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Gallery scores art scoop The department of visual arts has secured on",ofthe finest private col lections of modern Australian art for display in the exhibition gallery this month. Full story - page 2. Also in this issue: • Push-button voting 3 • Equality in the Third World? 4 • Graduate news 5 • Crabtree Oration 9 • Tennessee Williams at Monash 12 Monash historian will write ... The life story of John Monash Dr. Geoffrey Serle, reader in history, has embarked upon a mammoth task - writing the full biography of the man for whom this University was named: Sir John Monash. It will be the first time such a project has been possible. Hitherto, Sir John MO/1(lsh's collection of private papers has been inaccessible to historians.

Now, however, the family of the late ~ It-is?_.accordi~ to Serle, one of the scholar-engineer-soldier has given. Dr OR. SERa begins the long few great collectlons of- private papers through 140 boxes of "MOnish memorllbilill" Serle full use of the papers "without that have survived in Australia, rank -starting point of the first full biography of the any restriction whatever". ing in size and importance with the rate Sir John Monash. It's a iob thllt will occupy Deakin and Parkes papers. Dr. Serle for the next four Or fIVe yean. The collection, astonishing in its breadth and diversity, now occupies a room on the sixth floor of the Menzies For Orientation - everything from _.. Building. It's contained in 140 boxes, each measuring about 17in. x Hin. x 6in., with a total volume of more than 100 cu.ft. Though he never knew Monash (who died in 1931 when Serle was aged 9), Chllmpers to the slllrs Serle believes he will be able to write a highly personal and intimate account From a champagne breakfast to the future of the The drug forum, chaired by Profes of the' general's life. legal profession ... from a bus trip to the beach to the sor G. Bentley, associate professor of "Monash kept his papers in such a Pharmacology, will discuss the use of systematic and orderly fashion - and origins of the solar system ... illegal drugs and the abuse of legal the collection is so comprehenSIve - it drugs. will be possible to produce an intimate Tomorrow night the Motor Cycle biography centred on the development Orientation Week, begimiing today. Caroline said many students were Club will host a rock and roll dance to of character and personality of the sub is a blend of fun and the more serious interested in meeting staff and finding which guests are asked to wear fifties ject," he says. "In other posthumous side of becoming a university student. out about their courses in the first few dress and the Alexander Theatre Com works of this type, a biographer is It will introduce new students to all days - then it's on with the fun. pany will open its production of generally largely confmed to the purely the facilities available at Monash from Today that will include a lunchtime Waiting for Godot. 'public' aspects of a man's life." the libraries to the many social and concert by the grou p Ariel and palm The major part of the collection con sporting groups on campus. On Thursday afternoon the theatre sists of Sir John Monash's letters (writ reading session by the Psychology company will hold an At Home where Caroline Piesse, Assistant to the Society. ten and received). Union Warden, said there had been a students can meet the staff and actors "I haven't counted them yet, but I Other "events" planned for the week and inspect the theatre. growing emphasis on academic 'orien include a Sogpong "match of the day" estimate that there is something like tation. played by the Pooh Club and a "mini On Friday a bus trip to Shoreham 50,000 of them," Serle says. This year students will have several Olympics" featuring a hill climb of the Beach with a surprise entertainment Then there are the diaries. For a chances to chat to their lecturers and Union building. has been organised. Students can book period of about 10 years in Monash's tutors at coffee sessions organised by for this during the week. youth and young manhood, these are faculties and departments. very full. As he grew older and busier Fun with frankfurters Part-time students are welcome at The week will begin with a welcome they petered out into u a few lines of all the week's activities but Saturday from the Vice·Chancellor, Profeasor For the uninitiated a Sogpong match daily scrawl" and, h~ter in life, became W. A. G. Scott. has been specially set aside as their little more than engagement books. is played by two teams (any number) Orientation Day. Then in different theatres around who, while kneeling with one hand on There are, too, masses of They are invited to bring their the campus the Deans of Arts, their heads, attempt to hit a ping pong manuscripts, speeches, business and families for a guided tour of the univer Economics and Politics~ Engineering, ball through the opposing team's goal military documents, school and un sity, barbecue lunch and the chance to Science and Medicine will address stu posts with uncooked frankfurters. iversity notes, photographs (seven dents enrolled in their faculty. meet staff and other students from II boxes of them), souvenirs, visiting Everyone, including the referee, is ex a'.m. Faculty coffee sessions will follow. pected to cheat. cards, menus, theatre programs The Dean of Law's welcome will be Major forums planned for the week A Host Scheme with second and "thousands and thousands of items", third-year students looking after a held at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday). include Drug Use and Abuse and says Serle. All libraries - the main library, the Contraception. group of freshers has been organised by "Monash wrote a beautiful clear Ms Laurie Krauss. biomedical library and the Hargrave The contraception forum is held an hand - thank goodness - so there'll library - will be open each day and nually to give factual information. More than 1()(X) new students have he few problems of legibility." staff will answer any questions. Questions will be answered. joined this scheme. Con'Muted o.,...le.f Art treasures go on show One of the country's finest private .collections of modern Australian art will be exhibited at Monash this mouth.

The collection has been put together The exhibition will be held in the in the past 10 years by a Melbourne Exhibition Gallery on the seventh floor business couple, Eva and Marc of the Menzies Building from March 5 B!>sen, 26. The chairman of the Visual Arts It coincides with the introduction of Department, Prof...or Patrick Me· a new course dealing with Australian Caugbey, said 52 paintings from the art in the Visual Arts Department. collection of more than 200 had · been lent for exhibition. Six DoNII. This would be their first public showing. Outstanding paintings in tbe exhibi It would give people 8 chance to see, tion include Sir William Dobell's most for the fll8t time, BOrne of the most famous landscape, We.terly. famous Australian paintings. Two of the six Dobells on exhibition, Professor McCaughey said the col Two Women in the Jungle and The lection was one of the best private col· Thatcbe.... (Early Version) are among lections in Australia. the best of his New Guinea paintings of "It is an adventurous collection, 1949-53. starting with the 'Old masters' of Professor McCaughey said the group Australian modern painting. of Sidney Nolan paintings was one of "The collection spans four decades the mOst significant ensembles in the John Hopkin.' nucIe (untitled), 1972 - from 1936 to 1976. collection. "I don't know another collection in Three early paintings, St. K1lda Australia which does this. It's exc,ep Jetty (1945), E.cape from Glenrowan tional in this regard." . to Blacks Camp (1946) and Central Student intake slows Professor McCaughey said that not Australia (1950), showed Nolan's '---- only were the "best" artists earliest and lasting pre..occupations. Arter - 15 years of "leaps and Part-time student numbers will represented but each painting was a Leonard French is represented in Ihe bounds" prO"g-re88, growth at grow to about 3600 this year. major work of each particular artist. exhibition with two paintings, a 8a Monaah ia slowing down a8 the un· Mr Jim Leicester. Assistant "The Besens have put together a col mian miniature and Regeneration iversity reaches ita planned max Registrar, said one of the biggest lection of museum quality. Every pic from his sequence on the life and death imum size. developments at the university this ture there is one which the Canberra of Edmund Campion, the 16th century This should happen in 1980 when year had been the increase in the Gallery might want. English martyr. the undergraduate PGPulation reaches number o( post-graduate diplomas of ''Through these paintings the whole Professor McCaughey said Brett 12,000. fered. story of modern Australian art unfolds. Whiteley's Woman in the Balh was The annual increase in student There are 12 diploma courses offered "The collection covers that period from his best series and was the numbers is now falling Quickly - from this year and this will increase to at when modern art in Australian came of masterpiece of that group. 8 10 per cent increase in 1969 to 8 pl8n~ least 19 next year I age." The most eye-catching of the four ned rise of only one per cent in 1979. In 1975 there were two post-graduate Professor McCaughey said that Fred Williams' paintings in the exhibi This year there will be more than diploma courses available - Diploma within the collection was one of the tion is the large triptych, Ulydale 10,500 undergraduates. in Education and Diploma in largest collect'ions of modern Landscape. The total student population Will in Microbiology . Australian nudes. Professor McCaughey said the Besen crease by about 350 to 13,600. The new courses range from "They range from Ian Fairweather's collection demonstrated the unity of There will be about 3500 first-year language and migrant study diplomas Women with ~al (about 1937) to Australian art in the past 40 years. students, most of them coming from in the Faculty of Arts to diplomas in John Hopkins' 'elaborate New Realist "There has been a tendency to see high school. process and polymer engineering. version of the theme painted in 1972. the generations of .the 1940s and 1950s - roughly from Dobell to Whiteley as a distinct group quite different from the artist who emerged from the mid School. Dux in mat.hematics and modem dle 19605. MONASH: languages, 1881), Univenity of Melbourne "The work from this latter group in (where he . tudied IUccesaively - between period. of employment to earn his upkeep the Besen collection, notably Clement arts, engineering and law). His liat of degrees Meadmore and Ron Robertson-Swann THE MAN iIIustralei t.he breadth of hit tcholal"lhip: in sculpture and Michael Johnson, Bachelor of Arla (Melbourne), Doctor of David Aspden and Fred Cress in • Coolln_ from Pace 1 Laws (Melbourne), Doctor o( Ensineering (Melbourne), Doctor of Civil Law (Oxford), painting, does not suggest nearly as And what 80rl of piclure of Doctor of Laws (Cambridge). radical a break with the preceding Monash Ihe Man is beginning to Following a brilliant early career in generation as is commonly thought," engineering (his initial field or specialisation emerge from Serle's early foraging was reinforced concrete - he designed the he said. among the pape..?· Morell Bridge, better known IS the Andel'8Oll "Without doubt, I would say Slreet Bridge, over the River Yarra ), he Monash's outstanding qualities were lained fame aa commander of the Australian his articulateness, his powers of ex fon:es in World Wa.r I, despite an abhorrence of war. ORGAN APPEAL pression and his clarity of mind," Serle At war·, end he bec.me general manager, The Monash Univeroily Organ says. then chailman, of the infant State Electricity· Fund Appeal is to close on March 31 "Monash was 8S good an example as Commiaaion 0( Victoria - one 0( the out you 'd hope to get of the virtues of standing monumenta to hit life and work . The appeal, opened in September higher education. He was immersed in has so far raised $305,140. the field of education right throughout The Biographer The appeal committee has set a his life, having himself taken degrees target of $350,000 to pay for building in arts, law and engineering." Dr Geo/I'rey Setle, 53, reader In ble....,., the 6O-stop pipe organ, its shipping • J.ltn Mon..... 1912 Serle is reluctant to set a timetable MOIlUb UDivenity••IDee 1963. Prevlou.1y and installation in Robert Blackwood for his project, but imagines it will MItior leet~ in bl.tory, Univeraity of Melbounte (1".1961), · MIlior Ieo&unr. Hall. probably take him four to five years, Mon••b (1961.1963). working half-time (the other half will The organ will commemorate the Educated: Scotch CoIleae, University cL worIs. done for Monash by the former be taken up by his commitment as The Subject Melbourne, Univenity College, Oxford. Vic joint general editor of the Australian torian Rhodee Scholar, 1947. Vice-Chancellor, Dr J. A. L. Dictionary of Biography)_ GEI!IERAL SIR JOHN MONASH. Bom Presently joint gencral editor (with N.B. Matheson. (Dudley Sweet, Weat Melbourne. of im Nairn, ANU) of The Au,tralian Dictionary 0{ And - he thinks - the resultant miplliat ..neau) Juae 23, 1865. Died Biography. More than 300 donations have been biography will be confined to one large (Melbouno.) October s, 11131. Author 0( a number of hi.torical ,tudies, made to the appeal but the appeal volume. Which means refining more Ed.ucated: St St..phen'. School, Docker'a notably including The Golden Age, The Rush committee treasurer, Mr John than 100 cu.ft. of material into Hill, Richmond (Vic), Jerilderie (NSW). to be Rich, and From De.etta !.he Propbeta Browne, streased that donations from Scotch College, Melbourne (equal Dux of the Come. something considerably less than one the public, 88 well as university staff, cubic foot! were still welcome.

