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NEW STUDENT LEADER Council as an inactive body. hopes to meet the University's He is concerned with stu requirements for admission to dent apathy, but says students an Arts degree this year and are often discouraged from to do an honours year in 1983. making criticisms by bureau Among his future plans ccacies, both in government are to obtain a position as a and universities. Because Psychologist. this University had so many Terry defeated Greg part-time students who were Duggan, part-time Mechanical anxious to pass their exams, Engineering student, in the the high level of I innocence' election for President for was really amazing. 1983. The 1981 and 1982 Pres Terry has read the argu ident, Margaret Kavanagh, did ments put forward concerning not stand for re-election. amalgamation, because he has Voting was Terry Slevin, 134 realised, he says, that very and Greg Duggan, 72. few students know much about the issue. Ter ry says tha t the SRC was endeavouring to organise a meeting on amalgamation in the union so that students could For Terry Slevin, who is Pres become better informed about ident-Elect of the Students I recent developments. Students Association, the great chall must appreciate that the Fed enge during his term of office eral Government had threatened will be to increase student to withdraw funding next year \ticipation in SRC affairs. unless amalgamation took TUB VICB-CBANCBLLOR's .I Terry says he was pleased place. Consequently, there is and flattered by his victory a risk that they may not be IIEXT MEETING WITH STAPF in the annual students' assoc able to enrol in courses at iation elections, but disapp: the UniverSity next year. ointed because many students "The University should will be held in the had not taken the election have the courage to tell the iously enough to cast Federal Government that it _es. will not accept the amalgam A full-time Arts III stu ation of the University and DRAMA THEATRE dent, he campaigned on just the CAE. I believe that the five main issue.s; improving Federal Government will not on student rights, maintaining an commit suicide by closing down active BRe, amalgamation, in the UniverSity. I am concern volvement with AUS and equal ed that some professional TUESDAY, NOVEMBBR 9, 1982 access for all students to organisations, such as the In voice opinions. stitution of Engineers, are He believes that he will reviewing their support for at be "flat out" following in the university degrees". footsteps of Margaret Kavan Terry comes from Newcast 1.05 p ••• agh, who "provided a high le and is a former student of standard of leadership and was Marist Brothers High School. very active": Margaret had After a year as a student at gone a long way towards con the University of New South vincing students that they wales, he transferred to the ought to voice their opinions University in 1981 because he to the SRC rather than took on had found it impossible to the Students' Representative live in Sydney on TEAS. He
Volume 8 Number 18 October 14 to October 28 2
able to ask questions informed enough to ensure ·that I recei Dear Sir, iation Newsletter planted the ved answers. editorial, or the thoughts In the past four days I The August-September News behind the editorial, or man have learnt that two senior letter published by the Uni ipulated The Herald or the Herald editorial men discussed versity of Newcastle Staff editor of The Herald in such a the background to the merger Association and Newcastle way that an editor ial favour with a group of lecturers Division UASA (NSW) contained able to the University's cause early in August. HoweVer, this paragraph: was published. ne i ther man prov ided me with This is not so. To the information or opinions from I STOP PRESS' best of my knowledge I know no that briefing, and I person lecturers at the University of ally obtained the information Did you Bee the excellent Newcastle. Certainly no lect on which the editorials of editorial on aaalgaaation in urer or member of the staff of September 6 and 11 were based. The Newcastle Herald? Like the University approached me The suggestion in the so much else, this was no to wr ite an editor ial or even newsletter that The Herald's accident. to express an opinion. In opinion was manipulated by deed, my staff, under my dir University lecturers, or by I cannot be sure what ect instructions over a period anyone else, must damage our this paragraph is intended to of six months or more, and I standing in this debate, part mean. had failed in a number of att icularly with supporters of Certainly the editorial empts to persuade senior mem the NCAE's proposals. was no accident. I put much bers of the staffs of both the I regret that both Uni time and effort into gathering University and the Newcastle versity and College staff,...·\ the information I needed to College of Advanced Education kept the facts hidden for ) allow me to write it, in to provide the information long. Of course delicat~ thinking about the principles that would have allowed us to matters were inVOlved, but I felt were involved and the inform the public of what was suppression of information of opinions I ought to express, happening in the amalgamation such importance can only work and in writing it. debate. Only after receiving against the interests of both The implication in the for publication letters from institutions and public. paragraph could be that the two senior members of the Uni editor ia1 was no accident be versity and College staffs, JOBR ALLAH, cause someone known to the then an unsolicited article Editor, publishers of the Staff Assoc- from a senior academic, was I The Newcastle Herald.
