EXTERNAL STUDENTS NEWS each year to attend the annual vacation DIS OIUENTATED study school which is held during the ^iSSf^^p August holidays. They come from all About 3,000 students of this University over Australia and New Guinea, some with nevear get properly orientated - you could children in tow (to be cared for .at the say they are DIS Orientated uistead. They Student's Union playroom); othera brave CLASSIFIEDS are enrolled to study through the Depart­ tedkjus journeys from remote properties ment of Extemal Studies ~ affectionatdy in country areas in order to participate in known as DES. To get external status a week of campus life and inteUectual CLASSIFIED AD FORM intoiding students must be able to show stimulation. A courageous few have to that they cannot get to St. Luda regulariy cope with severe physical disabilities: failing eyesight, deafness or multiple CONDITIONS to attend lectures - either because they live at a distance or because circumstances handicaps. At the '78 Vacation School, of their lives prevent it. (Metropolitan one student in particular aroused a lot of All advertisements must be prepikl by cheque, cash or external students mclude drift workers, adnuration for her determination as she money order, and advertisers must supply their name SECTIONS invalids, mothera of young children, etc.) was unable to move more than a couple of steps without the support of a sym­ and full postal address (not for publicatkin). Time Off Some people prefer to study at home; reserves the right to refuse, amend, withdraw or other­ pathetk aim. But arrive she did, and stayed ACCOMMODATION the lecture material pr^ared by the to participate fully for the duration ofthe wise deal with all advertisements siriimitted to us at our WANTED academic staff of DBS are vny good, schooL absolute discretkin and without explanation. All ACCOMODATION TO and sometimes a better one-to-one rdation- tiup with lecturen can be established On another occasion, one student in advertisements must comply with the current Australian LET through the maU by extemal students Darwhi was able to oiganise her seven Advertising Regulatbns and Provistons. No liability BOOKS WANTED can be accepted for any loss, delay or damage or for than could be by intemal students, duldren to enable her to visit Brisbane, BOOKS FOR SALE particulariy in large first-year classes. On so tht she was able to eiyoy the benefits errors in handwritten copy. MEETINGS the other hand, many people find the of lectures, tutorials, visitmg the Ubruies FOR SALE Isoktion of extemal study a real dis­ on campus and personal biterriews with COPY DATE WANTED advantage. her lectureis. Many students are people PHOTOGRAPHIC vdiose families have grown up and left Friday preceding publication date. Phoned in classifieds .VEHICLES DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL home; such students may have had no study experience sbice leaving schooL to be paid for before insertion. MOTORBIKES STUDIES A PIONEER Othen are young parents tied to the home CYCLES RATES by family re^nsibilities and yet eager to PERSONAL The University of Queensland pioneered continue theh edocatbn; for all these HEALTH/BEAUTY the concept of extemal studies in AustraUa people, the DES represents an excellent Students/Faculty $3.00 per single column centimetre MESSAGES vriien in 1911 it established this d^art- opportunity to eiyoy tertiary studies Non Students/Faculty $5,00 per single column JOBS WANTED ment concurrently with the founding of m their own homes at their own pace. centimetre. PROFESSIONAL the University. Thus this department is JOBS AVAILABLE the oldest DBS in Australia, and with an THATCHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY enrolment of 3300 students, the second MISCELLANEOUS largest mstitution of its kktd among TRAVEL The Thatcher Memorial, Libraiy is one Please insert the folkiwing ad in the next Australian univerrities; only New Engtand issues SPORT of the most important facilities offered under sectkin. can boast a larger enrolment. RECORDS-SALE, Amongst our former students are Mr. by the DES: it is dedgmd explicit^ to WANTED Jhn Ritchie, the D^uty Vice Chancellor serve the needs of Extnnal Students NAME.: (Fabric and Fuiance), Professor D. Micklin, through the postal system. No one has Head of tte Department of Chemical yet summoned tl» courage to calcualte ADDRESS., Enghieering, Mr. Teny Lewis, the Police the enomious volume of mall which the Commissioner, Mr. Geoige Healey, the DEiS handles, but in 1977, the cost of .POSTCODE. diief of. the Fire Brigade, Mr. Bill Hayden, maiUng courae material to over 3000 Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Jim Killen, students was $47,000.00! . Ministtt for Defence, writera Thea Asfley, PRINT YOUR AD BELOW IN BLOCK CAPITALS, Frank Moorhouse and Jack Lindsay. EXTERNAL STUDENTS' ONE WORD IN EACH BOX, (TELEPHONE NUMBER Our students are located hi every state, LIAISON OFFICER EQUALS ONE WORD). UNDERLINE ANY WORDS of Australia, in Papua New Guinea and YOU REQUIRE IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND SEND the Northern Territoiy. Oveiseas, we have The Student's Union at Queensland YOUR AD TO TIME OFF. UNIVERSITY OF OLD, students sending hi alignments from such Uni employs an Extemal Students' UNION BUILDING. ST- LUCIA. 4067. TELEPHONE diverse, ptaces .as Bangtadesh, Prance, Liaison- Officer to act.as^an. bn-c«impus 371 1611 A/HRS 371 2568. Alaska, and tlie Middle East. • agent for,exterM students!yirho are unable ' Their ages range from mid-teeiis to to visit the university penonally and may the..,venerable;: the youngest -are school- therefore 'have ^dal proWieiM which leavns, whilst we had one student hi 1977 sometbnes cannot, be sblyed,,by .written who was. seventyreight! Mbs : Isabd .cotnmunicatton, Maigaiet^iShapcottls the Fletcher, aged ^101, holds •; tfiis record' asV ofHoer'who'irepresents tfo'stuidenfs, and the oldest surviring graduate.,She started'^ the is the only officer in/any AustraUan in 1913, soon after the establislunent.of university to be employed by theShidents' titeDESandpadiutedhi.1918;. ^ : ^^ ^ union solely for this piirpose. I Another first . .Twdve pjBTcent'of pur studrati ajrie able for QuiBeosland.; Maigant!wm<,be' happy to'.visit;the cunpus Ion a fairiy regular to, assist; you with,,aiiy queries yoti may basis,,-,:;c,i'-.^;!! '•' ,-'-i^ '•'•.'••.• .';/;.':• '. . /•'•'' have r^giurdliig any; aspect of the DBS and oflloiuiit;' .^..Extertud.LytudeintB tend to bo. highly*; to provide; fuhheriiifoimatioii. Pkase only. motiyited: aad;enthijslas«,fc;.u;«^^^ feel free to call her on wedcdays from 9a jn. by the eight huhdrml-'oi.,$6 who airivB to Ipjn;at37|a611v;i-y^'-.i'•;•:••':''{•• •••

:• -••.>. 2 TIME OFF. February 21,1979 •>ft'''-">?av".i'"-

Editorial "The l^rice of Liberty U Eternal Litigation"

This year Time Off (formerly Semper Newsmagazine) represents anotiier bold step forward by the Union in its efforts to substantiafly improve the quality of its student publication and set new standards for other Australian campuses to follow. In March the first issue of this new look glossy magazine will appear on campus. In order to help contribute to the advancement of learning within the local community, Time C?//wUI be on sale through all South-East Qld newsagencies, but naturally will remain free to students and staff of Queensland university. A new bonus for readers this year (its 49th year of publication) will be the estabUshment of a broad classified advertisements section, which will place advertisements at greatly reduced rates for students. Initially to be published on a fortnightly basis, it is anticipated that by mid-year the magazine will become weekly, offering even greater service to union ir\embeTS. With regard to content, the most important feature of the new look Tribal Marriages Time OffmW be its thirty page "Living Guide". This regular section of the magazine will provide you with the most complete nindown of cultural and social events available in South-East No Longer Queensland. Readers of the "Guide" will be able to plan their social calendar well in advance, and the major areas to be covered will include music, theatre, cinema, campus sport, television, dining out, drinking, books, etc. Recognised Time Off also accepts freelance contributions of news stories, photographs, cartoons, graphics, short stories, satirical writings and the like. Aboriginal ChildrerTs Legitimacy The 1979 editors would also welcome the submission of any interesting research fmdings or course work assignments, for possible inclusion Now In Question in the magazine's pages. Direct all enquiries either in person or by mail to the Editors, Time A law has been introduced mto the Queensland by MATT FOLEY Off, University of Qld Union, St. Lucia (telephone 371 1611). (Letters Pattiament which will abolish all legal recognitkin of to the Editors are also featured, and students are welcome to send Aboriginal tribal maniages. peared in the Torres Strait these to the same address). The Aborigmes Act 1971-1975 included a provision Idanders Act of 1971. This change was not which deemed the chiUren of tribal marri^es to be STAFF NEEDED t^ittmate. Certain legal protection was also given to the recommended nor even con­ spouses who had "lived in a connubial relationslupi n sidered in the report of the Aborig^al and Islander Time Off Magazine needs volunteer staff- reviewers, artists, reporters, accordance whh traditunal racial practice." This photographers, cartoonists, proofreaders, typists, interviewers, anyone pn>visk>n is to be repealed by an amending BOI Commission, the group set introduced to the Legislative Assembly on 6th up by the State Govem­ who can contribute in some way to the new weekly magazine. December, 1978. The BUI is to be debated in tbe March ment to review the Write to us or come and see us during Feb/March and let us know what sittnigs. Aborighies Act. you're interested in. Abolishing all legal recog­ Our office is located on ^he lower floor ofthe University of Qld Union After the proposed continue to operate in a nition of Aboriginal tribal viray prejudicial to children Complex next to the Creperie or you can phone dkect on 371 1611. appeal, a child bom to marriage is one further step bom out of wedlock. If you think you could write about music, theatre, film, books, the parents who choose tradi­ in unplementhig the dis­ The rights of Aboriguial Brisbane cultural scene, try yourself out on TYme Off. tional Aboriginal union credited policy of assunila- trilKd spouses will also be Maybe your talent lies in interviewing visiting personalities, researching rather than conventional tion. marriage will no longer be affected by the amendment. In reply to Matt Foley's stories or promoting our sales - again come and see us during the next described in law as "legt- After the proposed repeal, report Minister for Abori­ month. tunate" but rather as "a spouses of traditional ginal and Island Affairs, Even if you lack previous experience, but think you have the potential, child whose parents were Aboriginal unions will suffer Charles Porter said that then we'll give you as much help as we can to assist you in discovering the the same prqudice presently not married to each other "the general change in theexten t of yoiu ability. at the tune of its con­ encountered by de facto legal status of children ception and who have not spouses in claims for suc­ follows a recommendation since married each other." cession. Normally upon the of the Queensland law Reform Commission, and This may lend itself to an wrongful death of a partner in a de facto marriage, the the new Act now provides unfortunate social stigma another demonstration of against such children. surriving spouse is not gie8Mrii(5« eligible to bring an action the manner in which Qldsees niegjthnate children the State's community as suffer disadvantage in en­ under Lord Campbell's Act, one people, with one forcing theur rights of in­ unless the surriving spouse destiny." heritance. is acting as parent to the Meanwhile, back in the Some, of the legal prob­ deceased's dependant, the Federal sphere. Judge Kirby r<70 IA)$lCNlPlCAt^r fOlt OO^R lems of children bom out Aborigines Act included a and the AustraUan law Re­ provision to overcome this of wedlock have been over- form Commission continue \}LriKf\ COMfiR€iftMSi^^ .come by the Status of prejudice against spouses of theu studious inquiry into Children Act of 1978, but traditional Aboriginal the relevance of Aboriginal this Act appUes only to unions. This Is to be Customaiy Law. Through­ wills and other instruments repealed. ° out the land concemed made from 1978 onwards. No piovision for recog­ citizens celebrate the Inter­ VirtuaUy all existhig wills nismg tribal marriage ap- national Year of the Child.

TIME OFF (Orientation Editkm) EOn'ORS: Rob Cameron, Bruce Dickson SECRETARY: Maree Clarke TYPESETTER: Marie Blanch ADVERTISING MANAGER:Errol Matsh COVER & GRAPHICS: Matt Mawson PHOTOGRAPHER: Nick Udoric ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: University of Queensland Union Buildhig, St. Lucia Q. 4067 (phone 371 1611) PRINTER: Sunshine Coast Newspaper Company, Aerodrome Road, Maroochy­ dore. The contents of Time Off are copy­ right. Original material may be reprinted as long as it is placed in its correct context, it is not being pubUshed for Msil.dellver or phone any information >—XMJ-»t7}^^ profit, and the source Is fuUy tAo. TinTIMEe nCOFFr lr»T(371i 1611)IOI II . ' acknowledged.

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GOOD STOCKS OF ALL THE FAMOUS TEXAS INSTAUMENTS CALCULATORS AVAILABLE FROM: THE UNION CALCULATOa SHOP- UNION ARCADE.: ST. LUCIA (iHIVERSITY. IITTEEVIEW: Brian Wilson Vice Chancellor, University of Qld.

Nine years ago, a prominent southern academic about which little was known in Queensland arrived on this campus to take up his appointment as the new Vice Chancellor. Professor Zelman Cowen's appearance quickly gave rise to a veritable flood of media public relations coverage which soon convinced Queensianders that indeed a tme liberal had assumed power at St. Lucia. Yet within a matter of a few years an almost unprecedented motion was put forward at a rowdy meeting of the University of Queensland Staff Associarion to the effect that the Association no longer had confidence in their new Vice Chancellor. The outcome of the vote on this morion (roughly 11 for and 220 against) does not indicate the true depth of feeling ofthe meeting. Some present throughout the session felt dhiat a better indication was the abnormally high number of abstentions (approx. 55). They saw this as amoral victory for both the movers and content of the original morion. Why had such a change of stature and image occurred in such relatively short time? Of concem to many within the university community was that Zeiman's leadership was not as proficient as they had hoped for. Some felt that he was too indecisive, too frightened and insecure to move firmly on issues which required action. Others pointed to the manner in which Zelman often had his "dirty" work done by others (e.g. by special committees). There is no doubt that Zelman Cowen was an ambitious, often pompous man ("I hear what you say", was a common expression of his). Status had become all with him. He wanted to be liked and to get ahead and one outcome of these desires was a constant need for confirmarion of how great he was. This state of affairs led to a great deal of sycophantic behaviour on the part of some of his colleages yet while it may have fulfilled certain needs, apparently it was not respected by Cowen. As a summary of the type of being Zelman had become, one senior staff member (who remains anonymous for obvious reasons) described him as the "archetypal non-existential person." » But now we have a new Vice Chancellor to replace Sir Zelman so the question remains - how will he shape up to his early image and in what ways will that approach to campus issues differ from that of his predecessor? In order to discover some of the answers to these questions, Time Off editors Rob Cameron and Bruce Dickson conducted a lengthy interview with Professor Brian Wilson. The interview was taped on the second of February only a matter of days after the 48 year old Canadian had arrived from British Columbia's Simon Fraser University. Prior to their meeting the new V.C, it had been rumoured that one of the major reasons (supported even by conservative members of staff at Qld University) behind the selection committee approving of Professor Wilson and his wife was that of re-establishing respect for the position of Vice Chancellor on this campus. This in depth interview provides staff and students with then- first opportunity to hear Professor Wilson's views on a wide range of important issues. Wilson's appointment gave rise to a whisper campaign to the effect that a genuine liberal has assumed power. Time Off wants you to make up your own mind, but with the added knowledge that while the Editors felt Wilson at times adopted an overiy cautious "If on the one hand, but on the other" approach when answering questions, this was compensated by his outright frankness on some other matters - a most unusual approach for a person in his position maybe, but possibly an indication of a healthier trend in the future.

Why did you apply for the job? senators appointed by the state govem­ I'd visited Australia twice before and ment. I liked the country very much. I'd also been vice-president of a reasonably m^'or To what d^ee should there be university for 8 years and I knew I could autonomy and control from within tbe be offered the presidency of that university of its own affaira? (equivalent of vice chancellor). It just I think one of the key features of struck me that having deaUng with universities is that they should be auto­ problems and people at one institution nomous institutioiis and should be for ten yeats that if one was going to go controlled internally. on to be a vice chancellor, then it might be useful to do it somewhere else. Could you fit to yoursdf a general description of your approach in terms of It was about the same time, around your social outlook? y mid last year that the Queensland job was It's not something that I've thought advertised. Did you know of the political a lot about. I suppose I would give myself situation in Queensland, the Deep North the same kind of small T liberal con­ image? notation. As I've been increasingly in­ I had heard something about that, volved in the administration within then I got more information when we came universities I've become less conservative here. In many ways Queensland and and traditional in my attitudes. I see British Columbia, where I came from last, myself as being relathrely flexible and are similar. The geographical area of both interested in organisations with a view states is almost the same, the population to their essentiaUy being as effective as is almost the same and in both states possible rather than simply foUowing there's a high concentration of the in specific traditions because that's how population in a relatively small area. things have always been done. The present govemment in British Columbia would be regarded as fairly What sort of administration can people conservative after a period of socialist expect from you as vice chancellor, will government and the relative ages of the you be accessible to the outdde two states are fairly close. oonununity, are you a great believer in dialogue, what sort of stjie wHl you In Queensland (he University comes implant in yourpositioQ? under the legal jurisdiction of the state I certainly believe in a large amount parliament and yet it's funded federally. of freedom of access, I would hopis to be Is that the situation in other univeisities readily available to people who want to you've worked hi or is this something talk to me. I'm also a bdiever in the team new to you? approach and I believe in talking tlUngs This is quite new to my experience. out with appropriate people before Canadian universities are funded by the decisions are taken. So I don't see myself provinces, or states, education Is entirely as an autocrat but I'm not frightened to a state concem. So we operate under a make decisions which might seem state act but are funded largely by the unpopular. state. Also there are considerable student fees in Canada which don't exist here. What sort of role have you played in Certainly it's a strange thing to be funded student poUtfcs and for example were you from one source and operate imder a state in any way involved in/or concerned about act and with a signiflcant proportion of the student unrest of the 1960s?

