r-;;-----, I ,~; I I I • I !i Registration NBH 3127 :').;~/~~jJ\ ic1. .10:;-- -1.) ,C' ~!t9l~:K ~-A Newsletter1. for the Universit of Newcastle __________ --IlL \J 28 September to 12 October Volume 13, Number 16 Lecture in the Medical Sciences Lecture his History of Australia told in six Distinguished Theatre on Wednesday, 7 October at 8 volumes, the last having been pm. published early this year. visitors for The lecture is sponsored by the He was born in Victoria in 1915 Australian Association of Gerontology, and educated at Melbourne and Oxford the Faculty of Medicine and the Universities. After lecturing at ~ectures Department of Community Melbourne University, he took up his Programmes in honour of the late Dr post at the ANU in 1949. Dick Gibson, of Newcastle, who, with Since his first book, Select his team at Royal Newcastle Documents in Australian· History Hospital, developed practices in the 1788-1850, was published in 1950, he field of geriatric medicine which led has written twelve more, including· In A ustralia and were abreast of Search of Henry Lawson. practices in the United Kingdom and America. Donald Horne is Associate Professor in Politics at the University ClktP11J1l'Ere ((j)ff of New South Wales. He received part of his education in Muswellbrook lLrerr;ipmrrelf and Maitland and is best known for his achievements as a journalist and an PROFESSOR EDMUND author. He is a former Editor of the PELLIGRINO will not now deliver Sydney Observer, the Bulletin and the inaugural David Maddison Quadrant and contributes to Lecture. He is not able to come to ) New s wee k and other foreign Australia due to acute magazines. gastrointestinal haemorrhaging. Professor Pelligrino is - His output of books include The Director of the Kennedy Institute Lucky Country, The Education of Young of Ethics and the John Carroll Donald, God is an Englishman, Death Professor of Medicine and Medical of the Lucky Country, Change the ) Humanities at Georgetown Rules: Towards a Democratic , University, Washington DC. \ Constitution and In Search of Billy PROFESSOR STEPHEN R. \ Hughes. LEEDER, Professor of Community \ The phrase, The Lucky Country , • Professor Manning Clark, drawn by and Geriatric Medicine at the passed into common usage after the University of Sydney, will take Louis Kahan appearance of the book with this Professor PeUigrino's place at the Two men recognised as prominent name - a brilliant piece of Australian social criticism, which gave a warning lectern. among Australia's most distinguished The David Maddison Lecture, that Australia might not stay as the writers and commentators will shortly in honour of the late Foundation lucky country. deliver lectures at Newcastle Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, He is President of the Australian University. will be given by Professor Leededn Society of Authors and Chairman of Donald Horne will lecture to Newcastle City Hall on 12 October the Australia CounciL In 1982 he was history students in Lecture Theatre at 8 pm. It will be the centrepiece awarded the Order of Australia. V07. in Mathematics on Wednesday, 30 of a two-day conference Ethics and September at 2 pm and 8 pm. Manning Clark is Emeritus the Allocation of Health Manning Clark will deliver the Professor of Australian History at the Resources. prestigious Dick Gibson Memorial ANU, Canberra, and is renowned for , INSIDE: Open Day '88 - early start on planning 2Letter to respect of methodology there arc few, help each other and the community if any, disciplines which are which we serve. monolithic in structure. Knowledge the :£tlito r domains are not sacrosanct and Professor Ron Laura, autonomous. They interface with a Faculty of Education. Dear Sir, whole host of factors which by their very nature connect one domain with At our recent special meeting of Senate another. the Vice-Chancellor made clear that The compartmentalisation of the Planning Committee not only knowledge is simply an expression of welcomed but was depending upon the 'territorial imperative' in constructive responses to its Academic intellectual terms. To reject the Plan. There is much about the Academic Plan on the grounds that it Academic Plan and the way in which fails to respect homogenity of subject i' I it has been introduced that has given matter _within the disparate domains I rise to a number of worries, many of of knowledge is in my view to object for which I believe are substantive. the wrong reason. My intention here, however, is [ submit that the Academic Plan not to rehearse the objections, with moves in the right direction, but it which most of us are by now familiar. does not go far enough in the right My comments are directed not so much direction. The issue is not the number to what I find in the Academic Plan, of divisions we have within the as to what I