enquiry, that the claim that Dear Sir, preferential treatment was Dear Sir, given to friends of the cast I have enquired into the. cir is without foundation. Mr. John Avery's letter to cumstances surrounding the Some of the Drama Depart University NEWS, Volume 8, Number 17 may have misled some inability of Dr. K. Saluja to ment I s productions are not gain admission to the student suitable for the Drama Theatre readers. production of· Salome in the and are presented for artistic The proposal that Council Green Room at the Sunday per reasons in the smaller spaces estabish an Institute of Be formance. This performance of the Green Room or the Drama havioural and Regional Scien was fully sold out some days Studio. Seating in these ces was not "proposed to Cou"' before the date of production, spaces is necessarily limited, cil by a Committee (my it, and the Drama Department had and I hope that prospective ics) of four professors, ... begun to take a list of people patrons of Drama Department NCAE Director, five associate who would take up any reserved productions will, whenever professors and two senior seats if they had not been possible, reserve their places lecturers", as claimed by Mr. claimed by 5 pm. It was most in advance through the Depart Avery. ly such people who were admit mental office, since with two A committee is a "Body roC ted ahead of Dr. Saluja, who, productions this year, Woyzeck persons appointed for spec' as he says, did not have a and Salome, we have unfortun functions by (and usually Ol...~ prior booking. ately been obliged to turn of) a (usually larger) body". It is true that Dr. Sal away many of those who carne to Concise Oxford Dictionary. u j a's name was not added to the door without reservations The infor.al group of the waiting list at the time for performances late in the staff who met on a number of when he appeared, and the run. occas ions to discuss and pre Department apologises unreser pare a proposal for Council vedly for this error. How DR. MICHAEL DARS, had members from six faculties ever, I am satisfied, after Head, Drama Department. and eight departments in this University. This was a volun Dear Sir, tary group with no official apathetic student to the cause status, having in common an The SRC elections have just of education. Nowhere were interest in initiating new concluded with the election of her abilities better demon postgraduate opportunities, a new President for next year. strated than at the public collaborative research that I should like, while wishing rally in the Hunter Mall last might. be funded by outside him well, to say a few words year, where she made a br il bodies and Research Services in praise of ·Margaret Kavan liant and memorable speech. to the local and international agh. As easily the finest SRC Pres community. As SRC President for the ident this University has ever All members of the Uni turbulent and difficult years seen, Margaret's contr ibutioI"'. versity and the wider comm 1980-82 Margaret has performed has ensured that student aff unity have had the opportunity a magnificent job for students airs are not ignored. It is a to read and to discuss the and the University. In part contribution of which she document entitled, BehaviOUral icular the energy, committment should be proud. and Regional Sciences at the and organising flair she Un~versity of NeWcastle, by brought to public protests won ROBERT MACKIE, asking for it, in the Auchmuty the alleg iance of many an Department of Education. Library. Mr. Avery's view that a manager ial board is a bureau cracy, is his right to hold. AMALGAMATION To present it as a sta tement The next three months would be him that he would not be in of fact that the proposal is crucial for the University be troducing legislation to make to establish a bureaucracy is cause of decisions which had the amalgamation official un an expression of his fears and to be made about the amalgam til next year. should have been presented as ation of the College of Advan "I am left with no mess such with some positive sugg ced Education with the Univer age to give you", the Vice estions to the Community he sity, the Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor told staff. "I can volunteered to join, as to how Professor Don George, said at only guess that having been i those fears might be avoided. the staff meeting on October given counsel from all quart Mr. Avery's interest in 5. ers, Mr. Mulock will wait for ! the document and his enthus Professor George said the advice of the HEBR. " iasm to comment is to be app that he had had an interview Perhaps the Federal Min lauded. A telephone call to with the New South Wales Min ister for Education, Senator \ anyone of the contributors ister for Education, Mr. Baume, would again agree to a I would have saved us the troub Mulock, after the University deferment of the amalgamation le of having to write this and the CAE had submitted as long as he had a watertight letter. ·their proposals for the amal assurance from Mr. Mulock that J.A. lCBATs, gamation to Mr. Mulock. he was proceeding with the Department of Psychology. The Minister had said legislation. that he was waiting for advice OOH PARKES, Following the meeting it Department of Geography. from the Higher Education was agreed that (at least at Board on the two schemes be this particular time) more fore making a decision on the frequent staff meetings could form the amalgamation should have advantages. , o take. Mr. Mulock said he did The next Vice-Chancell not expect to receive the or's meeting with staff will Boardls views for several be held in the Drama Theatre LO-OP formed weeks. on Tuesday, Ifovellber 9 at 1.05 The Vice-Chancellor said 1'8. The actors and support staff that Mr. Mulock had reminded who were attached to the Hunt- Valley Theatre Company ) fore the company went into recess have shown their optim ism about live theatre in New castle, and their determinat ion, by forming a co-operat lve, the Playhouse The.atre Company. The i r pu r pose is to Inaugural Lecture see the theatre season through to the end of the year. Everybody who appreciates Professor Jeffrey Robinson the importance of live theatre will be the