TIME OFF February 21,1979 5 W'WN-^in^*'^-**'*'** *.*•**«-• *^'***'-*"'''^****^*^'*'*>''*'*-»'*-*''***^'* V ^W *^*»^-**A-»l*iMjr« enormous advantage in being full time at the university and having the mteraction over a period of consecutive years with Brian Wilson: other students and leadhg the community life within the instiUition. But many people have not had that opportunity In terms of my own participation I don't have any experience of having and take a univeisity education without I was involved in tbe students union permanent policemen stationed on campus coming near campus. People who, for council as an undergraduate, but at that other than the two weeks I've been here I geographical/financid/personal reasons, time students weren't the political animals guess. My understanding is that the per­ just can't take four years out of their lives. that they became subsequently, because manent policeman is here related to theft It's a partuulaily significant feature in the actual election rq>resenting a major and security issues and is not here as an of North American society, that more and faculty within the Umversity there were undercover agent to monitor opinions more people are going to university later only 3 votes cast. And I got two of them. about govemment. I don't have too much in life. At Simon Fraser for instance, On the second part of the question, the concern when you have an operation as the average age of an undergraduate is university I was at in the late 1960s, large as this, I think it's helpful to have slightly over 2S, despite the fact that there the University of Calgary, did not have reasonably free access to the larger police are no professional schools other than SOCIAL OUTLOOK: a very activist population although there forces. I frankly take the view that people education there. At I've been increasingly involved in tho admin­ on campus are citizens and are subject to istration within universities I'm become lass con­ were some sit-ins related to the Vietnam servative and traditional in my attitudes. controversy and so forth. But the the same kind of restraints on campus Do you favour the idea of students university that I went to in 1970 was as off campus. I wouldn't like a system coming later to the univenity Le. leaving seen as the Berkeley of Canada and there where the police forces move easily on and school and gettmg work experience before­ was a lot of student activity in the late off but I would certainly have no hand? 60s there. I anived shortly after the peak hesitation if there was no other way to I certainly think that is a good of that activity, but it's still a very active handle it to seek co-operation if buildings mechanism, I don't thmk it's necessarily campus. were being destroyed or people were being appropriate for everyone but universities hurt. should provide that opportunity. My experience with mature age entry, that POLITICAL OUTLOOK 3 TERTIARY EDUCA TION is students over 23, is that they tend to do c better than students who go straight from A fonner deputy vice chancellor at Do you think some university courses high school to university. Qld Uni, who is now vice chancdior at are unnecessarSy long in terms of what Macquarie University (Professor Webb) they're attempting to pass onto students There is a iot of fragmentation amongst was willing to commit himsdf on a range in the way of knowledge and skills? students courses in the way timetables of social issues. In 1967 he marched in a In some of the professional courses are ananged. There have been moves m dv3 liberties demonstratk)n. Could you one is essentially trying to provide people the past to have one aftemoon a week off see yourself taking a positk>n dong those with the infoimation necessary for them for all students so they can be free to get lines? to be accepted as qualified practitioners together for a specific period each week. ADMINISTRATIVE OUTLOOK: It's very important for someone in Jn the community, that is meeting Would you be in favour of that? So I don't see mytelf as an autocrat but I'm not my position to recognise that while he/she standards set by extemal bodies. In sub­ I would certainly t>e in favour if it frightened to make decisions v^ich might seem may be expressing personal views, they jects like arts and science, one is not was possible to do it. Normally the con­ unfKifuJar. are seen externally and frcquentiy training practitioners as much as training straint has been physical facilities, also campuses. In part I think it relates to the internally to be representing the university. people to leam and to have the kind of the fact that universities have extended usage of the word '•union", for activities I would have some h^tation about the experience and information that they can their offering of subjects and courses. which don't totally correspond to an kind of personal involvement that you hopefully utilise in later caieets. At Simon Fraser we tried to do this and industrid uniori. The use of a word like report, simply because the university The real problem is the expansion of provide at least a two hour slot. At St. ••guUd" might alleviate the poUticd basicaUy stands for longterm principles knowledge over the part 20 years in Luda, timetables might make this im­ pressures that are on universities. and I think its important not to com­ particular, so that someone who graduated possible. promise the university on a relatndy with a degree in physics 20 years ago Critks of compulsory unionism say short time scale when one may be might be very far from being well informed Would yon nuke an effort to fan]dement fees are being directed to overtly political prejudicing the whole future of the as someone who graduated last year. I forms of action and organisatton e.g. dvil university. this for next year? don't think 4 years is an inappropriate It's too late for '79 but if enough people libertieg. Do you think unions should be length of time for a primary degree, fed the way you're suggesting, I would allowed to spend money in ways which Did you take any penoiidlta^ against although at the university I came from gfaow they're part of tbe broader poUtkd the Vietnam war or any dflwria^or isue certainly be willing to explore the it is possible to accelerate that sp that you feasability of it. community? ofthe I960«7 can do it in two and a third years because My understanding is the student union I have been a signatory-of certain things it operates on a tri-semester system. here operates with some senate discretion with respect to that. One of the problems The problem is that you can range COMPULSORY STUDENT over expenditures. I certainly don't have that existed in Canada was that it was an from d^lomas of a coi^le of years up to UNIONISM any concerns with what I am aware of easy place for draft evaders to reach, someone who takes a Ph.D. which can within the university, but if you do have so there was a high population of American take ten or twdve years, so its hard to We then asked Frofessor Wilson hts compulsory unionism, then unions should students at the Canadian campuses. Both give a blanket answer to your question. be particularly concemed about the universities I have mostly been with are attitudes on student unionism and the It is important that we don't lengthen oontrbveror b whidi Australian govern* welfare of theff own members. It's always rdativdy new, so their taaiot hiring took courses simply becaise there's more and difficult to suggest areas where politicd pUce in the mid 60s when it was difflcult ments are attempting to break up student more infonnation to be imparted. Except unkins into compulsorily funded and action outside might be appropriate', but to And qualifled people, consequently in certain professmnd alreas, most people most people who operate in a politicd many of the faculties were filled with vohmtarily funded sect tons. have to ket^ learning all their lives, so I've experienced both systems and -I context in the conununity at laige pay relatively young American professors. the university should be concerned that the fees to the organisation that makes those To some extent the situation in Canada believe students should, oiganiso their individuals have a significant levd of com­ own lives and activities.. If on one hand politicd presentations. If student unions was artlficlnl in that tbe Vietnam issue, petence but also the ability to continue used a large part of their income to take which was of particular rdevance' to the I say the university shouldn't stand ih to apply themsdves to acquire greater loco parentis with respect to behaviour poUticd stands.which m^ not be seen American professors and draft evaders, competence once they're outside the to' be relevant to the .campus, then one was not the same kind of issue to Canada. on campus, I can hardly turn around and university. say the univeridty, should oiganise all would, have tp"look rather carefuUy at the activities want to do. whether $tudent membeiship should be compulsory. FREEDOM OF SPEECH On the subject of semesterisatton versus It's a valuable learning experience for terms. students to cope with the organisation How much freedom of speech would I've taught under both systems and I you tolerate on campus? of clubs, sodeties and the operation of a Are contemporary uiUvendties serving think the kind of leaming that goes on is students union buildmg. I have no feeling the public as well as they should be? Has I find it difficult to say that there is not a function of how long you bave to any line where people can't say what at the moment that there should be any research become too concerned with acquire it. The optimiun period to leam change in the union structure. esoteric problems because, of the search they really feel on issues that affect the a certain amount of knowledge in a university. Where do you draw the dividing With respect to compulsory union fororifiiiulity? discipline is a functbn of the discipline. membership, I think it's essential to I can't speak with respect to this hne between what affects the university There are some subjects where you have and what doesn't? That's a tough questioa have that, because if its not compulsory campus, as yet. One of the basic kernels to study enough to get beyond the thresh­ then a rdatively small number of people of what universities are about is to look I don't think the university should hold to really understand what's happening necessarily be a forum for people who who are prepared to pay fees have to carry at the unknown and to h&\e the academk; and there are other subjects which are all the facilities for everyone else. It would freedom which is provided to investigators don't want to address dvic issues in civic more of a learning piece by piece. One arenas. be very difficult for a union which has the to research .wbat they .like. Govemments could say a year is an artificial length of totd responsibilities which this one has, haye a role to play.in that if there is a red time or a semester is an artificid length in the past vice diancdlon have been to have to wonder every year whether it's sense that appUed research In certahi areas pftime. got enough money to carry on. The whole is appropriate, such as solar eneigy, then faced with the'qaettion of whether or not More attractive, although at greater to caO tbe police onto the campus. A continuity of the enterprise would be contracts can be offered sto universities expense, would be to organise the amount very difflcult to ensure.. from govemment with quite specific strongly fdt issue ^has been the of learning into particular modules which a(atk)niiig on campus of a policeman. appUcations.- are appropriate to the specific discipline. I am aware of the controveny which is It would;be. disastrous, if universities What*! your attitude towards bringbtg I know that people who come from very around AustraUa at the present time. police on etmpus? related their research activities only to traditk>nd backgrounds- feel there's an It's not one I'm familiar with on Canadian what seemed qtpropriate at the present

On Anti-Intellectualism: "People think a university is. in gooel shape Favourite Aiithoti.Dostoyevsky, Grahctm Greene; "Hike to relax with when no sound emanates from, it, and it is in bad shape when a lot of romantic, with a large R, noveb." Favourite film director Bergman. sound comes from it." • PoUtical Involvement: '7 tvas involved, in the students union Council On U.F.O.SJ "/ don't believe in them. . , because they don't talk to as an undergraduate, but at that time students weren't thepolitical usi ...they don't liat/e any litter." animals that they became subsequently." On Niiclear Power: "I'm in favour of it. . .nuclear energy is a major On Academic Salaries: "I'm'certainly not going to say. I'm overpaid, political issue because people make bombs," one has to look.at the responsibilities involved." On Compulsory Student Unionism: "I think it's essential'to have that On Campus Papers: "/ certainly don't havie any specific objection to because if its not compulsory theii a rielatively small number of people the'circulation of a student .newspaper off cattiptis if that's what,f>eople who are prepared to pay fees have to carry tdl the facilities for evetyotie toant to do with it." ' • • -. else."' - : • •. •• .••••;•••- ' ^•.•••.••. ^ ••••^ •-^-.-.•t---w-..-

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time. An enormous amount of advance when they come here, they don't interact rates of productivity. Another way its department has a finandd cloud over in science and technology is a result of significantly with human beings and I exhibited is that people think a university its head. Are you in favour of what the Uberty, things being discovered when they suppose a rather trivid reason is, they is in good shape when no sound emanates extemd studies dqiartment is dokg? didn't know what they were looking for. don't seem to leave Utter. It's hard to from it, and it is in bad shape when a lot I'm very much in favour of providing Since most other research is product think of an advanced dvilisation that of sound comes from it. degree opportunities for those who can't oriented or application oriented in society, doesn't have a lot of Utter around. come to the campus, I've been a strong then universities have to guard very Austrdian academic sdaries are supporter of that for many yeais. Con­ jealously their interest in looking at NUCLEAR POWER relatively high, more so than other sequently I'm in favour of the depart­ fundamental research. By giving research [ countries, do you feel a vice-chanceUor's ment having the kind of support it needs funds, the government of the day can give Are you in favour of nuclear power as wage is too high, plus the perks that go to do its woik effectively. I can't say some guidance as to what society thinks a means to supply energy? with the job? that the extemd program of the Univeraity what should be done by the university. I'm in favour of it. The problem is that I'm certdnly not going to say I'm of Queensland is known world-wide, But ths university has to stand separate nuclear energy is a major poUticd issue overpaid. One has to look at the res­ the fact that it's here is one of the reasons from society. because people make bombs. If there ponsibiUties involved. There are many why I wanted to come here. hadn't ever been an atomic or hydrogen people on higher wages, those with UNIVERSITY RESEARCH bomb developed, but all the aethrity independent successful businesses and SENATE COMPOSITION those in high levels of corporations. Full went into the peaceful uses of atomic The Senate at this campus has a range Conceming the channding of funds professors in Australia are paid more than energy, then there would be much less of representation including government from Urge companies into universities, their American counterparts but face a poUticd concem about it. There are many people, church, student and staff, the are there strings being attached which can beneficid effects from nuclear reactors much more competitive situation (there's principle being that they're mvolved in lead to compromising the direction such as the development of radio isotopes no limit on the number of professois in the wider community. But there's no of the research? that are used medically and in industrid America, here you have to wait for a representation from trade unions or other My own experience is that private processes. vacancy). In Britain, university professois companies provide almost no money for are seriously underpdd. types of working people. In prindple The basic problem with the do you think these other groups should research. One of thc things I'd like to do proliferation of nuclear power stations is to tiy and encourage as much private The totd yearly income (salary plus be represented? is that no one has yet found a safe way It's possible they can be represented money to come to the university as of disposing of the nuclear wastes. I'm perks) of the last Vice Chancellor Sir in a sense by the govemment appoint­ possible. Obviously the university has to sure that problem will be resolved even­ Zelman Cowen could have employed ten ments, as they can appoint people from have the right to say "we're not going to tually. Ubrary attendants. take that money to do that kind of thing", any walk of society. The system I came from, the Board of Governors, (equivalent and that's where you safeguard the univer­ You don't see solar energy as a red STAFF TENURE sity. to the Senate here) did have someone dtemative if there was enough priority There's a trend on campuses to employ My personal research interst is in dected by the non-academic staff of the given to solar research? staff on a contractud basis and Federation X-ray astronomy, that is, looking at the university, in some ways this was ad­ It depends on how much sodety is of AustraUan Univeisity Staff Associatton universe through the X-rays that are vantageous, in some ways it wasn't. I don't prepared to pay for it. I certainly think (FAUSA) oppose this saying that staff produced there. This is a relatively new have a veryjtrong feeling about it. a lot of money should be spent on solar ^ould fight hard to retain the system of field because the father or mother of (Professor Wilson was surprised that the research. I fact, one of my own research tenure. What's your attitude to tenure astronomy is optical astronomy, people meetings of the University Senate were not interests is to move into that field. for lecturers and what about gaining tenure using telescopes and so on. Radio as­ open to the university community and the for tutors? tronomy came much later, post second press.) In America, campus newqiapers often What tenure is about is to safeguard world war because of the advances in serve a dual role, being put out by students academic freedom. The problem now is techniques developed for radar purposes. and also sold fo the pubhc, for example, tiuit it tends to be looked on as job FAVOURITE AUTHORS X-ray astronomy started only in 1964 the DaUy Califomiaa Do you feel this security. Every agency in society operates AND DIRECTORS because no-one expected amounts of dud role is desirable? under some form of tenure even though X-rays at all. Because X-rays are absorbed Fm in favour of as many points of they don't caU it that. Conceming employ­ Favourite author: Dostoyevsky, also very easily by the atmosphere you have to view being put forward as possible. The ment security for tutors, one is deaUng likes reading Graham Greene, used to use rocket-source satellites to get your kind of thing I'm famUiar with is that with people who basicaUy expect to be read Anthony TroUope. I Uke to relax detection equipment above the atmos­ people can take out subscriptions to the in the system for three or four years vrith romantic, with a large R, novels. phere (wMch totally absorbs the radiation). campus newspaper from off campus, whUe they're doing a higher degree, so the Those that ded with historicd subjects and many members of Boards of Governors concept of Ufdong job security for them which are quasi-fiction. On films. Professor So ' some of the rockets you were or senates have done that. I don't think (which is the basis of tenure) doesn't seem Wilson has a preference for Bergman working with (Canada, Hawaii, Woomera the university should be in the business to be rdevant. If you talk about it in movies. in South AustraUa) behig used for of subsidising the proliferation of nevra- terms of academic freedom, it has nothing miUtary purposes? papers off campus, but I certainly don't to do with tutors because they're not THOSE IRISH ROOTS No, the rockets went up and they came liave any specific objection to the cir­ badcally doing independent research, " down. The problem is that they go up culation of a students newspaper off they're doing supervised research. Has your Irish background influenced and down very quickly, so you might campus if that's what people want to People who are essentidly teaching the your personality, would you call yoursdf prepare for three years for an experiment do with it. It's important that it should same kind of level aB the time and are not a bit of a rager or any of the other which would give you four minutes of not be seen as refiecting offidal univenity doing research related to their teaching characteristics people put on the- Irish? observing'time. When we flew to Woomera points of view. subject are people whose value to the (Professor Wilson spent his first 25 yean the engineering device which was supposed university may be of a limited tierm only. to poiikt the rocket in a particular direction in Ireland hence a strong Irish Iflt to a Back to the idea of more short-term basicaUy Canadian accent). didn't work properly, so we got no data appointments generaUy, this is a way to at all'.after preparing for three years. I tend to k)se my temper quite quickly, provide opportunity for people to get into and I tend to forget about haviiig lost it university Ufe even though initidly it Is there enough socid responsibiUty quickly too. I don't hold grudges for long doesn't provide the prospect of % times but I can get upset very eaaly. for the practicd uses that research fnidings peimanent poation. If the dtemative to are put to^ that is not to appoint anybody then it is Do you get hito the odd drink? I thmk there's social responsibility, to the advantage to have termind appoint­ but you,can't reaUy apply socid res­ Oh yes, I'm hopeful to leara some­ ments. FAUSA has to take a union thing about AustraUan wuies because I ponsibiUty until you've found out what position where they don't want their it is you're looking at. There's no problem Uke wine drinking vety much, but thai member's privileges eroded, and they of course is not a particularly Irish trait. in my own research area, because conceive this as a way where university astronomy is perhaps the least appUed type administrations are tiying to erode the of research. It's obvious that one may What's your attitude towards the concept of tenure and they're opposed decriminilisation of marijuana? gain information about energy processes to it.But in terms of how 1 think univer­ in the universe which could be. of I would be in favour of the dec­ sities intend to apply it, I don't think its riminalisation of marijuana. advantage in an energy starved society, a very vaUd objection. but of course, this may be a disadvantage When you leave this university what if one discovered some new mechanism What about student assessment of for creating havoc. do you hope would be the greatest mark staff. bemg used as a criteria for per­ left by yourself on the campus? Is the anti-intellectud attitude of many manency of staff positions? UFO'S One of the things universities face now peojple off campus justified? • Everywhere I've been it has been used is a tough financing period for the in- Zl as part 6f the evaluation of teaching In your study.of the stars what coo- There wiU always be instances where it defmite future. Universities became aU dudons have you drawn about U.F.0.8? is justified. Univeisities haven't com­ effectiveness. It's not easy to separate things for aU men and women in the 60s, , My research had nothing to do with municated very effectively with the com­ immediate student feedback from the early 70s. Now there are many other U.F.Oi biit i don't beUeve in U.F.O.S. munities they Uve in. If yoii have a campus level of grades appUed by the lecturer. tertiary organisations around, there are there are a lot of unexplained sightings where the research and teaching activity Often the person who seems to be not two other campuses in this state, a variety of objects, but the fact that they're is strongly rdated to the needs of society, very effective as a teacher, in retrospect, of C.A.E.S. This university has to look ijnexplained doesn't necessarily mean as the origind land grant universities in' has actuaUy successfuUy imparted know­ fairly toughly at its priorities as to what tiiat they're visitors from outer space. the United States (with a strong emphasis ledge not seen at the time. So I'd be it should be concentrating on. So we don't ;^though I'm ready to be convinced that on agriculture and helping .farmers), content to have student input into the aU become gradually degraded and have there are visitors from outer space, I don't then, there isn't.much anti-intellectudlsm. vduations of staff appointment but it's a loss of morde throughout tbe whole alt present beUeve they exist. The reason But in so-called liberd univeisities, where not the only way to achieve feedback system. If I can mamtain some level of is tiiat tbey don't talk to us. Presumably you do have a community of scholars on teaching effecthreness. morde in tough times I think that would if they have the experimentd techniques who talk about issues which seem probably be a useful thing. to travel very fast through the gdaxy, unrelated to society, then an anti- then they should have very good com- intellectuaUsm is an obvious thhig, when EXTERNAL STUDIES inunicatlon .systems. There are no people find it difficult to get jobs, when Do you have any aspirations to become '. xtebrdifli^ of people from out there talking university salaries seem to be rdaiively This univerdty has a very high enrol- Govemor-Gcperd? * to us, they don't seem to seek learfers laige, and when tiiere appears to be low ment of extemd students but the same No.^

