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Issue 21 of the University of Otago Magazine UNIVERSITY OF MAGAZINEOtago ISSUE 21: OCTOBER 2008 THE HUMAN GENOME DEBATE RISK-TAKING: WHY YOUNG ADULTS STILL BEHAVE LIKE TEENAGERS THE END OF OIL? THE BURNS FELLOWSHIP: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OtagoUNIVERSITY OF Otago Summer School 2009 5 January – 19 February 2009 Want to learn something new this summer? 0800 80 80 98 www.otago.ac.nz txt 866 [email protected] !15).!3¬#/,,%'%¬ 452.3¬ 7ELL ¬ACTUALLY¬!QUINAS¬HISTORY¬GOES¬BACK¬TO¬ ¬ BUT¬WERE¬TAKING¬THE¬OPPORTUNITY¬TO¬CELEBRATE¬OUR¬ BEAUTIFUL¬hHOME¬ON¬THE¬HILLv¬IN¬ALL¬ITS¬GUISES¬ON¬THE¬ OCCASION¬OF¬THE¬TH¬ANNIVERSARY¬OF¬THE¬5NIVERSITY¬ OF¬/TAGO¬TAKING¬OVER¬THE¬RUNNING¬OF¬THE¬#OLLEGE 7HENææænææ.OVEMBER æ 3O¬WHETHER¬YOU¬LIVED¬AT¬!QUINAS¬WHEN¬IT¬WAS¬RUN¬ BY¬THE¬$OMINICANS ¬OR¬WHEN¬IT¬WAS¬CALLED¬¬ $ALMORE¬(OUSE ¬OR¬MORE¬RECENTLY¬WHEN¬ITS¬¬ NAME¬BECAME¬!QUINAS¬AGAIN ¬COME¬AND¬REVISIT¬ OLD¬TIMES ¬RECONNECT¬WITH¬FRIENDS¬AND¬¬ GET¬BACK¬INTO¬THE¬3CARlE¬EXPERIENCE¬¬ n¬YOU¬MAY¬EVEN¬BE¬ABLE¬TO¬STAY¬IN¬YOUR¬OLD¬ROOM 4O¬2360 ¬OR¬REGISTER¬YOUR¬INTEREST ¬¬ GO¬TO¬WWWOTAGOACNZALUMNIAQUINAS ¬¬ OR¬TELEPHONE¬,IZZY¬,UKEMAN¬ON¬¬¬ CONTENTS MAGAZINEUNIVERSITY OF OTAGO 5 24 Vice-Chancellor’s comment Hard work counts A love of numbers has taken accounting graduate Lisa Whiting to the top 6 6 Who, why, when? A review of the three-year 26 Human Genome Research Project Honouring Burns The Burns Fellowship turns 50 10 Risky business 10 30 Professor Harlene Hayne discusses why Advancement young adults still behave like teenagers A conversation with Neville Bain 13 32 No ordinary man InBrief Otago alumnus Stanley Paris 13 Academic highlights 16 38 UniNews Opinion The end of oil? An optimistic view 16 41 18 UniClippings Sound ideas Dr Graeme Downes, head of Otago’s 42 Books contemporary rock music programme 18 44 21 Alumni News The business of science Otago’s Applied Science programme is attracting top students – and the attention 50 of employers Hocken legacy 24 51 Whatever happened to … Your academic record? 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The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University. 4 VICE-CHANCELLOR’S COMMENT Sir Lindo Ferguson, the second Dean of the Medical only compounded by New Zealand’s paltry investment in School, said that a satisfied Dean was a contradiction in research. terms. This observation, quoted in Dorothy Page’s new Given the limitations in funding, New Zealand History of Medicine at Otago, applies equally to Vice- universities do a remarkable job. Scepticism about rankings Chancellors. No university ever has enough money. While of world universities is fully justified, but those recently recognising the danger of sounding predictable, I want published (from Shanghai Jiao Tong University) are widely to explain the particular predicament of New Zealand regarded as the most objective. These bracket two New universities. Zealand universities – Otago and Auckland – in the 201–302 This country spends a respectable proportion of its band, while three others are placed between 303 and 503. GDP on tertiary education, but there is an imbalance in There are literally thousands of universities in the OECD that investment. New Zealand now devotes 42 per cent of alone. On a population basis, having five universities in the government funding for tertiary education to financial top 500 puts us in second place in the world after Sweden. aid to students (including interest-free loans), against an But Sweden has no fewer than four universities in the top OECD average of 18 per cent. This sounds generous, but a 100, while Switzerland, Austria, and Australia all have three consequence is that the universities themselves are seriously each. In contrast, New Zealand has no universities among under-funded. Between 1991 and 2006, as student numbers the top 200 places, in this ranking system based mainly on grew, government funding actually declined by about scientific research. $1,800 per full-time student (when adjusted for inflation The world rankings take no account of the quality of and measured in 2006 dollars). teaching at a university such as Otago, let alone the unique The nature of the problem is well illustrated by the campus experience we provide. These are of paramount situation we are facing next year. The Government will importance to students, but are threatened by inadequate increase its funding levels per enrolment by 2.6 per cent, funding. Moreover, as New Zealand’s most research- while inflation is running at around four per cent. Student intensive university, we want to realise our full potential fee increases are strictly limited by regulation, so that in supporting the social and economic development of the source cannot be used to bridge the gap. As this process country. We value the support of our alumni and friends continues year by year, the funding of our universities falls in advocating for more enlightened funding of university further and further behind that of comparable institutions education and research. in Australia and other advanced nations. This problem is Professor David Skegg Vice-Chancellor – University of Otago 5 FEATURE Who, why, when? A S th E HU M an GE noM E R E SE arch ProJEct N E ars its E N D, ProFEssor MarK HEnaghan REviEws its FinDings. UntiL RECEntLY, parents who carried the genes for a to get, and predetermine whether people were pre-inclined to range of heritable conditions such as Huntington’s disease, certain crimes and those sorts of things,” he says. haemophilia and cystic fibrosis had no way of knowing if “Many people felt that this information could be they might be passing those conditions on to their children. misused. It could be misused by employers, it could be Many agonised over whether to have children or, in the misused by governments and misused by people who case of haemophilia, using IVF so they could discard all male wouldn’t want to have anything to do with you because of embryos, even though not all would have the condition. your genetic make-up. The exponential increase in knowledge about the human “At the same time – and this is the reason I got involved genome and the ability to genetically screen for many severe – one could also see the tremendous good that could come inherited diseases has changed that. from it,” says Henaghan. “If there is one lesson I have learnt But it has also raised many ethical, medical, cultural from this project, it is just how much potential for good the and legal issues around whether, how and to what extent flow-on from this discovery has in terms of being able to human genome-based technologies should be regulated, find things like genes for cancers, for example.
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