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Number 18, 1990 ISSNl0033·3894 Registration NBH3127 Corroboree a Memorable Success 'lancers and the accompanying rhythm aansformed the Great HaIl stage into a corroboree ground on the eveniog of October 12. "\ The one-hour performance, ,\,iieved to be the first held in Newcastle for at least 150 years, delighted and moved the audience of 2,500 people - both the Goorie organisers and members of the public who were the guests. Many families were present. Parents and children sat on rugs on the floor, which had been cleared of seating. The essential elements of the corroboree were all there - the traditional )hre bodypaint, the hunting weapons and the mesmerising rhythm of the clap sticks and clicking boomerangs, which provided considerable colour and sound " the stage, and the revival of a sacred A dance from the corroboree on the stage of the Great Hall. iIod festive aspect of Aboriginal lore. The performers' emulation of and two songs. The program featured a so doing they had become custodians of Australian animals embellished the number of Aboriginal institutions and the land and the Goorie culture. impressive stage presentation. practices, such as breaking spears, He said Aboriginal people had Organised by the Hunter Region exorcising ghosts and chasing away begun to ask to have some of the Aboriginal Mens' Council, the corroboree wrongdoers, together with dances I brought together around 20 performers involving brolgas, frill-necked lizards, from various parts of New South Wales. kangaroos and goannas. Eight Aboriginal women Tribal custodians from Northern performed a welcoming dance and a New South Wales who watched are Uncle reaping dance, but not as part of the Lennie de Silva, 76, Uncle Leeton Smith, corroboree. 71 and Uncle Mangie (Alfred) Drew, 77. The corroboree was beld in The corroboree is part of a program conjunction with an exhibition of Goorie of reviving the teaching of Aboriginal art and artefacts, which attracted more lore by several groups, including the than 700 visitors and resulted in sales of Newcastle Awabaka1 Aboriginal Co­ items worth more than $7,000. operative. The performance on the stage Mr Bill Smith, of the Co-operative, mainly depicted the ways of Goorie said that to date 22 males had been through forebears through 17 traditional dances traditional manhood ceremonies and in knowledge possessed by their tribal eldelll Joint winners of scholarship passed on to them. The three tribal custodians had all gone through the traditional manhood ceremonies when they were young, Mr Smith said. He added that the renewed interest in Aboriginal culture was bringing dignity and respect back to Aborigines. Opening the Goorie art and artefacts exhibition, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Keith Morgan, welcomed guests to "a unique, symbolic and important occasion". Professor Morgan extended a special welcome to Aboriginal visitOlll, some of whom had travelled great distances to attend. He said the University prided itself on being a substantial and significant institution serving the community. "We The Goorie art and artefacts exhibition in the foyer of the Great Hall. are privileged to be enabled to mount and The New South Wales Minister for accommodate this exhibition and to Environment, Mr Tim Moore, in demonstrate our enjoyment of the Newcastle recently announced two Overseas visitors h)) contribution of the Aboriginal people to winnelll of the 1990 National parks and research area the total culture and heritage of our Wildlife illustration Scholailihip - the first community. time jOint winnelll have been announced A scientific meeting to be held in the David Maddison Building at Royal "The growing resurgence and in the seven-year history of the award. Newcastle Hospital on November I 0 awareness of Aboriginal culture in the Thewinnelll areMs Pam Johnston of Waratah and Ms Judy McQueeney of will bring international experts in Hunter Region is a matter for pleasure psychoimmunology to Newcastle. Wangi Wangi, both ofwhom are enrolled and pride", he said. Psychoimmunology is a in the graduate Diploma in Art couilie at rapidly developing area of research Referring to the three tribal eldelll, this Univeiliity. which investigates the links between Professor Morgan said the standing of There was a surprise in store for behaviour and iunnunity. The Fac. 1\ these distinguished statesmen conferred the two students during the presentation of Medicine and the Department'.!! a particular significance on the gathering. at the Univeiliity. The donolll of the Psychology have established an Their concern in ensuring the continuation scholarship, the National Parks and international lead in this work. The one-day meeting has been of ancient tradition and knowledge was Wildlife Service and Patrons, have increased the value of the award from arranged by the Australi' 111 an important aspect of the living culture $1,500 to $2,000 for the occasion. Behavioural Immunology Group ""JII sponsoilihip from Sandoz Australia that could be seen in the exhibition. Ms Johnston and Ms McQueeney Ply. Ltd. and the Hunter Medical The Goorie and artefacts each received $1,000 from the Minister Research Co-operative. exhibition, which ran in the GreatHaII for and their work will be displayed by the Professor Arnold Greenberg, four days, was jointly arranged by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Director ofthe Manitoba Iustitute for Univelllity's Art Advisory Group, the Both said they were thrilled at Cell Biology and Professor of Awabakal Aboriginal Co-operative and sharing the scholarship and that it was an Irmnunology and Paediatrics at the the AboriginaI and Torres Strait Islander honour to have their work acknowledged University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, in such away. Canada, will be the guest speaker. Commission. The scholarship is made available Professor Greenberg is an Support in various forms was each year to students enrolled in the plant expert in the field of extended by Wollutuka Education Centre, and wildlife illustration specialisation of psychoneuroinununology and will talk on the clinical applications of the Australian Iustitute of Aboriginal and the diploma cou"'". Each candidate has this research, particularly in the Torres Strait Islander Studies, the to meet set criteria before meeting a treatment of chronic inflammatory Univeiliity of New South Wales and the judging panel and discussing their future disease. Univeiliity Archives. commitment in the field of plant and He will be supported by a It was the last in the program of wildlife illustration. distingnished panel of Australian and Six candidates were judged for Art Advisory Group art exhibitions beld oveilieas scientists. the 1990 award, the othelll being Ms Jane For further information please at the Univeiliity this year. Brodsky of Mayfield, Ms Ngaire Diguan get in touch with Assoc. Professor of Maryville, Ms Meryl Harding of Alan Husband, of the Discipline of Argenton and Ms Laurie Zammit of Pathology, 26 6156. Valentine. Newcastle students' quiz victories The University's representatives look set for a good year in University Challenge following two recent victories. The students defeated a team of teaching staff by a big margin in their fina1 practice match at the Union before facing the University of New South Wales at Kensington. In a nail-biting finish, Newcastle and UNSW tied on 220 points each at the end of half an hour. Neither team could answer the first tie-breaking question, and another was called for. Newcastle University Challenge team (L-R): Mr Mark Preist (Captain), Mr Keith Joseph, Mr got in first, to defeat the strong UNSW side. Stuart Cooper and Mr Noel Leggitt. Without television support this year, University Challenge has hecome a lunch-time entertainment on several campuses and five Universities - New South Wales, Sydney, Macquarie, /~ongong and Newcastle - have '_--lanised their own competition. Newcastle has an enthusiastic squad, but the pressure ofexams forced a numher of players to miss the day-long Iri't to Kensington on October 18. The .I ,-choice team, however. was intact. '. Last yeats captain, Mr Mruk Priest, a second-year Science student, led the team again. Mr Noel Leggatt, who is studying modern languages, also came from last year's side, which made the finals of the televised national Professors under pressure (L-R): Assoc. Professor Colin Keay, Professor Ian P/imer, competition. Professor Frank Bates (Captain) and Assoc. Professor Norman Talbot. They were joined by Mr Stuart Cooper (second year Mathematics and generous enough to line up again to being held at Macquarie University, with Computing Science) and Mr Keith Joseph provide the team with more practice. Sydney the proposed venue for the final. (second year Medicine). Semi-finals ofthe competition are In their only practice together r'"':'lre the competition, the students faced jm led by Professor FrankBates - who Stop Press was captain of Sheffield University's team The Professors seemed revitalised when they played the University in a practice match in 1966. on October 23. Getting off the mark qnicker this time, the dons went to an initial I 00- Professor Bates and his colleagues, Associate Professor Colin Keay, Associate 5 lead. They were in the vanguard throughout, finally taking victory 205-180. p "tessor Norman Talbot and Professer , ;t'limer, found the students too quick. Mr Priest said later the practice Work Progresses on Campus Wetlands match had heen invaluable. ''The academics knew the answers The latest stage in the process of dredging The University has applied for all right, but we had all had too much ponds and creating banks and islands for $16,000 offintherNational Estate funding practice on the buzzer system, They just the development of the campus wetlands and it is expected a decision will be made couldn't get in fast enough. has been completed. late in October. "It gave us a lot of confidence for Unfortunately, progress on the Some of the deposited soil from the match at Kensington hecause it was operation has not been as rapid as the the dragline operations will be stable the first time Noel and I had played with University had expected, due to various enough soon to support Bobcats and allow Stuart and Keith. interroptions, including bad weather. shaping and fornting of the banks. "New South Wales had three of Expenditure to date on dragline The University is furtunate to have last year's fourplayers back again, so they operations amounts to $32,880. The total received an offer of assistance from the were not only very strong but also budget available so far is $40,000 from Wilderness and Greens Society (WAGS). experienced in the pressures of sitting on two National Estate grants and matching Members of WAGS may be available to stage in front of a noisy audience and University contributions. help clear paths or re-plant vegetation using the buzzers. Funds will also be spent on etc. (exam timetables permitting). This "Officially, in this first round, all stabilising banks and islands, enhancing offer has been gratefully accepted, as that counts is how many points you score. paths, restoring natural vegetation, would be any other offer to join the ranks "But a tie was such a let-down erecting signs and so on. of the 'weeders and waders'. aftersuch a tense game that both sides felt At no direct~ to the National Newcastle City Council we should playa tie-breaker to satisfy the Estate grant, a consIderable amount of commissioned a study of the Shortland­ audience. We knew we were strong lantana and weed clearing has been Waratah catchment area, which includes enough to win, and we did it". undertaken by the grounds maintenance the Campus Wetlands. The study was Newcastle's second and final 'flying squad'. prepared by the Shortland Wetlands match in the first round of the competition In tenns of the original plans, much Centre to assist the longer term planning was at home to Wollongong on Friday, work remains to he done to create a of the area. The University commented Octoher 26. The Professors were rehabilitated wetlands area suitable for on the report earlier this year. general passive recreation. , The Chancellor, Justice Evatt, October Council asked if the University offered smokers counselling? The new Council met on October 12. The Academic salary loadings Professor Morgan said the memo meeting was the second since the Council Acting on the recommendation of the he sent to staff had said that the University assumed responsibility for the Academic Salary Loadings Working would assist those staff who needed amalgamated University on September Group, Council empowered the Vice­ support in reducing their physiological I, having succeeded the former Interim Chancellor to awardin exceptional cases, and psychological dependence on Council. on a year-by-year basis, a salary loading smoking. The Chancellor, Justice Elizabeth of up to 2/5 of the basic salary of a Evatt, welcomed the newly-elected member of the academic staff. The members, in particular those who have funding of the loading shall not come joined the Council for the first time (Ms from the University's Operating Grant. Judy Wallom, Dr Bill Warren, Mrs Susan Portraits The Academic Salary Loadings Rappell and Ms Marion Williams). The Vice-Chancellor reported that Ms Working Group reported that it was aware Leave of absence was granted to Judy Cassab had been commissioned to of the imminent new award which wonld Mr Vic Levi until December 17. paint a portrait of the Chancellor. This significantly re-structure academic The Act provides that the Council continued the tradition of the University salaries onanational basis within coming may appoint any other person to be a acquiring portraits of its Chancellors. months. member of the Council. Council decided to commission a The group considered that i\~f It was decided that members would portrait of the Vice-Chancellor. not appropriate in these circumstanctJlo be invited to make nominations and a intrnduce, as a matter of course, salary postal ballot would be held before the loadings to staff in areas of high demands. next meeting on December 14. It said it made its recommenda)!g.·on Headship as an interim measure, pending'\)) ~ Dr P.J. Moore was re-appointed Head of promnlgation of award re-structuring for the Departmem of Education for two years. academic staff salaries. Smokejree University Council decided to ban smoking in University bnildings. Submitting the proposal, the Vice­ Two departments Earthquake repairs Chancellor said the University had two Council approved the disestablishment The ultimate cost of repairing University policies on smoking. In the former Hunter of the Department of Electrical buildings damaged by the earthquake is Institute of Higher Education, people were Engineering and Computer Science and still uncertain. However, the current not allowed to smoke in buildings, while the formation of two Departments named estimated cost is $6.5 million. :~ I at the old University smoking, although the Department ofComputer Science and When the Council conside;({ a prohibited in public areas, was permitted the Department of Electrical and report on earthquake repairs, it was told in individual offices. Computer Engineering and decided that that it was expected that, like the claims The Occupational Health and the changes wonld take effect from the lodged so far, the further costs woul~ Safety Committee had recommended that beginning of 1991. covered by the University's insuredJ)J the only proper policy was a complete The Manager of Buildings and ban on smoking in buildings. Grounds, Mr Maurie Ethnonds, said that The Committee said alternatives since the December, 1989 earthquake a number of University buildings had to a uniform non-smoking policy, such as New Centre continued to settie, resulting in further people being asked to knock on doors of Council approved the establishment of a damage to building structures. Current offices occupied by smokers and wait Centre for Employment Studies. indications were that buildings were now until any dangers caused by passive The Vice-Chancellor will appoint stabilising. smoking had been eliminated, were 'not a Director, who will be responsible for Mr Ethnonds said that wode was on', theday-to-day operation ofthe centre and currently proceeding with repairs to the "If the University is to stay in line the promotion of its activities within and lounge areas of the Griffith Duncan with Government Departments and avoid beyond the University. Theatre, Level 3 of the Hunter BUilding, claims for damages, it should implement There will be provision for staff the Richanlson Wing, the Drama Theatre, a uniform no-smoking policy and allow membership, associate membership, the Basden Theatre, Mathematics, smokers to smoke outside buildings, or, if corporate membership and personal ll Chemistry, Biological Sciences, the necessary, leave the grounds , membership of the centre, which will Union, the Art Building and the University The Vice-Chancellor said the undertake consulting and commissioned Conservatorium. policy did not apply to the Union, the research and, under the auspices of the Repairs to Edwards Hall would Staff Club and the students' halls of Facnlty of Economics and Commerce, commence at the end of the academic residence, which could decide whether carry out training and teaching functions. they were subjected to controls or not. year to avoid any disruption to students studying for examinations, he said. 4 Specifications were nearing He said Ibe project would be a constructed as close as possible to the completion to enable tenders to be invited stimulus to greater co-operation between Faculty of Engineeting, wilb whom it for the repair of Ibe McMullin and Ibe Ibe University and industry and would was expected there would be significant Hunter Buildings. make possible co-operative research interaction. Mr Edmonds said Ibat wilb Ibe between Eleom, the Facnlty of It was also expected Ibat other completion of Stage 1 of Evatt House Eogineeting, the Institute of Coal Research faculties, including Ibe Faculties of some students had been re-located from and other University groups and Medicine, Economics and Information University Village, resulting in 60 units individuals. Science, Science and MaIbematics and in Ibe village being left vacant. He said \bat originally a suggestion Social Science, would become involved The Vice-Olancellor, commenting was put to the Vi<»-Chancellor \bat Flcorn injoint research, and other projects, wilb on Mr Edmonds' report, said \bat when transfer its currently scattered scientific E1com. University Village was vacated at Ibe end operations from Sydney to Newcastle Dr Huxley added that the of Ibe year Ibe portable buildings would and house Ibem in a single building on association wilb Flcorn miglt also provide be removed. He said Ibe University was University property. a stimulus for the 1ran

