,, We have much to learn from ~~ ~ Asian success AMAGAZINE FORTHE UNIVERSI1Y Tbe 'Asian success etbic' could bold tbe key to Australia's survival as a Registered by Australia Post - publication No . VBG0435 nation, says Dr Brian Bullivant. NUMBER THREE MAY 6, 1987 "We need people with high aspira­ tions who are prepared to work hard, achieve and contribute back to the socie­ ty and the economy. "Evidence is coming in from allover the place that students from European backgrounds, Asians and some Indo­ Asians are achieving academically out of all proportion to their numbers. Australians might be able to learn something from these patterns of suc­ cess, said Dr Bullivant, who is a Reader in the Faculty of Education. "It's a two-edged matter, but we must look beyond the question of whether high achievers 3re getting the best out of life. "In the long term - and from the viewpoint of an educational anthro­ pologist values such as success, achieve­ ment and bard work could be essential to our survival as a nation and society." Dr Bullivant, whose recent report on ethnic students in Melbourne high schools drew a lot of media attention, is now researching the possible causes of what he describes as the ethnic success ethic. His inquiries will take him to Singa­ pore, Hong Kong and Japan, t~en to the East-West Center in Honolulu. He will analyse the data from these field studies to find common patterns of sociological and historical causes. "There may be major cultural values which are stressed in the countries of origin that give an inbuilt advantage when people emigrate. , "Australia gets a significant number of immigrants and sojourners from countries like HODg Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, and research has already been carried out in some of these places. "One finding is that success values appear to be particularly strong in coun­ tries with the Confucian ethic." Dr Bullivant will work with Professor Kobayashi in the department of Com­ parative Education at the University of Kyoto. "The professor's writings show that Japanese educationists are interested in the influence of major cultural values so they can broaden their own education system," he said. "They are interested in general values and an international perspective which would enable Japanese insularity to be • Former Vice-Chancellor Ray Martin said it would be "a stunning acquisition". And that's how Monash's I I opened up a bit. llood retarding basin - now a delightful ornamental lake below the Halls of Residence - turned out. Tony I "I want to work on Japanese values Miller took this shot looking over the lake to the Menzies Building. I that make for success; to look at the , whole achievement-oriented society .. "Then I'll go to the East-West Center Dr Bullivant's interest in racial and decided in 1958 to emigrate. ethnic prejudice among senior students to compare the Japanese in Hawaii, to minority groups grew from life - he "I was offered a post at Ballarat Col­ in seven Melbourne high schools, was see whether they have the same patterns was a "Pom" in Ballarat !n the late lege but there was overwhelming pre­ prepared for the Australian Human of values as those in Japan; whether 1950s. judice in the school and the city." Rights Commission. they have changed to fit into Hawaiian "I experienced such a wave ' of anti­ Dr Bullivant did a BA at Melbourne It concluded that ethnic students did society and why they are one of the most British prejudice and discrimination ­ University and came to Monash in 1966 not suffer from systemic discrimination, successful groups in Hawaii and the US it was the Peginning of a whole interest as a postgraduate student in anthro­ but that Anglo-Australian students were mainland. for me in the field of pluralism and pology and sociology. He joined the possibly becoming self-deprived in com­ "I will also investigate international ethnic relations." staff as a lecturer in 1972, and gained a parison with the highly-motivated and interest in putting together a research An anthropology student at London Ph.D in anthropology in the Faculty of hard-working ethnics. team which would work through the University, he had come to Australia Arts in 1975, with one of the few ethno­ "The rep;ort has generated a lot of in­ Monash Centre for Migrant and Inter­ fust in 1956 as a canoeist in the Mel­ graphic studies of an Orthodox Jewish terest; perhaps people have started cultural Studies on these kinds of bourne Olympics. school in Melbourne. thinking that there may be better ways issues. " "My wife was Australian and we His recent report, Pallerns 0/ inter­ to educate our children," he said. =

'E' means engineer-but only for men There were advantages in being the only girl enrolled in the Faculty of "Your present Dean of Medicine Medical Centre will open its doors to Engineering at the University of Adelaide in 1942. could tell you many a Gothic tale of this the Victorian public. While Margaret Hamer's initiation fully manoeuvre the yacht onto a colli· period. "It has the potential to be an inter­ rite only involved her in having to sion course with the Manly ferry and. "However I am delighted to tell you nationally renowned centre of excellence that can only further augment Monash's remove the valves from all the bicycle with a muttered 'Take the tiller', would that in the end the goodies won - and in tyres outside the professorial board vanish below leaving the next poor a few months' time the resultant solu­ high reputation. I am totally confident it meeting, her fellow initiates went wretch to cope. tion that is the embryonic Monash will do so," she said. through curry in the boatsheds and end· "Years later I met the professor and ed up with "E"s painted on their heads taxed him as to his motives. in silver nitrate. " 'Oh,' said he , 'that's how 1 chose IISomeone had got his homework my honors students!' " wrong and they spent the next three Soon after graduation, Mrs Hamer months with the Es deeply etched into "confirmed the critics' views by marry­ their skin," said Mrs Hamer, former ing and producing a family ". president of the Queen Victoria Medical Later, as president of the Queen Vic­ Centre and member of the Monash Uni­ toria Hospital, she was deeply involved versilY Council from 1979-83. in the decision to move the hospital to Sh~ was speaking at an Engineering Clayton. and Science graduation ceremony last "I found myself chairing the planning month at Robert Blackwood Hall, groups. and in particular, the project where she was awarded an honorary team. degree, Doctor of Laws. "We were determined we would not After three years in Mechanical Engi­ say to the architects 'Design us a neering at Adelaide, Mrs Hamer went to hospital' but rather 'We, the users, want the University of Sydney to finish her it to function thus - you build it'. degree in Aeronautical Engineering. "The men's and women's unions not "Over the years it was like a game of only had separate buildings but stud· snakes and ladders, both politically and iously ignored each other, which created in dealing with the weathervane tactics some difficulties where I was concerned of the Department of Health." Mrs ) - still the only woman in the faculty." . Hamer said. She did not graduate with honors in "At one stage I truly believe the aeronautics: Queen Victoria would have closed its "One of our duties in final year was to doors for good but for the insistence of act as rostered crew for the professor's the Monash Medical Faculty that it pride and joy, his 20ft yacht. could not continue to teach medicine "Each Saturday a group of us would without the departments of Obstetrics, be summoned and off we'd go. Gynaecology and Paediatrics provided "Inevitably the profesoor would care· at the Queen Vic. • Dr Hamer wnh tha Vic&-Chancellor, Professor Logan. Advisers to deal with claims of harassment The university will appoint a number • the university is committed to pro­ defences available to the university Margaret James. Advisers will be ap­ of advisers to handle Inquiries and com· viding an environment which is free and the individual against whom an pointed at the conclusion of these train­ plaints about sexual harassment. from sexual harassment; action may be taken. ing sessions, probably some time this The advisers will discuss the inquiries • sexual harassment does not arise in month. A Sexual Harassment Sub-Committee and complaints and offer conciliation if the context of mutual sexual attrac­ Other functions of the sub-committee will be established at the next meeting of appropriate. tion and flirtation based on choice will include organising an education the Equal Opportunity Advisory Com­ If this process proves unsatisfactory and consent; program on sexual harassment for staff mittee, and training sessions will then be to either the complainant or the person and students; arranging for the circula­ • complaints can be made at the same held for potential advisers, committee accused. he or she may make a formal time to the Commissioner for Equal tion of the university's policy and pro­ members and others. request to the Vice·Chancellor to deal Opportunity; cedures to all present and incoming staff with the problem. • every attempt will be made to The sessions will be organised by the and students and acting as a support These moves were approved at the April preserve confidentiality and to avoid Equal Opportunity Co-ordinator, Dr group for the advisers. meeting of the University Council, the risk of defamation proceedings; together with a revised version of Sexual • if people handling a complaint work harassment grievance procedures which within proper guidelines, then in the included the following points: event of any legal action there will be Tropical 'products' on show at ANZAAS Nobody is likely to count the number and other contemporary issues such as of prawns tbey toss on the barbies altbe the role of aboriginals in tropical Australian and New Zealand Associa­ society. tion for the Advancement of Science Monash contributors to this science (ANZAAS) Congress In Townsville showcase are Professor Martin WiiIiams from August 24 to 28. and Dr Peter Kershaw (Geography), Dr Paul Zimmett (Southern Memorial But as the theme is Science and Life in Hospital); Dr Robert Rice (Economics); Two winners for Dodds medal the Tropics it is no surprise that Dr Ken McDonell (Computer Science), Tbls year,lor tbe first tlme,tbe J.W. The Dodds Medal is presented on the aquaculture and the prawn come under Dr Mike Taylor (Civil Engineering) and Dodds Memorial Modal for outstanding basis of three criteria: scholastic discussion, with other tropical Professor Solly Faine (Microbiology). final year mecbanlcal engineering achievement, potential as a practitioner, "prOducts" - the Crown of Thorns Registration fees for the congress are studeDts was split between two can· and insights and understanding of mech· starfish, giant clams. seasnakes, ticks, (if paid before May 31) $30 for a student dldat.. - Chrlstopber Carra and anical engineering in Australia. red backed spiders, mosquitoes, or pension\.r, S4S for an accompanying Graham Thomas. Eddie O'Neill's photo shows the uranium. barramundi. butterflies, feral person. $100 for ANZAAS members presentation ceremony with, from left: donkeys, possums. cyclones and skin and $120 for non members. For the first time, too, the medallists Mr R.J. Huston, general manager of cancer. (Monash speakers are invited to send were top of their year scholastically. Clyde·Riley . Dodds, Graham Thomas, Sociological papers discuss. inter alia. advance copies of their papers to the In­ The winners received their medals on Christopher Carra and Mr R.G. Austin, the isolation of women (the "invisibility formation Office for media interest as the day both graduated with first class manager of engineering, Clyde·Riley of women", as one speaker describes it) soon as possible.) honors - IS April. Dodds. MONASH REPORTER Pagel MAY 1937 We need to set minimum TV standards: Canadian expert Australia should introduce minimum standards for local content and regional The Politics department's visitors' program has drawn wide media production If television networking interest this year. In particular, two seminars on security issues in the becomes a reaUty, says Professor John Asia·Pacific region were praised for their relevance and balance. Dr Hull of tbe Communications depart­ Victor Vrevsky, right, from the USSR Academy of Sciences gave the ment, Brock University, Ontario. He believeS the Canadian example of Soviet view, while Dr Alvin Bernstein, chairman of the Naval War licensing networks as separate entities College at Newport, Rhode Island, spoke about US security concerns. with such regulations ensures program­ A seminar was also conducted by Professor William Hull of the ming is not run from one major centre Communications department at Brock UniverSity, Ontario, on The - as is feared will happen in Australia. political and cultural implications of media control in Australia and Australia's high local rontent and the Canada (see story at left). Inquiries about the seminar series should be competition between commercial sta­ directed to Dr John Dalton on ext 2414. tions meant these measures had not been needed up till now, he said. "If the competition doesn' t continue, and the dreaded networking which seems to be feared by so many comes Environment is his inspiration about. I suggest that you at least take this aspect of the Canadian model," Townsville·based poet Mark O'Con· The English department will host two Dorothy Hewett in June and Elizabeth Professor Hull told a seminar at nort tbe university's WriCer·in· other Writers-in-Residence this year: Jolley in July. Monash on The political and cultural Residence la.t month, Ilk.. to gain implications media