. .: o .~ CO -U .~ VOL 6 NO 20 :Q •• p Il. !Xl 13 NOV. 80 ...>. o tlI 8~ Q) Newsletter for -CO The University of Newcastle U., CO 0> .: Journey to Fame .~ 0; o Arriving at the examinations Il. room was a sudden change of en­ vironment for Grant Long, Mechanical Engineering II stud­ ent. A day before he returned to Australia from the World Windsurfing Championship at Freeport in The Bahamas, in Ihich he won the title in the \avyweight Division. Grant, who is a trainee engineer with Australian Wire Industries Pty. Ltd .• is the first Australian to win the world Heavyweight title. Before beginning his Uni­ Irsity course Grant was a stud­ _~t at Newcastle Technical High School. The World Windsurfing Championships were inaugurated 1n 1977 in Sardinia. They are held annually in heavyweight, light-heavyweight. medium weight and lightweight divisions. Grant, who is Captain of Belmont Bay Windsurfing Fleet, attempt­ ed to win titles in Mexico in 1978 and Greece last year with­ out success. Grant, who is 20, was Aust­ ralian Heavyweight Windsurfing ""ampion in 1979 and this year. ) narrowly beat a French oppon­ ~nt to first place at the titles in The Bahamas. The titles consisted of seven heats with the competitors .,selecting their best five resul- i Grant had to beat his I rench rival in the final heat to give him the necessary points margin. He finished with 26.7 to the Frenchman's 28.7 with former world title-holder Andus Foyen. of Norway. in third place. Grant shifted from sailing 470 class boats to windsurfing three and a half years ago.

Grant Long windsurfing in BeLmont Bay. Photo: NewaastLe HeraLd. ely of gentlemen who tend to be is silent .. Th~ reason for this Letters to Editor preoccupied with matters other is that our salaries are deter­ than our University affairs. mined federally by the Academic Real power is in the hands of a Salaries Tribunal currently I wish to comment on Professor very few men whose opinions and Bach's letter in UniVBPsity News meeting under the chairmanship decisions assume undue weight of Mr. Justice Ludeke. of October 30. Let me say. in this part-time company. When first of al1~ that I sympathise The Draft Agreement on Professor Bach refers to the im­ Condltions of Employment, copies with some of the sentiments ex­ portance of the goodwill of pressed there. Professor Bach of which were circulated to all Council he is actually pointing staff and the University Council refers, with unmistakable nost­ to our dependence on the large­ a1g1a. to the old ideal of the earlier ;n the year, contains sse of a very small group. And clauses which set out the exist­ 'civitas academical, the self­ when he talks about the 'preser­ governing community of free and ing regulations of the Finance vation of this University as an I and Personnel Handbooks that equal scholars whose internal autonomous academic institution' relations are determined by, as have been agreed to by both the he is really talking about the University and UASA (NSW). It Professor Bach says, 'goodwill. continuation of the autonomy of co-operation and consensus'. I should be remembered that orig­ this kitchen cabinet. inally the Vice-Chancellor was must confess that I share this This 'rule by the few ' has nostalgia - even to such an ex­ prepared to recommen~ to Council led, as it invariably will, to that the document be signed. tent that two years ago I too. an emphasis on the formal legit­ Interestingly one of the unres­ with a great many other of my imacy of decisions rather than colleagues, voted against the olved issues is the question of consensus, on hierarchy rather tenure. a matter raised so trau­ proposal to sep.k an award. It than equality and on bureaucrat­ seemed to me then that there matically by the Senate document ic secrecy rather than openness. S63:80. It is precisely because wasn't sufficient reason for Small wonder then that many the administration of this Uni­ this academic community to y.ield people feel excluded from vital versity seemed to be discussing to the seemingly inexorable decisions affecting their lives, the possibility of unilaterally principle of change, which that and that they become increasing­ nineteenth century scholar Sir altering conditions relating to ly enthusiastic in their support tenure in its discussion of re­ Henry Maine summed up in the for contractual forms, such as words 'from status to contract' the University industrial award. dundancy, termination of appoin~·~ I have changed my mind on How Professor Bach can ascribe ments in financial emergency or J, for unsatisfactory service, and ~ thts and so, obviously, have a these attitudes to 'hysteria' great many others in this Uni­ the possibility of early retire­ versity. In contrast to what is beyond me. They seem very ment, that it seemed to the happened two years ago, when rational to me! Executive and, as the vote on the vote on this matter result­ October 21 demonstrated to the ed in the barest