~n took an engineer!----­ MONASH And a Monash REPORTER one at that AIA8AZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY

by - publication No, VBG0435 NUMBER 8-83 OCTOBER 5,1983

j:::~~c::l~~: rejoleed a week ago today 8S Australia II did what II ~~:::."'~re was cause for special celebration and

II" in the America'. fillip. 101m 1IfrtnuId. Is • lSI...oIrlilegrfnders on the erew, WilHam Baillieu. A Ifiih.,'d~D", was associ.ted with the MOIIash rowing learn he was not 8 sludent here.

n.."'rtr., ....I .."duatetll ..Uh an honoun depee in Mechanical Engineering in project in 1%9. w.... Hrned him a high dlslinetion. was iI.,,","o,,i.,n. Into" performance of a 12·metre yacht sail". It deaU with jib and mainsail configurations.

HisIUpervlsor. Professor Bill Melbourne. himRlf associated with the design of lN1 chaUewger Dame PaUle, remembers .hat the two used to joke that an AI..."".... yacht wouldn't win the America's Cup "until it had an engineer al the

Jolin was awarded a Full Blue by the Sports and Recreation Association in - tbe University's first and only such award for yachting. In 1972. William Baillieu was awarded a Full Blue for rowing. William was • <•• _•. '-- on the Monash team wbieb won the Oxford~C.mbridge intervarsity boa on the Manning 'River. Taree, NSW. in thai same )'ear. He also repn­ Australia in rowing at the '72 Olympics. William completed his Bachelor of Economics degree in 1974 and graduated in 1976. • THE VICTORS - John Bertrand (left), skipper of the America's Cup winner, Australia Brian Richardson rowed for Monash in loeal events In the early' II, and syndicate head, Alan Bond. Photo: The Sun. Final year thesis that pointed the way

"Investigations into the performance Full Blue in its 1968 sporting awards. It yachtsman with that of a top-rate It was a class of 18 - somewhat of • 12 metre yacht sail". is the first and only time the Association engineer who understands the mechanics smaller than final year classes of 50 or so in later times. That is the title of a fourth year has made this award for yachting. involved in a yacht's performance. It's a He recalls John as a good student, a IIM"chan'ical Engineering thesis submit­ In the same year he was president of point on which America has had the "gentleman", but Quiet - something of ted in 1969 by a young man who Pro­ the Monash Sailing Club. edge over its competitors for years, John Bertrand's years at Monash a loner. The hallmark of a true sailor fessor Bill Melbourne, project super­ "First and foremost, though, John is were 1966 to 1969. The year after, he perhaps. visor. remem bers as being unassuming a great yachtie." travelled to the United States where he As well as the America's Cup, John but Quietly confident and determined. Professor Melbourne says that it was began a Master's degree in ocean engi­ Quite clear John "would be the one to has been a member of Australian Ad­ The description "a person who knew neering at Massachusetts Institute of get there". miral's Cup teams in 1973, 1977 and • 'where he was going" crops up without Technology - and joined the crew of 1980. He is a former world champion in ~~:~e~~~~.among those at Monash who Gretel II in his first America's Cup A grand plan the Soling class and represented Aus­ our most public graduate of challenge, He sailed wilh Southern tralia in the Finn class at the 1972 and months: John Bertrand, captain, Cross in 1974 and Australia in 1980 also. "Everything he has done has been 1976 Olympics, winning a Bronze Medal Illellms'man and sail designer of Auslralia By the time h( enrolled al Monash he Quite deliberate - part of a grand plan at the latter. II, the America's Cup winner. was already an Auslralian sailing champ perhaps. Yet he was always a pleasant He was set to go to the t 980 Olympics - al age 16, in the VJ class. and unassuming person and, you can tell when the Australian team withdrew. He Full Blue There was common ground wilh Pro­ when you see him on television. he's no then understudied Jim Hardy fessor Melbourne who had been part of different now." Australia in the 1980 America's Cup Not only was John's technological in­ Warwick Hood's design team for Dame Monash spOrtS administrator, Doug challenge against .'reedom, skippered by terest in yachting fostered in Mechanical Pattie, the 1967 challenger. Ellis, remembers John Bertrand as an Dennis Conner, his 1983 opponent. Engineering's wind tunnel. Practising Professor Melbourne says thai the extremely courteous and likeable person John came second in the 1981 IwO­ his skills on the University'S behalr, he two often used 10 joke that an Aus­ - "quiet, but he knew what he was tonne world championships, last year represented Monash in intervarsity sail­ tralian yacht wouldn't win an America's about" . won the Australia Cup, and this year has ing events in 1967 and 1968, skippering a Cup "until it had an engineer at the "Sailing was a passion," says Doug, picked up the West pac Advance Aus­ Sharpie class boat. helm" . Bruce Kuhnell, a

There has been no grievous decline in Christianity in Australia and there never was a "golden age" of full churches. No grievous descent These are the facts, according to Dr Gary Bouma, senior lecturer in the sociology of religion at Monash. Dr Bouma, who is also assistant curate at St lohn's Anglican Church. from a 'golden age', Toorak, says the statistics simply do not support the myths about Christianity in Australia. "People have a sense that there was a golden age in the past - whether they says sociologist think it was last century or the 1930s ­ when almost everybody went to church 1981, but Dr Bouma believes that this is "There has been substantial recovery but I can't find it statistically. largely due to an increase in honesty . since 1976. There is no evidence for a ..Attendance varying around the 25 Since 1971 there has been a "no numerical withering away of the per cent mark has been the rule for Aus­ religion" category on the census form. Church... tralia since about 1860. A look at In 1981 10.8 per cent of Australians said Dr Bouma said the only major chur­ historical trends reveals a pattern of they had no religion. ches to show a decline in membership • Or Gary Bouma remarkable stability in the percentage Dr Bouma says people are becoming between 1976 and 1981 were the groups will continue to grow in numbers attending. n more honest about saying they have no mainline non-conformists - Congrega~ and proportion." Church attendance figures peaked at religion. tional, Methodist, Presbyterian and Dr Bouma said the Christian churches 30 per cent in 1960, the year after the "Those who once said C of E and Uniting. must expect to have less "clout" in largest Billy Graham crusade in Aus~ meant no religion now say no religion." But the relative strengths of the major modern Australian society where issues tralia; but in surveys done since, the Dr Bouma said the decline in people Christian groups were changing - the were no longer judged by Christian percentage who say they have been to identifying with a Christian group bet­ Anglican church had one of the lowest values alone. church "within a week" has varied bet­ ween 1971 and 1976 - from 10,990,379 growth rates of 1.6 per cent. But they could deal with this by work­ ween 22 and 25 per cent. to 10,644,851 - was seen at the time as ing alongside secular groups such as However the sort of people attending the beginning of the end for the Chris­ Mainly as a result of immigration and welfare agencies and youth and church regularly has changed. tian churches. of fertility rates the Catholic and Or­ unemployment groups. "They are now less likely than before But this figure increased to ) 1,133,198 thodox churches were growing more "Take the example of the case put by to be Catholic, more likely than before in 1981. rapidly. the churches in Victoria against casinos. to belong to a small religious group." "While at the time 1976 seemed to be "Australian Christ ians are no longer The arguments were not moral, but The proportion of Australians c1aim~ the first step to the end it now appears predominantly Anglican. By 1986 about the impact of such a move on the ing to be Christian has decreased from much more to be a hiccup in the trend of Anglicans will have to cede first place to society, on the family, on individuals," 95.9 per cent in 1911 to 76.4 per cent in fairly steady growth. Roman Catholics. The small religious he said. Inside Students plan management seminar A group of Monash economics AIESEC's national conference at address on the importance of manage­ students has an ambitious undertaking Monash from December 9 to 12. ment development . this for year's end. Driving forces behind the revitalised • Dr Roy GUberl, Director of the • Members of the Monash branch of Monash branch are Tim Murray, presi­ Victorian Ministry of Housing, who is ISSue: AIESEC are organising a management dent, Jeffrey Edwards, marketing of~ expected to set a cat among the pigeons development seminar - for industry. ficer, and Martin Bean, vice-president, by talking about the inadequacies of Among participants will be some of the who are organising the seminar ­ present management courses and the ABORIGINAL ACCESS leading people in the personnel field believed to be the first student-run event need for change in management from the private and public sectors and of its type. development ~ystems, In 1984 Monash will introduce Tim Murray says: "We plan it to be a • Peler Wale, Sales Training an Aboriginal Orientation education. valuable forum for exchange of infor~ Manager with Honeywell Information Scheme - a unique univer. "Management Development: Where mation on management development ­ Systems in Sydney, who will give an sity venture. P.3. to from here?" will be held at the Hilton where it is going, what is happening overseas per\peci ive. Hotel on Thursday, December 8. overseas and an examinat ion of t he need • David Hume, management con~ POET PROFILE AIESEC is an acronym of a French ti. for change in the attitudes of Australian sultanl, and Ian Macgregor, Director of tie which translates as the International business toward s management Human Resources Development for Meet Keith Harrison, an ·ex· Association of Economics and Com~ development. Pannell, Kerr, Forster, chartered ac~ change' academic in English. merce Students. The Association was His aim as a poet is 10 recap· "In short, it will be a 'state of the art' countants. They will present a managing ture the art's lost ground. P.5. formed in 1948 and aims "to promote a seminar for people working in the per ~ director~perso nnel director role play better understanding between the st u~ sonnel management field and junior which will deal with corporate politics, EYE ON THE WORLD dent, business and academic co m~ managers." the need for management blend and the munities and to prepare competent, Chairing the seminar will be Dr role of a consultant. The French pre·occupation internationally-minded managers for lhe Sharon Dickman, lecturer at Footscray The enrolment fee for the seminar is with the Occupation: the future" . Institute of Technology, who recently $100. Philippines post~Marcos: the For further information contact world's best universities, ac· AIESEC is represented on some 15 chaired the Australian Marketing cording to some. These are Australian campuses and is currently in Institute's conference, AIESEC, Room 839, Menzies building some of the areas explored a strong phase at Monash with about Among the speakers will be: or phone ext. 3084. After hours: Tim in the centre pages. 160 members. • John ElIiol1, managing dirc~tor of Murray on 211 1579 or Jeffrey Edwards The seminar will be held just before Elders IXL, who will give the keynote on 277 3018. MONASH Rt:POKTt:K 2 OCTOBER, 1983 Art auction will fund