control in Aus­ employment In pl.... not u.ually • Poet Mark O'Connor, right, and English tutor. John leonard, conducting a workshop as 0/ part of the Writers-In-Residence program. tralia and Canada. recognised as a poe"s domain. His perceptions of the Australian tele­ Mark, well known for his poetry of vision scene in general were much hap­ the Barrier Reef and his science·based c pier than those of the Canadian one, he approach to environmental issues, is said. writing an anthology of poems on his re­ "The Australian scene seems so fluid cent experiences as poet-in-residence at the moment - it's a bit like trying to with the New South Wales National pick up a piece of Quicksilver and do Parks Association. something with it." He has also written in Europe while Professor Hull estimates that Can­ house·minding holiday homes for adians spend between 75 and 80 per cent wealthy families, and has hosted a series of their television viewing time watching on Australian speech for the ABC's American programs. Science Show. HAt least Australians have a choice of Australian programs. Mark, who describes himself as a "It really wasn't until Number 96 "poet with a scientist's knowledge of the came along and became popular and environment", does not understand why caused the other stations to compete more has not been written on Australian that Australian programming began to places such as the Barrier Reef. take off." "With a strong feeling for biology, it Professor Hull also talked about pro­ is easier to write on ecological and prietorial interference in the media. environmental issues than about people Concentrating on the case of news­ or things with which I'm not familiar." papers, he said that there was an un· he said. founded assumption that proprietorial interference was substantial and led to Mark was born and bred in western what the proprietor had wanted. Victoria. "However, there is a degree ofprofes­ " I am an expatriate Victorian who sionalism amongst journalists which can vowed one cold and windy day in my and often does lead to a rejection of final year at Melbourne University to intervention - if and when it takes escape from the torments of this city," place," Professor HuH said. he said . RSH sounds right note Robert Blackwood H.II was praised in the latest issue of Image magazine. In an arCicie about conductor David Measbam,, the magazine said: Released in December is a recording of the Melbourne Sym· phony Orchestra containing John Ireland's Piano Concerto and the Violin Concerto of Edmund Rubbra. The soloIsts are Geoffrey Tozer piano, and violist Csrt Plnl. "'It's quite a lush recording," says Gift package from Poland Measham. "People may remember that Eileen Joyce made this piano Mona.h University Library last Polish Ambassador, Mr I. Kossa· concerto well known during her month ....elved a valuable colleetlon of kowski, on behalf of the Foreign international career. Poli.b book. and .....ords - the gift of Minister, Professor Dr Marian Orze­ • David Measham tbe PolI.b Ministry of Forelga Affairs. "We recorded it in the Blackwood chowski. Always the early bird, Measham The collection included 93 books and Hall of Monash University and I has released a recording with the a large number of records and tapes Mr Kossakowski is pictured here with would have to regard that venue as Western Australian Symphony Or· covering Polish history, language and Professor George Marvan, who ac­ having perhaps the best orchestral chestra featuring music of the sea. linguistics. architecture, art and artists cepted the gift on behalf of the depart­ acoustics in the country. In fact I'd This will be right in vogue with the and music. ment of Slavic languages. like to give that hall and the people America's Cup contest.' The presentation was made by the Photo: John Millar there a pat on the back." . MONASH Rt.:PORTER Pale 3 MAY 1987 Edgar Report mixes good with bad Monash University Council has found the preliminary report of the teaching and research standards." university by controlling the member­ working party set up by tbe State government to review tbe composldon of The response expresses concern at ship of Council. " university councils (tbe 'Edgar Report') a mixture of good and bad. recommendations relating to furnishing • Open COBnell meetlag.: "The· reports on various aspects of the univer­ Monash University Council has, on In the response adopted by Council position of the governing councils of sity's activities, particularly where these several occasions in the past, rejected last month, Monash 'enthusiastically' the four Victorian universities which d1,lplicate reports that are readily avail­ the opening of its meetings to observers. endorses many of the working party's are diverse in their histories, struc­ able. The grounds for such rejection have findings but has misgivings about ture. and spheres of influence, and It says: "Monash views with con­ been related to a concern that the pro­ others. likely to remain so in the foreseeable siderable misgivings the conclusions of ceedings of Council may be deleteriously Points In the report tbat earn a future. the working party that detailed repor­ affected by the presence of observers, Monash tick include: • The extent to which universities ting on such matters under the heads of either by inhibiting the willingness of • That universities shou'ld not be ac­ would be required to furnish addi­ the vague terms 'operational objectives' members to speak freely on sensitive countable to special interest groups, tional information in the terms for­ and 'performance indicators' ought to issues or by creating the opportunity for nor represent the interests of any mulated by the Working Party to be part of the normal Report of the any members to 'grandstand' to a par­ constituent group but should work satisfy the new concepts of 'accoun­ university to State Parliament. tisan audience. Monash sees no reason towards the best interests of the tability' . "There does seem need for a ra­ to alter its stance in this regard. University as a whole. Anomalies tionalisation between the needs of State "The working party is advised, • That Council members should be ap­ and Federal bodies to prevent the however, that Council papers are cir­ pointed on the basis of a number of The response specifically takes issue university being 'swamped' with culated widely within the university desirable personal qualities and pro­ with the wording of the section of the demands for reporting, some of it community, and all non-confidential ven capacity to advance the interests Edgar Report dealing with the Council's possibly of little real relevance and, if Council papers are lodged as public of the university. function and responsibilities, and sug­ subjective judgments are involved, of documents in the University Library. In • That the criteria for appointment to gests a number of changes designed to limited accuracy." addition, Council has, on numerous oc­ Council must include consideration eliminate an ' impression of an active Other points on which Monash took casions, admitted delegations of par~ of the range and quality of com­ interventionist management role for the issue with the Edgar Report included: ticular interest groups to present their munity relations which nominees Council'. • Selection of Chancellor: "Monash is views or submissions direct to the have established. It says, in particular, that the working strongly opposed to any constraints be­ university'S governing body." • That the size of university councils party's statement that 'the role of Coun­ ing placed on the university'S right to should be limited to an upper limit of cil is to provide leadership, direction and seek, unencumbered from within the thirty-five members. oversight' should not be taken as in­ community, a person of the requisite ex­ • That the balance between external terfering with the executive functions of perience and calibre to be its Chancellor. New hopes and internal members of council be the Vice-Chancellor or the functions of The restriction of the choice of established in the ratio of 3:2. academic bodies within the university. Chancellor from existing council for public Not wanting While acknowledging the university's members ... carried with it very real duty of accountability, the response limits on the freedom of choice of the • That women are under-represented notes that the call for greater account­ university for such an important transport ability to the State Government tends to on councils and that within the con­ position. " Most people have tbelr favorite yam highlight the anomalies faced by most straints of the electoral process, about tbe horrors of public transport, Council should achieve a gender Australian universities as a result of be­ Opposed bul relief may be in sight. ing established under State legislation balance of at least one-third female Two symposiums to be held at while being almost wholly funded and membership within five years. • Co-option of additional members: Monash in August are aimed at improv­ heavily supervised by the Com­ "Over its 25-year history, Monash But the report loses marks for the ing the "viability, relevance and useful­ monwealth Government. University has gained some of its most following: ness" of public transport systems. It points out that Monash University's useful and experienced members of • The lack of sustainable evidence that The first will focus on performance by the governance of Victorian univer­ sphere of influence extends beyond the Council through co-option, and it is looking at markets, resource con­ sities, and Monash University in par­ borders of the State of Victoria. strongly opposed to the elimination of straints, fares and ticketing systems, ticular, is found wanting in any ma­ "Victorian universities are part of a this membership category." administration, the 'use of computers jor regard. Commonwealth funded national system • Universities Appointments Commit­ and many other issues. of institutions of higher learning," it tee: "Monash is strongly opposed to the • The lack of convincing evidence that It will also consider what public trans­ the implementation of its says. working party's proposal for a centralis­ port will be like in the 1990s. preliminary recommendations would "As universities, they are the in­ ed Universities Appointments Commit­ The second symposium, Transport, lead to any improvement in universi­ heritors of a long and proud inter­ tee. This recommendation is inconsis­ Communication and Urban Form, has ty governance. national tradition of devotion to tent with the principle of autonomy been organised by an international steer­ scholarship, and will be judged by peer which the working party itself has • The lack of convincing argument to ing committee to bring together people sustain the recommended move institutions in Australia and elsewhere underlined, and could be seen as com­ with an interest in urban and regional towards near uniformity in the com­ by their scholarship as reflected in promising the independence of the development. It will address issues including tech­ nological, economic and urban change and their effects on transport and com­ Sir James's death a major loss munications systems. The symposium on Performance of hard·working man in the course of his demanding work-load and failing health Urban Public Transport will be held One of the university's most remarkable career, it seemed a fiUing should have dictated otherwise. from 19·21 August, and the second sym­ senior Council members, Sir James tribute to the longest -serving member of His service to the university came to posium from 24-26 August. McNeill, died suddenly on 12 the Monash University Council. an end, however, with his sudden death Inquiries about registration and ser­ March. The contributions of Sir in the early hours of Thursday, 12 vices should be directed to the Centre James, 70, were remembered by In May of the same year, as part ofits March. for Continuing Education on ext. 4717. Council: Silver Jubilee celebrations, Council again recognised the achievements of Sir His passing was noted with great Details of the symposiums can be ob­ sadness by Council four days later at its tained from Dr Mike Taylor (ext. 4959) At its meeting In Marcb 1986, tbe James McNeill by conferring upon him first meeting for the year on 16'March. or Dr Bill Young (ext. 4949), department Council of Monasb University was the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris Members stood in silence for one of Civil Engineering. pleased to acknowledge tbe creation of causa. minute in memory of this man who had Sir James MeNeHl as a Companion in The citation accompanying this been such a driving force among them. tbe Order of Australia. award, which is documented elsewhere Monash will continue to bear the Coming as it did on top of the many in the university'S records, lists the great stamp of Sir James McNeill for years to Innovators other honors bestowed on this modest, contribution made by Sir James to the come through the influence he had on its life and affairs of Monash University affairs in so many areas, not the least of welcome since his first appointment to Council in which is the revamped senior manage­ August 1969. ment structure of the university, which Researchers are invited to contact In­ The following December, at its last largely reflects implementation of the novation Inventory, a new montllly meeting for the year, Council noted with recommendations of the McNeill Report Magazine of innovation, invention, acclamation the minute of appreciation into the top echelons of the central science and research, to talk about their adopted by the Finance Committee com­ administration. projects. memorating the retirement of Sir James He was also