2 MONASH REPORTER PUSH-BUTTON VOTING COMES TO THE UNION

Push-button voting comes into operation in the Union this year to decide student opinion polls, referenda and elec-' tions. The system was designed and built programs, and the actual system to be by students in the department of com used has been constructed. puter science. To guard against multiple voting, It consists of a portable polling sta students will punch in their ID number lion that will be plugged in near the before recording a vote. The computer lInion inquiry desk, from where it will will . check that the number has not feed votes by landline to a University been used previously in that particular computer. poll. It will be programmed with all cur DEPUTY WARDEN of the Union, Doug Ellis Results will be known within. (centre), inspects the completed voting con minutes of the poll closing. rent ID numbers to prevent the use of sole. Showing him how il ... orks are The system ensures anonymity for phony ones. graduaTe sTudent John Ilosenberg (left) and Theology lectures voters and contains safeguards against And to stop people feeding in ID ruTor Peter Dewildl, who were two of those a person voting more than once in each numbers other than their own, voters involved in ils development. The University Chaplains have will also have to punch in the first ol'lani8ed. a course 01 lectures on poll. "New Testament Themes" for first It has been dubbed MASER (for three digits of their birthdays. number is marked off by the computer term. Monash Automated System for Elec Birthdays are not recorded on ill as having voted and the vote is These lectures will take theological tions and Referenda), cards but will be programmed into the transferred to a file of votes cast so far. themes of interest to Christiam and il Deputy warden of the Union, Mr computer to match ill numbers. No other information is recorded on lustrate how they arise out oC the New Doug Ellis, says it wiU handle its As each student records his the votes file and it is impoeaible to tell Testament. first poll during Orientation Week, preferences, the appropriate ID ho~ a person voted. The lectures will include a Catholic when student. will be invited to vote charismatic speaking about the Holy on having a licensed bar for student. Spirit and 8 Presbyterian womon in the Union. minister discussing Paul's oUitude to women. Besides producing snap results, it is The lectures will be held in R3 on hoped the push-button system's ASIAN SCHOLARS Wednesdays at 1.10 p."m. from March 24 novelty will encourage more participa when the Rev. Dr J. D. McCaughey, tion in student polls, he says. President-elect of the Uniting Church MASER can handle ~nything from a will speak on "'paul and Jesus". simple yes/no choice on 8 single ques GET TOGETHER Lecturers wil1 be from the teaching in tion to preferential voting in 15 elec stitutions associated with the Melbourne College of Divinity. tions at a time with up to 15 can A. .ingle A.u.tralian body lor all A..ian .cholara ia to be didates per election. The idea was first discussed in late e.tabliahed in Melbourne in May. 1972 after protests over a decision to seminars, 8S well as for co-ordination NEW HOME FOR leave the Union open on July 19-20 to The Asian Studies Association of prepare information on draft Australia will be formally constituted of contacts with government agencies, HEALTH SE:RVICE both in Asia and Australia, over mat resistance. at its first conference at Merhoume University from May 14-16. ters of research policies, access to The Unlveroity Health Servi.... The research director of Monash's materials, visas, educational and have moved rrom the Medical Mechonised straw vote Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Mr cultural exchanges and the like," Mr Building to the Union Building. Mackie said. "It was obviou8 we needed 8 means Jamie Mackie, is the Melbourne con~ This is one of tbe major changes of Quickly sampling opinion without ference committee chairman. Professor Legge in 1974 drew up a made following extensions and altera the expensive and time-consuming Associate Professor Harold Bolitho constitution for the new body to tions to the Union last year. routine of standard voting (department of Japanese) islreasurer; resolve the conflicting interests of The Warden of the Union, Graeme procedures,,. says Mr Ellis. Mr David Chandler (history) and Miss several smaller Asian groups already in Sweeney, said the changes were uA mechanised straw vote seemed ( Barbara Harvey (politics) are existence. • .needed I?ecause of a greater number of the logical answer." members. students and a bigger number of ser Mr Mackie said a number of More than 100 Asianists agreed to vices offered within the building. Chairman of computer science, the formal establishment of the as Proressor C. S. Wallace, confirmed Monash staff had helped in es The Health Services are on the tablishing the body, particularly sociation at an ANZAAS conference in that his department could provide the Canberra last year. ground floor off the MAS-Lot's Wife necessary computer facilities, 8S well ProfeSBor John Legge, of the history corridor. Mr Mackie said sessions of the as design, build and install the system. department, who was appointed to a Upstairs there is a new balcony area In 1973, students Peter Dewildt and small committee in 1971 to plan for a Melbourne conference would be at the front of the building. This in Peter McGuckin, in consultation with single permanent body. divided into regional and inter cludes a balcony meeting area which regional panels. Doug Ellis and Phil Herington, Mr Mackie said the need for one can be booked through the Union designed and started building the national body covering all Asian There would be a stocktaking of the reception desk and a coffee bar which hardware as a third year computer scholars had been increasing for a current state of Asian studies in is expected to be open in the second science project. number of years. Australia, he said. week of first term. John Rosenberg, nOW '8 post "There are now several hundred peo In all there will be about 20 different Later in first term the ladie8' graduate student, completed construc ple engaged in teaching or research on panel and. seminar topics and more hairdresser and the Australian Union tion and testing the following year, also Asian languages, history, politics, than 80 papers are upected. of Students' travel service will move to as a third year project. anthropology and other fields in The Vice-Chanceillor of the shops opening on to the Forum. The same year, a team of six fourth Australian universities and other ter~ Australian National University, For' most of first term two new eer year students each wrote a part of the tiary institutions, as well as many Professor A. M. Low, will give a public vices - A US Insurance and the Record real time software to drive the voting teachers in our secondary schools. lecture on May 14 on "The Asian and-Music shop will be in temporary system as part of a course in real time "Many of these people feel relatively Revolutiono of the mid-20th Century . premises. systems. isolated from their colleagues," Mr and their Relevance to Australia." The insurance service will be neIt to Early in 1975, Peter Dewildt, by Mackie said. A concert of Asian music is planned the Bookmarket and the record and then a full-time tutor in the depart At Monash there are about 25 staff for May 15 and this will probably music shop will be near the Cellar ment, put all the written software in the Centre of Southeast Asian feature the Monash University Room servery. together, debugged it, and tested it. A Studies and about 40 graduate stu Gamelan. N ear the end of first term the Post prototype was working by mid-year. dents. Inquiri.. should be made to th~ Office, Credit Union and the Record Since then, off-line software has "There is an increasing need for ex conference secretary at Monssh and Music Shop are el.pected to move been written, e.g. vote-counting change of ideas at conferences and University, 541 0811, ext. 2185 or 2197. into the east wing of the Cellar Room.