Drysdale memorial ...._- " About 100 works by a Who's Who of Australian artists will go under Sotheby's hammer at an auction in Melbourne this month - with all proceeds going towards a memorial to Sir Russell Drysdale at Monash. The form of the memorial to a man Drysdale was a frequent visitor to the described as "a great artist and a great campus in its early days - to see Pro­ Australian" is yet to be decided. It is ex· fessor Andrew and friends in Zoology peeted, however, to form "a significant such as Tim Ealey, now Director of the element" of the new University Gallery Graduate School of Environmental being planned as part of a multi. Science, the lale Doug Dorward, and the disciplinary building. late Jock Marshall with whom he wrote The auction - featuring works which ..Journey Among Men". He had al) have been donated by artists, their abiding interest in the ecology of the families and collectors - will be held in Australian environment and was a learn­ the Regent Hotel, Collins Street, on ed contributor to environmental Sunday, October 30 at 6.30 p.m. seminars. The hotel is donating use of the room A Friends of Tass Drysdale group was and Sotheby's is conducting the auction set up to shape the idea for a memorial. without commission. The group, formed by Professor An­ The idea for a permanent memorial to drew, Dr Brown, Mr Marginson, and Sir Russell Drysdale - known to his Margaret Plane, professor of Visual friends as Tass-was fostered at a ser· Arts at Monash, has organised the vice in Sydney following his death in auction. 1981 by Emeritus Professor Rod An· Says Professor Andrew about drew and the artist David Dridan. Drysdale the artist: • Emeritus Professor Rod Andrew, one 01 the organisers 01 the art auction. with 'The Professor Andrew - founding Dean of "He was one of those seminal people Rabbiter' by Sir Russell Drysdale and donated by his widow. Lady Drysdale. the Monash Medical School and, since who, like Tom Roberts and other artists same time an extremely literate person on the Saturday afternoon and evening his retirement in 1975, director of of the Heidelberg School, made us see who could hold his own in conversation and all day Sunday preceding the medical education at Sl Frances Xavier Australia through new eyes. with the best. auction. Cabrini Hospital - was both friend and "Almost single-handedly he opened "Tass was the sternest of critics of his Other artist~ represented include: physician to Drysdale. up magic casements on this country, own work - what he would show and Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, Arthur The idea was encouraged by Lady depicting the Outback and Aborigines, sell. That's why his output is com­ Boyd, Donald Friend, Roger Kemp, Drysdale, his widow, and pursued back particularly, in a way never seen before. paratively small. Leonard French, Inge King, John Olsen, in Melbourne by Professor Andrew, Dr " In turn, Fred Williams made the "He was always supportive of William Dargie, Henry Moore (the only Joseph Brown, art collector, and Ray same sort of quantum leap that Drysdale younger artists - a man without a trace non-Australian), Arnold Shore, 0,:or2e l Marginson, Vice·Principal of the Uni. and artists of the Heidelberg School of jealousy." Bell, Rupert Bunny, Daryl versity of Melbourne which conferred made." The works which will be auctioned on Thea Proctor, Brett Whiteley, posthumously on Sir Russell Drysdale And Tass Drysdale th e man? October 30 include several by Sir Russell Stuart, Jan Scnbergs, Robert Jacks, Hal an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in Professor Andrew says: Drysdale. Lady Drysdale has donated Missingham, Jock Clutterbuck, Robert 1982. "He was a mix of inlrovert and ex­ the famous watercolour "The Rab­ Kippel, Celia Rosser and Peter Scul­ It was felt th at Monash University trovert - a man with an immense talent biter" which will be feat ured on the thorpe. would be an appropriate place for the for friendship. cover of the catalogue. A list of works donated up until memorial to be located and the Vice· "He loved the land and, indeed, The works will be on show at the October is published in an insert in Chancellor gave the go·ahead. started off as a jackeroD. He was at the Regent Hotel. formerly the Wentworth, issue of Reporter. Scheme to open access for Aborigines

Monash University will next year pleting undergraduate degrees through sy mpathetic community cncourage· The appointment of a MOSA Direc­ launch an Orientation Scheme for Abor­ both "bridg ing " and "enclave" men!. .. tor, one other teacher and a secretary igines (MOSA) - the firsl of its type in functions. Students who complete the Orienta­ will bc made soon - wilh a third an Australian university. tion year - achieving a standard at least Icaching posit ion planned as the Scheme "It will offer a full academic year of The Scheme aims to open up access equal 10 HSC - will be guaranteed ad­ grows. specific preparation for uni versity for adult Aborigines to university mission to the Monash faculties of Arts In addition to members drawn from study, thus bridging the educational and Qualifications. thereby increasing Abor­ and Law. Other faculties may wish also around the University, the committee cultural gap which frequently exists be­ iginal participation in the professions, to accept successful MOSA students. overseeing MOSA includes members tween aspiring Aboriginal under­ public service, management arid com­ Areas taught in the year will include nominated by the Victorian Aboriginal graduates and matriculants from other munity leadership, and contributing to history. anthropology and sociology, Education Consultative Group, the Na­ communities. Aboriginal self-management. English, numeracy, communication tional Aboriginal Education Committee 1t is being funded by the Common­ skills and general study skills. and the Commonweahh Department of wealth through the departments of Ensure skills In the Scheme's first years, an annual Education. Education and Aboriginal Affairs. intake of about 10 is planned - building For further information about MOSA The idea for such a scheme arose in­ rapidly to 20. Applications for the first " I, will improve the likelihood of contact Professor Ricklefs on ext. 2160 itially from Aboriginal people and intake have been invited. They close on or Ms Eve Fesl, Director of the Abor­ Aboriginal students ultimately gai ning organisations. November 14. iginal Research Centre, on ext. 3346. university dcgree~ by ensuring good It has b.cen pursued at Monash at st udy skill s, by accustoming intending • The various on-campus groups: many levels - from lhe Aboriginal undergraduates to the procedures, styles Research Centre, the departments of Letter Monash Women's Society, Monash and expectations of a university, by giv­ Parents' Group, Monash Medical Anthropology and Sociology, English ing them confidence in their abilities, Mothers' Auxiliary lind Monash Ad­ and History, through the faculties of and by providing on-going support Sir: May I, through Reporter, extend visory Committee. Arts and Law, to Professorial Board facilities. ~rateful thanks for the support given by and Council which have considered the members of the Monash community and "The Scheme will consist of specific • Many individuals, including scheme in detail and endorsed it. outside friends to the special showing of members of the Union and par­ The chairman of the Professorial staff. rooms and support mechanisms "Tootsie" at the Alexander Theatre last for students during the Orientation year ticularly · our projectionist, Neil Board committee res Don sible for week. Judge. MOSA, Professor Merle Ricklefs. says and thereafter while they continue as undergraduates at Monash. I should like to thank especially the tha~ the scheme will offer Aboriginal following: • The Alexander Theatre. people' 'special support needed to break "In addition to offering dire~t educa­ Their combined efforts have ensured • Mrs Kath Byers? of the Notting Hill a cycle of disadvantage at university tional assistance, staff of MOSA will act a welcome boost to the finances of the level". as counsellors and guides to the com­ Hotel, who donated all the cham­ Monash Art Fund. Professor Ricklefs says that MOSA plexities of a large university. MOSA, pagne and wine. will improve mature Aboriginal' in other words, will provide a sense of • Glen Hi Juices Pty. Ltd., for the sup­ Rena Martin students," prospects of successfully com­ territory, of educational support and plies of orange juice. Convener OCTOBER. 1983 3 MONASH REPORTER Recommendations on APM mill's river discharge

