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17 S PT. 81 Newsletter for The University of Newcastle

A m algama tion

The proposed integration of the Newcastle College of Advan-ced Education into the Univer-sity remains a vital issue . Two meetings and an interview with the New South Wales Minis-ter for Education, Mr. Landa, will shortly be held to consid-er the matter.

A special meeting of the Counci 1 wi 11 be hel d on Sept-ember 18 at 2 pm to consider a report of a committee of

Council which has assessed the relationship with Newcastle CAE .

Representatives of the student associations at the University and the Newcastle CAE will hold a special meet-ing to identify problems that might have to be jOintly faced if the amalgamation proposal is implemented. The meeting will be held in the Auchmuty Room in the Union on September 22 at 6 pm.

The Warden of Convocat-ion, Mr. Philip Miller, report-

rofessor to leave University

Bl" ian Andel"s on

Professor Brian Anderson. the ~University's Foundation Prof -~essor of Electrical Engineer-

ing, has resigned. He plans to take up his new appointment - the Chair of Systems Engin-eering at the Au s tralian Nat-ional University in Canberra - during the next long univer-sity vacation.

Professor Anderson's new Chair will be established within the Research School of Physical Sciences, one of five schools forming the Institute of Advanced Studies at ANU. The new position is the first in a new Department of System s Engineering which will primar-ily cover the fields of Cont-rol Systems and Signal Process-ing, which are his chief in-terests at this Univer s ity. Hi s Department will be compo s -ed of academics (si x ), Vi s it-ing Fellows, post-doctoral fellows and support st a ff.

Professor Anderson said that he was currently considering the appointment of further staff for his Department .

He said that because of the large amount of time pro-vided for research and the strong financial backing given by the Federa 1 Government, the Institute of Advanced Studies at ANU had attracted many fine scholars, and thus was one of the major research schools in Australia, and an extremely exciting environment in which to work.

Professor Anderson, aged 40, goes to ANU from a Depart-ment which had its origins in the days of Newcastle Univer-sity College when full-time undergraduates in Electrical Engineering had to do the fin-al years of their degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney .

He took up the Foundation Chair of Electrical Engineer-ing at this University in Feb-ruary, 1967. At that time there were only four existing members of staff in the Depart-ment. John Moore, now Profess-or of Electrical Engineering, was a newly appointed Senior Lecturer.

Professor Anderson said that staff numbers in the De-partment had almost doubled since then, whilst student num-bers had more than doubled. The high reputation enjoyed was mainly due to the work of a number of individuals who had received several honours and awards and considerable support for research and with whom he had been proud to be

ed to Standing Committee of Convocation on September 10 that Mr. Landa had agreed to receive a deputation from Con-vocation to hear Convocation's views on the amalgamation prop-osal. Mr. Landa, Mr. Miller said, was willing to meet Con-vocation in the first two weeks after the State election on September 19.

Convocation decided on August 18 to oppose moves to enforce a merger of the Uni-versity and the CAE.

associated. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engin-eering drew many top students and international visitors.

Professor Anderson said that he saw no reason why the Department could not continue to prosper, provided that it receives appropriate support from the administration.

Professor Anderson holds B. Sc . and B. E. degrees in the University of Sydney, each with Honours Class I. and ob-tained University Medals in Science and in Engineering. Stanford University in Calif-ornia awarded him a Ph.D. in 1966. As a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sci-ences he is one of a very small group of Australians to have been recognised by the senior academies. He is also current-ly a member of the Australian Science and Technology Council (ASTEC) .

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S

THIRD TERM MEETING WITH STAFF will be held in the

D R A M A THE A T R E

on

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 at

1.05 pm

Dear Sir,

1 am writing to advise fellow academics and students who use the University s computers that a pub11c n,!1sance is among us. On Wednesday, September g, someone ga1ned access to my account and erased all, the files therein, leaving 1n exchange the following message:

"You 8tupid ba8tal"d. Iou tst ms into yOUl" acoount. To tsach you a lSBBon I era.ed your file. JUBt rsmember, big brother is atll1aVB watching you!"