instrumental in bringing The magazine is edited and published McNeill as its chairman after 13 years of to Council recommendations for the fill­ by Jane Richardson, editor of The dedicated service and inspired leader­ ing of vacancies in several of these Weekend Australian's innovations page. ship. senior positions in recent years. The contact for subscriptions and It was to his great credit that Sir With the death of Sir James McNeill, editorial is Innovation Publishing, 39 James was persuaded to remain an ac­ Monash University lost one of its staun­ Dumbarton Street, North Sydney, tive member of Council long after his chest supporters and greatest friends. NSW, 2060. MONASH REPORTER Page 4 MAY 1987 Taking the worst pains out of publishing Monash Is "pretty well In the forefront" of • publishlRI revolution. - in Geography, Office Services and the "For example, Dr Terry Hore of office - and terminals in the "Lots of things we are doing are tak­ AU the centre's new handouts are now Lot's Wife HEARU has indicated he has over 2000 Arts and Law faculties which feed into ing advantage of technology not exten­ laser-printed, and old handouts are pages of material which can only be them. sively used in Australia," says Ron Saw· being converted. transferred to a personal computer by yer of the Computer Centre. "The typesetters handle a fair amount retyping. They are "pseudo·typeset" using a "Authors are getting more control; of work but there are some con­ "The page reader would make a direct proportional typeface rather than with new typesetting programs and laser straints," Mr Sawyer says. transfer possible'." mono-spaced typewriter setting. The computerised page reader he has printers they can now produce page . . People who could make use of a proofs themselves." "This reduces their bulk by 20 per in ntind is a DEST PC-Scan that is dis­ computerised page reader should put Professor Jiri Marvan of Slavic Lang­ cent; it is easier to read and can be ab­ tributed by Remington. their requirements in writing to Mr Saw­ uages is producing a book by this sorbed more quickly," Mr Sawyer says. It costs around $8000 and its purchase yer at the Computer Centre as soon as revolutionary method, and Associate depends upon stated demands. possible. Demand for laser printing is growing urve found a machine that will read Professor Walter Veit of the German daily and the centre is investigating a The fuil potential of the computerised department is working on his second from good typed originals or photo­ larger capacity and higher quality laser copies onto disks," he says. publishing system is yet to be reached, book by this method. printer. Mr Sawyer says. The university may also acquire a "It does margins, tabulations and "Fifty or 60 books are produced at centring, and is compatible with most "If the quality from a laser printer is computerised page reader to comple­ inadequate a typeset copy can be pro­ ment existing equipment if Mr Sawyer Monash a year, a lot through Office Ser­ IBM personal computing systems in­ vices, a lot outside by departments and cluding Multimate and Wordstar. duced from the same source file." There has his way. are many publications that could be pro­ This will allow documents produced others by the authors. often with outside "But we need estimates of potential funding." usage to decide whether such a purchase duced morc easily using this system, by typewriter to be included in larger such as the faculty handbooks. documents without the need for re­ There are three typesetters on campus can be justified. keying. Mr Sawyer, a systems programmer, joined the staff of the Computer Centre two years ago. He completed his Computer Science degree at Monash in 1978 and a Masters part-time in England, in digital systems engineering. "The main reason I came to Monash was to set up some sort of centralised publishing system using the existing computers," he says. HCommercial typesetting is typically about S30 a page but if authors do their own keyboarding on a compatible system and format with TROFF or LATEX they only have to pay for com­ puter time and materials. "Both systems caD drive typesetters, but neither can make much use of the typesetters already at Monash." .--­ Many people are using TROFF or LATEX programs each year, mainly to do their theses. I IIIt can cost as little as $1 a page to have work typeset, or just four cents a page on the laser printer." More than a dozen laser printers are on campus and can be connected to the Computer Centre. The main laser printer prints about 1000 pages a day. The centre has a library of over WOO fonts that can be loaded into laser printers. • Ron Sawyer using a laser printer in the Computer Centre's office. This printer produces about 1000 pages a day. Photo - Tony Miller. Books of high quality 'relatively cheap' The History department is one of the works which fall between a book and an reader. which would transfer typed or which provided working capital. nrst to take advantage of desk-top article in length, and for spin·offs from photocopied material directly on to *Copies can be obtained from Monash publlshlng systems at Monasb. major research projects," he says. floppy disks, he said. Publications in History. Department of "We can now produce books of high The group is involving people outside The series was set up last year with a History, Monash University, Clayton quality relatively cheaply," says Dr An­ Monash in the series. seed grant of S1200 from the Monash 3168. Inquiries about the series should drew Markus, lecturer in History and "We are using external readers or ex­ University Publications Committee be directed to Dr Markus on ext. 2200. convener of the group responsible for perts in the given fields to see if work is the new Monash Publications in History worth publishing." series. Subscriptions are also being sold Two books - The Trumpet a/Truth: around Australia, especially to univer· An analysis 0/ Benedetto Dei's Craniea sities and colleges. Brains wanted by Louise M. Courtney, and Blood/rom Dr Markus said the university's ac­ a Stone: William Cooper and the quisition of the TEX and LATEX A team of Monash students is needed to represent the university in Australian Aborigines' League by An­ typesetting programs, coupled with laser University Challenge, a new ABC series to be recorded in Hobart drew Markus· - have already been printers, made desk-top publishing from 17-29 August. issued in the series and both 'flre selling possible. Teams of four (plus one reserve) from 16 Australian universities well at a mere $4 a copy. Secretarial staff could help put the will compete in the series, with the national champions possibly "There are four or five more books in copy on to disks and the typesetting for­ going on to compete overseas. the pipeline." Dr Markus says. mats could be added later. The format is a general knowledge quiz with an Australian bias. IIA lot of valuable work remains un­ "The idea is that we fit in with the life published, yet with little more than ex­ of the department, so that in periods Trivial Pursuit addicts will probably have an advantage. isting resources this can be changed. when the office load is relatively light Auditions of Monash hopefuls will be held early in second term in IIWe plan to publish the best honours the staff is free to work on our the Halls of Residence. Entrants must be current Monash University thesis each year. and to provide another publications." students - undergraduate or graduate. option for the publication of The process would be speeded up even Those interested should contact the secretary, Halls of Residence, more if the university went ahead with postgraduate and staff research. on ext 3930. "We see a special need to provide for plans to buy a computerised page MONASH REPORTER Pa.. 5 MAY 1'187 Council praise for former Vice-Chancellor source of funding. as well as helping to ner often belied the strength and resolve ,he former Vice-Chancellor. Professor Ray Martin, was created an Officer bring to commercial fruition the pro­ that so typified his character. in the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honors list. The Vniversity ducts- of its endeavors in research. His warmth and friendship was Council acknowledged this as follows: He also actively supported develop­ known to many from all sections of the ments of this nature in a broader na­ university community, and certainly to tional forum through his chairmanship those members of Council who served Tbe Monasb Vnlverslty Council development and marketing of ideas of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' during his Vice-Chancellorship. bereby pays tribute to Professor Ray­ generated within the university with Committee's Inter-University Commit­ It was with pleasure and pride that mond Leslie Martin, A.O., commercial promise. tee on Research (LV.C.R.) and the Joint Council acknowledged at its meeting in M.Se.(Melb), Pb.D_, Se.D.(Cantab.), By looking towards industry for new C.S.LR.O. / LV.C.R. Committee on March 1987 the creation of Professor D.Se.(A.N.V.}, F.R_A.C.I., F.R.S.C., areas of collaborative research and Research, and his membership of the Martin as an Officer in the Order of F.A.A., wbo served as Vice-Chancellor sponsorship, Monash University is Joint Business Council of Australia / Australia in the Australia Day Honors and an ex off/cio member of ConneD achieving a greater degree of indepen­ LV.C.R. Committee on Research and List. It is a fitting culmination to 10 from 1 February 1977 to 31 January dence by being less reliant on the Com­ Development. years of dedicated leadership to Monasb 1987. monwealth Government as its sole Ray Martin's friendly, engaging man­ University. During this decade, Professor Martin provided strong and consistent leader­ ship to the university. Under his stewardship, Monash Students win Indonesian language prize. achieved and maintained an enviable reputation, in Australia and internation­ ally, for the excellence of its research and teaching programs. Professor Martin came to the Vice­ Chancellorship at a time that correspon­ ded quite closely to the beginning of a new austerity in funding for tertiary education in Australia. The 1960s and early 1970s were periods ofrapid growth and readily available resources for Aus­ tralia's university sector. Credit Government attitudes changed during the mid-1970s, and the decade that followed was marked by sustained restrictions in funding that led to a time of quiescence for the nation's univer­ sities - the so-called 'steady state' period. It is to Professor Martin's lasting credit that he managed to generate dur­ ing this period a spirit of enterprise and innovation within the Monash com­ munity, maintaining the momentum .. that had been built up in the earlier years --. of the university's initial growth and The Australian Asian Association's Indonesian language prize for 1986 has been awarded jointly to Monash students Jill Turbull (se­ youthful vitality. cond from left) and Philip Johns (second from right). Both are second year students in the department of Indonesian and Malay. The He achieved this by establishing an association gives annual awards for excellence in the Indonesian, Chinese and Japanese languages. Mrs Turbull and Mr Johns are infrastructure that ensured the wise hus­ pictured with the Dean of Arts, Professor John Hay, left. the association's Victorian chairman, Mrs Elizabeth Simmons, centre, and bandry of resources, while not impeding Indonesian language instructor Mr Basoeki Koesasi. Photo ­ Tony Miller. the decentralisation of academic decision-making to as close as possible to the sources of the university's teaching and research programmes. Early warning on sportsinjury payouts He was also instrumental in estab­ Tbe director of tbe Sports and Recrea­ resulting from accident. adventure or risk activities were lishing the Monash University Founda­ tiOD AssociatioD, Doug Ellis, read witb "For instance, accidents that take concerned. tion in 1983 with the aim of providing a more tban usual iDterest the NSW place in swimming pools and other In 1980, Mr Ellis and Mr Neville measure of financial autonomy to the Supreme Court decision ordering tbe 'attractive nuisance' facilities may at­ Thrner, senior lecturer in law, initiated, university in years to come. Education Department to pay 52.2 tract more attention in the courts in in conjunction with the Faculty of law During Professor Martin's Vice­ million to a scboolboy (now a para· future," he said. and the Victorian.