Co-operative research centre of the Sunday, November 11,8 pm Council approved in principle of Elcom Voluntary No.1 in D - Australian Skeptics Wtlliam Boyce. leasing University land adjacent to Ibe La Pastourelle Central Animal House for the construction Annual General Meeting Branle de Basque - Louis of an advanced techoology centre. on Coupetin The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Friday, November 16 Sarabande en Canon (Planning), Dr Doug Huxley, reported at 7.30 pm Chaconne in G minor Ibat Ibe salient features of the proposal were that Ibe University continued to Sunday, November 18,8 pm Room D 105, First Floor, Grand Plein Jeu lease Ray Watt Oval from E1com and Physics Building, Fugne Ibat, in return, Ibe Electricity Aulbority at Ibe University Cromhome en Taille leased land for Ibe advanced techoology Concert pour les Flutes centre from Ibe University. A light supper will be served Duo Dr Huxley said Elcom was following the meeting Recit tenore pour Ie Nazatd committed to spending approximately $15 Dialogue de Voix humaine Basse de Trompelte million on a three-storey building wilb a Non-violent seekers after Dialogne a deux Choeurs - total floor area of approximately 6,000 trulb are most welcome square metres. Gaspard Corrett...- , Overseas students get to know one another A fun day organised by the Hunter Commiuee for Overseas StudeDlS (HCOS) attracted a good tum-up aod bas been described as 'a really worthwhile experience'. As a result, interaction between overseas students on the amalgamated campus bas been enhanced. Ms Pradeepa Balasabramanaoiam, Secretary of the HCOS aod a final-year BCom student, writes about the sociable occasion, wben overseas students furgot about assignments aod examinations aod played Telematch. The Telematch competition was the brainchild of Mr Anwar Abdullab, Vice-President of the HCOS aod the Singapore Students' Association. What is a Telematch Competition? Well ... for those of you who don't know, eat your bearts out, because I cao bet my life on it that everyone who was there had one­ helluva-megafun-day! Competing were teams from the Malaysiao students' soccer team, the The winners oj the tug-oj-war held at the fun-day Jor overseas students Malaysiao Students' Association (MSA), the Singapore Students' Association legs, through the legs of a chair to the I'm talking about, not the girls. (SSA), the Overseas Christiao Fellowship other end, where more three-Iegged soccer The tug-oj-war was the highlight and a team from the East campus players had to bring them back doing the ofthe day aodthe team that won deserved comprising students from Hong Koug, same thing. Definitely not as easy as it to win. However, their marvelloos display Korea, Singapore aod Australia. Each sounds aod in the middle of it all, we of strength had everyone wondering team was to consist of eight boys aod discovered a bionic fellow who decided whether their diet might perhaps include eight girls, but some teams had a few to kick the ball halfway to Timbucktoo. a dose of steroids! Only joking! 0, more or a few less, aod necessary The duck crawl aod leopard walk In the middle of everything, we adjusnnents were made as we went along. proved the most testing on unfit persons, stopped for a linle while to have some What was the competition all especially the girls. The boys and girls lunch, which John Hup aod compaoy had about? had to staod on opposite ends of the field, painstakingly prepared till the wee ~~ Well, for starters we had the chair with the boys leopard-crawling to the of the morning. Scrumptious sandwi&'J'),; race, in which each team had three chairs girls, and the girls duck-walking to the yummy hors d'ouvres, plenty of fruit, lined up next to each other with two boys, one at a time. The leopard crawl is vegies and biscuits, plus ao assortment of people staoding on them. The whole idea where the boys lie flat on their stomachs dips did a fabulous job at satisfying major was to keep moving the last chair forward and crawl using their knees aod elbows hunger paogs. until the chairs reacbed the other end, like soldiers do. The duck walk is where Attheendoftheday,whichhadto without people falling off the chairs. Not the ducks walked aod muscles which the be cut shortas maoy had to go to work that a bad game at all, except for a few backs girls never knew existed screamed with night, it came as no surprise that the team that ran into strife. excruciating pain the next day. I know that won the tug-of-war, Overseas This was followed by the bag race mine sure did Christiao Fellowship B, were the overall - the equivalent of the sack race, except The wheelbarrow had the girls winners. Runners-up were 'Red Faces' that we didn't have aoy sacks, so we used lifting the boys legs so the boys could which was one of the MSA's teams. barbage bags instead. What a great idea! walk on their haods across the field. Not Ms Alice Munnings, Overseas Yes, but garbage bags aren't quite as too difficult a game, provided the girls Students Adviser on the east campus, strong as sacks, so before too long we had and boys have strong arms. Going by the presented the prizes to the winning teams. people hopping furiously across the field, number of faces that suddeuly found The day ended with a photographic holding garbage bags to their chests, with themselves crushed to the ground, I suspect session aod it was quite a task getting the feet sticking out of them. That was peIhaps that not too maoy had strong arms. 120 to 130 smiling faces into the photo. the most hilarious sight that day. Maay discovered their calling in But we maoaged, and everyone went home The three-legged race had the girls life, during this event, as potential helly­ determined that aoother Telematch tying their right legs to the boys'left legs daocers. Yup! You're right! It was the competition will be organised next year. and kicking a ball using ouly their tied Hula-Hoop, aod it's the number of guys • • Cotton research Council Annual Report Exciting time to go to Deutchland 1988-1989. • Pig Research and Development Corporation Draft Research and DeveiopmentPlan 1991-1996. Comments have been invited by the Corporation. • The Fulbrighter: Austra1ian-American Education Foundation Newsletter.