Fortunately the files could be retrieved from back· up storage in the Computing Centre.

Dear Sir,

According to recent newspaper reports Or . Quickenden, the staff's representative on t he Council of the Un1verslty of Western Australia, has sharply protested against certa1n att -empts at re-organisation over there. One of the questions he asks in a paper on this top-ic i s of relevance to us as well. 'Should we not make a very vigorous effort' says Or. Quickenden 'to re-Invest the uni vers i ty with the ' community of scho l ars ' ideal in place of the ' company management' model which has become so sadly evid-ent in Australian universities in recent years ' ( ThB AustMUan 9/9/ 81) .

It Is a curious phenomen-on which. I have little doubt, Or. Quickenden will have had occasion to observe at first hand over there, that the coom-unity of scholars 1deal is often dismissed on the basis of either of two attempts at its fdentification, both equal-l y misleading. It is either said that we are deal i ng here with a totally outnoded and inap pl icable medieval mode l of university l ife or that. such ideals belong to the Slm-il'arl y unrealistic lore of vintage 1968 student radical-ism. 8y contrast it is held

Dear Sir,

Re: In~n of CAB into UnifX1.'l'Bity

I wish to rec ord my support o~ t he r esolution take n by Counc ll on t his matter, as summaris ed i n Vol . 7 No.l5 of the News.

I believe tbat the Univer-s ity has a different f unc tion to t hat of a College of Advan-ced Educ ation. I suppor t the costly yet long-term benefits society receives from Univer-sit ie s a s Un i versities.

CLAUDE CAS SEGRAIN

This lapse in security may have been the result of neg11gence on my part (with terminal or password), or ter-minal malfunction, but the cause does not matter now. thfs sort of action is noth-1ng less than computer crime. 1 Intend to turn th1s exper-ience to good effect, both as a lesson in personal care on terminals and as a teaching ~td. Students 1n our Depart-ment will henceforth benefit from photocopies of this nasty text. It 15, of course, too much to hope that its graceless author wfll claim copyright.

G N Hc IHTYRE, lecturer in Geography.

Ths Director of the Comput ing Centre ha. offerBd ths folZoll1-ing comment on the matter:

t hat the relatively authorit-arian and hierarchical mode l of univerSity organisation. or what Or. Qulckenden calls the 'company management' model, as we can observe for instance in our University today, goes back on old and we l l-estab-lished British practice.

That such claims are his-torically inaccurate becomes readily apparent when we look at the fate which be f ell the attempts of both the Royal Commission of 1852. which was cal l ed by Lord John Russell. and the Oxford Comm ission of 1877, to increase the power and the sta t us of the profess-oriate at Oxford. Ar t hur Enge l (from whose fas c inating article ' Emerging Concepts of the Academic Profession at Oxford 1800-1854', I am quot-ing here) tells us how the plans of these commissions stranded on the determined resistance of the tutors and the 50-called Hebdomadal Board.

The commissioners ' prop-' osal ' to establish a hierarch-ica l ly organised profess10n of academic men' was scorned by the newly founded Tutors' Association as a pl an whiCh, if instituted. 'would destroy the independence of thought among the equal members of an intellectual republic, to make way for the energetic rule of an official despotism'.

P.S. Regards to all my friends. Sorry I am not able t o partic-i pate more wit h you all .

This problem may have been associated w1th a fault which has recently appeared on the MICOM switch, through which he was erroneously led to bel-ieve that his job had been logged out.

H1s warnings on the need for users to take care of their valuable files and to back them up 1f possible are ones which all users should take to heart. If they have not already done 50, I sugges t that they read the Computing Centre News-letter 81-05 (pub11shed tn Ju 1 y) •

I c~n only join in his condemnat10n of the vandalism on his account. Ideally our computer users for~ a commun-ity providing mutual support and help. unfortunately, there are a few who act differently.

The Com missi on's most import-ant witness. the famous Or . Pusey, showed himself as voclf- e erous an 'opponent of German ideas of professorial domin-ance' as less dlstingu1shed tutors. All witnesses, says Engel, ' were unanfmous in their dismissal of any plan wh1ch would make the professors as a • class Into the rulers of the University ' . It 1$ important to note that the reSistance against these plans was not In-spired by new-tangled radical ideas but by the values, en-shrined in the exlst1n9 coll-egiate system. .

