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Issue 15 of the University of Otago Magazine UN I VERS I T Y O F MAGAZINEOtago I S S U E 1 5 : O CTO BER 2 0 0 6 OTAGO INNOVATION LTD: TURNING BRIGHT IDEAS INTO COMMERCIAL REALITIES FORMER GOVERNOR-GENERAL DAME SILVIA CARTWRIGHT DOCTORS ON TOP OF THE WORLD OTAGO’s cOLLEGE LIFE UN I VERS I T Y O F O TAG O m a g a z i n e CONTENTS 5 26 Vice-Chancellor’s comment Polaris II 6 Otago’s new research vessel opens new 6 possibilities for ocean sciences Nothing like a Dame Former Governor-General and Otago graduate 30 Dame Silvia Cartwright College life Otago’s Residential Colleges offer much 10 more than just bed and board … Doctors on top of the world Alumni talk about their time at Kunde 34 Hospital, Nepal InBrief Academic highlights 15 10 OILing the wheels … 40 Otago Innovation Ltd guides researchers UniNews through the commercialisation process 41 20 UniClippings Boomerang student Octogenarian Albie Green’s insatiable 43 appetite for academia Hocken legacy 22 44 Opinion 20 Books Professor Anne Smith on the smacking debate 46 23 Alumni news Weaving magic Te Tumu lecturer Kahutoi Te Kanawa 50 shares her skills Whatever happened to … Plans to demolish the Clocktower? 23 TOTALLY WIRED The Intelligent Choice for the Quality Conscious UN I VERS I T Y O F O TAG O It’s All About Design m a g a z i n e A MAGAZINE foR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS of THE UNIVERSITY of OTAGO University of Otago Magazine Issue 15 tivoli October 2006 ISSN - 1175-817 Managing editor Claire Ramsay TIVOLI AUDIO Editor Karen Hogg New models to enjoy, Designer Peter Scott new finishes to choose from. 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Printing PMP Print Circulation Alumni and Development Office design To update or change delivery address DESIGNER SATURDAY Tel 0800 80 80 98 Audio Design Showcase Email [email protected] at Totally Wired Web www.otago.ac.nz/alumni/changedetails Saturday 18 November 10am - 2pm Editorial contact details University of Otago Magazine Marketing and Communications PO Box 56 VISIT Totally Wired in Dunedin’s historic Stuart Street Terrace Houses. Dunedin EXPLORE our web site. CALL or email us for information. New Zealand Tel 6 79 8679 John Ransley BSc (Hons) Otago and Sharon Guytonbeck BA Otago. Fax 6 79 517 Email [email protected] www.totallywired.co.nz Web www.otago.ac.nz/otagomagazine Totally Wired Ltd. The Terrace Houses Submissions Contributed articles and letters should be addressed to: 217 Stuart Street, DUNEDIN The Editor, University of Otago Magazine, at the above address or email [email protected] Copyright email [email protected] You are welcome to reproduce material from the magazine after gaining permission from the editor. Phone (+64) 3 479 0444 All reproduced material must be appropriately acknowledged. NZ Toll Free 0800 909 101 The University of Otago Magazine is published by the Marketing and Communications Division of the University. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University. Totally Wired support the World Wide Fund for Nature. VICE- C HANCELLOR’S CO MM ENT More than half of the students who come to Otago start their campus life in a residential college or hall. An article in this issue (page 30) notes that the existing Halls of Residence at the University are being renamed as “colleges”, to reflect more accurately the role they play in providing academic and pastoral support – as well as accommodation – for students. The University Council was briefed in June about the intention of six existing Halls of Residence – Arana, Carrington, Cumberland, Hayward, Salmond, and Studholme – to change their names to “colleges”. They will join six existing Residential Colleges: Aquinas College, City College, Knox College, St Margaret’s College, Selwyn College and University College. Otago’s 12 colleges offer something quite distinct from the hostels and halls at most other universities. Ever since the establishment of Selwyn in 1893 and Knox in 1909, our colleges have sought to be academic communities that offer far more than just bed and board. Together with Toroa International House, they provide a residential learning environment that is unparalleled in this part of the world – except perhaps at the University of Melbourne. All of the colleges at the University of Otago offer tutorials for students and many have their own libraries. There is a major emphasis on providing pastoral care to students, which is partly achieved through the active involvement of senior members of the University. All of the colleges are owned either by the University or by charitable organisations; in contrast to many universities, Otago has not delegated this function to external businesses. In the last three years, we have spent more than $30 million in expanding and enhancing the facilities at University College and Arana College, providing an additional 275 beds. We regard our Residential Colleges as one of the most important features of campus life at Otago. The colleges give students an opportunity to get to know people from all over New Zealand – as well as many other countries – who are studying for a wide range of careers. Often they end up going flatting with some of these new friends. When I attend alumni functions in different parts of the world, I continually meet graduates who tell me that, by living in a Residential College, they made some of their closest friends for life. This has been my own experience, and I am delighted that the opportunity is available for so many students at the University of Otago. Professor David Skegg Vice-Chancellor – University of Otago 5 Dame Silvia Cartwright: “… I don’t say things I don’t mean and I try not to be a distraction … I’m not a politician.’’ 6 Nothing like a Dame Former Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright has had a stellar career in public life. It began with a law degree at the University of Otago. ONE of THE BURDENS of PUBliC offiCE IS THAT yoU immediately in front, but with her back to the Governor- can kiss goodbye to anonymity. But some people have the General, was heard to say to a friend, “I could have sworn I knack and the gracious good humour to wear this imposition saw Silvia Cartwright outside”. lightly. Dame Silvia Cartwright, whose term as Governor- At which point Dame Silvia tapped the woman on the General ended on 4 August, is one of them. shoulder and said, “Hello!’’ “This is one of the few countries in the world where The women collapsed into fits of embarrassed giggles, so someone in my position can safely go around the city at any much so that they had to leave the queue. “They completely reasonable hour and be part of the ordinary community – and lost it, and I got to the front of the queue, and my ice-creams, we need to treasure that.’’ much more quickly,” she laughs. Seated in the Vice-Chancellor’s reception room in the “I have accepted that my face is known in New Zealand University of Otago’s registry building, she is relating a tale and indeed in other countries … but I am still myself. People of movie-going, a generous smile constantly threatening to say, ‘Are you allowed to go to the movies?’ and I say, ‘Who’s dismantle her official composure. Relaxed and friendly, she going to stop me? If I want to go to the movies, I’ll go’.” could be your well-spoken next-door neighbour. It is a long journey from being an often solitary female But back to the picture theatre. Her companion was in student in the law lecture rooms of the University of Otago ighthaus L the ticket line, while she queued for ice-creams. The woman in the 1960s, to audiences with sultans and princes and odd@ T Photo: Photo: 7 potentates as New Zealand’s de facto Head of State. But it Commission of Inquiry into the Treatment of Cervical Cancer is a journey that Dame Silvia has accomplished with grace, and Other Related Matters at National Women’s Hospital. The dedication and not a little hard work. Cartwright Inquiry, as it became known, was to be a landmark It hasn’t always been easy. Reading between the lines, in New Zealand medical history. being one of two young women in her year at law school was “I had about eight terms of reference … but at its challenging. fundamentals, it was a story that teaches us a lot of lessons “It toughens you up,’’ she says, adding that she wishes that – the ethics of research – that brought into New Zealand some she had been “more integrated into the University’’. Coming writing on the whole issue of informed consent which had from a Dunedin family of builders and artisans, and being never been touched on before. among the first generation to go on to tertiary study, there had “So something that I did as a distraction from my been no great tradition of book work.
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