. A Monash En\'ironmental Science The biological aspect of the study in­ team bas made recommendations to volved collection of macroinvertebrates AustraliaR Paper Manufacturers - animals without backbones but visi­ Limited on the efnuent discharge of its ble to the naked eye - from the river Maryvale mill Into the La Trobe River. bed and from bank vegetation. Macroinvertebrates are especially Among the recommendations are..{WQ on the further treatment of process suilable for such study because they are relatively slow-moving, susceptible to waste which would satisfy water quality objectives of SEPP the State changes in water quality. easily col­ Environment Protection Policy (Waters lected, easily identifiable and represen­ of the La Trobe River Catchment). lalive of the biological system. The research showed that in the diver­ The study was commissioned by APM sity and numbers of these animals the itself. It involved an investigation of the lower La Trobe River sector was hydrological, chemical and biological biologically impo'o'erished. It also in­ characteristics of a I.S km reach of the dicated that some additional stress was La Trobe River in the vicinity of the ef· being imposed immediately downstream fluent discharge point of the APM mill. from the discharge point. The study recommends that bioassays Enthusiasm. and ingenuity were not in On display were several hundred pro- short supply when primary and secon- jects - in the form of posters, photo­ Report published being undertaken by APM on the effects of particular tox.icants on individual dary students, scientists all, took over graphic and written essays, games and species should be continued. Robert Blackwood ""all late last month simulations, experiments and models ­ Three Master of Environmental It also recommends that APM con­ for the exhibition day of the annual which addressed themselves to some .ax- Science candidates - Ying Hsuan, tinue monitoring physico-chemical and Science Talent Search. ing questions. Patricia Hyland and Choon-Hooi Teoh biological parameters of the river and In the photograph above, Colin - conducted the study. A report edited that that monitoring should be more in­ The event has been conduded for Jones, Gabriele Weber and Alastair by Ian Sargeant and published recently tensive, over a range of flow conditions more than 30 years by the Science Smith. Year 10 students at Kingswood by the Graduate School of Environ­ (during the study period these were at an Teachers Association of Victoria, mak- College, Box Hill, demonstrate their en­ mental Science and APM is based on the estimated 10 year low), and over a ing it one of the longest-running pro- try - the Tesla Coil, a generator and findings of their theses. It is entitled greater distance. grams of its type in the world. magnifier of high frequency electricity. Aspects of the La Trobe River Eco­ system. The project's aim was "to acquire an understanding of the functioning of the Overseas models pave way ecosystem in (the 1.5 km) reach of the river in order to determine any effects of the APM effluence, and, where approp­ riate, to suggest means whereby the on 'de-traumatised' divorce water quality can conform with the requirements of SEPP". In family law. Australia is part wa)' before a notary, relieves the judge of "In cross-examination. incidents are down the path towards modifying the dealing with these matters. It saves a revived or, perhaps worse, incidents that The researchers found that during the adversary method of court procedure ­ great deal of lime and money as the one of the partners never knew about study period (from March to December a feature of our common law system. court's involvement is reduced to gran­ are brought to light. last year), all the water quality para­ Associate Professor Henry Finlay, of ting the actual divorce. As in Australia, "The result is that the couple comes meters measured in the APM final ef­ the Law faculty, suggests we go further, that is not a lengthy procedure. fluent met licence standards laid down away from the COUrl inOamed and em­ drawing on examples of some US states In Australia, the conciliation process bittered, their relationship worsened. by the Environment Protection Auth­ and European countries. He does not is more time-consuming and expensive ority. Then they may be expected to keep in suggest, however, that we should aban­ because there can be three stages to it. touch over access to the children." And all ex.cept one - the presence of don the adversary procedure in family The Registrar of the Family Court can In the inquisitorial mode of European floating matter - met SEPP objectives law at this stage. conduct conferences to settle property countries, the judge takes a far more ac­ on Gippsland's most important river. The adversary system where matters. Separately. Court counsellors live role in proceedings. It is his task to The SEC is the other principal industrial lawyers " fight it out" before a judge on do the same on custody of children . In behalf of their clients - can do much both cases, the Judge makes the final find the truth. to "get to the bottom" of user of its water and the La Trobe serves the dispute. As such he takes a cornman· the (Owns of Morwell, Moe, Yallourn harm in the area of family law by slirr­ order. ding role in the presentation of the case, North and Traralgon. ing up hostilities between divorcing part­ Dr Finlay says that while our Family ners, says Dr Finlay. This can jeopardise Court has moved some way away from calling witnesses and questioning them . • an ongoing relationship which may be the strict adversary model and is The actual court appearance is the end Further treatment necessary if custody of children is somewhat less formal than other courts point of a lengthy period of preparation involved. (for example, in matters 9uch as attire). in which lhe judge wiIJ have received ex­ He recently spent an outside studies basic features of the common Jaw court tensive dossiers from each lawyer put­ SEPP rules out any floating matter in program in the US and Europe, par­ procedure remain intact . ting forward his client's case. The judge effluent discharge. The report says: ticularly West Germany, where he was Under the adversary system, lawyers may seek additional information in this "This objective was not met on each of able to observe closely ot her procedures argue their client's case before a judge preliminary stage. the sampling dates, although the in family law, including the "inquis­ whose role is to evaluate the two vcr­ The upshot is that the court hearing amount of floatable mailer (in the form itorial" " mode of countries with sions. He cannot caIJ witnesses in­ of a white foam) was markedly reduced itself is likely to be much shorter than codified, as opposed to common, law. dependently and has only limited power under the adversary system. after the introduction of additional Dr Finlay says that the "rnost civilis­ to question them. In shorl, the judgc is "West German judges I spoke to were defoaming treatment by APM in ed" approach he observed was the con­ the umpire, not the fact-seeker. amazed to hear of an Australian custody September. " ciliation procedure offered by some US The process of cross-examination. a case that lasted 42 days," says Dr The study recommends that APM fur­ divorce lawyers. There exists in the Aus· feature of this system. can be parlicular­ Finlay. "Very seldom does a case there ther treat process waste to eliminate tralian Family Court the opportunity for Iy harmful in family law cases, Dr Finlay last more than half a day." floating material. resolulion of disputes by conciliation says. It also suggests th·~lt the effluent's high but he says that it could be streamlined. "It is often held that lawyers exag· It is debatable though whether the color level could connict with SEPP ob­ Some US divorce lawyers repon that gerate in cross·examinalion in a bid to whole legal process is any shorter, given jectives although these do nOI set a 80 per cent of their cases are settled "Ollt shake a witness's character," ~ays Dr the lengthy preliminary stage. specific limit on color. of court" by conciliation. The divordng Finlay. "What they in fact do is trim "Under the inquisitorial system there Sa ys the repon: "It appears that (.:olor couple, both lI sing the salllc lawyer, away the irrelevancies in order to bring is no harrowing cross·examination, levels in the effluent could be interpreted make a wriuen agreement on the terms OUI the elements of stories which wili however, and proceedings are low-key, to be 'objectionable' and hence in of their parting - including all custody, strengthen their own case. The picture civilised and far less formal," he says. contravention of the SEPP objecti\"C for property and maintenance matters. Ihat emerges can sometimes be less "Proceedings in a German family court color. ,. This document, signed by the couple balanced than the real-life situation. are more like those of a conference." MONASH REPORTER OCTOBER. 1983 A poet who longs to move his art

