MONASH REPORTER

AMAGAZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY

Registered by Australia Post - publication No. VBG0435 NUMBER 2·86 APRIL 4, 1986 Curbing the wrath of a tropical storm About 40 per cent of Australia's export earnings come from a huge but lillie-studied part of the country, the tropics, which is subject to dry spells, severe storms and long periods of heavy rain. The most important tropical indus­ Gulf of Carpentaria from late Septem­ tries - mining, off-shore oil and gas, ber to Decem ber. fishing, agriculture and tourism - are The Monash research group have put highly weather-dependent. up the idea that it is caused when While the threat of cyclones is ever­ easterly on-shore winds blowing off the present, sudden storms or extreme wet Pacific Ocean at the base of Cape York seasons can also cause significant Peninsula develop a front which in the economic and social disruption. early morning collides almost head-on So the Bureau of Meteorology with a corresponding front developed by Research Centre has organised the Aus­ the westerly on-shore breezes as they tralian Monsoon Experiment, the most move inland from the Gulf. extensive study of Australian tropical What would then occur is similar to' weather ever mounted. two waves meeting at the seaside travel­ And slaff and postgraduate students ling in opposite directions. Where they rrom the Applied Section or the Monash meet. water is pushed up and settles • A male ii Mathematics department are playing a back either side or the join. Cold air Monash University'S growth and development - how sculptor, Matcham Skipper, of Montsalvat, saw the image of the University's first 25 years. He describes the medallion he very significant role in it. would be lifted up in a like manner to The study will be conducted in two has designed for presentation to staff who have reached the 25-year mark (see page 2) as form the Morning Glory disturbance, an "upward moving, growing form". He says: "It's in planes. soft textures, not a gee; phases. the first running for 15 days in the team argues. metrical, digital thing_" Cast in bronze and mounted as shown, it will be "soft, subtle and October-November at the end of the dry inoffensive" among antiques or in modern houses. Mr Skipper also designed the University season and the second for 30 days in the • Continued P.6 Mace. Photo - Julie Fraser. wet season months of January and February next year. It will involve a permanent upgrading of the meteorological observation net­ work in northern Australia and will bring together data collecled by that network and at specially established weather stations on land with informa­ tion collected by satellite, the Australian Institute of Marine Research oceano­ graphic vessel, and sophisticated research aircraft from the CSIRO. the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Flinders University. The experiment has been designed to find out as much as possible about the phenomenon, known as the North Aus­ tralian Cloud Line. and its effect. and also about the relationship between tropical storms and the wet season atmospheric circulation. It is hoped to use this information to construct moce accurate computer models to support forecasters. And that is where Monash comes in. For the better part of a decade. research­ ers in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, working under the leader­ ship of Dr Roger Smith in collaboration with Dr Reg Clarke at Melbourne University. have been studying the Morning Glory. a spectacular cloud • A LlTILE BIT OF THE REAL AUSTRALIA? Whi~ visitors from India and China demonstrated their national musK: and dance on formation which forms in the early campus last month (see back page), the Gondwanaland band from Sydney was giving an all·AustraJian performance - with an electronic morning in the southeast corner of the didgerktoo. The band gave a lunchtime concert in the Forum during first week of term. Photo - Richard Crompton. Scientists should work from 'moral' base A univenn;:'trained scientist should ~ave a deep love of nature and a per- formed us about our world and what it fessor Birt said. sonal, moral commitment to establishIng and b~lng the. truth, the Vice- meant to live in it as human beings. "Sadly, this means that scientists as a Chao£.ellor of the University of NSW, Professor Michael Blrt, told Monash " But in science the ultimate point of group find it difficult to contribute ef­ graduates_ reference (that is, the world as a world fectively to such debates, even when IIThetraining of a scientist can - and mind to embrace that change; and a of objects) is different to tliat in the they are about scientific issues. should - offer more than might be call- regular. but not exclusive, reliance on humanities (that is, the perceptions of HOur training makes us hesitant to af­ ed mere technical proficiency. logical argument to reach conclusions," exceptionally gifted individuals respond- firm that propositions arc absolutely U Attitudes of mind and mental habits he said in his occasional address at the ing to the human experience of living in certain, or that a simple and direct which are useful in other spheres of recent Science graduation in Robert the world)." description, without qualifications, can human knowledge can also be acquired. Blackwood Hall. An adequate education would ensure be giyen of many issues. "A scientific education should enable "Just as scholars in the humanities we were introduced to both these areas "I can only urge those of you who do us to know when propositions can be ac- draw material from the creations of ar- at an early stage, he said. possess the personal talents for coping cepted because they are based on sound, tists, academic scientists draw on the tested and sufficient evidence; a recogni- work of great creative scientists in their tion that established new facts may alter exposition of their disciplines. quite dramatically a general perception Science and the humanities were Duty to develop social values of what is correct and the nexibility of complementary areas which together in- HI suggest that graduate scientists with the artificiality of what passes for have a particular responsibility to public discussion to make use of them develop and make use of intellectual and wherever you can, in the interests of Duke to awa.rd moral values in our modern world. making better use of science and scien­ ult is not easy to do so. for the atti­ tific method in our society, and of arriv­ tudes adopted in public discussion often ins. at more intelligent and effective 25 yea.r llledals seem to be inimical to careful analysis of ways of exploring the problems that face Dr Jack McDonell events and issues. us." Unlversily records show Ibal some 40 (Conlinuing Education) UThere is a marked over-emphasis on It was particularly important for slaff members (IncludIng a few rece.1 M B·II M t h personal on visual "'~" rl acan science graduates to work at developing relirees) have comp ledet ~ years ser- (Chemistr) a straightforward, clear English Slyle, vlee ..lib tbe Ualversity and ",HI be ellg- Professor YNoel Murray avoiding technical jargon wherever Ible 10 receive the spedal Malcham (Civil Engineering) possible. Sklpper-deslgned. Jubilee medals. Mrs Rosemary Nathanielsz The medals will be presented by the (L.brary) "If we remain aware of the need to Duke of Edinburgh at the Jubilee in· Ernest Nunn express ideas clearly and simply, we can 0: always help ourselves," Professor Dirt augurauon ceremony In Robert Black- (Chemistry) said. wood Hall on May 19. . Mr Ken Nuske The followmg IS a hst of known (Physics) "That self·help will certainly demand 25-year veterans, but it is acknowledged Professor Bill Rachinger that we read and emulate those scientists that some might not be. shown on the (Physics) who are masters of exposition, and, of record~,. and anyone With a claim to Mr Ken Rule course, the writers and scholars in the recogmllon should contact the Deputy (Maintenance) great traditions of the humanities and Regis\rar, Mr Jim Leicester (ext. 2013) Professor Graeme Schofield English literature." as soon as posstble. (Medicine) Since 