possible maj­ A. BRAND, vast majority of members, that ority in favour of seeking the Department of Sociol09Y. the previously existing goodwil' ~ award, now more than gO per cent between the Administration and , V staff was being seriously erod- of those who voted showed them­ ed. selves convinced that ·this mea­ In his letter published in t h e Of even greater signific- sure should be postponed no long­ Newa October 30. Professor Bach ance was the fact that after er. Why this change? has uncharacteristically depart- having conducted two exhaustive Professor Bach comes up ed from the normal canons of and extensive reviews which made with the proposition that it is historical scholarship. Where recommendatiohs of a general due to 'a sense of fear and 1n­ we might, and do normally, ex- kind, the Senate had placed be- security' deliberately aroused pect a balanced, fair and dis· fore it a document canvassing by those who believe that 'co~­ passionate treatment of an issue precise specifics of what is flict is the basis of all soc1al we have in this case unfortunat- alleged to be an over staffing realtionships'. It is because ely and regretably a largel~ crisis. Moreover there is no of this, says Professor Bach. emotive and emotional react10n. truth in Professor Bach's assert- that we have lost all reason The irony of this is that it ion that granting of an award and are rushing into the 'self­ represents an instance of the. would reduce the gap between / destructive madness' of seeking very thing Professor Bach clalms university employment conditior ) a contractual form for our re­ to oppose. and those (I presume lesser) of lationship with this University I shall not comment on the the average employee. It would as an employer. thinly veiled insinuations that seem from the logic implied that Generalising from my own unfortunately he allows to ob- Professor Bach is nostalgic for 'conversion' over the last few scure his principal point. the days when the gap between years I would like to suggest It would seem that Profess- university staff and the outside that ~nother interpretation of or Bach is concerned that seek- world was cavernous. Unhappily this vote is possible - one which ;ng to have conditions of employ- harsh realities have intruded t j does not depend on the assumpt­ ment of academic staff register- dispel the fanciful memories of ion that those colleagues who ed in the Industrial Commission those who not only study the do not share Professor Bach's of New South Wales somehow re- past, but seek to live in it. feelings are either sinister sults in that body dictating to agitators or people prone to us how we should go about our ROBERT MACKIE, 'hysteria'. normal working activities. VICE-PRESIDENT, UASANSW and It has become increasingly This is simply not so, as some clear, especially.in the present investigatory reading into the Secretary Newcastle Division. climate of competltion for scar­ structure and history of indust­ ce resources, that the structure rial relations in this State V of our University government would reveal. The Industrial (and from this point of view the Commission has arbitral and This term, we have had "The personal qualities of the people dispute settling functions. It Short Report" on finance and functioning in it are really has before it two principal "The Short Memorandum" on re­ quite irrelevant) is s~mply not dundancy. In these documents, conducive to the creatlon of tasks: certain powerful members of the 'goodwill, consensus or co­ to keep the industrial peace University propose a revolution­ operation'. Professor Bach • and settle disputes. and ary transformation of its structures. talks of Council as of some • to make salary determinations mysterious Higher Power which in those areas that fall They propose that the we should take care not to off­ within its jurisdiction. academic staff as presently end, but he must know that this constituted should be abolished 'governing body' consists larg- On this latter point of and replaced by two bodies. course the proposed agreement The first is to be a $partiate of all-powerful, untouchable Professors. The rest of us, from Associate Professors down, will be a body of subservient, easily removable, virtually rightless Helots. As well as these two barb­ arous documents, there has been another in which a very Senior, very powerful member of the University sneers at academic freedom as "a nebulous concept" and proposes the abolition of Faculty Boards. All this evidence of Goths within the gates and Vandals in high places should (so it seems to me) warn anyone who regards our University as a studying community and not as an arena for silly power-games that this is a time for keeping one's powder dry and one's sword-arm free. But Assoc. Professor Bach, who is neither Goth nor Vandal. rebukes his colleagues in the Staff Association for thinking too much about conflict and too little about co-operation _ co-operation with such people as The former Wallsend coal line ~as located -~e authors of those three present-day Univer8ity of Newcastle. The route i8 8till di8- ~pal1in9 documents. ernible as a cutting and an embankment near No.2 Car Park. Professor Bach suggests that the Staff Association has A four hectare strip of land has only 100 feet below the surface. ~een unduly influenced by Marx- been generously donated to the The site chosen for the mine was ~sts. Do w~ really need Marx- University by the Newcastle 12 miles from Newcastle by means ~sts to remlnd us that universit- Wallsend Coal Company Pty. Ltd. of the Great Northern Railway --,\5 are always under th~ea~. not That being the case, the Univer- and a primitive track wich , last from the Co~umn wlthln? sity has been able to consolid- crossed rough, undulating count- I am no Marxlst and I need ate its property fronting ry mostly covered with ironbark. go no furt~er left.than John Rankin Drive. Waratah West. By January 20. 1860 the Locke to flnd a sUltable reply The land is part of the old pit shaft had been sunk, the to Professor Bach: Wal'lsend coal1ine which was con- engine house was up and the en- "Who would not think it an structed in 1860 to connect the gine had been installed. The admirable Peace betwixt Wallsend pit with the Great seam of coal was almost nine the Mighty and t~e Mean, Northern Railway at Waratah. feet thick and the quality and whe~ the Lamb~ wlthout The route of the line was adjac- thickness was reportedly unsur- reslstance, Ylelded his ent to Cowper Street, behind passed by any in the Newcastle Throat to be torn by the present-day homes in Wilkinson Coalfields. imperious Wolf? Poly- Avenue and along the southern As for the coalline, it was phemus's Den gives us a boundary of the University. constructed by Mr. William perfect Pattern of such a The land has been kindly Randle for E23,400. Peace, and such a Govern- donated for a nominal sum in By January, 1861, the town ment, where in Ulysses accordance with an agreement of Wallsend had been laid out and his companions had reached on behalf of Newcastle in quarter-acre blocks. The ) nothing to do but quietly University College prior to the land sold for from E120 to £160 to suffer themselves to University becoming autonomous an acre. be devoured. And no in 1965. The delay in trans- The Newcastle Wallsend Coal doubt Ulysses, who was a ferring title to the University Company's early customers incl- prudent Man, preach'd up was due to factors beyond the uded the Australasian Steam Nav- Passive Obedience, and control of the Company. igation Company, the Australian eXhorted them to a quiet The Newcastle Wallsend Coal Gaslight Company and the Melb- ) submission, by represent- Company was formed in Sydney on ourne Gas Company. ing to them of what Con- November 5, 1858. when a group The original Wallsend Pit cernment Peace was to of shipping and financial men is kno~n to history as Elermor~ Mankind; and by showing ~et with the intention of exploit- Vale Plt and produ ed coal u~tll the inconveniencies might lng the Borehole Seam at Wall- 193~. The Company 7s other.plt, happen if they should send. The coal in the seam was B.Plt, started production ln offer to resist Polyphem- of high quality and in places 1862 and closed soon after World us, who had now the power War I. over them". (The Second Treati8e of Government~ sec.228.J $8,600 Awarded Writers' conference A.W. SPARKES, Dr. T.K. Roberts, of the Depart­ The Department of Community Philosophy Department. ment of Biological Sciences, has Programmes and the Hunter been awarded a grant of $B,600 Region of the W.E.A. have organ­ by th~ Wenkart Foundation to i sed a week-end Wri ters' Camp continue his work on the immun­ for poet"ry and creative prose Resignations ological consequences of vasect­ enthusiasts. The camp will be omy. The grant, to commence in held from December 5 to 7 at Mrs. S.M. McAlpine, Stenographer, January, 1981, will enable the Morpeth Conference Centre. Secretary's Division. chemicals and a microscope for The fee is $20. the work to be purchased. At Mrs. M.S. Rainsord, Laboratory the time, blood samples will be Assistant, Biological Sciences. sought from vasectomised men. Research' Funds The University attracted 70 per cent more research funds in 1979 than 1978. the New South Wales Auditor-General has reported. The Auditor-General 's 1979 Report on the University establishes that grants receiv­ ed for research purposes in 1979 totalled $1,329.234 - a rise of $548.121 compared with the prev­ ious year. In addition to the grant of $126,000 under the pro­ visions of the States Grants (Tertiary Educat.fon Assistance) Act, 1978, the Commonwealth pro­ vided $307,401 during the year for projects recommended by the Australian Research Grants Committee, $228,947 from the National Energy Research, Dev­ elopment and Demonstration Council and $185,482 from the National Health and Medical Re­ search Council.