MONASH REPORTER 3 Meroh 1811 EQUALITY: An MED BUILDINGS GET GO -AHEAD Two new building. in the School of impossible b'urden Medicine will be a malor part of tbe Univeroity's building programme this year. The buildings, for the departments for Third World? of anatomy and physiology, are to be built in the western courtyard of the medical complex. University buildings officer, Mr Professor Christopher Weeramantry. of the Monash John Trembath, expects construction Faculty of Law. gave one of the principal papers at to begin in September. the recent Quadrennial sessions of the World Congress The extensions, costing about $5 million, are being paid for by a grant on the Philosophy of Law. held at St. Louis. Missouri. for 1976 from the Federal Government. With other extensions planned Cor the 1977-79 triennium, they will enable the medical school to increase its stu The Congress, attended by 400 The various groupings which had dent numbers from 160 to 200. jurists and philosophers from more held these societies together were being Two 25O-se8t lecture theatres for the than 40 countries, was held for the first torn apart and their individual medical school and a building for the time in the U.S. to mark the bicenten members discharged into the department oC microbiology, to be nial of that country's independence. maelstrom of an atomised society moved on to campus from the Alfred Its themeS, in keeping with the without the protections necessary to Hospital, are currently in the planning bicentennial, were equality and freedom. equip them for the struggle. for selection and rejection, among stage. Professor Weeramantry's paper, one The trouble had started with the freedom concepts before the most Grants for these are expected in of three delivered at the public sessions adoption of a Western-style constitu suitable is found and developed, has 1977-79. of the Congress, was on fundamental tion in an independent India. This had been denied the Third World through Building projects to be completed perspectives on equality and freedom become the forerunner of most other historical circumstances, he said. this year include the Krongold Child (rom a Third World viewpoint. new Third World constitutions. It must necessarily go through the Training Centre next to the education Professor Chaim Perelman, presi Gandhians and traditionalists in In process oC trial and error before faculty and the University Club dent of the Congress, gave the Western dia had proposed a system based On the selecting a stable answer. behind the Religious Centre. angle and Professor Szabo, director of concept of village autonomy but the Throughout the Third World, the Hungarian Law Research Institute, Western view of individualism resentment and resistance against Finished in April discussed the Communist point of prevailed. foreign concepts and procedures oC view. justice smouldered, though articulated Mr Trembath expects the Krongold "Third World institutions carry an Graded inequalitie. in varying degrees. Centre to be completed by April. impossible burden if called on to In societies where there were great Work on the club began last month administer distributive equality in the It had been strongly supported by a disparities in wealth, the introduction and the building should be ready by midst of abysmal want," Professor Western-oriented legal profession and of formalised justice often meant the October. Weeramantry told the Congress. the fear that any concept other than in introduction of inequality. The grounds staff will spend much of "They must seek a view of equality dividual freedom could perpetuate the The diversity of Third World the year "tidying up". which means more than the perpetua graded inequalities of Indian society. cultures, on the other hand, could give Eight buildings completed late last tion of inequality - a view of equality The classic defence of the pluralistic leadership to the world, on the princi year are now occupied and staff will be mote substantial than one which means society by Edmund Burke, in describ ple that any concept of justice for the busy landscaping these areas. the equal right to remain unequal. ing the zeal for freedom of French world order of the future must have the These are: Education Stage 2, The European emphasis on in revolutionaries, had much pertinence ability to accommodate within itself a Library Stage 3, Biology Stage 2, dividual freedom, imposed on the to this Third World situation, ssid multitude of cultural needs, social 1\1athematics Stage 2, Menzies Third World by colonialism and Professor Weeramantry. backgrounds, and justice values, Building Stage 3, Union Building adopted with some ' hesitation had The zeal for equality in the abstract, Professor Weeramantry said. Stage 3, non-collegiate housing for 118 created many problems, suggested ssid Burke, had the result of wiping "It cannot be subject to the students at the corner of Blackburn Professor Weeramantry. the slate clean of feudal, guild, church dominance of the one or two that may and Wellington Rds., and a second an The resort to pure egalitarianism, and other groupings, leaving the in at the time enjoy particular temporal nexe to the Administration Building. jettisoning the group concepts of dividual defenceless and alone when power. Landscaping of the I:orum, between traditional Third World societies, was confronted by the power of an all "The world is too rich Cor 8uch nar the Menzies building and the Union proving itself to be a strongly dis encompassing state. rowness, and equality and freedom do building, should be completed mid integrating force. The opportunity for trial and error. not run in such restricted channels." year.

activities planned for the year are new CCE's ROLE IS EXPANDING and untried. But. as in previous years CCE will act as agent for the Language Centre What better advertisement for a Centre for Continuing " How often does a 'conference' con and its language courses for adult Education thon thot its staff is still learning? sist simply of a succession of speakers beginners. addressing a passive audience? The Language Centre ran only one "If a panel of speakers is presenting course laat year but is now offering The Monash centre was established The seminar was held at the Univer opposing views, members of the courses in Italian, Modern Greek, three years ago and its director, Dr sity on February 27 and 28. audience tend simply to agree with Chinese, Russian, Dutch and In· Jack McDonell, says the staff is con "Most professional associations those which support their own pre donesian. tinually learning more about the orga nise some kind of continuing formed opinions. The courses will begin this month centre's role. educa t ion programmes for their "Little discussion or learning takes and run (or 34 night sessions durin. " We find ourselves moving into the members but by and large they don't place," Dr McDonell said. the year. field of being promoters and talk to one another about what they He also believes the centre could ul The CCE"\viII also play its part in entrepreneurs - seeking out ideas do, how they do it or why." timately take a monitoring role - col the American bi-centennial celebra from outside the university as to what Dr McDonell hopes the seminar will lecting and disseminating new ideas on tions by enrolling people for a 12 might be needed of the university." lead to an increased interest in and dis· the continuing education of profes lecture course on the American Dr McDonell says this is an expan cussion of the educational format of sionals and groups of adults with com Revolution. sion of the main role of the centre - 8n conferences, seminars and short mon interests. The lectures will be give"n by As administrative support service for courses and the realisation that profes sociate Professor Dan Potis of the departments wanting to start exten The centre is also planning a mid· history department and will beldn on sional organisations can turn to con year seminar for teachers involved sion and refresher courses for tinuing education centres at univer April 8. graSouth Australia, Sir Mark Oliphant, said recently. MOII8ab Gradualee A.oocIation. The scheme, called the Graduate Register Programme, is designed to He said education encouraged after another, often shamelessly used who appeared ... go ... university'" put graduates in touch with com "selfishness, greed, violence. in by ambitiQus academics to do the dull di.rupt,DOtencourage,ocbo~p. munity groups who can use their tolerance, and lack of self discipline or jobs for them. "Tbe proportion of students entering abilities in voluntary work. social discipline." "Such folk, usually women. can find courses and dropping out before com MGA president, Mo G1en1a Davey, pletion has increased greatly. Sir Mark wal lpeaking at tbe themselves stranded, without job or said 100 graduates hod joined the "A minority of students appears to tenth AUltralian University further prospects in the present programme. economic climate. enrol at a university I... to pursue The association has 383 memben. Graduate Conference held in serious studies than to engage in Adelaide in January. "There are in the academic world a A consultancy service to the Careers number of men who have climbed to strange kinds of anarchy designed to and Appointments Office here is "Yet how can we ever have peace on success, or even to Nobel Prizes, on the disrupt rather than encourage already underway. earth if it is not sought by the educa shoulders of such people, and wbo, scholarship. The association haa provided a list of ted - the graduates?" he asked_ when the going gets tough, discard "In this they are aided by a few members wbo are willing to discuss without hesitation those they hove en members of the academic staff. their jobs with new graduates or un "In the psst I have always believed "Students taking professional that the key to a world where hunger, couraged previously to be their slaves. dergraduates. " I myself have been guilty of taking courses, such 8S medicine. engineering Mr Lionel Parrott. who administers poverty. violence and Wal, no longer and law, and those doing the natural drove men and women to senseless in on research students without proper or . this service, said a number of people sciences, are seldom, if ever, to be humanity and intolerance, lay in more sufficient thought about their subse hod already taken advantage of this found in such activist groups. They are and better education. quent employment prospects." scheme - "mainly graduates who Sir Mark also criticised students too busy." wanted to get a realistic feel for what "When I see the greatest, most certain types of jobs involved." highly educated peoples in the world Ms Davey said other graduates in engaged in a continually escalating terested in giving legal a88iatance and and brutal ising arms race, enabling, helping institutionalised children through the international trade in Parents organise in Sale would be placed soon. arms, the emerging nations to engage Some graduates will work tutoring in terrible, death dealing strife, I have needy schoolchildren. serious doubts." Ms Davey stressed that each Sir Mark said there was a growing member of the prOjll'amme decided questioning of the value to society of how much time he or she wanted to compulsory education past 14. give to this voluntary work. "Many young . people cannot cope The scheme has been established with secondary education, and some after some members said tbey wanted who scrape through to matriculation to help undergraduates understand gain little as drop·outs from university career pr06pects and in community ac· courses. tivities, she said. "It is claimed sometimes, that by keeping the young at school, they do not enter an over·crowded labor market, or become out·of·work BIGGER ROLE drifters. Australian graduate organisa tions are to take a bigger part in Disillusioned, unemploYilble matte.. concerning univeralti.. and It'. not only neW students who can February, says that in the past 10 years graduates. "However they do leave the educa find university life strange and con the group has given more than $41,000. This was decided at the tenth an tion system even,tually, and if their fuoing. Gifto laot year included $2200 to nual meeting of the Australian Univer training has not fitted them for the The transition from HSC to univer· the library ror duplicate reference sity Graduate Conference held· in jobs which are available, they are apt sity routine can be equally unsettling booko, $1000 ... the Organ Appeal Adelaide in January. to end up as disillusioned and unem for students' parents. and more than $2000 ... the Union ... The conference executive has been ployable, trained for 8 career which no improve its facilities. given the _er to make statements of longer exists. As one mother wailed: "It's not like graduate opinion lind to take action on school, you can't go and see the prin. Their first job this year will be to as "Unemployment among university matters affecting graduates and un cipal with your problem." sist at the official university Parent graduates is increasing, even among Orientation Day on March 14. iversities between meetings of the con· those who were encouraged by the But parents may be consoled by the "New" paren ts will be taken on a ference. authorities to train 08 teachers of sub· thought that there is a group of people tour of the university. leaving Robert The conference endorsed the ex jects in which sufficient staff had been here who have been through it all Blackwood Hall at 11 a.m., hear an ad ecutive's action in expressing "deep difficult to obtain. themselves. dress from the .Vice·ChanceBor, concern" to the Federal Government "Because of shortage of funds it has Professor W.A.G. Scott, and then split at the proposed drastic cuts in univer· become necessary to curtail some The Monalh University Parents' Group was formed 11 years ago by a up for addresses from the dean of their sity research grants last year. research projects in universities, and Delegates at the conference said handful of parents. child's faculty. hence to reduce post·graduate training A barbecue lunch at $1.50 a head is graduate opinion should be expressed in some fields. held on this family day. More than in the main centres of political power. "This may not be altogether bad It Gippsland branch 1000 attended last year. They said universities faced increas· it results in more careful scrutiny or Bookings for the barbecue can be ing criticism because of the money research activities which, in some Last year the membership was 700 made with Mrs Maries (439 7391) or spent on them. cases, 6ft neither interesting Dor and in December a Gippsland branch the treasurer, Mr. Peg Travis "The 'screws' were on universities creative, but exercises designed to of the MUPG was formed in Sale by (97 3532). regardless of the political party in lead to a thesis or a higher degree," parents concerned about their On March 17 the group will hold the power," they said. Sir Mark Baid. children's housing and social problems first of its monthly morning coffee sea· Twelve graduate organiaationa, in· 'lIn all t&iversities with which I have in Melbourne. sions. cluding the Monash Graduates As been associated, there are to be found The group functions mainly 08 8 sociation, attended the conference. whot Sir Henry Tizard called 'perpetual fund·raising body to provide "extras" ABOVE: The P.rents' Group party were An offer from Macquarie University students and fenowship holders.' useful to as many students a8 possible. shown over ~In iron foundry on their visit to compile a report showing which I'They seek scholarships, fellOWShips In 1965 they gave about $500 to the to Sal. in NoYembe,. From I.ft. Mr Ric autbors were studied in Australian unive1'8ity, lal5t year more than $5000. a.,l,hew (then .dvi••, to . prospective stu or research assistantships, wherever dents), Or. Got-don Troup (Physiu). Mrs. literature courses in Australia and they are to be found, working earnestly The president, Mr. Joan Maries, Joan Marte, (MUPG president) .nd Mr. Ted overseas was accepted by the con· but without inspiration at one thing re·elected at 8n annual meeting in Peirce (Gippsl.nd br.nch praaident). ference.