1963, the University of NSW Mr David Anderson Dr Jack Smith had been running a program of General (Chemistry) . . (Physics) Studies, which had been revised exten­ Professor Leshe Bodl Mr Adrian van den Bergen sively over the past three years. (German) . (Chemistry) "The University is now committed to Professor David Bradley Dr Ian Ward requiring all its undergraduate students, (English) (Economics) whatever their faculty of specialisation, Professor Ron Brown Mr Norm Watt presentation of 'evidence', and on the to undertake a course of liberal studies. (Chemistry) (Finance) formulation of simple unambiguous embracing an appreciation of our Mr JIm Butchart Professor Kevin West fold propositions - few people take the general intellectual tradition and the (Registrar) (Vice-Chancellor's) trouble to weigh the significance of ex­ development of skills of rational Dr Denis Coates Mr Bruce Young emptions, or caveats, or uncertainties, thought, critical analysis and expres­ (Physics) (Materials Engineering) in what passes for public debate." Pro­ sion." he said. The ethics of testing for AIDS ~~;~~?lC£~~d~~ing)(HIStory) Mrs Joan Dawson What polk:1es should be adopted Maries, Commissioner for Equal book, Should the baby Bv.? during a (Registrar's) towards IHllna for AIDS, and what Opportunity. free public lec:ture OR Wednesday, April Miss Edith Downes does a posltlve result mean for Ihe The conference will be held at Clunies 16. (Econometrics) pallent? Ross House, from 9.25 am until 5 pm on The lecture is the second in the 1986 Dr Tim Ealey These questions and many others will Monday, April 7. Inquiries should be Bioethics Lunchtime Lecture Series. (Environmental Science) be tackled next week at a one-day con- directed to the Centre for Human The first, on March 26, was given by Dr Frank Eastwood ference on AIDS: Social Policy, Ethics Bioethics on ext. 4083 or 3373. Professor Margaret Somerville of (Chemistry) and the Law, organised by the Centre McGill University, Montreal, on the Mr Doug Ellis foc Human Bioethics. topic. Rights to and against medical (Sports & Recreation) Speakers include Professor Margaret Professor Peler* *Slnler * and Dr Helga treatment: increasing conflict of per­ Mr Lesley Fleming Somerville from McGill University, Kubse will dIscuss the controversIal sub­ sonal, professional and societal (History) Montreal; Dr Ronald Lucas, chief of ject maUer of their recently-published interests. Mr Jim Guthrie medicine, Fairfield Infectious Diseases (Zoology) Hospital; Mr Adam Carr, vice-president Mr Len Harris of the Victorian AIDS Council; Dr (Buildings Branch) David Broadford, chief venerologist of Kent goes to Harvard Dr Michael Heffernan the Health Department and director of Reader in History, Dr BIll Kent, has (Chemistry) Melbourne Communicable Diseases been Domlnaled Visltln& Professor al Mr Fraser Hercus Centre; Dr David Cooper, staff im- Ihe Harvard UnlversllY Cenlre for (Zoology) munologist, St Vincent's Hospital, italian Renaissance Studies. Dr Ian Hiscock Sydney; Dr Julian Gold, director, AI- The centre, Villa I Tatti, is a Harvard (Zoology) bion Street Centre, Sydney, and Pro- University institution based in Florence. Mr Ray Horan fessor Peter Singer, director of the Cen- The appointment, from July I this (Physics) tre for Human Bioethics. year, involve research and the editing of Emeritus Professor Ken Hunt Conference participants will be wel­ a journal, 1 Tall; Studies. (Mechanical Engineering) corned by the Dean of Medicine, Pro- Mrs Helene Kandel fessor Graeme Schofield, who will chair Dr Kent, an archival historian, has (French) the introductory session . . demonstrated that the extended family, Dr Ernst Keller The second session, on legal and rather than the nuclear family formed (German) ethical issues, will be chaired by Dr the basis of Florentine life. Professor John Legge Jocelynne Scutt, deputy chairperson of The 10 annually elected Fellows and (Arts) the Victorian Law Reform Commission, the Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti Miss Beth Leggo and the third session on social and participate in a series of lectures con­ (Sports & Recreation) political issues will be chaired by Ms Fay ducted by Ihe centre. MONASH REPORTER 2 APRIL 4, 1981i Computer breaks through language barrier almost impossible to publish some Any of the sets is then processed in the The Faculty or Arts has developed one or the world's most nexible multi­ languages in Australia, but the new normal way. lingual word processing packages ror microcomputers. system was expected to simplify. speed Not all of the sets represent different languages. Mr Pilbrow has created two The user will be able to switch bet­ The System was developed for the up and reduce the cost of this process. Russian sets - one programs the ween English and 12 different Slavic deparlment of Slavic Languages by third "We should now be able to produce our own camera~ready copies of papers so that it resembles a Russian languages at the flick of a key. and the year student, Tim Pilbrow - who system can be adapted for use in designed the characters - and program­ and articles," he said. Classics, Philosophy, Linguistics, mer, Pan Thongvilu of the Computer After the faculty decided to install Mathematics and other language Centre - who wrote the programs to microcomputer-based word processing, departments. convert the designs into microcomputer it was faced with the task of coping with It combines commercially-available and printer characters. departments which used special programs with specially written Professor Jiri Marvan, chairman of characters in their work, said Dr Aubrey software. Slavic Languages, said it had been Townsend, senior lecturer in Philosophy and co-ordinator of the installation program. Word processing software for Russian had been developed and was available. for example, on the University of Melbourne mainframe and on Apple microcomputers at the Australian Na­ tional University. But a worldwide search turned up no IH microcomputer-based system which could cope with all the other Slavic languages and produce an acceptable quality of print. It was originally thought that as the IBM-PCs used by the Arts Faculty were limited to a set of 256 characters it might not be possible to develop such a system. There was also the problem of the ease with which the operator could switch between languages. Mr Thongvilu's software throws a grid onto the screen on the micro­ computer. and allows the user to design characters by filling in appropriate grid squares (see pictures). Mr Pilbrow not only had to design all • The Russian consonant, zh, top, and the different characters used in Slavic the Russian vowel, Va. languages, but he had to come up with a typewriter, the other so that the Cyrillic set of a maximum 128 characters which characters are found under their closest could cover any eventuality. English counterpart. Some of the accent marks over capital In all, there are 17 different character letters had to be displayed separately to sets representing Cyrillic script keep to this limit but they will be com­ languages including Ukrainian, Russian. bined in the computer print-out. Macedonian and Belorussian, Latin Mr Pilbrow used existing Australian script languages including Polish, software to re-program the IBM Czech, Lachian and Slovak, and the keyboard to different sets of characters distinctive script of Old Church • Tim Pilbrow designs Slavic characters for the computer. Photos - Richard Crompton. selected from the 128. Slavonic. Baby sleep monitor wins over$eas prize r' A design by a final year Ele.:trical Engineering student for monitoring the sleeping patterns of babies has won an international prize. The largest professional organisation of electrical engineers, IEEE, which is based in the United States, gave its top award in 1985 to Albert Fu, who was competing against students from China, India, New Zealand, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. His design, a microprocessor-based digital filter, is used to separate electri­ cal signals from sleeping babies into four major frequency components alpha, beta, delta and theta.

