oper· them near the upper limit of their depth ales like a pinhole camera. The eye has no range on the outer side ofthe Great Barrier lens so that seawater can wash in and out of Reef near Cairns. This is only the second it, and it is connected to a nervous system report that naulilus have been captured off so primitive that it contains no central eastern Australia since the tum of the nerve cords. century. Nautilus lives at depths of between 80 In June, Dr Wentworth was taken from and 500 metres. It weighs about 600 grams Cairns to Weipa as a researcher on board and the shell is about 15 centimetres in dia· the Allen aod Vi Thistlethwayte (fonnerly meter. The creature has about 40 tentacles the Dick Smith Explorer). The oceano­ and moves relatively slowly , probably graphic vessel at present is tracing feeding mainly on carrion. Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of (Note that paper nautilus shells are actu­ Australia. ' ally the remnants of an octopus, nO( a true Dr Wentworth - who is a research NaUlilus .) fellow working with the Dean of Science, The three nautilus caught by Dr Went· • An electron micrograph of what seems Professor Bill Muntz - says electron worth were all taken at the very upper limit to be "glue" sacs in Nautilus. micrographs of the nautilus provide the of the depth range. within a small area, first solid evidence of " glue" sacs along suggesting that there could be many more the tentacles. Nautilus tentacles do not animals, said that nautilus was like a snap­ below. have the traditional suckers of squid and shot into the past. " II has not changed for She captured them using cages with octopus. ISO million years. Some of its features funnel-shaped entrances like crab pots, • A Queensland Nautilus showing off its Professor Muntz, an expert on vision in make the Coelocanth (8 rare relic of the They were baited with putrifying meat. tentacles. Language hid slave trade, thesis shows 1be way language was used to conceal a covert slave trade in Australia led "Children were taught by their parents primary school, Dr Fesl found Monash a to Dr Eve Fesl becorulng the IIrst Koorie to complete a doctorate of to run and hide as soon as they saw govern­ refreshing change. philosophy. ment cars coming, so they wouldn't be " 11 was a very nice atmosphere, and I seem and taken away... liked it ..' Dr Fesl, the director of Monash Univer­ role in both promoting and concealing Dr Fesl says this went on until 1976 with After studying linguistics and anthro­ sity's Koorie Research Centre, says her slavery in Australia, few people aware of the practice. pology, Dr Fesl gained her Bachelor of thesis, entilled " Language policy and im· " Slavery had been abolished in the " h's only since Koones started writing Arts with honors in linguistics. plementalion in regard to Koori world. and Australia was being watched their own stories that it's come out - what Then came a Master of Arts degree, and languages" , is probably the first socio­ very carefully after the massacre of I've done is brought the whole thing then two years of pan-:time study for her linguistic study to show how language has Koories in Tasmania so euphemistic terms together and demonstrated how language Ph.D. been used to oppress a people. like 'christianising' and 'civilising' was used. This is quite new historically The Koorie Research Cemre began in She received her Ph,O at a graduation ' procuring' and ' protection' were used to because only one side of history had been tbe late 1960s as the Aboriginal Research ceremony in May. cover up this well·organised activity." told," Centre by Professor Colin TalZ, Dr Fesl claims that as she traced the According to Dr Fesl, thousands of The lenn Koorie means "our people", When the first Koorie director,· Colin history of language policy, a pattern began children were abducted by being taken out and is the name by which descendants of Bourke took over, it was expanded to meet to emerge which showed that language of their parents' anns - this was referred the native peoples of , New South the needs of the Koorie community. policy and its usage had played a major to as ' procuring'. Wales, Tasmania. and Southern Queens· Dr Fest joined the staff as a r~rch land refer to themselves and others of their assistant, then became the secretary. for a group. year, and finally was appointed the first Dr Fesl belongs to two clan groups; her tutor in Aboriginal Studies, mother is a Gabbi-Gabbi and her father is a Aboriginal Studies is accredited as pan Gangulu. of a Bachelor of Arts degree. She was born in Queensland and drop­ Dr Fesl feels the initiation of the Monash ped out of the education system after Orientation Scheme for Aborigines primary school. aod then trained for (MOSA) is one of the success stories ofthe secretarial work, Koone Research Centre, She was a talented athlete, representing The MOSA scheme provides mature age Queenslaod in netball as a schoolgirl. aod Koone students with a full year o(specific later becoming pan of the Olympic Games preparation for university education. training squad and Victorian champion There are now 83 Koorie students on discus thrower. campus, and since the inception of MOSA, Her sporting interests led to her moving no Koorie has failed a year of a degree to Victoria to train with the Olympic course. squad. On the same day Dr Fesl graduated, the She did not make the Olympic team. but first two graduates of MOSA received her early morning athletic training on the their Ans degrees. Ninety Mile beach did lead to her meeting Dr Fesl says the most imponant thing the man who later became her husband, about the Koorie Research Centre is that it They