MONASH REPORTER 5 New p-ost for Dean Teaching role for private hospitals

Twelve private hospitals in Victoria have agreed to allow Monash medical students to work with their patients.

The students, with 8 Monash is one of the m08t important things in clinical instructor who has patients in maintaining standards and keeping the. hospital, will visit in twoo and people up-to.date with advances. threes. "Total professional standards at The Dean of Medicine. Prof...... r teaching hospitsls may only be 10 per Rod AndrewI said private patients cent higher but that 10 per oent C8I) would have the ..me right to refuse to make the difference between life and A recent photograph of Prof...... r be examined 8S public hospital death, a correct diagnosis 0< a wrong Andrew with the former Vice patients now had. diagnosis. Chancellor, Dr Matheson. It was The Reporter Professor Andrew said the scheme "There is a sense of belonging, of taken during ODe of a aeries of shared experience and of a corporate· would help to overcome the present recorded discussions made by Dr "Monash Reporter" ia a problem of inadequate numbers of life in teaching hospitals which you Matheson for archival purposes. don't, at present, get in private hospitsls. publication of the Monash Infor patients for undergraduates to see and The discussions, taped over a period mation Office. It is published be taught on. '''The St Swithin's thing is not just a of about five hours, were the brainchild telly joke. It's a demonstration, in a monthly for distribution "This medical school has had the of Mr Stewart Broadhead, who has throughout the Univenlty. worst ratio of beds per clinical student bumbling way, of how a hospital gets spent the past 12 months investigating of any university in Australia," he its purpose, its corporate life," Profes the establishment of a University The editor is a new member of the said. sor Andrew said. Archives section, staff, Sue Boyce, who can be con The recent announcement of Profes 1n his new post at Cabrini Hospital, The tapes - tentatively dubbed tacted on extension 3087. sor Andrew's appointment 88 director Professor A ndrew will develop an "Conversations with (or confessions 00 Other Information Office of pootgraduate studies at St Frances educational programme for the train a Vice-Chancellor " - record for publications include "Monash Xavier Cabrini Hoapital from next ing of specialists. posterity Dr Matheson's reminiscences Review," a quarterly research bul year has highlighted the development This will initially involve es of events and developments during his letin edited by Martin of teaching in private hospitals in tablishing a rotating scheme with record l6 years' vice-chancellorship. Wameminde, "Sound,U a regular Australia. teaching hoapitsls for registrars train The tapes have now been placed in ing to be surgeons and later other news bulletin, a daily digest of preas The 310-bed Cabrini Hospital at safe-keeping, to be held for a number cuttings, and a series of "Facts" specialties. He will also set up a Board of Malvern is tbe largest private hoapital in of years - to protect the innocent! Leallets about the University. Victoria. Studies from among visiting doctors. Others taking part in the conversa In the past undergraduate and The success of the programme will tions included Professor Don Inquiries, suggestions and con postgraduate education has been con also rely on close liaison with other Cochrane, Professor W. A. G. Scott tributions may be directed to the fined to public hospitals. teaching hospitals,. the Australian (the new VC), Professor J. D. Legge, 'appropriate editors., or to the infor . Professor Andrew, who retires from Medical AssoJ;iation, the Royal Medical Mr J. D. Butchart, Mr Broadhead, and mation officer (Keith Bennetta, Monash at the end of the year, said Colleges, the Victorian Medical the information officer, Keith Ben ext. 2087), or the secretary (Mn that although teaching in private Postgraduate Foundation, government· netts. Louise Bolitho). (Picture; Rick Crompton) hospitals was 8 new development in health bodies and the universities. Australia it had been the standard pat tern in America for many years. It was even more necessary in Vic toria because the State had the highest ratio of private hospital beds to public $13~OOO RESEARCH GRANT FOR hospital beds in Australia, Professor Andrew said. Ninety people applied for the 25 He said that until now private places olTered this year. hospitals had been simply places for ENVIRONMENT GROUP Other research projects planned for pstients and their doctors to meet with 1976 include an _ment, with the little contsct with the general life of the The Environmentol Science "For example if the system had Forests Commission. of the problems hospital. mosten degree coune ot Mon ratings of nought to six, solid rock at caused by off-road vehicles such as Professor Andrew said it was osh hos received 0 gront of the top of M t Bogong would obviously trail bikes and four-wheel drives, and. generally acknowledged that teaching $13,000 from the Soil Conser score nought for use for cereal cropping an examination with the Pakenham hospitals had the highest professional votion Authority to reseorch but it might have a high score as a Shire of ways to solve the problem of stannards. lond use. wildlife area." old subdivisions 1.'lW too small for The students will undertake prac building. The grant is the first the course has tical tests, develop a formula from "The aim of the course is to do 'Godlike' doctor things of immediate social value," Dr received for research work from an out these and then test and revise this. "Posts in teaching hospitals are very side body. EaLey said. eagerly sought and the best people are The co-ordinator of the course, Dr The four have different areas of appointed; also teaching hospitals Tim Ealey. said four students would responsibility - J. Allinson, agriculture~ P. King, surface-water have a remarkable range of back-up do the work this year 8S part of their resources. minor theses. production; W. Carr, mineral produc Equality study "And having a resident staff con The students will be trying to tion; K . Boundy, wildlife conservation. stantly on the job ensures that the develop 8 formula for evaluating the Each will be supervised by a staff A Monash lecturer, M. Shirley' patient is protected in every phase of capability of land to be used in various member. Sampson, has been appointed his illness by doctors who are living ways. The stalT-student team will work in chairman or 8 committee Bet up by the their professional life in that hospital. They will look at cereal cropping, close liaison with two Soil Conserva State Govemment to examine equal "The patient is under the scrutiny of water production and mineral and tion Authority officers, including the opportunity ror boys and sirls in Vie·, a team. Nowadays it's generally wildlife capacity. principal research officer, Mr F. Gib torian schools. recognised that the most accurate Dr Ealey said research was being bons. Ms Sampson, 8 lecturer in education, diagnosis and effective management is done throughout the world to develop a Later this year the Authority will said the committee would call (or sub the result of teamwork. successful land capability system but, pay an overseas expert to assist the missions soon. "The days of the 'godlike' doctor to his knowledge, a perfect system had team in developing the system. The committee will examine cur who, alone, diagnosed, treated and not yet been developed. The Master of Environmental ricula, textbooks and practices.. managed a case are virtually over. "Hopefully the system can be com Science course has grown rapidly since Matters they will assess include "In teaching hospitals the ceaseless puterised. You then end up with a it was first offered in 1973. Languago and imagery in boOks CO'tveying dialogue . and professional shoptalk completely objective assessment of Eighteen students will graduate in arbitrary stereotypes of men ana women between visiting staff, academics, resi what any area of land would be best April and another 72 are now studying and differing sets of niles, rewards and dents, students and paramedical staff used for. for the degree. punishments applied to boys and girls.

M..... 1978 8 MONASH REPORTER High Hying Summer School

UNRAVEWNG the mysl.ries of lhe modern .motor car - tutor .... 1 Dihm (left) reptae,", II thermo slat, watched by Edgar Vuc..licn. &arMr. MIlloy .md Colleen McNemar•.

More than 3000 people - ho.....wives. students. cluldren and grand mothers - attended COUI'Ie8 at this year's Monash Summer School. They took courses ranging from motor car maintenance to RAmais lanee dancing. . The Summer School organiser, Mandy Smith. B8id the IIChool of. fered more than 100 courses thio year and 70 per cent of them were full. This was the first year the age restriction of 16 was lifted from most courses. Two courses which particularly attracted people from every age group were the kite· making and flying day and a pushbike workshop organised by the university Pushbike Club. "Children only" functions included bus trips in the Clubs and Societies bus and a New Games day organised by the Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation for children from the Clayton Youth Centre. The bus trips and the kite day were funded by the Oakleigh Council. Miss Smith said one of the most popular courses had been a three-day guitar camp at the Alpine Lodge. Mount Buller. Thirty advanced students and four tutors spent the time playing and talking about guitars. The students want to repeat the camp during the year.

Picture; Mandy Smlt....

up. UP AND AWAY - HappinelS is getfing y~ NEAT graduate joins v~ry own hand-made kite airborne. . Joanne Gabriel has been ap at the university last year, will study RecenUy she has worked for the pointed a. the club liaison omoor. part-time to complete a Science Department of Social Security in Miss Gabriel, 20, a Cull-time student degree. She replaces Mandy Smith. Union Melbourne in the Crisis Intervention Centre and the Darwin Disaster Relief New staff in Clubs and Centre. Societies and student welfare Ms Gray says abe will concentrate will replace some of the "old her work this year on first-year and familiar faces" this year.' mature·age students. She says these two groups are often experiencing the freedom of university life for the Iirst time. For older students this can lead to marriage as well as social problems. Ms Gray will still work from the Contact office on the ground floor of the Union building but she also has a private room for meeting students for discussion. Neil Wentworth. 24. has heeD ap Kal. 0,.., pointed student activities omcer of the Union. Kate Gray, 34, took over in Mr Wentworth, a fonner chairman February as the new student welfare of Monash Clubs and Societies, took officer. over the position in December. Ms Gray has seen welfare from both He completed a Bachelor of Science sides of the fence. jegree here in 1974 and taught at De la She trained as a welfare officer at Salle College. Malvern. last year. the Institute of Social Welfare partly Hi's main duties include organising under the NEAT scheme and Cor the the annual Summer School and the liaison officer, Joenne Gabriel, gets rest of the·time on a tertiary grant of tuition courses Cor students held each from student activities officer, Neil Wentworth. about $26 a week. term during the year. and societies at the university.

MONASH REPORTER 7 March 1978 Parlourpolitics, cryptic queries for academics

November Reporter reported a suggestion from Professor rhe Editor ...,.."".I.".,. on lOpid Swan that a "Dial-on-academic" or telephone service be of In,.,... ID the V_t)'o rhe..".. end f.wlty or _."fluent of the wrltIM established to assist the community and small businessmen. IhouId be .,,,,,,1«1. The Ie".,. Ihould be _teil> InfonrwtIon OffIce. Initial response has been somewhat less than enthusiastic.