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'7^5 a tremendously liberating "/ intend to have a lot of "I would like to get into "I did expect (Attstralia) to experience to have people say fun in whatever I do with riding a bicycle to school." be a very sexist place.. .people 'all right, that's how you are, my life." bait me about it because they that's great', and take you know I'm a bit of a feminist." anyway, it's wonderful. " INTERVIEW: Ms. Jeanne Henry

What a refre^ing change it is to talk with someone in a position of this on the line now, if you're straight about things, people can't come influence who exudes none of the traditional trappings. A verve for living, back at you for anything"). A one-time photographic model, Jeanne an optimistic friendliness, a softness of nature. Ms Jeanne Henry will bring displt^ed complete comfort with Time Off photogr^her Nick Udovic to this campus a candidness that students and staff will soon appreciate. but said she was a little nervous before a microphone. Editors ROB In her twenties, Jeanne is enrolled at Q.I.T. doing a bridgii^ program before CAMERON and BRUCE DICKSON spent an hour in Jeanne's new home embarking next year on a Masters in medicine. The Vice Chancellor's wife mulling over a range of issues. An instantly likeable and approachable was bom in Gtmwall ("a smelly little old town on the Ontario border"), woman, used to going barefoot except in the Canadian snow, a lover of then at age ten moved to Vancouver. dancii^, here is the viewpoint of Jeanne Henry. Jeanne married in 1970 for neariy two years, then dworced ("Let's lay

Before arrivbig permanently in Brisbane Dkl you have a beer swiUing. . .spedc in January, Jeanne was here once before. of the devil (Jeanne was kind enough to In June tast year she visited Austrdia for feed the Time Off editors and the first tune with husband Professor photographer bottles of beer during our Brian WSson for the Vke ChanceUor job chat). . .type of unage? What forms of biterviews. What circumstances was Jeanne sexism were you thmkmg of? looking for in Brisbane to justify in her When we were here in June we had mind the big move from Canada? heard of things like the woman who Brian and I were fairly newly married was fired from a pubUc service job because at the time. 1 think one ofthe big appeals she had gotten married. (Readeis will for us was the opportunity to do some­ remember the sacking of a Ubrarian by thing very different some place else, I'm Rockhampton mayor Alderman Rex a Arm believer that people can stagnate . PUbeam). And the Ansett uniforms, they if they stay in one place for too long and just changed the day we got here. They do the same kind of thing for too long and were wearing plastic mmi skirts. That kind so that was the big drawcard right away. of thing gives you a sense that women We dso had an interest as far as the are in a different environment here. But : two boys were concerned i^ terms of what then after looking at T.V. here and com- kind of cUmate if'Would be for them, not mercids that I see indicate that people are just physically, but erhottonaUy and playing games with that now. The commer­ socially. What we saw then and what dals are showing emerging feminism. I've seen since indicates it's a much better cUmate for chUdren. Is there a lot of progress being made with feminist thought and issues in ' Are we talking about Queensland as Canada? an entity in itself or Austrdia at large? It's hard to say, 1 think there's a lot of Queensland is the only part of Austrdia backsUding happenmg too. I've been to, so I can't distinguish. Clearly, with someone Uke Brian you go with the Dut you think progress has been made. opportunities. You can't arrive here and It's not fashionable to be anti^feminist then shop around for a specific vice- and that's progress. chancellorship that's open. Once an oppor­ tunity arrives you jump. Most of us would redise there's no such thing as a homogenised feminist What preconceived kleas did you have movement, the same as there isn't one m about Austrdia before arriving? ° most areas of poUtkal activity. What area I did expect it to be a very sexist place, of feminism would ypu place yourself |n, very chauvanistic. It's true though \ haven't working inside or outside pariiamentary found it anywhere near as bad as 1 thought democracy? -1 would, at least in the community I've i think dl the different people are been meeting. People bait me about it important. I'm in a specid position in that because they know I'm a bit of a feminist. when I taUc to people, from here, I'm taUcing froni a platform that has nbthing How are these ideas formulated in to db with what I do. that in itself is a Canada, is H through the mediator other moderating influence. No matter how . people? much you say I'm an mdependent .person, That's a, ,reaUy .good question and I- people are stfll going to attach my views_' don't know'.' Certainly, we dready had to Brian's. And so you're not gohig to . friends in AustraUa and one of my dose **Compromising is somtithing you do to yourself. A position see rae carrying .flaming torches, in jf friends here thhiks he's very chauvanistic willcortiprqmiseyouifyouare so heavily bought into the position demonsttations. . ! and he's been told by AustraUa womien I get excited about things like the that he Is non-chauyanistic, and if he's that yoii iuon't take any chances. This job is otUy valuable to Women's Electord Lobby because that • any example, then AustraUan.mdes.are Briatiand me if we can be comfortable with otirselves,** kind of thing maybe can. make some quite chauvaidstic. honest to gocKl dtfibrences finally. ., ., /,,:,!.>...• W,YA . FebruafY21.l979 mfmVi6UTdo= 1 ^10 3MIT thrown at one of our neighbours, wasn't which is right smack acoustically in tbe it a fakly exciting tune? middle of the house, and that's where the T.V. was. And I thmk that's where The interviewers then told Jeanne the Cowens had the T.V.And my very some background to. the heady first act Ul this house was to move the Vietnam days of the late 1960s and eariy T.V. kito another iess dominant room "/ can remember being taken 70s when the nearby University Regiment and shut the door. The kids watch it, hysterical from an episode of Lassie. was the target of demonstrations. and Brian watches cricket and so on, Brian and I had a certain amount of but it's isolated. I fkmly beUeve that a J just wasn't used to the intensity potitical separation on that issue, thank T.V. will take over your Ufe if you let it. of emotion portrayed on television. god it's not current. It's going to be a very I'm going to take a Masteis degree and I don't like it." Uveable place, I'm going to make it that that will keep me pretty busy. This is a way. It can be magnificent. This is part of very sportmg kind of envkonment, or the job that we Uve here and that we use 1 think it is, 1 get the sense people are this house publicly, and that has ad­ outdoor people, and I hope to fudly do vantages and it has costs. I intend to have something with my self-discipUne. I'd a lot of fun u) whatever I do with my life love to leam to ride horses. and I think I can have a lot of fun with I'd love to water-ski and I haven't been this place. able to because in Vancouver it's choppy and it's also veiy cold. You wear a wetsuit Ate you m tune to what they're domg Have you had any meetmgs so far Taped interview situations are rarely to waterski even in summer. There are aU from a'bdlefs'point of view or a redism' in your short stay here with feminist anything more than superficid, so in the kinds of sports and activities on campus. point of view because they're working groups? interests of probuig Jeanne with a few one- I would Uke to get into riding a bicycle through a pariiamentary system? No. I have met some people around Uners to capture maybe a rare ins^ht, to school (to Q.I.T. in the city). I like to see things actually moving and about who have identified them­ we asked whether there were any specific ahead. In terms of what moves things selves as feminists. I am not a particulariy women she adnured. There could be a surprise in store at Q.I.T. aa it's a fakly cotiservative place. forward, I think what eveiy individual noisy feminist. I think what I do with That's the kind of thmg. . .(a quick Yeah, I've been through one, at an woman chooses to do with her life, that's my Ufe is a lot more significant in terms sigh and a longer weU-meant laugh). . . institute of technology in Vancouver about the only kuid of real liberation that wiU of moving feminism forward than what my problem is that I get fakly deeply ever happen. Things Uke W.E.L. can move I say I'm going to do and what 1 say I which 1 am incredibly bitter. I was known things forward for people who aren't yet ought to be aUowed to do. as a rabble-rouser there and was thrown aware they have a problem. out at one point and had to come back and Do you think the posltton itself of retake a semester. How common is it in Canada for women vice-chancellor and partner tends to Something I read during my carly to be identified under thek maklen name cormpt', and make people move away teenage period which meant a lot to me and to use the title Ms.? from origuid ideals? was something called Stranger in a Strange It's certainly not Uncommon, but here If you get identried as "THEM" for Land by HeinUen; it's a sdence fiction you're talking about the group of women long enough you tend to become defensive, book which is why I read it imtiaUy. that you yourself are mvolved with. it's very hard to avoid that. I didn't know It gave rise to a lot of cults in the United With the women 1 know, less than half the Cowens very weU. I didn't get a chance States, it had a very profound mfluence would use that identification but it to taUc to Sk Zehnan Cowen but I did talk on a lot of people's thinkuig. wouldn't stop conversation, it's not to Lady Co^en and she was refreshing to unusud. me, she was very warm, and relaxed and This might be an unfak quest ton, informal. It's really hard to tell about what's your attitude towards nudear A recent AustraUa survey found that thek poUtics fram two minutes at a cock­ power? a vast majority of people here disagreed tail party. I don't think any of our pub­ That's an unfak question, I'm a with women usmg the hibel Ms., is that Ucity is signiflcant in terms of how you physicist, O.K., that doesn't mean I'm the expectatton you had? should judge us. You should pick up on for it, and I must say that I'm ashamed That's what people keep predicting, what we're like from how we behave. of what's happened to Canada where it's not the sort of thing I keep mnning that country has been proUferatmg with into, maybe people are bdng nice to me Zelman Cowen had a strong reputatton "Probably my favourite thek kind of reactois. And contributuig because they don't want to offend us, for bemg ambitious. Would either of you film of all time was Young not just to the spread of nuclear power but also to nuclear proUferation. It's I'm not sure. qualify in those teims? Frankenstein." I was divorced when 1 met Brian, Ah, it's funny. Brian has always sdd a source of shame to me as a Canadian and so its more of an honest label for that he narrowly missed getting a job that the government there has been so interested in things but my range of me. I did change my name in my first before he got his second d^ree, a job kresponsible. But nuclear power is a lot knowledge is eclectic not broad, it's very marriage. There's a year and a half of seUing wdghing scales in Belfast. And cleaner than for instance cod power. scartered. I start thinking about the people my Ufe when people who I knew at that he felt that would have been a perfectly I know and there are big holes. earUer time have no way of getting hold acceptable Ufe for him and everything else When the United States decides It of mc because they don't know who I is gravy. He Ukes doing thmgs and he's wants to go to the moon, they do it. T.V. would have started m Canada a am now. The Ms. thing is that anything eiyoymg the gloiy so far, but he's basically Perhaps they could invest heavily and lot earlier than Australia, were you part else would be confusing, for mstance one of the most humble people I've met. of the T.V. generatton? being caUed Mrs. Henry, He's taught me a lot about honest internd humility. I think he Ukes to do new and No, I wasn't, my parents wouldn't have a tdevision set until I was more than There's quite a marked difference interestmg jobs, I thmk that's why he took this one on. ten. I can remember seeing a few T.V. between you and Lady Cowen in terins programmes before that and they scared It's a much more status conscious job of the posittons you occupy here. Were the living daylights out of me. I can here than it was in Canada. Also, it can't you surprised when the outlook of your­ remember bdng taken hystericd from an help but affect things that the previous self and Frofessor Wilson were so readily episode of Lassie. I just wasn't used to incumbent in this job is now the accepted by the selectton comraittee? the intensity of emotion portrayed on Governor-Generd, that's got to change Yes, I was. We were very relaxed when tdevision. I don't Uke it. I watch MA.S.H. tbe status of the job somewhat. Brian and we came here. In Canada there's a very whenever I happen to catch it, some­ I are both pragmatists and we're both strong "Canadian-only" poUcy, a tunes the Odd Couple. The kids watch more mterested in what we're dokig than diauvanistic poUcy and I did not reaUy more television than I'd like them to what we seem to be doing. expect Brian to get the job. So I was and I sometunes go down and sit with much less formd and trying much less them for a whUe and watch T.V. It's one hard to be the person I thought they Onto the mijor perk of the V.C. job, of those things where everybody's to­ v^ted me to be. It's a tremendously the paUtid house on campus whkh was gether even if we're not commmucating. Uberating experience - to have people built during Cowen's term here. How do But I personaUy have a lot of antipathy "/ do try to do my little bit say "all right, that's how you are, that's you feel about the house? towards T.V. great!-and take you anyway. It's You've gotta redise this house is a as an individual, and that may wonderful. •, Uttie like Uving in a campus building. It be more important than Aus­traUans say thek men are chaur is very dramatic, it's very dominant too. This vice chanceUor's house wouM dramatic stands." vanistic and.I think the men are fdrly be at an advantage beuig so huge. The self-consdous of this. I was talkuig to It almost look like it was designed to average Brisbane home has a T.V. set ia achieve solar or wind power as a viable someone the other .day. He started running withstand a siege. the lounge room and becomes the centre dtemathre to 4iuclear power. On this area down womens Ubbeis and J got talking Actually I gather that may weU have of home life. Jeanne bdieves action is a matter for the to him about it. and when he started been the case. It was a Uttle rough when When we came mto this house that indiridual. thinking about, it his origind position this place was buUt. Weren't thek bombs was true here too. There's one room here 1 do things like refusing to buy brands wasn't what he reaUy fdt. that 1 object to, I don't buy aerosols. . Canadians thmk they're boruig, as a I do try to do my Uttle bit as an individual, nationd past-time we caU ourselves duU JEANNE HENRY: and that may be more important that and I think Australians caU themselves dramatic stands. chauvanistic and I wonder how red either "People in universities have strong opinions, of those statements are. 44 that's what tve 're for. Vie 're supposed to be gad­ Onto movies and leisure. flies, that is one ofthe major things that univ­ We go to the movies to escajw. We By virtue of your position do you ersities are trying to do, to be a place where new don't have a whole lot of free tkne think you'U be able to have an mfluence and interesting and even slightly dangerous and never had. When we go to a movie on the way people view^ women's issues? thought happens and that's wonderful." Brian usually sleeps through a third of it. .Hard to say. I have to do a number of He's very frequently over-tked. My hobby things wdl. If I want to make a difference is people, my kiterest is in huinan relation­ in terms of how women are seen I do "I'm a highly subjective person, I tend to ships, that's what interests me most, and, that by. dokig something professionaUy identify really strongly right away with movies for me give me a lot of uisight mto very well. And that could possibly have things. It's ivell established in our family that that. We see different movies, we go an influence. if we go to a movie in which there's for in­ together to the same movie, but we come stance a lot of fighting like in Macbeth, Brian out of it and we've seen totdly different stays away from me for an hour after we've got movies. Brian will very often have seen a WUl it be a drawback being a vice- got home until after I've come out ofthe comedy and I'U come out deeply intro­ chancdior's wife? sharacter. I identify 100% and then 1 have spective and have seen a tragedy. Probably ;rm pretty adaptable. I'm flndkig I topullbafl^ffo^^¥^'" . my favourite fihn of aU tune was Young can't-be. as anonymous as I'd hope to w Frankenstein.

TIME OFI^ February il, W9 JJ among CathoUc schools. The book from which style of generaBsation which Church aiid the foundatwns Fkstly, may, I pomt out she has derived her 'argu­ he resally condemns when of its teaching. If doctrtae that any thinking peison ments' is an embarrassment lefeirii^ to another is contentious fram the knows that evolution is to any thinking CathoUc. iranority group ta modem outside, it is even more just a theoiy; our Its introductory comments sodety i.e. the Christian so from the inside pf knowledge of science is imply that 'evolutionists' Christian thought. The Church. whole spectmm of socid everchan^g and one are redly Mamists ki dis­ He is, of course, per­ cannot be dogmatic about guise bent on destroyuig our opinion is reflected withki fectly right in his pointing the Church. Christian it (Donna might bear this good, white. Christian out of the dubious history m mind when she impUes society. In proving his case opinion on for example 5. No provision was of the Church in the per­ homosexuaUty is not homo­ A.aS. COUNCIL that evolution is mbbish against evolution, the secution of socid 'de­ made in the $600,000 AUS because God created us). author deceives his readeis geneous, but reflects every CRITICISM budget for funding of viants'. The Church con- shade of community Indeed, the laws' of with blatant untraths. The sistkig of human beings, Uke Deputy President and Gravity are also theories book's bibUography, opinion. Informed At tiie recent AUS Services Vice President. any other societal group, based purely on empiricd dthough extensive, is highly has throughout her history Christians are compeUed to Annud Council, mysdf and 3.*"That the position evidence-who knows, biased and it concludes by wrestle with the genuinely of Deputy Vice i^esident inevitably reflected the Mike Claik were tbc only maybe the next time I saying that if evolution is general outlook of the deep ethicd considerations nominattons for the and Services Vice President drop a baU, it wiU soar correct then creation is involved. Where the be not fiUed in 1979" culturd mUieu from which positwns of Deputy upwards into the sky! But wrong, therefore we, as it is drawn. The aberations Christian differs from others President and Servkes Vice is to be debated at Student inductive data lead me to Catholics, should destroy is that regardless Of his General Meetmgs and Union of the Church from the Presklent respectWely. For beUeve the bdl wiU drop this evU theory. I beUeve mind of Christ, as dl too conclusions as to the "rights' Council Meetings eariy this to the ground. that this book is an highly or 'wrongs' of homosexual the edifkatton of your year. This is your oppor­ clearly documented in With regard to the immord pubUcation. history, merely serves to practice, he is obliged to student readers, I wiU detail tunity to make AUS accept and empathise with the 'undemocratk' events 'honest', vote against this Second Law of Thermo­ FinaUy, Ms Lacey, there emphasise the centrd truth dynamics, it basicaUy states are severd good arguments that Christians are at best the homosexual in his whkh predeeded and motion. situation. This is the one foUowed the announcement that everything tends to which do not support forgiven sinnen' with no -RUSSELL N. PARRY maximal randomness in a evolutionary theory and I claim to any 'goodness' of clear obUgation of the of our nomuiattons: D«puty Presid«nt Elect dosed system e.g., if one do not adhere religiously thek own. Christian ethic. The accep­ Australian Union of places some gas in a closed to it. Science has been tance of homosexuaUsm, Studants. But, Michael Bevis is (as opposed to the state contdner, the gas wiU even­ proven inconect many neither informed nor tuaUy scatter until it fills times in the past but, to of bemg homosexual) is 1. An attempt was made accurate in stating that another and more tortured to have time for the entke container. This date, the bulk of evidence the whole teaching of that has nothing to do with the suggests that this theory matter for the mdividual nominations of aU executive EVOLUTION DEBATE Church is based on Ues, mformed Christian Con­ positions re-opened for hdf process of natural selection. is quite plausible. deUberate misrepresenta­ Here, random mutations of science and many a 'weU an hour. May I be permitted to -THEO A. VAN tions and distortions of educated' Christian 2. A motion was passed genes of a species either LIESHOUT fact.' Such an unquaUfied, reply to Ms Lxey^s letter Conscience would follow at 6.30am, to refuse to makes the animal more or Mad IV deUberate and emotive (Semper VoL 48 No. 16 less adapted to its envkon­ dose to Mr. Bevis' con- give AUS Annual CouncU's COMING OUT REPLY generaUsation does Uttle to consent to the declaration October 1978) ta which ment. If it is less adapted dusions while many otheis of dection of myself and she has invited comments (a congentid abnormality), lend credibiUty to the rest would sympathise in Mike Qark Ul our positton. from readers on the topic it wfll die out. If it is more Congratulattons to of his writing. To anybody dissent. 3. A motion was carried of evolution. adapted, it wiU benefit over Michad Bevis on his series with any genuine knowledge -ALAN A. DALE 24 hours after nominations Once agdn Ms Lacey its peers and pass the trdt (Semper October 1978) of the teaching of the Jamboma Heights had closed to the effect (or shold I say "Miss" onto its offspring. "Comuig Out m the Church the statement as a that "the positions of Lacey) has regurgitated To equate this with the Seventies". It is unfortunate blanket condemnation is Deputy President and typical Roman CathoUc pro­ Second Law of Thermo­ however that a writer ad- patenUy nonsense. During 1979, the editors Services Vice President be paganda; in this instance, dynamics is simply vocatuig a sane, informed The writer may have had of Time Off would like to a bad experience of a not fOled ui 1979". her reference has been a ludicrous. and compassionate publish as many letters as Ms Lacey's, or rather, particular segment or possible — in the interests 4. An attempt was made smdl book entitled "The approach to a sodafly dis­ to have the duties of Case Agamst Evolution" the CathoUc Church's vievre attitude group fram witlun of promoting dialogue on Deputy President and which has been given an on other aspects of evo­ advantaged and misunder­ or on the fringe of the important issues. Thus Services Vice President imprimateur (or sed of lutionary theory are stood minority group, Church, but he is obviously please keep letters short & given to other office approval) by the similarly emotive and ludi­ should resort to just that ignorant of both the to the point. bearer's of the Union. Archbishop to be ckculated crous. pr^udfced and uninformed essentid nature of the LOW PRICES!! All IJnder The One Roof