Radio Slide Show Professor McMinn shows Mrs. Carmel Leonard Bome of the features Newcastle Region Art Gallery of the historio ~ap of London. will soon be using the Univer­ sity's radio station, 2NUR-FM, Elephantine Map for its own fortnightly pro­ gramme called the Radio Slide The Auchmuty Library has receiv­ ion. Equally interest1ng 1S Show. It will be broadcast on ed a large, detailed map of the survival of considerable Thursdays, with repeats on London in the middle of the 19th areas of market garden, partic­ Fridays. century. It shows the beginning ularly on the river flats south ') The 15-minute programmes of the enormous growth brought of the Elephant and Castle". will focus on diverse aspects to the city by the Industrial Mrs. Honor McDonald donat­ of the Gallery, ranging from Revolution. ed the map, together with bound surveys of exhibitions and Professor W.G. McMinn, copies of the IttuB~rated London features on individual works to Associate Professor in History, News for the 1850's and 1860's the less visible aspects of the said the map would be of consid­ and other books. As readers Gallery's workings and concerns. erable use to research students of the News will recall, Mrs. The first series of The Radio in both history and geography. McDonald earlier donated a very Slide Show includes the history He said the map covered the large map of Eastern Australia of the Gallery's collection. whole of the London conurbation In the mIddle of the 19th cent­ the development and functions as it e~isted in the 1860's. ury to the Library. of the Regional Galleries' from Islington in the north to The map of London measures Association of New South Wales Kensington in the south, and almost four square metres. New and an interview with Ms from Hammersmith in the west to housing estates; palaces and Catherine Lillicoe, the newly the 'dockyard' region of Dept­ prisons; parklands and exhibit­ appointed Conservator to the ford and Mil1wall in the east, ion sites; old canals; and vill­ Regional Galleries' Association. an area of approximately 30 ages that would be later swall- ) The weekly broadcast times: square kilometres. This was, of owed up by expanding suburbs and I Thursdays, 9 am, Fridays 10.30 course, only a fraction of mod­ railway lines - all are shown in am. ern London. In the centre was great detail. the medieval city, fronting the The map was engraved by north bank of the Thames for a­ Edward Weller and printed and TEe Approvals bout a mile. hand coloured by Cassell of London. It may well have been The University has been advised "Although it bears no dat~ published for sale to visitors ) by the Tertiary Education the map can be fairly accurately to London's International Ex­ Commission that the Federal dated from the details it shows" hibition in 1862. Government has accepted the Professor McMinn said. The bQund copies of the recommendations of the Commiss­ The building housing the Illustrated London News are ion in respect of building International Exhibition of just as interesting. The 1852 programmes for 1981. 1862 is shown, and so is the volume, for example, illustrat­ Funding is provided to complex of lanes and yards ed reports of the Australian complete this University's stretching from the Temple to goldrushes and finely depicts Clinical Teaching facilities at the Tower between Thames Street the Duke of Wellington's immense the Royal Newcastle Hospital and the river, some of London's funeral procession. and the Mater Misericordiae worst slums, which were sub­ Members of the University Hospital. stantially cleared in the mid­ and the community who would like Funds granted for Minor sixties. to see these valuable donations Works in 1981 will be $268,000. "An interesting feature is to the Library may arrange to Approval has also been the number of railway termini do so by contacting the Archives given for the University to shown on the outskirts and the (Denis Rowe, Extension 679). proceed with the design of the additional lines under _con~truct- Central Animal House on campus for submission to the Universit­ ies Council in accordance with Jenny was attached to the their current building proced­ Scobie Baby Auchmuty Library before going ures. It is not known when act­ Jenny and Bob Scobie have a to the Library at the Newcastle ual construction might be app­ daughter and heiress. Rochelle College of Advanced Education. roved to commence but this is Scobie was born at Royal New­ Bob is a Senior Technical Officer unlikely to be in 1981. castle Hospital on October 24. in Mechanical Engineering. Included in the entertain­ speaker, his chosen topic being ment will be Cabaret Conspiracy. Christmas Finale a three-hour entertainment pack­ Philosophical Issues in Feminism. With Christmas about to hit age. Tarot Card Readers and o again, Departments and