-Department of Sport Ch.ancellorship, some of the university's plegic) injured while playing rugby 'Liability in tort' arising from neg­ and Recreation{ the inaugural Aus­ most respected and innovative research league. ligent acts could become a well-known tralian conferences on the topics of and graduate teaching centres were and feared phrase, particularly where sport, recreation and the law. established. The award shocked sporting circles These include the Centre for Early and it could result in a total ban on foot­ Human Development, the Centre for ball in NSW schools (The Age, 13 April) Human Bioethics, the Centre for Mole­ and put the future of body sports in cular Biology and Medicine, and the doubt. Rush to attend courses Centre of Policy Studies. Mr Ems recalled that in October 1979 he sent comments on the legal liabilities Their successes show the wisdom of involved in sporting and recreational ac­ Professor Martin's acceptance of the dealing with youth suicide tivities to the Federal Government's largely inter-disciplinary nature of much Department of Sport and Recreation. Tbere is mountiDg community "more co-ordinated 24-hour services for of today's scholarly research, and his These comments are obviously even concerD about youtb suicide, now the crisis care and intervention, including readiness to support such activities by more pertinent today. second most common cause of deatb support to families and care-givers". removing the traditional boundaries and "There is an urgent need for a better amoDg adolescents. Professionals often needed support budgetary constraints that mitigate understanding of legal liabilities invol­ This concern was made apparent at from their colleagues, advice and "ex­ against the creation of such ventures. ved in sport and for the establishment of Monash recently, when a one-day work­ change of thoughts, ideas and experi­ Professor Martin was most influential safety guidelines in high-risk areas," he shop on youth suicide had to be repeated ences whilst dealing in this most difficult in helping to bridge the gaps between wrote. to accommodate a huge number of and traumatic area", it said. universities and the worlds of industry "An increasing number of cases against applicants. Speakers at the workshop included: and commerce that have existed to the local authorities and governing bodies The workshop. organised by the Cen­ Dr Peter Bush, police surgeon, Victoria detriment of the Australian economy for are being brought by people involved in tre for Continuing Education, was at­ Police; Mr David Ansell, social worker, far too long. accidents in sports centres. tended by 180 people in the health, Education Department; sergeant Vicki One of his last projects as Vice-Chan­ "There is a pressing need to educate welfare and youth work fields. Brown, Conununity Policing Squad, cellor was to oversee the establishment these groups about the relationships bet­ It produced a recommendation. sent Victoria Police; Ms Sue Costello, Child of Montech Pty Ltd, a consulting com­ ween law and sport as members of the to the Victorian ministers for police, and Adolescent Services, Austin pany wholly owned by the university general public become more aware of community services, education and Hospital; and Ms Jan Donaldson, Net­ with a continuing brief to facilitate the the possibilities of sueing for damages health, to say there was a need for work, Victorian Coroner's Court. MONASH REPORTER Page 6 MAY 1917 Facing up to the future Teaching ability will be put to the test / Monitoring and appraisal of academics is likely to become "a part of the inescapable future", according to tbe chairman of the Ulilversity Grants Commission in the United Kingdom, Sir Peter Swlnnerton-Dyer. This will come about, he believes. they were bappy to have represent their because of government pressure or department's research. pressure from within the university "We used independent expens from itself. each area (for example, geography, Sir Peter has just visited Australia at physics, engineering) to help assess the the invitation of the Australian Vice­ worth of research papers." • The Vice-Chancelk>r, Professor logan, is encouraging wide-ranging dlscussions about the university's future. He is pictured above, centre, at a meeting in his office with. from ~. Sir Peter Chancellors' Committee. Sir Peter said that this system was still SwinnertorH>yer (see story), the Deputy Vlce-Chancelk>r. Professor Ian Polmear. the Comptroller. Mr He said that today academics com­ criticised, but far less than he expected. Peter Wade and the Registrar, Mr Tony Pritchard. In the photo below Professor logan talks wtth staff in pleting their probationary periods were "The vice-ch~mcellors were by-and-by the French department. He has made such informal visits to 44 university departments and will continue accepted into the system willy-nilly. very grateful. The typical vice­ this program until all departments, administrative and service areas have had a chance to put their cases Their abilities as researchers or chancellor knows he has weak depart­ to him. Photos - Tony Miller. teachers were not assessed until later. ments but is not in a position to do When money was not a problem for anything. the government or the university its "The University Grants Committee distribution was not a problem. Then put these vice-chancellors in a better the squeeze began and the government position because we are far enough away c wanted to assess where its money was from the universities to be considered being spent, Sir Peter said. the voice of God." It didn't have enough money to cover Sir Peter said that the VGC had not all the research being done, and teaching assessed teaching because perfonnance as well, so it had to sacrifice the less indicators were insufficient and eye-to­ important research for the more impor­ eye assessment was "far too timely and tant. open to gross bias". Teaching, too, had to be assessed. "What do you do when you have the And academics were used to being teaching results? It isn't a bit clear. Do assessed for their research, but not for you give the worst teachers more money Some campuses could be preferred to Mr Neil Paget, senior lecturer with the their teaching ability. as an incentive to improve or the best others because of different systems of Higher Education Advisory and Sir Peter talked on the appraisal teachers more money as a reward?" monitoring academic performance. Research Unit, said there were at least system used by the VGC. Sir Peter said a basic problem with all He said many committees overlooked 30 departments at Monash actively in­ "I had very little idea what could be performance indicators was that they a large group of people which was will­ volved in the evaluation of courses and done with a full list of publications could be "doctored" - people could ing to assess performance. teaching. brought out by the researchers of each alter their conduct to fiddle the results "It is not always the most efficient The aim of such exercises was almost department, so we asked each depart­ once they established which indicator way, but I believe students' appraisals solely to "develop strengths and over· ment to name five pUblications which was being used. are fairly consistent and accurate." come weaknesses". Buzz words not out of place in academe Strategic planning Is vitally important These included deliberately constrain­ "Budgeting and personnel policies at the individual university level (univer­ for the future of any uoiversily, said Dr ing size to produce excellence; going for could work against an entrepreneurial sity management). Leo West follOwing his return from a market which nobody else was pursu­ approach," Dr West said. ing or for a delivery system that was dif­ "They are not independent of each study .....e In Europe. Movements in European universities ferent (such as distance education); ex­ other and they have arisen as a result of "Broadly. strategic planning means such pressures as the continuing reduc­ ploiting regional location (as a centre had been brought about by pressures finding a competitive edge and consis­ which "seemed to transcend political tion ·of resources, the demand for tently working towards it. serving the local community) and ex­ ploiting entrepreneurial potential. ideologies, and are as evident in Sweden research to solve immediate economic "This can be done through the alloca­ as they are in the UK". problems, and perceived value in the ap­ tion of resources, regular monitoring, "You must find a niche in the market and develop a unique advantage," he These movements, including strategic plication of business models of manage­ building up competence and ensuring ment," Dr West said. heads of departments are on side." said. planning, performance indicators and Dr West, senior lecturer in the Higher It was necessary to match administra­ government science and research "There are signs that the same Education Advisory and Research Unit, tive policies and practices with the policies, existed at the univerSity system movements under the influences of the spent some time in Europe looking at strategic position adopted by the univer­ level (resource allocation and the im­ same pressures are emerging in Aus­ issues relevant to university manage­ sity. plementation of government policy) and tralia. " ment. "Strategic planning also seems to be , accompanied by significant public rela­ tions - a 'talking up' of the university. 'Can't spend our way out of what it is doing and where it is going, • • • he said. The real challenge for Monash lies in funding. harness our resources - in order to get "European universities are finding it creating the future it wants rather than " The possibility of additional govern­ there. is important to develop and project an reacting to tbe future created by otbers, ment funding for universities in the fore­ "In other words, we should reach image." . , says tbe Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mal seeable future is now very slight. some agreement about our goals and In the past this sort of language would Logan. "We can no longer spend our way out priorities for the next decade or so. probably have applied only to American The particular leadership or manage­ of difficulties or our mistakes." "The next step is to decide from many and similar university systems, Dr West ment style appropriate to the last 25 New developments necessitated rais­ alternatives how best to move towards said. years is not so appropriate for the ing money elsewhere or diverting the desired position," he said. "While academics might be sceptical future, he told staff members at the first resources away from other activities. "The process by which we make these of entrepreneurial buzz words, these of a series of "information sessions" "Without departing from our tradi­ decisions is almost as important as the seemed to have a big effect on poli­ about developments in university policy. tional values as a university, we have to decisions themselves, and involves wide ticians. businessmen and potential HIn a short time Monash has estab­ devise a different approach in the future consultation across all constituencies clients. lished itself as one of the top universities in order to defend these values and move that make up the university." Management experts in the UK had in Australia; a remarkable achieve­ ahead," Professor Logan said. Professor Logan said he believed the suggested a number of ways that a ment," he said. "This statement implies we know what university needed to identify its areas of university could differentiate itself to But this was all achieved during a time we want and we have the motivation and excellence and allocate resources to achieve a competitive edge. of general expansion and fairly static persistence - and the capacity to them. MONASH REPORTER Pllge1 MAY 1987 Monash dominates IVF field: conference A video tape, The IVF Story, produc­ Making the IVF technique available ed by the Monash Medical Faculty and It was a real Monash affair at the annual confetence of the licensing to the North American population was a the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, set Executives Society of Austtalia and New Zealand says Dr Chris Browne, lecturer laudable object given the approximately the scene for the conference. in Physiology. The first day was devoted to the issue of in vitro fertilisation and 10 per cent infertility rate there and the "underlined the domination of Monash In all aspec;ts". This is Dr Browne's As well as providing some factual and State of Victoria". account of the conference, held at the Melbourne Hilton before an audience of The second problem 'as solved by historical background into IVF, it intro­ more than 2000. duced the two main scientific and Monash's agreeing to report to the medical contributors - Professor Carl management of IVF Australia wherever Wood, deputy chairman of the depart­ possible a reasonable time in advance of ment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, publication of research fundings. and Dr Alan Trounson, director of the Professor Martin noted that to date Centre for Early Development, both at no problems or disputes had arisen in Monash. this traditionally highly sensitive area. After the video Professor Wood gave He said the university had already a lively description of the history of IVF. received SJOO,OOO in advance royalties He described the difficulties with other and this money would be directed to possible techniques to overcome human help provide appropriate IVF facilities infertility, including the deyelopment of at the new Monash Medical Centre in an artificial fallopian tube which he had Clayton. pioneered. A large number of infertile women Healthy suffered from various defects or diseases The managing director of IVF Aus­ of the fallopian tubes, he said. As the Delaware, USA, had established its fallopian tube was both the route of first two clinics: one in Port Chester. transfer of the human ovum or egg from New York and the other in Brookwood the ovary to the uterus~ and also the nor­ Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama. Key mal site of fertilisation of the ovum by staff trained by the Monash IVF team spermatozoa, Professor Wood conclud­ had achieved 100 pregnancies with a suc­ ed .that replacement of the defective cess rate of about 30 per cent. fallopian tube by an artificial tube might return fertility to many otherwise infer­ Final speaker was Dr AJan Trounson tile women. who described some of the future bene­ fits from advances in the IVF technique. Feasible The detection .of genetically-deter­ mined diseases in embryos was pos­ Although the Monash 'group was not sible, he said. and this would make the the first to achieve a successful birth of goal of the selection of a healthy embryo an infant conceived by IVF, Professor achievable. Wood said that the Monash group could now claim both the highest success rate He also suggested that fertilisation with IVF in the world and the greatest could be