next speaker in in the social and cultural Convocation I s Inaugural Lect life of the Hunter Region, in ure Series. cluding students and staff of Professor Robinson took the University, will probably up his appointment to the ~ee that the co-operative Chair of Reproductive Medicine serves the utmost support. in 1980. The company will be pre Before coming to the Fac senting Choice Ladies, a cele ulty of Medicine he had carr bration of the lives and ach ied out research at the Nuff ievements of prominent women ield Institute for Medical in the Hunter Valley, starting Research in Oxford. His work October 13. has earned him an internation And then, open ing fo a al reputation as a fetal phys limi ted season on Octobe: 19, iologist and made him a recog the Nimrod's hit musical, The nised authority on the manage Venetian Twins, by Nick ment of high-risk pregnancy. Enright and Terence Clarke, He obtained his qualific will be presented as a new ations at Queens university, production. Belfast, taking out a B.Sc. The venue for these pro (Anatomy) degree with First ductions is The Playhouse in Class Honours and M.B., B.Ch. the Civic Theatre. and B.A.O. degrees. Concession prices are During part of a one-year Profes8or Robinson available for group bookings break from Oxford in 1973 he and anyone interested is in returned to Belfast and was vited to contact Professor Registrar in Obstetrics and M.P. Carter at Extension 307. Gyna,cology at the Royal Mat The Board of the HVTC ernity Hospital and the Royal decided that a break was in Victoria Hospital. escapable because of the com Professor Robinson will pany's pressing financial speak in the Medical Sciences commitments. Lecture Theatre on October 25 The company is in the at 5.30 pm on the topic -Born process of discussing struct Too Small-. ural re-arrangements so that All are welcome to attend the company can once and for the lecture and meet the all have a sound financial Inaugural Lecturer at a gath basis. Plans are in hand for ering organised by Convocation the curtain to go up on a new in Room 613 in the Medical season early in 1983. Sciences Building afterwards. MICROPROCESSOR COURSE
During the week November 22 to backgrounds will require educ phasis on "hands on" experien 26 the Department of Electric ation and training in an area ce in the use of devices and al and Computer Engineering that would not have been cov tools required to understand will be running an introduct ered in their formal training and utilise microprocessor ory couree on Microprocessor ·even just a few years ago. technology. Systems. The course has been There is also a need for peop The staff members in designed to familiarise the le outside engineering to un charge of the course have had student with the hardware and derstand the potential and wide design experience in mic software principles needed to limi tations of microprocessor roprocessor applications and apply the new technology. technology. electronics through many pro The Department reiterates The Department of Elect jects carried out jointly with that microprocessor technology rical and Computer Engineering industry and through consult is having, and will continue is well qualified to offer ing work. Advanced supervis to have, a profound effect on this microprocessor systems ory systems for use in mines, all our lives, at the work course. Since the ear ly 70 I s fault tolerant fibre alarm place and at home. Already it has nurtured the develop monitoring systems, and mic there is an increasing aware ment of a Computer Engineering roprocessor based colour ness, in inudstry and allied degree. At present the four graphics systems are a few areas, of the opportunities year Computer Engineering examples of the applications offered by microprocessor degree offered by the ·Depart for which staff members have technology. The potential ment is the only such degree been responsible. applications of this rapidly fully accredited by the Inst Although the course 1" evolving technology are very itution of Engineers, Austral introductory in nature, wide and encompass many diver ia. The teaching of both will enable students to dev~~ se areas such as business sys hardware and software aspects op an understanding of micro tems, medicine, process cont of microprocessor systems nat processor technology, basic rol, robotics, communication urally forms an important part skills and also provide a systems, consumer goods for of the degree. Thus the De background for more advanced leisure, automobiles and sup partment has developed various courses which will be run ).. ervisory systems to ensure laboratory and other teaching some future date. safety in mines and other haz aids for instruction on micro ardous environments. Thus processor systems. The course engineers from many different has been designed with an em- TEA CEREMONY
Student Travel Seats on flights to Asian destinations are becoming extremely scarce. Singapore Airlines, Mal aysian Airlines, Thai International, Cathay Pacific and Qantas fli ghts are heavily booked to destinations such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Hong Kong for the months of Dec ember, January and Feb ruary. At this stage there are only odd seats available on odd flights. Mrs. Yoko Nishimura, Visiting Fellow in Japanese Culture, To avoid disappointment, gave four tea ceremony demonstrations in the Japanese Sect inconvenience and extra ion of the Department of Modern Languages on October B. cost please book your In conjunction with the demonstrations visitors had an seats homeward very soon. opportunity to inspect the donations of various Japanese utensils received from Ube City. Japanese green powder tea was served to those visitors wishing to taste it. Mrs. Yoko Nishimura is pictured demonstrating to the audien ce of visitors. Her guests are Mrs. Makiko Ono and Mrs. Minako Ringland. RE-ELECTED FI~iltl \'ISIT~~I~ Dr. Luc Dugard comes to the postgraduate student for one University from France, where year he specialised in auto- he is attached to the Institut matic control, before serving National Poly technique de in the French army for a fur- Grenoble. He will spend a ther year. Returning to re- year as Assoc. Professor search work, he joined the Graham Goodwin's partner in National Centre of the Scient- research into multivariable ifie Research and prepared a and non-minimum phase adaptive thesis of Docteur-Ingenieur. control. He is now preparing a thesis Dr. Dugard, who is 29, is d'Etat, which he describes as accompanied in Newcastle by a postdoctoral diploma. his thre-e young children, Dr. Dugard said his in- Laure (5), Yann (2) and Marie- terest in visiting Australia lIe (5 months), and his wife, goes back to 1980. Besides Brigitte, who is a handicrafts the need to broaden his exper- teacher. ience, the presence in New- Dr. Dugard is "Attache de castle of Professor Goodwin Margaret Kavanagh has been re Recherche au r.entre National was a major attraction. elected to the . University de la Recherche Scientifique", "Graham and I met at the IEEE Council as a student member. 