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WESTEUN SUBURBS Regatta Hotel is no longer 77, this club has been only a handful. seen as a red dtemative fraught with problems since In common with the (not having a beer garden it was first conceived. R.E. and the Regatta, the A Short History... constitutes one of its It's first difficulty was Recreation Club has not problems), and the newly overcoming the strong op­ seen fit to introduce live THE ROYAL EXCHANGE AND THE REGATTA: built student Recreation position to its receiving a music for the benefit of Qub has yet to fully prove licence - an opposition its patrons either. (Some­ itself. (Up till now one of The R.E. enjoys the reputation of being Brisbane's number one 'trendy' motmted and supported by thing which would be very its problems has been its one of the University well received m the music drinking spot for students as well as non-student hippies, bikies, smack and limited hours of opening chaplatas!!) amongst others. starved westem suburbs - dope freaks, coasters, 'hip' professionals, and workers. combmed with its failure Yet after a very long hearing only the Jinddee Pub Yet ten years ago it was the Regatta Hotel ("The Rubbity") that enjoyed to develop any red it battied successfully makes an effort here at the the status of being the "student pub". In fact on most nights in the lounge character and atmosphere, through to pave the way moment). yet with more use of for all other campuses in But the story has a bar, addresses for as many as sixteen different parties would be passed around late licences and recent Qld to establish clubs happy ending, at the time by word of mouth to all patrons. (And in those days you needed a dozen addition of a beer garden (dbeit with limited hours of gomg to press a new bottles to gain entry or your head was punched in by the heavies ax. the it may yet manage to of service), thereby bringing manager is in the process overcome these problems.) door). us into line with facilities of being appomted and a In case a wrong im­ The times were different in other ways too - in so far as the macho at other tertiaiy institutions beer garden and new bar pression has been created down south. level is being added to the 'rugger bugger' mentality ruled supreme and usually the sole topic of about the recent history The next problem lay m origind complex, dl of conversation was sexual bragging (Le. which "chick each guy had knocked of the Regatta Hotel, this the outlook of its newly which could add up to a pub has been run for some off the night before") —But who ever sakl male diauvinism is now appomted managers. It can bright future. on the wane? yean now by a very amiable safdy be sdd that they and sensitive manager who Finally in late 1969 both the unacceptable outlook and the arrogant were out of tune with INDOOROOPILLY has built up a solid clientele students in the way they manner of the then Regatta Manager ('Howard') caused a core of about HOTEL; (tacludmg many student^ conceived of how a club twenty tegular patrons to breakaway and commence frequenting Percy's and who manages to at least should be run. It was easy *Giey Ghost', now known as the 'R.E.' dear his hotd each night to gain the impression that Never seen as a realistic This was die beginning of the Golden Era of the Royal Exchange Hotel. by just switcMng the lights tiie manager saw the club contender for student pub on and off (as opposed to at any time, it is noted for And not entirely by accident it coincided with the growth ofthe late sixties as his own privately owned shouting m peoples' ears hotel rather than a club its bottle shop which not radical movement on campus as well as the emergence of the counter culture. at over lOOdb's through a paid for by members. Often only often tops every other loudspeaker to vacate the pub in Queensland for sdes, Perqr, the RJ.'s publican at that stage was sitting the desires of members took relations with one another premise as has been tradi- a most definite second place but also sells Fosters and . on a potentid gold mine, the old style decor and service on the most peaceful of tioiial at- the RE - how to his own dictatorid VB! A familiar- sight at the levels, many of the new provided in the pub's public, saloon, lounge and garden about a change of approach beliefs. pub used to be its owner generation of drinkers were bars rather than repulsing the new clientele if anything there Russ?) Another problem lay in (now deceased) sitting down made the place more appeding. Table service was an not in tune with what had counting money behind a been achieved.. Actually any look at the the weekday 9pm cloang, added extra (stace gone) In the lounge area which also yet this needn't have been register in tiie bottle shop. Overcrowding was one progress of the Regatta over a problem at all if the He and the pub were pnce featured a pleasant combination of pots of plastic problem (and still is), while the yeais would not be manager had made use of well known for their refitsd flowers and an old fireplace. another was the frequent complete without a mention of the fact that m 1964 it up to 50 late Ucences per to serve women in the outbreak of aggression and public bar. by BRUCE DICKSON heaviness amongst - some became the first target of year he could have been groups of people (crazies action by university based granted. Instead he used - Around about this period another significant event of all kinds were and stUl feniiiiists directed agamst two dgnificant' changes oc- took place - the drinkmg are, a feature of the place). the exclusion of women from pubh'c bars. curred - the., iast of the age was lowered from 21 to Yet even if the initid • imiverdty staff who for 18 years of age. spirit of the pub has died The women involved in many years had False birthdates on student somewhat (or been forgot­ the demonstration chained ti;aditionaUy drunk at the cards which were once the ten) and nowadays some themsdves to tba bar ofthe Royal Exchange Hotel left rage at the Regatta Hotel people are willing to talk Hotel. Fortunately the pub ito frequent the newly built were no longer needed by of the "death trip" that did away vrith with such Staff Club on campus and underage student drinkers the R.E. can at times discrimination agdnst .Percy, the ageing publican and the R.E. was literally appear to be, it remdns women a few years ago (as gave up his management flooded with a new young the best of a rather limited did most other Brisbane vbf the Castlemdne Perkins clientele who had by now number of community pubs hotels), Owned R.E. heard about the famous within our cities suburbs. It Toowong local.- !|. To fill his position two dso conttaues to be a THE RECREATION dose friends of Premier However whereas the re* favourite with many Joh, Russ and Fay Ogilvie putation of the Royal students and others. CLUBt arrived on the scene. Exchange had been based It will most likely stay "vf^ Russ immediately set out on a generation of people one for many yeara to Established by the U.Q. "to^Up'datethe decor of the who had sought to explore corae, since" even the Sports and Physicd Rec­ pub and not long afterwards and develop Yiarmdrdous physical beauty of the reation Associarion in 1976/

'-•'¥lMfe'OPF' F'ebfudrV-"2>Iv'»'979 C (11 (2)improving student wdfare services e.g. policies into practice - Kids-need their TEAS, student loans, housing etc. . very own place on .Campus. A place that's And most important (3) helping not a burden on their parents pockets. PRESIDENT'S RAVE individud students with problems related A living place for little people. to their courses - the Union has a full time Kids heed care. foremen to get the sack. But the Union Education Resources Officer (Mary Kids need stimulation/a learning by EUGENE O'SULLIVAN as the democratic body and voice of Alexander) who can hdp prepare appeals environment. President, University of Qld Union students on this campus is concemed to against results in particular subjects, or Kids need other kids. take principled stands on the issues that against exclusion and failures (where Kids need to explo». affect and concem students. grounds exist). Kids need to question.' 'There's a lot to being undergrad and Undergraduate days mean more than Kids need other bigger people. libraries and lectures. The fact is, if we woric at it we can give being stupid and taking risks and being The activities of the Union this year are shaping up to be one of the most Fair enough, you've got to get that Kids on Campus dl of these things and embarrassing and stupid. A lot of good exciting for a while. degree, and that means passing exams, more. Kids needs, and the way we can stuff comes out of that. You've got to be The refec. service has improved with and these days, copping heaps of assign­ hilfil them are ongoing processes that really brave and be bold and be daring and dollar meals and a well-stocked hedth ments and tests and getting them in on take lifetimes to elaborate upon. If money aO that kind of stuff. Just s^ "oh fudc food bar, with a much varied menu down time. from various* sources is put to good use, them"; it's oidy m doii^ thit you can in the Creperie. But, take a note from Leunig and there will be young children being cared break new ground." The Union's newspaper (formeriy ei\joy "being undergrad." for within the physical boundaries of called' Semper, now Time-Off) has a adult leaming institutions. (You didn't Leunig, 1976. whole new format and style, witb the living know kids an nice to be near? Especially guide of all events on around campus if you happen to be a parent of one of The one thing that you have to keep and greater Brisbane. them who likes to see his/her kid as often remifldiog yourself of when you come to as possible). this institution is that the time you spend Student Theatre on campus has finally With love and effort from their care- out here (be it failure after 1 y^ai or a stirred agdn with about 5 active campus givors, children in a care centre on Campus d^ne over 6) it's an important and drastic groups. Also, the venue for live theatre - will grow happily, securely, hiterested part of your life, the Cement Box - wHI be completed by and welL However, all the best input. As the .departed (not RIP) gov-generd AprO, at a cost of over $100,000. a car^ver can provide, will not woric frequently sdd during his rdgn over Qld The radio statk>n (4ZZZ) has gone to effectively, if the kids do not vdue them­ Uni, "University life is what you make of full power and is transmitting to all of selves and their own abilities to leam and it.". Briabane - they're dways looking for GAilE create, Klds^have these values if one other The questton is what can you make of volunteers both on-air and bdund tbe hnportant need is fulfilled- it. And, what's the purpose of it aU scenes. Kids need parents who have strong anyway? But, that is not to say that the Union TO RAISE A THOUGHT ABOUT feelings of self-worth. And parents, Students seem to be going through a this year is going to have a narrow, intemd UTTLE KIDS ON CAMPUS. . , . whether mde or femde, who are on period of readjustment at the moment. peispective. Campus are people who have had the guts Now it seems more people are more con­ to do something about improving their cerned with wanting better dt^rees than There will be active poHticd campaigns Oace upon a time,. someone said self-worth. the next student, being forced more and and forums carried on against the moves <**Evexybody bas the light to an education". Child Care on campus gives parents a more into the competitive assessment by Joh to mine the Barrier Reef for oil; I^ow, If you're fonale, this is fairly chance to be students. syndrome. And with the threat that there activities by the Public lUghts Committees difficult because it's just not done dear. is no longer aa assurance that a University investigations into the Crimind Law If you're poor, its very difficult. As degtee w^ guarantee a job, not even in Inquiry; investigative and provocative we all know, money nukes the worid go •This is a readers quiz- engineeriug or law, let done arts for reporting by the editors of Time-Off education. And where they can get jobs, ratoid. Possible sources of finance for Child (your new student newspaper). Care on Campus. Please tick the approp­ they grab them and continue their studies There are also a number of other If you're a parent, its extremely part-time. Working 9 to S and hoping difficult, (a) not enough pitunbing in riate boxes. functions carried out by the union and its 1. Administration ( ] to cope with huge workloads and the officers apart from providing student (he educatwnal institutions (b) kkls are day-to-day grind. naturally noisy, and lecturers find it 2. Union I ] facilities, and supporting clubs and 3. State Government ( ] socs and publishing this newspaper; they difffeult to be heard. THE UNION 4. Federd Government [ ] are (1) representing student needs on If you are all three ofthe above, getting 5. Parents themselves [ ] Contrary to popular belief we are not university committees especially the an education is bloody impossible!!! Senate - the overall dedsion-making 6. Utah (kiss your children goodbye) holding the community to ransom, In order to put "every-people" philo­ mining coiporation [ ] crippling industry or causing Broken HUl body of the university; as well as sophies and not just elitist educationd 7. All of tiie above ( ] mmm0mmimmmm0mmimmm m m

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POETRY READING - REVIEWED by hotd rooms. McKimmie, who writes plays, read poems. quite obviously could not SEE without sunglasses) a Poet's Union mcmbei—Publicity? Pity. Anderson, who writes his own generally, read (and Chris Baker who still amazed everyone with his Hardly heard about it, did you? Saw the Whyte. Shera didn't manage to surpass his unforgettable ability to absorb liquor) no-one stepped out of line posters? Heard about it on the radio? If you have FM. "Picnic at Slaughter Falls", Trenfield stumped- So what is the outcome of the evening? Then the show's hdf over before the organizer even everyone who had no idea she wrote poetry, I read Poetry readuigs (yetch!) to be held on a regular shows up, what a way to do business is that? Drinks my theoiy of the Primevd Chook and was basis once monthly hi the Baroona Hall; oiganized, door organized-Where's that crazy Geoff complimented next moming by Shera on that poem Hymnds and rhyming couplets to the glory of the Shei-a? The older poets promptiy divided themselves about dephant eggs. day to remain with us to this day (Jan 1979); into a section called the older poets and ddegated all Tom Shapcott wdted almost till the end, dong with Poets Union members preparing to perform a lot younger to the youngsters. The older poets seemed "we oldsters" before reading one fkm '79 poem about more than mere poems next time around; quite surprised by Nya Murray's performance as Red Life'(G.S. 30.1.79) in Ipswich which was received Some members writing in secret and lacking public ooraposerypcrforraer rather than staged introvert. . . with the reverence due to an older poet who remains, confidence; didn't realise, no-one talks enough, that there are very agdnst our better judgement, outside the Poets Union. Others who you'd wish would never come out of few poets in the poets union. Nigel Fitzgibbon, military And then much to everyone's pleasure, Jack Blight their closets; writer from Perth, reads Casudty Care and further read his. That style strength and ability have a marked convinces members that there are an awful lot of un­ The reading finished with no more disturbance than relevance to honesty; known territories within our midst. Most people did Barry D's being taken to task for pomographic sexism And the first mi^oT plagiarism case to have emerged as they were expected-the mdes read poems about the and K. Tren's shoe narrowly missing T. Shapcott's head in the Qld Union whereby Anderson read Whyte without women they have had and the femdes about the generd on its way to a large cockroach. permission or acknowledgement. had-ing they take from society at large and from men No-one got drunk, no-one took any overdoses, no-one If the reading on February 2nd goes on like this in particular. Women rettd about their rooms, men about produced any specid effects (apart from N, Munay who we're going to get a strange reputation around town. Cemdc 16.1.1979 Any publishing venture, especially in literature, is a risky business. Most little nugazbcs run a few issues, then return to the oblivion from whence they came. Our plans for POETS PRESS have been shown to be unrealistic and naive, as usud. Although there arc many writers who arc intereatcd in having their work published, very few of these are prepared to commit time and energy to thc business of editing, layout, proofreading, and organization ncces.«ry to get a publication to press. POETS PRESS is a publishing collective formed when POETS UNION PRKSS folded in late 1978. Membership of POETS PRESS is free ta members ofthe POET.S UNION, and $5;00 to others. This issue appears as a supplement insert in "Time Off" (formeriy Semper), with an initial circulation of 15,000. As a great deal of energy in literary activity is involved in publishing, we arc expecting great things from POETS PRESS in 1979. POETS PRESS will publish poetry, prose, plays, graphics, parts of novels, collage, concrete art, photographs, and information. The address to send contributions is: P.O. Box 557, Toowong, 4066. If you aren't a memher of POETS UNION, include $5.00. The Qld branch of thc POETS UNION was instrumental in the launching of NEGATIVE TIIINKING, a book of prose poems and drawings by Peter Anderson and Robert Whyte (Planet Press, 1978). The Union organised readings, a POETS UNION benefit dance, and a publication, during thc latter part of 1978, and hopes to hold readings, seminars, workshops, film nights, and theatre in 1979. There is also talk of thc POETS UNION Escort Service. Thc Union is interested in participating in ali areas of thc arts, for example, we arc hdping with the promotion and organising of Wendy Ccrnak's exhibition of paintings and drawings at thc TERRACE GALLERIES (2, Petrie Terrace, Petrie Terrace 4064) opening late February and continuing hi March. Ck;rnak is a member of thc POETS UNION. "The Union is a nationd organisation, with branches in Adelaide, Wolloongong, Sydney and Melbourne, and since August 1978, Brisbane. Thc Qld Branch maintains close contact with thc southern branches and participates in organisation on a national level For instance, thc forthcoming National Secretariat with branches from all states attending,.. will be held in Brisbane, at 2p.m. in the Baroona Labour Hall, 17 Caxton St, Petrie Terrace, on Saturday tlie 24th of February 1979. • Membership of the POETS UNION is open to dl. You need npt be a practising poet to join. An interest in poetry, prose, drama, or the arts in generd, and a wish to support and promote cultural acrivitics in Queensland, arc the only prerequisites. Mcmbcrshipis$5.00pcrannum;if you wbh to join, send your name and address with 85.OO to POETS UNION, P.O. Box 471, Toowong, 4066. 'Any enquiries contact Rell Hannali (PubUcity Officer) at the POETS UNIOiV DESK in the ACTIVITIKS area of thc STUDENT UNION COMPLEX of Ihc Univenity of (>ucensland,St. Lucia4067,orring371 1611 ext 13. Robert Whyto (Prcsidant, Poau Union, Qld.l

••Airmaterlal printed (n this publication copyrighted Id to Individual author/artiit. Photographs by Paul Hannah fcl 1979. TWi edition 15,000cople». 6 Isiowbf POETS PflESS avaiUbta by tub- icrlptlon for $3.00 Aust. {by maiO. P.O. Box 657, Toowong, 4066, AUSTRALtA. POETS PRESS Editors for this issue: Robert Whyte, Rell Hannah, Chrit Barker. ovGf .rs'7ituid&-'i--RoaMiT sr TIME OF F February 21,1979 13 icarus november sky the hdy bird who hops dong the flower thc blue Sunday sky blades wDl spread her wings above your house is strewn with white confetti scariet floweis & the shadow will be very black. are thrown on a green bush outside the umbrella of her wings when you i want to paste down this day in a child's scrapbook will peep as you must, you will sec dready it hovers a sparrow tuming Se circling in the ah* like a mosquito in a comer stm and shade & shredding its beak at a small grey moth, flicker like an old movie there will be no other movement my mother takes a shower and her clean sdf as far as you can see & the cloudless sky silently says its o.k. will be silver, harsh & dry. madonna staunton

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light to burst into golden ringsaroun d the birds, or you could close your eyes &

restore the order of your life slowly, then i shall come to you, my naked angd.

i shdl offer you a choice of wings.

rae desmond Jones

THE TREATMENT (a short story) ReU Hannah

Part One: To Prove I Am Mad It was a pox of a place—war-time tastes gone sour. I sat there on a crowded outpatients bench, staring at the letter in my hand and wishing I'd cut my fingernails. They fdt like claws. This room was full of people. They sat there submissivdy with the fans chopping above their heads and the moths dying at their feet. It was getting late now. God knows how long we'd dl been there. The water-cooler was empty and the kids were whining. I started shivering. I wanted to sleep. I wanted a huge horse- dose of tranquilliser. I wanted peace. Gold stainless steel clatters were echoing around my head; nurses laughing beliind closed doors. White on cream. My confusion disgusted me. i looked up and saw someone standing in front of me. "The psychiatrist wHl see you now. Miss Hannah". A tiny cubkle and another wdt. It's all part of thc ded. You are thc miserable sinner and they arc the saviours, slicing you off a dry crust of their spare benevolence. I sat there looking at the glass paperweight. The guy in the next cubicle was trying to remember where he was, what day of thc week it happened to be. He knew a few minutes ago he sdd. He was just too tired now. These things could slip your mind. I couldn't think what day it was either. I hadn't slept for the last three. It might even have been four. Where the hell was this psychiatrist? Eventually, the door opened and in came a satin-bloused, cigarette commercial woman with a briefcase full of papers. She sat down and read my letter. She asked me questions like a cap gun. After a few minutes, I realised I waa being assessed. The point was this—was I genuinely psychiatricaUy dittturbcd? It all seemed no bizanv. Trying to convince someone you're cracked, that you deserve one of their precious hospital beds. No, it was more than bizarre; it was humiliating, it was demeaning. Had I not been so desperate, I would have told the bitch off and wdkcd out, but here's the iwbt-dcsperation is desperation and there was nowhere dse to Madness is me go- My head exploding 1 did everything but froth at the mouth for her. And family knowuig She folded up her pzpcn and leaned back agdnst her padded I know I'm mad chair, tapping her pen on her finger. But what can I do? "Yes, I think you could benefit from an admbsion to thc hospitd but, as I sec it, what your problems demand is long- Madness is bdng silly term psych iatrk guidaiKC. Well now, if you would just like to Which I am wdt a little longer III have one of the docton give you a physical I can't grow old examination and then an orderiy will-take you to a ward." I don't think I can A quarter to eleven. Man moves in mysterious ways. Lyn Shaw Never mind about God.