fail to find there. University but whether the nature of Perhaps in making this clear, we may those divisions serves to promote the be better positioned to see why some of integrity of the teaching and research our worries are themselves worrying. ventures in which we are all involved. May I say at the outset that [ am One way of achieving this, I believe, of the view that the time is opportune is not by abolishing faculties, but by Patrick White Day for change. What is missing in the creating Schools which allow for the Academic Plan is an educational and organisation of existent faculty Patrick White, giant of Australian philosophical rationale for change. resources into co-operative teaching Literature and the only Australian Once we can discern what it is to and research activities which are not ever awarded the Nobel Prize for which as a University we are 'looking confined to traditional modes of Literature, is the Language and ahead', it becomes easier to academic disciplines. Literature Board's choice for appreciate how best to achieve the special evaluation this year. On this view of Schools, or sense of vision required to get there. A The Board has moved the university can, of course, be whatever one chooses to call the mechanisms I have in mind, colleagues annual event off campus for the characterised in many ways. I prefer first time - to the Civic to think of a university as a with relevant interest from say, the Arts Faculty, could contribute either in Playhouse - so as to make a diarec ( 'community of enquiry' in which many contribution to the Mattara teaching or in research terms, or both, na different sorts of intellectual and attract an audience from the to the specific orientation of one or other activities are pursued in the community. hope of advancing knowledge and the more Schools. Similarly, an economic reflective habits of mind which lead historian, might wish to contribute to People from inside and to its discovery. This being so, what is the work of a School of Social Science, outside the University are bein' needed is a restructuring which while a philosopher might be able offered 'a ding-dong day' of shor~ generates mechanisms in virtue which and willing to contribute to a School of talks and readings, answers, we encourage rather than inhibit Quantative Analysis. remarks, debate and comment by a diversity of approach and the varying What we need to reflect upon is very distinguished panel from forms of intellectual imagination the extent to which the creation of Canberra, Sydney and elsewhere. which accompany it. schools can provide a new degree of Included in the panel is I am no longer convinced that we flexibility and co-operation which we Professor Manning Clark, historian achieve this by collapsing eight do not at present have. and friend of Patrick White. faculties into four. Part of the problem Although [ do not for a moment Other participants include is that we have ourselves succumbed to pretend to have teased out the May-Britt Akerholt, dramaturg, the temptation of thinking that each intricacies of such a model, it is clear who has a key role in the Sydney of our diSciplines has an identifiable that Schools could be radically Theatre Company, and Michael essence which defines and delimits innovative by way of promoting an Wilding, novelist and critic, and the nature of the enquiry in which we interdiSciplinary orientation other experts on Patrick White. are engaged. definitive of any true community of Patrick White Day will be This is a temptation to be enquiry. My main objective in held on 8 October from 10 am to 5 resisted. Within every diScipline - proposing it for consideration is simply c pm. There is no charge for no matter how seemingly homogeneous to show that there are options which admission. there are philsophical, are worthy of our consideration. Our sociological, historical and value resources could be made to go further by aspects, to name only a few. Even in creating structures which help us .to t 3 Titled Neurochemical Control of the Coronary Circulation and held in CALLAGHAN HOUSE EXPANDS both the Medical Science Building on campus and the David Maddison LIVE-IN HOUSING Clinical Sciences Building at Royal Newcastle Hospital, the two-day meeting discussed fundamental and applied research issues concerning the coronary circulation. The programme embodied a number of individual presentations which dealt with the delegates' personal research projects and experiences in universities and hospitals. From the School of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, came Professor Eric Feigl, who is often described as the doyen of coronary physiologists. Professor Feigl, who gave the closing address of the satellite conference, is the author of the last Physiological Review on the Coronary Ci.rculation (1984).