achieved by direct micro-injec­ number of births achieved by IVF. tion of sperm into the ovum. This would be of special benefit in some cases of As a result of this - and as a con- male infertility. o sequence of two successful IVF births to an American woman, Mrs Vicki Bald­ Both Professor Wood and Dr Troun­ win, within the Monash program - the son mentioned that research was going idea of transferring the technology to on in coHaboration with Professor other countries, particularly the United David de Kretzer of the Anatomy States, became feasible. and ultimately. department to assess the extent to which IVF-Australia Pty Ltd was set up. • The Monash IVF team performs a laperoscopy. IVF could be improved and expanded to overcome various types of male infer­ Professor Waller, speaking to the title tility. . IVF - The Moral Dilemma, illustrated embryo so produced as '3 genetically species fertilisation and the need for the some of the problems associated with unique human entity' ", and that the regulation of IVF by a standing review The pre-culturing of the fertilised em­ the IVF technology by referring to two main question was: "How much respect. and advisory committee. bryo before transplantation was per­ episodes during the Monash-Queen Vic­ should be shown to this genetically He compared the punitive aspects of formed in a simple defined culture medium. Dr Trounson felt that this toria Medical Centre IVF program. human unique entity formed in the the Victorian IVF Law with the more laboratory? " medium might lack some vital sub­ The first was the case of the famous ~ conventional regulation of medical prac· The committee said that embryo cryo­ stances normally present in the fallopian "orphaned embryos". This concerned a tices through the concept of "unprofes­ . preservation should be allowable ". . . tube. South American couple killed in an avia­ sional conduct". as part of an IVF program in support of tion accident. who had not made provi­ In conclusion, Professor Waller noted infertility treatments for particular Cocktail sion for the future of the embryos. a that the current legislation should be CQuple, to enhance their chances of which were still held in cryopreserva­ a viewed as only the first step in arriving Experiments with more embryos were successful pregnancy and live birth". lion. at appropriate methods to regulate the underway to examine if "conditioned" However, what should occur in the formation of human life artificially. medium obtruned from fallopian tube In the second case a couple agreed to case of "surrogacy for love". as Pro­ culture could improve the efficiency of have an IVF embryo of theirs stored by Professor Ray Martin, who as Vice­ fessor Waller described it? Although the lVF technique. cryopreservation. Chancellor had been closely involved in this is clearly different from the pay­ the negotiation of the licensing agree­ The other area of difficulty was in ment for a surrogate mother, Professor ment between the university and IVF implantation of the embryo. The na­ Surrogate Waller said several problems could arise Australia, addressed the conference on tional implantation rate of fertilised as a consequence of any surrogate Subsequent unrelated medical com­ The University~s position. human embryos was said both by Dr motherhood. plications made a pregnancy for the He said that the marketing of tbe IVF Trounson and Professor Wood to be less These included the attitude towards woman highly inadvisable. Con­ than 50 per cent. the child of all individuals involved, and technology was in line with the pressures sequently, her two sisters-in-law. both of the attitude and feelings of the child to from the Federal Government for uni­ In the IVF situation. the future whom had already successfully ' had all of those involved in his or her versities to seek outside sources for some mother is prepared to receive the em­ children by the conventional natural production. of their funding. bryo by treatment with ~ cocktail of hor­ means, each volunteered to have the He summarised these as "the agony mones to mimic the changes that would stored embryo implanted in their uterus, Enthusiasm of relinquishment, the agony of rejec­ be occurring in the normal processes of to carry the pregnancy through to tion and the dignity of conception". Most Australian universities, he said, conception. delivery and then to hand the child over Although the committee had not now possessed a commercial arm in the Therefore it might be possible to gain to its genetic mother. formed a final view on these problems, form of a technololy-transfer company, improvements in implementation by im­ In other words, the two relatives of­ it 'felt that at present no surrogacy and tie noted that Monash's own com­ proving the preparation of the uterus. fered to act as surrogate mothers, for no arrangements should be allowable as pany, Montech Pty Ltd, had been form­ Dr Trounson said that new information financial reward, for what could be part of an IVF program. ed. (Dr Paul Hudson. the chief executive Monash was gaining in another impor­ described as the most laudable of Professor Waller also commented on of Montech, was in the aUdience.) tant area, that of inhibin, a new repro­ motives, that of familial love and the issue of the rights and status of off­ Professor Martin said the commer­ ductive hormone discovered by Pro­ concern. spring derived from donor sperm or cialisation of the Monash IVF tech· fessor de Kretzer and his team, showed The Waller IVF Committee, in the ova, the legal requirements for the nology was partly due to the enthusiasm great promise as an aid to the timing of ease of the "orphaned embryos", took administration of an IVF program, the of Mrs Baldwin, the successful events that are important to the IVF the view that "(they would describe) an prohibition of surrogacy, cloning, cross- American IVF mother. technique. MONASH REPORTER Po.eS MAY \987 Honorary Doctor of Laws for .Butchart

The former Registrar, Jim Butchart, recently became the first Australian' . university administrator to receive the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws. He .. was presented to the Chancellor by Prole88or R088 Day, chairman of the department of Psychology:

Since Ibe 1950s and Ibe beady, opli· Quietly, efficiently and with mlstlc days of Ihe Murray Report, Ibe commendable self·effacement he map of lertlary education in Auslralla assisted with the establishment of bas undel'lone an enormous change. regulations. committees, and the con­ Then there were six universities with duct of our affairs that have served us so the power to award degrees. well for so long . . Now there are 19 or 20 and many col­ In times of crisis - and thete have leges of advanced education which do been many - he has guided oUt eo..rse· so. with a keen eye to regulations and with The expansion - perhaps 'explosion' absQlute integrity. is a more expressive term - has been We learned early to trust his advice. dramatic and rapid. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his What we tend to overlook in all of this unstinting service to our affairs. is that universities are not like mush­ Jim Butchart came to Monash when it rooms which suddenly and unexpectedly was paddocks and pine trees, and a few appear in the fields. people of remarkable vision. Their establishment and development He came well prepared to join the em­ is an extraordinarily complex procedure 'bryo university in the enterprise of involving governments, councils, staff, establishing a new centre for teaching, students, committees and boards. research and scholarship. The Registrar is closely associated He had received the degree of Bach­ with all of these. elor of Economics from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from Passion the University of Melbourne. He or she is the academic secretary of He set about the business of develop­ the university with responsibility for ing academic administrative services overseeing the smooth operation of the with confidence. shrewdness, and un­ academic activities of the institution. canny skill. The legislative and administrative It is mainly for his contribution to this tasks encompass enrolments. exam­ often forgotten but key side of univer­ inations, academic records. the Conduct sity life that we honor him and pay of academic boards and committees, the tribute to him today. setting up of regulations. the interp!eta­ • Or'Sutchart'r8C8ives his award ·from the tion and sometimes the enforcement of Chancellor, Sir George Lush. those regulations. and many more res­ ponsibilities than I have time to Jist. During these Monash years, Jim But­ chart was active in other community A little restraint goes a long way services. He had a long involvement with While other newspapers may bave scouting and rose to the highest rank in tried to sensalionalise a beading: Victoria - that of Chief Commissioner "Greenles give God tbe thumbs dowa" , from 1968 to 1976. MolUISh Report., (1 April) ga.e Ibe item For this he was honored with the restrained coverage: Officership of the Most Excellent Order Beneath the heading the article .of the British Empire. reproduces the first page of my book His private passion. it is not entirely . where it is apparent that: irrelevant to add. is firing rifles at • the "Greenies" are government of­ targets. ficials implementing government A psychologist would not find it diffi­ procedures; cult to believe that this might be in • rather than giving "the thumbs compensation for not being allowed to down" , the officials were attempting to articulate the implications of the engage in the sart;le activity at meetings This history is extended through ex· proposed action. government with a scapegoat for of the Professorial Board. amination of the legislation and pro· This is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek way decisions; Mr Chancellor, the task of a Registrar cedures of some national governments of introducing the subject of En­ • EIA is not an impediment to does not lend ilself to flamboyance, self· overseas. vironmental Impact Assessment (BIA), development nor need it be expensive advertisement, or a place at the centre of The Australian context comes from a subject which governments in (it can sa.e money) the academic stage. c;omparison of procedures of the Com­ Australia, Asia, North _ America and • EIA is open to manipulation, like all The registrar's place is traditionally in monwealth Government and the State Europe consider serious enough to have other procedures where value the wings. making sure that the play is Governments. proclaimed legislation. judgements and interpretation are going smoothly and according 10 the Nothing is simple. however. There are involved. script; and, of course, serving as a many pitfalls with EIA. For example, Finally, so that the reader does not prompt - mainly to professors who Varied what is a significant environmental im­ become hopelessly confused and have either forgotten their lines or who Probably you would have heard about pact? How is it measured? How do you bogged-

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-- , MONASH REPORTER Pagc 10 MAY 1987 Prize winning pursuit up the bushmen's trail

Tbe Australian Academy of tbe Humanities-Esso award for a substantial view of the bush. The trail of the contribution to tbe understanding of tbe bistory of culture in Australia bas bushmen was selective. The concentra· been won by Monasb art historian Leigb Astbury. tion on certain aspects of rural life to the exclusion of others lent them a "mythic Announcing the award, the academy He said he was interested in whether quality" . said Mr Astbury's book City bushmen: these paintings erupted spontaneously For instance the Wallaby Track The Heidelberg School and the rural out of the artists' ~magination "which I people existed, but they were not a mythology (Oxford University Press) doubted" . typical feature of the bush in a period "challenges a number of longstanding "I set o.ut to find the visual language when labor had become unionised and assumptions about the Heidelberg from which they drew. station owners had become increasingly School and its contribution to the "One of the theses in the book is the meagre with their handouts. nationalism of the 1880s and 18905". idea that these paintings pick up on a Mr Astbury said that in high school . Mr Astbury said: "To some extent I popular tradition of photography and and HSC he was interested in the prac· was exploding myths but I hope I illustration.' , tical side of painting "but I would not haven't kiDed off the Heidelberg paio. The most enjoyable part of doing have been great shakes as an artist". tings conclusively." research for the book, he said, was being He developed the book from his MA in the State Library and leafing through thesis, producing a chapter every Christ· old illustrated magazines and illustrated mas for six years. newspapers on microfilm, and studying La Trobe Library pictures. Mr Astbury paid a tribute to the help he received from Graeme Davison. now Monash professor of history. He said Professor Davison had most innueoce on the book's historical line. He said that in the last four or five years there had been a trend back into configuration and art schools were fm­ ding that students were beginning to enrol for drawing classes. "The relevance of the Australian mythic tradition to the students of 1987 is that it is there at the back of their minds as an historical fact, and very few students would accept it uncritically." Mr Astbury's next book wiD be about the 1890 artists' perception of their own city environment. • Leigh Astbury. The paintings presented an urban

• Left: William Macleod's On the Road, circa 1888, and below. W.S. Stacey's Splitters in the Forest. 1886.