For many, "modern poetry" is Keith Harrison will be giving a characterised by tight, impenetrable reading from his own work today bundles of words tucked away distantly centre stage (Wednesday) at 1.10 p.m. in Room 803, in slim vols. Menzies bulldinK;' Poetry has come to be viewed by such readers as acts of personal expression ­ "By and large a university can pro­ but not ones of communication. The vide a stimulating environment for an most critical might say. impolitely. that artist to work in - even when he likes to it has become the 3ft of the wanker. engender heat rather than light." As such, poetry has taken a back seat Many universities, particularly the to its creative brothers, prose and North American ones, recognise a duty drama. to promote the ,jsubversive activity" of Melbourne-born writer. Keith Har­ creatIvIty through artist-in-residence rison, now a professor of English in the programs and the like. U.S. but currently "on exchange" in the If (here is a stumbling block for the English department at Monash, believes academic-writer. says Professor Har­ strongly that poetry must reassert itself rison, it is the pedestrian (if major) pro­ in the public domain if it is not to be blem of organising time "so that he may relegated forever to the status of minor forge something new himself". 3rt form. Professor Harrison says that creative The challenge for poets is to do this writing classes have given him some of without losing the intensity and integrity the most rewarding moments in teaching of their work. - and some of the most frustrating. The creative writing class is not one of defined territory, set texts, notes and Recapture narrative strategies, he says . •'The responsibility of the 'teacher' is One way in which it can be done, Pro­ to create occasions whereby students can fessor Harrison suggests, is for poetry to give expression to that part of their mind recapture lost ground in narrative - in which harbors the symbol, metaphor, works for the stage and radio, even films intuition in other words, the and TV. subconscious. Poetry, he says , needs to adopt forms "After an outburst from the sub­ more widely interesting and accessible conscious, it then becomes a matter of than the "intense, brief utterance" . editing according to the procedures and One of his own recent works has been principles of the best literature, past and a translation from Middle English of a present. " "rattling good Arthurian yarn", Sir Ga­ The significant role of the creative wain and the Green Knight. It has been writing class, says Professor Harrison, is produced as a verse play on American not 10 uncover literary geniuses one and radio. all, but to expose students to the Dylan Thomas's Under Milkwood material of art - to let them begin to see stands out as a major achievement of what the artist'S job is. poetry in drama; T.S. Eliot and W.H. "They learn what it is to face a blank Auden tried it with varying success; and page and make something interesting more recently and closer to home, In his own work, he attempts to write sity," Professor Harrison replies. "The happen," he says. "It is an experience Dorothy Hewett has used the language as "simply as the material allows me to emphasis of the scholar is on an analysis which usually gives them a new ap­ of poetry in her drama. write". He is hopeful that anyone who of the literature of the past, whereas the preciation of the work of others." But playwrights from Ibsen on have In his own work, Professor Harrison tended to concentrate on the story they picks up one of his works or tunes in to a writer sees himself at the cutting edge of verse play is " prepared to trust me at new work. For the scholar-writer there has several projects underway including are telling and the stage business, rather two novels. A number of works on the than the language in which it is told. least half way". can be a sense of being torn in two "It is a bond 1 feel obliged to honor," directions ... go at once allows him to "move "Compared with 'the action', the he adds. around" if he runs up against a blank language of drama today doesn' t tend to The important thing for the "writer" wall. Professor Harrison, who works at matter all that much - although I will in the academic to do, he adds, is to The novel is a form he has not tackled be challenged on that statement," Pro­ Carleton College in Minnesota. has make the literature of the past relevant done a direct swap for a term with a before and the poet is finding the need fessor Harrison says. to his own work . friend from university days, Philip Mar­ to «flesh out" the narrative line and tin, now senior lecturer in English at "All really good artists are scholars in develop further his characters. their own way. Good writers, musicians The golden age Monash. Both have similar teaching in­ The grand effort for the future and painters have analysed the creative terests - in modern literature and though, it seems certain, is that play. work of the past but in a way fruitful for By contrast, he points to the "golden creative writing - and both are poets. radio, film or TV script which will help their own work," he says. restore poetry to its rightful place. age" of Shakespeare who was able to The path to professorship is not one "marry" poetry with dramatic Keith Harrison has pursued with tunnel narrative. vision. "In Shakespeare's works, verbal After a three year stint as a secondary Seminar examines issues richness goes hand-in-hand with teacher in Warrnambool in the dramatic event. Poetry is used in such a mid-1950s, he left Australia for London on AID and adoption Skilful way that the audience is not even where he also taught , gained experience o aware that it is ' poetry' - in the sense as a journalist and a broadcaster - and Monash's Centre for Human rights of parents who give up children that such awareness might distract them wrote poetry. Bioethies and the Centre for Continuing for adoption to know what subsequently from the action." He has had a steady stream of work Education are organising a one-day con- happens to them. ferenee on "Adoption and Artificial In­ "Related issues also arise in discus­ So what is it about poetry that makes published and has also broadcast inter­ nationally. In 1965 he was producer of semination by Donor: Access to Infor· sions of artificial insemination with its survival in the public domain malion?" on November 2. donor semen. important'? the first "Poets in Public" readings at the Edinburgh International Festival. Registrations for the conference close "A number of speakers, representing "I believe that the language of poetry Twenty years ago he started his on Oerober 19. a range of opinions on these subjects, can comprehend more of human ex­ academic career, first as a lutor in Among the speakers will be the has agreed to contribute to the con­ perience - its ambiguities, its richness, English in the Department of Extra­ Minister for Community Welfare Ser­ ference which is expected to be of its heights and its depths - than prose Mural Studies at the University of Lon­ vices, Mrs Pauline Toner, the Shadow considerable interest to people working or prose drama," replies Professor don, then at universities in Iowa and Minister, Mr Don Saltmarsh, and pro­ in adoption agencies and welfare ser­ Harrison. Toronto before going 10 Carleton Col­ fessor of Philosophy at Deakin Univer­ vices, as well as to the parties concerned And therein lies the undoing of some lege in 1968 . sity, Professor Max Charlesworth. - adopted people, adoptive parents and contemporary poetry. How does someone who describes Say the organisers: relinquishing parents." "Its fault - if one can call it that ­ himself as a creative writer first and "Recent proposals of the Adoption The registration fees are $30; $25 lies in poets pushing the richness of that foremost fit in to a university Legislation Review Committee have stir- (Associates of the Centre for Human language to the point where it becomes en vironment ? red heated debate on questions such as Bioethics); and $8 (students). difficult for others to understand." Pro­ "Any writer is going to have some the rights of adopted children to know For further information and registra­ fessor Harrison says. equivoca tion about working in a univer­ who their biological parents are and the tion contact CCE on ext 3717 or 3718. OCTOBER. 1983 s MONASH REPORTER New Bretton The German Occupation becomes Woods or the literary France's preoccupation Apocalypse? The modern french obsession with tru(hs to emerge. for example the France during the German Occupadon French were not generally aware until The Commonwealth Secrelary­ is to be the subject of a study by senior the late '70s of their government's treat­ General, Sir Shridalh Ramphal, has en­ lecturer In French, Dr Colin NeUelbeck. ment of Jews during the war. nor of the dorsed calls for a redesign of global Dr Nettelbeck says he first realised the degree of collaboration at both govern­ financial and trading systems - a "new ex tent of the obsession when he began a menial and individual level, even of Bretton Woods" - as a step towards survey of modern French fiction ­ French participation in torture of averting "conflict of apocalyptic reading novels since 1968 which had French. There were more French serving dimensions". won literary prizes. in the Gestapo in France than Germans. Delivering the Menzies Memorial Lec­ "I was absolutely astounded by how Dr Nettelbeck points out that it is only ture at Mannix College, Sir Shridath many of them were talking about the this year that an examinable chapter of said that recovery would only come war." history on French behaviour during the about through an appreciation of the Dr Nettclbeck says that French artists, Occupation is to be taught in French interdependence of nations and better partkularly writers and film-makers. schools. And then only in history in the management of the world economy. have led the revival of interest in Fren<.;.h last year of high school. And that, he said, was management behaviour during the war. "The reason gi ven in 1968 would have which was more enlightened than belief ") want to look at the relationship been that it's too soon after the war but in "the notion that if the rich get richer, hetween sto ry-telling and history - the if you go back to World War I you find the poor will benerit also· - manage­ way in which the narratives of artists, it got into the school books very ment which acknowledges that there whom we think of as being somehow quickly. " may be no better times for any if there rcprc~l'Iltativc of the hidden obsessions Dr Neuelbeck sees the Occupation are no better limes for ali". of the collectivity, light the way for a "fashion" gradually fading out as the Sir Shridath said that a Common­ new look at historical narratives." newer "warts and all " version of history wealth study, soon to be released, would Dr NCllclbct:k says French intcreSi on is accepted . make " u significant contribution to thc the ()ccup.1\ ion of France has moved "But I'm not sure how long this will conceptual and practical preparation for from heing an obsession to becoming a be - the French are still a long ...­ • Dr Colin NeHelbeck a fresh attempt to design a global finan­ "r;'lshion", nicknamed "Retro" by the from having a clear simple synthe. . cial and trading fr:'lInework thai Frc lH.:h. thesis of views about what happened, what happened." responds to the world's currcnt nceds And a fashion with a darker side. because of ideological divisions within and mankind's <..I ... pirations for stahle "Sim:e 196M, thc end of the Dc the French I.:ommunity. recovery" . Gaullisl era, there has heen a stream or Soon after the war the French ac­ He warned that lime was short: "Wc hooks

MONASH REPORTER 6 OCTOBER, 1983 ------Tlil Intlrnational 101nl­ Philippines post-Marcos

In ManUa, the Marcos regime feeters on the brink of coll.p~. What Is likely to happen In Ihe Phntpplnes in Its wake? Monash's Centre of Southeast Asian conditions. The country faced a stag­ Studies brought together specialists nant economy and financial crisis of from around Australia to discuss this such magnitude that most institutions most lOpical of Questions at a day-long were making no loans other than on a seminar on September 21 - a day on day-to-day basis. which protests against the Marcos For a number of years, disaffection regime saw at least II people dead in with the regime among diverse groups Manila. has given strength to the National Among the SO paruclpants al the Democratic Front, the umbrella seminar was Dr Francisco Nemenzo. organisation which embraces Com­ former Dean of Arts and Sciences at the munists, squatter groups, left-wing University of the Philippines - a focus elements in the Catholic Church, labour of student activism in recent years. Dr and student opposition and the like. Its Nemenzo. who was detained for a armed wing is the New People's Army. number of years during martial law Tule, • Dr Gela DIxon, acting Research Director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies is currently a visiting fellow at the Aus­ The strength of the opposition is now (right), discusses a point w;th Dr Francisco Nemenzo, of the University of the Philippines, and Mr Amando Doronlla, who works with The Age and is completing a Ph.D. at Monash. tralian National University. such that the regime is seriously threatened. He said that the assassination of op­ speakers at the seminar agreed. There is tOld, is as confused and divided as the position leader Benigno Aquino on And then there is the health of Marcos no clear successor to Marcos but there is opposition to the Marcos regime August 21 was but one of a number of himself. Widely believed to be in an ad­ some frantic manoeuvring going on to generally. Its ambivalence is symbolised factors (albeit now the focal one) which vanced stage of a degenerative disease, decide the issue. by Cardinal Sin who within days con­ tad pushed the Philippines to the point he is probably a spent force on health Among the alternatives generally can­ ducted both Aquino's funeral and a .. '",0;:. grounds alone. vassed at the seminar were a military Mass at the Palace. dictatorship, a Communist revolution or .ssassination, he said, had to be Which leaves the question: what next? Dr Dennis Shoesmilh, of the Asian the continuation of quasi-constitutional seen against cOnlinuing grim economic It cannot at this stage be answered, Bureau Australia, said that Cardinal Sin government such as existed before and had an undoubted ability to think on his after martial law rule. feet but questioned whether he was Among the players in the piece will bc capable of formulating strategy. top of the world the military, the traditional oligarchies The Church, Dr Shoesmith said, was who hold economic power in the coun­ split on leadership-grass roots lines. The try, the Catholic Church and the various The second part was published lasl Bishops and superiors of religious Chemistry opposition groups - both semi-legal month and, the paper says, provoked orders mi~ht express dissatisfaction with The top research departments were and underground. less protest, possibly because the Marcos but their opposition was of Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial Col­ And Marcos's wife, Imelda? memory of the 1981 funding cuts has for limited extent. On the other hand, lege univerSIties, with Brist91 and Some seminar participants gave her the moment faded. Establishing an parish priests and nuns who worked Southampton some way behind. The "imminent resignation from public life" academic pecking order is now a less with the people were inclined to be more best teaching departments were iden­ statement little credence saying that it ticklish business, so THES concludes. radical in their opposition and hence at tical. On the international level, the was a common ploy. Such a "resigna­ The survey's aim was "to provide a odds with their leadership. Massachusetts Institute of Technology tion" left room for a comeback "by snapshot of opinions, to capture existing The seminar ranged over what con­ was the favorite, followed by Harvard, popular demand". prejudices about the ranking of depart­ stitutes the opposition - from moderate CalTech, Berkeley and UCLA. Cape As Governor of Metro Manila and ments". to radical - to the regime. Town, Prague and Uppsala were also Minister for Human Settlements, Im­ It was not, then, an objective report A significant pari of that opposition is mentioned. elda Marcos has a power base in the of the relative merits of different depart­ the New People's Army, whose real bureaucracy and is also believed to have ments but a report on the subjective strength is unknown. It is broken up, the support of some elements of the views of heads of departments on this Civil Engineering apparently without central leadership, military. topi '\ Imperial College oUlpolled its nearest and does not dominate large areas rival, Cambridge, in the research stakes However, there are other groupings /I\. ...-.:11 as seeking opinion on British countryside - although it is thought by almost two to one. Manchester, within the regime bitterly opposed to universities, the survey also asked ques­ command widespread sympathy in Swansea and University College, lon­ her, it was said, and she finds little tions on departments worldwide. This is some. don, followed. In teaching, however, favour among the Filipino people. what it found: Indeed, the "work" of the New Peo­ Cambridge was ranked number one, The Catholic Church, the seminar was ple's Army as opposed to that of bandit Bristol two, and Imperial three, follow­ groups is sometimes unclear, with the ed by Southampton and Oxford. The Sydney. Berkeley, Stanford, Princeton military often identifying the latter with China overwhelming choice outside Britain and the Sorbonnc were also mentioned. the former to justify its own presence in was Berkeley, with Delft the only other an area. university collecting more than one vole. History Another element of opposition is In both teaching and research, history found in organised labour, working Economics was a three-horse race featuring Oxford, largely "underground", which has Heads of economic departments Cambridge and london. Outside Bri­ demonstrated the capacity to mobilise ranked the London School of tain only three departments were men­ strikes. The great majority of Filipino Economics first in research but Cam­ tioned more than once: Yale, Harvard workers are not covered by "above­ bridge superior in teaching. The top five and Princeton. ground" unions, however, or belong to in research' also included Oxford, War­ ones established by the government. wick and Manchester; in teaching, Physics In shanty towns, squatter organisa­ Oxford, Bristol and Warwick. The most The first five were identical in both tions have been formed to resist govern­ desirable non-British institutions were research and teaching - Cambridge, ment attempts to demolish homes. MIT, Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, Stan­ Oxford, Imperial, Bristol and Man­ Through these organisations, in­ ford and Princeton in that order with chester. Worldwide, Berkeley, MIT and dividuals have become interested in ANU the only non-American university Harvard found favor with no non­ wider issues and have joined the to receive a vote. American university being memioned. underground. The student body too has been a French Politics volatile political force for a long time­ Oxford and Cambridge were domi­ In research a big five dominated ­ but opposition to the regime today even nant in research, followed by St An­ Oxford, Manchester, LSE, Essex and numbers in its ranks merchant bankers drews, Bristol and University College. Strathclyde. In teaching, the last two and other members of the professional Oxford stayed top in teaching, but Cam­ dropped out and were replaced by Ex­ class who have organised demonstra­ bridge was pushed into fourth place by eter and Hull. Overseas, Harvard was tions in Manila. It has been suggested 1~~~rj~~~~~~O~f;,Soc~~ialHuenyu,Sciences, Deputy conSisting Director of01 in the Bureau of Foreign Leeds and Bradford. Outside Britain: the firm favorite, but StockhoJm. that student activists of the '60s, now in with Monash Humanities staff The University of Geneva was top, Berkeley, Princeton and Padua were the professions, are spearheading this 1 followed closely by Harvard, Yale and also favored. middle class attack on the government.