It requires only a quarter of the hard­ ware used with analogue filters, and is also more vers atile because its characteristics can be changed by simply changing the program stored in the memory chip.

Mr Fu designed and built the new equipment under the supervision of Dr Khee Pang. Reader in Electrical Engineering, who is also jointly super­ vising his current research in data flow computer architecture, with Mr Barry Treloar of the Computer Centre. • Albert Fu, left, and Dr Khee Pang. demonstrate the prize-winning microprocessor-based digital filter now used In Australian hosprtaJs. MONASH REPORTER 3 APRIL 4, 1986 Homegrown truths In your issue of Ma...h 5 tbere appellrs an lICanberra School of Robyn Sloggert, whose projects have in­ Arts. It has been given a lot of exposure, remaining in pristine condition in their cluded Fan Tan and Meditation. They include Kate Eccles-Smith, who with works hung in buildings like the new quarters. "It was very difficult to find skilled Main Library and Robert Blackwood Already the Burnell collection of people before, but these graduates are Hall for the benefit of passing traffic. prints and etchings has been fully up-to-date with the latest techniques." But this practice has taken its toll, and restored. and a $3000 grant from the says Ms Duncan. there has been su bstantial damage ­ Vice-ChanceHor's fund has given im­ Some artists. like Barbara Grossman, accidental or otherwise. petus to work on the general collection. are willing to repair their own works. "We get graffiti, bird droppings, Two well-known paintings, Lesley "It's better if we can get the artist in­ grime and accidental damage, caused by Dumbrell's Fan Tan and David volved, but it's an expensive and dis­ tressing process. trolleys and other furniture crashing in­ Aspden's Meditation, have been cJeaned to paintings. " says the curator. of the bird droppings they acquired "Understandably. some get very Jenepher Duncan. while hanging in Robert Blackwood upset about the damage, though only "Some have such delicate surfaces Hall and the University Offices respec­ one refused to help." Ms Duncan says. that, even minor damage can be devas­ tively. The current exhibition, Monash Col­ tating. " lection Reviewed - Paintings, shows The curators will be able to breathe a Edwin Tanner's Moral Philosophers many restored works, and some very re­ little easier later this year, when the is now back on the wall as part of the cent acquisitions. collection moves into a permanent home present exhibition in the University This mixture provides a good contrast in the new multi-disciplinary building. Visual Arts Department gallery (7th and allows earlier works to be seen in a The Art Advisory Committee has floor, Menzies building) after several different context, she says. been supervising a restoration and years in storage following a bad fall. The present acquisition program in­ conservation program in the knowledge The restoration program has been aid­ cludes more works under glass. like that works will have a good chance of ed by the arrival of the first crop of Aus- Maggie May's series of three etchings, Tidal Zone Suite, which can be more safely exhibited around the University in response to staff requests for "some~ Public use of campus thing to brighten the walls". more than expected Lecture rooms, theatres, residential halls and recreation areas at Monash University accommodated more than half a million members of tbe public ' last year. Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor and graduation ceremonies are Mal Logan, said he was impressed with conducted. public use of the lecture theatres. Last year the Alexander Theatre was Non-university use of departmental used on 310 occasions for non-university space almost equalled the time used for performances. formal teaching. Preference is given to student use of He said public use of university the Sports and Recreation Centre, which facilities exceeded expectation. is funded by Union fees, but 37,000 Results from a Commonwealth Ter­ members of the public used the centre tiary Education Commission survey last year. revealed that non-formal use of univer­ Deputy Warden of the Union, Mr sities' facilities were generally above the Doug Ellis, said the closing of local expected level. recreation centres had increased public At Monash. the residential halls, Arts use of university areas. and Crafts Centre, and the Centre for Continuing Education provided for The centre is almost fully booked more than 12,000 members of the public because both students and the public last year. have gained greater awareness of fitness. The Robert Blackwood Hall and the The Union, although it does not allow Alexander Theatre had the greatest non~student use of space during term public use, both with annual audiences time, had 27,000 outside people using nearing 90,000. facilities last year. Robert Blackwood Hall's Assistant The public now has to book to use the Manager, Ms Joan Sayers, says the hall Union's catering facilities. • Top left: lesley Dumbrell's Fan Tan, 1984, minus tha bird droppings. Top right: ConservatOf", Robyn Staggert, working on Percy leason's TIre At1Jst's Studio, which was is heavily booked for public perfor­ Catering manager. Mr Joe Curtis. cleaned and repaired for the cunent exhibttion. Centre: Robyn dabs paint onto Mike mances and conferences except when said catering services would once have Brown's un!Hled work, circa 1965. Above: Edwin Tan"""s Moral Ph/losophefs, 1963-64. University examinations and graduation been able to automatically accept The 'door' on the left was badly damaged when the painting Iellirom the wall of the Vice­ ceremonies are conducted. bookings. ChanceiSors office. PhoCos - Tony Miller, Adrian Featherston. MONASH REPORTER 5 APRIL 4, 1986 W.~athering the stormsoftropical ustra But there is another cloud pheno­ involved were so complex that she had making routine weather observations. which means that the Bureau is now menoo of far greater economic impact to go to Germany to do the main Meanwhile at Weipa, four others will be f'egarded as part of the Monash campus which forms along the western side of calculations on one of the world's repeating the dry season measurements. as far as research work goes. the tip of Cape York Peninsula in the fastest and most powerful computers ­ made during phase one, for the wet And the ties were strengthened further northeast of the gulf. This is a late after­ a Cray computer at the Gennan Aero­ season. this year with the announcement of two noon convective cloud formation, the space Research Organisation in Munich. Throughout, Dr Nigel Tapper from Bureau scholarships to be awarded North Australian Cloud Line, which The monsoon experiment has been the department of Geography will be annually to enable members of Bureau then moves westwards across the Gulf designed to produce data to test and monitoring radiation on the peninsula. staff to study for the newly introduced and sometimes across the Top End to refine her model. The experiment is only the latest Master of Science degree in Dynamical the Timor Sea_ But there are many other links activity in the long·standing relationship Meteorology. The Bureau of Meteorology is very between Monash and the monsoon between Monash and the Bureau of The degree is offered by the Geo­ interested in it, as the associated weather experiment. Meteorology Research Centre. physical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, often closes Top End airports such as Dr Smith, for instance, will be helping Dr Smith said: "There are very strong and provides a strong theoretical back­ Gove, and in the wet season can lead to to direct the experiment from the links with the people at the research ground backed by experience of its severe thunderstorms and squall lines in Darwin Operations Centre. centre. Many of our former graduate practical application. the region. During phase one, a group of eight students now work there. and its head is Perhaps it is nol surprising, therefore, The Monash group thinks it is gener­ Monash researchers will be based at an ex-lecturer in our department." that this year's two winners, Wasyl ated in exactly the same way - on-shore Weipa releasing balloons at strategic That relationship was formally Drosdowsky and Geoff Garden, will breezes from the Pacific sweeping across times and tracking them with theo­ acknowledged at the beginning of last both be heavily involved in the Austra­ the much smaller strip of land at the tip dolites. and Monash will be organising year when the Bureau and Monash con- lian Monsoon Experiment. of the cape and meeting the warm gulf the services of an instrumented light eluded an agreement of affiliation, - Tim Thwaites air in the late afternoon. aircraft to make measurements over the • Above: A satellite image of tropical Australia showing a North Australian Postgraduate student, Julie Noonan, peninsula and out to sea. Cloudline moving westwards across the Gulf of Carpentaria. The cloudline is about to complete a Ph.D. thesis on a In phase two, four Monash students formed on the western side of Cape York Peninsula_Below: A Morning Glory mathematical model of the entire will be operating an upper atmosphere wave cloud photographed near Burketown in north-west Queensland at about process. weather station at Burketown, taking 7 am on October 12, 1980. The cloudline is orientated approximately east-west The mathematical equations six-hourly radio Sonde soundings and and is moving from the south at about 50km per hour.

MONASH REPORTER 6 APRIL 4, 19116 -- = Praise be! The 'comet H'AS come

Late io 1984, with Halley's 1910 visitation stili vivid in his memory, GUbert Vasey (former editor of Monash Review) penned the following verse io ••ddp.tioo of his eagerly-awaited second encounter with the cosmic visitor .•• The comet is coming (as written in 1591)

(January 1590) You remember last year the light in the sky ­ A point at the head, the tail riding high, How the village pond froze and the ducks all died, The cider went acid and the milk went bad, The game disappeared, the lambs didn't thrive, But thanks be to God, we survived, we survived,

(The Prophet at All Scients) I went to the prophet at the shrine of All Scients: "Will these come again to decure our poor minds?" "Far worse, far worse," as his prayer he delayed, "The comets are coming, I'm afraid, I'm afraid."

(1066) "You remember King Harold at Hastings was slayed, "Twas not by an arrow as the story books said, "But a shaft of black light from the comet's long tail. "For such a sad story words fail, words fail!"

(1607) "That comet I see, as it passes near heaven, "Will come back this way in 1607, "You cannot escape it, its aim is too sure; "Chant aves and paters your life to secure,"

(1662) Our prophet saw further - adding doom to his mood ­ "It will come yet again, though none here will spy "The name in its tail, spelt Halley (now Hawley), "So fear you the Lord, sing holy, Sing holy,"

(1985-86) With his infinite lens our prophet foretold Halley's comet would cycle yet three or more fold; And would come very close within the next year: If heaven be pleased, we will see it from here, G.H,V,

(Monash Reporter is delighted to report that heaven was, indeed, pleased. Gilbert and Florence Vasey have had frequent sightings ofthe comer from their backyard at Doncaster.)