1. e. a Research Worker at the Conference in Alburquerque in Polling took place on National Centre of the Scient- New Mexico. I said I would be / ~~ober 12 and 13 for three ific Research (CNRS). He has interested in six months ex- ~didates and the declaration been posted to the Laboratoire perience outside France and of the result shows that the d' Automatique de Grenoble at Graham offered me his help". votes cast were: the Ecole Nationale Superieure The Dugards, all five of d'Ingenieurs Electriciens de them, are very grateful for Margaret Kavanagh 223 Grenoble, which is one of the the warm welcome they have Wes Cormick 157 five Schools of Engineering been given. With cornmunic- ris Hallett 63 comprising the Institut Poly- ation something of a problem .tormal 13 technique de Grenoble. at this point, they were met The principal difference by Graham and Rosslyn Goodwin When informed of the re between Dr. Dugard's situation at Kingsford Smith Airport. sult Margaret said: "Of and that of Newcastle academ- The Goodwins had rented a course I'm delighted to have ics is his inVOlvement almost house at Adamstown Heights for been re-elected. This will wholly in research as a mem~er them. When interviewed by give me the opportunity to of the CNRS. University HBWS, Dr. Dugard further my commitment of rep He was born in north- was arranging to get a "cred- resenting students on such an eastern France in Vitry-le- it" from the bank so that they important body particularly at Francois in Champagne. He could buy a car. such an important time in its graduated from the Ecole Nat- Dr. Dugarc is pleased to development". iona1e Super ieure d' Electron- have the opportunity to learn Margaret's term on Coun ique et de Radioelectricite de how to play squash (he plays cil will now continue until Grenoble as a radio electron- handball, not a popular sport December 31, 1984. ics engineer in 1975. As a in this country) and ride a ) surfboard and a windsurfer.
, ) ACCOMMODATION CRISIS - Special Seminar
On behalf of the University the Amenities Department will conduct a seminar on Student Accommodation in Room R02 (Geography Building) on November I at 7 pm.
Students and Staff are urged to attend. For further information, please contact Mrs. Kath Dacey at Extension 520. II ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS
Examinations will be conducted To make arrangements you from Monday, November 1 until Sports Centre should get in touch with Tom Friday, November 19. .In the forthcoming examination Reid in the Secretary's Div Most examinations will be per iod the Auchmuty Sports ision. Please telephone 685 conducted in the Great Hall Centre will be used for exam 253 as soon as possible or, if area and the Auchmuty Sports inations. the need ar ises on the day, Centre Auditorium, with some The following information when you arrive at the Univer examinations being conducted may assist you in making arr sity. Assistance in relation in rooms; Social Sciences angements for any examination to any questions you have is R07, EAI02 and EAG03. (EA you will be taking in the also available at either the Engineering Complex.) Centre: Counselling Service or the The final examination Health Service. timetable is now available in If during your examinat booklet form. Some alterat Parking ion you become distressed and ions were made to the provis you feel for some reason that ional timetable so make sure Temporary parking space will you are not able to continue you collect a booklet for your be available on grassed areas in the standard setting, you own reference, enough have within the vicinity of the may approach the Supervisor been printed for every student Centre. Signs and a patrol and request consideration for to have a personal copy. They attendant will be provided to transferring to the speci~ can be obtained from the Lib assist students in parking. facility. J rary, the Student Administrat I t cannot be guar anteed ion counter (McMullin Build that the temporary parking ing) and the foyers of most areas will accommodate all other buildings. candidates so you are request Formal notification of ed to allow sufficient time to Special examination results will be use the alternative parking mailed to students in mid facilities at the Squash Consideration ) December. Courts (six .inutes walk to the Sports Centre) and Eng in When considering the examin eering (six .inutes walk to ation results Faculty Boards take into consideration any Reminders the Sports Centre). circumstances such as illness ~ MlROTBS reading time is or personal problems which may given for all examinations, so have seriously affected a stu be ready to enter the examin Walking dent's work during the year or ation room at least 15 minutes during the examinations. ~ 12 ainutes should be allowed Any student who considers before the commencement of to walk to the Sports Centre each examination. fra. the Union/Library area. that his work has been affect Students travelling to ed in this way or who is un CALCULA"fORS MAY ROT be taken the University on the ROOTB able to attend for any examin into the. examination -room un 100 bus can walk to the Sports ation and who wishes to apply less they have been specified Centre through the Newcastle for special consideration on the examination paper as an College of Advanced Education