2. The following reports are held by the Office for Research and are available for short-tenn loan: • Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories.

• Awards for Commonwealth University Acadentic Staff 1991-1992.

• QUT 1999 Research and Consultancy Report. • Cumherland College of Health Sciences. .... Report of Research 1988-89. • The University of Adelaide Research Report 1989. • Monash University Research n Publications 1989. At the awarding of the Germania Club/Goethe Institute Scholarship (back row): Professor Michoel Carter, Ms Suzanne Abegg and Ms Irma Vick (President of the Lyn McBriarty, German Saturday School);front row, Mr George Bondzio and the recipient of the Assistant Secretary scholarship, Mr Ralph Reindler.

Third year student in Gennan, Mr Ralph Gennany. Search for a ~!,eindier, will be studying in Gennany at The Gennan staff of the University Deputy Warden ( ?~ exciting time. expressed its thanks for the generous ~- Mr Reindier, who is the recipient support it receives from both official International House, a self-catering of the 1990 Newcastle Gennania Oub! Gennan institutions and the Gennan student hall of residence within the Goethe Institute Scholarship, will be in community in the Hunter Valley. University, is sdvertising a Deputy Gottingen is described as not only Warden's position. C};'~auy from November 27 until January The House currently a beautiful old town with a medieval accommndates 82 students and will Following the breaching of the centre, but a thriving university town grow to 145 during 1991. Berlin Wall last November and the with many cultural and scientific The Deputy Warden assists the Warden in the adntinistration of unification of East and West after 45 institotions. It has a prestigious Academy the House and, in particular, is the years' separation, all-Gennan elections of Sciences and is the seat of the renowned respomible person after office boors. will be held on December 2. Max-Planck Institute. Among the many Ten Senior Residents assist the Deputy Warden. Mr Reindier will see Gennany scholars who taught in Gottingen were Applicants should be coming to grips with the huge job of the famous brothers Grimm. committed to working with rebuilding. undergrsduates, especially in a multi-cultural community. The He received his $7,000 scholarship tenure of the position is from January from Ms Susanne Abegg, Director of the Notes from the 1, 1991 to December 31,1991. A Goedle Institute in Sydney, and Mr George Office of Research full duty statement is available from Bondzio, President of the Gennania Oub. the Warden. Applicants with a higher Professor Michael Carter, Deputy Vice­ degree or who are proceeding to Chancellor (Acadentic) of the University, 1. The following reports are available one will nonnally be preferred. A attended the function. from the Auchmuty library - Government small flat is available to the Deputy Warden at a nominal rate and a The Goethe Institute scholarship Publications Section: stipend based on 100 times the basic gives Mr Reindler die opportunity to study Visiting Fellowships in Canadian rent for a room is payable. the Gennan language at the Goethe lnsitut Government Laboratories. Applications should he made to the Warden,InternationalHouse, in Gottingen. . Grain Legumes Research Council: Five by Friday, November 9. The Gennania Oub provides Mr Year Research and Development Reindler with a retum air ticket to Plan 1989-1994. 7 Asia Link - education and training for screen links and Chambers case - suggesting that Mr Morgan's paper will be Australians are above the law in Asian publishedinthe Novemberissue of Asian