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rt .}! ~ to ,~t '%= ;:#_~ • Members of the public show their consternation at the conspicuous presence of Halley's Comet in this segment of the 8ayeux Tapestry depicting events from 1066. MONASH REPORTER 1 APRIL 4, t986 Avec to expand industry links Tbe AuslraUan Vlce-Cbancellors' • the greater use by industry of the CommlUee and tbe Busin... Councilor retention of academic consultants, who Australia bave endorsed recom~ might be used from time to time for mend,llons of a Joint Wofkiog Party 10 specific contract research and generally strengthen and expand existing links bet· involved in the research effort of the ween universities and industry. companies concerned; They have also recommended that the government launch a national publicity • the encouragement of more joint campaign to improve community aware­ appointments of senior research staff; ness about the importance of research • the exploration of the establish­ and technology to the standards of liv­ ment of joint collaborative projects ing youth unemployment. export funds or partnerships whereby a com· competitiveness and national develop­ pany and a university can make ment. available resources to provide for the Greater co-ope.ration between univer­ collaborative funding of various sities and induslrY was necessary for the research projects of specific interest to prosperily of the counny. said the chair­ both the company and the university; man, Mr John Hooke. when he pre­ sented the working party's recommen­ • the holding in 1986 of a dations. BCA / AVCC Forum on Univer· "Australia needs to create more sity-Business Co-operation to enable wealth in order to lift employment and senior company and university ex­ living standards, and to do this it needs ecutives, politicians and senior public to foster the conditions that will allow servants to exchange information and industry to perform. ideas; "It must have an appropriate business and investment environment. • the establishment of a mechanism "In the area of the application of new whereby represenlatives of the A VCC technology and manpower planning, a and the Business Council can continue much greater involvement between to meet to discuss areas of policy business and the university sector will • Professor- Martin. formulation to ensure that collaboration and interaction be continued and assist in the attainment of these goals." Its proposals included: • the encouragement of greater uni­ The II-member working party, set up strengthened. versity and corporation staff appoint­ in October, was headed by Mr Hooke, • the appointment by each univer­ The A VCC and the Business Council ments to appropriate company boards chairman and chief executive of Amal­ sity, if it has not already done so, of a have also recommended that the govern­ and university committees; gamated Wireless (Australia) Ud., and business liaison officer, who will be the ment continue to support and expand Professor Ray Martin, Vice-Chancellor focal point to which industry might refer • the support of the appointment of of Monash University (deputy chair· if it requires any research support or industry nominees to university councils National Research Fellowships and the man). advice; or senates; Teaching Companies Scheme, and that ....;,.---~-----.. it complement these with new research awards in science and engineering. This would encourage Ph.D. stu­ dents to undertake industrially orien­ Ideas sought for tated research projects. cardiac implant ABeta The body convulses under the impact of tbe 1500-volt sbock delivered Ihrough Ihe two large paddles laid onlo it ... and paramedics on another American television show have dramatically revived a heart attack victim. stage But such scenes could become less able defibrillator is large; about half the common if the Sydney-based medical people who survive their first heart at· engineering firm, Nucleus Limited, has tack are likely to suffer fibrillation debate its way. within a year. Following the success of Monash's in­ Company representatives, Peter • Peter Osman (right) vitro fertilisation program and the Osman, has been visiting Monash as development of the Centre for Human part of a quest to produce an automatic Bioe'hies, the University will probably version of a defibrillator which can be host an ABC television debate on Ethics implanted in the body. and the New Biology. (Fibrillation occurs when the heart Universities to share $t6m The debate, one of a series of eight be­ runs out of control. It is a potentially A research gran.s scheme expecled to been enhanced by the introduction of ing organised by the ABC, would be lethal nuttering condition of the heart be worth more Ihan $1.6 million tbis the scheme, which is aimed at bringing conducted on campus sometime in May muscle resulting from damage caused by year Is being ex.ended to include most together complementary skills and or June. previous heart attacks.) AUslnllian universi.ies. research groups so that a greater concen­ This first series, to be held at different Mr Osman's visit is a sign of the times: The universities of Adelaide, Flinders, tration of effort can be made in areas of universities, will be related entirely to An engineer seconded from the CSIRO, La "Frobe, Griffith, New England, Mur· mutural interest. Australian issues. he is working as a liaison officer bet­ doch and Deakin are being invited to "In this respect, the scheme has been Topics suggested by other universities ween Nucleus - which makes a high join the CSIRO/ Universities Collabora­ , effective in bringing together researchers include: Civil liberties - a bill of rights proportion of the world's pacemakers tive Research Grants Scheme, which from CSIRO and universit·ies who had or the Australia card: De-regulation oj and the Australian bionic ear - and the already operates at Australian National not previously worked together. the labour market: Aboriginal rights ­ research community. University, James Cook, Macquarie, "It is now proposed to broaden the where should we go from here?; State He came to Monash to host a seminar Melbourne, Monash, NSW, Queens­ scheme by inviting the other seven rights and the environment; and The promoting an exchange of ideas on one land, Western Australia, Wollongong, universities to participate." rural crisis - is there one? of the manufacturing problems of the Sydney, Tasmania and Newcastle. Dr Boardman said an expansion of The ABC University Debates project implantable defibrillator - how to The decision to extend the scheme was interaction between CSIRO and univer­ developed from recommendations from reduce the size of the capacitor which announced jointly by Dr Keith Board­ sities had been recommended strongly the University Information Officers' stores the charge for the shock. man, chairman of CSIRO, and Pro­ by the Australian Science and conference in May, 1984, to the His first job was to assure academic fessor Martin, following a seminar on Technology Council in its recent review Australian Vice-Chancellors' and CSIRO participants that the CSIRO/ University inleraction last of the organisation. Committee. seminar was not an attempt to pirate month. Last year the scheme was worth 51.23 The series is deisnged to show how patentable ideas. million which was contributed equally universities provide information on im­ Rather, it was a means of opening dis­ "Informal collaboration between by CSIRO and the universities. portant Australian issues and contribute cussion about where the company scientists working in both institutions If CSIRO's invitation is accepted, the to policy formulation. should look for answers - and partners long established and has always been en­ combined contribution to the scheme is Suggestions are being considered for a - in the enterprise. couraged," their joint statement said. expected to be increased by $480,000 second series in 1987 on international The potential market for the implant­ "These informal arrangements have this year. and foreign affairs. MONASH REPORTER 8 APRIL 4, 1986 Senior staff suffer from 'disincentive' These grades have their historical The result is that the C4 Professor is Dr George Rozvany, Reader in Civil Engineering, will leave at the end of this origins. free to concentrate on basic ideas at the month to take up a foundation chair as a C4 Professor, or Ordinarius, at the Uni­ A C4 professor, for example, used to highest level and on personal com­ versity of Essen, West Germany. Hungarian-born Dr Rozvany, who joined the be called "ordentlicher oeffentlicher munication with top researchers in staff of Monash University 23 years ago, specialises in the field of structural Universitaetsprofessor", now brieny various pans of the world. optimisation. He will be head of the Fachgebiet (Institute) for Structural "Ordinarius" . Judging purely by numbers, most of DesignfTimber Engineering/Automated Construction at Essen. With the late It is important to realise that the our lecturing staff would hold at least William Prager, a leading American scientist at Brown University, he developed number of C4 Professors in a German lower (C2 or C3) professorships at Ger­ optimal layout theory which has found a variety of applications ranging from long­ "Fachbereich" (which is somewhere bet­ man universities with a lot of privileges span ribbed shell and cable-net roofs to the microstructure of composites with a