should wr ite to the Secretf' -)'L aid. grounds in approximately 12 to explaining the circumstanL ) 15 minutes if they leave the and, in the case of illnese(, LEAVE YOUR EXAMINATION ANSWER bus at the NCAE bus stop. enclosing a medical certific BOOK PLUS O'rIIER SUPPLIBD MAT ate See Regulation 12 (2) ERIAL OR YOUR DESK. Do not of the Examination Regulat risk having your answers can ions, Calendar Volume 1 which celled by thoughtlessly taking Special Room states: )' from the examination room any Suppose itls examination day (2) A request made pu .... _. thing other than your examin and while travelling to suant to this Regulation ation question paper and your the University on your motor shall be subai t ted by the personal belongings. bike you have an accident candidate within seven days fortunately no ser ious injur after any absence ariSing ROOM AND DESK ALLOCATIONS: ies but youlre quite shaken? frOID the illness or event Name lists of students ex on ~hich the request is pected to sit for each exam You wake on the day of based, or such longer per ination will be put on the your most important examinat iod as the Dean of the Fac relevant departmental notice ion with a severe migraine? ulty in which the candidate boards. These will show the is enrolled may accept. examination rooms and, in most You're eight and a half cases, the desk number. months pregnant and sitting in If a student is affected The heading and instruct one position for a three-hour by illness during an examinat ion section of each examinat paper is impossible? ion, and wishes to ask for a ion paper will also be dis Special Examination he must played with the listings so If something like the report to the supervisor in that students can check the above is, or turns out to be, charge of the exam ina tion .and conditions for each examinat you, then you I re a cand ida te then make written application ion. for the special examination to the Secretary as soon as room. Helping The philippines
The unstable political situat ion in the Middle East could possible after the examination lead to very large numbers of - See Regulation 12(3) of the people returning to The Phil Examination Regulations, Cal ippines, where they would be endar Volume 1 which states: unemployed, according to Dr. John Smart, a Senior Lecturer (3) A request made pur in th~ Department of Sociol suant to this Regulation ogy. shall be submi t ted by the During an initial five candidate not later than month visit to The Philip three days after the date pines, and subsequent short of the examination or with visits, to study the socio in such further period as economic consequences of lab I the Vice-Chancellor may our export, Dr. Smart found permit. that of the half a million i plus Filipinos working temp orar ily overseas about 90 per cent are in the Middle East. Special & The majority is in Saudi Arabia. Deferred Dr. Smart says Filipinos had had to be evacuated from )Examina tions I r an and more recently from Lebanon. The Board of the Faculties of He carried out the labour Archi tecture, Engineer ing and export study for The Philipp times what they might earn at Mathematics may grant deferred ine Ministry of Labour and home is such a drawcard that examinations. Such examinat- Employmen t and was funded by married men leave their famil ions, if granted, will be held the Australian Development and ies and children to spend long ) from Monday, January 17 until Assistance Bureau. Next year periods of not too comfortable , Friday, January 28 and candid- he will provide assistance to type work in such places as ates will be advised by mail President Marcos' National Saudi Arabia. of the times and results of Study Commission Into Overseas Dr. Smart says the export the examinations. Employment. of labour has a number of im Dr. Smart says the Study portant consequences. It has Commission will be looking at become the number one foreign Government policies to protect exchange earner for The Phil the workers' welfare and en ippines returning in excess of Address?? sure that their earnings re $U. S. 1 billion per year. Before the end of the year the turn to The Philippines. Another spinoff, in theory, is University will be mailing "A large percentage of the reduction in unemployment. some important correspondence the remittances are spent on However, the problem is that to students. This will in consumer goods and if these the workers going overseas are clude examination results, are foreign-produced then the usually skilled workers. letters about prizes, re money goes right back out of Relative to Australia, ) enrolment materials and, for The Philippines. It is only Dr. Smart says, there are some, letters about unsatis- when the remittance money is skilled workers coming from factory progress. funnelled into Filipino manu The Philippines on a permanent If you have or will be facture, or investment, and basis, but the number is rel changing your address for generates jobs in The Philip atively small. "A relatively correspondence please fill in pines that it starts to do large percentage of these are '. a Change of Address Focil. and good" . Filipino women who've married ! lodge it at the Student Admin A survey has shown that Australian men. In most inst istration Office. the workers go to III differ ances these men have gone If you will be absent ent countries. From The Phil overseas to find brides to from your address for a short ippines construction workers bring back to Australia. period of time you should make go to Saudi Arabia, lumbermen "Whereas I haven I t spec arrangements for someone to go to Indonesia, household ifically researched this iss receive your mail and hold it helpers go to Hong Kong and ue, there are a number of in or forward it to you. If need Singapore, entertainers go to teresting consequences," Dr. i be, Australia Post will do Japan and Europe, doctors and Smart says. "A lot of the this for you for a small fee. nurses go to the united States migration of brides to Aust I and Canada, and so on. ralia is, like temporary lab The outstanding reason as our migration, motivated by an to why they leave is the rel economic factor. Because of atively low wages in The Phil low