liked the social environment in is the only centre of its kind in Australia Victoria where there was less antagonism run by Koones, and directed towards their towards Koories. so they decided to stay interests. and build up a business in fume extraction " We get to the core of what is needed in engineering. the Koorie Community. ,. In between training for Olympic Games There is still a lot of prejudice against squads. Dr Fesl decided to learn Gennan. Koorie school children which Dr Fesl which provided her with a springboard for would like to see eradicated. her academic career, "People actually believe the type of Although it was the only examination language that is used , . . that we are in­ she had sat for since primary school, she ferior and we're unintelligent - that gained honors in Higher School Certificate there's no use teaching us because we're German. not really trainable. But, there was a catch. "I've even been told I'm not a real ". had honors in German but failed Koone because 1 work in a university ­ English! I did mature age English. which I the implication is that real Koories couldn' t failed. but then did ordinary HSC English make it here!" and passed that, so I managed to get into This misconception is one of many the • Dr Eve Fesl faces the media after receiving her doctorate'" at a graduation ceremony at Monash." Koorie Research Centre is helping to Robert Blackwood Hall. Photo - Richard Crompton After the racism she had experienced in combat. MONASH REPORTER Page 3 JULY 1989 MERGERS: ALL FOR ONE Gippsland link takes Monash countrywide

The Monash association with the Gippsland Institute has led to the creation of a National Distance Education Centre, which will be able to provide external courses in the professions nationally and internationally.

Monash now has a Gippsland connec­ be made available through Gippsland, par­ tioR. ticularly professional courses. The Gippsland Institute of Advanced Students living away from home are able Education affiliated with Monash Univer­ to live in student accommodation close to sity on 24 February and will shortly the institute's Churchill campus. The in­ become a constituent college of Monash stitute has accommodation for 380 students University - the Gippsland University and in addition, housing officers are in College. constant contact with estate agents and The Gippsland-Monash-Chisholm link members of the public, and so are able to will provide an important Monash focus assist students with private accom­ for the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, the modation. Momington Peninsula. Westernport, and Students who come to the Gippsland In­ the Gippsland Region. stitute do not get lost in the crowd. It's a One of the first results of the Monash­ friendly campus with a real sense of com­ Gippsland association has been Federal munity and the 1400 on-campus students designation as a national provider of soon make friends from all the course distance education, which means that areas. selected Monash, Gippsland and Chisholm The institute has 3000 adult students stu­ courses will now be offered to people in dying part-time through its external studies • Looking across the Gippsland Institute's Amphitheatre to the School of Education. Victoria and throughout Australia. program. And with the Monash association The Gippsland Institute is located at this number should increase significantly. formation on the range of special oppor­ available. It is important to note that prior· Churchill in Gippsland' s Latrobe Valley. Students wishing to apply for full-time tunities available at the Gippsland campus. ity is given to students who apply before 20 just one and a half hours drive from the courses at Gippsland can do so through the October. Course advisers from Monash­ Clayton campus. Year 12 students will receive their VeE VTAC. Gippsland distance education will be It offers nationally recognised degrees results on Monday 15 January and until visting the Melbourne metropolitan area, and diplomas in engineering, applied The Gippsland Open Day is to be held on Friday 19 January students will be able to the country regions of Victoria and the science, computing, business, social Sunday 13 August and this would be a telephone course advisers or visit for south coast of NSW during August/Sep­ sciences, welfare studies, primary and good day for interested people to see the interviews. tember to provide an opportunity for in­ secondary teaching, visual arts and nurs­ Gippsland operation. People who cannot This counselling service takes into ac­ dividual consultation. ing. Many specialist courses are also attend Open Day are invited to contact the count that approximately 50 per cent of available within these general areas. institute to arrange a visit at a mutually Victorian students change their Botli Monash and Gippsland are working Gippsland graduates have competed convenient time. preferences during the VTAC change of closely together and are very positive and very well for professional employment After the VCE examinations and during preference week. enthusiastic at the new opportunities throughout Australia, and with the Monash the VTAC Change of Preference Week Information on courses available available through this new and developing association a wider range of courses will course advisers are available to provide in­ through distance education is now association.

, Melbourne Caulfield Campus, Chisholm Institute of Technology

Princes Hwy.

Frankston Campus, Chisholm Institute of Technology

• The Knuckle, the hub of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. MONASH REPORTER Page 4 JULY 1989 •

. . . AND ONE FOR ALL ...