OCTOBER, 1983 7 MONASH REPORTER Seminar calls for local language teachers The need for locally-trained teachers cannot be mct by a scheme which at best of etllnlc l.nauBles, and in particular supplies three teachers per year. tbose spoken by Australia's Yugoslav "The obvious solution to the problem communities, was highlighted at a is to create teacher training facilities in seminar organised last month by Victorian and Australian tertiary institu­ Monash's department of Slavic tions and to produce more locally­ Languages. trained teachers." The seminar was convened by Dr Boblta Vladiv, senior tutor. in response Teaching materials to the needs of students in the depart­ ment conducting research projects on or doing extra-curricular teaching in ethnic Another problem discussed at the languages, particularly Serbo-Croatian seminar was that of teaching materials and Macedonian. and textbooks. It was agreed that books from Yugoslavia were generally un­ Among the speakers were repre­ suitable for use here because of cultural sentatives of the Child Migrant Educa­ differences between Yugoslav and Aus­ tion Services of the Victorian Education tralian children - and that ethnic Department, including three exchangE language curricula should be designed teache"rs -~rom Yugoslavia. locally. Says Dr Vladiv: In this respect, Monash is leading the • The ethnic language seminar in progress. Photo: Tony Miller. "While the Education Department's field with two projects currently under exchange teachers program is of in­ way in Slavic Languages. Both represent calculable value, with the Yugoslav Monash with those of curriculum itiatives in this area. the first such systematic fieldwork in developmenl and teacher training at teachers bringing with them expertise Australia. One practical outcome of the seminar, and knowledge of up-to-the-minute Rusden would be "a good starting according to Dr Vladiv, "will be to try linguistic developments in the source The need to keep in touch with point" for the training of Australian to formulate a scheme whereby Monash Yugoslav research was also emphasised. ethnic teachers of Yugoslav languages. country, it was generally agreed by the students of Slavic languages will be able seminar that the need for teachers of Participants at the seminar agreed Mark Garner, lecturer in Language to obtain formal training and Qualifica­ ethnic languages in Victorian schools that the pooling of research resources at Studies at Rusden, has already taken in- tions as teachers of ethnic languages." Experts discuss laser technology About ISO laser scientists and engi­ Hospital on about 100 patients suffering Deers - Ineluding delegates from the from tumours of the brain, skin, vagina, US, UK, Israel, Japari and New Zealand breast, or bronchus. - attended the third International Laser Total or significant ablation of the Conference (Australia), which was held tumour occurred in more than 50 per at Monash from August 29 to cent of cases. September 2. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital team A highlight of the conference was a used a five-watt gold vapour laser and public lecture by Dr W. Krupke, Deputy multiple fibre optic beam delivery Director of the University of Cali­ system developed by Quenlron Optics in fornia's Lawrence Livermore National conjunction with MacQuarie University. Laboratory, who discussed latest Sydney ophthalmologist Dr C. J. developments and future strategies in Walter described the successful use of the use of lasers in thermonuclear energy lasers in the treatment of glaucoma and research. other eye diseases. Over the past five • Conference delegates. Mr. L.E.S. Mathias, Superintendent, Physics Divis;on, Materials More than 70 papers on a wide range years, he said, treatment of glaucoma Aesearch Laboratories. Maribyrnong (lett) and Mr. W. N. Garwoll (AMIT). of laser topics were presented at the con­ had been revolutionised in a large ference. Topics included the develop­ number of cases by the use of lasers 10 ment of new lasers, their use in optical control pressure within the eye. sions between laser scientists and Discussion covered research, develop­ communication, industry and com­ The five-day conference culminaled in engineers and the Australian business ment, manufacturing, funding, and the merce, fusion research, biology and a workshop designed to facilitate discus- and industrial community. use of laser technology in Australia. medicine. and various areas of science and engineering. Dr Scott Rashleigh, of the US Naval Research Laboratory. reported the latest Looking ahead to summer advances in fibre optic sensors - an emerging technology. These devices are Scientific interests and a sense of Matthew Flinders, the first European to College of Advanced Education has an sensitive and relatively inexpensive and adventure? explore this coast. It will set out to con­ interesting offer on accommodation in can be used to measure acoustic and The Australian and New Zealand duct a scientific survey of the ecology of Lismore which is within easy access of magnetic fields, electric currents, rota­ Scientific Exploration Society colild the area. beaches (Byron Bay is 40 minutes' tion rates, accelerations, position, have JUSt the summer activity for you. An information sheet on the expedi­ drive), mountains and rivers and located temperature, toxic gas concentrations ANZSES's Expedition Abel Tasman tions says their aim is "to enable par­ in a pleasant rural setting. etc. - in January-February 1984 - will be ticipants to gain satisfaction on several Accommodation is of two types ­ Dr J.C. Diels, of the University of to the Mt Alexandra area on the south levels, including knowledge and techni­ villas (or town houses) and cottages. Texas, reviewed recent developments in coast of Tasmania. que in scientific discipline, as well as a The villas, which vary in size and can the generation of light pulses having sense of se lf-esteem through physical sleep from three to six people, range in The five-week expedition is open to durations as short as tens of femto challenge, while living in taxing price from $15 to $23 a day (595 to S I 50 seconds (10-15 seconds). Such ultrashort males and females, 17 to 23. It will offer conditions. " opportunities for field work in geology, a week). The cottages, which are simi­ light pulses offer an unprecedented op­ For further information about both entomology, botany, limnology - and larly self-contained but do not offer portunity to investigate elusive transient expeditions contact The Executive Of­ ready access to a pool, have three bed­ archaeology. The headwaters of the Pic­ changes in matter which are of funda­ ficer, ANZSES, PO Box 174. Albert rooms. They rent from 517 aday (S1108 ton River, which will be explored. have mental importance in chemistry and Park 3206. week). been virtually undisturbed since the physics. The accommodation is available from Pleistocene glaciers of 14 ,000 years ago. In a joint paper on the use of lasers in December 17 through to February 20. the treatment of cancer, Mr John R. ANZSES's Expedition Inns1igator ­ Third term might* have jusl begun ­ For further information contact Mr Grace. of Quentron Optics Pl Y. Ltd. also in January 1984 - will be 10 the but (no harm in forward planning) are Pat Mills on (066) 21 2267 or write to and Dr I.J. Forbes, of Queen Elizabeth wild Coffin Ba y Peninsula on the we:-.I your thoughts turning north for the The Secretary. Northern Rivers College Hospital. Adelaide, outlined recent coast of South Australia. summer vacation? of Advanced Education, PO Box ]S7, clinical trials at the Queen Elizabeth The expedition will rollow the path of If they are, the Nonhern Rivers Lismore NSW 2480. MO:-lASH REPORHR 8 OCTOBf:R. 1983 Minister outlines university objectives The Federal Education Minister. responsive, universities will find it dif­ "If an institution is entirely absent Senator Susan Ryan, has urged univer­ ficult to regain the support and respect from the field of social action then the sities to be more socially responsive ­ of the community at large. If univer­ impartial observer can only conclude for a start, by ensuring social justice and sities lose community support, the that whatever their research and study equity within their own walls. Government loses impetus for expan­ may reveal about the world, the students ding its financial support." and academic staff who comprise that In a major speech to the Federation of Senator Ryan said that the Govern­ institution must have concluded that no Australian University Staff Associations social action is required. meeting in Brisbane, Senator Ryan set ment would be assisting universities in forth Government objectives on univer­ programs for internal change by both legislation and special funding. sities. High on the list was greater access Role of education by disadvantaged groups, including For example, it was making available women, people of lower socio-economic an extra $lOm in recurrent grants to "Some see education as being morally background and Aborigines. create an additionat 3000 student places neutral, concerned 10 leach what is, but in 1984. not what should be. Throughout, she emphasised an ex­ "We hope that this will make it possi­ HI do not see education as morally pectation that universities be willing ble for institutions to provide a wider neutral. partners with the Government in in­ range of opportunities for students and "In its relationship to society, it must itiatives to meet those objectives. to make special efforts to attract en­ take one of two approaches: either it can trants from social groups at present set aside what its own perceptions tell it Disadvantaged groups under-represented in the institutions," about prevailing social conditions and she said. • The Federal Education Minister, Senator accept the status quo, or it can act to Susan Ryan, Senator Ryan said: facilitate social change in the direction "Given the financial assistance the Affirmative action She said that the Government did not that its perceptions indicate might be Government will be providing, it would legislation accept an earlier decision of the Tertiary needed. be useful if universities and CAEs were Education Commission that it was not to put forward their own separate sug­ Senator Ryan outlined programs to the responsibility of tertiary institutions "If it accepts the status quo, it rein­ gestions for changes within existing secure greater participation by Abori­ to provide child care. This issue was now forces the status quo, because its accep­ allqcations to give further effect to the gines in higher education. under review, in association with the Of­ tance bears the imprint of intelligent in ­ fice of Child Care within the Depart­ policy of increasing participation by She said that the Government had sight, the authority of superior ment of Social Security. disadvantaged groups." proposed a Bill outlawing discrim­ knowledge. ination on the grounds of sex, marital On the same theme: Earlier in her address, Senator Ryan ..I f universities and colleges make no status or pregnancy - "the legislation "It is time for the universities to re­ summed up the role of universities as she judgments about social conditions in the will prevent discriminatory employment examine the roles they play in relation to saw it: world around them, the social standing and promotion practices (in universit ies) society as a whole. If they undertake this of those institutions is such that, by their and any discriminatory practices preven­ examination with the vigor and en­ "It is a great paradox that our univer­ omission, they invite the broad body of ting access by women to courses." thusiasm that the Government thinks is sit ies, which draw on the best knowledge opinion that holds them in respect to appropriate, they can count on the Senator Ryan also foreshadowed about the world we live in and give in­ emulate that lack of interest. Government's full support." affirmative action legislation which struction in the best means of increasing would require institutions to develop in­ [hat knowledge, are not moved to in­ "They provide a model, in short, that And again: ternal management plans to overcome itiate corporate social action of any kind encourages continued support for the "Without becoming more socially st ructural discrimination. whatever by this knowledge. status quo." LaWyer looks at technological change FAU~A u~ges aftlrmatlve If the law is to come to grips with the community to the nature and impor­ science it must do so now, says Pro­ tance of fundamental civil and political fessor Christie Weeramantry of the Law rights and provide a standard by which action faculty in a new book out last month. legislation and actions are judged. The Federation of Australian Uni­ It is The Slumbering Sentinels: Law "It may ultimately provide a basis for versity Staff Associations has called for and Human Rights in the Wake of more subject-specific formulations of universities to be included under Technology. published by Penguin. rights - such as the patients' bill of affirmative action provisions of pro­ The "sentinels" of (he (itle comes rights Professor Weeramantry proposes. from US Senator Daniel Webster'S posed sex discrimination legislation. "It should also add a new dimension In a submission to the Federal description of the people's represen­ to cOur( proceedings because - on the Government. FAUSA says that if the tatives as • 'sentinels on the watchtower model I presently have in mind - it will position of women in universities is to of liberty ..... be able to be called in aid by any person be improved, equal employment oppor­ In the book, Professor Weeramantry in the course of a civil or criminal (or tunity policies and initiatives must be suggests that lawyers. must take respon­ tribunal) proceeding in which the inter­ mandatory rather than voluntary. sibility for ensuring that human dignifY pretation of a statutory provision or of a FA USA argues that what it seeks does is preserved in the midst of technological common law rule was in issue." not cut across university autonomy - a revolution. Senator Evans said that there had concept which it says applies properly to • Professor Christie Weeramantry been action in Australia on other areas academic functions, not administrative Agenda for action monitoring, review, discussion and im­ raised in the book. Among them: and employment ones. plementation of procedures to protecl • The Commonwealth and State It says that systemic discrimination human rights." Attorneys-General had agreed to adopt against women is "deeply embedded in Launching (he book, the Federal university employment" at the point of Senator Evans said that there were a model bill dealing with the legal status Attorney-General, Senator Garelh or children born as a result of artificial selection, appointment and promotion doubts about the effectiveness of legis­ Evans, ~aid: "Professor Weeramanlry is insemination and certain in-vitro and in the working conditions of lation in regulating these areas. But it typically meticulous and unrelenting in fertilisation procedures. was indisputable that legislation could academic staff. Sex-segmentation of the describing and documenting the kind of academic labour force places women in playa major educative role. • The Attorneys-General had set in grim and forbidding environment and train a rev jew of legal problems relating the most vulnerable and lowest paid society we can expect to live in if we One way this happened was througl.l 10 transexualism and gender positions, "rendering their employment don't act soon." it s ex istence as a standard. reassignment . tenuous and temporary". There were, hov,'ever, rays of hope, "This is certainly the key role I en­ • The Federal Govcrnment intended The submission says the universities Senator Evans said. visage for the national Bill of Righl<; tp upgrade Ih e Hum an Right s should be in the forefront of positive "Nol the leasl of them is the agenda which I hope 10 introduce into Parlia­ Commiss ion. social change. for action provided in the final chapter. ment later Ihis year or early next to im­ • It was also exploring the possibili­ "Women will never achieve equality There is a wide range of possible plemen t Au s tralia' ~ international ty of signing the Optional Protocol on in society unless such equality exists in measures suggested. obligation!; under the International Civil and Political Rights. our educational institutions which are "Basic to all of them is awareness. Covenant on Civil and Political • It had implemented at national the source both of career opportunities Only through public consciousness of Rights." he said. lenI the Law Reform Commission and of important opportunities for the the risks and issues involved can there be "it is designed abo\'e all ci<;(' 10 alen Report on Human Ti<;~uc Tran~plants. self-development of individuals. ,. OCTOBER••983 • MONASH REPORTER Plain man's guide to stress asuccess THIS BOOK is a foHow-on from the authors' are being developed to neutralise its effects on previous monograph: Brain and Behaviour, 'which behaviour. Much of the research originates in animal introduced the Jay person to the field of brain­ In Review experiments and this part of the book may not behaviour relationships. enamour itself to animal liberationists. However one can read Stress, Drugs and HeaUh There is also an interesting chapter on ageing, and without the insights provided by it s predecessor as Stress, Drugs and Health, Frank Campbell it another on the therapeutic effects of copper on the starts wit~ an explanatory chapter on the anatomy and and George Singer, Pergamon Press, 1983. human body with some good news for arthritic functioning of the brain. Pp. 135. RRP $12.95. sufferers. The book is essentially about the effects on our Campbell and Singer write with commendable health and behaviour occasioned largely - though not exclusively - by man-made activities. clarity. Though there is no word or topic index, the book is helpfully divided into short chapters with One of the messages that comes through reads, in • Frank Campbell is editor of Monash Review; headings clearly indicating their contene There is also summary. like this: the human body is a delicate George Singer, professor of Psychology al La a glossary of terms used in the text, though this is mechanism reasonably well adjusted ov~r its Trooo University. incomplete. For instance, terms like 'acetycholine', evolutionary development to cope with its environ­ 'catecholamines'. 'glial cells' and 'tinnitus' are ment so long as that environment is not artificially warnings to those who indulge in excessive alcohol explained; others like 'Broca's area'. 'geotaxis'. changed. Start pouring chemical substances into it, consumption ... a chapter on the effects of alcohol 'nigrostratiatal region'. to name but three, are not. So which is what we have been doing at an increasing rate on the foetus is particularly salutory. in our industrial and now post-industrial phase and the lay person would still be advised to seek sOlne help you upset human functioning with resultant distress to The book has stress as a central focus. Suess is a from the psychological, biochemical, pharmacological people directly affected by that process and at socio­ subjectively perceived notion - a situation is deemed and other biological sciences' literature which provides economic cost to the wider society. When one stressful in terms of a person's ability to cope with the the source material for the book. considers that there are an estimated 500,000 to situation as perceived by him or her. It is very real to "Stress, Drugs and Health" is a thoroughly 600,000 substances in our atmosphere that given the sufferer of stress and it enters into the lives of worthwhile book that succeeds in its aims of placing certain conditions might have toxic effects, it behoves everyone of us at some point or other. It may not otherwise difficult-to-get-at information before a lay us to be careful, but how many of us do know or ­ attract much sympathy though because of the way we readership. knowing - care? are socially conditioned to avoid acknowledging stress It has some delightful illustrations by Phillip Other messages, however, point to the beneficial as a disease in others, if not in ourselves, reserving the Schofield, a fellow academic at the University of New effects both of research into brain-behaviour "pull yourself together" exhortation for them. South Wales . , . a book then to acquire and to relationships and it s application to relieve human recommend to others who want to be informed of su ffering. There are definite signs of hope for instance The authors range through a great deal of material, some of the important and fascinating developments from this work for people suffering from diseases like citing research findings to show how the body's in the area of the biological sciences. multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia, and there are dire chemistry is affected by st ress and what medications Peter Boss. Department of Social Work Monash and her sister 'farm'