Univer­ Palm Readers will wander amongst Newcastle Committee of the sity bodies are arranging the guests. Economic Society of Australia special end-of-year functions. Musical entertainment will and New. Zealand will hold its be provided by Jeff St.John, annual Christmas dinner in the o The Tim Piper Blues Band and The Staff House on November 28 at Proteens. Tickets. which cost 7.30 pm for 8 pm. The final meeting for 1980 students $5 and their guests $7, of the University Women's Group Mr. Sydney Einfeld, the are on sale in the Union. Sales Minister for Consumer Affairs in will be held on Thursday •. Novem­ will be limited to 1,000 tickets. ber 20. After drinks at 11.30 New South Wales. will be the am and lunch at noon, musical o 9uest speaker4 The charge is entertainment will be provided University Squash Club will $9.50, including drinks ($7.50 by a group from the College of extend the season's greetings to for full-time students). For Advanced Education. Visitors its members. wives and friends further details please telephone will be welcome. at a Bush Christmas Dance in the 685 547 or 685 746. For further details and Dining Room in the Union on o bookings please telephone Mrs. November 26 at 7.30 pm. Chief Phillip. Powi' (33 2262). O'Neil's Favourites will take Several departments will hold o the_ guests back in time, music­ staff Christmas parties. ally speaking. The cost is $4 The Faculty of Medicine The Students' Chemistry for Squash Club members and $6 will hold a get-together in the Society's annual sit-down for non-members. For more in- Staff House on December 5, dinner - staff and graduates formation please contact Albert commencing at 5.30 pm. The are also welcome - is to be Nymeyer on Extension 274. held in the Union on November Secretary's Division has booked 21. drinks being served at 0 the Forsythe Cellar in Edwards 7 pm. The cost is $8 a head. The annual Christmas dinner Hall for an end-of-year function ,lease telephone Extension 467 :of the Hunter Valley Branch of on December 9. pr further details. the Australian Federation of Uni- o o versity Women will be held in The annual University It will be a scene of frenz- th~ Southern Cross lounge in the Dinner will be held in- Edwards ied merrymaking on Monday night. Unlon on Wednesday. November 26. Hall on December 12, drinks November 24. in the Union. when at 7 pm for 7.30 pm. Professor being served at 7.15 pm. In­ ,his year's Recovery Ball is Ron laura. Dean of the Faculty quiries should be directed to The Secretary of the University l'd' ball is the traditional of Education, will be guest The on Extension 240. University of Newcastle" gather­ ing at which students regain " Cabapet Conspipacy~ the entertainment programme fop the Ball# strength and refresh themselves will be divided into Pace the Music~ songs and dance numbers after the annual examinations. from the 1920's~ 1930's and 1940's (first half) and Berlin at Midnight~ cabaret acts from post-First World War Germany It usually attracts a sell-out (second half). house. The artists will be "Pingers" De Main (magician/illusion­ The ball will be held from ist)# Don and Dolores (a dance duo)# "Boom Boom" La Bern B pm until 1 am and the celebrat­ (singer)~ Pifi Lamour (singer/comedienne)~ Dionysus Todd ions will have a central theme, (singer/aompepe) and Alison Lockwood (pianist). The Revolution is Coming.

therefore, dangerous. To agree to the re-al1ocation of funds Mandatory membership as suggested was lllying down'l ~e University's Staff Associat- It was suggested that as and "allowing Australian univer­ tn decided on November 6 that staff members often had to stay sities to bleed to death". membership of the Sports Union at the University for long hours Some people on fixed should be mandatory for members provision of free sporting fac- dppointments might not have to of staff who wished to avail ilities should be one of the leave if staff members agreed themselves of the University's conditions of employment. to reductions in salaries, it sporting facilities. A motion before the meetinc The Association also decid- was that in view of the current" was also stated. that the University should financial stringency in univer- The motion was put to the ~ontinue to assist the Sports sity circles all avenues should meeting and lost 13 votes to 9. Union financially to the extent be explored before staff were The meeting was told that of an annual $5,000 grant. stood down and that should all the Executive was preparing a The Association gave its avenues of possible finance provi full submission on the Interim views on the questions after it insufficient it would be prefer- Reports of the two Working Groups was asked by the Sports Union able that a temporary re-alloc- which had reviewed the University's to support the continuation of ation of