The historical roots of the 'company management' model of university government are, I would l1ke to suggest. not to be found in Britain but in an Amer1can development of cer-tain German p~.ctice5 and princIples. lit is ironical , that tn Germaay Itself (and in e many places in the USA) univer-sity government has assumed a different form now and 1s much closer to the ' republic of sch-olars ' 1deal than is the case over here.

Recent events 1 n th1s Unl-e versity have shown that we, at least, are far removed from this Ideal . The arrogance w1th which the Senate tried to by-pass both the Faculty Boards and the Staff Assocfation in the a.alga~atlon proposals is very revealing. Here at least we were very close to what that Oxford Tutors' ASSOCia t -ion, one hundred and thirty years ago, called 'the energet-ic rule of an offic 1al despo t -is ' .

A. BRAND, Department of Sociology.

Delegation from Oman t Ne~c st l e, i n whi ch they had @xp r ess e d a good deal of

'and the Faculty's current re- intere st, asking many t hought- ,. search efforts. Moreover, t he f ul and penet rat in g Que s tions

A small del ega t i o-n----,f=-r-o-m~O,--m-a-n-.------..-r-e-q"u...-l-r-e"'m,.-e..-n n-o-f".,...-o"fe ss1 011 a 1 -- a bo lt va r i IUi~ a,sp e c~ 0 f DU r • the 1ndependent sultanate in englneering bodies were dis- hfl~~y and rat~gy . They . the Middle East, visHed the cussed, touching on the re l at- r o§" Pr ofe ss.91 Mad4i ~on University on September B. 10nsh1p between Australian sa l ~r': sm all S lZe' The visa was part Of visits and United Kingdom qual1flclt- of t h uHe 'Yl!!' ed pec i al being made to un1versities and ions. di ff i cu l t, g th e colleges to assess opportun1t- tn the Faculty of Med1ec----~a~d~mri;~5~941~e~A_ee~'_ee~~~e~F~s~e~a~s~s~t~u~d~R~n~t~5~~1 ies for Omani students to study ine, the Oman1 delegation spent a course of action which at r~"T in this country. The delegat- an hour 1n an interesting dis - this time was expl icitly ex- ., :, ion compr1sed Sheikh Amer All cussion with the Dean, Prof - cluded by the Faculty's admiss~J Oma1r. Under Secretary. and essor D. Madd1son and the Oep - ions pOliCY. .~t Mr. Nusa Jaffar Hassan, Direct- uty Chairman of the Under- Professor D.L. Frost, Hea~A or, Scholarships Branch, of the graduate Education Committee, of the Department of EngliSh, !., Ministry of Education of Oman Or. R.L.B. Neame . They were was interviewed by the delegat-and Mr. Darw1sh Eidok Hassan, interested to know that the ion and asked about the extent!O~ Director General of Adminls- Faculty 1s a member of the Net- of the assistance which his ~~ tration of the Ministry of work of Community-Oriented Department could give to Omani)Gd Education of Oman. Education Institutions for students wah learning Spoken I;;.J

The visitors were espec- Health Sciences, through which English . Professor Frost re- , o~ fally interested in courses organisation it has developing plied that his Department was r., being offered in the Faculties links with the Ministry of already involved in this area r~ of Medic1ne and Engineering Hea l th in Bahrain, wit h which and panned to provide a Wr~.( and the opportunities for learn- Oman, too, has a close relat- lng Sk1l1s course next year, • . ing English as a second subject. ionsh i p because of mutual i n- In addi t ion , he stressed thM$ ~d

Professor A.W. Roberts, terest in the developing Gulf general opinion that a smal~.D Dean of the Faculty of Engln- University. un1versHy was beneficial to "0 eering, told the Omani visit- Professor Maddison sald students from a small country 114

~rs about the Faculty's various the visitors were given a mod- in that cultural shock was min~. "ndergraduate and postgrad uate erate l y detailed briefing about i mised and a was usually poss"ct

courses, 1n particular t he the education programme mou nt- ib l e for lecturers to give ' ). Com pu ter Engineering course. ed by the Fac ulty of Medici ne students personal attention. . ~.

eoupport for positive outlook The work of the Positive Initi-atives Committee of Council has gained the support of University staff .