ween our faculty and department) is and independence. view to creating artificial IIsuper" materials. Here he writes about the reasons much greater than the number of full 1 must stress, therefore, that the Ger­ behind his decision to accept an overseas appointment. professors in a traditional Australian man system is relatively morc egalitarian university and hence a large proportion because departmental privileges are not of our readers (and some associate pro­ But there are hierarchical disincen­ concentrated to the same extent in one 'If I may generalise (rom my personal fessors) would also have a C4 position person (the chairman). experience, (here are many good reasons tives for senior staff in our tertiary over there. Professors also enjoy a favorable for an academk to remain in Australia system. financial status, my gross salary over Indefinitely. Apart from the position of depart­ there being almost twice my salary here Both my wife and myself are very mental chairmen, there is very little (at the current exchange rate), and, due fond of our adopted country, the great difference in the working conditions of to a wide range of laxation incenlives, Australian way of life and the delightful most other ranks of staff. my net salary is relatively much highe.r. people of this continent. An associate professor (or even a In addition, there is virtually no limit Moreover, I personally find all non­ reader) gets a standard size (Le. rather on outside earnings. Clearly, the German university system organisational aspects of the university minute) room, to which most junior lec­ has produced a highly successful breed environment at Monash extremely plea­ turers (and some tutors) are also of technologist. sant, ranging from friendly and helpful entitled. West Germany, a country with almost colleagues (and fine chairmen) in my He has no personal staff, must comp­ no natural resources, has an enormous department to a lovely campus wilh ex­ ly in all respects with decisions of the surplus (positive trade balance) each cellent recreational facilities. chairman or departmental committees, year. It is obvious, therefore, that the has no independent budget and must The Deutschmark is the most stable reasons for one giving up such a relaxed perform numerous routine tasks which currency and the inflation rate the and enjoyable existence stem from could be done by staff of lesser lowest in the world (currently around professional advantages offered by qualification. 0.2 per cent). overseas universities. While this system has obvious advan­ • George Aozvany All this is achieved by sheer brain­ I must add that due to the Udon't rock tages for junior lecturing staff. it proves A Gt:rman C4 professor is in charge power and technological know-how, the boat" selection policy of some ter­ a big disincentive in striving for of a U(Fachgebiet" (institute), is respon­ resulting in a booming secondary tiary institutions in this country, a fair academic achievement. sible only to the Minister of Science and industry. proportion of our academics are not in Most of the professors of German Research, is given the legally guaranteed If we consider that our foreign debt danger of being persuaded to take up an universities have the ranking C2, C3 or full freedom to decide what he teaches has tripled in three years, the country is attractive overseas appointment. C4. and researches, has a number of living on borrowed money, the Aus­ spacious rooms as well as substantial tralian dollar has lost almost half its furniture, equipment and recurrent value against stable currencies (like the funds at his disposal and employs a large OM) during the last two years and the personal staff. inflation is soaring, it becomes pretty Guidelines have not gone For example, my initial staff consists obvious that something has gone fatally of 11 persons [including a multi-lingual wrong. secretary, a draftsman, two assistants, Creating incentives for intellectual two research assistants and five students achievement at all levels including far enough: MAGS assistants), but a considerable expansion science-technology departments at uni­ of the institute is already scheduled versities could be a small step in the right The introduction of guidelines for the supervision of Ph.D. candidates (including a second personal secretary). direction if it is not too late. has been welcomed by the Monash Association of Graduate Students, but All routine tasks (preparation of lec­ The alternative is, barring an unlikely it is feared that the guidelines have not gone far enough. ture material, tutorial and prac classes, resources boom, an unprecedented crash There are concerns that the guidelines ments and all Ph.D. candidates, and most administrative work, applications of the economy and a hopelessly out­ will not have effect where there is the further copies can be obtained from Mr for research grants and the bulk of the dated secondary industry, bringing our greatest need, says Peter Janssen , Bruce Shields, Ass istant Registrar (ext. professor's research and consulting living standard down to that of a MAGS representative on the Univer­ 3012). work) is carried out by his staff. banana-republic in South America. , sity's Ph.D. and Research Comminee. While they are prefaced with the state­ ment that ' there are common issues and Full steam ahead for Jubilee responsibilities which apply to all Here is a round-up of events so far. they wish to j oin the academic " riotous, raucous" Jubilee produc­ fa culties, departments, supervisors and Monday. 19 May: procession . tion. candidates regardless of their discipline To open the week's activities th ere Tuesday, 20 May: Aspiring performers, technicians or area of resear ~ h ', the preface con­ will be a ceremonial conducted in His Excellency the Governor, Dr and behind-the-scenes people are in­ cludes that these 'fundamentals' may be Robert Blackwood Hall. The formal Davis McCaughey. will host a recep­ vited to find out more at a barbecue modified by faculties and departments proceedings will include: tion at Government House. on Sunday, April 6 (I pm, Sports in order to 'meet the specific needs of . • A specially designed medal Wednesday, 21 May: and Recreation centre), or by ringing their research traditions'. awarded to each staff member A free Jubilee Concert by the the Student Theatre office on ext. "The modest aspirations and cautious who has served 25 years with the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Orchestra 3018. - even ambivalent - spirit of the University. The medal, designed will be held in Robert Blackwood Departments and clubs are invited guidelines are intended to reduce possi­ by Matc)tam Skipper, will be Hall at 8 pm. to enter teams for the Sports and ble resentment among some members of presented by His Royal Highness Thu~sday, ~2 May: Recreation centre's "25athon". the University, but they may also ensure The Duke of Edinburgh. Sir LOUIS Matheson, the Univer­ Teams of eight must include at least that the guidelines will simply be • Honorary degrees will be confer­ sity's founding Vice-Chancellor, will three females. Inquiries to Kerrin red on: His Royal Highness The present the Jubilee Oscar Mendel­ ignored. " Fennessy on ext. 2096. Duke of Edinburgh - Doctor of sohn Lecture. Further details will be It was up to postgraduates to use the The Monash University Parents' guidelines as a basis for Questioning Science, Rt. Rev. P.J. Holling­ Du.blished at a later date! Group has organised a Jubilee Din­ worth Doctor of Laws Fnday,23 May: ner on Friday. May 9, at Chaucers shabby supervision or poor treatment by . P < S· Ed d' There will be a ceremontat plantmg Ementus rOlessor Ir war h Reception Centre. departments, Mr Janssen said. H h 0 f L M of the trees to commemorate l e "If this is done with tact and good ug es - <><:tor 0 aws, r Silver Jubilee. The group is also organising an Art sense then those disposed to ignore the H.M. McKenZIe - Doctor of Sunday, 2S May: Exhibition and Sale to be held in guidelines, but not to voice direct dis­ Laws, Sir James McNeIll - Doc­ The Jubilee Open Day: The day Robert Blackwood Hall on July 18, agreement, could be forced to review tor of Laws. the University opens its doors to the 19 and 20. some of their supervisory practices." • A Jubilee Oration by His Royal public. If any faculty, department or other The guidelines spell out in detail, for Highness. In addition, there will be a Photo­ section of the University is to hold the first time, the responsibilities of Letters of invitation will be dis­ graphic Exhibition held in the Visual functions during 1986 which are con­ departments (in normal circumstances, tributed throughout the University to Arts Gallery of the Menzies Building nected with the Jubilee Year, details the departmental chairmen), of super­ find out who wishes to attend the during Jubilee Week. can be included in the printed pro­ visors and of candidates. ceremony. Student Theatre still needs people gram, by contacting Miss Anita Copies have been sent to all depart­ Staff members will also be asked if for Marvellous Melbourne a Muller, C/ o the Registrar's Office. MONASH REPORTER 9 APRIL 4, 1916 BOOKS osophy needs change of direction News travels slowly in philosophy, in some form or other. One is as a but (he modern crisis or Western sublimation which claims a higher origin thought has reached even Australia. IN REVIEW - and what we