Chisholm provides variety an~ choice

For more than 65 years, the original parts of the Chisholm Institute have been educating Victorians about technology. Now, the institute looks set to link up with Monash to form a world­ . class centre of technological expertise.

Chisholm Institute or Technology is a Technology and Computing and Inrorma­ multidisciplinary College or Advanced tion Systems courses. A new product Education with a tradition spanning 67 design degree links technology and design. years. Other recent degrees deal with interna­ It offers a wide range of studies at two tional trade and manufacturing, police campuses in Caulfield and Frankston in the studies and municipal engineering. south-eastern and southern suburbs of Chisholm is governed by its Council, the Melbourne. The Caulfield campus is President of which is Mr Paul Ramler, a located next to the busy Caulfield Railway graduate of the Caulfield Institute of Station on the Dandenong and Frankston Technology that preceded Chisholm. The • The Cauilieid campus of the Chisholm Inslitute of Technology. lines, and the Frankston campus is at the Director is Dr Geoffrey Vaughan, former­ end of the Frankston freeway. ly Director of the Victorian College of same site. Its orlginal aim in 1922 was to offers Diplomas of Teaching in Early Chisholm was formed in 1982 by the Pharmacy. serve the large area down to Frankston and Childhood and Primary areas, in addition amalgamation of the Caulfield Institute of Each of the Schools is headed by a dean Dandenong. The site at Caulfield was to a Bachelor of Education fourth year. Technology and the State College of Yic­ except in Business and Technology. where chosen because of its importance as a rail Graduate Courses include Graduate toria at Frankston. In 1988 it was the there is one dean for the faculty and four junction. In 19S8 the sehool became the Diplomas in An Education and Outdoor second largest of Victoria's CAEs with Heads ofSchool. In addition, there are two Caulfield Technical College and in 1968 Education, as well as a Master of Educa­ 4,7S1 full-time and 3,610 pan-time Associate Directors, the Associate Direc­ became an institute, fully autonomous, tion. The Sch()(jl has shown its commit­ students enrolled, a total of 8,361 students tor Registrar and the Associate Director with Advanced Education and TAFE ment to the professional career develop­ studying from Associate Diploma, to (Planning and Resources). divisions. ment of teachers. In 1988, the School had Master'S Degree courses. rhere were ap­ Chisholm was established after the In 1959 the Frankston Teacher's College 427.5 EFTSU. proximately S,900 Equivalent Full-Time Government policy on the amalgamation had opened with 109 students. The State The Faculty of Technology came into Student Units (EFTSU) enrolled. of coUeges was introduced in 1981. College of Victoria at Frankston was for­ being in 1985 when what are now its four Chisholm' s courses are offered in twelve A large dual-<:ampus Institute had much mally constituted in 1973. Schools came together: Applied Science, Schools: Art and Design, Education, Nurs­ to offer south-eastem Melbourne and the Since amalgamation, the institute has Computing and Information Systems, ing. Social atxl Behavioural Studies; the Momington Peninsula and the fonnal undertaken an extensive capital works pro­ Digital T~hnology and Engineering. The Faculty or Business, in its Schools of Ac­ establishment of Chisholm took place on 2 gram since amalgamation, extending the faculty offers subjects such as computing counting, Banking and Finance, Manage­ March 1982. At the same time the T AFE Caulfield campus with a TechnOlogy and information technology in common to ment and Marketing; and the Faculty of division of Caulfield separated and became Tower (in which, among other commercial various degrees. Technology which comprises the Schools the Holmesglen College of TAFE. tenants, arc Montech and Chisholm Stu­ It offers a unique Two Tier Course of Applied Science, Computing and Infor­ The Institute is named as a tribute to dent Union), mOre parking, open space Bachelor of Technology that not only mation Systems, Digital Technology, and Caroline Chisholm (1808-1877), the early and refurbished existing buildings. brings together the various disciplines of Engineering. Australian philanthropist known as 'the At Frankston campus, which .on Technology and Computing. but is also The courses reflect the applied nature of immigrants' friend'. She worked tirelessly amalgamation was a single discipline cam­ run in co-operaliolT with the Holmesglen Chisholm education. Many are computer­ on behalf of under-privileged women, pus of 400 students, there are several new and Frankston colleges ofTAFE. The first based or involve computing technology. organising accommodation and employ­ buildings including the Nursing building year of the' course is run within the T AFE The computing facilities at the two cam­ ment and promoting settlement on the and room for Business and Technology colleges, while the remaining two are con­ puses are linked by landline, and the land. courses. The campus enrolment is now ducted at Chisholm. Engineering courses all include computing Sixty years before Chisholm. the around 2,500 students. and growing. Another innovative course is the new components. as well as the Digital Caulfield Technical School opened on the Both campuses are expected to grow and