SUSA N CUHR Y (or Sicily as she the" was) classes . There was strong camaraderie completed UII Arts honours degree and (f which grew out of the sense of adventure Dip.Ed. at MOllw;h ill the yeuni 1965-69. in being part of a new enterprise. She IUJ!i recently heell livillg ill Cali/orilla with her husballd, Dr Filt-roy Curry, also a The development of th e University of Monash gradllate and no w Il!Ctlirer in Physiology at UC at Davis_ He is currently a California at Davis (formerly Davisville) visitor in Monash's Biochemis try parallels that of Monash fairly closely. department. It is only since the late '50s and early Susan hilS been working purt-time u.\ a writer anti music rel·ieH'('r. /lere. she ,'om­ '60s that Davis has been extended 10 a pares two 'Farms' 'hal mean mllcll fO her: general campus. It opened its doors in the first decade of this century as the When I moved with my family to agricultural college for UC Berkeley, Davis in 1977, I found that this branch 100 km to the south -west. of the University of California was originally known as "The Farm". The big expansion came about the same time as Monash was growin g Twelve years earlier I had begun rapidly. By the early '70s, the UCD cam­ undergraduate st udies at another pus offered almost a full range of "Farm", the new university at Clayton. University studies. While Monash's nickname "the Farm" has become more A brief sabbat ical visit to Monash pro­ and more detached from reality, Davis vides the opportunity to compare and as "Aggie Farm" retained it s original contrast two campus cOlTIl!lunities of emphasis and weill on to become a similar size which mean a great deal to world leader in such areas as animal and me. • An entry in the UC Davis annual Picnic Day parade. Photo: Robert Bynum. plant science and ve terinary medicine. II must be difficult for present-day tative Council presided - as Mayor - which challenges the conventions of the Indeed, each year on "Picnic Day", Monash sl udenls 10 think of it as the over some of the most far-sighted city past and points to the future. "Farm", but to Ihe student of the 1960s the University's Open Day, when many planning policies in the early '70s, Monash has a different role to play. thousands of visitors pour into the little it was a fact of life. If Davis were to be swallowed up by As part of the Melbourne metro­ town from all over northern California, nearby Sacramento, an energy-wasteful politan area, it enriches greatly the iden­ Sir Robert Blackwood, in his book the majority of entries in the parade North America would lose a model cil y tity of a large city. "Monash: The First Ten Years", have an agricultural or veterinary describes the origin of the term in this theme. way: "The friendly atmosphere of a In contrast with Monash, which lacks closely-knit student family was ap­ a "local" community, the city of Davis British librarian to speak preciated by all attending the new (pop. 37,()(X}) has grown along with the University, which was immediately dub­ The Head of the English Branch of 'canonisation' , and the humanities: the campus. The city is well-known for its bed 'the Farm'." the British Library. Ian Willison. will compilation of the New Cambridge active promotion of energy conserva­ speak at Monash twice this month as Bibliography of English Literature The nickname was apt in anol her tion, including the some 50km of bicycle pari of his Melbourne visit. 1900-50" . sense as well: the landscaping we see paths throughout the town, its solar now was in its infancy in 1965, Caver­ village, and its city-wide recycling Mr Willison, apart from his senior ad­ Then on October 14, he will par­ nous trenches crossed the wastes bet­ policy. It is possibly the most energy­ ministrative functions in the British ticipate in a round-table discussion on ween the Union and the Menzies conscious city in the United States. Library especially in the area of rare "The history of the book in Australia" building, providing lunchtime shelter books, is well known for his contri­ in room 210 of the Menzies building. from the howling winds which funnelled Close city-university ties have rein­ butions to scholarship in the fields of forced the successes of each and He will also speak on "The history of through, even on a calm day. research librarianship ,:tnd bibliography. strengthened the community. Many the book as the key discipline in research One felt like an explorer, splashing. faculty members sit on standing com­ On October 10 at 2.15 pm in room librarianship" on October J I, at 5.30 from History in H3 to the never-never of mittees of the city council, and a former 5411 of the Menzies building, he will pm in the Queen's Hall seminar room of Engineering for Geography practkal chairman of the UCD Student Represen­ speak on .. Research librarianship, the State Library. MONASH REPORTER 10 OCTOBER, '983 Last issue 'Monash Reporter' carried a review by Peter Farago (Rusden) of an English department production of Peter Shaffer's play 'Equus'. The review itself is here the subject of criticism . .. Points raised were 'neither Who's been taken for accurate nor consistent' a ride? IN NORMAL circumstances we of an audience in an essentially artificial To return to the facts: after the play would not regard a critical review of a environment: the theatre itself. had run two nights, with a few seats Sir: The reviewer of so ephemeral a playas a matter for response. Convention accepts that, while certain empty on each occasion, there was a thing as a production of a play has a In the case of Peter Fara&o's review of props are useful in sketching out the massive reaction in the form of ticket responsibility to those who did not see it £quus (Monasb Reporter 7-83), the nature of the action, there cannot be any sales. Without further advertising, and and have therefore no way of assessing author has departed so far from the attempt to be totally naturalistic - the without review, news of the play had the justice of his remarks; this is par­ bounds of reasonable and accurate establishment of space and action spread to such effect - presumably by ticularly true of a review in Monash criticism that we feci it necessary to re­ demands the imaginative participation ·word of mouth - that the entire re­ Reporter, which becomes the Univer­ quest the right of reply. of the audience. maining run was booked out on the sity's permanent record of that produc­ It would seem to us quite unfair that That said, it is equally ludicrous to at­ third day. tion. Peter Farago's smug review of the the excellent work of so many people tempt the impossible - a play that relies Most of these bookings, incidentally, recent EquuI (Reporter, 7-83) represents should have no other epitaph than that on nothing but imagination. Within its were from private individuals, not from a complete dereliction of this review - which might also Quite necessary limits of language, the radio institutions which might have set the responsibility. unreasonably prejudice your readers play, with its disembodied voice, is the playas a text. So heavy was the demand Farago eschews any attempt to write against future drama productions at. nearest we can achieve to this. that queues formed up to an hour and a about the experience of the play, and in­ Monash. If a play is to be mounted in a theatre, half in advance of each performance, stead attempts to measure the direction The review in question was largely a with a live audience, then director, cast hoping for returned tickets. When even­ of it against some rather quaint a priori criticism of lack of consistency in the ap­ and audience alike must accept the con­ tually an extra performance was arrang­ theorising about the importance of ab­ plication of ·convention' . To make straints of their situation, and make the ed, it was sold our within two hours of solute consistency in convention, and of nse. such a criticism must itself be most of them. seats being offered - again, without creating a "sustained illusion": one wonders what Shakespeare (not to men­ Doth accurate and consistent, but Mr Lighting of course is a far more sub­ advertising. Even then, hundreds of Farago's review was neither. people were unable to obtain tickets. tion more recent writers) would have jective matter. In this production we made of these 'rules'. opted for subtlety, on the assumption But the really curious thing is that. Mime nudity that our audience could be trusted to ap­ Willing 'victims' having invented the rules, Farago goes preciate transitions in time from the on to invent infringements of them - or "The script calls for nudity at the cumulative clues offered by text , move­ climax of Act One," writes Farago, but If, as Mr Farago implies, these is it simply that he has as much trouble ment, tone of voice, positioning of ac­ people were in danger of "being taken reading a script (Shaffer'S text does .ot Shaffer'S stage directions are explicit on tors and lighting, all working together. the point: the boy should only mime un­ for a ride" , they seemed very willing vic­ "call for nudity at the climax of Act To demand that one of these elements tims - many of them having seen the One") as he does in observing what is dressing. Similarly, Mr Farago alone carry the weight of establishing criticises the act~r playing Nugget for play once already, they were returning going on in front of him (the actor play­ one of the most important themes of the for a second ride. ing Nugget did not "pluck from a cran­ failing to "weave a sustained illusion". play seems to us to display an extra­ Finally. in fairness to the unstinted ef­ ny . .. a hinged pole to lean on")1 The basis of this criticism is the assump­ ordinary failure of imagination. tion that the actor steps out of his forts of everyone involved, and to put He certainly has trouble in expressing Similarly, set design can vary enor­ character as a horse to raise a supporting the record straight for the actors who himself, and this does nothing for the mously according to personal inter­ pole from the stage. In fact, the pole was gave so much, to such good effect, we clarity of hi s argument: the first pretation. On this point Mr Farago is raised by the boy (as Shaffer'S script should mention that our leading players paragraph is pure Babu English, and in unspecific, merely suggesting that the set directs). were immediately snapped up to appear one particularly tortured paragraph he "only made full sense at the climax of Basing his argument initially on these in further productions. manages to ascribe an opinion on (he ac­ the play". He also criticises its "static two errors, Mr Farago proceeds to erect Colin Batrouney. whose remarkably ting to Plato. design, which did not alter its shape". a complete criticism of the play's direc­ moving performance Mr Farago refers But my concern is not with the gap tion, lighting, set and acting. The minimalism of our set was a to only as "raving and ranting" , has between Farago's ambitions as a stylist His criticism that there is no con­ deliberate choice. It was combined with been offered a leading part with one of and his revealed ability, but with the Istency in the use of props argues a the use of space on the formal apron Melbou rne's main professional even wider gap between the impression remarkable lack of understanding of the stage behind it (the set was built on the companies. created by his review and the experience nature of drama, which works within noor space of the theatre), the space The giving and the trust to which Mr of the play: perhaps the grossest the constraints imposed by the presence around the largely static central area, Farago refers at the end of hi s review testimony to his impercipience is his and the use of the aisles in the audience have obviously been accepted whole­ assertion that the actors failed in "the seating. heartedly by the majority of those who expression of emotion that could at the Movement --: as was intended ­ saw this play. We can only be sorry that same time touch and unite an au­ came from the actors, not from the set. the lack of these qualities in Mr Farago's dience"; but only those who were there Psychiatrist's To demand that the set change in nature response should shut him off from shar­ will appreciate the absurdity of that. is, once again, at variance with the spirit ing an experience enjoyed by so many If anyone has been "taken for a of the play and, in the light of Mr others. ride". I'm afraid it's the readers of this rooms or Farago's criticism of the use of props, a Andrew Enslice (Diredor) journal. curiously inconsistent statement. Val Kent (Producer) Peter Groves The final criticism. of the actors, was Department of English Department of English stable: a tip dismissive without substance. To say that "each actor appeared to bc working Sir: I was lucky enough to see the re­ from very different premises" requires cent production of Equus. Un like your some qualification if il is 10 make sense, reviewer (Reporter 7-83), I had no dif­ as does Ihe statement that "the leve ls of Award to Monash graduate ficulty in distinguishing the scenes set in performance were very uneven": but the psychiatrist's room from those set in there was no qualification. To say that A Monash graduate currently com­ could contribute to a new understanding the stable. In this matter I took the the cast did nOI "come to grips with the pleting Ph.D. studies at Cambridge Uni­ of galaxy formation and cosmology. presence or absence of horses as being a expression of emotion Ihal could at the versity has been awarded Zonta Inter­ • Zontalnternalional is a woridwide fairly reliable guide. same time touch and unite an audience national's Amelia Earhart Fellowship service organisation of eXKutive women I was therefore free to enjoy the ver­ in a common experience" is so at Award for 1983-84. in business and the professions_ Since satility of the set, which among its other variance with the actual response of our It is the second time that Rachel the establishment of its awards in 1938, virtues suggested the necessary fusion or audiences that , 10 mOSI of those who Webster has won the award which a lotal of 217 women from 32 countries past action with present anxiety. saw lhe pia)'. it must appear positively memorialises the air pioneer who dis­ have been named as Amelia Earhart Not hindered but assisted by the perverse. appeared over the Pacific in 1937. Fellows. design, I was also free to appreciate In the end, of course. words alone do The 55000 grant is offered annually to some of the finest student acting I have not win this kind of argument. The ",·omen conducting graduate stud)' in There is a Waverley branch of Zon.a seen at Monash. proof of our success in br·inging Shaf­ aerospace-related Kience or engin­ which meets on the first Thursday of Alan Dilnot fer's challenging play to life must rest eering. each month at the Monash University Dir«tor with the audiences who saw it, and their Rachel's thesis is on the theory of Club. For further Information contact Alexander Thutre responses. gravitational lensing eff«ts. Her studies Judith Lahey on 82 6521 (a.h.). OCTOBER. t9113 II MO~ASH Rt:PORTF.R Music giants Happy 21st birthday, at Monash Monash Choral Sn~II.~n Two giants of the Australian music scene - albeit in widely different fields - will perform at Monash this month. They are Jazz musician Graeme Bell and opera singer.musical comedy star­ comedienne, June Bronhill. Graeme Bell's All Stars will perform at a free lunchtime concert in Robert Blackwood Han TODAY (Oclober 5) al 1.15 p.m. June Bronhill. who recently returned from London where she played Mother Superior in a revival of "The Sound of Music". will appear in .he title role of