know as metaphysics is Next month, for example, Monash precisely such a sublimation of University will be the venue for a con­ The Ends 01 Philosophy language. ference whose theme is The questioning by Harry Redner An important claim of the author is of metaphysics. Croom Helm, London, 1986 that the task of analysis is not simply to The same theme is the subject of a (Subsidised by the Monash University Publications Committee) uncover something that was there all new book by a Monash author. Harry along. (This is just the point of his critic­ Redner (senior lecturer. Politics) ad­ ism of Nietzsche and WiUgenstein.) dresses the problem of philosophy in his and, most recently, Derrida in the pre­ Habermas. But the model proposed in Rather the unconscious - of language recently published The Ends of Phil­ sent one. The Ends of Philosophy is that of and of the psyche - is constituted in osophy. Dr Redner seems to regard Nietzsche psychoanalysis. the process of its being 'dis-covered' . So He sets out to answer the question: and Wittgenstein as the most successful Philosophy and psychoanalysis have the critical destruction of illusion is truly what are the aims of philosophy. given of these demolishers. He suggests that had a rather wary relationship. At one indispensable if a genuine content for the decline and fall of traditional meta­ Heidegger's radicalism is compromised time, the innuence of Wittgenstein led thought is to exist at all. physics? by his desire to return to some original some others to take philosophical The book ends on a note of optimism. Some writers have concluded that source of Western thought - in effect, a therapy (as it was then called) in the Philosophy could engage other forms of philosophy is itself obsolete. Harry desire to repeat this beginning rather direction of psychoanalysis. thought in the light of new aims - and Redner disagrees: he claims that the than get beyond it. To some extent, the Morris Lazerowitz argued that the even regain its contact with the sciences. destruction of metaphysics, if carried same charge is made against Derrida. treatment of time in idealism could be Where could it make a contribution? out in a genuinely radical way. leads to Nietzsche and Witlgenstein, on the seen as an aberration of language - but Genetics is mentioned as an example. the emergence of new tasks for phil­ other hand, are treated as crucial also claimed that the metaphysical Scientists with long memories might find osophy. figures. Both attempted to destroy meta­ denial of time arose out of an uncon­ this an ominous choice. But these physics from within, rather than in the scious identification of time with death. indications are deliberately left as hints. Secession external fashion of scepticism or positiv­ J.0. Wisdom raised eyebrows by tracing The separation between philosophy At one point we are referred to a forth­ ism. Both perceived that the function of Berkeley's immaterialism back to his and science is the central theme of the coming sequel entitled The Ends 0/ language as constituting the hidden basis toilet training. Science: perhaps more answers will be book. The author finds a sociological of metaphysics was crucial. reason for the crisis of philosophy in this given there. In the course of a detailed analysis of The Ends of Philosophy is a chal­ widening gap - one which is formalised each thinker, Dr Redner argues that Psychoanalysis in the modern university as we know it. lenging book. It continues many of the their 'reductions' of metaphysical Harry Redner's use of psychoanalysis He traces the relation through several themes of the author's previous book, language were never fully completed. is not as simple as this. He suggests in­ historical stages, beginning with the rise In Ihe Beginning Was the Deed. The assumption that ' life' is more basic stead a project of 'language-analysis' of natural science in the Renaissance. However, it can be read without much than language allowed something to re­ whose aim is parallel to that of psycho­ During this period, science still looked difficulty as a self-contained work. It main unquestioned in each case. analysis: namely, to uncover the hidden to philosophy to provide its foundation. presents what one might think of as a What an adequate destruction of levels of language. The later human sciences. however, ' European' approach to philosophy ­ metaphyiscal thought would consist in is The basic thesis of language-analysis undermined metaphysics by revealing it s nO( in particular features of style or sugges ted in the final sections of the is - standing an often-quoted remark origins in the human realm. method of argument, but simply in the book. Philosophy, it is argued, proceeds of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan on In the 20th century, the process has fact that it takes philosophy seriously. by modelling itself on other forms of its head - that "language is structured been completed by the final 'secession' For this author, philosophy is a voca­ thought. In the past, philosophers have like an unconscious". Symbolic of a science which is able to systematise tion, not a pastime. The problem is: how adopted various literary models for their systems, it is argued, are subject to sup­ itself without the assistance of phil­ is it to be realised in terms of its own thinking. Recently linguistic or socio~ pressions of meaning in much the same osophy. As Martin Heidegger put it ends? Whatever the answer, this seems logical models have proved fruitful- as way as the contents of the individual towards the end of his life, philosophy the right question. shown respectively by Wittgenstein and psyche. But the repressed always returns has been replaced - by cybernetics. Robin Small This outcome is not an encouraging one. As rationality gives way to rational­ isation, critical and self-reflective Putemaot tang blong yu thought is excluded. On the one hand, philosophy becomes a marginal activity, Put out your tongue ... hold your side the medical profession. provide a basis for standardising concerned with problems of interest breath ... bend down ... turn around. The dictionary includes a section com­ medical language in the area ... only to oneself. On the other. the misuse These are typical instructions from a paring Tok Pisin (Papua New Guinean Dr Bowden began to compile the dic­ of modern technology threatens to make doctor, but what if instead you were told pidgin), Bislama and Solomon Island tionary four years ago, after working as debate over the future of human to putemaot tang blong yu, yu staem pidgin. a physician and medical administrator in thought pointless by jeopardising the win blong yu, bendaon, or tanem raon? "'There has been talk of standardising Vanuatu since 1972. future of (he human race. The Medical Dictionary in Bislama, the pidgin languages used throughout The dictionary, on sale at the Univer­ Can philosophy regain its importance English and French might provide the the Melanesian area. sity Bookshop for $10, uses local - and if so, how? Harry Redner sees answer. "If this occurs, the dictionary will Vanuatu spelling. this as. oddly enough, a destructive task. Senior lecturer in Anatomy, Dr A number of modern thinkers have at­ Donald Bowden, has written the dic­ tacked the metaphysical tradition: tionary to assist medical staff in Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in th e Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides). last century; Wittgenstein, Heidegger "Before Independence in 1980, English and French were spoken, but then Bislama gained National Standard Checklist of Language status. "Now the indigenous people speak Bislama, but there are still others who French settlers administer and speak in either English The English department has published or French," says Dr Bowden. a catalogue or original French accounts The dictionary, recently published of European settlement in Australia with the assistance of the Monash Uni­ from the first Fleet to Federation. versit y Publications Committee, will be The Analytical checklist offirst-hand of particular value to village nurses in accounts in French 0/ Colonial Vanuatu. Australia, by Dr Colin Thornwn-Smith, "The medical staff need to be able [Q chairman of the French department at understand complaints about injuries Melbourne University, lists French and illnesses before talking to the indig­ publicalions, Engli sh translations, enous people. library holdings, and a summary of "This is why the dictionary gives contents. English equivalents," says Dr Bowden. It is a revised and enlarged edition of Dr Bowden says a second aim of the an earlier publication, and is available dictionary was to induce the indigenous from Dr Dennis Davison, English people to think about the development department, Monash University, at $3 of their language. per copy. "It will certainly have an appeal out­ • Or Bowden . .. standardising the pidgin languages. MONASH REPORTER to APRIL 4, t916 Germans contribute to Victoria's 150th The essays in this commemorative volume are Intended to serve as a contribution to the 5esquicentenary of Victoria. The aim is to show aspects of the im­ inter-ethnic communication is necessari­ pact German-speaking immigrants ­ Iy a two-way process. and German culture - had on the Such communication simultaneously development of OUf State. contains clements of preservation and The Melbourne Consulate-General