Bachelor of Technology (Design). which plan new buildings works as funds become runs over six consecutive semesters in­ available, especially with the recent an­ cluding summer. Applied Science had 543 nouncement of funding for the new EFTSU, Digital Technology had 296 EFT­ Location Guide to campuses Monash University . The Minister of SU, Computing & Information Systems Education, Mr Dawkins, announced the had 718 EFTSU, and Engineering had 553 affiliated with Monash University aJlocation of $7.8 million for the construc­ EFTSU in 1988. In addition, the Faculty tion of a Technology Tower at Frankston. had IS.5 EFTSU studenlS in higher Chisholm graduates of the An and degrees. Design School have become known for In 1987, IOyears' planning came to frui­ their unusual and creative work and the tion with the first intake of students in the results of students' work in fine an, Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing) ceramics and graphics courses have been course at Frankston. exhibited around the world. The School This year, the School had a total of 171 had a total enrolment for 1988 of S04 EFT­ EFTSU. The Diploma is a three-year SU (Equivalent Full-Time Student Units). course that will lead to registralion with the Chisholm's largest enrolment is the Victorian Nursing Council, and is part of a Faculty of Business, which comprises four general move in Nursing Education away Schools known as the David Syme from exclusively hospital-based training. Warraguf Business Schools. Students are placed in community health The Schools of Accounting, Banking areas including in schools, infant welfare !.forwell and Finance, Management. and Marketing centres and community health centres, in offer Bachelor and Master degrees and addition to coursework and hospital Graduate Diplomas in business. The four placements. Gippsland Institute Churchfff Schools had a tOlal enrolment of 1969 The School of Social and BehaviolOral of Advanced Education EFTSU in 1988. Studies offers Bachelor of Ans courses The themes orentrepreneurship, interna­ with majors in applied psychology, applied tional business and business technology. sociology, communication studies, are renected in strong functional programs political studies, statistics, literature and that address the needs of commerce and In­ economics. A Double Degree of Bachelor dustry . New courses include the Graduate of Arts/Bachelor of Business is also of­ Diploma in International Business, the fered. The School had 824 EFTSU in Bachelor of Business (lnternationaJ Trade) 1988. Chisholm offers an Associate and the Bachelor o f Business (Manufactur­ Diploma in Police Studies for serving Artwork ­ Stuart Wagstaffe ing Management). members of the Police Forces . and an The School of Education at Frankston Associate Diploma in Welfare Studies. MONASH REPORTER Page 5 JULY 1989 Willy haunts the Law Jubilee On Tuesday 30 May, more than SSO graduates, staff ml!ll1bers and rrtends Louis Waller. the toast to the Law School of the Monash University Law School gathered at the Savoy Ballroom at the by the Premier. the Hon John Cain. and Hyalt on Collins to celebrate the Law School's 25th anniversary. the speech in reply by the Dean ofthe Law School. Professor Bob Williams. Master of Ceremonies was Campbell A slide show of Law School pictures Guests included graduates from the first McComas. who played the part of a 19605 (with other slides interspersed) acea rn· intake ofstudents in 1964 as well as fonner law student, Willy Waller-Baxter panied Willy"s speech and kepi the au­ staff members, including Jack Fajgen­ Willy. ably introduced by the President dience much amused . The Law School and baum, Leanns Darvall. David Hellwege of the Law Students Society. Ms Fiona the alumni greatly appreciates the continu­ and former deans David Allan and Gerry Blackmore, was appropriately decked out ing loyalty of Campbell McComas in these Nash, prescnt academic and general staff in 1960s gear with badges reflecting issues functions. members and members of the family of the and attiludes of the day from "Nihilism Among the more formal pans of the late Sir David Derham. Foundation Dean means nothing to me" to "Anarchy''' . evening were the loyal toast by Professor of the Law Faculty. The dinner was a great success, with guests commcnling particularly on the warm atmosphere at the dinner. No doubt this atmosphere was helped by the music provided by the Monash Big Band. with • A Monash designed instrumenl that staff member Neville Tumer on piano. measures the strenglh 0' electric fields Such successful functions do not just beneath high voltage power lin.. has won happen. The dinner was the result of alai the Institution 01 Radio and Electronic Engineers (Melboume Division) prize lor the of planning and thought by tbe Twenty­ best final-year electrical engineering fifth Anniversary Committee of the Law project. Designed and buih by Michael School under the efficient and capable Hesse (pictured), a student in the chairmanship of Associale Professor H.P. department of EleetricSiI and Computer Lee. Comminee members were Mrs Systems Engineering. the electrtc fietd Dorothy Kovacs, Ms Helen Milovanovic. meter has shown that houses, lrees and Ms Marilyn Pinard. Mr Allan York and shrubs provide effective· pr01ection from professors Francis Trindade and Bob electromagnetic radLation. The project, Williams . . supervised by Or Oavkt Geisner, was motivated by Ihe high interest in the Given the lremendous success of the biological effects of such radiation. function. inquiries have been received about early bookings for the Golden Jubilee function in the year 20141 • Willy (alias Campbell McComas) indicates the only direction he can go after graduating MarUyn Pittard IMPORTANT DATES from the Law School. Photo - Scott Fitzpatrick Senior Lecturer in Law