Represent.tives of voluntary groups a5SOCiated with Monash University are The Monash University Choral Socie­ Mannix Photographic Society) members r------.., to get together for an annual "co­ Iy last Friday night celebraled its 21st or the Choral Society enjoy ordination meeting" on Thursday, Oc­ birthday with a concert in Robert refreshments after it recent concert al Study tour tober 20. Blackwood Hall - along with the Mannix College. Monash University Orcheslra which Mannix College has several events lin­ It is the fifth year in which such a celebrated its firs. birthday. A study tour to Spain is oeing organis­ meeting has been convened by Mrs Rena ed up in its third term cultural program ed for January 1984 for students and The concert fealured works by Elgar. which is open to all. Martin, the Vice-Chancellor's wife. Its Haydn, Britten and Faure. And there others interested in the Spanish culture aim is to enable members of voluntary was a specially commissioned work by Next Monday (October 10) there will and language. groups to learn about each other's ac­ Jacqui Clark, who conducted par' or the be a recital by voice, viola and piano. A The all-inclusive price from tivities - and to provide the oppor­ concert. cello, flute and piano .rio will perrorm Melbourne is $2550. For further infor­ tunity for some socialising. The main part was conducted by late in the term on a date to be n"ed. mation contact Sally Harvey, tutor in The meeting will start at 10.30 am in MonUCS' resident conductor, Greg All perrormances will be held in the Spanish, on ext. 2262 OT 7074180 the Vice-Chancellor's house. Professor Hurworth and Itis MUO counterpart, College's senior common room at 8 (A.H.). Jean Whyte, of the Graduate School of Noel Ancell. p.m., with supper following. Admission Librarianship, wiJI be guest speaker. In the photo above (courtesy Daniel is free.

