Monash Plans· Seaside Camp
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JoInt "entwe rtf. YMeA: MONASH PLANS· SEASIDE CAMP MONASH Uninrsity il planning to denlop ito own year-round camp at Shorehom on the Morn ington Peninlulo, 46 milel from the compul. The property covers about 26 acres at Shoreham and is situated about 400 yards from a sheltered beach and 900 yards from Point Leo Surf Beach. The camp is owned by the V.M.C.A. of Melbourne and baa been temporarily closed this year. Subject to the fmalising of present negotiations the camp will be rc·opcncd and named the W. fL Buxton Education and Recreational Centre: after the man who originally donated the property to the V.M.C.A. Il is planned to open the camp on February 1 next year and it is hoped it. first usc will be a university "Freshen' Camp" for first-year intake students. The camp wiD be avoilable for uae by My member or sroup of Moaaah and the V.M.C.A. Outside orpniaatioDS may aIoo hire the camp and it is anticipated many schoob than that of the normal institutional accommodation for 72 people. There nCI.AllaN hall a' the ump MONth will do so. envirollJllCnt. U is one donnitory for 24 people and P'OPO'" 10 develop in ptrtnenhip Bookings may be made through In conjunction with Mr. Davies of with the YMCA. a.:ow left i$ a view six huts each taking eight people. of one of the ne.,by bee.che •. the Sports and Recreations the V.M.C.A. a proposal was ODe hundred persons can also be Association, ext. ~nos. submitted to both the Union Board accommodated under canvas. The Monash Union and the and the V.M.C.A. Committee of A brochure is to be prepared V.M.C.A. are planning a joint project Management and a decision is giving detail. of hiring charges and for the camp on a two-year trial anticipated this month on the two booking arrangements as well as The Reporter basis. year agreement. listing full details of the facilities This is .he las. Issue of Monasll Mr. Doug Ellis, Depu ty Warden of If at the end of two yean the available. Reporter for 1971, and .he Infor the Union, who haa actively joint project bas been IUcce.lul then The amenities include a large promoted the idea of a camp site for a Joog term agreement may be recreation hall, table tennis tables, a ma'ion Olllc:e would like '0 lllank all 'hose members of .he university the last ax years - at one stage he entered into or elle MODuli wiD be football and cricket oval, a volleyball even proposed purchasing an entire given the option to leue or purchaae and basketball court. For recreation - 5'0' and sluden.s - who have township in Gippsland - told the the camp if the V.M.C.A. decide not people can play various sports, swim, generously conlribu.ed 'heir 'i_ and .alen. iI duriat: .be Reporter; "The Union is taking a to continue using the aite. roo or walk. There is also a small '0 year_ punt and hoping that all members of When we first produced it in its Mr. Ellis said that the Monash reef nearby which is suitable for the University will realise the present format in March 1971, we Union would be paying $4000 over marine biology excursions. potential of the camp and make full The planned cost for the camp is undertook to make The Reporter a use of the opportunity. two years to re-open and maintain medium for news from all sections the camp. The Union was also $7 per head for weekends and $2.80 uThe planning committee hopes of the university, open to all who underwriting the cost of providing a p.er head during the week - this that disciplines other than those ' had anything constructive. intelli resident caretaker. The total includes three meals a day. A lower incorporating field studies will also ratc will apply for accommodation gent and helpful to contribute. guaranteed outlay would be $14000 find ways to usc the site:' Mr. Ellis only. We aim to pursue that same 0b but it was anticipated that some of this said. Besides use as a camp for freshen jective in 1972 - possibly in fewer outlay would be recouped from hiring "The area might be developed as other proposed uses are: pages per issue, but at more fre charge•. quent intervals. an extension of the Monash campus • Special camp for young people to prOvide a more relaxed atmosphere The camp consists of bunk type with social, phyaical or educational The first issue for 1972 will handiCaps. These could be run in appear in late February, or the first week of March, and contributions close . association with various university groups. arc now invited. Copy should reach the editor, Ian Anderson, in • orr-peak use by penons ..eking the Information Office, University a quiet place to write up a thesiJ, or Offices, by mid-February. for undergraduates during examination periods. • Camps for p.rimary and "WHAT il man'l ehief end? secondary school pupils. "Man'. chief end i. to cherish • Field study camps for univenity hil home, the "rth, that h. may departments such as zoologyJ botany, enjoy Its bounty for .ve,." engineering and geography. - Sir Macfarlane Bvmet'. re viled vet.ion of the fir" quea. The interim planning committee tlon of the catfl:hiam. He comprising Professor Swan, Doug quoted it during hi. ineugural Ellis and Peter McGinley of Monash 0.ca1 MlJndellOhn lecture, de and Vern Davies and Barry Voung of livered a.t Monaah on October the Y.M.C.A. invite suggestions as to 6. A report of the lecture ap pe.r. In thl. lawe. other uses for the camp. THE REPORTER COLLECTION MQre gems from our treasure house of professorial doodles QOSt&J$$4bN Dk$CiQ$$ioKi ._tW-.J~· .2&iiL. W*",d;~ dry A ;, z?1llC.;I'4YamrY" ) PLANNING A LEARNING ABOUT NEW GUINEA SEMINAR Plannin. h.. belun fa. the SbdIa NATIVE LIFE Waipni S_ ..toIch ,.;n be _ II die UIIivenIIy of p...... ond Now GuU. from April 30 11> May 5 next ,... Whites could too eosily oventress the primitive ospects of notive locieties. according to a visiting anthropologist from New The Seminar will be divided into fIVe sections: Education; Health nutrition and Zealand. community serviceS; Industrialisation, and the rural - urban development conflict; Prof. _ naoUa _ tho ..._ He is Dutch~m Professor ,Jan Pouwer, Political development; Self4eSpeCt and head of the anthropology department at toot • lot of _..... _ will.. mea national identity. the University of Wellington, who has been ___ not lmmortaI. The only white people • ProfeslOr Jalt Pouwer A number of papers from scholant lecturing al Monash during thud Ienn. they /lad -. hod boon you,. ODd It .... administrators and otheR, UWd.e and "However the situation was better than Prof. Pouwer, who has spent a good hard for them 11> COIIceiv. of on elderly outside Melanesia, will be commissioned. in in the early 19605 as the Papuans now deal of his life the rough, almost Interested people ale abo invited to have more responsibility ," he said. inaccessible parts of New Guinea, says that The village set-up W8! simple but suggest topics and speakers, or to submit the natives are "very pragmatic and show a intrigulng. There was a centnl made Prof. Pouwer .ounded I word of viIla&e off"5 of p~ th~~~ fur po_~~ ., good deal of common sense." --up of 8 saaed house, only entered by old walnin. about conditions ill his new _ntry.He~ __ _ inclusion in the programme. The way the highlanders let off steam at men, a club for the men, for social no1 war time is probably a good example - there religious use, and a hut (01 the women die _ IIId non~ lIpO!Cio!Iy Ia die Enquiries and other correspondence is no Indiscriminate killing, and sometimes where they pve birth to their babies and may be directed to either:- • Dr. Marion nobody ever gets killed. · . went to during the merutrual cycle. "In the cities there is competition with W. Ward, New Guinea Research Unit, One village docs not inflict heavy Around this area were separate huts --the whites, and the more skilled the Maoris Australian National University·, P.O. Box casualties on another v.iIlage because it fOI each family. become the mole competltion tho,. win 1238, Boroko, Papua New Guinea. The tasks of tho men Included hunting. be. would upset the balance of power. • Professor Anthony Clunics Ross, "Their way 01 walinl war is building fences and cIigIng and fOI the "In the ntta1 areas the Maoris and the women, weeding, looking after the children whites are face to (ace but in the u..rban Economics Department, UniYersity of lnaedIble," Prof. Po..- sold. "It could Papua & New Guinea, P.O. Box 1144, and diging up potatoes. areas the Maoris stay t08ether quite be titenlly - 4Let'. have a war tomollOW· Boroko, Papua New Guinea. pcoricIlna it _'1 nIn' literally· up to 20 or 25 'in a house at •"The war could just be shouting of Free women times . The seminar is sponsored jointly by: verbal abuse, -although sometimes they use Prof. Pouwcr said the women had an "Overall the Maoris don't want to be The University of Papua add New spears, or bows and arrows. independent position. "For example they assimilated.; they want to have their own Guinea, The Australian National •01 can remember two brothers m a were free to communicate with us.