KITCHEN SINK POEMS for Barbie 1. This issue of the POETS PRESS was i could have been a well-read poet if wholly set up & layed out by booze & the kitchen sink hadn't claimed me first, you can tdl from the intensity R. Whyte &W. Cemak. as i squirt detergent into the hot water; scrub red-eyed;stare at the gap between the dried chillis & mung beans. Mount Everest

the weather u too cold yet. beans turn I had just been to Mount Everest. mouldy in cottonwool beds before sprouting. My black coat lustcred and billowed round me., My shoes carried mc in yellowed flight 2. above the surface of thc bridge, possum oTi the windowsill eating crusts, where quartzy particles whirled and danced moon didn't rise till hdf past eleven, within the form beneath my feet. kids asleep and silently growing out of Council buses flouresced magenta, spite the kettle has gone off thc boil petrol tankers fluctuated gold dreams & the typewriter under thc bed.. and milk vans were too white for sight.

3. It took a fortnight she in the darkness delwers her line , to find my way home, so you know there's more to it: i ' the muced business I KNOW.. .WHY., .SYLVIA PLATH., .KILLEDHERSELF , in the outer suburb, years to be reconciled. I wdt foolishly expecting an unfolding of teatowels and insights. Cornells Vlecskeni Madgie Staunton

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Ones typewriter churned active like a scramble of TO MAKE A POEM city sparrows IS TO LISTEN TO MYSELF, WALKING ALONE. the other slammed applause TO DIVERSIFY AND TO WITHDRAW UKE A HARD RAIN OR TO MAKE THE BALANCE A MOVEMENT, like a killer from the country's nailed stick THEN AN EMBODIMENT ON A THEME: Much poetry b Ukc a gigantic meta word chess game FABRICATE THE IMAGINATION SO IT CAN BE SEEN; other stuff can plough fields A MIRROR IMAGE OF THE PRISONER SET Where arc the pushied, round breasts of last summers FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF WORDS, naked swimmer? „ „ _. Geoff Shera THAT RESONATING KISS TONGUE STUCK dervbh TO THE BARS OF REFRIGERATOR PIPING IN DEEP KNEE BENDS IN PERSPEX DISSOLVING i will spin my centre's white light MEMORIES OF TRUE LOVE/THIS CLOTHESLINE blind to the spectrum of the senses SCULPTED FROM THE FRINGES loving only that illumination FROM THE GHETTO OF MY HEART. i shdl cheat them dl madonna staunton GHOSTS' UNION MEMBER G. Shera LIBERATION

After weekend of beautiful fucking it's pretty lonely out here

The Union Cultural Activities Dept. on my own For a start there's the workshop at Mary Smokes (Creek) programme that everyone, not just students, can ciuol in. at least Monday's usudly are Spinning, weaving, flute, guitar, drama, women's bodywork, painting, home handy- bull maintdn there's 2 person, naturd foods, orientd cooking, kinds of hardons: Indian cookmg, Indian embroidery, batik, drawing, photography, colour sexual & cosmic photographic processes, lead light, pottery, yoga, car mecham'cs, silver jewdlcry and & to be idtcmative life systems. We dso oiganize a good fuck free painting weekend workshops, I reckon you weekends on a farm in norther NSW gotta know both and if you want to do some screen printing or leam how to, you can join our screen simultaneously prmting collective. Ako! Wiat a Bill Jones dbgusting level of debate and didogue b being presented by thc media. Thc Superman In Our Town Acthritics department w31 be working for George Reeves d. 16/6/59 ^ with other areas of the University to '--... — . -A-^-3>-.'^.. ,ti*u^ n present weekend forums/workshops/ When Superman first came to our town debates/mini conventions if you like, on it was 1949 the year of the cold war as wide a range of topics as possible. Holdens racuig down thc Pacific Highway We hope to present a true didogue and a nation going to bed with a clear conscience situation where people can find something and clean pyjamas: more informative and stimulating than that was the year I rolled out of my cot abuse. and Superman came diving out of thc clouds For information on all these things to scoop me up Just in time had a slice of contact the University of Queensland orange sponge cake a glass of cordid Union Activities department. Phone and left by thc window. 371 1611 Ext. 13 or 19. The second time it was 1959 he could only stay hdf an hour his forehead was creased and there were dark places under his eyes he stared at thc table kind of nervous:: that night I heard him overiicad and waved in the dark.

It was about a month after that wc heaixl he was dead: NEW THEORIES Instead of travellii^ from one city to some sdd he jumped from a tdl building another the train tracks cucle around the some sdd he shot himself city & thc only ones that go anywhere go but how can Superman die? . to the sea, the fire engines arc abandoned Then one night in 1969 a loud whoosh woke me The Runner at the shore with no more petrol, there and there he stood at the window still as a stone for maybe 60 seconds is a transparent coating over the sea, Now is the time a protective coating of some kind, of casting off underneath the sea there is talk that a It's ten years siiKC then and I'll give you his message: Superman is dive and wdl ijtill has his super powers You've spun your tdes target filament u attracting espionage. too long . All the Russians have to do to the but he doesn't use them any more. No more flying he catches the bus to his office at the Ddly Phmet Americans is feed thera back through shed your skin a preamplifier & tum thc volume down & composing articles on thc illusion of individudbro ^S^-^^W and the love of the many in thc cold " the words come out crystd clear, it unknowing shadows escapes the authorities, thc method is you see they fooled him for too long and he got tired of the tricks snake tired and weary discovered by people watching the stars so open to suggestion for signs of ^ips, they see one a night propping up the American Way bdling out banks and thc corrupt police and now are expecting an increase in This is the silent space line rate, new theories arc manufactured Superman there's a pension coming and old friends in your street in your mind saying that the ships are built here This is the night and are leavmg to take second looks and thc sky was meant for lying over us Philip Nnlsen of diamonds at other planets, even here there are when upon thc hollow moon people behind the scenes who live in you shdl shine a world of mathematics & counter SOME PEOPLE IN CULTS DON'T BURN THEMSELVES TO DEATH espionage which we know nothing about, or light the way, O runner, elsc the anchorman is bribed to confuse Used to reckon be a millionaire by twenty-one make and I will follow thc issue. a fortune knitting high-class gents sweaters on thc machine lover-boy got hot before he started in thc Chris Barker Are extinguisher business,

meet me in thc rcndezzvouss room at rosclands for cock idcs and gin sling ? har har (LEG OPENER) (mum screamed) something she cant smell on me breath then) kbscs and dry humps against thc hall wall in thc dark he sobs to her dl about being a londy orphan masturbator found salvation in 1. ran hubbard's science ficlion and pJsscd-in telephone boxes up thc cross where he'd jack off smiling at passers by telling her how beautiful.

lovcr-boy who paid dl thc bills went bankrupt and as a last nasty phoned mum your kid's hanging out with a poofter pro and so along with threats of cops and mord danger a letter of dissassocialion from 1. ron and co. thc romancc'was extinguished. Jacqueline McKimmie

TIME, OFF February,21;,1979 J.B )?.v.>..VK I '1 V . FENCING WITII NEIGHBOUR Country Town You know that the fence b likdy to collapse. Silence. Silence so deep You tied it back with clotiiesline last weekend but as only found in a country town, in the aftemoon, in Summer; how long is that going to last? the good are resting whh the bad The wood is tuming to powder, and thc insects, like hundreds of deeping beauties, naib have rusted, doze ill a sonmambulist's landscape, you know that the fence is Ukely to collapse wdting for the kiss of sound. and that your neighbour who has spent a year now prying Unexpectedly, the awakening mddy comes information from you down thc asphdt way will be there. joining the invisible horizon Her totd recdl, to thc wooden hearts of colonid homes; the odd smile, four horses arc galloping with the madness thc ruthless pursuit of trwia /l^^HpE It of Lords of the Earth. betray the fact that she has worked for the CIA or at least been secretary to a ^ccid branch somewhere out on thc limbs of intelUgence. Ridericss, their awesome presence A DANGEROUS BITE brings a rousing cantfcle of hooves the fence will fdl into your driveway and you will be subjected to another conversation. breakmg the quiet in multiple echoes. when thc summer breath Kevin Brophy Manes and tails flying, they bite exhileration presses a revolver in the stillness, neigh with thc pain of freedom, swun into the anti-matter jostle each other's plum-firm behinds, & retrieve the caterpillar bulging their eyes to see that memorizes the hotd of lakes who Will be first. To where? AFTER TIIE POETRY READING shed the skin that separates the survivors from thc stars The domestk; roans become Yellowstone bazooka stoob ambush fried avocado peek the white, thc red and thc black while Uncle Mac Mo-drip sits. dust the bullets with rdn in thc fury of the race. and open thc musk Thc pde one, on thc outside, William Garrett Vacant elbows flower b cdled Death and b thc fiercest under naked eariobes of heavily syncopated boothcels. to lead this apocalypse down the road. \^ Ivory moonlight squats elementally in the comer In one house, blindly portraying toejam gravy A NATION OF MilSSAGKS a woman b swinging quietly from thc neck. until Duchamp bites her what. In thb comer of thc worid, crossroads hold satoris she is deaf to thc angel's threats. Although nothing photographs in an artful rampage of waves while a veranda climbs over the fearless whisper Eyes rolled to heaven, float inside heartbeats in vernacular toothaches, her protruding tongue is silent aurora: bUght ragged and snakey toilctpaper robots & screams at thc red catcrpfllar to thc seventh sed being broken. in an anonymous and miraculously flattered dccoupage in the intersection Silvana Gardner of misunderstanding roUing-pins. the ke, like a freckle on the rose, Fortimatcly the treed dachshund barked. adjust thc nailed compress AUSTRALIA-THE GOLD- But, on the other hand, fingers deUcatdy skewered and starches green elbows CURTAIN COUNTRY the sparkplug behind the watcrfountdn until Mata Hari speaks as moth-eaten zebras outstripped rosy paraplegics. We'll build a worid of our own "Frank O'Hara, come down from that tree!" that no one else can sJiare: We'll make sure it's expensive to Wack bathyspheres ignite. Traumatized tricycles eat triptyched tyrannosauruses but the frog, dressed up as a Girl Scout, travel by air. comforts thc Ddai Lama So that pollies alone will see untU a vomit-stdncd tibia hemorrhages what's over there without the beneflt of a husked scrub board under the bed William Garrett In the lands to the Ocker crying out. unknown. Winiau Ganrett & Norman Plum.

The New Cement Box Theatre The Cement Box theatre, under thc Schondl theatre at the University of Qld, u now nearing completion and should provide Brbbane with a very versatfle Uve theatre venue. It has been designed to accomodate severd different live theatre formats: If they would let mc thrust, theatre-m-the-rourid, and classitd tear down the dark, depressing blinds proscenium. It will dso be suutable i'or and show them colour, filra pirojecdon and plans are underway how warm thc amber glow. to stage the first Paciflc Super 8 mm. And caught iq;> in a song film festival there. sing solo throu^ one pure channel The Cement Box b probably, the most and echo truth, excituig thing to happen to live theatre how quiet the gentle thoughts. m thio town for a long whOe. If you're If they would let mc an exdtable type you should be getring unlcadi the chains of conventid tic stirred up now. and woo them sweetly, Thc Women's Theatre Group and the how strong the bond of hope. Communitv Theatre Group are agitating And uraeslrdned to be Cement Boxed and can be dded and dblil the essence of qudnt cultures abetted by contacting Rell Hannah or and inject them fully, Annette Read on 371 1611. Thb year how rich their interest then. F.A.S.T. (Festhrd of Austrdian Student If they would let me Theatre) wHI also happen in the Cement wash away the bile-bled insults Box. Drama may be a dead art (as the and feed them joy, avante garde are saying these days) but love could be enough. it's ghost is getting about. Natasha Waters

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The Strangers have been extra­ ordinarily successful in England, leaping from obscurity to the front rank of the new wave over the last two years. Each of their first two albums has sold in excess of 500,000 copies, the first 'TV Rattus Norvegicus" leaping to number four on the English national charts in its second week on release, remaining in the top five for several weeks. The second album reached number two spot, and a remaric- able fact about both releases was that each cost less than $9,000 to record, remarkable economy at a time when rock superstars are spending hundreds of thousaiiids on each new album, and an indkatkin of the speed and talent with which the group In 1975 the band was signed with a of their concerts was invaded by 200 or smugness at a rock gig. People are often compose and record. London agency, Albion, and began makmg members of a neo-fascist party, the surprised at the stances we take at gigs. The Stranglers were formed in Spring, appearances around the city. The "Regeri", who did over $4,000 worth We only take a stance because it's better 1975, and spent their formative months Stranglers weren't immediatdy acceptable of damage to their equipment and totally than having no stance at dl. You put over in and around Guildford. Hugh Comwell, to everyone, and the group were booed disrupted the concert to make their own tiie music hi the best w^ possible. So you 27, and Jet Black, 29, were the founders off at many of their gigs. However, in obscure politicd points. use psychok>gy, and that reJies on the of the band. Comwell's parents wanted 1976 the band began gigging solidly and This politicd group have gained a context and the dtuation." him to become a doctor, and in fact he in the eariy summer they got their first notorious reputation In Sweden for dis­ AU members of The Strai^^ers share completed a Univerdty course in Bio­ real breaks supporting Parti Smith in the rupting concerts and pubUc meetmgs, in writmg the music, and the lyrics come chemistry, and worked as a research Roundhouse. Events moved quickly after and during tthe melee two of The from "whoever's got the most to grouse scientist in Sweden before joining the that and, it was not long before they Stranglers roadies were injured and severd about at the time. They are based on band. let Black is said to have been the more people were hurt before poUce experience, but a few are fantasies." owner of a fleet of ice cream vans before moved in. This inddent caused the group Hugh ComweU says, "a lot of New Wave concentratuig on music, and in fact one of to head home prematurdy. bands aren't as poUtical as they make these vans provided the band's Coinciding with the rdease of The out - they're just drawn in by the transportation during its eariy scuffUng publicity. We identify with dl those other days. These two were joined by Jean New Wave bands because our enemies Jacques Bumel, 24, who has a d^ree in are the same. We beUve that the country economics, and a black bdt in karate. is fucked up and something should be done He was thinking of taking a teaching job to change it. We're not reaUy in a position to offer any red solutions, we're just observing the discontent and endor^jig it." ^0m mmmmim