~;..,­ • ~~ .:. MONASH REPORTER P.g~ 11 MAYt917 Three delinquents were about to wreck my bike you cleaned up your room, like] said to If they become (say) goolise and This not un-bloody-funny piece of writing crossed the editor's desk last clean up your room?", reminding the woliman, we would have a true infIX, week. It is the essence of a talk given by mathematician Mike Deakin on ' . little \lugger that she did say to him to and tbey don't, 50 we don't. Ockham's Razor, the ABC radio program produced and hosted by Robyn clean up his room. But why need she I did, however, come across some­ Williams. We publish It w~hout further comment. repeat it? thing much closer to a genuine infIX She knows, and he knows that the some months ago in a letter from one of . A frlead of mlae, tbea a gnduate stu­ of desolation, by the judicious insertion subject on which he was spoken to was the less literate members of the legal deat In mathematics, today an eminent of another -im: the cleaning of his room. profession. mathematidan, once Involved bimself In Tri/Mla raskol oli oogarirnapim wiliwil So a repetition of tbe word "clean" is Lawyers, where ordinary mortals a commanity tutoring project on Chi­ b%ng mi - "Three delinquents ut­ consigned to the abyss and an infinitive would write "you". put "yourselr'. cago's South Side. terly wrecked my bicycle". is split beyond hope of reconstruction. This man, however, wrote "your good He approached the task with An inflX! Now if tbe words "to wreck" or "to self". Now there are contexts in which thoroughness and dedication, read Now there are those who say that clean" really are each seen as, in effect, adjectives like good can qualify the Piaget, and arrived at his first lesson Tokpisin is merely a dialect of English one word - a verb that just happens to noun self. with a five-inch piece of string, a ruler and, if this is to be believed, then] rest be written in two bits, this same logic There is a book ealled The Divided and a pair of s..cissors. my case. Here, we have an infix. pure can be applied to other such Sel/, a work of philosophical psych­ He assigned to his pupil the task of and undiluted. compounds. ology, and then we can have the cutting off two inches from the piece of But I hardly suppose that I can quite "You don't need to go to the news­ questing self, the moral self and even the string, and then measuring the rest. To so easily succeed in my quest. For now, agency to buy The Age. You can get it at good self in similar contexts. his chagrin, he found that she took the not only earnest undergraduates and the nearest milk bar." But the lawyer, clearly, was not two inches neither from the left nor the professional linguists, but nearly every~ writing in any such context. but rather in right, but from the middle. body realises that Tokpisin isn't Washers-up the legal area where other, less fulsome, "Fool that I am," he recounted, "of English, even if a lot of its words once lawyers would write yourself. infinitely many possibilities, I neglected were. Already one compound verb has been No, I think that good here is a genuine all but two." So back to the chase. My next interrupted; Un't" comes (as an infIX?) infve and that the splitting up of the This story was brought back to mind thought, indeed, was a negative one. into the verb "do need". That's stan­ word into which it has been inserted for me when, in my pursuit of an English has an abhorrence of the infix, dard. So is another modification. "Can must be seen as a device to hide the fact amateur interest in linguistics, I learned so great, my mind told me, that it get" - OK, a very good compound that it has this status. Similarly with the that these are not only prefixes and suf­ outlaws it, even when it isn't really verb. "Can usually get" - insert that letter I once had from an Indian gentle­ fixes, those tittle gargoyles we put on the there. We may not, we are told, split the into the sentence, and only an ultra­ .man who referred to himself as u my un­ beginnings and the ends of words, but infinitive. pedant would object. worthy self". also infJXes that slot into the middle. So it's wrong to say "Tttrec delin­ People who moan and groan over ] came upon another, genuine, if "But don't be upset that you over~ quents were about to utterly wreck my split infinitives allow without any rather trivial infIX quite by chance while looked the possibility," I was told, "you bicycle". You see "to wreck" is the qualms "you can usually get". leafing through the Macquorie Diction~ would. InflXes don't exist in English. to main verb. and you mustn't interrupt it. Or even closer - why outlaw the split ary. The Major Mitchell (as two words) Now you might argue that there is a infinitive and allow the split future is a type of cockatoo, but jf you insert a Disapprove verb in English "to utterly wreck", tense? "Henry," wrote Hilaire Belloe, hyphen, you get the verb to Major­ What, no inflXes in English? Does our that's different from the more prosaic "will very soon be dead". And genera­ Mitchell, which means, as the football rich language contain none? New ~s the verb "to wreck", but your average, nor­ tions thrilled to the verse and its shock­ commentators would have it, "to cover whole concept of infix was to me, I gird­ mal grammarian might be inclined to see ing ambience. But no one criticised the more ground than the early settlers". ed nonetheless my loins and set out in its the word "utterly" as an adverb modi­ grammar. The Americans do the same thing with quest. fying the verb "to wreck" and so, quite But these aren't proper infix ques­ pork-barrel and whistle-stop, and My first rationalisation was that I had definitely. splitting the infinitive. tions. Fascinating they may be, but no doubtless there are other examples. in fact seen one. In PNG Tokpisin they You're supposed to say either: linguistics professor worth his tangs have a verb bagarap, which means "to "Three delinquents were about to ut­ would pause to glute them gley. spoil", "to break" or "to wreck" which terly wreck my bicycle" (on second So I had to think again. And it came has been taken over by a group of anti­ thoughts, no) to me that, at the time of the Korean smoking (and other things) cam­ or "Three delinquents were about to armistice, the Launceston Examiner, in paigners, who, regrettably, misspell it wreck utterly my bicycle" (no, not an excess of grammatical rectitude, had and also, in my view, get its meaning that either) realised that the true plural of Prisoner wrong but that is another story and I do, or "Three delinquents were about to Of War was Prisoners Of War, not but grudgingly and in part, agree with wreck my bicycle utterly" (oh Prisoner of Wars, and so one shouldn't their aims, but not, mind you, all their Gawd!). write POWs, but PsOW, and similarly methods (which isn't to say I don't have Scientific American. rightly regarded MsP, JsP, GsG, etc. They produced a a sneaking admiration for some of those as a model of good precise style, accepts delight of such headlines. too), and I recognise that they can also the split infinitive, and you can find a What a lovely infix - very regional­ be quite creative, every bit as creative, at dozen, at least, in every issue. ised, highly specialised, and now, of their best, as the advertising industry course, dead. Pity. they set out to subvert, although one About the time that the PsOW were For a time, I thought that the as that could wish that they could give credit coming home from Seoul, I and my turns Australia into Australasia was a where credit is due and spell the name of brothers and sisters had to wash up the true infix. ·We use it when we want to their own organisation more correctly, dishes for my dad and mum. This was add unto ourselves the New Zealanders, though I hope it's not disloyal to say so. then, as now, called the "washing up", the Papua New Guineans and assorted Sorry, I just realised ] got carried and my parents would organise this, but islanders. away there on a train of parenthetic leave us kids to do the work with Reluctantly, however, I decided that thought and indulged in what the style exhortations like "We need two Australasia was a compound derived manuals call "ribbon writing". washers-up and three driers". from Austral and Asia and so meaning Ribbon writing is very naughty and It never seems to have occurred to "South of Asia". which is more or less the manuals disapprove of it. them that they should really have said right. It causes monstrous sentences like "wash-uppers" and "dry~uppers", so But this explanation will not do when that one back there, and these tend to as to avoid possible infixes. it comes to Malaysia. This is a federa­ fog the brain. . The British Journal for the Phil­ And later, when I went to youth tion of the old states that formed Now there are languages where the osophy 0/ Science by contrast has camps, they were much less couth and Malaya together with some bits of ribbon writing takes place, not at the editors who nose out split infinitives said "Five washer-uppers - youse five Borneo. level of the sentence, as in English, but more expertly than trained pigs do in the back'lI do." The si that indicates the distinction at the level of the word. truffles. A similar comment applies to the between the previous Malaya and the These are called "agglutinative lang­ Common parlance, of course, allows multiple prefvees that pile up to form the greater Malaysia would seem to be a true uages" - Turkish is an example - and it - indeed infinitives can be so split names of complex chemical compounds. infix and it's hard to put any other gloss they have inflXes that act in the word as that bits disappear. "Johnny," calls the These produce remarkably rococo ap­ on it. parenthetic remarks do in the sentence. distracted mother to her 12-year-old, parent infixes with numerals. Greek let­ And we Australians can provide But back to bagarap. It's a good, "have you cleaned up your room like I ters and assorted bits of punctuation. another example also. C.l. Dennis used regular verb in Tokpisin and so takes said to?" (perhaps, if she weren't so dis­ But again, these are not true inflXes, it in The Auslra/aise. It came up the -im (a suffix) in the transitive. Compare: tracted, she might say '·'as I asked" ­ and besides there are many who would other day. "Go to the foaty?" ] asked a Wiliwil b%ng mi emi bagarap ­ perhaps not.) query whether words like 2,3,4,6-tttra­ mate. "Don't talk about it," he "My bicycle is broken" Now this is an interesting case. You O-methyl-D-glucose are really EngliSh. answered, "the Roys got done like a din­ Tripe/a rasko/ oli bagarapim wiliwil clearly can't say "like I said to", Then too we can dismiss those ner. The game was a di-bloody-total­ bolong mi - "Three delinquents without reference to the main verb (here modifications to the interiors of some saster! " wrecked my bicycle." "clean"). words as not being true infixes either. So How's that for an infix? But the Tokpisin speaker can invest But the mother dealing with the goose becomes geese in the plural and "Fan-bloody-tastie," was Robyn the sentence with an even darker shade 12-year-old wants to go further: "Have woman, women. Williams's reply. MONASH REPORTER Page 12 MAY 1987 'Pompous swollen-headed ass to blame for present difficulties' The office of Dr Alan Gl'elory, a senior lecturer in Education, has all the just pass muster, being sixth in the earmarks of the work area of a husy academic. line ... HWe have just heard on the wireless But it is even· more cluttered today • On. new Labor government: "I that the judge Sir Isaac Isaacs has been because of the presence of carton upon am strongly of the opinion that the ad· appointed governor·general. I suppose carton of letters, some already trans­ vent of a Labor administration here is this was inevitable. I don't see how the cribed and others waiting to be. aU to the good. The other parties com· king could stand up against it if he was And these cartons are the reason why pletely failed to pull together ..." entirely on his own ... The really Alan, whose main department interests • O. tbe DepressiOD: "Unemploy· unfortunate thing is that this is a purely are economics, commercial and curri­ ment is still bad here and processions of political appointment of a partisan type culum - and the history of education ­ men parade the streets. So far they have and leads to all kinds of intrigue . . ." has had to update his writing plans. been quite orderly ... Our unemploy­ • OD federal aDd state lovemments: AJan has had an active association ment here will probably rise to 30 per "We are extremely top-heavy and over­ with the youth organisation, Somers cent, compared with 14 per cent in Eng­ loaded in governments so administrative Camp and Power House. which asked land ..." expenses are out of all proportion to our him to write its history. • On the appointment of a means ..." Along the way (at Eastnor Castle. in governor-general (Lord Somers, as • On Mr Bruce (the former prime England) he chanced upon. in the family senior State governor. filled in as minister and later Lord Bruce): "Many archives. some personal (and unpub­ governor-general after Lord Stonehaven people are blaming him for our present • Dr Alan Gregory lished) letters of the camp's founder Ar­ returned to England): "It (the appoint­ difficulties and all (are) beginning to House, but as a spin-off he has pro­ thur. Lord Somers, governor of Victoria ment of an Australian) will be a great realise what I said when I first saw him duced a slim hooklet on the 1000h anni· from 1926 to 1931. mistake from every point of view and - that he is a pompous swollen·headed versary of Lord Somers' birth - LORD Lord Somers' sister Verena kept every not popular with the bulk of the people. ass ..." SOMERS: Something ojthe life and let· letter that her brother had written to her Whoever they appoint must be absolute· Alan Gregory says that Lord Somers ters oj Arthur, 6th Baron Somers, con­ - from notes on ruled lines when he Iy untainted by domestic disputes and had Ha tremendous sense of duty", and taining some of the Worm to Wag first learned to write, to letters written policies and they can't find an Aus­ the foundation of the boys' camp was an lellers. c just before his death in July. 1944. They tralian who rs that. If he has taken any interesting and imaginative experiment. The Somers letters themselves will be used the family petnames of Wag part in public life out here he must have Originally such camps were designed to the subject of a third hook. (Verena) and Worm (Arthur). trodden on someone's toes ... heal divisions in society between indus­ Alan Gregory says that while a lot of •'The proposal is recognised as being trial working class boys and public MONASH FOOTNOTE: The camp the material is chitchat the rest of it pro­ put forward at the instigation of a sec­ school boys. records show that a boy called George vides an extraordinarily interesting com­ tion of the Southern Irish Catholic Party Today Somers brings in people from Lush attended the first Somers camp. mentary on the social, economic and headed by that tiresome Dr Mannix . . . ethnic backgrounds and from homes. That boy is now the Chancellor - Sir political life in Victoria in the late 1920s, "What they really want is a real live George Lush. And now there is a Lady Somers camp -:--:---.,­ as seen by a vice-regal person. Duke with many quarterings and a long as well. • The family in the grounds of Eastnor Here are some extracts from the unin­ family history. There is much veneration So Alan is continuing to write his Castle: Lord Somers, daughter Elizabeth hibited correspondence: here for the old English nobility. I only history of Somers Camp and Power and Lady Somers c.1934.