countries. II Studies Review. ASIALINK aims to strengthen Iinks between Australia and Asia by both improving the quality and increasing the Tae Kwon Do quantity of fihn and television material which each shows the other. "This means Gold knowing more about each other, and wanting to portray each other - and The University's Tae K won Do team ourselves - fairly and squarely, warts and has struck gold, silver and bronze in all", Mr Morgan said. the 1990 Intervarsity tournament held "At present many Australian in Sydney. producers just want to make basically Six members of the Newcastle Australian stories using Asia as an exotic Club participated in the 2nd national backdrop, and are then surprised that tournament held on the Macquarie nobody in the region want to pay to watch University campus and came am FrankMorgan -film links with Asia. their work. Which is exactly how we with two gold medals, one silve~ react wben American and European one bronze. Remember the television series Bangkok producers do the same to us. Australians President of the University's Hilton and the film The Year of Living wanting to establish themselves in Asia Taw Kwon Do Society, Mr David Dangerously? Were they evidence of a woulddomuchbettertotakeamarketing Wilks, said the mostly inexperi~ ~. rising awareness of Asia among AustrnIian approach and find out what theirpotential Newcastle team performed extreIM'.} film and television producers and well to carry away the four medals in audiences want to see. Already, factual audiences, or signs of their sensitivity to its first competition. television such as Beyond 2000 and The Asian issues and cultures? Ms Jacqueline Lee Curiosity Show sells well in Asia." These were among the issues (lightweight yellow division) and Mr On a positive note, Mr Morgan addressed by the Head of the University's David Soo (middleweight yellow observed that the skills and production Department of Visual Arts and Media division) both won gold, while Francis values of Australian film and television Studies, Mr Frank Morgan, at a recent Kolo (heavyweight black division) makers are highly regarded in the region. conference in Melbourne conducted by took out a silver medal. Our bronze "The Pakistanis would love to cover the Commission for the Future. The medal winner was Mr Stephen Cox cricket as well as Australia does. II Also, Commission's ASIALINK PRomcr, (middleweight red division). ~ in India, 20 percent of the population which is investigating Australia's cultural Sixty competitors fWo .. have been educated in English and are and economic Iinks with Asia, beld a Sydney, Macquarie, La Trobe, keen to have material in English to read search conference on ways to improve Monash and Newcastle Universities and hear and see. ''Formany - doe petbaps the images of Asia that appear in took part in the tournament where the to the ghosts of colonialism - Australian Australian film and television and those stan~. of sparring was high Ii' English is preferable to English or competition very keen. > of Australia that appear on Asian screens. American English." Mr Wilks says Newcastle did Mr Morgan was invited to speak on the Australian knowledge and very well overall, gaining five points basis of his recent research and consulting expettise in film and television production from six competitors compared to work in film and broadcasting in the is at least as attractive to Asia as the larger teams such as Sydney University Asia-Pacific region. programs we make. This makes education with 16 contestants gaining eqnivalent "Bangkok Hilton and The Year of and training a potential basis for building points. The toumamentwinnerforthe Living Dangerously actually say much Iinks for the future. "If Asians and second consecutive yearwasMonash more about Australia than they do about Australians learn their craft together, they whose 20 competitors compiled 12 Asia", Mr Morgan said. "The Year of will also learn to work together more points. Living Dangerously displays that arrogant productively in the future." "Newcastle's other two attitude of'they a1l1ook the same to me'. '18 there an audience fur AustrnIian competitors, Mr Darrel Sparke and The language in the film is supposed to be Mr Peter De Bie (yellow division), film and television in Asia, and for Asian Babasa Indonesia, but is in fact Tagalog, fought well but unfortunately didn't material in Australia?" asked the the vernacular language of The gain a place," Mr Wilks said. ASIALINKS Conference agenda The Philippines, where the film was shot - "All the members of the answer is definitely "yes". And while which offends both those northern Newcastle (Hwa Rang Do) team pass that will lead to greater understanding neighbours. Bangkok Hilton makes the on their thanks to instructor, Mr Ben between Asia and Australia, it also Thai authorities look nearly as bad (and Capotosto, for his guidance and depends on much greater sensitivity and nowhere near as smart) as the drug-traders support and the members are looking awareness of one another's customs and they are struggling to counter. As did forward to competing again next year." cultures. some of the media coverage of the Barlow • Myfh-in-Parts Evidence sought on Earth's crust togo on tour The very successful student photographic examination of Newcastle after the earthquake is to go on tour within New South Wales and interstate. The tour, for which details are still being finalised, was announced at the opening of the Myth-in-Parts exhibition by the New South Wales Minister for School Education and Youth Affairs, Mrs Virginia Chadwick. The Head of the Department of Visual Arts and Media Studies, Mr Frank 'l\Iorgan, told a large crowd at the opening '1ftat the 55 framed works comprising the exhibition would be on display in the Art Building Foyer Gallery until October 22. ."he exhibition is then likely to go to the Research Associate in Geology, Dr Paul from the Australian Research Council. '-"att Space Gallery in Newcastle, the Dirks, is working in the New England He is pictured at left with his Kodak Gallery and Works Gallery in area seeking to find vital clues to the associates in the research project, Lecturer, Sydney and then interstate venues. origin of continental crust. Dr Bill Collins and Senior Lecturer, Dr The subject of the unique Previously a PhD student at the Robin Offler. photographic exhibition is the City of University of Melbourne, Dr Dirks is Dr Dirks' efforts are directed at Newcastle which has withstood so much attached to the Department ofGeology as studying part of the SouthemNew England in the past year from the impact of last a postdoctoral researcher with support Fold Belt, north of Newcastle. This belt, December's earthquake to the loss of which fonns part ofthe eastern margin of importantgovernmentcontrac~. the Australian continent, evolved during The exhibition is the result of seven the Palaeozoic era (400 to 200 million (Jonths' work by 30 second year Bachelor "In some ways it's a statement on years ago). of Arts (Visual Arts) studen~ which the documentation of the earthquake", he The aim of the study is to unravel attracted major sponsors in Kodak says. the processes which led to the (Australasia) Pty. Ltd, O'Brien Glass, Mr James says the exhibition transfonnation of old ocean floor material ,C1/'HO Lamination and Novak Camera developed from five ideas, revolving into new continental crust. "House. around the myth of Newcastle in five The study will involve a detailed The 55 works explore the aftennath parts; a tale of workers, youth, enteIprise, investigation of the structure and of the Newcastle earthquake and the fringe society and earthquake. He says metamoIphism recorded in rocks which occur south-west of Walcha, as well as subsequent public attention given to the the works incoIpOrate collage, text and isotopic dating to determine the age ofthe city. The name of the exhibition alludes imagery, colour, multiple imagery, as well events which led to the formation of the to both those parts of the city which are as "straight" photography. crust. now missing, and to the mythology oflife "The theme of the earthquake Dr Offler said the processes which in Newcastle. threads through the works more as a occurred during the evolution of ancient The planning, research, taking and sensation than a statement. In this way production of photographs was conducted continental crust were operative today these proje~ become historic and useful around the Pacific Ocean, where plates under the direction of photography indicators of a genuine sense or feeling of lecturers, Ms Miranda Lawry, Mr Dave collided causing major earthquakes and time and place in Newcastle", he said. volcanic eruptions. Cubby and Mr Allan Chawner. Photos Mrs Chadwick congratulated the However, he said, the processes are predominantly black and white with participating stude~ on the strength of could not directly be observed as they some colour works included. work and obvious dedication. occurred deep within the Earth's crust. Spokesperson forthe studen~, Mr A fonner student and member of ''They can ouly be studied in areas Andrew James, says the exhibition is not Council herself, Mrs Chadwick said she like those in the New England area, where a conventional photo documentary project had a personal interest in the visual arts mountain building processes and but rather a collection of personal area and took enonnous pride to see wolks subseque.. enmon now expose the deeper statemen~. exhibiting such richness. parts of the crust". • Enrolments near 12,500 mark Visit of Dutch Total enrolments for the University of enrolments. Academics to Newcast1e this year have officially reached Tbe Central Coast campus at near the 12,500 marl<. Ourimbah has 186 students while nearly the Faculty of A total of 12,474 students are 650 who have their home address in the studying in courses 'across the board' Central Coast area are studying at the Architecture with students enrolledinBachelordegree main campus or the Conservatorium. courses far outstripping other categories. Tbe survey fignres are based on Tbere are also au additional 55 people students' current permanent home Two members of staff of the Faculty studying a subject at the University in postcodes for respective areas and the of Architecture of Delft University of order to finish a course in which they are accompauying schematic representation Technology in the Netherlauds were enrolled at auother institution. However, details the complete enrolment. hosted by the Faculty of Architecture these students are not recognised for Overall, the students are enrolled on October 15, 16aud 17. Department of Employment, Education in the following categories: Tbe purpose of the visit was to and Training purposes as University of Higher Degrees (PhD and study the experience ofthe Newcastle Newcastle enrolments. Masters), 577; other Postgraduate cours­ Architecture Faculty with problem­ Tbe fignres, released by the es,568; Bachelor Degrees, 9,495; other based learning over the past six years. University's Mauagement Information Undergraduate courses, 1,672; en­ Tbe Faculty of Architecture at Unit (MIlJ), show the largest drawing abling courses (Bridging), 76; Non-a. Delft is the largest in Holland, with area to be the City of Newcastle with courses, 86. some 2,000 students. 4,131 students followed by the City of Tbe survey reveals that 6,560 10 response to government Lake Macquarie with2,635 students. The females are enrolled in courses as pressure to improve the effectiveness Sydney metropolitan area comes in third comparedt05,914males. A total of8,~; of its courses, as well as cuts in fimding, with 1,297 students aud is closely follo­ students are classified as full-time wI1l} the Faculty has turned to problem­ wed by the Lower Hunter area with 1,134 3,268 are part-time and 271 are external. based learning, phasing in the new approach to all five ofits professional streams in architecture, building aud plamting over the next three years. Mr J au vau der W oord, Sub­ T.mworthlltow Enolond! For-NoI1b Coast 198 Deau for Educational Developments,