The Registrar advises the following imponanl dates for siudenis in August: Monash experts to 4 F Closing date for change of course/subject/unit taught in add spice to Semester 2. Education city lunch hours Second teaching round DipEd ends In August, the Centre for Continuing Education wlll Inaugurate a free lunch­ J8 F Semester 2, Medicine 3 ends time lecture series that wlll bring to the central business district a number of 28 M Third teaching round Dip&! begins distinguished speakers from Monash University. Last dale for discontinuance of a subject/unit taught and assessed Said Dr Jack McDonell, director of the in Medicine 6 for it to be centre: "Now that we have a well­ classified as discontinued established office in the city, we'd like to use it as a showcase for Monash lecturers. 30 W Last date for discontinuance of " The emphasis. in planning the pro­ all studies by candidales enroll­ gram, has been on recruiting speakers ed for diplomas, bachelors' • A $20,000 grant from the Vk:torian Law Foundatton will change greatly the study habits whose specialities lie in fields which are of degrees. masters' degrees by of v~ualty Impaired staff and students in the Law Faculty. In the past, such people have coursework, and by not-for­ topical interest for a non-specialist audi­ used tape recordings, a practice whtch can be both time consuming and inefficient. But now ence. And we have taken particular care to that will change. The money from the Foundation will be used 10 purchase a Kurzweil degree and masters' preliminary seek out academics who have the reputa­ Personal Reader, a computer with an optical scanner that can convert text into candidates to qualify for 50% tion of being really good communicators." comprehensible speech, with a choice of style, intonalton and speed. Pictured above is refund of Student Amenities santor lecturer In law, Mr Ron McCallum, demonstrating how the printed word is Fees relevant to Semester 2 The lectures will be held at the Monash transformed into the spoken. City Centre. on the corner of Exhibition 31 Th Census date for Higher Educa­ Street and Flinders Lane. They will begin tion Contribution Scheme at l.05pm and run for about 40 minutes. (HECS) Bring your lunch if you wish - coffee is provided. THE FIRST SERIES Tuesday, IS Aug.... Morning Professor David Aspin. Dean of Educalion, SOC"" Justice throu,h Schoolground FduootjOl' ill VICIOria: We Deliver? em. This morning the musk lorikeets were Tuesday, 22 August back, Professor David De Kreiser. Department ,17 ­ ~ L ~OI-ik~ a green and red company of clowns, · I mobbing Ihe pale eucalypt flowers of Anatomy, Research in Reproduction: in the school-ground Global, National and Personal Ir S\/SAY'SNO calling to each other. between Perspectitles mouthfuls. Tuesday, 29 August 9th August - 12th Augus pausing, Professor Paul Rossiter. Department of claw half·way to beak. to thoughtfully observe Materials Engineering, Can We Make It? wilh unblinking and incredulous eye, Advanced Materials and Victorian .II ,''' ~ I J a motionless queue of silent children, Industry • Carillo Gantner, artistic director of the Playbox Theatre, pictured at the launch of "Play the impenitent gypsy colours of Season '89", Australia's first suburban season of professional drama, now on at the childhood Tuesday, 5 September Alexander Theatre. The reaction to the mini-season of Nice Girls, Coralie Lansdowne Says Dr Margaret Kanomi, Department of leached. No and Educating Rita has been " fantastic", says Alexander Theatre manager, Mr Phil by the hard-edged shadow Music, listen to the Bronze Music 0/ A'Vard. "The university has responded magnificently. II proves that there is a market for of the red brick school. Indon~lia good theatre out here, provided U's on a continuous basis. We are already working to set up For further details, contact the Centre another season next year". The season of three plays was presented in conjunction with - Bruce Lundgren from Poetry for Continuing Education on 565 4718. Ihe Playbox Theatre and Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre. Monash No. 26 MONASH REPORTER Page 6 JULY 1989 Interpreting the law a double bind, Hayden launches union history academic says A hook by two Monash academics on tbe history of \be Qu.....land Teachers' WhIle It is universally uoden\ood that Union (QTU) was launched by the all Australians stand equal before \be . Governor-General, MrBlII Hayden, at c law, like Orwell's animals some of us are the QTU's recent centenary conference more equal than others. in . Consider the plight of those witnesses A History of the Queensland Teachers' and defendanls whose command of English Union (Allen and Unwin), by Reader in means that their trial or hearing might as Education. Dr Andrew Spaull, and senior well he conducled wilboul Ibem. lecturer in Education, Dr Martin Sullivan, Translaling legal jargon inlO piain was commissioned by the union in 1986 as English is difficult enough for an English­ part of its centenary celebrations. The speaking Australian, but for