6: ABORIGINAL STUDIES 13-22: MUSICAL COMED\' - "The Merry conference on "Adoption and UClooer LECfURES - "Anthropology and Widow", pres. by Melbourne Music Access to Inrormation?" to be Anthropologists", by Dr G . Silber­ Theatre, with June Bronhill. Nightly on November 2. Pres. by Centre ror bauer. 13: "The Future or Aborigines at 8 p.m. Matinee at 2 p.m. on Human Bioethics and Centre ror in Victoria", by Mr Frank Black. Ms October IS , 16 & 22. Alex. Theatrt. Continuina Education. Ftt (incl. diary Eve Fesl. Ms Merle Jackomos, Mr Admission: adults 514.50; concession lunch); 530 (students. unemployed, Gary Murray. Both lectures at 1 p.m. S11.50 (matinees only); children pensioners 58). Funher information: events lisled below are open 10 the , , Lecture The.lre R6 . Admission free. $8.50. exts. 3717, 3718. "RBH" throughout stands for Inquiries: eXI. 3335. , Blackwood Hall. There is a BASS .. SPACE FIl,MS pres. by Space 14: ECkANkAR LECTURE - "The 28-Nov. S: MUSICAL COMEDY ­ 1~~~:::I:.~g oullet on campus al lhe Alexander Association. 7 p.m. Lecture Thealre Journey or Soul", public intro­ "Orpheus in the Underworld", pres. RJ. Admission rree. ductory lecture. 8 p.m. L«ture by Cheltenham Light Opera WORKSHOPS (one-day and 8: SATURDAY CLUB (Red Serles)­ Theatre R2 . Admission free. Company. Nightly at 8 p.m. Matinee weekend) available in papermaking. "Star Magic". 11.30 a .m. and 2.30 Inquiries: ext. 3013. at 2 p.m. on November 5. Alex_ composition in painting and p.m. Alex. Thulre. Admiss ion: Theatre. Admission: adults 58.50; sculpture. padded picture frames, 16: SUN DAY A.' T ERN 0 0 N pensioners and tertiary students aduhs $6, children 54.75. CONCERT - Organ Recital by applique and quilting. handmade 10: MIGRANT STUDIES SEMINAR ­ 56.50; children 54.50. Bookings: soaps/cosmetics. painted dolls and Douglas Lawrence. Works by Du "New Directions in Elhnic Broad­ 2888438, soft sculpture. decoupage. Raku. Mage, Buxtehude. J. S. Bach and casting". by Mr Richard Brown. 29: SATURDAY CLUB (Red Series)­ leadlight. patchwork and quilted Mendelssohn. 1.15 p.m. RBH. Ethnic Affairs Commission. 7.30 "Slar Magic". I 1.30 a.m. and 2.30 vests. dyeing neece and creating Admission rree. p.m. L«lure Theatre R3. Admission p.m. Aln. Tfiutre. Admission: designer ya rns. lillo cut Christ mas free. Inquiries: eX1S. 2925. 2825. 19: DEADLINE for registrations for adults S6. children S4.75. cards. decorative Christmas tree balls. reproduction porcelain dolls. Pres. by Monash Aus & Crafts Centre. Further inrormation: exts. 3096. MONASH REPORTER 3180. Important dates ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM ­ The IIftt .... - tile .... lor "Basic SICPS Towards Bio Dynamic 1983 - wID lie ...... tile Agricuhure". by Alex Podolinski. 12: Tht Rel(islrar advises the rullowinl( 22 : Third term ends. fInt week of N_ller. "The Philosophy Behind imporlanl dates ror sludenls in October: 28: Annual examinations begin . Copy deadll.. I, FrI4.,.. ReslruclUring the Planning. and 1: Third leaching round ends. Dip.Ed. Second half-year ends for B.Ed., Conservatior..Dcpanment··. by David Applications close for entry to Bachelor October 21. Earl)' copy I, B.Sp.Ed.• Dip.Ed.Psych. and M.Ed.St. Yencken . BOIh forums at 5 p.m. or Social Work course in 1984. appreciated. Graduatt> School or En\'ironmf'ntal Third term ends for Dip.Ed. 8: Third tcrm cnds for Medicine VI. eoatrl..._ (IeCttn. I • Srif'ncf' Seminar Room. Admission Ll.M. 29: Second half-year ends ror LL.M. by .1' 14: Applications close for 1984 by .....101) _ • ,d...... rrec. Inquiries: cx!. 3840. coursework and Diplomas in the Faculty coursework. LUNCHTIME CONCERT - of Law commencing in Summer term . 31: Closing date for applications for Monash ...... dIe ...... (ext. ZIII3) eI· Graeme Bell All Stars jaZl band. 1.15 20: Examinations commence for :"vlcdicine Graduate Scholarships and Common­ dIe laforlllOlloto om..• .,-o..d _. . RBH . Admission free. Vi. wealth Research Awards. UlIivenily OffIces•

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