The Stranglers admit that "strange things outside of the music" helped shape the strong, often disturbmg songs. "That to me is mote red than summer meadows with the sun comuig up and aU that rubbish," says ComweU. "It's more of a reflecrion of the times we live in". Hugh says that the group is not into violence, "but our music is aggressive and menacing. It's designed to make people stop taking everything m their lives for granted and start thinking differently." Comwdl is the only punk rocker to surface so far with a univerdty degree, and he's also one of the older punks in the business. "I'm 27 and proud of it. But age has nothing to do with it. I'm not fully mature yet, stiU questioning - that's what coimts. That's why I'm into all this. When I have developed fuUy I will quit because then you're past it. People can sneer aU they like, but punk is nothing new. The Stones were punks when they started, so were the Beatles. So was Elvis. So was Sdvidor in Japan before joining The Stranglers, Dali in the 20s. Being a punk means and even now he intends to take time off shocking people into a new awareness, to reach a higher status in karate by Stranglers third dbum "Black and White", takmg them out of thek apathy. Long studying in that country. United Artists decided to stage a concert hair used to do that, but not any more. Dave Greenfield joiiied these three by The Stranglers in Iceland, to be So we just shock them in a different after answering an ad in the music press, attended by a party of EngUsh joumalists, way." and whilst getting their origind materid that country being "the most black and Although The Stranglers have often together the band were forced to take white country in the worid." The concert been criticbed for the sexist, violent jobs playing at wedding receptions and was a rousuig success being attended by nature of thek music and lyrics, they similar functions to keep themsdves aUve. attracted record company interest. A 5,000 fans, representuig 2% of the can temper this with inteUigence and They played under a number of names, couple more support concerts vrith Patti coimtry's population. Less successful were humour. BumeU submitted himsdf for and eventually the Guildford Stranglers Smith and an extensive UJC. pub-club the press activities during the tour, with a bit of role reversd, by going dong with stuck, later to be shortened to The tour consolidated The Stranglers already one jourmiist being left behind, another the idea to be photographed as a nude, Stranglers. large foUowing. breakmg an ankle and severd more pin-up across the centre spread of one of The band feels that their varied In December, 1976 the band signed succumbing to the rigours of drink and the music weekUes. The headUne was background is of no importance to their with United Artbts records, and not long ddUance. "Jean Jacques Bumel-Stud of the yeir". music. ComweU says, "well, a lot of people after theu: first single, "Grip/London AUowing himself to, be treated as a think it more interestmg that we were Lady" made the low end of the charts. "piece of meat" in the same way as many teachers in some poxy school, somewhere. They contmued to work hard, most of the of the girls in their songs, was a clever I taught biology for a term in a cram shows being club dates but they also had answer to critics preaching about the school in Guildford. They were kids about important support gigs with the Pink Tht Stranglers share with other New groups mab chauvinbt songs. Never­ 18 who had been dung out of public Fairies and the Climax Blues Band. The Wave bands similar uncompromising theless, lean insists that "we're clean schools, for drug use and thhigs and they latter of these two caused a m^'or uproar attitudes towards the music business. wholesome boys. We're just Uke the boys were at this crammer to pass their 'A' when the group's power was tunied off Jet Black says "we've wanted new ideas next door. . .If you happen to live next levdlil I was only there for a summer by the Greater London Council, super­ and new styles for as long as we've been door to a morgue." term, then the bead mistress sacked me visors of the Rainbow Theatre, who's workmg together. Music, and the music for fraternizing with the pupjis too much, representatives object to a T-shirt Hugh business, has been completdy stag­ going out and getting pissed and things ComweU was wearing. nating over the last five yean. People are at limch time." The band has dways been very hard living on their past reputations. . .it's ®S^®S) ,. Before that ComweU bummed around workuig, playing over 275 gigs during taken us 2 years to break through and it's Sweden for two and a hdf ytan pitying 1976 done, and with over 400 gigs in only slowly we've found an audience ih' a. -rock band with American draft* their first three years they have probably prepared to Usten to something new." 4ZZZ-FM presents ITte Strtngkrs February dodgen. The nearest Jean Bumel got to worked more often than nearly aU other Jean Burnell agress: "The trouble teaching wu ghdng daxtcd guitar lesions new wave bands put together. This with rock hi the last few years is that it's 27th (Queens Hotel In the cily), Febnaoy to kidt for a diort time, whereas Dave strategy has built, a Urge, and devoted become verbose, self indidgent, and safe. 28th (The Patch at the Gold Coast} and .GrecoGeld has been into mialc since foUowing In England, and the band has It's got to be energetic, it's got to rock, March 1st (Queens). Tickets are $6.50 leading ichooI, qwndlni tome time in also ventured overseas to Europe and it's got to be economic and it's got to be and $5.50 for 4ZZZ subscribers. For Germany. the USA on tour. Whilst in Sweden, one aware." There's nothing worse than apathy bookings phone 4ZZZ on 371 5111. ...t.,.»j*H8K'^.^^jtj.^-»-».«i«>/./»*«*.««..^,j.-y^.^w.»,/.<«M.^w.,.ja.*j...,^,.^„„,p„..^.r.,.^.j,.,.j,.^., iiMeTyFrTwrQftfy'2ri«7g^-"'17" '^'''i' ."".Vi.iA^vj'i .'no 5MIT or PROGRESSIVE COURSES AT QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY

Often it requires only one semester of study at a university before students realise that many of the descriptions of course content provided in official faculty and departmental handbooks can be quite misleading. For example, many politically aware students after perusing these handbooks enrol in what may appear to be a potentiaUy stimulatmg and rewardmg subject only to discover later that their lecturer's approach to the couise content was either boring, authoritarian, superficial or conservative.

SmaUriiberab for example, and they tend to become How to deckle? Content depoids on lecturer One reason for this unfortunate "fuUy accepted" only when either thc Where does this now leave the student Published below is thdr find list of outcome is that many "liberd" minded large enrolments or great suppo'rt they who has a genuine desire to try any of recommended suj)jcct$ at UQ. The panel staff members in the Arts Faculty like achieve from students ultimately force those progressive courses whkh some­ felt that each subject, besides being taught to maintdn the pretense that their courses most of the departmental opponents how have survived these processes? by a conscientious staff member, also arc genuinely progressive-even when.the to abandon their resistance. (However Nomidly she or he after some costly reflected the forward thinking of the smdl ')' liberal consciousness which they it is important to redise that some pro­ trial and .error, learns'that, lacking any particular staff member in its actud may have possessed in their eariy years posds for new courses are still torpedoed trusted advice from older students who content. (TTiis was virtually inevitable of teaching has long since crumbled away. long before the opportunity to prove have persued similar interests, s/hc must since in the panel's opinion "the content As well, many of these; same staff can their worth is ever provided.). ultimately chouse courses according tu is only as good as the lecturer's ap­ be found among those actively resisting Opposition to progressivecoursesdocsn't an acquired knowledge of the lecturer's proach. ") the introduction of new couises which necessarily have to slop there, since it is personal, social, political and educational No doubt some subjects deserving of hope to explore in a rigorous manner still possible for new subjects to be co- beliefs rather than on the basis uf any. mention have been omitted because of radically new and exciting fields of studies, opted-one favourite technique being to supposed course content. the limits of the range of subjects under­ such as women's studies or politicd econ­ have them taught.by. other staff members This year, for ihc second year in a row, taken by the panel of students, and Sem­ omy courses. (who can be new or old appointments) a panel of students met together to deter­ per would welcome further corresspond- whose basic philosophies and sympathies mine which subjects within the arts faculty ence on thb matter. In particular any Proposds torpedoed often run counter to 'the original edu­ they felt satisfied must uf the above men­ intending correspondents should provide These courses are usudly Initiated cationd objectives of the new courses. tioned criteria for a progressively oriented detdls about the criteria used to evaluate by a mere hanBful of the staff at UQ subject. the subjects.

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PROGRESSIVE COURSES OFFERED AT QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT IN 1979 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Mr. Sugata Dasgupta-formM- Director of the Ghandian Institute of Studies. SW 40|O (Semester 1) Principles of Social Woric IV. Taking one of the topics- EN 219 (Not offered in 1979). English Prose B. Community Work Method. • EN 231 (Semester 2) Twentieth Century Literature & Sodety. Carole Ferrier. SW410 (Semutar 1) Directed Studies. Taking one of the topics-Community EN 232 (Semerter 11 Woman's Studies. Carole Ferrier. Work Method. SW703 (Semester 1) Advanced Communhy Work A. EXTERNAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT Many hitemal students at Queensland Univeirity-wfaether fiiD or part time-may SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT not know they are digible to enrol ut courses tauglrt exchisnely hi the Department of Extemal Studies. S0103 (Not offered in 1979) An Enquiry Into the Nature of Women. As loqg as the same course is not taught hitemally (afl *XV courses) students only S) 223 (Semester 1) Tha Sockik>gy of Crinw and Deviance. Paul Wilson. have to qjiply to the Dhector of Extemal Studies for permission to take the external S) 228 (Semester 1) Socbk>gy of Women. June Fielding. subject. S) 236 (Not off ered in 1979) Environmental Sociology of the Chy. The Director's pemiission is seMom refused. For the sdected subject(s) the student IS grantid extdtial status and recehres printed lecture notes Uke any other external Saturdt^ 3rd Hanh h the firuadetKWne for changes to cotvse enrolments. student. (EximudStudmts: jMaesdity 3Ist January was the final deadttttie for changes to course enroltneias.howeiKr this ^te is fairiy flexible). EN 302 :. (Semester 2). Contemporary Poetry. Michel le F ield. GT232. • (Samester 1). AiiNrican Political Imtitutiohs and Behavkiur. Ralph Summy. XV100 (Year) Introductkin to Women's Studies in Politks. G. Mason. ^W@WmWBWWW^^B XV 200 (Semester 1) The Polhks of Bureaucratk: OrganisatkHi. Paul Boreham. XV 201 V (Year) Politks of Non-Vk>hnca. Ralph Summy. XV210 , (SMnester II Social Pblicy. Paul Boreham. WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES AT non-academic women to present lec­ THE UNIVERSITY tures, e.g.iti Womeni Studies courses HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF QUEENSLAND within the Departthent of Sociology working dass women and black women ^ Anna McCbnnack HT235 (Stmetter 2) Australian Social Hittory Since 1850. Ray Evans. have recounted thdr personal exper­ iences as ysdtneri to claaia whkh are HT 238 (Sameiter 1) Baca & Ethnic Rdatkim hi Australian History. Ray Evans. A fairly recent developmerit ta this, largely nude up of white, middle dass HT 243 (Semester 1) A Survey of QuMndand History. Ray Evans & Ross and other, universities has been the risewomen. While penoiwl^ Utdtvidual ex­ • Johnson. ' .' • '. , of'Women's Stiulles courses,' These coursesperience is,seen as a ^kl part of .these PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT attempt to proi>ide some balance to trad'courses, they.do attempt tti rfbitie such itional courses, which are concerned al­experiences to the politkal situation of PD200 (Ssmeitarl) Problemi of Philosophy 11A. Garry Malinas. most solely, with.,men's knowledge andall women. ^ (Semester 2) Social Philosophy-11 A. Andre Gallois (from Department PD21.4 which are usuaily. presented In a r^d, They atteinpt to devdop M' aware' of EducaUon lMonashlB.AriSuffolk. B.Phil, Oxford) i formal,'md methatiiad wov. Vfomen's'.tiess, among women tmd'meiii of the (Semntar 2) PhiloMphy of the Social Sdencet 11A. Garry Malina- PD217 Studies courses present wpmeni know- poiitia of women's oppresshii: It soon PD230 visanMster 1) Conthitntat Philoiophy. Dr. R. Lamb. '^• led^, women's history, women's litem-becomes apparent - to '\ students' doing PD301 '(S«ii»wter2)ProbltmsofPhllosophyll1B,Dr.R,Lamb. ; tuh.\etc. They attempt; to do th^^ tit athiese courses thtit indhadufd experience fjextble way so thtU: i^, whole raiige of Opjmssioii call h dealt •^v^thfinly on PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT perspective Is covered.,'. •tf.jjwArf levei-./ntlMdual solurioM'do Often, the Course Controller ImHtesnot exist: '"' '•.' ; •' ' PY 319 (Sanwitsr 2) Psychology & Social Inuet. John Damm. •-!•'•».:' ,V T%Si-m:^^i^'^.^^ >^t .m,..,-."^..,.

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WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES OFFERED AT QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY IN 1979

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT HISTORY DEPARTMENT

Women's Studies. 10 Credit Points. There is no Women's Studies course as such. However, there is a course which deals Course Controller: Carole Ferrier. Offered 1st Semester. sympathetically with the oppression of women. This is Australian Social History rince 1850.10 Credit Points. This course is also done from a feminist perspective. It investigates the work of women Course Controller: Ray Evans. Of fered 2nd Semester. writers, their styles, their themes, how they related to their own society. It focuses nnainly on 20th Century English, American and Australasian women writers. The course covers important areas in Australian social history since 1850. As well as women, topics include class and status relations, poverty, the family, mass media, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT morality, order and disorder, and minority protest movements.

There is on Women's Studies course as such. However, a course within the Diploma of SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Education Course devotes some attention to sexism in Education. This course is Cultural Foundatkms. 10 Credit Points. Sodoiogy of Women. 10 Credit Points. Course Controller: M. Macklin. Offered in 1st Semester. Course Controller: June Fielding. Offered 1st Semester.

This course covers important problems of contemporary educational practice within This course is done from a feminist perspective. Topics wilt include marriage and the interdisciplinary perspective including philosophy, history, sociology and comparative family, work, deviance, power. Recent theoretical works on sex inequality will be con­ education. sidered. I've done this course, as have several other women I know. The general verdict seems to be that it's a course you'll look forward to each week. It's alive, it's com­ EXTERNAL STUDIES prehensive, and there's plenty of scope for discussion of your own experiences and other people's. When we did it, the assessment involved your own research, preparing, and Introduction to Women's Studios in Politics. 10 Credit Points. giving, questionnaires to test your own theses. Course Controller: G. Mason. Offered 1st Semester. SATURDA Y 3rd MARCH IS THE FINAL DEADUNE FOR CHANGES TO COURSE See the Department for details. Internal students can enrol. ENROLMENT

DISCRIMINATION - A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUDIO TAPES AVAILABLE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND AUDIO- VISUAL LIBRARY:

A HYMN TO QUEENSUKND A/V . COMING OUT*?? A/V Looks at such topics as abortion, HQ1822 Looks at problems of migrant HQI822 aborigines and the law, rape .C64 women In Austrelia. .064 investigation A.B.C. coming out 77. 1977 A.B.C. Coming Out "77 (45 mins) 1977 (45 mins) . n.98 no. 110

CHINESE. WOMEN'S MOVEMENT A/V COMING OUT 76 A/V Examines the tnesion between HQ1737 Interview with Janet Oakden who HQ1822 feminism' and socialism In China .C48 has fought for two years to become .€64 A.B.C. Broadband (35 minutes! 1977 a train driver. A.B.C. ComIn|} Out 1976 76 (45 mins) no. 53

REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE OF WOMEN'S LIB A/V EDUCATION SYSTEM A/V Examines the development of the HQ11S4 Discusses the problems of homo­ HQ76 women't movement from the .N60 sexuals as teachers and students in .3 •ocialitt viewpoint Norton (32mlns) 1970 education system. A8H64 r..f • A.S.C. Latellne (45 mins) . 1976. AUSTRALIA DAY 1976 A/V Lqoki at the effects of wtilts DU120 PRESS CONFERENCE A/V oolonltatlon on the Australian A18A8 R.W. Whitrod interviewed about HV8280 the Queensland police force. aborlglnn 14) till the present 1976 JiSQ6S 4ZZZ (200 minutes). A,B.C. (40 mins.) 1976

•^!^^^f''l5!^3%^i]g?^ ^M FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE AUS regluations relevant to both these OFAUS positions ahve been sne to AUS secretaries and agendas and reports will be available Hie first R^nal Conference of AUS one week prior to the conference, All students have the right to attend and Qld Region for 1979 wil t^e place In the would be most welcome to come along E.G. Vlhithm Room at the Univenity of and participate in the decisions of their Qld at 2pro on Saturday, Februaiy 24. national union. This conference wfll elect the Qld Regional Education Representative (RER) and the Qld Regional Trainee Teacher Officer. Nominatioris ate called for these W positions and must be presneted on the forms sent to AUS Secretaries. omen Nominations will close at the commence­ ment of the Regional Conference to elect s the positions. RER's will be expected to attend t meetings of the National Education Action Committee and to assist in conveiung r meetuigs of the Regional Education Acthrists Committee. RTTO's will be expected to attend a meetings of the National Trainee Teacher Association and to co-ordinate campaigns within the region of particular relevance t to trainee teachers. c HEVfLEn-PACKARD IHTRODUCES PROFESUONAL CAUULAIORS FORASrUDENnDUDGCT. 6 THE PRICE OF EXCELLENCE NOW busuiess/finance. Gives ftesent Value, Payments STARTS AT $60* and Future Value calculations simultaneously. They're here. Hewleti-Packarcrs new Series E, Discounts, %'s, mark-ups, and amortization Five professional calculating instruments designed schedules. Statistics witih trend-line forecasting. for a student's needs and budget. 5 financialan d 7 user memories.. NEWFEATURES llie Ii^38E-Advanced Ffaiandal Programmable. Easy^o-read display. Larger, brighter LED display $120*. Solves routine and complex problems at the with commas to separate thousands. touch of a key-no previous programming experience BtdU-iD diagnostic systems. Tells you: (1) when yoiAre necessary. Intemal Rate of Return and Net Present performed an incorrect operation; (2) why it was Value for up to 1,980 cash flows in 20 groups. incorrect; (3) if the calculator isnt working properly. 2,000-year calendar. 5 financialan d 20 user Accuracy. Itnproved algorithms give you confidence memories. Up to 99 program Unes. that your answers are more precise and complete. HEWLEIT-FACKARD IS WITHOUTEQDAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Ail Series E calculators use RPN logic exclusively. The HP-SlE-Sdentific. $60*. Trigonometric, If you've never tried it yoi^ in for a big surprise. exponential and math functions. Metric conversions. It lets you solve problems the way you naturally do Fixed and scientific display modes. Full lO-digit in your mind. Straightforward. LogicaL No worrying about complicated hierarchies or paren&eses. display. 4 separate user memories. ^ Hie 1IP-32E-Advanced Scientific with Statistics. RPN is tiia shortest possible distance between the $80*. All HP-31E ftmctionsplu s hyperbolics, question and the answer. comprehensive statistics. More math and metric SEE FOR YOURSELF capabilities. Decimal degree conversions ENG, SCI To select the calculator that's right for you, call at and FDC display modes.15 user memories. your authorised HP dealer on campus. Ilie HP-33E-Prograiunable Sdentific. $100*. Of course all HP calculators come with full 12 month Scientific, math and statistics with programmability. guarantee and are complete with re-chargeaUe Editing, control ahd conditional keys. 49 lines of fully batteries and charger. merged key-codes. 8 user memories. Do it soon. A Hewlett-Packard professional calculator starting at just $60.00* is something you FORBUSINESS AND FINANCE ^ HM HP-37E-BttsineB8 Management $75*. Basic cant aflbrd to pass up.

20 TIME OFF February 21,1979 Knowing Who Your Friends Are GAY LIB. ON CAMPUS

Walk proud, my friends, because of your homosexuality. You are one of those Throughout the course of uni study most students become aware of the fact that marvellous creatures - a human being. Maybe you have faced a crisis and sorted it quite a number of students are homosexual. The reactions to such awareness are many out, maybe you are as yet not quite sure whether you "are" or not, maybe you and varied - and unfortunatdy, the homosexual students who are easily intimidated realise you are "bi", maybe you are frightened of your homosexuality or i^waving by these, continue to remain invisible andisolated. ajsressives. I wish to welcome aU students to uni this year and invite all lesbians, male homo­ sexuals, and other interested people to come along to either Gay Solidarity, Campus by LAWRIE COLWELL Lesbian Collective, or Women's Rights meetuigs - or to contact these groups.