wages, women don't see ippines. With the aspirations themselves achieving their Filipinos gain from their edu ambitions by remaining in The cation, they are discontented Philippines. They're attract because of the limitations ed by the Australian standard placed on them as far as mat of living". erial goods, having a house of Unlike some overseas their own and the like are workers, the women corning to concerned. So, the opportun Australia are often very well i ty to go overseas and earn educated and, in some cases, wages between five and 10 professionally qualified. media ()fficer- Peter Giles, who has been ment when Mark Mordue was com to be hard to live up to the elected to the office of Media piling the 1982 Orientation high standards set by the work Officer of the BRe, says he Handbook. Since that time he of my predecessors, Charles wants Opus, the newsletter of has worked closely wi th and Mark-. students, to bridge the infor Char les Madd i50n. He has Peter Giles, son of mation gap between the SRe and written record reviews this Assoc. Professor John Giles of the student body. year and c9ntributed to the the Department of Mathe.atics, Peter also says his major coverages of the visit of Luis Statistics and Computer Scien aim is to -produce a pUblicat Palau, the student reaction to ce, has studied at the Univer ion which is generally acces the Carter Plan and Kulcha sity for almost three years as sible to students at large. Nite .. a part-time student and, at The office of Media Off Peter also helped Charles the same tiae, worked for the icer will change hands ear ly this year to start the student BHP Central Research Laborat next year when Charles Madd radio programme on 2NUR-FM ison's term expires. ories under a degree trainee that goes to air every Fr iday scheme. He started as a Chem Peter believes that stu at 12.15 pm. He says he would ical Engineering student, but dents generally are apathetic like to develop further the towards student politics - he has since transferred to the radio show, because it provid Faculty of Science. Be att hopes more out of ignorance es a valuable extension to ended Lambton High School be than anything else. However, existing student media servic fore entering higher educat- the fact remains that now, es and, specifically, has the more than ever, students need potential to inform students a united voice to combat sooner of any pressing current threats to their institution, issues at hand. their employment prospects and I! I do not, however, wish their standard of living - to to cut back on the production name just a few. of Opus in fact I favour "I plan to do by best to smaller issues more frequently achieve my aims, but I realise if a continuing lack of stud ultimately that only my exper ent support made smaller iss ience next year as Media Off ues necessary", he said. icer will determine what I do, "When a new editor takes over and what I don't, achieve", he Opus, the paper tends to take said. on a new style and I -can prom Peter first became invol ise to continue' this trend, ved w)th the SRC media depart- although I realise it's going
Peter Giles
EDWARDS HALL Residential positions The Board of Trustees of Edwards Hall invites applications from suitably qualified men or women for the following res idential staff positions for 1983. ONE position as DEPUTY WARDEN FIVE positions as SUBWARDEN Applicants should hold a pr imary degree and should be pro ceeding to a higher degree OR should be a member of the academic staff of the University. However, ,the ~oard ~e serves the right to appoint any other person It thl~ks fIt, making appointments by invitation, or make lesS apPoIntments than there are vacancies.
Residential Staff provide academic assistance to m:m~ers of the Hall in addition to performing a number of adm~nlstrat ive tasks. The Deputy Warden provides major administrative assistance to the Warden. The duties, terms and conditions of appointment, remuner ation and residential fees of the Deputy Warden and. Sub wardens may be obta incd from the Warden, to whom appl~cat ions should be forwarded. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and, in particular, details of previous experience of residential halls.
AUG-SEPT 1983 APPLICATIONS WILL CLOSE ON OCTOBER 29, 1~82 and the Board would intend to make appointments in December. M.W. Blackmore, WARDEN. 'i While at the University on ,I October 6, Mr. Robyn Williams, of the ABC Science Unit, re :1 corded on-the-spot interviews I, with staff members about their research. The tapes will be played
i: I· by Mr. Williams during his weekly, national radio prog ij ramme, The Science Show. 11, Mr. Williams made the following tapes: Assoc. Professor Don Parkes (Geography), The Study of Time and Its Relation To the Stru cturing of Human Settlement.
Professor John Burrows (Eng lish) , A Computer-Assisted Critical Analysis of Jane Austen's Literary Vocabulary.
• Dr. John Chambers (Mechanical Engineering), Turbulent Shear Flows. Dr. Tim Roberts (Biological Sciences), The Immuniological Consequences of Vasectomy. search. Photo: Jan Walker. future, almost week-by-week, Dr. John Smart (Sociology), ment of Psychology, Professor beginning on October 16 with The Socia-Economic Conseq John Keats, Professor Maurie the Professor Burrows I inter uences of Labour Export from King, Assoc. Professor Barney view. The Philippines and The White Fenelon and Dr. David Finlay, The Science Show, of Wine Boom: A Sociological also from the Depar!-,ment of which Mr. Williams is Producer Interpretation. psychology, about research and Presenter, comes on Radio projects and said he would see 2 (2NA) on Saturdays at 12.40 Mr. Williams also spoke them when he returned soon to pm, with a repeat broadcast on to the Dean of the Faculty of get further material for Tuesdays at 10.15 pm. Medicine, Professor Geoffrey broadcasting. The ABC's weekly survey Kellerman, the Chairman of the Mr. Williams' next phase of scientific news, it is one Faculty's Research Committee, will be the editing of the of the most widely-q~oted pro Assoc. Professor Richard tapes. He said he would grammes on the air in Austral Barry, the Head of the Depart- broadcast them in the early ia.