Seventy-nine ideas have been brought to the CGmmittee to date following circulation of a letter from the Chairman, Professor C.D. Ellyett.

The Committee has been heartened by the large number of suggestions received, 1n part1cular because they rep-

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resent a wide area of the Un iYers ity .

At the PlC's meeting on Septe~ber 8, only 30 per cent of the ideas could be c6ns1d-ered. The balance will be brought before the Commi ttee'

eat its meet1ng on October 6 or subsequent meetings. The Secretary to the Committee. Mr S. Boydel'. has d1vided the 1deas from the staff into the following categories: • Fund-raising proposals. • Money-saving proposals. • Business ventures. • Ventures calling for

expendi tu re. • Proposals for 1mproved

public relations/publicity. and

• . Ways of increasing student numbers.

Naturally. t he University wi1l not be able to carry out all the suggestions, but the reasons will be explained to every individual who put forward an idea.

Professor Ellyett said the following suggestions were a cross-section of those from staf f that were being considered already:

The establishment of a small University of Newcastle Press .

The setting up in Newcastle of an exhibition centre to promote understand of the basic pr1nciples underlying the Arts and Sciences.

The prOvision of academic speakers to community groups.

That Heads of Departments which share accom~odat10n in individual buildings give con-sideration to pooling photo-copying expenditures so that h1gh quality photocopiers mig ht be obta i ned.

A cost-benef1t analysts be ca rr1 ed ou t to ..see whether the use of electric hand dryers in toilets rather than paper towels would save money.

The expansion of the ABC's coverage of current research at the Un1verslty. Careful consideration will

be given to all the ideas . If they are supported. implement- Professor E11yett explained atlon wl11 be achieved either that following a visit by Or by the Committee itself taking John Chal11s, Director of action or by re f erring the ideas Science Programmes (Radio) for to officers of the University the ABC, arrangements had been

[ or groups inside er 6Mlt.lde thlll /lLade for Mr Robyn.lIIl1l1lJ1lS of umpus.

Profe8 S 0I' c U f EHyett

the radio programme, ~e ~J Sci~n~e Sho~, to record some .. mDterlaT at the University. --As the ABC was also interested in reporting the first meeting of the Task Force of the World Health Organisation at the Uni-versity from October 13 to 16, Hr Wl111ams' visit wou l d be ,; held during that period. )t

Appointments Ib..--

Miss M.L . Channon, Ju nior J! Office Assistant/Typist, 1I Department of Biological Sci40 iences .

IS Mrs. M. Davis, Senior Gardinel Librarian . I;

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WHO Task Force . meets at University

In the period October 13 to 16 the UntversitY~ll be the loc-ation of a meeting of a new Task Force set up by the World Health Organisation to cover community-oriented medical schools in Japan, South East Asia, Papua-New Guinea, Aust-rali. and New Zeal.nd.

The University will be host to representatives of med- -ical schools and publtc health bod1es from Japan, Bangk~k. Kualll Luntpur. Manila,· Auckllnd. Port Horesby, Jakarta and Aust-ralia, as well as internation-al cOhsultants from The Nether-lands, Bahrain. and Switzerland.

The Task Force was set up by the WHO f~m memoers of its network of innovative commun1ty-oriented Medical ~chools to ex-plore the most effective inter-na 1 orga"i utfan fetr a facul ty of medicine Ind the most eff-ective forms of organisation wh1ch will Tink the -hearth manpower- and Yhealth service-sectors to the mu~al advant-age of both par.-!> '~~

IIIH.t1:ot .... ". TASk Force 1n "ewcast e w1T1 ~e opened b1 he Federal MiftJ$t r for Hell ·; Mr. MacKellar. after the Dean of the f~ulty of N.d1~twt. Professor aavtd Haddilon. del1v rs hts opening remarks. Dr. T. fulop. Direct-or of the Division .of Manpower Oeveloplllut, WHO, b!l.eva, w1ll also spea at the o~ l{ing.