It was very pleasing to see publisbed in MOlIIISh Reporter (Aprill) part of tbe text of tbe occasional address giYen by Professor Di Yerbury, Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, at a science graduation ceremony in Robert Black­ wood Hall. Professor Yerbury spoke about the lower participation rate of women in science and technology and of some of the reasons why this might be so. She described the attitudinal and institutional barriers which must be overcome if the situation is to change. Examples were given of the kinds of obstacles which women face, including some from Professor Verbury's own life. The harsher negative points which needed to be made were delivered with and technology are figments of their efforts which are being made at Monash point of making the decision to apply. humor and restraint. imagination. to establish equal opportunity principles The nature of this obstacle has not yet I was present at the ceremony as the It was particularly ironic that he and practices. been determined but it is nonetheless guest of a friend who was graduating should make these remarks given that While participation rates for young real, as are the other barriers described with Honors. Professor Yerbury is the first and only women in science studies at undergrad­ by Professor Yerbury. We had originally met through our woman Vice-Chancellor of an Aus­ uate level have risen there is a progres­ Genuine attempts must be made to membership of a minority group ­ tralian University and that there was sive decline as the study level increases. break down these barriers to full par­ mature-age, female science students. only one woman among the gathering of A recent report by Patra Antonis on ticipation by women in all aspects of We belonged to that group precisely science academics on the dais. behalf of the Monash Association of science rather than to shrug them off as because earlier in our lives we had It was also a great pity that the Chan· Graduate Students (published in illusory. experienced the very barriers described cellor chose a public occasion to make Monash Reporter, March 4) highlighted It was at the prompting of the 1986 by Professor Yerbury. his remarks. this decline at the level of progression to Committee of the Monash Association It was therefore with great disappoint­ For many of the family members and postgraduate study. of Graduate Students that I have written ment and anger that I listened to the friends present it was probably the one At Monash a much smaller propor­ this letter. remarks made by the Chancellor before and only time that they had visited tion of women than men apply for post­ That committee fully shares the views he closed the proceedings. Monash. graduate scholarships. The report also which I have expressed. He described women as being like If the views expressed by the Chan­ showed however that the success rate for Margaret Sloan Don Quixote, always "tilting at wind­ cellor were construed as being those of women who did apply was greater than Project Offker mills". suggesting that the obstacles to the university, a great disservice will that for men. MODlSb Association women's greater participation il.1 science have been done to the very substantial The obstacle appears to be at the of Graduate Students MONASH REPORTER Pa", t3 MAY 1987 V\{o.men ~till opt for ."Most girls understand that they are likely to work for a large part of their tradItI0 naI )0bs lives, but they see themselves in jobs ­ often part-time - rather than careers," Cbanges to recruitment procedures and the apprentice system could see Dr Dillon said. more women employed in technical areas. "Given the realities of current divorce rates and the reduction in female job op­ Suzanne Dillon, a Monash graduate into Dr Dillon's book, Jobsjor the Girls portunities as a result of technological who has just completed a research study - Why not Technical? change, can girls afford such limited into non-traditional jobs for women, The study revealed girls continue to ambitions or is this just a path to future says she is confident more employers choose "women's jobs" because they poverty?" will welcome women training for fear it would not be possible to combine Dr Dillon, who taught in secondary technical professions. a technical career with other perceived schools for some years, said the most obligations placed on women by society. However it still seems women them­ disheartening aspect of that experience selves are opting for traditional career The fears were not all on the part of was seeing the amount of talent wasted. the girls. choices. And she claims parents are generally Dr Dillon claims while feminist con­ The study found boys also were con· too ill-informed about the labor market cerned about the disruption of family cepts are broadly accepted among the to exert the right influence bn their life if girls were to enter their uaditional young, girls fail to recognise how those daughters who are interested in entering domain. ideas can apply to their own lives. any non-traditional occupation. Dr Dillon says boys interviewed for She believes more informed career ad­ More than 2000 secondary school the book were openly hostile to the idea vice from parents and teachers is im­ students, teachers and employers were of girls competing for jobs in the perative if girls are not to make job interviewed and their thoughts collated technical area. choices which are either dead-end, or will lead them ultimately to relying on the social welfare system . From. sea-bed to Down Under • Dr Dillon, 8 management consuhant in tile public relations sec1lon of Telecom, did her BA. Dip.Ed. and Ph.D: at Monash. Her husband, Tharam, was 8 senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering al Monash before taking up the foundation chair in Computer Science at La Trobe University. Adelaide appoints V-C Professor KevIn MarJoribanks has Born in Sydney, he holds undergrad· _ appointed Vlce-Cb ••cellor of the uate degrees from the University of University of Adelalde_ NSW (Mathematics) and the University of New England (Economics). He also He has been Acting Vice·Chancellor has a Masters degree from Harvard Uni­ since the sudden death of Professor Don versity and a Doctorate from the Uni­ Stranks in August 1986. versity of Toronto. Professor Marjoribanks was appoin­ His research interests are focused on ted to the Chair of Education at the Uni· the role of the family in education and versity of Adelaide in 1975, from the the assessment of learning environ­ University of Oxford. ments .

• The becak (thrae-w~eeIed bicycle) is being rejected as a mode of transport in its homeland. Indonesia, because H "exploits people". This Jettisoned becak was on display for many weeks in the ground floor foyer of the Menzies Building. It was salvag­ ed from the Indonesian seabed and brought to Australia for its novetty value. A restored New use for sports hall becak will soon be on permanent display in the department of Indonesian and Malay. Photo ­ Tony Miller. Durloa tbe Easter break tbe Sports future championships at Monash and, alld Recreation Centre's ball was tnDS­ perhaps, the national titles which 3re formed Into a roller ,kallni rink for tbe due to be held in Melbourne again in 1987 VIctorian cbamplonships_ 1989," Mr Bracegirdle said. Grandstand seating and barriers were Bond and beyond: The political Our work. our lives, our words: installed and wired with an elaborate career 0/ a popular hero Women's history and women's work sound system to cater for artistic and By Tony Bennett (Professor in Ed. Leonore Davidoff and Belinda speed skating events. Social and Cultural Theory, Griffith Westover. As wen, the north-east car park was University) and Janet WooUacott blocked off to provide an outdoor cir­ Life stories set in the general con­ (freelance writer). cuit for road-racing. text of British society in a period of It was the first time the champion­ Examines the image constructed in rapid change. ships had been held outside a conven­ the Bond novels and films and as tional rink, and the Victorian Chapter reflected in a wide range of other Women in Ireland: Voices 0/Change of the Australian Federation of Amateur media forms. The Bond phenomenon By Jenny Beale Roller Skaters was delighted with the is also used as a case study to explore Analysis of the changing experi­ results. key areas of current debate in ence of Irish women through in­ Mr Harry Bracegirdle, laboratory cultural studies and Jiterary theory. depth interviews with 27 women aged manager in Physics, was special projects Macmillan Australia, RRP $17.95 from 14 to 87. officer for the championships. The "gTanwood" flooring surface Caught up in conflict: Women's was "not quite as. grippy as some that Hazard or* Pearce * Dyceton's * Crime: responses /0 political strife the skaters were used to. but this did not A sensational comic drama in three greatly detract from the performances acls Ed. Rosemary Ridd and Helen Callaway. of some of Australia's best skaters," he By Walter H. Cooper. said. Edited by Dennis Davison An examination of how political conflict can bring heightened The only criticism raised was the short Newly·found 19th century play, length of the skating surface (the rink first produced at the Victoria violence against women and circum­ scribe their lives. was 36 x 24 metres). "However, there Theatre, Sydney, 15 July, 1872. are plans to extend the hall to the north Monash Nineteenth·Century Drama The abo"e books are part of tbe by another nine metres later this year, Series No. /0 Women /n Stu/ely series edited by Jo and this will provide an ideal area for $3 from Dr Davison or the English CampUng, and published by Mac· future events. • Dale Bfocegi,,"e. 12. AuStralion "With this in mind, the organisers depa~ment's office. mman Education, United Kingdom_ Freeskating Champion, was &Jso a hope that they will be invited to stage Monash championships. MONASH REPORTER Pale 14 MAY I.,.., The National Health & Medical Air fares provided for US exchange Research Council is seeking nominations from persons engaged in research in Tbe Vice-Cbancellor, Professor Logan, bas agreed to fund three return health sciences other than medicine or fornia program and will enable up to dentistry who would accept appointment economy air fares to enable Monash students to take advantage of the five Monash students to spend a year in to the Medical Research Committee for Monasb-University of California exchange scheme under which five the United States. the Iriennium 1988/ 90. Monash students may spend a year in California. The Warsaw agreement will cater for Applications close in Canberra on 20 May, 1987. The existing scheme waives tuition fer or requiring further information three categories - undergraduate Further details are available from the fees, but fares and other expenses, esti­ should contact Annie Mennell on ext. students (nominated by the department of Slavic languages), who will spend up Research Administration Officer, Mr R. mated to total about $11 ,000, are 3011. H. Harle, ext. 3012. thought to be a deterrent to many to a semester. or half a year. in Warsaw; graduate students, who may be away for students. Two new *overseas * exchange * schemes up to one academic year; and staff for * The V-C is also offering three return are expected to come into operation An award to* commemorate* the life and shorter visits, with the possibility of air fares to enable staff members to take soon. work of the late Professor L.F. (Fin) advantage of the exchange scheme. Council has approved proposals for visiting appointments. Crisp. onc of the founders of the study of The air fares offer will operate for a the establishment of links with the Uni­ political science in Australia, has been trial period of three years. Later it is