O.K. my friends, keep working on it psychologists, medicos, christian groups These groups exist for the benefit of fean of possible repercussions of "coming and above all have the guts to seek help/ and cleigy, social workers and many all students. They maintain confiden­ out" on campus (and "commg out" does encouragement/advice/friendship/or others. A phone call, letter, persond tiality and encourage social, political, not merely mean attending a meeting), whatever from other gay people. They visit to Clubs and Sodeties (upstairs sexual, or personal discussion about we could well become a force of a sub­ too are up to their necks in that most Union Building, phone 371 1611 ext. relationships and issues. They also stantial number, which can influence important human activity, namely 46 or 26) can contact us, even a purely organise social activities (e.g., film our own rethinking as well as that of discovering oneself; to quote T.S. Eliot anonymous phone call to discuss or refer nights, dances, wine and cheese nights, others. "work out your salvation with diligence." a matter. We will ring back. We are happy picnics, parties, bar-b-ques etc.) - which By meeting together, we can help (The Cocktail Party). to help if we can. provide altemative meeting arrange­ each other overcome certain difficulties As regards this business of "coming The pressures of the majority culture ments for those who are perhaps less which we face and attempt to find possible out" one of the best ladies 1 kriow, a are enormous on female and male gays confident or too afraid to make an solutions amongst ourselves, which could lesbian schoolteacher and feminist (lesbians and poofters) and it is obvious appearance at any meetings. reduce (if not eliminate) these difficulties. acthrist said to me last year "You never many of us are terrified of being knowa Quite apart from this idealism - the make a conscious decision to 'come out'; I maintain that the crushing burden of by MARG EKYD importance of your own group activity it is a gradual growth of how you relate covering up ones homosexuality, of pre­ centres aiound our individual growth and to others, of self respect and pride; you tending to be straight, of falsehoods, acceptance of ourselves, which simul­ see yourself as natural, you act natural distortion, play-acting and fear are far It is of particular unportance - that taneously aids the growth and effective­ before people so that you act as an open far greater than those hassles one ex­ lesbians and male homosexuals at least ness of our groups. lesbian before you even realise it." periences when one has accepted the rights come together in some capacity - whether 1 came to uni as a lesbian and had it Some of us are more public and active and obligations of being honest, open and it be in either solely lesbian or male homo­ not been for the support and encourage­ than others. It is argued, however, that free. sexual or combined gatherings. We need ment from other feminists and homo­ any sort of action however small for an If you meet these latter people you to realise, that unless we have the solidarity sexuals 1 might still be afraid to stand issue you believe in is worthwhile because will be struck by the fact that they have and strength to challenge other peoples' up for what I believe is right. I lost those if you don't act you can't expect it to an open, proud way of handling them attitudes towards homosexuality we feelings of guilt and shame which I had happen. Society has to be educated to selves, refusing to accept both the homo­ cannot expect to receive acceptance in shouldered during high school - simply realise the great range in personality, sexual stereotypes of butch lesbians/ our society as it presently stands. because 1 was accepted for what I was intellect, ability, even "ordinaiiness", Emp wristed fairies as well as the straight- and was not expected to be anything of the overwhelming majority of gays. jacket of the heterosexual oppressive more. A mate of mine, John, a post-grad gay, mould. Such people are natural, proud, Now, 1 can well imagine that many For all these reasons and many more - said last year that happiness is a by­ having developed (often by the tough homosexuals would argue that we have a 1 would like to see more lesbians and product of getting on with the job of •way of experience) their own freedom. right to expect acceptance and respect male homosexuals helping each other being a decent, loving, caring human being, Basically gay liberation is for you, from the community. . ,and I agree. and trying to point out to others that a of not wasting time on bitterness, of the individual. There is support if you But - in reality, that is not what happens homosexual lifestyle is as valid and natural eryoying the things to hand, of not crying go looking for it, and there now is a well and uness we do something about it. . . as any other. for the unobtainable, of sharing what documented alternative to the unthinking, that is how matters will remain. A further point, all homosexuals who you have and are at any one time with suffocating niju ority culture. May you So, what are we - the homosexuals - are not students, are also more than those aroiuid you. We are not non-persons; indeed "work out your salvation with going to plan for this year? Depending welcome to participate in any of our we exist and have a vital contribution to diligence." on your willingness to cast aside those -activities. make to each other and to society. Tliis year we hops to carry on from On a practical note the folk of Gay 1978 and commence Gay Solidarity Solidarity 1978 have contacts with 1979 early in the semester. i # RO VAL EXCH/INCE f MOTEL

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•K.> TIME OFF February 21,1979 21 evei. tS viBiJXie-^ ^ =10 3MIT OS contacted C/:r- Jdmes Cook Uni of. North Liberation, in this case the A.U.S. Women's Qld, Union, townsville. Either of us may Dept, are our politicd enemies. Women's A.U.S. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT be contacted by people mterested in liberationists are workiivg through the knowing more about the region, its aims, Women's Dept to develop W.L., to hn- campaigns and politicd direction. In plement progresshre policies and prog­ AND QUEENSLAND addition, we intend to give regular reports ressive campaigns. The ody interest on the lepon through "Tune Off'. that the women of the extreme Right have The A.U5. Women's Dqwrtment is an iiit<^ part of our national union, the Women's Liberation contacts on a in the A.U.S. Women's Dept is to under­ mine its work, to ensure that those prog­ Australian IMon of Students and pne in which every woman student can be involved. campus level are: ressive policies supported by A.U.S. Establbhed in J975, the Women's Dept arose out of a real need felt, and Uni of Qld Union artkohted, by women students «»dle campuses, and so as not to *No forced sterilisations, For the purposes of this article, the disadvantage these women in seeking reasons are irrdevant. The pomt is that STRUCTURE regional representation, we would for WOMEN'S ABORTION ACTION CAMPAIGN women whose aim is to smash Women's 1979 have two joing R.W.O.'s instead Access to infomiation and ability to of the usual one. Tlie election for this be involved in decisk>n-making depend position resulted in Angda McGree and largely on structure adopted, Le. whether myself being dected as joing R.W.O.'s. the structure facilitates, or acts against, Angda may be contacted at the Women's mass involvement. The structure adopted Ri^ts Committee, University of Qld by the Women's Dept operates at 3 levels Fuml!T(3iE Union, St. Lucia 4067 and I can be and is geared to wide involvement. Women it campus level are able to use the resources of the Women's Dept to oiganise PROFESSIONAL SERVICE together and establish campus women's groups. On many Qld campuses this has John N. Rayner BDSc, Dental already been done. Women from campuses Surgeon, wishes to announce that he also come together through the Regk>nal has commenced practice at the "Village st Lucia Women's PoUcy Collective. At this lovd, Shopping Centre, 224 Hawken Drive, recommendations are made concerning St. Luda. Q. 4067. Tdephone aims, campaigns and political direction 371 3730. ' snd are then considered at thc natk)nal level through the National Women's Policy Collective. Ever Feel You Could Tbe structure, to work well, depends on communication between. women students at campus, regional and natrooal HARM YOUR CHILDREN? level. It depends, too, on effective co­ ordination of campaigns. And this is where We Often Feel That Way the National Women's Organisen are A Supportive Group of Us involved. Meet Every Mond^ at 10.30 am Each January, the A.U.S. Council is held. Delegates to Council are elected dkectly by students on individual cam­ At puses, each campus having voting power 17 Caxton St, Petrie in proportion to its number of students. Thus, for example, while the University Child Mindii^ is Available On of Qld Union has 9 votes, Kelvin Grove CAE Union has 3. It is at annual Council The Premises that .the National Women's Officer is For moire infonnation ring Merie elected, this position being full-time and on 349 4305. Chiis on 208 8298 paid. The W.O. acts as a coordinator and organiser of national campaigns, which are determined at campus, regional . and national level Because of the nature' of her job, campus visiting is an important part of it. The W.O. helps to establi^ campus women's groups and provides ^^Kt4 information and dh-ection concerning! partkailar issues. QUALITY CYCLES...... ».:...... « "...• v- WOMEN'S OFFICER PARTS & REPAIRS AT STUDENT PRICES i...... }• The Women's Officer, for this year js Karina Veal, a women's' liberationist TAKE CYCLING TO HEART ..;...... ,...... :.....•" from Victoria who has had extensive Lij^i Goumiet meals invohrement in; student politics at both IT'S HEALTHY, FUN & ECONOMICAL TRANSPORT ' iampus and i^tional leyeU She' may i^ 'X7Cheh Tee, faddbigfon contacted at the A.U.S.vWomai's Dept, ph. 366 963 97 Drummond St. Carlton 3053 Vic. UNL of QLD UNION SHOPPING ARCADE ^.;.;...,..«'."-"".| ;.' Regional Women's Organisen are y{M2:30to3;30pii\:. L ' elected by the. first, meeting for the year iWi-.JO to liptn(clo«dMonday night) • PHONE 370 2542 ..^.•...... •••••.••.••••'•••••••"^"•••••"••••••".' ....^...•.•..•••••....•...i. ^> of the Regional Women's Policy Cot 11.'A lecthre. lie R.W.O. is hi r^ulsr contact

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Occasionally 1 gain the the scenes. feeling that Bunuel's con­ Maybe his fihns seem temporary films do not less absurd because the happen to be as surreal as world is becoming more !rif. they used to be. lust how absurd. crazy is it to discover Although the movie that one of the passengers starts slowly, if you can That on the train is a dwarf handle the honesty of being whose profession is psy­ presented with questions not chology (as he says "at answers or truths then go the subconscious level ?muu\ Obscure along and see "Obscure nothing is accidental") or Object"-you won't regret THE SHOUT: to see shots of terrorist it. Object activity, regularly cut into -BRUCE DICKSON Directed by Jerry Skolinowski, starring Susannah York and Alan Bates, commencing Of at the Schonell Theatre, St Lucia on Match 1st (for further infonnation telephone 371 not on stage. However it is A NIGHT FULL OF 1879). Desire RAIN AND SEVEN interesting to capture the odd behind the scenes look BEAUTIES: at the personalities involved The Shout will arrive with a big reputation but both directed by Lina and to see a lot of the after seeing a preview saeemng I fdt totally ambivalent Wertmuller. Commen­ "fringe material". towards it. It certainly kept me watching, but was more cing the Schonell If anything the film than a bit thin m its (dot line. Theare, St. Lucia on confirms the comic sup­ A film by remacy of the Monty Charles Crumley (played of Aboriginal mythology. March 8. Python team. Their content by Bates) tells us a story of I fedsure many black is nowhere near as esoteric how after spending eighteen Australians would question Luis Bunuel Seven Beautks although or campus oriented as some years in Australia living the accuracy of the content amongst the aborigines he not a first release movie of the other sketches. of the film and would gains from them the power fail to see how it furthered is a must to see and Miy Highlights include Peter of the Tenor Shout and understanding of their displays the brilliance of Cook's coal mining routine the court room scene, the then returns to Britain. situation. ItaUan director Lina CET OBSCURE OBJET DU DESIR: lumberjack song and the He encounters Anthony Wertmuller. Last Supper. (John Hurt) and Rachel Directed by Luis Bunuel, starring Fernando (Susatmah York) and after Although criticised by By contrast the contri­ Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Junien moving into their cottage feminists as downgrading bution of 'The Goodies" Bertheau, Andre Weber, Mflena Vukotic, home proceeds to claim "I found the film to women, and it is not (who also appear) leave Rachel for lus own and objectionable in some showing at the Schonell Theatie, St. Luda difficult to you with the impression intimidate Anthony with (371 1879). Check with theatre for details of support this claim, the that they have flunked ways because it Uke the threatened use of his ability of Seven Beauties Humour I, 2 and 3 at others before it, is times. shout, which when demon­ to give you a direct feeling Cambridge. strated by him causes capitalising on the for what it means to A quick line from the Luis Buauers fflms never fai to fesdnste me, be­ houses to shudder and a trendiness of Abor­ lose aQ sense of human fUm to give you a taste cause his surrealistic an>ro8cb to doema is re- identity within a concen­ shepherd and his flock to iginal mythology." for its content- die. fieshiqgly different from v^iat we bave so often come tration camp more than Protest singer to Ultimately his power to expect. compensates for such a audience: "I suffered for is neutralised by destruction Ifis fUms are dedgned to stimulate our subconsdous claun, in my opiiuon. my music, now it's your of his own totem stone responses, and as a resdt do not islways supply ready Don't fail to see it. tum." A Night Fun of Rain (but is it really?) SkoUnowski's production answeis to the questions they ruse. Some theatre POLICE piobkm: liadiofd by contrast, I was not so which according to also contains a lot of patrons consequently find this a source of difficulty. hatdes: it your "fifcnd" bdag impressed with, however a defanutoiy of yon; oontict aboriginal beliefs claims a sticky moralism - man That Obscure Object of 'clear' that the relation- full review in this issue is STUDENTS LEGAL AID, man's soul and power. cheats on wife and gets Dcsire follows closely his ship he has developed with not possible. lit fb.UQ Unioa BuUding. I found the fihn ob­ done over by visitor who earlier woric" fhe Discreet the woman is full-of con- Open MoBiUy, Friday lOiai jectionable in some ways intunidates husband out Qiarm of the Bourgeoisie tradictions, yet life is full to 4pn. Pf) 371 1611 for because this film as well of his claims over his own eppointmciu, aik for Nuvlk and is pre-occupled with a of contradictions too. as The Last Wave is capi* wife. Ward. Admin. Seoetu)-. talising on the trendiness -BRUCE DICKSON sunilar theme-the lifestyle, (Bunuel even has the role JViUtem Beattie-Director. values and pre-occupations of Conchita, the woman of the wealthy classes in played by two different our societies. Few other ^tots). The more he PLEASURE filmmakers dissect their ob- deskes here, the more she sessions so effectively. rejects him, and apparently The genius found in "exploits" him. this 78 year old Spanish It is never really clear MAJESTY:S bom director's work is that wht her true feelings are CRAITKS his film tread a very delicate towards him. "I hurt you Ihie between "reality" on because 1 like you" she PLEASURE AT HER the one hand and "non- says at one point, reality" on the other. Audi­ MAJESTY'S: ences are never quite sure Produced by Amnesty of which is which-a res­ Intemational. Commen­ ponse he deliberately seeks HEALTH cing at the Schonell to create because in this Theatre, St. Luda on respect his surreaUstic con- In examining the tent approximates "real twisted' relationship that March 4th. life" mote than is possible develops' between these two, in any other form of film- Bunuel is able to stimulate As' the advertising blurb maldng. us into thinking about the FOODS suggests in this film Monty Normally he achieves values of the couple, but Python.nieets Beyond the such a result predommantb' , in particular the wealthy Frii^e' (& Edna Everage). by means of skilful inter- older man, who like many cutting of a series of rather other members of the bour- A late night benefit startling images. geoisie often converses via revue held in support of : Yet in "Obscure Object" euphemisms and is pre- Amnesty Intemational over three days in London, this he appears to have adopted occupied with ownersliip, film brings together for a a new approach because Because of his money, special reunion ail the now he has relied more heavily he has everything he wants famous members of the old On the subtleties of the and can do anything he Cambridge, and Oxford actual dialogue to achieve wants, but with one ex- Unwersity revues. his cinematic ends. ception. He is unable to talk The film concerns an her into taking him as a We see many familiar older man's obsession with: lover, thus because she is and not so familiar sketches -&' young woman. As he unavailable, she becomes performed Uve on stage with journeys from Seville to desvable. minimal props. -^Paiis on a train he. takes As her comments sug- If you haven't seen the jiis fellow passengers on a gest "If 1 gave in you sketches (or even if you jbumey through his ex- would leave me. . ." "You have) you'll probably' lovis' them. Personally I did f :^periences with the woman, only want what I refuse '•V' As" his story unravels you. . .my most precious prefer seeing Monty Python; Hyia'-fUishbacks)'it becomes possessioiiisme." , ..," in its.^full. filmiCv.splendQUr mf!^i^v^.%^^^mm !5 TIME OFF REVIEWS