10 Important research device comes to Uni

Tbe Surface Physics Group iu the Faculty of Scieuce aud Mathematics has taken delivery of a scanniug tunnelling microscope, which has a number of importaut applications. The scanning tunnelling microscope (S1M) was funded by a graut of $129,200 from the Areas of Excellence Grauts made a few months ago. The recipients of the graut are Professor Ron MacDonald, Dr John O'Connor aud Dr Bruce King. The S1M is a powerful, yet simple, instrument capable of imagiug both electronic aud topographic surface structure with real-space atomic resolution in three dimensions. Surfaces that appear Ouureless under the scrutiny of optical or even electron microscopes, cau be Mr Guy Cotterill and Dr John O'Connor with the scanning tunnelling microscope. imaged with the S1M to reveal a whole new world of hills, valleys, atomic of electronic surface states characteristic atomic scale. rrogations, steps aud facets. of the surface under study. The studies will benefit greatly a The S1M was invented in the eady The scanning tunnelling from the experience of Mr Guy Cotterill, 1980s, at the mM Zurich Research microscope has been used forthe study of a PhD student. who has gaiued experience Laboratories, by Gerd Binnig and Heiurich a wide range of surfaces. already with the CSIRO by developing Rohrer, who were awarded the 1986 Nobel One of the most importaut and usiug the S1M that has been Prize iu Physics. applications of this new technique has purchased. Unlike traditional microscopes, in been iu the investigation of the surface (The BULLETIN is iudebted to which a beam of light or electrons is structure of semiconductors, such as Dr John O'Connor for this exposition of focused onto a sample, the S1M uses au silicon, gennanium aud gallium arsenide. the S1M and its applications.) extremely sharp tip to probe (without The S1M can provide detailed infunnation touching) the sample surface. about the atomic arrangements and o The principal of operation is based electronic make-up of these materials - on quautum phenomenon known as the iufonnation which will ultimately be tunnelling effect. When a small bias invaluable to the microelectronics industry voltage is applied between the tip and the for the production of smaller, faster and (\DIple, which are brought very close more reliable semiconductor devices. ~gether (less thau a millionth of a As well as the study of cleau millimetre), electrons cau 'tunnel' from conducting and semi-conducting surfaces, one to the other even though there is no it is also possible to image the effects of electrical contact! The amount of current electrochemical reactions under liquids that 1I0ws across this gap is highly sensitive and even biological specimens, such as to variations in the gap separation aud cau the double helix DNA structure. be used as a measure of the height of tip More down-to-earth applications above the surface. iuclude the study of data storage media, Images are taken by scanning the such as compact disks. On the disks, Sf" 13 He.castle G~aphite 2.9n" tip over the surface while a feedback music is digitally encoded by a series of Z SCALE = 2.686 nA XY SCALE = 2." nM circuit adjusts the tip height to maintain a pits. The S1M has been used to mouitor constaut current. The trajectory of the tip the integrity of the pits, which is essential will then map out the topography of the for high fidelity playback. surface with a vertical resolution as high A similar study has also been made as a billionth of a millimetre. of the Captain Cook diffraction grating Spectroscopic, as well as on the $10 note. topographic, infonnation is also available. The Surface Physics Group will If, instead of scauniug the tip, the bi.as use tbe device to extend its measurements voltage is varied, the current spectrum of the structure of the surfaoe on au atomic will display a number of peaks. The scale aud measure how adsorbates, or ion position of the peaks maps out the energy bombardment, modify the structure on au II Australian studies in Japan University Computing Services Help Desks

A new Help Desk is now operating in the Hunlet Bnilding, Room Al00 from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm weekdays (telephone 68 7631). This new Help Desk is in addition to that in the McMullin Building, Room AG24b from 9 am to 5 pm weekdays (teIepbone 685692). The Help Desks are operated by our friendly Help Desk Advisers, Ms Kim Jenkins, Ms Lyn Sinclair and Ms Judy Wallace. You can receive help by caI1ingin person, telephoning or by sending electronic mail to CCHE" I on computers CC or WOMBAT. Professor Masami Sekine, Dr Hendry Chan, Assoc. Professor Kiyoharu Ono and the All initial computing enquiries President of the Australia-Japan Society, Newcastle, Emeritus Professor Laurie Shart. should be addressed to the Help Desk. Those that carmot be handled by tJIi.,,: I Professor Masami Sekine, a special Australian studies could be further Help DeskAdvisers will bereferred'b adviser to the' Embassy of Japan in developed in Japan. an "expert" in the appropriate field Canberra and an expert on the teaching of He said a leading role in promoting Examples of queries dealt with are: Australian Studies in Japan, visited the Australian Studies in Japan could be software problems with personal University on October 15. played by Australian scholars and there computers and multi-user computers, Professor Sekine presented a might be opportunities for experts from such as CC, WOMBAT and PRIME seminar for the Standing Committee ou the University of Newcastle to take part. requests for purchase of software Asian Studies at lunchtime and a seminar The seminar in the Japanese creation of computer accounts for the Japanese Sec1ion of the Department Section was conducted entirely in hardware fault reporting. of Modem Languages in the afternoon. Japanese and was attended by 36 people. The Help Desk service is available. At night, in Newcastle City HaIl, he gave Professor Sekine advised students to all University staff, researchers 4., ) a public lecture for the Standing to specialise in two fields of study - to coursework students. However Committee on Asian Studies. Japanese language and another discipline. problems specific to coursework Professor Sekine is Professor of He argued that a wide range of assignments should be directed to the Sociology and Australian Studies at Keio fields should be pursued by students aod lecturer or tutor concerned. University in Tokyo. He has translated not merely those generally considered to several books on Australian polities. produce money. He was attached to the University He also warned that students from of New South Wales, with support from Australia might have some disadvantage the Australia-Japan Founda1ion, from in getting scholarships for their 1980 to 1983. In 1983 Keio University undergraduate studies in Japan. instituted both undergraduate and "This is due to the Japanese view postgraduate courses in Australian Studies that education is the responsibility of the ll in the Faculty of Law and Poli1ies. parents t he said IIThey, therefore, think. Professor Sekine's course at Keio that priority should be given to students has been successful in attracting large from poor nations, where the parents enrolments. It deals with Australian carmot afford to send their children to industrial relations, immigration, poli1ies, Japan for their education". etc. After the seminar the participants He said that although several proceeded to a Japanese Tea Ceremony. Remember, the Old Wares $hoppe, 3 Beaumont Srreet, Islinglon. tertiary institutions in Japan offered To the BULLETIN, Professor Opening Times: 11 am to 4.30 pm Tues­ courses in aspects of Australian Studies Sekine commented: "The standard of days to Sundays) aod the Australia-Japan Foundation was Japanese at this University appears to be It's worth a look!! Telephone: 611714 active maintaining an AustraIiana library higher than that in Canberra. I was qnite in Tokyo as well as providing grants aod impressed that students here are genuinely scholarships to Japanese scholars, interested in learning Japanese language".

11 who have assisted me during this yearand Chair slipped - rescued by tellow particulady in the Library, where it would students have been impossible to do my research without their help. The door was impossibly hard to open, and I had to seek assistance from the taxi driver to enter the building. I arrived wet, stressed and asking myself "am I really Careers night going to cope with this?" The earthquake had made its mark tor chemistry on campus, as it had done in the city. For instance, there were barriers to footpath students access outside the Drama Theatre with a detour down some steps. My alternative About 50 final year Chemistry route from Geography to other parts of students and members of staff the campus involved a detour back down attended a careers night in the Union the path to the road wbere I had to compete recently. with the traffic. This was a horrendous Talks were given by the experience, particularly at night, and I University's Careers Officer, Ms frequently considered the odds of being Helen Parker, and two graduates of struck by a fast moving car to that of the Department, Ms Elizabeth Ms Mary Cameron being hit by a falling brick. Keegan (Honours Class I, 1987) and My first trip to the Library, on a Mr Peter Henderson (Honours Class Ms Mary Cameron became interested in very wet day, introduced me to the 1,1989). (j)he Open Foundation Course, the treacherous little path through the Ms Keegan, who is a University's mature age program, in shrubbery. Having followed the sigu Scientific Officer with CRA December,1989. This article, she says, is "wheelchairs", I found myself near the Advanced Technical Development, not a "litany of complaint", but merely a top of a set of steps and searched for an and Mr Henderson, who worlcs with short chronicle of her thoughts and alternative route. The little path, which Century Oils, described their experiences as a mature age has a sharp comer with a steep camber, experiences in industry and the student with a physical disability in this was covered in dead leaves and extremely transition from university studies. 1990 academic year. slippery and my chair slithered down and They stressed the advantages I chose English Language and jumped the small curb. Some of my of having an Honours degree for the AustraiianHistory as my area ofstudy. In fellow students came to my rescue and extra maturity and experience it ~ruary, I contacted the Open Foundation hauled my chairbackonto the path, while brings and, especially, through the administration office to enquire about I endeavoured to recover some measure challenge of writing a major thesis. accessibility of venues and was advised of composure. Employers, realising the benefits of that I would have to attend lectures in my During my exercise with the an Honours degree, are insisting •.,.,chosen subjects on Wednesdays, as they Campus Access Committee, I have increasingly on this qualification for Q:/Would be held in lecture theatre R04 (all discovered two accessible toilets (in the development work. other lecture accommodation would be Great Hall and the Mathematics BniIding) The occasion was also used inaccessible). As a result, I had to re· and access to the Student Union bniIding to present prize certificates to the arrange my timetables for personal care, by a precarious path. It is a pity the students who gained first places in study leave and SPV (Special Purpose administration people were unable to assist Semester One Chemistry subjects. Vehicle) taxi to suit the new timetable. me with information on these areas when They are: G. Caffrey The orientation evening was I enquired before the commencement of (ChemlOI), A·M. Stephenson interesting, but, unfortunately, due to the the first semester, as it would have made (Chem201), M. Nobbs (Chem203 information supplied regarding the length a considerable difference to my year. and Chem205), C.l. Davies of proceedings, I had booked my taxi for There are two final points about (Chem301), AM Gmth (Chem303). 9 pm and had to leave before meeting my accommodation which I would like to L.G. Evans (Chem305 and lecturers and fellow students. I felt mention and which, if improved, will Chem307). somewhat deprived on this occasion. make a considerable difference for The Head of the Department The first day of term one was a students in the future. Firstly, the lack of of Chemistry, Dr Kevin Bell, said very wet day. I arrived by taxi with time facilities for a wheelchair in the lecture the students enjoyed the opportunity to spare before my first English Language theatres (which means sitting alone in to talk informally over snacks and lecture. The taxi driver, believing he front of the class) leads to a feeling of drinks with the speakers and staff. It could deposit me at the entrance to R04, isolation from fellow students and is a was the second of the annual careers went to endless trouble driving along barrier to interaction; and secondly, the nights and their success ensured their pathways and making enquiries before I lack of a writing surface has varying continuation. finally alighted near the Post Office and detrimental effects on the student. made my way to the Geography Building. Fmally, I must thank all the people " A memorable and successful dinner