someone who QTU is the oldest teachers' union in cannot speak f1uenl English il can he AusttaIia, and one of the oldest trade almost impossible, 5ays the director of the unions in Queensland. National Centre ofCrosscultural Studies in Mr Hayden launched Ibe hook in Ibe Law at Monash, Ms Greta Bird. historic School of Am building in • The Governor-General, Mr 8ill Hayden (second from left) and Mrs Dallas Hayden speak ,.All we do is interpret the evidence of Brisbane - !he same hall where !he first to Dr Andrew Spaull (left) and Dr Martin Sullivan. t1OlI:-Engiish speakers for Ibe benefit ofthe QTU conference was held in January coun, leaving Ibe rest of Ibe trial up to 1889. Aboul 300 people, including trade their imagiBations. t. union officials, members of parliament, ..Ideally, !here should he an interpreter life memhers of Ibe QTU and conferenee who translates the entire case, and then Immigrant cl1i1dren delegates, attended !he launch. wilnesses could he challenged." In his address, Mr Hayden observed Chat According 10 Ms Bird, who recently at­ .often speak in pidgin A History of the Queensland Teachers' tended a conference in the Nonhem Ter­ Union represented an imponant contribu­ rilOry organised by !he om.. of Ethnic Cblldren from ethnic ·backgrounds who live between two cultures often lion to the new social history in Australia. Affairs on "Interpreting and !he law", !he grow up without the projJer means of expressing themselves, says Dr problem is an historical one. It was a scholarly, yet lively, study MillIcent Vladiv of Slavic Languages. "Most Australian judges are Anglo­ which ponrayed the ordinary working Saxon, basieaJly monolingual, and have Caught between their native culture and whose parents communicate in a Slavic lives of Queensland teachers, Mr Hayden little understanding of other cultures, yet it the Australian way life many "literally language al home," Dr Vladiv said. said. He !hen recaJled !he lifelong in­ fluence of his own state school teachers in is up to Ibose people 10 decide whelher or grow up without a text", and without "As no normal schools address Ihe pro­ not the defendant has the right to a court suitable tuition can experience severe blems encountered by these children. the Soulb Brisbane. interpreter," she said. learning difficulties. says Dr Vladiv. project will be feeding into community and Dr Spaull and Dr Sullivan told Ibe Victoria, New South Wales and South "Children who learn the native code Saturday schools." gathering they had wanted to write a Australia all have legal interpreting ser­ from their parents learn a kind of pidgin Dr Vladiv says the material provided by critical and comprehensive history which vices, but only Victorians and South language, but for many it is like being deaf the research will enable teachers to would demonstrate not only the union's Australians have a statutory right to inter­ and dumb. recognise the students' interlanguage and concern for teachers' industrial conditions. preters during police interrogation. "Although they are no less intelligent. allow them to develop a suit~ble but i15 enduring interest in professional The conference also heard that the pauc­ they usually have more learning problems curriculum. issues and the advancement of state educa­ ity of coun interprelers is matched only by than their peers ... And Ihe project will have spinoffs which tion and, these days, its defence. will benefit the wider community. For in­ the facilities provided for them. The problems encountered by students Dr Sullivan said it was appropriate that stance, hospital staff will he able 10 use !he A simple demonstration proved that with of ethnic backgrounds. particularly those Slavic interlanguages to communicate with the Governor-General should launch the the state of electronic an it would be ofSlavic origin, was the subject ofa recent those Slavic patients who have difficulty hook, as Ibe HaYdens' home of Ipswich neither difficult nor expensive to incor­ conference at Monash convened by Dr (when Mr Hayden was MHR for Oxley) with English. porate interpreting booths in new and Vladiv. was also the birthplace of the present As Monash is home to the NationaL existing courthouses. "Slavic languages in contact". attended union. (The first local association of Centre for Community Languages in the by Slavic specialists from Victoria, New The provision of such services would Professions (CLIP), it is an ideal place to teachers was fonned in and around Ipswich South Wales and New Zealand, arose oul in also reduce the debilitating effect that conduct research on Slavic languages as 1886.) of a perceived need to conduct research courtroom surroundings can have on a community languages. Dr Vladiv said. The QTU . Annual Conference had into what happens to Slavic languages witness or defendant, Ms Bird said. Monash teaches, or has taught. two of earlier conferred the status of "honorary . when they come into contact with English. "People can lose their facility for the three Yugoslav languages represented members of the union" on Drs Spaull and English under stress. There was a rccent According to Dr Vladiv. research has at the workshop: Serbo-Croatian, Slovene Sullivan for their contribution on the case in the outback where a frightened shown that ethnic groups do not use the and Macedonian. writing of the book. German tourist was too scared to sign his standard language spoken by their counter­ bail