The Basketball Club recently wi th the intro-duction of Staff Spar ting Cards are competed at Inter-Varsity a New South Wales University now available for collection hosted by New England Univer Championship in 1983 and I. V. at the Pavilion or from the sity. A great time was had by in Perth, the POG is the Club Amenities Office. Cards must all. The women made the Grand to be in in 1983. be produced when booking or Final but were beaten by Woll The annual community indoor utilising sporting facilities. ongong. Lindy "Spike" Barrett soccer Five-A-side Competition and Roslyn Earp were selected will commence in the Auchmuty in the All I. V. team in sports Centre at the end of the words of their coach, November and continue until Peter Paterson, "the femme late January/early February, o fatales were very ambient". 1983. The menls team finished Approximately 100 t~ams in seventh place, up from 10th are expected to participate in SlIRF1UDERS III'l'ERVAIlSITY last year. Two pleasurable all, embr ac ing some 100 play T-SHIRTS are available from wins on the Friday against ers. Grace Brothers Travel (campus Queensland and Monash made the Evening fixtures are shop) for only $6 each. I. V. worthwhile. Larry Luns arranged at 20-minute inter ford was selected in the all vals from 6 pm until 11 pm. I. v. side while Geoff Mascord Spectator interest is high, was injured mid-week after particularly in the closing playing outstanding basket stages of the competition. o ball. The "bench"· was strong and did what was required. j I I SCIENCE CONGRESS Positions Vacantbe required to travel in The 15th Pacific Science Con The Australian universities' Southeast Asia and the South gress will be held in Dunedin, International Development Pro New Zealand from February 1 to gram is planning to expand its Pacific. range of activities relating Written applications, 11 next yeara including the names of two The organisers of the to university development in referees, should be forwarded Congress have announced that the Southeast Asian and the by November 12 to the Secret the response is well up to the South Pacific regions. In ary, AVCC, P.O. Box 1142, expecta tions a Enrolments are order to make the expansion Canberra City, ACT., 260l. now approaching 1,000 dele possible, four new positions Further information may be gates from over 40 countries. have been created in the AUIDP obtained from the AUIDP Dir Australian scientists who secretariat in Canberra and ector (Professor D.E. Tribe) have not yet enrolled are ad applications for them are now or Assistant Director (Dr. vised to do so earlier rather invited. They are: P.W. Jones) at the same add than later, as Halls of Resid ress, or from the Academic ence are filling and some ses Chief Executive Officer: to Liaison Officer for the Uni sions are now full. assist the Director in all versity of Newcastle, Assoc. The Secretariat will con matters relating to program Professor p.. Irwin, of the tinue to accept abstracts un- planning, internal adminis Department of Geography (Ext til ear ly November. For fur tration and finance, as well ension 654). ther detailS on the Congress as superVl.Slng administrative wr i te to: The Secretary services in support of the General, 15th Pacific Science 0.. rest of the organisation. Congress, P.O. Box 6063, Dunedin, New Zealand. Salary: $31,202 to $32,139.
Prograa Officer (Pelowships): to assist the Director in all Distinguished Visitor academic and management matt o ers relating to a new and expanded AUIDP fellowship sch Dr. Robert Ussher, from the the staff of the University eme, including selection pro University of Ulster, in with those of the staff of the cedures, placement of award Northern Ireland, talked about Ulster Polytechnic and making ees, and administration of the a different amalgamation when decisions on divergent admin scheme a An academic with ex he visited the University on istrative systems. perience of supervising over October ll. Dr. Ussher visited the seas postgraduate students is Dr. Ussher said the Brit Department of Classics at the required. ish Government had directed University to give a lecture that Ulster Polytechnic amal on ~Old Comedy with Particular Salary: Lecturer ($22,430 to gamate with the University of Reference to the Frogs of Ari $29,467) or Senior Lecturer Ulster by 1984. stophanes~ • ($30,096 to $35,077) as For Dr. Ussher, the Gov A distinguished classical appropriate. ernment is wrong in to seek scholar, he is attached to the the amalgamation because in University of Queensland's 0 the short-term it will prove Department of Classics and Bzecutive Officer (Operat much more expensive than the Ancient History while on sab ions) : to assist the Assist Government expects. Among the batica1 leave. ant Director in all matters reasons for this state of aff His home University in relating to the implementation airs are the three campuses Coleraine is about 60 miles and administration of the app which will form the amalgam from Belfast. By contrast to roved annual program. ated. Queens University, Belfast, I,! ~ He referred to the other which is a time-worn institut- ~ Salary: $25,679 to $26,630. main difficulties: equating ion, the University of Ulster the quality and reputation of is a young University.
Accountant: to assist the Chief Executive Officer 1n all matters relating to the AUIDP accounts, including financial records, planning and control. Salary: $23,763 to $24,723.