Nelson Kinder

The 1990UnionDinnerwastypicalofthe event - full of goodwill and friendliness - Seeding grants for researchers from former HIHE but most of all it was historic. The University has allocated $135,930 in Oasses, $10,000. It was the last Union Dinner before grants to researchers from the fonner the new Board of Management assumed Hunter Institute of Higher Education. L>rJ. Archer (Department of Educational responsibility for the amalgamated student The grants are for 28 research Studies), Achievement Goals as Measures unions. projects and have been made from a one­ of Motivation in Secondary and Tertiary Several members of the Board that off allocation of $200,000. Education, $1,000. governed the Union when it commenced The Dean of Research, Professor Geoffrey Kellerman, said the purpose of L>r S. Crump (Department of Educational operations at Shortiand in 1966 attended. the special vote was to provide grants to Studies), Evaluation ofTeacherTraining An apology was received from the encourage research by members of staff and Curriculum Outcomes, $7,300. 1966 President, Mr Bruce Humphries, in the Schools of Administration and and Mr Michael Nelson spoke instead. Technology, Education, Health and Visual Dr P. Foreman (Special Educatipp (He is pictured toasting the Union.) and Performing Arts. Centre), Parental Perception of use.' ) The President of the Board, Ms He said the grants were intended Availability of Services for OIildren wlth Alisoo Kinder, who has been re-elected to help members of staff to develop Moderate or Severe Intellectual Disability, for a second term, presented Life sustainable research programs that in the $2,500 and Design and Evaluation of Membership to Mrs Ada Staader, who longer term, achieved funding support Computer based Instructional Autho~ retired recently after 24 years' service to from external sources. Systems for Students withSpecialN~.; the Union. "In the course of allocating this $9,000. Ada's former colleagues, Mrs money I had the pleasure of having discussions with all the applicants and I Mr T. Fullerton (Educational Studies), Freda Bartlett and Mrs Daphne Gray, was very interested in the potential of a The Effects of Teachers' Cognitiooal who have also retired, were specially number of projects to yield valuable Knowledge about Teaching 00 Oassroom included in the guests to give Ada a research results. Behaviour and Student Achievement, surprise. "I hope that the allocation of $4,500. Mr Ivan Irwin, SecretarytManager seeding money by the University will of the Union at the time of the enable the researchers to build on their Dr E.J. Manning (Department of establishment of the University, also current ideas and achieve adequate Educational Studies), Student Admission attended. funding from various sources to achieve and Scores and Progression Indicators, Mr Justin Tamsell, former their full potential", Professor Kellerman $5,500. President of the Student Union of the said. former Hunter Institute, who has been A sub-committee of the Research Mr F M. Celtlan (Department of FIne elected Vice-President of the Board, Management Committee of Academic Art), ExhibitiooExpenses for a One Man moved the toast to the University. Senate considered and determined Exhibition in Sydney and a 20 Year applications for grants under the fund. Survey. $4,000. Smiling broadly in our picture is The successful applicants and their Professor Godfrey Tanner, Master of projects: MsPA.Adams(DepartmentofFtneArt), Ceremonies, who was presented with a Solo Exhibition, $3,000. special blazer and made the first Patron of Ms J A. Allen (Department of Educational the Union Professor Tamer was honoured Studies), The New Mathematics K-6 Mr G. Gilchrist (Department of FIne Art), for his 15 years' service to the Board. Syllabus, and Evalualioo of Single Sex Public Art - Public Mooument, $8,000. 14 winner the opportunity to study aspects MrG.W.Jones (Department ofFine Art), Dr AM. Nicholas (Social Health and of public broadcasting overseas. Sacred Rock Art of the Yengo District, Community Studies), A Further Mr Ford said he would be looking New South Wales, $8,000. Investigation of Grief States of Parental at Canadian broadcasting, with an Couples: Congenital Handicap and Cot emphasis on community and educational Mr F.G. Morgan (Department of Visual Death, $5,000. Arts and Media Studies), World of Work: radio. An Alternative Approach to Television Dr R. Sequeira (Applied Sciences), A "The Canadian broadcasting Production for Regional Australia, $9,000. Pilot Study on the Sampling ofHydrogen system is similar to ours, in that there are Sulphide Gas in the Newcastle Area, distinct commercial, publicly-funded, and Mr P.W. Singleton (Department of Fine $2,000. community sectors", Mr Ford said. Art), Participation in Five Groups "In some respects we are ahead of Exhibition in the Hunter Region during Dr J. Schiller (Educational Studies), the Canadians, particuiarlyin the number 1990, $1,000. Lecturer/futor Perceptions of Issues of community stations on air, butin other Involved in Teaching Units/Modules! Mr W.P. Galvin (Department of Courses in an Off-campus Mode, $3,500. areas they seem to be ahead of us. rm Information Technology and Quantative keen to have a look at CJRT-FM, the Methods), A Pilot Study to Develop Ms J A. Wells (Visual Arts and Media educational station in Toronto, which is Computer illustrated Textual (CIT) Studies), The Arts and UIban Renewal in heavily involved with formal distance Material in Mathematics, $5,800. Newcastle, $3,000. education". "CJRT operates with a $2 million Mr F. Huang (Department of Cultural "r P A. Johnston (Departmem of Applied annual budget - half of which comes Sciences), Effect of MOIphine and and Curriculum Studies), Accelerated from the government of Ontario". MOIphine Withdrawal on Substance P, Learning Theory and Practice in Chinese $5,030. Language Teaching (Mandarin), $4,000. Mr Ford said Canada had developed community television through ~s V M. Nie (Department of Applied Radio award to 2NUR the cable system, while community Sciences), Technique for Endotoxin television in Austra1ia was still at the Estimation in Chicken Growing Sheds, staffer experimental stage. and Environmental Assessment of Last year's QANTAS Award was Chicken Growing Sheds, $2,800. For the third year in succession, the won by 2NUR's Technical Officer, Mr QANTAS Award for Excellence in Public Dr Shah (Department of Applied Chris Burnat, who studied sub-carrier Sciences), Radiation Dose Associated Broadcasting has been won by a staff transmissions in the United States. (Sub­ with a Chest X-ray, $7,000. member of 2NUR. carrier allows an FM radio station to 2NUR's Program Manager, Mr broadcast one or more additional siguals Mr D. Arthur (Department of Nursing), Steve Ford, was presented with the award for special-putpOse broadcasts.) ~ Provision of a Nursing Respite Service at the recent annual conference of the The 1988 Award was taken out by tOLowertheReadmissionRatesofLong­ Public Broadcasting Association of Mr Brett Gleeson, 2NUR's Station term Psychiatric Patients, $3,500. Austra1ia. Manager. Mr Gleeson studied fundraising The QANTAS award allows the for public radio in the United States. ~¥s M.D. McEniery (Department of \tj~ursing Studies), Ethnic Women as Carers: Health Implications, $3,000.

Mr A. Moanaem (Department of Health Studies), Health Behaviours in Selected Aboriginal Commwrities in the Hunter Region, $3,500.

Mr A. O'Brien (Departmem of Nursing Studies), Violence in Australian Community Mental Health Settings, $2,500.

Dr S.T. Rozario (Department of Social Health and Community Studies), Health and Fertility Behaviour of Muslim Women in Australia, $3,500.