funds be made among finances. The submission would l the University grant. One of staff rather than that some be made available to members for the two Working Groups that has staff members should be laid off. comment before it was forwarded reviewed the Uni~ersity's fin- The mover stated that the to the Council of the University. I ances has recommended that the University had some excess staff The Vice-Chancellor had $5,000 not be paid to the Sports and the best way to face the been asked to report to the Coun­ Union in 19B1. problem was for members of the cil on the Association's request In the letter to the Staff Association to share the burden. that an Editorial Board be es­ Association. the Sports Union There might be difficulties in tablished, consisting of repre­ said the grant would permit mem- implementing the motion. but the sentatives of the Association, bers of staff to use sporting spirit behind it had tu be got ,the PSA, the SRC .nd the Admin­ facilities without having to across. istration, for University News. pay the Sports Union fee Another viewpoint was that In addition, the Vice­ {$39.75 in 19B1}. academic staff should not supin- Chancellor had been asked to re­ One of the points raised ely accept any suggestion of port to the Council in connect­ in discussion was that students their fellows being stood down. ion with the Universityls policy were forced to pay Sports It was poi nted out that the on fixed term appOintments. Union fees. motion was extremely vague, and Executive positions The annual general meeting of Nominee for Election to Centpal the University's Sub-Division Council~ Mr. G. Martin. Senior of the Public Service Associat­ Librarian. Auchmuty Library. ion of New South Wales will be Delegate to Annual Conference - held in the Drama Theatre on two p08itions to be filled~ no December 3 at 12.30 pm. Senior nominations re~eived. representatives of the Associat­ ion from Sydney are expected to attend. Member of Management Committee At the close of nominations - eight positions to be filled~ for election to executive posit­ Mr. J. Armstrong. Administrat­ ions on the Sub-Division in ive Officer, Secretary's Divis­ 1981 these nominations had been ion; Mr. L. Henderson, Cart­ received: ographer, Auchmuty Library; Ms Chaipman~ Dr. D. Kay, Profess­ K. Jackson. Technical Officer. ional Officer. Biological Geology; Mr. G. Jones, librarian. Sciences. Auchmuty Library; Mr. N. Keats, Professional Officer, Chemistry; Professor Charles Van Atta, Prof- Secpetapy~ Mr. B. Kelleher. Mrs. M. Longworth, Clerk, Auch- essor of Appl fed Mechanics and Administrative Officer. Secret­ muty Library; Mr. R. Murray, Engineering Sciences at the Uni- ary's Division. Genera1 Library Assistant. Auch- versity of California. San Diego, Assistant Secpetapy~ Mr. A. mut.r Llbrary; Mr. M. Oom~. Prof- is spending five weeks as Visit­ Harcombe. Senior T-echnical ess~onal .Officer. Mechanlcal . 1ng Professor in the Department Officer. Psychology. Englneerlng; Mrs. S. Pryce-Dav1es.of Mechanical Engineering .. Stenographer. Economics; Mrs. M. Professor Van Atta is coll- Delegate to Govepnment Agencies Rabbitt. Senior librarian, Auch- aborating with Professor R. Division Council - two p08itions muty library and Mr. W. Rigney. Antonia and Dr. J. Chambers on to be filled~ Or. Kay and Mr. Administrative Officer. Secret- a research project entitled The ary's Division. Growth of a Turbulent Spot with- _Kelleher.______in a laminar Boundary Layer. Professor Van Atta is a "Yankee", who hails from New Educational tours Economics London - the navy town and sub­ 00 you want to go to Tasmania. marine-building centre on the or Heron Island. on an educat­ Thames River in Connecticut. ional tour? If so. then you in Society He cut his academic teeth at the will probably be interested in University of Michigan in Ann joint offerings of the Depart­ Last year. Professor Clem Arbor. from which be obtained a ment of Community Programmes Tisdell. of the Department of Bachelor of Science in Aeronaut­ and the Hunter Region of the Economics. published an intro­ ical Engineering, a Bachelor in Workers' Educational Associat­ ductory economics text suitable Mathematics and a Masters in ion. for use in New South Wales Aeronautical Engineering. Lat­ Tasmania-the Wild and the schools and for those with no er. he did his Ph.