of change, and it implies an ever-shifting the Federal Republic of Germany, · Dr balance between the maintenance of dif­ Karl-Heinz Schoityssek, initiated the ferent socio-cultural identities and a volume, and the Monash University dynamic process which alters both the department of German was asked to immigrant and his host country. undertake the editorial work in view of The history of the inter-relations bet­ its long-standing research interest in this ween the Anglo-Celtic mainstream area. culture and German-speaking settlers in Associale Professor Walter Veit Victoria provide important examples for undertook a very ·substantial amount of the paradigm. administrative and organisational work The volume begins with Michael • The Genn"" Connection contains dedica­ in the period prior to oublication. Clyne's essay on the development of the tions by the Consul-General of the Federal It must be noted that for the purpose German language in Victoria, and also Republic of Gennany, Dr Kart-Heinz Scho~ Don Juan in of the volume. "German" always contains an investigation of one specific tyssek. and the Premier of Victoria. Mr Cain. denotes "German speakers", that is, case of language maintenance and Representative. from the Gennan Con­ sulate and from the Monash department of Australia immigrants not only from Germany, but change, by Anne Pauwels. Gennan gave a copy to the Minister of the from all German-speaking parts of An article on Ferdinand von Mueller Arts, Mr Race Mathews, at Pa~iament Wine and words will now at t~e Europe. by Joseph Powell presents the fate of a House last month . They are pictured above, Iluncb of Emerllus Prof.....r Hector The essays are based on the scholarly brilliant scientist, while Conrad from left. Professor Leslie Bodi. Dr Scho~ Monro's comic poem, Don Juan in work of contributors in a variety of Hamann shows the successful merging tyssek. Dr Gerd Braumilier. Mr Mathews, AustraJiJJ, on Thursday, April 17, says disciplines; the unifying factor being the of elements of European and Australian Associate Professor Walter Veit, and Dr 0l1lanl_ Pblllp Martin. assumption that all inter-cultural and architecture in the work of the Swiss­ Stephen Jeffries. German refugee. Frederick Romberg. The launch, in the conference room of The mid-nineteenth century socialist the Main Library, is part of the free $340,000 for Hermann Puttmann and the eminent Monash Lunchtime Readings series pre­ Austrian essayist Paul Hirsch-Hatvani sented by the English department with are not identified by Victorians as the support from the Vera Moore Fund, the graphics lab significant literary figures they were in Dean of Arts, and the Literature Board The department of Mecbanlcal their countries of origin, nor are they of the Australia Council. Engineering will Install. graphics work· known in German-speaking Europe Everyone is welcome to attend. station laboratory wbich will be tbe big­ for having continued their work as Other planned items in the series in­ gest in Melbourne. migrants to Victoria. They are therefore clude a Back 10 Monash reading by It is based on a similar set-up at the presented in this volume with transla­ former student poets Laurie Duggan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. tions of two of their essays on Australia. John A. Scott and Alan Wearne, to be The system, costing S340,OOO, is being A study of the German aspects in held on Monday, April 28 in Room bought with an engineering equipment Henry Handel Richardson's oeuvre, by SGO, Menzies Building. grant supplemented by departmental Maureen Mann, aims to draw attention to the momentous impact of the culture, This particular reading will be held funds, says lecturer, Mr Ray Maxwell. from 4.15 10 6.15 pm, not at lunchtime. literature, philosophy and music of It consists of 15 black and white Next month, well-known Australian DN3(x)() computers and two color German-speaking Europe in the late 19th century on the development of a poet, Mark O'Connor, will read from DN570s, which will be linked by a high his works. speed local area network. new and specifically Australian The system will be used in manufac­ literature. The reading, on Thursday, May 8, turing design, design development, the Irmline Veit-Brause's essay on the will again be held in the SGO room on teaching of graphics and data manage­ Victorian Centenary Exhibition of 1888 the ground Ooor of the Menzies ment, and for courses given to local points to the significant nature of Building. industry. German-Australian industrial and trade Inquiries about the program should relations in the last century. be directed to Mr Martin on ext. 2141. The articles are presented as self­ New alumni body Safety at work contained essays, and are written in a Graduates of Ihe departmenl of EIec· Papers are iD"ited for tbe 23rd Indus­ style which is intended to make them as trical EngIneering are InvIted to joIn tbe trial Safety Convention, to be beld In accessible as possible to the broader recently.Jaunched SocIety of Monasb China: Past Wollongong on October 22 and 23. reading public. Electrical Engineering AlumnI • . They could cover subjects including Summaries in German are also includ­ The department will be celebrating its and present occupational health. compensation and ed to add to the usefulness of the book own silver jubilee next year, and is plan­ rehabilitation, training, legal implica­ for non-English readers. ning a number of activities to involve the tions, and particular health problems. A conference on Sci~nce and To encourage further study and alumni. Technology in ChilUl: Present and Past, Submissions must be received by mid­ research. the volume closes with an ex­ Graduates (B.E., M.Eng.Sc. and April and need to include an abstract up will be beld It tbe UnIversity of Sydney tensive bibliography of publications Ph.D.) who have not received a letter from MlY 16 to 21. to 200 words. relating to both German-speaking set­ from Kishor Dabke inviting them to join For further information contact Dr tlers in Victoria and the reception and the society should send their names, ad­ It is the fourth International Confer­ Neil Adams, Program Co-ordinator, understanding of this State in the dresses and telephone numbers to the ence on the History of Chinese Science, 23rd NSW Industrial Safety Conven· German-speaking world. chairman, department of Electrical and the first to be held in Australia. tion, P.O. Box 1992, Wollongong, 2500. Leslie Bodi. Engineering. Topics will include the archaeology and history of technology, the develop­ ment of technology and science policy Industry seminar looks to the future and the training of scientists in contem­ porary China. SenIor Lecturer In Economic Hlslory, Dr Keith Trace, will speak on The Ri", and duction crippled Australia's recovery Fall ofManufacturing at a semInar on the fulure of Australian Industry, on April 19 A one·day symposium, The Ar· attempt. chaeology of Science, will be held to and 20. Dr Trace says Australia's long term Dr Trace will provide the background Britain developed alternate trade commemorate one of the conference to Australian manufacturing, from the industry development lies with founders, Professor Xia Nai. policies and Australia turned to internal strengthening new export potential. late 1900s and pre·World War to the six· development. For further information contact the ties when manufacturers became dis­ "With the increased migration of the The seminar is being organised by the Secretary·General, Mr Henry Chan, illusioned with the industry. post-war years. the need for industry Council of Adult Education, and will be Department of History, University of I,Australia was highly dependent on developed further," says Dr Trace. held at 256 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Newcastle. (049) 68 5275 or (049) primary industry, then, in the thirties Lack of industry and high cost pro· telephone 652 0611. 685262. MONASH REPORTER 11 APRIL 4. 1916 The 'Alex' goes Wilde Monash staff and students are involv­ ed in the Babirra Players' production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. to be presented at the Alexander Theatre from April \1-19. In this light-hearted operetta, Gilbert's satirical wit was directed at the pretensions of Oscar Wilde and the 50­ called aesthetic movement of the 19th century. Wilde apparently took the send-up in good part, and did an American tour to promote the operetta. He was scheduled to appear in each city just as Patience was about to open. • Gifted Indian musician, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, second from right, plays the sarod, a The Babirra Players' production is stringed instrument like the sitar. He is accompanied by, from left, Deb Chakravarti directed by Rodney Hunter. with the (tabla), Ashit Ghatak (tala) and Sharafat Khan (sitar). Ustad Ali Khan gave three leading roles played by Graeme performances at Monash last month. Below: Chinese musicians, Shen Pan-Geng, left Gregory, Neil Campbell and Phyllis (er-hu) and Zhao-Yang-Qin (yangqin), gave a concert in the Music department Smith. auditorium during their visit to the campus for the 1986 Annual Concert of Chinese Music at Robert Blackwood Hall. Both groups were part of a music and dance program Bookings ,-,nd inquiries can be hosted by the Music department. Photos ­ Tony MiII9r and Richard Crompton. directed to the ticket secretary on 2325196 or 232 2844.