fonn because he thought it was a bribe pans in their country of origin. to the police ... For students from such a background It was appropriate that a conference this creates a special problem; in many Recording Ukrainian culture dealing with an Australia-wide problem cases they are unable to express should he held in Darwin, arguably Ibe themselves properly in either their parents' moSI muhicuhural of all Australian dlies, native tongue or English. and one where the most common language heard in coun, besides English. is usually In fact, their lingua franca is usuitIly an an Aboriginal dialect. in-between language, or interlanguage. which teachers of Slavic students often About 75 per cent of prisoners in Nor­ find difficult to understand. thern Territory gaols are Aboriginal - a problem compounded by the fact that not One of those academics who has only are Aboriginal interpreters both grappled with the problem of teaching scarce and inadequately trained, but also bilingual Slavic students is Dr Anna are loath to work in the white man's coun. Shymkiw of the Centre for Ukrainian Studies at Macquarie University. The seriousness of the situation in the Territory was reflected in the conference A pioneer in the study of Canadian­ roll-call - participants included the Ukrainian in contact with English in Attorney-General, the Chief Justice of the Canada. Dr Shymkiw spoke at the con­ Supreme Court, the Chief Magistrate, ference about questionnaires she has local police, interpreters and members of developed to help researchers measure the Northern Territory Law Society and how Slavic languages have changed in con­ the Northern Territory Law School. tact with Canadian English. No law school in Australia at present With the assistance of Professor Jiri • Professor Vasyl Markus of the depanment of gives its students the experience of work­ Marvan of Slavic Languages, Dr Shymkiw Political Science, Loyola University of Chicago Monash Reporter plans to set up a project next year to in­ (left), visited Monash recently to set up an editorial ing side-by-side with interpreters as pan of The neld lasue will be published on vestigate cultural and communication pro­ team lor the Australian volume of the Encyclo­ its core curriculum .. pedia 01 Ukrainian Diaspora, a six-VOlume account Wed_ay 6 September, 1989 For a country that prides itself on its blems experienced by people of the Slavic of the lives of Ukrainian migrants around the Copy deadline is Friday 25 August, community in Australia. world. The volume, which will cover the arts, multiculturalism, says Ms Bird, the and early copy is much appreciated. music, demography and religion of Ukrainian Contributions (letters, photos) and desperate need for court . interpreters by in ,. As the problem of bilingualism has migrants in Australia, will be edited lectur.r suggesHons should be sent to the editor, should be recognised by the teachers of enormous implications for early childhood Ukrainian, Dr Marko Pavtyshyn (right). Professor Information Office. Gallery Building, or those who translate the legal language for development. one of the critical areas the Markus. the protect's editor-in-chief. expects (he ring ext. 2067. us. project will be looking at is the schoolchild encydopedia to be completed in 1993. MONASH REPORTER Page 7 JULy 1!189 .Old press shows how the printed word can bring the house down The original of the Franklin handpress ...,.,enlly acquired by the Graduate Scbool of L1brarianship stands In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, a "battered and shaky old veteran". ,But then, it is almost 300 years old; the another beginning at the first and pro­ press's namesake, one Benjamin Franklin, ceeding regularly to the last. is said to have used it when he worked in •'They would have constantly and clear- an English printing house in the 1720.. ly before their minds all the processes by The university's press is an exact replica which the matter of the work before them ofthe one used by the future US statesman. has passed, from its first being written and the same back-breaking technique is down by the pen of its author to its ap­ still needed to pn:xJuce the printed word. pearance in the finished volume ..." Just ask: Dr Brian McMullin, Reader in Apart from helping students learn the an the Graduate School of Librarianship. of printing. the Franklin Press is also used To bring the inked type and paper by the Graduate School of Librarianship's together, the printer (often Dr McMullin) own publishing concern, Ancora Press, has to exert. an enormous amount of force established at Monash 10 years ago to pro- • Or Brian McMullin gives his all for the sake of the printed word. Photo - Tony Miller. on the bar to "take the impression". duce small volumes of poetry and .'. (Ideally, the press should be braced specialised publications. against the ceiling of its basement room in (As well as meaning " still" - as in the the Main Library to stop it moving across university's motto, Ancora Imparo. 