Professor Swan's "Dial-an issue No. 45 (Novembet 3, 1975), may ask the caDer's reason for wanting the in Academic" indeed! not be without its frustrations. fonnation. EVERYONE I h.ve .lre.dy been .pproached by The nonchalant reply W88: "Oil, rm the Perfumed Garden Massage P.rlour Some time ago someone dialled this doing a cl'088word puzzle, and this was who requested anthropologic.1 exper academic with a most recondite the only clue [ couldn't solve." Ancora NEEDS A tise in the matter of novel techniques musical question. After several hours imparol to be used by wh.t they term their of intensive tesearch I telephoned back Trevor A. JOBes, relief worken. the answer, but my curiosity led me to Protessor ot Mule. Not long .rter I w•• telephoned by SECRETARY the office of the Queensland Premier At a _ent ",eetlng who 8sked for assistance in casting a the ..bo...... posed the counter-spell to ward off possible conse que.tion "What is a Sec Quences of Mr Perkins' sorcery. OR MORflsll retory?" One of the lodie. While I believe that such useful P.s. Bloody concerned, who wonts to knowledge as I may possess sbould be remoin anonymous, Ii... put to good use, I am somewhat un I note th.t you h.ve c.lled an end to tion on the origins of the poem and the lOme onlwert. comfortable at being put in the poei the correspondence on the above item. word "bloody." (To be declaimed against a background tioD of accessory to a mischief it not a As the person who origin.lly wrote Though my learned friends .ppear of massed violins.) felony, and secondly involunt.rily pointing out the suspect sign.tory to to have got to know each other better Between the naivety of the teenage becoming embroiled in p.rty politics. the poem, m.y I be permitted to con in the process, it is sad that they .n miss the simple point th.t I m.de. typist and the sophistication of the - G. B. Silberbauet', clude it. Admin. Assistant, Itand, tbat One c.nnot help but be impressed .t Their research merely reinforces the Department of Anthropology and fact th.t the poem could h.ve been mysterious amalgam called YOUR Sociology. the level of schol.rship that our profes SECRETARY. sorial colleagues demonstrate and the written by .ny one of. million people Your secretary can be all things to all cI.rity with which they express their .nd th.t this could go b.ck to the time men, or nothing much to anyone, opinions. Intensive research across lin~ when Ad.m w.s • I.d. Even more important then, th.t this depending on yOUT mood. She is a Professor Swan's "Dial-an guistic and cultural boundaries has paragon, she is a penance. She can be Academic" scheme, reported in your uncovered some fascinating informs should h.ve been .cknowledged by the your servant, your soother, your con· named .uthor or better still h.d just fidante or your chief irritant. She can be been left unsigned. your memory bank and your clair Yours bloody sincerely (with voyant. She will enjoy your jokes and acknowledgementS to everyone). stand firm and rocklike beneath the tor· - RoD Baker, rents of your wrath. She believes she can Senior Lecturer, Sodal Work. read you like a book, and always knows where you have. left your car keys. She doesn't mind lending you her spectacles, and when'she asks after your lumbago' you know she really means it. She cares. CAMPUS FENCE I But when did you last ask after hers?) ::ihe can be a seductive witch at 10 a.m., WORK TO START and show you photographs of her grandchildren at 10 past. Plans to tellce the campus in an at Today your secretary can offend your tempt to prevenl valldalism are to go best friend by thinking he's someone ahead. else. and tomorrow she can be your The Buildings Officer, Mr Johll public relations ally, on telephone· Trembath, s.id work on the 6 ft. ch.in buddy terms with all your contacts from wire fence would begiit soon. your tailor to your tax consultant. She It will be coated with· bl.ck PVC so will protect you from nuisances and th.t from • distance the fence will hores, lie for you, commit perjury for you merge with the I.ndsc.pe. - and disappear on a month's vacation It is expected to cost $13,000. to Pitcairn Island with the keys of the It will run from the Jock Marsh.1l confidential safe in her handbag. Reserve down BI.ckburn Rd., along ::ihe is High Priestess of the Form in Wellington Rd. to the m.in gate. It will Triplicate. and an initiate of the begin .gain .t the bus termin.1 and MysterieJ; of tbe Red Book, Green Book, link up with fencing .round the Brown Book and othen you've never University'. hou... in Beddoe Ave. heard uf. She can organise a fool-proof The university curator, Mr John filinS( sYRtem, and still take an hour to find a letter. CrallwelI, s.id vand.lism had in Perhaps you feel you could well do creased in the past nine months. without her on a day when she has There h.d been five c.... of serious forgotten to pass on a message from the v.nd.lism, most of them .Iong the Dean, fouled up the Department's Wellington Rd. boundary. Budget, and made two unbreakable ap In .11 .bout 800 pl.nts, r.nging from pointments for you on your hoped-for new pl.nts to five-ye.r·old trees, had golf afternoon. Then, while you rehearse been destroyed on the Wellington Rd. the tirade that should reduce the and BI.ckburn Rd. boundaries, Mr wretched woman to a state of grovelling Cranwell said. He s.id plans for • n.ture trail penitence, she'll come smiling to your 1'HI INGlISH Oepe,tment lib,ery retenlly gained SOO volumes of English IItenture. door, with the absolving words - "How They were pteMnted 10 ,h. depertmental libra,ien, Dr Alan Dilnot (..It) by 'he director parallel to BI.ckburn Rd. had .180 about a cup of tea?" of the e'itish Couneil in SydMY, Mr McKenzie Smith. The council il lUling down its been abandoned 12 months ago library in Au,tr.li•. because of vand.lism.

,.rch 1811 8 MONASH REPORTER Melbourne author's theorY: Chaplain funds WORK WITH POET HAD EARLY STUDENTS LINKS WITH IS HARDER

Chaplains at Monash and other Melbourne universities are finding AUSTRALIA their work becoming more and more difficult, says recently retired ad viser to Jewish students, Mr Henry A Melboume author claims to have discover Shaw. ed evidence linking the English poet Joseph "We are swimming against the tide (1754-1854) because we are not expressing Crabtree with Captain Cook's fashionable views," he says. voyages of discovery. "But I think there will be a swing back to more traditional beliefs in the next student generation." The evidence, he says, indicates that Past experience had shown regular Crabtree (under an assumed name) THE ONLY known portrait (by changes in polarisation between the probably accompanied Cook on at an anonymous artist) of Joseph two extremes, says Mr Shaw. least one of his voyages, though he may Crabtree. It WII' foul'lD Jewish students at present showed not necessarily have visited Australia. marked .t 10 shillings - in greater interest in politics than-, Mr Cbarlwood. Victorian an obscure london antique Don religion, he added. This. did not in Vice-President of the AustraJian .hop. Society of Authors and of the Fel dicate a 1088 of faith but rather a change in emphasis. lowship of Australian Writers, made sorius, pretentious, contentious, Demonstrations, lobbying and the claim during an addre.. to the demanding" scientist, John Rienhold Australian Chapter of the Crabtree Forster, who sailed with Cook on that fighting the AUS Middle East policy HOSTS WANTED had captured Jewish students' atten Foundation at Monash on February 11. voyage. The Crabtree Foundation was es One of Perry's poems now rests in tion. "It is much more interesting for Btu tablished at University College, the Forster papers at Greenwich Leaving home - whether it's dents to organise a demonstration than London, in 1954, to foster research into Maritime Museum. It reads: Singapore or Oodnadatta - to attend a Bible study class," says Mr the life and work of the hitherto little The ship rides shuddering study in Melbourne is 8 big step, Show with a wry, understanding smile. known poet. Crabtree waJ born on 8t down the moon, and often a lonely one. Valentine's Day - February 14 - The night wind cries, How But the Monash University He described his nearly six years as 1754, and died on 8t Valentine's Day, soon? How soon? Parents' Group has set up a Host part of the chaplain counselling team 1854. The fIrSt London meeting of the And .1 below to my ham Family Scheme to help overcome as "0 unique experience". Foundation commemorated the mock creep this problem. "This kind of atmosphere, the centenary of his death. To dream of thee as I drift The scheme is open to any friendship and understanding shown Each year since, on the Wednesday to sleep, overseas, interstate or country stu· by Dr Matheson, and getting to know closest to St Valentine's Day, a dis And Oh, 'tis far and away dents at Monash. so many academics has helped make tinguished scholar is invited to deliver thou art, Seventy-seven students and 54 the work with students extremely a Crabtree Oration. Far from my arms, tho' families took part in the scheme last rewarding," he says. close to my heart. year and some will continue again It was far from being Mr Shaw's first But close to my heart is this year. involvement with students. Before tak Australian chapter scarce suffice The convener, Mrs Meredith Mc ing up his chaplaincy post here he When my all with thee I Comas, said the group was now spent 24 years working among Jewish fain would splice. tuoking for new students and youth in Europe, the last 16 as director Professor Arthur Brown, now Ah, what is man without families interested in the scheme. of Jewish chaplain services at London professor of English at Monash, was that boon? Most of the families who took universities. the second Crabtree Orator in the The ship rides shuddering part had sons and daughters of their London series and he has been in down the moon. own studying at Monash, she said. strumental in forming the Australian This poem, Charlwood says, is en Last year there were not enough Founding director tt Chapter of the foundation. Mr titled "Malus Sylvestris - the host families to satisfy student ap Charlwood was invited to deliver the botanical name for the crabtree, the plications so the scheme is hoping He started the Hillel Foundation in first in the Australian series of Ora wild apple: "s clue thrown out for for a big response this year. England in 1954, founding a direc tions. those with eyes to see!" Students and families are asked torate in London and also opened a Mr Charlwood said that he was first Mr Charlwood concedes that he has to fill in application forms for the Hillel office in Holland. This year will alerted to Crabtree's interest, and pos· no direct evidence that Crabtree came scheme and these are matched ac be his last as the director of Hillel here. sible involvement, in Cook's voyages to Australia later in life; but he recal cording to interests. But this year also sees the start of a by the otherwise enigmatic lines: led that Crabtree's supposed epitaph Mrs McComas said host family new "career". He has been appointed o Venus, star of ev'ry pan· was known to have been sung around activities could vary from inviting to direct Australia's first degree course ting Lover Sydney by 8 "dubious minstrel" students home for a meal to in in Jewish studies, at Prehran CAE. In this our chilly northern named Roger (The Rhymer) cluding them in the family holiday. clime, Welkhorn. Application forms can be ob "I feel too actlYe to sit around twid Let no cloud thy sweet face The epitaph (written either on the tained from the Union Desk or from dling my thumbs," he' explains. cover, death of a friend, Of in anticipation of Mrs McComas, 82 4884, after 4.30 Five major ~ubjects will be taught 8S Turn to Green that face Crabtree's own death) read: p.m., or Mrs Joan Nankivell part of a diploma of arts course. They divine. Lo! my mortal race is run, 56 4232. comprise Yiddish. Hebrew, and Jewish Says Charlwood: "Green, after all, Higher laurels I have won, Representatives oT the scheme history, philosphy and literature. was the astronomer who sailed on that Rest my clay beneath this will be in the Union building during "It will be almost possible to take a first voyage of Cook's. sod Orientation Week to answer any complete diploma in arts in Je.wish "Crabtree is beseeching Venus to aid While r wing up to meet questions. subjects - perhaps with one ad Green in his efforts to unlock the my God. mysteries of time. So here, I suggest, ditional subject," says Mr Shaw. we have a young man deeply immersed Most interest seemed to be in study in the purpose of this great voyage to of Yiddish, he adds. This was a the Pacific." W.A. CHAIR FOR MATHEMATICIAN peculiarly Melbourne phenomenon ex Mr Charlwood suggests there is plained by the fact that a large propor stronger evidence of Crabtree's having A former Monash mathematics He had worked here as a tutor, tion of the city's 35,000 Jewish com sailed with Cook in his 1772 voyage on lecturer, Dr Terry Speed, has been senior tutor and lecturer in munity were war refugees and their the Resolution in a number of verses appointed to the fourth Chair in mathematical statistics before taking Australian-born families. written by a "mysterious young able Mathematics at the University of up a lecturing post at the University of While most of the refugees spoke seaman" named Thomas Perry. Western Australia. Sheffield. Yiddish, their childeren were more PerlY, he says, is probably the He returned to Australia in 1974 to familiar with Hebrew. But students pseudonym adopted by Crabtree to Professor Speed gained a doctorate become associate professor in the now wanted to learn more about the conceal his identity from the of philosophy and a Diploma in Educa department of mathematics at the traditional language used by their "dogmatic, humorless, suspicious, cen- tion from Monash University in 1969. 'Jniversity of Western Australia. parents.