sort of fmancial backmg to do so by puttmg your they say still exists south backside on a seat. I think INTERIORS" of the Banana Curtaui. you'U be pleasantly sur­ But it needs to succeed prised. [XWI KIAIOS in Brisbane first, and 1 -BRUCE NASH \S(lilt n .mil would suggest you help it (>'ri(ri(!l.\ - \\l " 'l>^ A!ll\ BOADICEA: Twelfth Night Theatre, Februaiy l-March 3, Wednesday-Saturday Spm. INTERIORS: Written and Directed by Woody Allen, starring Boadicea has been (H'omoted around Brisbane Diane Keaton and others. Commencing at the primarily.as a Rock Opera. It is really something much SchoneU Theatre, St. Lucia on Match 22nd. more sophisticated, yet also more accessible, than that (Phone 371 1879 for further details). tag might suggest. Call it Rock Opera, Musical, Musical Drama, or anything else, the important thing is that it It had been said that Interiors was Woody Allen's works. Boadicea is fascinating theatre, both musically attempt to do a "Bergman". SunSarities of style can and dramatically. in fact be noticed (e.g. the conscious use of close-up Boadicea, as of course especially some of the ." photography on faces etc.) however it should be judged you all knew already, was beautiful pieces Boadicea on its own merits, because in many ways it is nowhere LV^^^T-tHSr TIMOR. Queen of one of the tribes gets to sing ui the final act. •/ near as obscure as a lot of Bergman's films. of Ancient Britain, and she I was more than a Uttle BWUW led a nation-wide revolt surprised to find in Brisbane 2!::2l Don't expect laughs from as if to suggest we can against the Roman Empire- a production as ambitious as this rUm - there is not one VIVA INDONESIA: climb into their interiors, builders. The production this that succeeds so well, joke in it - it is deadly yet 1 found this technique dramatises her rise and fall. At the risk of sounding A new show by the Popular Theatre Troupe. serious. Come to think of cliched if not irritating. which was a rather violent completely carried away, I'd Commences 16th March, Spm at Sbcty Water­ it, given Woody Allen's pre­ More often than not the one, to put it mildly, say that Boadicea could occupation with death, works Road, Red Hill. Students and group content is overwhehningiy This may seem a strange achieve AustraUa-wide "deadly" is not such an depressing or even pessi­ bookings, $2.50. Others $4.00. (261745). inappropriate word to use. subject to have been chosen success if it ran into the mistic which isn't to say by two local composers -how does someone so 3711879 * Sl LUCIA that life for many women (Clarry Evans and Judy • • concemed about our 'exif is not exactly that. Stevens), but it provides SAT. 24th 6:30pm LATE SHOWS from life manage to have However Allen's earlier SCHOTiai such a humourous grip on exactly the sort of colourful SUN. 26th 4pin&8pm 2nd & >d March 11:30pin films have been blessed with and heroic backdrop that \pi>eW TO THE PUIUC the realities of human a rare humanism as if by existence. Obviously there Rock Operas and the like PLUS SUNDAY 4th MARCH 4pm, MONDAY Sth Spm laughmg we actually demand. MONTY PYTHON MEETS BEYOND THE FRINGE (M) must be a direct connection momentarily escape death. Think of it as a pagan between the two. In this film Allen's hang­ "Supentar" if you Uke. "Interiors" means just ups and possibly some of The figure of Boadicea PYTHON that, the interiors of our our own constantly come herself has just the right COMEDY PLEASURE existence - this idea being out. hirgeness of scale, and I fused with images of the My main criticism of personaUy find her a lot interion of houses and ATHER his handling of the content easier to identify with than people staring out of win­ is that he does not give Evita Peroa After seeing dows. us a 'complete* picture of the show I couldn't help ^r. MAJESTY: Allen has Keaton looking life for women and as a fantasizing about Boadicea ='IL less cute and more Liv residt the film is un­ triumphantly leadmg the "UUmannish" than necessarily negative. By way next Right to March demon- before (funny how both he of contrast, when Carlos stratioa and Bergman use the same Saura exanuned the fears Of course. Spectacle isn't acton over and over again, of childhood in Raise the only requirements for a but not without success). Ravens ("Cria Cuervos") he successful , musical. The film throughout its made it clear that although ThankfuUy, the most satis­ length, is slowly paced, the there were moments of fying aspect of Boadkea oppodte of many of his Friday fligfit great unhappiness these is the exceUence of the eariier efforts. were often accompanied by music itself. It has an in- As women in the moments of great joy. dividtudity and a sophis­ audience said at the time Within Interion Allen's ticated variety that comes it,is a film predominantly means approach to showing the as a very pleasant surprise. about women, -specifically prevailing competitiveness I wasn't trying to cat^crise the plight of women in a m our society, people the music except to say male dominated society. jostling for positions of that it should have a very Neuroses abound. power (e.g, the struggle general appeal. between child and parent), The Band (an 8i)iece tbe masochistic actions we outfit with Judy Stevens engage in (e.g. self 'dep­ as conductress) worics weU recation), and the range together and keeps the The Cellar "Allen has caught the of resultant neuroses, be­ whole production in motion comes not so much a fix>m start to finish. The European 'art film' positive leaming ex­ disease. Great for film cast (including a chorus perience as an outright of about thirty who achieve and MILEHAM HAYES buffs and axiuitetir dovmer. a suitably big-production psychologists, but a I personally feel there sound) handle the singing sad Istep atoay from the are better ways to make always competently and hope and humanity of social statements than sometunes briUiantly. Of forcing an audience to relive DR JAZZ Annie Hall" the Principals, Aria Stone as a series of heavy going Boadicea is outstanding. She experiences without ne­ shigs, acts, and looks the BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED ROCK CAVERNS cessarily taidng them part absolutdy. Clany ADMIRED AS THE BEST IN AUSTRALIA AND AS forward anywhere. Yet a Evans, as the Roman Gover­ tot of people liked the nor, is the other reaUy out­ GOOD AS ANYTHING IN THE WORLD (SPIKE film. We see a mother who standing voice and presence MILLIGAN, WARREN MITCHELL) has "nothing to live for In case my own biases on stage, butaU the major anymore"-a person who have ghren a limited pen- parts are perfonned weU. has gahied her "happiness" pective on the film, once Choreography, costumes AUSTRALIA'S RORTIEST BAND UVE ! from material possessbns, this fitm gets underw^ I and Set desi^ are aU effec­ personal clothing, gifts, and would Uke to invite readers, tively styUsed, so as to keep (PIPED MUSIC IS FOR PLASTIC PEOPLE) the "order" she finds in inrtkularly women, to for­ up the necessaiy sense of beautiful objects around the ward their.own opinions on spectacle. • Tte Director house. There is order on the movie. Space per­ (Graeme Johnston) is to be the outside but none inside, mitting, at least one more complimented on never her daughters ghre other article on Imariors could be letting the dioestrings show Licenced --Dancing perq>ecthre on the roles published in a future^issue through. women are forced into in of Time Out. our society. Often the In the meantime I stand I have mentioned the Sp.m. - 1.3qann. content is quite depressing by my opinion that Allen Spectacle which the show as we study a group of has caught the European achieves (there are flogghigs, . women whose potential for 'art fihn' disease. Great for lootings tnd burnings, be­ MARY ST. Copp. new A.IV1.R] a range of diverse reasons film buffs arid amateur psy­ headings, <,battles and bas not been fiilly realised. chologists but a sad step suicides) but strangely If the content at times away from the hope and enough it is finaUy .the Student Concessions ;seemed morbid,, the style humanity offered in *Annie softer moments that stand was .ahra pretentious on Hall*. (his previous out inost., The composers rENQUIRIES Ph. 3415544 ;occasion. Allen constantly! production). have produced some reaUy 'iwiludes close-ups of heads I -BRUCE DICKSON memorable. ., baUads, . aC;. TJME .Ql-e ,RpbCuary ?LJa79.. Viva Indonesia is a documentary musical play written Newsletter, Whatever the is a reasonably good quaUty and directed by Richard Fotheringham and performed quality of the writmg, the production. 61 pages with by tbe seven member cast of the Popular Theatre production is so offensive drawings and photographs Troupe. that it is distinctly un- by the author; it was pro- pleasant to handle. The two duced by Rigmarole of the Ihe songs for the to power). Magic Sam issues 3^4 Hours (Robert Kenny). The production were written by AustraUa: MAGIC SAM 3 & 4 edited by Anna Couani, together make 288 pages. quaUty of Coiiani's prose is Richani Fotheringham, Jane "The effort (AustraUa Ken Bolton, & Sal Brereton, Box 164 $2.00 each. In summary, better than the writing in Ahlquist, and Frank and Indonesia have made) it stinks. Wentworth Bid, City Rd, Darlington NSW the other books reviewed MUlwood and the chore­ to get along with one The two books by Ken here. It might last, and ography for the dance another. . Jiolds out some 2008. Bolton, Four Poems and Anna Couani wUl undoub­ routines were created by hope for the survival of FOUR POEMS: Blonde i French, are pro­ tedly prove to be seen Bev Nevin. reasoned seU interest in the Ken Bolton (published in an edition of 300 duced by Sea Cruise Books as more mtelligent and Viva Indonesial looks at affairs of tbe twentieth copies by Sea Cruise Books (c) 1977 Ken and Island Press sensitive than her col­ some of the major episodes century." respectively. Four Poems leagues. in Indonesian history. Some Bolton, Box 164 Wentworth Bldg, 2008 (Bruce Grant, Indonesia) suffers the same fate as The habit of magazine of the highUghts are: BLONDE AND FRENCH: Timor: Magic Sam, it looks cheap pubUshers and contributers *Indonesia under the "The conflict in East Ken Bolton, 1978 Island Press, 65 Beachcomber and unpleasant. Blonde & (often one and the same) colonial rule of the Dutch Timor must be ri^arded as Ave, Bundeena, 2230 ISBN 0 909771 0 ISBN French is a much better of flattering each other and Portugese, one of the most sordid, 0 909 77118 9 Paper. production, typeset on good with stupid reviews about *AustraUa and Indonesia, most tragic, and roost ITALY: quaUty paper. Since Blonde each other's idiotic books from Worid War II to the unjustified episodes in the 4 French is attractive is disastrous for AustraUan present, history of modem de­ Anna Couani, Rigmarole of the Hours, P.O. enough to read, at last it Uterature. The smaU-time *Modern Indonesia, the colonisation." Box 54, Clifton HiU, 3068. Vic. becomes possible to writers would be well ad­ Sukarno and Shuarto (AustraUan M.P. Mr. Ken discover whether the poems vised to look at theii stuff regimes, Fry, Addressing the U.N. These three books and 2 issues of the magazine are good or not. They objectively; and to ask •The East Timor issue- April, 1976). the Indonesian, Timorese 'Magic Sam' have all come from the small circle (coterie) and AustraUan viewpoints, of delerious, washed-out, left-over counter-culture poets and the tragic aftermath. who live in Glebe, Sydn^, managing to eke out an As weU as being useful existence on beer, skittles, and benson & hedges. They "The habit of magazine publishers and contrib­ are responsible for rotten, trashy writing, on poor to students of histoiy, geo­ utors (often one and the same ) of flattering graphy, and current affairs, ABSCHOL (Now the quaUty paper, with sub-standanl production. Ibe Viva Indonesia is a vivid, Koobara Collective) magazine 'Magk: Sam' is an insult to its contn'butors each other with stupid revieius about each funny, and musicaUy rich and its readers. The books, with the possible exceptk>n other's idiotic books is disastrous for Australian entertainment with of Anna Couani's Italy, are stupid and meaningless. literature." •authentic film cUps from the Timor conflict, Are seeking tutors for their MAGIC SAM: The "Your Friendly Fascist"), •sUdes of Indonesia and work on behalf of the contributors are aU fairly Gerard Lee (author of Timor, Aboriginal people. weU known to the eclectic Pieces for a Glass Piano), • 11 original songs, Anyone Interested can circles of poets & pubUshers Eric Beach, Joanne Burns aren't. They're a hotch­ themselves why no-one •a cast of seven aU obtain further information in the AUST. smaU press and Anna Couani potch of avante-garde drivel reads it, and why tho^e that suiging, all dancing actor/ worid, but absolutely from the Collectives Office (PubUsher, Sea Cruise derived from french new- do read it, think it eUtist, musicians. unknown to teh general Books). reaUsm (Robbie GriUet), 1st Floor, University of out of touch, and out of Historical statements pubUc. They mclude: MAGIC SAM is gestetner Rock & RoU and smarmy date. The answers are relevant to the issues raised Qld Union Building. Robert Kenny produced, el-cheapo, on sentiment, with a smat­ obvious. The circles of in the play mclude: Telephone 371 1611. (PubUsher.Rigmarole of the dupUcating paper, with tering of references to the poets are decreasing and United States: Hours), Ken Bolton, Laurie photographs, dravrings, and "AustraUan Poetry Scene." concentric, and the bulk Indonesia is the best Duggan (author of screen prints bound The style is predictable and of the "smaU press" scene thing that's happened to "PubUshing Your Poems"), together, giving it the irritating, with a sad lack is trivial, esoteric, and Uncle Same since Worid Kris Hemensley (Poetry scrappy, dog-eared look of of originaUty and thought. generaUy worthless. War II." (A Worid Bank editor of Meanjin), Rae the German Shepherds 50 pages, $3,50. -ROBERT WHYTE Offlcial after Suharto came Desmond Jones (Editor of Breeding Association ITALY, by Anna Couani,

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Wednesday and Thursday m the Biological canoes on hand with more planned for The Coleman "Canadian" canoe is outlets in the North and South Coast What has Yoga, amongst these many Science Refectory. revolutionary. Construction is of one activities, to offer the student? . vacation areas. -Further enquiries can be made by piece moulded high density polyethylene Yoga provides students with positive What is different about this hire which is virtually indestructable and contacting Gillian Mason-Johnson involvements that will complement (President) on 31 3201. service is that the canoes are merchan­ lighter than most commercial materials. academic studies. Because academic work dised through multiple outlets such as They are broader in beam than our local more often than not only provides an WORKSHOP, FILM & TALK service stations, camping retailers, product and thus are more stable and have intellectual understanding of life and life caravan parks and 7-day nurseries with a larger payload capacity. Another feature situations, the integrated and practical An introductory workshop, film and day, weekend, or weekly rates. Paddles is that the material itself floats in addition technology which Yoga offers is a useful are included and a simple cartop carrier to the urethane floatation provided bow talk will be held during Orientation Week aid in bringing about a more concentrated and thc first week of Semester. These and bouyancy vests are available at a and stern which makes these a super canoe mind, self awareness, and positive vital nominal extra chaige. for novices. activities are open to all interested. health. Results are never instant, but with TUESDAY, 20th February-Workshop- To give the novices some assistance, Canoemg is an adventurous sport dating sincere and consistent efforts over time, 2pm-E.G. Whitlam Room (Student the U-Canoe people have created a 16 back many hundreds of years. Organized the student will experience the results he Union Building) page Canoeing Guide which is free with canoe clubs have operated in Australia or she is looking for. TUESDAY, 27th February-FILM each rental. The Guide is pretty basic for over 50 yeats and membership The University of Queensland Yoga "Yoga and thc Individual" and TALK- but offers simple instructions and safety continues to grow in the number of clubs Society was inaugurated in March, 1974 Ipm-E.G. Whitlam Room (Student tips and details of over 30 waterways in Queensland. following enquiries from students and staff Union Building). around the Brisbane area suitable for al! interested in studying genuine Yoga under types of canoeing adventurers. Enthusiasts will want to combine some proper guidance. EXTENDED OPENING Tom Bishop, the local U-Canoe Re- white water excitement with touring after Classes are taken by teachers from the resentatlve tells us that the Guide will they have leamed the basic skills and Yoga Education Centre, Brisbane which HOURS FOR be continually expanded and improved joining in with a club is the best way to is affiUated with the Yoga Teachers THATCHER LIBRARY according to interests experienced and as get infonnation m this department. Ex­ Federation of Australia. The teaching is ON SATURDAYS more information is collected. cellent modern materials such as fibreglass supplemented by discussion groups, camps, Mr. Bishop elaborated on his companies and Coleman's polyethylene have en­ lectures, addresses by visiting guest I am writing to inform faith in canoeing as an ever inaeasing larged the scope of construction techniques scholars, and other social activities. you that begmning with first semester, 1979, the family activity: "The high cost and and canoe desiga Thus, today we have Classes will be available for both day Thatcher Library will be congestion of weekending at the traditional an amazing array of shapes and classes of and evening students, meeting for one hour open between 10am and beach resort is making this type of aethrity kayaks and Canadians suitable for various each week. 4pm on Saturdays. unpalletable to many families who daily forms of pure pleasure and competition. Details regarding class times will be It is very necessaiy that . live in a busy urban environment. More There exists today a good variety available during:- we have a high usage rate and more people are looking for simple of books, magazines and handbooks on -Orientatfon Week from 10am to 3pm if we are to continue this quiet pleasures away from noise, high canoeing and other infonnation available at the Yoga Sodeties Room in the upper expanded service. density and heavy petrol consumption. from the Queensland Amateur Canoe part ofthe Relaxation Block, I would appreciate any­ Interest in camping and boating has Federation, local clubs and thc U-Canoc AND thing that you could do to increased enormously in tbe past few years Centre, 47 Dunella Street, Sherwood from 12 noon to 2 pm, Monday and give this move further but boats are expensive to purchase and 379 7350. Tuesday only, in the Biological Science publicity. operate and rarely hassle free. 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SCHONELL DRIVE FRUIT SHOP (St. ST. LUCIA Lucia): TARINGA INDOOROOPILLY Located at the Galley Road corner under TARINGA AFTER HOURS PHARRAACY CHLOE'S COFFEE INN (147 Coonan the new apartment building this shop (212 Moggill Rd): Rd, Indooroopilly opp. station and next provides great fruit and vegetables at The nearest to the campus which is capable to the El Dorado Cinema) and THE great prices. What more need I say. of supplying your late night needs, it stays PASA DONNA COFFEE LOUNGE (on open until Qpm (telephone 371 2548). opposite skle of Indooroopilly Ralhway Station at 174 Ciarenca Rd): THE ASIAN KITCHEN (Taringa): Bot places open late and offer traditional Run by former university students, this coffee lounge fare at standard prices. restaurant specialises in curries and Chinese CONVENIENCE STORES (Indooroopilly food. Located at the Swann Rd. Five-ways and Toowong): it closes earlier than the Hungry Years and The closest convenience stores to the Peppes on most nights, so get In before the University are the "9.30 shop" just pub closes If you're going to dine there. past Indooroopilly Trippingtown on Frequented by campus people and locals. Moggill Road and the 9pm shop opposite CHEZ TESSA/YUMMIES TAKEAWAY Toowong Railway Station on Coro (St. Lucia): Drive. Chez Tessa provides a diverse range of VEGETARIAN SNACK BAR (Moggill restaurant standard meals within a take­ Rd, Taringa): However the "Night Owl" located away format. It was one of the first Definitely worth a visit. A good range of further away on Milton Rd at Auchelfower has the biggest range and establishments of this type to bring PEPPE'S PIZZA (St. Lucia): appetising baked dishes, lentil burgers, Brisbane up to date with the other capital pizzaburgers, wholemeal cakes, fruit possibly the best prices. A favourite late night haunt (open till cakes, cheese and vegetable patties, milk cities by Improving the variety and lam) of many college residents and GALLOPING GLUTTON INDIAN standards of traditional snack bar food. drinks, fruit juices etc. All vegetarian, CURRIES (34 Station Rd, Indooroopilly, students generally. Good pizzas, try the But (yes, there Is a but folks), since all quite reasonably priced and all prepared up from the Indooroopilly pub and Post Uni Special at cheap prices. The restuarant opening Chez Tessa's prices have slowly with care. Office): also sells pasta dishes and out of these aept up to such a high level that if they Most certainty the best quality take-away the lasagne Is recommended. Another didn't have a virtual monopoly on take­ curries in Brisbane and cheaply priced feature Is that the place is and virtually away food in the St. Lucia area, no one tool At the top end of the scale is the always has been run by students. Don't but the rich could afford to frequent the lamb curry (excellenti) at about $3 and forget to take your own grog and give place. the remainder sell for $2.50. Definitely the jukebox a go (3 plays for 20 cent^. Possibly hl^er quality and the long worth a visit. hours tbey stay open means some THE PANTRY (Indooroopilly Shopping- additional costs, however this doesn't town): overcome the problem that their range of TOOWONG One of the only pastry shopsAJakers In speciality greek dishes etc very Brisbane who sell re^ meat pies. Try expensively priced for the average student. ^^MW^ these, they are called "chunky meat One last word - try Sam's own HUNGRY YEARS CAFE (Toowong): pies" and also their cheesecakes etc. which chocolate rum gateau cake - It melts in The alternative R.E. run by some ultra are equally good and cooked on the YUET-WAH CHINESE RESTAURANT your mouth and is worth the 65cents friendly campus based entrepeneurs Is premises. (Moggill Rd, Taringa Shping Centre): (per slice) splurge Involved. (Open nights located above Goodc's cake shop In Sher­ By suburban Chinese food standards the and weekends). wood Road and opens till late most nights. VIET'S (Chinese and Vietnamese) Cantonese food available here is better RESTAURANT (Stamford Rd entraca to This restaurant In terms of prices offers than average and is sokl at pretty standard great value to students with good food Indooroopilly Shoppingtown): prices for such places. Their mini-meals being offered at prices anywhere from Pick the right dish and you've got a good (they're quite large actually), sokl during meal at a reasonable price. Try the Royal around $1 (Taco's and Teryaki Steak the lunch hours on weekdays are part­ Rolls ($2) and the Chicken Pot Rice sandwiches) to $4.50 speciality dishes icularly good value in money terms. ($3.50). which change every night. Its genuine charcoal grill provides excellent kebabs at around $3 to $3.50. Like Peppe's, the H.Y, Cafe offers a very pleasant atmosphere to diners. THE UNIVERSITY OF QLD. UNION D'ANGELO'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT (Toowong): FUNCTION CENTRE/CATERING SERVICE Also in Shenwod • Rd, the pizza's and other food available here are of a fair • 'Quah'ty A t Affordable Prices " standard but prices are a little higher than found at some other Italian restaurants.

ROYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL SNACK BAR (Toowong): We Cater For All Your Needs': Standard grill bar food, cooked to reasonable standards andoffering varied Baljs and Dinner Dances Weddings DAVID'S CHINESE RESTAURANT (St. range of prices and food items (I.e. 50 Cocktail Parties Lucia: cents to $3 items). Converitions If you can afford it (the place is pretty Formal Dinners expensive by student standards) you will Wines and Cheeses -receive "average quality" Chinese food RUSTIC GEM (Toowong): for the price. Another aspect of dining Located in High Street in the new shopping there which could concern the budget block next to the police station, this Discounts for student functions conscious is the fact that David's has a restuarant and takeaway place supplies CONTACT GLORIA KNOWLES licence. Thus no cheap BYO drinking, family fare (e.g. roasts) and as it has not On 371 1611 (Ext. 381 but if you are feeling rich and you forget yet been reviewed by Time Off no real to go to the pub this could be a bonus. summary of Its standards can be made.

THE CREPERIE AND DANI'S PIZZA: Both here on campus in the Union complex, they supply good food at good prices and what more needs to be said.

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