·D. in Aero­ Historical and Heron Island­ previous knowledge of economics. nautics. at the California In­ Marine Biology and Bird Life The book. Economic8 in Our stitute of Technology. Pasadena, are scheduled to be conducted Societlf, publ i shed by Jacaranda where he worked in the Jet Prop­ from February 14 to 21. Press (Jacaranda Wiley Ltd.) ulsion Laboratory of NASA. Dr. John Turner. of the Brisbane. differs from the text Professor Van Atta. Prof­ previously ~vailable by being essor Antonia and Dr. Chambers Department of Community Prog­ less abstract. This is achieved are examining the organised rammes, Mr. Don McNair. botan­ by extensive use of Australian phenomenae of turbulent shear ist and bushman. and_Mr. Geoff examples and by the inclusion flows contributing to heat and Harwood. of Tasmanian Tours and of photographs. some of which Travel will 1 ead the tour of mass transfer (drag forces) and Tasmania. were taken at the University of are endeavouring to understand Pattie Birch. a marine bio­ Newcastle. It is hoped that enough to reduce drag. thus ach­ logist. and Fred Van Gessal, an the book will at least encourage ieving sav1ngs 1n tuel trans­ some school students to think of portation costs for ships. ornithologist. will be tour the University as a place to leaders for the Heron Island planes and other moving vehic­ visit. undertake further study. les. Early bookings are essent­ Local teachers. Mr. Rex He and Professor Antonia ial in order to attract the max­ Gardner (Social Science Master. first met in 1972 at the Unive.r-: imum discount on air fares. Lambton High -Sc·nool) and Mr. sity of Sydney. Their collabor­ People interested are asked to Brian Roberts (Social Science ative work then was continued leave their name and address Master. Francis Greenway High several years later. when Prof­ with the Newcastle office of the School, Beresfield) have pre­ essor Antonta went to the Uni­ W.E.A. (21 666) as soon as poss­ pared a A Student Guide to versity of California. ible. Economic8 in Our Society and Professor Van Atta is pres­ this should be available from ently on sabbatical leave (the Jacaranda Press shortly. name for study leave in the A New Zealand edition of United States has not been chan­ Economics in our Society is ged). He and his wife. Ann. are Senator being produced and should be renting a house at New Lambton Senator Gareth Evans. ALP Sen­ out next year. The book has been Heights. Their daughter. Pamela, ator for Victoria, will now put adapted for New Zealand by Prof­ a Senior at the University of his view on constitutional re­ essor John Ward. Professor of California. Berkeley. who has form in Australia at a luncheon Economics, University of Waikato. specialised in Scandanavian to be held in the Southern Cross Hamilton. The publishers are Studies has stayed in the United Lounge in the Union from 12.15 also considering a Canadian ed­ States. She will meet her par­ until 2 pm on Monday. November ition. A small contribution ents in Norway next February. 17. The aircraft refuelers' should therefore be made to in­ After leaving the Univer­ strike prevented Senator Evans creasing the value of Australian sity of Newcastle on November from coming to the University exports! 15. the Van Attas will go to on November 10 as had been plan­ Bangalore in India. where the ned. Professor will do more work on turbulent shear flows. SPORT Friday. November 25. has been selected as the date for the University Swimming Carnival and afternoon fun session at Lambton Swimming Centre. Stud­ ents. staff. families and friends are invited. Intending partiCipants should contact Jock Armstrong (Extension 469). o Mr. John Serhan, a Science stud­ ent and no mean golfer, is no doubt content to bask in the reflected glory of big brother's (George Serhan's) magnificent victory in the New South Wales Open. o University Soccer Club's 1980 saga is revealed in the tables "We decided that before the shown below (indeed a worthy Half-Price SALE scenes are updated, we should effort overall) - clear our shelves and offer the No.1 Grade _ Top Four Convocation is selling University cards to staff members, students U' .t \hristmas cards and postcards for and members of the public who Mnp1Y~rtSl y 18 13 2 3 52 17 28 .'lalf price. are ittn eres e d 1n . th e U·nlVerS1 . t"y . Wall. 01 Unitedn 18 12 1 5 45 27 25 The Warden of Convocation, The Publicity Office, Room C'to'n Spurs 18 11 2 5 43 26 24 Mr. Philip Miller. said that the lG54 in The McMullin Building, w . 18 7 6 5 28 28 20 cards were produced 1n 1977 and is selling the cards for Convoc­ featured coloured scenes of the ation. The price is 10 cents No.2 Grade - Top Pour University. each, or six for 50 cents. Merewether 18 10 4 4 39 35 24 M.Point 18 10 3 5 53 22 23 . / Wall.Uhited 18 9 5 4 38 17 23 President Resigns University 18 9 5 4 34 20 23 Assoc. Professor Geoff Curthoys No.3 Grade - Top Four will not seek re-election as President of the University's Wall.United 18 12 4 2 56 23 28 Staff Association at the annual Kearsley 18 10 7 1 43 16 27 meeting on March 13, 1981. Merewether 18 8 5 5 30 24 21 At the meeting of the University 18 8 2 8 31 28 18 association and Newcastle Div­ ision of UASA (NSW) on November o 6 he indicated that following If sufficient interest is evid­ the election of the