MONASH REPORTER 9 March 1978 r "125 -year history ALEX PLAY • CONTEST pictures CLOSES The UnlvenUy of Sydney 1~1975: Some history inpictUfH to mark the 125th rear llf its inC'orporation. Chosen and annotated by G. L. Pitcher. Univenity Archivist. The University of Sydney, 1975. 14.90. More than 160 plays have been entered in the SI000 Alexander In his foreword to this yolume the Chancellor of the Univenity of Sydney, Sir Her Theatre play competition. mann Block, remarks that "a history of the matter is never finally written, but it is Entries closed on February 16 and alway. to be written; ond it i. so since new and differerrt questions may come to be the winner will be announced on April 17. osked eYen of fields yery much ploughed by reseorcll The winning entry will be staged in the Alexander Theatre for at least one "Hence it is," he continues, "that This is essentially a parsonal collec of people, places, and activities. Each week probably during June. this collection of pictures of the tion, and I understand that Mr Fischer picture has its caption written, as Sir Convener of the competition, Mrs University of Sydney is not to be was given considerable liberty of Hermann remarks, with "the qualities Mary Lord, said the response had taken as 'definitive' or 'final' in any choice in the selection of material from of knowledge and affection, wit and a been better than she expected. sense; nor do these pictures foreclose the great body of archives under his trace of irony," all admirable equip She said the opportunity to have the need to produce further collections, control. It is inevitable - and he ment for the archivist's role. their plays shown before an audience to meet different Queries about the would b~ the first to admit it, if rather had obviously encouraged many past of the University of Sydney, now wryly - that he will suffer the fate of The quality of reproduction, es pecially of some of the older pictures, is playwrights, both amateur and profes in its 125th year." all anthologists in any medium: he will sional, to enter the competition. be attacked by all sorts and conditions at times disappointing - no doubt the of men, firmly convinced that they question of expense was involved. But could have done the job better, and he in general this is an excellent pioneer Medical themes Understanding of will be forced in the last resort to take work, the precursor, one hopes, of limitations refuge in the phrase "this is how I saw many companion volumes which will "I am looking for a very good original it!" deal with more specialised aspects of play." the University's history. Although Mrs Lord has not yH read It is important, I think, for a proper all the entries she said a number of It should also encourage other themes were already apparent. appreciation of the book that the Entertaining Universities to consider carefully the reader should understand these limita preservation and, where appropriate, "There appaar to be 8 number of tions, and should be prepared to ac the publication of their own archives plays by new Australians about their cept the confines within which Mr And how Fischer "saw it" is, to this before damage and loss create ir experience as new Australians, a Fischer has had to work. Otherwise he reader at' least, both interesting and reparable gaps, and before distortion number on traditional Aboriginal Life will be tempted to complain about in entertaining. and dullness of memories introduce and quite a few by doctors about clusions or exclusions which are irrele The contents are divided into four falsities into the record. hospitals and private medical practice, vant to the nature' of the work. The sections: Beginning 1849-1852, Surviv obviously based on their actual ex word "some" in the title is significant, ing 1853-1881, Growing 1882-1945, Ex perience. " and, as Sir Hermann says, has "much ploding 1946-1975, and within each Arthur Brown U nfortuna tely anumber of plays will virtue!" section the pictures cover a wide range Professor of English. be immediately disqualified because they do not meet the restrictions on cast and set - no more than seven ac tors and one basic set. "I'm sure that some entrants di~ not realise that the restriction on cast size and set is purely economic. I don't Will'. Dream, Paperback Poeta Second Series CARS, FALLS CAUSE 10, by Philip Robert, Univel'tit.y of QuMnliland know of any company which can afford Prese. 13.50 cloth, $1.50 paper. to produce a play today with a cast of Terrazzo has now l06t its popularity Imm.....nl Cbronicle Paperb~k ~ Se hundreds." because of its slippery surface, es cond Series 8, by Peter Sknynecu, Unl~"lty of Others have been disqualified Queensland Press. $3.50 cloth, 11.50 paper. INJURIES pecially when wet, and because of the because they were not "full length". injuries caused. Domee\ie Hard Core. Paperback Poeta Second One would have taken only 10 Series 9, b~ Richard Tippill8, Univeraity of Car travel to and from university Monash has terrazzo surrounding Queensland Prese. $3.50 cloth. 11.50 paper. minutes to perform. and sUps and CaU. led to almost half the Menzies building, a high risk area 'Ibe Other Side or lbe Peace, Paperback Poets Mrs Lord, Dr John Rickard, Dr the serious Injuries at Monash last espacially when wet and windy. Second Series 11, by Peter Kogan, Univenity of Queensland Press. $3.50 cloth. '1.S{) paper. Geoffrey Serle and Mr Geoffrey Hut year. The Safety Committee, as a trial, at ton will judge the competition. Of the 158 accidents on which Selected Poem., by Rodney Hall, University of tempted to reduce the slip risk by acid Mrs Lord, a former producer, actress workers' compensation was claimed or etching the eastern apron, but the im Queensland Press. $7.95 cloth, 13.95 paper. paid, 25 occurred during private car and play critic, stage managed the first provement was marginal. The Barbaroua Sidelhow, by John A. Scott, play performed in the Alexander travel to and from the university and So take care in this area, shorten Makar Press. No reoommended price but usually 45 resulted from slips and falls. retails at about $1.20. Theatre and is a member of the theatre your step and prevent slipping_ , committee. More than 2500 working hours were Contemporary Portr.iu aDd Otker Storlelt. lost because of these accidents. Plastic floor tiling is used by Mwray Bail, Univel'tity of Queeruliand Prese. Dr Rickard, of the History Depart These figures, from September 1974 throughout the university for internal $5.50 cloth, $2.50 paper. ment, is a former actor and now direc to August 1975, record only staff acci floor surfaces and in homes. tor of the Alexander Theatre. Dr. dents and not the many similar acci You cannot produce the often ad Serle, also of the History Department, dents which students have. mired mirror-like hard fmish without is an author and historian. Will Barker, the University Safety slipperiness, and again more 80 when The university has a higb parson to Mr Hutton, a theatre critic, has Ofticer, sets out some simple precau wet. vehicle ratio. About 6000 vehicles try written a number of books on Australian tbeatre and bas a subatan tions which staff and students can Our cleaners take pride in their work to get into and out or tbe campus at. tial reputation as a play judge. take_ but we have reduced the polish content peak periods of about 3/4 of an hour, SUps and taUs often lead to severe in to a minimum to compromise between aggravating the overall situation. jury to all parts of the body, injuries non-slip and looking clean. Plea... be considerate and take that often take a long time to heal and The firth International Sym The problem is often aggravated by e&re_ .....Ium en Equatorial Aeronomy I. may even leave a permanent injury or the wearing of unusual, but"regrettably weakness in some areas of the body. You are now aware of two of the ma to he held at James Cook Unlverolty, fashionable, footwear. Townsville, from August 23-31 Modern walkways are products jor risk areas being experienced at manufactured to produce a clean Non-slip strips, nOD-slip 8urfaces Monash. May I aak that now being and new stairtreads are gradually be aware, each of you take peraoDal care Inquiri.. should be directed to B. looking surface, easily cleaned and Gibson-Wilde, Local Organising hard wearing. ing installed and risks eliminated. and reduce the incidence of accident and consequent injury. Secretary, 5th ISEA, Physica Depart Two products come to mind TraveUln, to and from home 10 the ment, James Cook University, Qld, plastic floor tiles and tenazzo paving. university by private vehicle. You are your own safety omcer_ 4811. M.rch "7' '0 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TO HEAD HALL 'FESTIVAL' Alexander Theatre and Robert Blackwood Hall man a"ment. have succ..ded in negotiating to bring Ameri can playwright, Tenness.. Williams, to Melbourne. Mr Williams will appear at Robe~t On March 15 and 16 the Victorian Blackwood Hall on March 18. Arts Centre and Robert Blackwood It is expected to be Mr Williams' Hall will present the West German only public appearance in Melbourne. Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mr Williams, 61, has been brought Saarbrucken. to Australia bv the South Australian March 16 will be an "all Mozart" Theatre Company for the Adelaide programme of Les petits riens, Arts Festival. Symphony 39 in E Flat Major, and The company is presenting one of his Symphony 41 in C Major. recent plays, "Kingdom of Earth," The New York Contemporary during the festival. Chamber Enaemble, brought to His appearance at Robert Australia by Robert Blackwood Hall, Blackwood Hall has been titled "An will perform works by Webem, Berger, Evening with Tennessee Williams." Wuorinen, Varese, and Reynolds on Mr Williams insists he does not have March 24. the qualifications to "lecture" and in The next night entrepreneur Evans JAPANESE conductor, Hi,oyuki Iwaki, who was so well rec:eived at Robert Ba.ckwood Hall stead talks about and reads fro", his Gudinski will present the American blues singers, Sonny Terry and Brow I... yea'. will return this year. H. will conduc;t the rtnt works and invites questions from the nie McGhee. of .he six ABC Gold Serl.. conce,,, on April 10. audience. The director of the Alexander Mr Vincent said the regular Sydney ho. It. Opera Houoe, for a performance conducted by Handel Theatre, Dr John Rickard, who went lunchtime concerts would be con M.lalde ile elaborate theatre com himself in 1754. tinued this year. plex aDd Melbeurne. at leall UDtil the to Adelaide last month to finalise the The hall's succees follows a lot of hard As well as regular jazz concerts there Arlo Centre i. completed, the visit, said there had been 8 resurgence h.s work by the manBgement and the hall of interest in Mr Williams' earlier will be Monday concerts by the umaplneent" Robert Blackwood. Melbourne Symphony· Orchestra. committee. works - such well-known plays 88 Hail. The first two will be on March 15 "Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat of Dr Hiscock "88.id : " Alter a hesitant and 22. This is the opinion Keith Connolly. on a Hot Tin Roof." of The Herald , who says Robert start two yean ago, when Blackwood Hall n~otiated for a group from the Mr Williams had come to be Blackwood is " easily the best concert hall we're likely to have for quite 8 Adelaide Festival, we realised regarded as 8 "modem classic," Dr Scholarships while." Melbourne would appreciate the oppor Rickard said. tunity of hearing" some of these artists Mr Williams is just one of six major With increasing recogniti9n of the engaged by the Adelaide Festival who The Academic Recl.trar', department b.. hall's quality. 1976 is shaping as a. attractions of the Adelaide Festival beeD advbed ot lhe foUowlqlCbolanhiPi. The would not otherwise have had the who have been booked to come on to Reporter prelenta a pncl, of the detaill. More superb concert year. chance to perform in Victoria. Robert Blackwood Hall intormatJon can be obtained tpom &he Gradua&e The director of the hall, Dr Ian "1976 sees the hall firmly established And the Brazilian folk group, Os Scholar.hi.,. Offtoo, pound noor, Univerlity Hiecock, says that in March and April omcea, ext.ea.lon 3055. as a major concert hall in Melbourne. Battucages, will come from the Perth ]taUan Government Scholanhip, there will be virtually a "Blackwood Festival. This acholanhip il open to gr.duate!! lor one Festival. " 'ilt's the only significant hall in The grou p of singers, dancers and year's poatgr.duate ItUdy in any discipline. Melboume which is easy to drive to, has Tenable in Italy, benefita are SA1SO a month and The programme includes six oC the musicians will open the hall's March an enormous amount of near.by parking, programme wlth a Sunday afternoon return air (are. Applicationl ciON Mlll'C!h 15. major attractions oC the Adelaide Arts AUlUalian Marine Scleoeee AallOciatioa Festival, the first of t.he ABC's Gold is more comfortable than any other hall concert on March 7. a. Junior Travel A"m. Series concerts and the first of the in Melbourne and has near-perfect They will give evening performances Science graduates Of undergraduates are i.n acoustics," Dr Hiscock said. vited to write a paper on lny topic relating to Melbourne ChoJ'8le's concerts for the on March 11 and 12. year. marine science. Award recipient obtains air fare to "The future development of the hall is an A.M.S.A. meeting to present winning paper. Busiest year yet. h. Student Prize. For their performance on April 24 of going to be the increasing recognition by Priue of $50 (first) S2S (eeeond) for the winning Handel's Me..iah, the Chorale entrepreneun and the public of its vir· The manager of Robert Blackwood marine science papen. Student. may apply for Chamber Singers, will Collow the plan tues," he confidently predicts. both (a) and (b). Hall, Mr Don Vincent, said the 1976 Applicauorw for both (a) and (b) cloee on MllJ'Ch program was already shaping as the m. . busiest yet. Advuced SlUdy Scbolanhiptl - Glaacow The hall was being recognised as one Univenily MONASH VISITORS B.A. Honours graduates are eligible for this two of the best concert venues in to three year scholarship, valued at £ St.900 _ The tollowtnlacademic. are e.peeled to vi.it George Washington Onive~ity , U.S.A. April. Melbourne, he said. 1,100 p.a. Research, leQding to a higher dep-ee, Monaah durlnl the ftr.t halt of.tlll, year: ENGINEERING can be in any Am diacipline. Applicationl cloae in ARTS Materials Enllneerln,: Pro(ellor Robert This year all six of the ABC's Gold Claagow on March 31. AllthropolOO and Soelo[ogy: Pro(eeaor M . De W. Chan. Professor - o( M~t.eria1a Science and Series concerts will be held in the ConvlWe Research Studentahipa - Gonvilie Roos, Division o( Biological Sciencea, Univenity Dean of School of Applied Sciences, University of hall. Collele - C.mbridle UIlIvenity of Missouri. U.S.A. October, 1975-April. Suuex, EnJi:'land. Late Much, (or aiI months. HillOry: Pro(euor Frlenkal, Proleaeor oiJDter Open to male graduates under 30 yean (or up to Dr-lllI' Hildeiard Cordier, Croup Leader, Alloy The first, conducted by Hiroyuki dilCiplin.ry Studitl in Education, California three yeers higher degree atudy. Benelits: £ St. Department, Leichtmetall-For.chunpiastitut, Iwaki, will be held on April 10. State University, U.S.A. June. VereiniJi:' te Aluminium-Werke, Germany. As 1.235 p.a., dependanu' allowance, (ees paid. Ap ECONOMICS AND POLmCS vill itilll' Senior Relearc:h Fellow. JJDuary 24 for The concerts were shared between plicationa close in Cambridge on April 1. Robert Blackwood and Dallas Brooks Eeonomica: Profaaor J . Head, ProftMOr or three months.. Reteatch Stud_uhfp - St. J'"'s CGIIce. Economica, Oalhoulle Univeraity, Hali(u, Meeh..tical Enlhaeerinl: Dr J. D . CAmbridle Uoivenity Hall last year. Canad• . A, viaitine prol'tBIOI'. July, 1975~une . This three year ltudentahip .. (or IIwdies Fenlon, Civil Engineerini Depart~ent, imperial Other attractions for March from Profeuo, J . L. Bur, Department of Eeonomice, College, London. England. A, Queen'a Fel· leadine to a Ph.D. Male graduates who have Univel1lity of A,izon', USA. Al apeeial lecturer. low. September. 1975 (or two ye ..... the Adelaide Festival include the Honours Jor equivalent. qualificationa are eligible. AustraliaD Chamber Orchestra and February-July. Profeaaor S. Ramalilllnam, Depal1bl:ent of Value: £ St. l,l85 p.a., travel, dependants', P,ofeeeor J . L . Stern, Department o( the John MIdi. Choir_ fieldwork etc. allowances, (ees paid. ApplicatiOrll! Mechanical E ..ineerinc, State Univereity of New Economin. Univel1lity of Wiaconsin, USA . .AJJ York, U.S.A. A. vwti.,.. Proleaor. Auauet. 1975 CiON in Cambridge on April 1. spe4:ial lecture,. January.August. for 1I months. Musics Viva will present the newly Velma StanleY Award Profe:lllor G. Roaenbluth, Department o( Thit p,iu of S200 it awarded (or the beat eseay Mr G. Sved. Reade, in Civil Engineeril1l, formed chamber orchestra, conducted Economia, Univenity o( Britilh Columbia, on a wbject relati", to addiction. Graduataa and Univenity of Adelaide. .AJJ visiting Profeeao,. by Neville Marriner, on March 10 at Canada. Aa CUIS Cat B vwtor. Oatea to be aet. March Cor six monthe. undergraduates in any diacipline are eligible. Ap Mr M . Weia, Social Main and lnduMriaJ Rda· SCIENCE 8.15 p.m. plications March 31 . cloee on tiOJ"l8, Diviaion o( Ol'laniaation lor Economic Co Earth Scienc,,: Profeaaor Charlel T. The programme will be Vaughan QueliD El1abeth II FeIIow.lll,. operation and Development, France . .AJJ apeeial Prewitt, State Univ.~ity of New York, U.S.A. W ilJiams' Fantasia on a Theme of Available to Ph,D. hoIdera in the physical and lecturer. September, 1.975.Augull. February-September. biological acience fielda for two yean etudy at an Thomas Tallis, Haydn's Harpsichord EDUCATION Pure MathematlcI: Dr J. W. Sande~, Depart Concerto in F, Mahler's Adagietto Australian university. Value: SI3,158-S14,l90 Professor Richard E. GroM, School of Education. ment ol Pure MathematicI, Inltitue o( Advanced p.a., dependants' and ltavelallowa~ . Appiica from Symphony No.5, Pachelbe!,s Stanford Univenity, U.S.A. March-June. Studiel, AUlltralian National Univeralty. As tiona cio&e in Woden on Mlll'C!h 12. visitilll' Lecturer. All of 1976. Common...alth Scboluthip and FeIlowllhip ProCes!IOr J. Thorn.. Haatinp, Prol.-or of Canon on a Ground in D, and Bloch's Educational Payeho!ogy, College ol Education. PlycholDIY: Dr W.lter E. Avis, Univel"lity o( Concerto Grosso No.2. Plan - New Zealand Award•. This IIChoiarship il open to Auetralian telidentB Centre for Instruction.' Research and Curriculum Brunlwick, U.S.A. September 1975.July. The ·John Alldi. Choir, brought (rom under 3.5 for two yean poetgraduate study. It must Evaluation, Univenity of IIIinoie, U.S.A. Zoolocy: Dr H. B. Lillywhite, Aaiatant ProCes· London by Musica Viva, will appear be taken up by March 1977. V.lue: SNZ 210 a February 1-21. sor, Department of PhyaiolOl)' and Cell Biology, month, travel. depe"dant.' and. medical al LAW University of K_, U.S.A. All lamporuy Lec· on March 19. IUYo·ance&. ApplicaLione clate April 30. Profeuor Glen Weston, N.tional Law Centre. lure. June I, 1975-May 15.