'I am Where embarrassment the floor, but in the interests of the three still learning' - the Latin word ancara storeys of library above, the machine re- also means anchor, the reproduction of mains unattached . which was a common sight on the title gives way to information Built nine years ago by a retired school pages of many 16th and 17th century teacher, John Ponder, to the specifications books.) Imagine a service which provides specialised information on reproduction of the original , the press was purchased Although it publishes ·'intermittently" . for the general public, an education program for medical professionals, and last September to add to an array of presses books from Ancora Press - hand-printed postgraduate courses in reproductive science as well. that give librarianship students hands-on and hand-bound - have become It may sound like a glimpse into the "It's an indication of the reaction when printing experience. something of a collector's item. people turn up at a one night Presses used in this manner are called Future publications will include the future, but it is all available at the univer­ 300 seminar!" bibliographical presses, the rationale for transcript of an early 17th century sity's Centre for Reproductive Biology. 11le expens involved in this year's which was summed up in 1913 by nOled manuscript which contains advice to Established two years ago, the centre public menopause seminar were Professor provides postgraduate and public educa­ English scholar, R.B. McKerrow: daughlers on such things as how to choose David de Kretser, director of the Centre "(The press's use) would teach students husbandS; and a letter from Sir Redmond tion in reproductive sciences from experts for Reproductive Biology and a world not to regard a book as a collettion of Barry in which he instructs his agent in who are often world leaders in their fields. renowned enocrinologist and male infer­ separate leaves of paper attached in some London on the sort of books that should be tility expen; Professor Henry Burger, mysterious manner to a leather back, nor purchased for the new Melbourne Public director of the Medical Research Centre at to think that the pages are printed one after Library. Prince Henry's Hospital; and Dr Rosemary Ayton of Prince Henry's Menopause Clinic. Drawing attention to recent Mrs Lodge said that information was available on menopause, but it was usually in a form understandable only to medical Irony, Humour and Dissent practitioners. Irony, Humour & Dissenl, Recent Australian Drawings, now at the Monash · 'It's imponant that you have the expens University Gallery, is a survey exhibition of 11 artists who live in Sydney or presenting this information, and then have Melbourne. an open forum. " Quite a lot of time was dedicated to Coleing. Dale Frank, Peter Kennedy, The exhibition shows how the artists in­ answering questions, and 1 think a lot of Geoff Lowe with Sunny-Side Up, Tim corporate notions of irony. as a form of people found that really helpful . Maguire, Linda Marrinon, Margaret critique and caricature, into their recent "There's a constant need for informa­ Morgan, Gareth Sansom, Ruth Waller and work. tion about topics such as breast and cer­ Jenny Watson. Some of the artists approach their vical cancer. menopause and even The exhibition was organised as pan of images playfully, olhers adopt a more pregnancy and binh. Sydney's Perspecta program by the Manly serious position. Some explore the idea of "There's a need for infonnation at a An Gallery and Museum with guest creativity and personal authorship; some professional medical level as well," Mrs explore the division between popular cui· curator Alison Carroll. Lodge said . A fully illustrated catalogue, priced at ture and high art; others use irony to And the centre's professional education $10, is available. explore their concerns with socio-political program caters for this with seminars and The exhibition closes on 26 August. issues. short courses which introduce medical Gallery times are Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 The artists whose drawings are repre· practitioners to new technologies and am-5 pm, Saturday 1-5 pm. sented in the show are Jon Cattapan, Tony research. • Rebecca Lodge The Centre for Reproductive Biology Reproductive biology is the science of brings together experts from all the depart­ the transmission of life. ments of the Faculty of Medicine and its Said Mrs Rebecca Lodge, the ad­ affiliated research institutes. ministrator of the centre: "We felt there It offers a one·year diploma and a two­ • was a need out there for information on year master's course, available on a full­ I reproductive and health issues ... or part-time basis to medical and science •. At the time we set up the centre, no one graduates . else seemed to be doing this with the kind Another aspect of the centre's work is its • of expens to whom we had access ... yearly public lecture series called "Sex, One of the most successful aspects of the Science and Society" , which covers public education program has been the anything from AIDS to the human libido. seminars held in 1988 and 1989 on under­ Mrs Lodge has been managing the centre standing the complex problem of meno­ since it was established in July 1987 ­ pause . apart from a shon period away to practise Women's reaction to the seminars has a little reproductive biology of her own been overwhelming, says Mrs Lodge. (son Nicholas is now nine months old). "The response was 'thank goodness The centre is on the first noor of the there is somewhere we can go to find out Anatomy Building, and details of its more information' and '1 can't find any courses and seminars can be obtained by written material, and I want to know what ringing 565 2765 on Monday., Wednes· my options are' . days or Fridays. MONASH REPORTER Page 8 JULY 1989