Ms Y. Webb (Department of Physical Health Sciences), A Cross Over Intervention to Investigate the Factors Contributing to Compliance in a Weight Loss Program, $9,000. M r Steve Ford " Newcastle Uni takes conference Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir,

I wondered how long it would he until a committee was set up to awanl prizes for University teaching. They seem to he a joke at most universities which have them, and it is not hard to see why. More often than not the prizes go to the most popular academics rather than the hest teachers. Having a few drinks with the students afiera lecture (or field trip, etc) can count far more than a properly scholarly presentation of advanced knowledge. I was once lectured to by the great W.W. Sawyer, author of a number of books popularising mathematics. Sol.'" of bis lectures were a tour-de·force "I!I)' we all thought they were marvellous. H~ The University of Newcastle scooped the under the supervision of Professor Saxon made mathematics seem so easy I He pool with the allocation of awards at the Wbite. would have won a teaching prize hands Australian Sports Medicine Foundation's Dr Brown said she hoped that the down (had there been one). But later ~\ (ASMFs) annual conference held in Alice recognition associated with the awanl when the sheer luminosity of !Vi Springs recently. would help to persuade the University to performance had faded from our minds, The awanl for hest conference continue the Re-entry Fellowshlp scheme. we found that we had not grasped as paper went to Dr Wendy Brown and Ms Dr Brown recently chaired the much of the basic material as we had Adele Buchanan received the young committee which organised the successful imagined investigators' awanl. Women in Sport Conference. She has On the other hand the Professor of It is bighly unusual for two of the accepted the position of Convenor of the Mathematics, a dour old Scot, was a ASMF's awards to he won by researchers National Medicine and Science for terrible lecturer and it was a constant from the same university and even more Women in Sport Committee of the ASMF. struggle to follow what went on. After unusual for the recipient of any awanl to Ms Buchanan, who is a PhD each lecture we had to study the lext~~ he female. student at this University, won her awanl and expand our class noleS into somethlV} A student from the University of for her paper entitled Teenage Ballet we could understand. I know who we Western Australia won the third prize Dancers as a Model of the Female Athlete: would have voted for for a teaching prize. made at the conference. This was for the Sensitivity of Endocrine Control of the But in retrospect, I learned more, and hest paper presented by a medical student. Menstrual Cycle to Exercise. learned it more thoroughly, and ret~) i Dr Brown and Ms Buchanan are The young investigators' awanl it longer, from the dour Professor. !!! exercise scientists from the Human aims to encourage research by young So, I helieve that Prizes for Performance Laboratory in the Faculty of scientists in the areas of sports medicine, Teaching may not he such a good thing. Medicine. Each has heen woIking closely exercise science and physiotherapy Especially if they are awanled by popular with the Hunter Academy of Sport, wbich through funding oftravel to the American VOle. contributed to the cost of their fares to College of Sports Medicine National But recognition for good teaching Alice Springs. Conference in the year following the is long overdue in this University. The At the conference, a total of 92 ASMF conference. academics who put their effort into papers from the disciplines of sports Next year the ACSM conference teaching rather than research have medicine, exercise science and will he held in Orlando, in Rorida, and generally had a raw deal from all quarters physiotherapy were presented The theme will offer Ms Buchanan the chance to (except from the better students who was Sporting Performance Through the meet with some of the world's foremost appreciate their dedication). Ages. researchers in her area of interest (The What,then,shouldwedo? Maybe Dr Brown, one of the University's prize is donated by Organon Ply. Ltd, I will raise the ire of some of my colleagues foundation Re-entry Fellows, has resumed makers of Mirudoid.) by suggesting it, but I would be quite her research after fulfilling family The paper included some of the prepared to be periodically, and without commitments. worlc catried out by Ms Buchanan as part warning, inspected during my lectures Her paper was a review of worlc of her BSc Honours research project last provided the inspector had the necessary completed by her as part of her doctoral year, which was fundedpartly by Linganl experience and impartiality to command studies from 1979 to 1983, and subsequent Hospital and partly by the Hunter my respect and provide an assessment of research in exercise physiology catried Academy of Sport. my performance that would assist me to out in the Human Performance Laboratory 16 or become a better lecturer. A panel of five Students vote with their feet. as head of the University's branch of the experienced, but not too senior, staff Perhaps these more enlightened students PSA recently. He resigned as Assistant members could probably do a pretty good who are defecting from the humanities to Secretary and Ms Nanette. Bryant was job ofjudging their colleagues. After all, commerce (if indeed, it is true) realise elected to the position. we have our colleagues judge our research that both the Gulf Crisis and envirnnmentsl Mr Hunter said the AustraIia without the sky falling. issues are as much to do with "shuffling Reconstructed document, adopted by the And there is another angIe. It is money" as with anything else. ACTU in 1987, committed unions to a important forthe students to feel that they It does not take a trained "money tripartite collaboration with government get a fair deal, which does not happen shuffler" to realise that as education is and business to attempt to resolve national when lectures are arbitrarily cancelled, commercialised and the cost to students economic problems by national strategies truncated or switched to non-timetabled of tertiary studies rises, students will tend aimed at increasing the competitiveness periods upon little or no notice. I would to elect those areas which have the of the AustraIian economy in the world support an audit system across the potential for providing substantial future market. University to ensure that lectures that are incomes. I have no doubt that we would "Given the international nature of supposed to be given are in fact delivered "lose" legions of students to the Medical contemporary production this approach to those who are now paying their taxes Faculty if the profession's barriers to entry may seem blinkered and utopian", he forthem. were removed. said, "but, for the moment, it does govern Do these things, and we academics the kinds of negotiation that the unions ~anwithfullmoraljustificationscreamat Dr Winston Dunlop, generally find themselves engaged in. ~e lack ofsalary justice and deteriorating Dean, Faculty of Economics and liThe national wage cases, since work conditions we are currently Commerce the abandonment of reliance on CPI sufferiug. factors, bave all involved demands for increased productivity and changes to f$:solin Keay, PSA's main work conditions and practices as the price 'IlifDepartment of PhySICS agenda items for wage rises. "The award restructuring negotiations now in progress are a Dear Sir, continuation of the four per cent trade­ offs and the six per cent structural The views attributed to Dr Peter Hendry, efficiency principle deals. the new Deputy Chancellor, concerning "The current industrial situationis the role of Commerce within this characterised chiefly by change, and it is University in developing the "needed fresh easy to experience this as a renunciation. ~proach and ... ways to ensure that the We do not live in stable times", Mr Hunter ~niversity has a bright future" said. "Our ability to retain what we value (BULLETIN No.16) are disturbing, to and to obtain what we desire depends on say the least. It is not unusual for some our readiness to change. We must become professions to see their particular the makers of change to ensure it is to our ~Jisciplines and interests as the fountains advantage", ¥rom which all wisdom spriugs. However, Issues which faced the general it would be unfortunate ifsuch prejudices staff of the University in the forthcoming were to dictate the future directions ofour Mr Ron Hunter, period would repeatedly present the University. new PSA Chairperson demand for a willingness to change the I am not perturbed by the labelling way we organised and perfurmed, he said of areas of study within the University as Job evaluation, a review of the staff "The award restructuring process "those of strength" and, by implication, establishment and uniform conditions for and the making of a Federal Award for "those not of strength". lbis is not a new staff of the old University and the former general staff in AustraIian universities pastime. What is of major concern is the Hunter Institute are some of the chief will reqnire usduriug 1991 to investigate suggestion that the contribution to the issues the University's Departmental the way we staff the University, the way University's educative processes by the Committee of the PSA expects to be tasks and responsibilities are distributed, Faculty of Economics and Commerce is dealing with. and the levels of remuneration applied to to prepare students to "shuffle money". Mr Ron Hunter, the committee's the vatious classifications. We are not amused. newly-elected Chairperson, said that in "A preIirninary document on this Dr Hendry describes the loss of order to carry out the PSA's objectives it is available from the PSA's office on students to the humanities as a "tragedy". was necessary to call for a higher level of campus, in Room Ul of the Temporary Maybe it is, but to argue that students involvement and commitment from Buildings. should study history in order to understsod members of the Union generally than had "Career paths need to be extended the Gulf Crisis; and study geography to been reqnired to date. - no-one deserves to be stuck in a dead­ understand environmental issues seems Mr Hunter, a Studio Craftsperson end job. Staff must have access to training to me to be overly simplistic. in Ceramics, sucoeeded Ms Carol Sjostedt to further their professional development", -- t7 Mr Hunter said. Granting Body Date J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships: During 1991, the PSA would (To Office for Research) History of art and the humanities, October negotiate a job evaluation study, with full 29. staff participation, to establish the true Grants with closing date: Natural Sciences and Engineering nature of the wolk being perfonned and Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Research Council ofCanada, November the staffing needs of the institution. Foundation, October 31,1990- 21. The PSA would press for an annual Arthritis, diabetes, schizophrenia, lung A limited number of international staff establishment review - a procedure diseases (excluding cancer) and fellowships for tenure in Canadian familiar to fonner Hunter Institute staff, medical applications of genetic research. universities. but not comprehensively implemented as Wellcome Australia Medal and Award, Oxford NujJieldMedical Fellowship 1991: a fonnal review by the fonner University. November 7, 1990 - Human health. Univeristy of Oxford, England, clinical An annual classification review Department of Community Services and assistantship, November 30. similar to that currently running would Health General Practice Canadian Studies, Faculty Enrichment also be sought, Mr Hunter said. Evaluation Program, November7, 1990. Awards (FEA), January 17, 1991. "The anniversary of the University To assist academics in developing and on November I will find us with, at long Research grants and teaching courses about Canada in tbeir last, an agreement on the conditions for seeding grants for 1991 own discipline. the IIansfer of staff from the funner tertiary ATERB (Australian Telecommunication institutions and on a committee to review and Electronics Research Board) Grants with No Closing Date "'l amalgamation anomalies". November 20. DlTAC International Science aM!..­ Much wolk remained to be done Technology Travel Grants. in the difficult area of creating unifonn Grants-in-Aid of Research Apply at any time but at least six conditions, but it was a job that must be Dairy Research & Development weeks prior to intended travel. tackled with energy and resolve. Corporation, November 21. Education and Training Foundation 0) Unifonnity of wolking conditions was Research which will benefit the Dairy BHP Community Trust. essential for the indushial life of an Industry. RADGAC Department of Community integrated University. ResearchManagementCommiueeAreas Services and Health Medical research "As the University continues to ofResearch Excellence, November 30. and Targeted research areas. restructure and integrate its functions, the To lift the research profile of the PSA will need to examine its own University and enable researchers to atttact Research Management Committee wolkplace organisation", Mr Hunter said large external research grants. Travel Grants "It would be my wish to see union sub­ Research Management Committee committees established which would Pig Research and Development Corp. Research Visitors involve the general membership in more 1991-92 Grants, December 10. Child Accident Prevention FOUndati())) of the negotiation process". Proposals are considered within: ofAustralia. . As a counter-move to the production, processing, operations Funding/Support in the area of application by FAUSA for coverage of research, information and com­ accidents and invervention strategies: all University staff nationally, the PSA, munications, human resources. Telecom Research Funding ~. through its federal, union would be For Centres of Expertise or short te~ conducting a recruiunent drive on campus Australia Council Aboriginal Arts, R&D. in the very near future. Community Cultural depending on area Staffhad been seconded in Sydney of development, literature, performing More bus services to oversee the drive and a call had been arts, grant between March, visual arts! Additional bus trips of benefit made for volunteers to assist. It was time craft and December. Some areas have to students and staff were for the union to maximise its strength and no closing date. introduced on October 8. organise itself to confront what amounted Cancer Council Travel Grants-in-Aid The additional trips are: to an attempt to liquidate it, Mr Hunter March 21 and September 20. said Route 239 To attend overseas conferences or extra trip from Tbe Junction to institutions each year. Pig Research and to tbe University at 10.13 am. Office for Research Development Corp Travel Grants, Route 366 February 20, June 20 or September 20. extra trip from Behnont to the University at 9.40 am. Infonnation on the following grants is Fellowships Route 106 contained in 'NEWS' onthe V AXcluster. AustralianAcademy ofScience, Overseas extra trip from Mayfield shops to Further information and relevant Exchanges: China, November 26. Birmingham Gardens at 10.50 am. application fonns are available from the Route 106 Office for Research - telephone 685302. Fullbright Awards: varies September to extra hip from Binningham Gardens November. For study, research and to Mayfield shops at 9.45 am. lecturing in the United States of America. " Environmental Survival environments. Dr Bridgman says that by the year into the 21 st Century 2000 half of hnmanity will live in cities, towards the 21st century the following and in developing countries cities will general scenarios for atmospheric grow by three-quarters of a billion people. pollution can be expected: Urban areas cannot handle present • There will be an increase in the amount problems, such as sanitation, clean air, of pollutants transported long distances clean water, and transport, let alone a into the Arctic and Antarctic, with massive increase in people over the next subsequent reductions in visibility and decade. impacts on polar radiation budgets; There must be more successful • Cloud water acidity will increase; efforts to !intit population growth, through • Pollutant emissions from developments education, through econontic incentive, in the tropics will increase. These will and, if necessary, through legislation, he spread more widely around the globe asserts. through deeper convective activity in Global Air Pollution: Problems tropical areas; for the 1990s agrees with several radical • Secondly chemical processes will approaches to ensure environmental increase in the atmosphere, created by survival, including: increased precursor emissions, and • The more affluent countries must adopt anthropogenic influences will affect a lifestyle that is based on efficient use of The challenge for the 1990s will be to greater areas of the globe; resources rather than waste, and that allows n-find multinational solutions to major • The increase in secondary aerosols will sustainable development within the ~nvironmental problems, such as global increase shortwave radiation scattering planet's ecological means. Financingand air quality, which will be acceptable to, across the globe; development of renewable resources, such and implemented by, all. • Greenhouse-gas concentrations will as solar and wind energy, must receive This will require greater co­ continue to rise and climatic effects will top priority. International competition operation between nations than ever be better defined by the year 2000. for the highest econontic standard of living befOre, particularly among developed and He says that in their desire to is no longer relevant; developing countries, and the eIimination overcome massive debt and to be • The massive debts incurred by the of the concept of exploitation for economic financially independent, the developing developing countries, owed to the richer gain. nations are largely ignoring air quality nations, must be cancelled in favour of a -. This is the chief conclusion of and other environmental problems. It is more controlled financial support scheme (}IJf9lobal Air Pollution: Problems for the therefore likely that major new pollution that will encourage development at 1990s. a new book published by Belhaven threats will come from developing nations ntinimal cost to resources and a reasonable Press, of London. in the 1990s and in the 21st century. payback level. The author, Dr Howard Bridgman, It will not be easy, but, with The book sells for $28 in paperback ()t.cting Head of the Department of consideration, co·operation and and $69 in hardcover. Geography, has used knowledge gained communication on anintematiooal scale, by participating in many air quality pethaps some progress can he made toward research projects and teaching a third minimising global air pollution. year course on air pOllution. He presents In the 1990s focus must be on: an overview of major air pollution • Improving measurements and models problems which will affect the world in to gain a greater understanding of global the next 10 years. air quality problems, allowing the Chapters include acid rain, the information to be used for long range threat to stratospheric ozone, increasing planning and management; tropospheric oxidants, aerosols, carbon • Controlling global popUlation and dioxide and trace gas warming, nuclear negating the present widening econontic winter, long range transport of air gap between rich and poor countries, such pollutants, and urban air quality. that income from resource development The book should be suitable to can be shared more equally across the support undergraduate and graduate air globe; pollution and environmental problems • Developing pathways toward sustainable courses at university level in geography, development which will use resources environmental studies, engineering, for econontic benefit while ensuring chemistry, and social sciences. proper protection of the atmospheric, Dr Howard Bridgman. Dr Bridgman writes that looking hydrospheric, biospheric, and lithospheric ,. telephone 26 1404 any time for an Objectives met, but record stands incredible bargain.