Each of these appoint ments will be made for an initial term not exceeding five years, and it may be possible to arrange a second ment from a university or college of advanced education. Except in the case of the Accountant, preference will be shown for applicants who have had experience in a developing country or a development ass istance program, and a tert iary educational institution Dr. Ussher is pictured with Professor Godfrey Tanner, of the in Australiaa Appointees may Department of Classics. finance The Department of Community Programmes is offering a Mini-Festival seminar for people who want A showing of selected films is to invest their money sen being held in conjunction with sibly. the end of the History I cour FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 and OCTOBER The Department says se in Australian History. The 27 - What Have You Done to My that people with consider films relate to themes dealt country? A film about ecol able lump-sums to invest, with in the course but will be ogy, Abor i9inals and develop especially those recently of interest generally to Aust ment made at the height of the retired, are often anxious ralians. All are welcome to Vietnam war and reflecting the about the safety and wisdom attend the screenings. social issues over which Aust of the many investment ad ralians were beginning to visers. The programme: agonise. The seminar will be Australian History, Bruce concerned with investment TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26 Mutiny Petty's cartoon version of matters rather than taxat on the Western Front, a docu Australian history. A facet ion considerations or gov mentary about Australian sold ious, irreverent but very ernment pension require iers in Wor Id War I and less telling look at class warfare, ments. flattering parts of the ANZAC profit, the Irish, boredom, The seminar will be traditio~, 3 pm and 8 pm. greed and other signs of pot held in the main Medical ential nationhood, 1 pm, 8 pm Lecture Theatre (Room K202, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27 - Like a and 10 pm. University) • ~ummer Storm, the life of H.V. The lecturer will be Evatt, including film footage Admission is PRE E and Professor J.K. Winsen, of of the Petrov affair and the the showings are open to all. the Department of Commerce. young Evatt at play, Noon and The films on Tuesday and 7 pm. Wednesday will be shown in the Audio-visual room in the THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 - My Sur English Department (Room 132). vival as an Aboriginal, the The films on Thursday and social experience of an Abor Friday at lunch-time will be iginal family living on the shown in V07 in the Mathemat Up the Hill outskirts of a New South WaleS ics Building. On the weekend of October country town, 1 pm. 16 and 17, Newcastle East Primary School will cele brate its move to the re stored "Old" school, the former Junior BOYS' High in Tyrrell Street. The cele brations will start with a walk from the school in Bol ton Street to the "New" school. All ex-pupils are invited to join in the sentimental walk.
TO LET Executive Cape cod four bed room furnished residence with FOR SALE in-ground pool, plus two car garage, little ground mainten 1976 TOYOTA CORONA CS - June TWO RACING DINGHIES ance. Available from mid 1983 registration, seat cov Northbridge Senior 14 foot. January, 1983 for 11 months. ers, towbar, mud flaps, radio, Fibreglass hull, good sailing Interested persons are re cassette, excellent condition, record, good condition, com quested to telephone 67 2188. own owner - $4,000. Interest plete with registered trailer, ed persons are requested to ready to race. An excellent telephone Extension 581 or 63 introduction to a popular fam 3247. ily class, $1,300. Flying Ant - fibreglass hull, good con KNEE BOARD "CROZIER- - 5'10". dition, two of nearly every Reunion Hardly used, $80 includes ank thing. A great sailing boat Annual Reunion will be held le strap and cover. Interest for the kids, $900. Inter at Dangar Park Bowling Club ed persons are requested to ested persons are requested to on October 17, commencing telephone Extension 581 or 63 telephone 59 3833. at 1.30 pi::.. 3247. R.E. WALKER. POSITIONS WANTED (There are a number of staff members who formerly TYPING SBRVICB The SRC 1974 TOYOTA COROLLA COUPE worked at Lysaghts. When offers a typing service for the Newcastle plant closed DELUX new motor, NO RUST, students who want their curr new paint job, $2,400 or near down a group called ELE was iculum vitaes done. formed and some took up offer. Interested persons are Cost is only $1 per positions at the Univer asked to telephone 66 3450 foolscap page, 80c for A4 page sity. ) after hours. and the paper is supplied. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 'lUBSDAY, OC'l'OBBR 19 FRIDAY, OC"l'OBBR 22 Commencement of four 4 pm Department of Education week Bel ies, :r..ke -1Iac- seminar. Speaker: 9.30 This morning the Uni quarie's Aboriginal Cameron Archer. Topic: versity Counselling Heritage (Wednesday Curciculu. Develop.ent Service will be con evenings , Sunday field in Agricultural Educat ducting a workshop excursions), Lake Mac ion. Room W202 (Educ entitled: Counselling quarie Community Cen ation). Ba.:)sexuals. This tre. Interested per workshop is designed sons should contact the 7 pm Commencment of six-week for those people engag Department of Community course, Irishness in ed in counselling in Programmes. Australian Polk lore and their work roles. In Music. Interested per terested persons should Noon Department of Mathemat sons should contact the" contact the Counselling ics, Statistics and Department of Community Service. Programmes. Computer Science semin Noon ar. Speaker: Dr. A.D. Department of Mathemat- ) Barbour (Cambridge Uni 7.30 -Open Rouse Bvening-, ics, Statistics andO versity). Topic: Mod Anglican Chaplaincy Computer Science semin-· els for the Transaiss Residence, 11 Myall ar. Speaker: Assoc. ion of Bilharzia. Room Road, Waratah. Professor M.N. Barber VI07, Mathematics. (University of New 8.30 Department of Philos South Wales). Topic: 7 pm Commencement of sixweek ophy seminar. Speaker: Sequence Extrapolation. Room Vl07' course r Relaxation and Ralph Robinson. Topic: ) Well-Being, Lake Truth? Venue: 189 (Mathematics).• Macquarie Community Croudace Street, New SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 to OCT. 30 Centre. Interested Lambton. (Evening sem persons should contact inar programme.) Exhibition of Polish the Department of Comm Tapestries, Great Hall. unity Programmes. WEDNESDAY, university,NEWS is published on a two-weekly basis in the Secretary's Division for the Edltor, The Secretary, The University of Newcastle. Stories and items should reach Mr. John Armstrong or Mrs. Linda Aurelius, C/- Room G58(a) or Room G60 in the McMullin Building, by 5 pm on the Thursday before the publication date. The next issue will be published on October 28 ..