versity of Illinois and Warsaw Univer­ established by the Ausualasian Political Studies Association and the Common­ hoped that the program will be sustained sity. Carroll Prize Nominations bave been called ror tbe wealth Bank of Australia. by funds from external donors. The Illinois scheme will be similar in a..ard of Ibe Gamet H. Carroll Prize for The award.will be given to a political Anyone interested in taking up the of­ most respects to the University of Cali- musical productions staged between 1 scientist who within 10 years of October 1986 and 30 September 1987. graduating as a PhD or of taking up Nominations close with the Assistant tenure at a university or college is judged to have published the best work within the Science information bank Registrar (Arts), Mr Alan Finch, on 30 three-year period leading to the year of The AustraliliD Academy of Science is are prepared to assist in communicating September. the award. planniog to establish an Australian with the public, schools, politicians and The successful applicant will win a SdeDce aDd TedlDology IDformation public servants. silver medal and SSOO. Service aimed at promoting public The Information Service has been Alumni meeting For further information contact uDdentandinR of science and tech­ planned by a working party convened by Maureen Barnett, University Informa­ Tbe Society of Monasb Ele<:trical tion. Australian National University (062) the Secretary (physical Sciences) of the Dology. Eaglaeering Alumni (SMEEA) will bold 492229. Academy, Dr Robert Crompton. The Its annual general meetin8 on Wednes­ Announcing the project, the president budget is $268,000 in the first year and it of the Academy, Professor David Cur­ day 3 June, 1lIII7, at 4.30pm In Engi­ is proposed that the Academy will seek neering Lecture Tbeatre EJ. The Australian* * Academy * of the tis, said that the service would en­ SIOO,OOO from government sources as a courage visible and closer links between Inquiries should be directed to Dr Humanities is offering two travel grants "seeding" commitment tbat would Greg Cambrell on ext. 3485. to full-time teaching or research scholars scientists and technologists on the one enable it to approach other potential resident in Australia and working in the hand and the general public, secondary supporters. humanities for short-term study abroad in schools, politicians and public servants Further information about the service 1987·88. on the other. may be obtained from Dr Crompton IMPORTANT DATES The grants will normally be for The service will start by gathering a (062) 49 2403, or Dr Peter Pockley, The Registrar advises the following im­ SAlOOO, paid as a contribution to the cost databank, representative of working portant dates for students in May: of a return airfare. Public Affairs Adviser, University of Application forms are available from scientists and technologists in research New South Wales (02) 697 2866 or (02) 4 Second Term begins for Medicine VI (Alfred Hospital) students the Executive Secretary, Australian institutions throughout Australia who 660 6363. Academy of the Humanities, GPO Box 6 Graduation Ceremony - Education. Law and Medicine 93. Canberra, ACT 2601. 9 First Term ends Applications close on 30 September. Greenpeace seeks volunteers First Term ends for Medicine I, II, For further information contact Mrs Sally Jeneczko (062) 48 7744. The Greenpeace Antarctic Rase on Ross encouraged to research Antarctic coastal and III Island is seeking voluDteers for its over­ fish populations and the base's environ­ Study break begins for LL.M. by coursework wintering team for 1988. mental impact. The above positions are open to men II Second Term begins for Medicine IV AITEA Conference Commitment will extend from September and women, and special consideration will be 18 Last day for discontinuance 01 a suiJ. 1987 to March 1989. The National Conference of the Australian given to those who have previous Antarctic jed or unit taught and assessed. in tbe There are vacancies for people Qualified in Institute of Tertiary Education Ad­ experience. Greenpeace will pay all expenses nrst balf year In Dlp.Ed.Psycb., the following areas: R.Ed.St., B.Sp.Ed. and M.M.St. for ministrators (AITEA) will be conducted in incurred in the name of the expedition. Perth from 27 to 30 August 1987. The theme • Medical doctor, experienced in emergency Applications should be made in writing to II 10 be cllISSified as discontinued. If a procedures. 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Student Travel Australia is offering may approve the classification of a The organisers are seeking expressions of • Diesel electric generator mechanic to subject or unit as discontinued bet­ interest from people wishing to present discounts to staff BDd students. service small petrol engines. Perkins ween 18 May and the end of the papers, chair workshops or take part as diesel-powered vehicle and Perkins diesel It specialises in "unusual, flexible and appropriate teaching period. members of a panel. These should be address­ generators. individual travel". 20 Graduation Ceremony - Arts ed to: Maxine Sclanders, Conference Con­ • Biological scientist, preferably with The STA office is located on the south 2S Second teaching round begins Dip.Ed. vener, TAFE Directorate. Education Depart­ knowledge of terrestrial biology and lim­ side of the Union Building next to the First half-year resumes for LL.M. by ment of Western Australia, lSI Royal Street, nology. The successful candidate will be Ladies' Hairdresser. coursework East Perth, 6000.

7: S.E. ASIAN STIJDIFS SEMINAR 14: S.E. ASIAN STUDIFS SEMINAR MAY DIARY - "Recent developments in Javanese - "Islamic resurgence in Malaysia", theatre", by Barbara Hatley. Room by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar. Room 51 S The events listed below are open to the C.A.E. Music Dept. Adults $7, conc. 515, Menzies Building. 11.15am. Ad­ Menzies Building, 11.1Sam. Admis­ public: $4.8pm. mission free. Inqu.lries: ext. 4993 sion free. loqllirles: ext. 4993 ALEXANDER THEATRE 7: ABORIGINAL STUDIES - FILM: 28: TWO-PART EXHIBITION ­ 4: EVENING CONCERT ­ "Thieves' Journal", by Julie Brown­ 1: MUSICAL - • 'The Pajama Game" , "Waverley Music 81" - 7th Annual "The Lousy Little Sixpence". ti, pres. by CLOC. Nightly at 8 until 16 Ipm. Admission free. IDquiries: m. Rapp, and "Glamour Photograpby" , Secondary Schools Music Festival, from Australian National Gallery, May. 2pm matinee Saturday 16. sponsored by City of Waverley. 3147 Canberra. Moaa5b Ualnrsity Adults S11.SO, conc. S8. child $6. In· 7.3Opm. Admission free 7. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Gallery. Hours: 1000~Spm. Tues­ qalries: 288 8431 15: LUNCHTIME CONCERT - Piano SEMINAR - "The Government's FrL; I-Spm Saturday. Inquiries: em. 1: THE SATURDAY CLUB - pres. recital by Sally Mays. Works by conservation strategy", by Joan 4217, 4111 Red Series D (5-S yr old) - "The Helen Gifford, Larry SilSk.y. Moya Kirner, Minister for Conservation, Entertainers" . by The Young Henderson and Maurice Ravel. Forests, and Lands. GSES SemiDar . Dancers. Enquiries: ext. 3m 1.1Spm. Admission free Roo.., S.lSpm. Admission free. la­ q_iries: ext. 4628 Monash Reporter 21: BAYSIDE SHOWJIME 19117 pres. 13: EVENING CONCERT - Melb. by the scouts and guides of Bayside Youth Choir with the Margaret 7: SPACE ASSOCIATION - "Results The next issue will be published area. Nightly at 8 unlil30 May. 2.15 Sutherland Strings and the John Ant­ of the International Halley Watch: in the first week of June, 1987. matinee. Saturday 30. ill Youth Band. Adults S7. conc. $4. Radio astronomy in Australia ­ 10qulr1es 614 1469 Future prospects", by Dr. Peter Copy deadline is Friday, May 22 and early copy is much apprecia­ ROBERT BLACKWOOD HALL LECfURES, SEMINARS, Godfrey. Rl, 7.3Opm. Admission 1: EVENING CONCERT - "Messa di EXHIBITIONS free. Inquiries: 772 S804 ted. Aloria" pres. by Monash University 4: MIGRANT STUDIFS SEMINAR ­ 8: ENGLISH SEMINAR - "Jonalhan Contributions (letters, articles, Choral Society and Presbyterian .. Religions in Australia: Can They Swift" pres. by Dr. Peter Steele, Dr. photos) and suggestions should be Ladies College Orchestra. Adults S7, Cope With Multiculturalism?", by Bryan Coleborne. Dr. Ian Higgins addressed to the editor, Lisa Kelly, conc. $4. Spm. IDqulrles: 580 4588 the Archbishop of Melb., the Most and David Woolley. Main Library Information Office, University 3: EVENING CONCERT - "Perfor· Reverend Dr. David Penman. In­ Conference Room, lOam. Inquiries: Offices, or ring ext. 2085. mance Celebration" pres. by Melb. quiries: ext. 4294. Admission free ext. 2130 MONASH REPORTER Page 15 MAY 1987 ..,

Bizarre ABC show spawns Monash offshoot Tbeatre Sports, a successful new program ou the ABC, may soon have a Monash cousin. The Student Theatre group and More than 120 students (and oodles of Playbox (which holds the rights to the onlookers) participated in the two hour Theatre Sports name in Victoria) workshops. organised two workshops on campus Student Theatre's Ross Mollison said last month for aspiring participants. the group hoped to extend last month's activities and run the game on a com­ They learned how Theatre Sports petitive, weekly basis. games, including some rather bizarre "Our ultimate aim is for a contest run ones not seen on television, were in a similar fashion to the way Playbox organised and Tun. does it, and with their support and ap­ Participants in teams of four have no proval," he said. more than five minutes to construct and Interested students and staff should act out a play based on an introduction contact the Student Theatre, Union J or a caption . Building. ext. 3108.

• Above: Postgraduate student in Physics, David Cookson, taking part in a jazz ballet workshop. Below: Carol Patullo from Playbox helped to supervise the workshops at Monash.

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Parents must lean on sb~re govern­ "In the eastern bloc countries. for ex· ments to make town balls «nd theatres ample. it is mandatory for children to available for productions d~signed for participate in theatre productions," he children, says Phil A'Vard, manager of said. the Alexander Tbeatre. More than 200 teachers. theatre ad­ Mr A'Vard, who is also organiser of ministrators and drama students raised the highly successful children's theatre questions on how the links between series, Saturday Club.- said such halls schools and theatres can be forged and were ideal places to introduce children how teachers can promote drama. to the theatre. . Included in the day-long seminar was a special performance of The Inside He believes children learn much more Story. a Skylark Puppet and Mask from theatre than is generally Theatre production for children on the recognised. dangers of drug abuse. Mr A'Vard returned recently from 10 The theatre group was given a weeks overseas on a Churchill Scholar­ $150,000 grant from the National Cam­ ship, during which he investigated paign Against Drug Abuse to mount the theatre for children in Europe. production. At a children's theatre seminar for It was one of the plays presented in teachers at the Alexander Theatre last the Alexander Theatre's 1987 ·season Qf month, he said children's theatre in performances for schools. Europe was highly organised and very In addition to these, the Saturday weJl attended. Club, an annual series of six varying He emphasised the role teachers and performances for children. runs from the education depanments play in these March to October. countries in nourishing the students' Last year the club had more than 2400 • Karen Keegan from the Vtctorian Arts Council (left) meets with three performers from The enthusiasm. members. Inside Slaty: "Shanda"the puppet. held by Shelley McDonald. and Leiony Retcher. MONASH REPORTER Pa.. 16 MAY 1917