MONASH REPORTER 11 March 1911 • March Diary

2: LECI'URE - .nea of ten Tuesday Lecturee by Plastics Institute 01 Australia Inc. 6.30 p.m. Lecture 'l'hutre HI. Fee for whole aeries: member. 155; non·members S75. In quiri.: Mr M. Forte, 94 8041. 3-3h PLAY - "WaitinR for Godot," pre:s. by Aleunder Theatre Company. Aleunder Theatre, 8 p.m. and matinee performances. Admiaion: adults $4, atudenta $2.50. Special concessions (or school (rOupe. s..26: ART EXHIBITION - SelectMi works (rom the Eva and Marc Beaen Collection, of paintin,s and sculpture, prea. by Monash Department of Vilual Arts. II a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. EuibiUon GI.I*Y. Mea· des Bulldtnc. AdmiNion free. Inquirietl: est. 2115. 7: CONCERT - Of Batucqa, Brazilian folk company. Robert Blackwood Hall. 2.30 p.m. ~dmi5l'l1~n: adults SSi st~~ents. children, pen· !l1f)n~ $2.00; ICrouP OOOkmrs $3.50. 8: COURSE - An Inlroducl.ton to Computers and Programming in FORTRAN, Conducted by Monuh Computer CenLre. Monday nilhts to May 3. 7.30 tim.. l;eeture Thealft 813. Course fee: S40. umea: eJ:t. Z100. 9: LECTURE SERI - ''The Methodl and Meanina ofYoca" prea. byThe Yoga Socielietl Council 0( Australia and the Monash YOCa Society. 1.10 ~.m. Lecture Tbeatre R3. Ad· miesion free. Other lecture. in the ..ies March 10, 12. IS, 16, 17 and 19. FILMS NASA space filml pres. by Monash Altron.utical Sociaty. 8 p.m. Leeture nun HI. AdmiuWn free. (Films now shown Tuesdays, not Wednesdays 88 prniousl}:'..) 10: CHAMBER MUSIC - Australian Chamber Orchestra, ~nted by Musica Viva. Con duclot Neville Marriner; lIOIoist Christopher H0t5wood. Robert BlackwD«XI Hall, 8.15 p.m. Adm_ion: adulta S5, $4; studenta 12 11·12: CONCERT - Oe Batucqes, Brazilian folk company. Robert Blackwood Hall 8.15 p.m. niahlly. Admiuion: adulta $5; sb';denta, chil~~n,~ioners. 52.60; groupe $3.50. 14: PARENT ORIENTATION - Parenta 0( fint yeer studente meet the Vice-Chancellor, ABOUT 16,000 children saw the cesslul, part 01 the theatre·s year. Abo"e, Jack (Steve Mclardie) Profeaeor W. A. G. Scott, and deans; tour the Alexander Theatre's Christmas pan The theatre hopes to continue gets a helping hand up the labu Univenity rrom Robert Blackwood HaU, 11 a,m. I~uiries: Mrs Joan Maries, 439 7391. tomime, "Jack ond the Beanstalk." this success story during the year lous beanstalk from his mother, 15: CONCERT - Radio Symphony Oreheet.r. The annual pantomime has be and h~n chosen programs to ap Dame Misery, ployed by Roger Saarbrucken, pr8e:ntinc worlte by Schubert. Stravinsky, Beethoven. Mozart. Robert come an important, and highly sue- peal to -8 wide range of audiences. Myers. Blackwood Hall, 8,15 p.m, Admiaaion: adulta 16: students, penaioners $3; Music. Viva, AETI', ABC subscribera $5,50. 16: CONCERT - Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken. preeentine work. by Mocart. Robert Blackwood Hall, 8.15 p.m. Admiaaion: 88 for March 15. Godot under gurntrees 18: PHOTOFLORA - competition alidee or native nowers, birds and wildlife, prea. by Australian Society for the Growing of Australian Planta. 8 p.m. Lecture 'l'beatre The Alexander Theatre Company will open its 1976 season tomorrow with a con RI. Admission: adulta SI, ramily_ 13. In· guiriea: Mr R Barnett, 560 6664. AN EVEN· trovenial production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." ING with Tennessee Williamt, one of America's great.est IivinR ~aywri,hta. Robert Blackwood Hall. 8.15 p.m. Admisaion: aclulta 12,50; students SI; groupe 51.50, Peter Oyston, Dean ofDrama at the followed by the racial drama tie Theatre of the Deaf." 19; CONCERT - John Alldia Choir. preMnted Victorian College of the Arts, will "Boesman and Lena." Baaed at the O'Neill Centre in New by Musica Viva. Worka by Tallia. Purcell, direct it - his fltSt production 8ince Written by white South African Messiaen. Williamaan, ScboenbtlJ. Robert York, the I.TO will be playing at the Blackwood Hall, 8.15 p.m: AdmiaBion: adulte returning from overseas last year. playwright Athol Fugard, "Boesman . theatre from Monday, March 29 for a $5. $4: student.a $2. Oyston's reputation 88 a director has and Lena" played to packed houses at 20·21: ENTERTAINMENT - Kother week. Kourtroom Kapen. presented by Miuachi preceded him. His methods are new to its Australian premiere at the Adelaide The five members of the company, Aviv. Robert Blackwood Hall. 8.15 p.m. and 8 this country, and, ifany notice is to be Arts Festiyal l.. t month. four deaf actors and a bearing actor, p.m. Admiuion: adultll $5; youths S3; child~n '2. taken of the actors in this production, Boesman and Lena are two Cape use a unique combination of mime and 22·%7: PLAY - "Boesman and Lena." by ar· his influence on the theatre here is yet Coloreds, fairly low down in South the spoken word. The repertoire always rangement with the Australian Eliubethan to be felt. Arrica'8 racial hierarchy. They are Theatre Trust. AlexanderTheatre, 8 p,m. Ad includes a vivid description of visual miMion: adultll $4, students '2.50. Certainly his treatment of "Godot" wanderers, driven from place to plac;e language. 24: LEcrURE - "Paul and Jesus," by Rev. 'Dr will cause much comment. by the brutality of apartheid. Poetry by Ogden Nash and Dylan .J. O. McCaughey. Fint in Chaplail!cy Lecture series, 1.10 p.m. Ledul"8 Tbeat.re R3. Admia Oyston says he jumped at the The two principal actors, Anthony Thomas has been central to the sion rree. CONCERT - The Contemporary chance of directing the play. Wheeler and Olive Bodin are both program along with writings by Chamber Ensemble of New York. Robert "It's one of those plays that offera Blackwood Hall, 8,15 p,m. Admieaion: adults white South Africans. children. $6; sludenta, pensioners $3; Musica Viva. everything," he says. "Basically it con The play opens at the Alexander for Although the LTD directs its AE'IT. ABC subscriben 15.50. cerns human relationships. It is 25: FOLK CONCERT - Sonny Terry and Brow· a week on March 22. programs towards children, it is just as . nie McGhee. lowo of America's moat popular dramatic, but, whenever it becomes The third production at the Alex entertaining and enjoyable for the folk and hlu81 musicians. Robert Blackwood too heavy, the comedy moves in. It's a ander before Easter is America's "Lit Hall. 8 p.m. Admission: adults S2.50; students older audience. $"1. play from which the audience can get 26: LECTURE - "Library Research: The Bath whatever it wants." Univerait.y Projects," by Mr Philip Bryant. Oyston also believes it is a uniyeraal Hath Umvenity Library, Pre&, bY Monah Graduate School or Librarianahip, 3.15 p.m. play. So here be baa localised the Lecture ThMtre R6. Admission free. In· situation - putting the .characters in quiries: Ms E. Momson, ext. 2956. 28: SYMPOSIUM - "Tenllion: Can VOfa an Australian setting. under a gum GAMELAN DISPLAY Help~", by the VOJ.a Societies Council of tree, somewhere along a bush track. Australia and Voga reachers' Asaociation or Australia. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Leetun Theatre The two hobos become owagpes, The Monash University Gamelan The Gamelim Society will baye a RI. Fee: $4; IItudenlII S3. Registration, in· PODO becomes a squatter, and will live outdoor performances table in the Union Building tomorrow quiries: 51 2276. Lucky an zt-APR. 3: PLAY - "Little Theatre or the Aboriginal. tomorrow and Thursday during ·and Thuraday. Deaf." Alexander Theatre, 10 a.m, and I p.m. Oyston is aware that certain liberties Orientation Week. A meeting for people interested in Admission: adults 52.50, studenlll '1.50. he hIlS taken with Beckett's original Special concessions for school groupe. These will be held in the Forum at learning the instruments of the 29: SALVATION ARMY - Musical Salute. script have aroused comment. But, he 11 a.m. and midday tomorrow and Gamelan will be held in the Music Robert Blackwood Hall. 8 p.ln. Admiuion: points out, there is a precedent: ' 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Thuraday, or in Auditorium on tbe eighth floor south of adult" $2; children $1. DEADU'NE for enrol· Beckett himself·localised the German ment" fnr "The American Revolution After the Music Auditorium if it rains. tbe Menzies Building at 1.10 p.m. on ~I() Year,;" - a fort.nightlYl evaning series of production which he directed at the The Gamelan, or Indonesian MarchI!. Ie<:.ture-discu!lllion ~ions oeginnina April 8. Schiller Theatre in Hamburg two years Free general tuition from the Muaic "'ee: $:LS. DeLails from Centre ror Continuing orchestra, is also looking for new Bducation, eJll. :)7 18. ago. members. Department's special lectwer: Mr 31: LECTURE - ''The C06mic Christ," by Rev. "Waiting for Godot" will run for a Fr. Anthony Kelly, C.St.R. Second in No previous musical training is Poedijono, is available to all members Chaplaincy Lec;ture aeries. 1.10 p.m. Lecture two and a half week aeaaon, and will be needed to join this fascinating group. of the IIniYeraity. R3. Admiaaion free.

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