Monash Reporter The next issue will be published in the second week of May. 1986. Copy deadline is Friday. April 25, and early copy is much appre­ Bible bash ciated. Rare biblical artefacts will be on display at Robert Blackwood Hall this Contributions (letters. articles. month during the Bible Expo '86 hosted photos) and suggestions should be by Christian groups at Monash. addressed to the editor. Lisa Kelly. They include replicas of ar­ Information Office, University Of­ chaeological significance to the Old and fices. or ring ext. 2003. New Testament. rare copies of old translations of the Bible, a 5 em by 5 em a re: 12 noon to 5 pm on April 12-I3. and microfiche containing the whole Bible, 9 am to 5 pm on April 14-15. and examples of modern translations. Admission is free. Inquiries should be Opening hours for the Bible Expo '86 directed to Stephen Ng. on 543 3948.

12: SATURDAY CLUB - Red Series A. Role of Multi-Faith Organisations in "Peter & The Wolf", (5-8 yr olds). Peace-Making", by Dr John Taylor. 2.30 p.m. Inquiries: 543 2255. APRIL 21: "Peace and Disarmament: A APRIL DIARY 12-15: BIBLE EXPLO '86 - Exhibition of Perspective From An Eastern Bloc Chris­ artefacts and replicas of archaeological tian", by Bishop Koroly Toth. Both significance to Old and New Testament seminars in Narthex, Religious Centre, The events listed below are open to the' thony Fogg (piano). Program: Sinfonia times. Open in Robert Blackwood Hall 12 I p.m. Inquiries: ext. 3161. public: '_'RBH" throughout stands for da Requiem, Op. 20, Mozart; Piano Con­ noon - 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Admis­ 18 & 19, WILDERNESS ·86 CONGRESS Robert Blackwood Hall. There is a BASS certo. Peter Sculthorpe; Symphony No.8, sion free. Inquiries: 543 3948. AND INTERNATIONAL FILM FES­ ticketing outlet on campus at the Alexander Shostakovich. Admission: Adulis A Res. 14, MIGRANT STUDIES SEMINARS - TIVAL - Organised and run by Action Theatre. $16.20, B Res. $13, C Res. $9.80. Conces­ "Xenisms - What makes a person con­ Outdoor Sports and Adventure Travel 2: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE sion (pensioners and unemployed) A Res. tinue to be perceived as a foreigner?", by Magazine: Pres. adventure films, lectures FORUMS - "A critical look at the $13. B Res. $9.80, C Res $8. Youth (under Konrad Ehlich, Professor of German, and slide shows. For further information historic conservation movement", by 21 or full-time student under 25) A Res. University of Dortmund. APRIL 28: and tickets contact 791 2811. RBH. Alison Blake. National Trust of Aus­ $8, B Rec. $6.50, C Res. $5. 8 p.m. RBH. "Social Mobility Project", outlined by 19: SATURDAY CLUB - Red Series B tralia. APRIL 9: "Caring for the Land", 6: AFTERNOON CONCERT - The Mel· Dr Tony Pensabene, Director of Research 2.30 p.m., Red Series C 11.30 a.m. by. Brian Roberts. Darling Downs in­ bourne Youth Music Council pres. the AlMA, and Anne Sitl and Maria Kabala. "Peter & The Wolf", (5-8 yr olds). In­ stitute. APRIL 16: "Greening of the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band, the Admission free. 7.30 p.m. R6. Inquiries: quiries: 543 2255. Alex. Theatre. Left" , by Trevor Blake, The Graduate John Antill Youth Band, the Percy Gra­ ext. 2245. 20-24: STUDENTS FOR CHRIST - Pres. School of Environmental Science. APRIL inger Youth Orchestra and the Melbourne 14: LUNCHTIME CONCERT - Ensemble I "Hans Coornstra Crusade". Admission 23: "Towards a Conserver Economic Youth Choir. 2 p.m. RBH. Spiros Rantos (violin), Marco Van Pagee free. 6.30 p.m. (April 21-24 7.30 p.m.). Strategy", by Don Sieman, Energy Ac­ 7: LUNCHTIME CONCERT - Jeff Press­ (viola), Diane Froomes (cello), Brachi 21: LUNCHTIME CONCERT - ··Baroque tion Group. APRIL 30: " Computer ing - Piano & Electronic Keyboards. Tilles (piano), pres. a program of works Bon Bons", Douglas Lawrence Organ Modelling for Environmental Educa­ Robert Parades - Clarinet. Presenting by Mozart and Schumann. 1.15 p.m. Recita!. 1.15 p.m. Admission free. RBH. tion", by Brian Sharply. The Gould jazz and electronic compositions. Admission free. RBH. 22: BASKET LUNCHEON - Monash Uni­ League of Victoria. Environmental 1.15 p.m. Admission free. RBH. 16: BIOETHICS LECTURE - ··Should the versity Parents Group. Talk/Demonstra­ Science Seminar Room. All forums at 7: BIOETHICS CONFERENCE - ··AIDS: Baby Live?". by Dr Helga Kuhse and tion by Maureen Lowenstein. consultant 5.15 p.m. Free. Inquiries: ext. 3839. Social Policy, Ethics and the Law", spon­ Prof. Peter Singer. Mcture Theatre R6. from "Your Colours". Ticket Sec: Mrs J. 3: SPACE DISCUSSION - "Satellite Com­ sored by Monash University Centre for 1.05 p.m. Admission free. Inquiries: ext. Williams. 728 1061. RBH. munications", by Harold Hepburn. Human Bioethics. Clunies Ross House, 3266. 25, 26, 30: MUSICAL - "Cabaret", pres. Sponsored by Space Association of Aus­ Parkville. Inquiries: ext. 3266. 17, SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES - by Cheltenham Light Opera Company. tralia. Admission free. 7.30 p.m. In­ 10: MORNING COFFEE - Monash Univer­ "Aspects of the Philippines Economy", Admission: adults SIO, children $6, quiries: 699 2985 or 772 5804. sity Parents Group welcome to new by Dr Hal Hill (ASEAN - Australian stud/pens. $8. Bookings 288 8438. Alex. J: ABORIGINAL STUDIES LECTURES­ parents and welcome back to "old". Project, A.N.U.). APRIL 24: "Suharto's Theatre. "Post-Contact History", Wayne Alkin­ 10 a.m. RBH . twenty-one years in perspective - but 26: EVENING CONCERT - Festival of son. APRIL 10: "Kinship", Don II: CONCERT - Waverley Music '86. Sixth which perspective?". by Mr Ken Thomas Brass, featuring the Melbourne Staff Williams. APRIL 17: "Kinship", Don annual Waverley Secondary Schools (Economics, LaTrobe). 11.15 a.m. Room Band and the Hawthorn City Band. Williams. APRIL 24: "Urban Abor­ Music Festival, featuring concert and big SIS, Menzies Building. Admission free. Admission: adults $5, concession $3. igines". Eve Fes!. Admission free. 1 p.m. bands, orchestras, ensembles and choirs. Inquiries: ext. 2197. Tickets available at the door. RBH. , 2 p.m., Lecture Theatre R6. Inquiries: Admission free. Entry cards available 17: MONASH READINGS - Launching of 28: LUNCHTIME CONCERT - "Ad­ ext. 3348. from Waverley Council Offices or par­ Hector Monro's comic poem 'Don Juan zohu", traditional music from the Ewe, 5: SATURDAY CLUB - Red Series Extra. ticipating schools. 7.30 p.m. RBH. in Australia'. 1. IO p.m. Conference room, Ga and Ashanti people of West Africa. " The Great Puppet Cabaret" (5-8 yr 11-13, 17-19: MUSICAL - "Patience", Main Library. APRIL 28: "Back to 1.15 p.m. Admission free. RBH. olds). 11.30 a.m. Subscriptions available. pres. by The Babirra Players. Admission: Monash", Laurie Duggan, John A. Scott, 29: ABC VOUNG PERFORMERS COM­ Inquiries: 543 2255. Alex. Theatre. adults $9.50, children $4, stud/pens. Alan Wearne. 4.15 p.m - 6.15 p.m. PETITION - Vocal Section. The most PERSPECTIVES CONCERT No I - The $5.50, 8 p.m. (13th Matinee 2 p.m.). Room sao, Menzies Building. Inquiries: outstanding competitors in the Vocal Sec­ Orchestra con­ Bookings 2325196 or 2322844. Alex. ext. 2141. tion who were selected nationally. Admis­ . Soloist: An- 17: PEACE STUDIES SEMINARS - • sion free. 7.30 RBH. MONASH REPORTER 12 APRIL 4. 1986 Printed by Waverley Offset Publishing Group, (03) 560 5111 . Typeset by BP Typesenfng Ply. ltd.• (03)561 2111

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