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Femtree, near Hobart. Four-five bedroom timber and stone family home. Available eariyDecember, 1990. Rental: $165per week. Lease negotiable. Ten kilometres to the University of Tasmania and city centre (glorious water and mou~n views). Please telephone (002) 291, )}!J Mr Peter Brown with Recreation and Tourism students during the attempt on the (Hobart) or (065) 52 7129 (Taree). world record. Although the world record for a sand budgeting, programming, negotiating Wanted sculpture remains intact, the attempt on sponsorship deals and handling the media the record made at Bar Beach on October were all utilised by students in their Fender Slmt (or copy) with rose~ 14 was a success in educational terms. organisation of the event". fingerboard. In any condition (almost) About 400 sandmodellers Telehone Steve 687 443. managed, despite a huge surf, to build a Advertisements sand serpent one kilometre long. This was a great deal shorter than the longest sand sculpture listed in The Guinness For Sale Renovation ~ Book of Records - modelled at Great Pre-Christmas Yarmouth in England. Violin: Schmidt standard, case and bow The world record attempt was (full size and fully renovated), 1920s Circa. Cost price sale (» named Sandfest by the organisers, 35 Asking price: $500. Please telephone 83 Lots of gift lines, cards, toy Recreation and Tourism students from 1221. and clothing the University and members of the Life at Be In It organisation. Falcon XF station wagon (S Pak) with It was a family fun day and air-conditioning, power steeting, and rust The Shortland Union Gif\ 1); included the launch of the 1991 Life Be [n proofed (immaculate condition). Shop .J [t calendar, displays by environmental Registration: NUW270. Asking price: Be earlyll groups and fun activities for children in $11,500. Please telephone 68 7290. Cook's Hill surf clubhouse. As a result ofteams ofparticipants Pram/stroller, $40; Baby Safe'n Sound buying plots of sand for $5 each, $200 car seat, $50 (both items are in good was raised for the hunter Life Education condition). Please telephone 52 2462 Centre at Edgeworth. after 6 pm. The Organiser, MrPeterBrown, a Senior Lecturer in Recreation and Epson Pc AX2 computer: 40MB HDD Tourism, said it was rare for students (28ms voice coil), 5.25" and 3.5" FDDs, from the Tourism and Recreation program 8 and 12 MHz, extended ECM VGA to actually practise what they preached. Monitor, Genoa Super VGA Adapter (600 Sandfest had offered such an opportunity, x 800), extended 10 I Keyboard, Epson he said. LX-400 Printer (9 pin dot matrix), "As part of their course, first year MSDOS 3.3, GW basic, DOS help, DOS students are required to organise a 'Special utilities, Menu system, Microsoft Works. Event', with a view to their developing a This computer is brand new and worth range of professional skills in a 'real world' around $5,000. Owner going overseas setting. and must sell by November. Asking "Skills such as marketing, price: $3,500 (negotiable). Please