new Presid­ ent. a Week-end Under Canvas ent he would resign from the will be arranged at Seal Rocks. Council of the University. or Myall Lakes for the Mountain­ Professor Curthoys was eers. Fishermen, Sailors and prominent amongst those who Bushwalkers. This is a must. formed the Newcastle University Please telephone Jock Armstrong, College Staff Association in Extension 469. about 1955. Since then he ser­ ved many terms as the Staff Association's President or Sec­ "'etary. He told members present at Grant - $45,126 the meeting that the policy of The National Heart Foundation the Staff Association was that of Austr.lia has announced that its President should be a member two University of Newcastle of the Counci 1. had reason to be greatly apprec­ staff members "ad been awarded "The policy is most useful iative of Professor Curthoy's research grants totalling to the association 9 the Council contribution to the work of the $45,126. and, hence 9 the University and association. The comments were Dr. A.H.B. Gillies, of the the Executive hopes that the endorsed with acclamation. Faculty of Medicine. has been It was resolved to nomin­ granted $14,864 in 1981 and new President 9 whoever he/she ate Professor Alan Tweedie for $13,517 in 1982 for a project might be 9 will receive the un­ animous support of members of a life membership award of the entitled Intrarenal control of the Staff Association 1n the Federation of Australian Uni­ glomerular filtration. u versity Staff Associations. election • Dr. B.W. Madsen, of the The Secretary (Mr. Robert Professor Tweedie was the Found­ Faculty of Medicine, has recei­ Mackie) stated that the retir­ ation President of the College ved $16.745 to pursue research ing President would be greatly Staff Association. He will re­ into Agonist and antagonist missed by his colleagues on the tire as Vice-Principal and binding to platelet alpha­ Executive and other members of Deputy Vice-Chancellor on Dec­ adrenergic receptors in normal the Staff Association. They ember 31. and hypertensive subjects. Gpant8 towapd8 the cost of attendance at oversea8 confer­ Research Grants Dr. D.L.S. McElwain (Mathemat­ ences were made to the foLLowing ics) Visit by Or. T.J. Pedley, member8 of 8taff. The following gpants pecommend­ $2,000. Prof. B.D.O. Anderson, Electric­ .a by the Internal Research al & Computer Engg., ($1,000). Assessment Committee for 1981 Prof. B. Boettcher (Biological have now been approved. Prof. J.B. Moore, Electrical & Sciences) Histones in Cell Computer Engineering, ($600). Transformation, $1,000. FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS: Dr. G.I. Feletti, Medicine, Dr. D.N. Parkes (Geography) ($600). Dr. J. Falconer (Medicine) In­ Temporal and Spatial Character­ vestigation of the thrombin re­ istics of Activity Structure: Dr. R.J. Vaughan. Mathematics, ceptor in the human placenta ($700) . and changes associated with pre­ Alice Springs, $890. eclampsia, $837. Prof. B.D.O. Anderson (Electric- Prof. B. Boettcher, Biological 'al & Computer Engineering) Visit Sciences, ($900). Dr. R.N. Murdoch (Biological by Dr. C.R. Johnson, $500. Dr. P.R. Dunkley, Medicine. Sciences) Studies of the nature Prof. J.B. B·iggs & Dr. J.R. ($900). of the embryo signal for the Kirby (Education) Visit by Prof. Assoc.Prof. R.P. Cooney, Chem­ establish'ment of pregnancy and J.P. Das, $780. induction of the decidual cell istry, ($700). reaction, $698. Drs. C.E. Offler, J.W. Patrick Assoc.Prof. W.R. Walker. Chem­ and R.J. Rose (Biological Sci­ istry, ($700). ences) Blackbutt Photosynthesis: Prof. B.D.O. Anderson (Elect­ Structure and Function, $680. Or. R.J. Evans, Electrical & rical & Computer Engineering) Computer Engineering. ($700). Visited by Professor M. Gevers, Dr. P.J. Quinn and Mr. J.D. $1,450. Stanger (Biological Sciences) Mr. W.G. Warren. Education. Culture of Mouse follicles. ($700) . Dr. R.J. Loughran (Geography) $700. Study of Sediment sources and Prof. K.R. Dutton, Modern Lang-, storages, Deep Creek, $400. Dr. P.J. Quinn (Biological Sci­ uages, ($800). ences) Interactions between Assoc.Prof. B.J. Fraser. Physics, Assoc.Prof. R.C. Jones (Biolog­ embryo and Uterus. $550. ical Sciences) Fluid Readsorpt­ ($1,000). ion in the male genital ducts, Prof. J.F. Burrows (English) Or. R. Offler, Geology, ($800). $678. Computer-based Concordance of the novels of Jane Austen. Prof. M.G. King, Psychology, Dr. A.J. Chambers (Mechanical $1,000. ($900) . Engineering) Visits by Dr. D.M. Britz, $1,450. (A sum of $2,000 from the bal­ Assoc. Prof. B.L. Karihaloo. ance of the Special Grant for Civil Engineering. ($700). Assoc.Prof. B.J. Fraser (Physics) 1980 was also approved for Prof. Geomagnetic Pulsation Spectral Burrows' project.) Prof. 1.G. Sharpe, Economics, Analysis, $1,340. ($800) .

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