The Faculty of Mwd1ctne is th, sole.Australian member of tb ~WHO·s · network Of 1nnov~ ath • .,i:communttY":"'Or.t~ ted med~ ical . sc;:bools • . + . I

;r~ fnterltllttonal consult-allts at the meeting wi elude'Professor Harmen 'T ens , of the University of Tilburg. The Netherlands, and Professor L1ndsay Davidso"~ of the Comm-onwealth Institute of Health. Sydney University. •

Dr. Jean~P.ul Menu, ~eg-10nal Adviser 1n Health Man-powe r Deve 1 oplllent. WHO, NaM la, aftd Dr. Rash1~ Fulayfil. of the Ministry of Health, Bih-rain, will be a.ong the part-icipants. To meet t~e cost of the meeting the World Health Organisation ~nd t~ .Aus,r.l. fan Development Assistance Bureau will provide funds to support funds from the network of innovat1ve medical so~ools.

Professor Maddison. Prof-essor R.L. Clancy and Or. R.L. B. NelMe wfll represent the · Faculty of Medictne and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor 0, George. will give a welcome to delegates fn the Staff House.

LECTURE by MUNGO MacCALLUM

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IN CANlERRA FOR

Ne~ lK ~he COKvoe~on leetaAe S~eA

NATION REVIEW

vou are cordially invited to attend a lecture by Hungo MacCallum in the Staff House on Frt~~! Septe~ber l5 at 8 p on the topiC: The Role of ltquqr 1ft 'o11ttcs.

Our visitor has strong links with ,universities. He is the fourth MacCallum to ~ave been gtven the name ~Ghgo. One of these ancestors. S1r Mungo I. was vtce-ChaneeT10r, Deputy enancellor anU Chancellor of the Uriifers1f¥ of

'Sydney and his father, Mungo Ill, is well-known as a war correspondent Ilnd televfsion cOllmentator.

A graduate of the University of Sydney, Mungo IV worked on Journalhm in England before jo.1ning nte AW81;pljZlian. He served under Adrian De mer who, accord1ng to ~any jour-nalists, lfas the most distinguished of n. AU.~P4~-ean'8 editors.

By the early 70s Nungo was on the staff of .atton I R.vis~~ which. he says, covers the gossip anq·ru'o~rs of polit1cs - aspects which are not being coye~~d · b1 the es-tablishMent press. •

I Mungo says tlIat a lot of Australians think J.lol1~'~ ,s are ' deadly dull and too comp11cated to und~rst.nd, ' pi~ly be-cause of the way tt has been reported in the PIlS~, partly because of the politicians themselves and partly because of the 1solation of Canberra. and he is try1ng to get

'more people interested in poltt1cs. _ .-~' .. 1 J.!C- .

He is the Iluthor of IlungO'8 Canbeppa. and a cOMpan·ioll ~olulle of articles, ItUfCgo on the 10D iJ'!'eztz,.' k "ootn'av1ewer wrote of the latter book: - . . ~J' .

"MacCall UIQ' 5 writ i a,g is gutsy i.nd 1 rre ... ~·iit'\ ! happy blend of ~'ynic:islQ and ~nthu$i sm. The basic interpretive frlllDework .hi,..b.. le appears to use 15 that . o..f pol1tfcs as th. ·e. From this he has been .~le to develop ~. y success-fully a ric~ v~f~ of co.ic poss'b1J1 ~y·.

Hungo's Convocation Lecture on the,; 1C\~ o·'e of Liquor fn Pol1t1cs. offers scope ~. ~f,c:f u1bl1ity".

.. . '. " I · ; Supper w111 be provided after"'ards': .... ;~ S'tatf House,

!!!!~!!!:~~,~:~~~!:.g~t$A~ i ~it " ~~~~~;;I~,'Ej~li\illll •• tlt' Profsssor of Businsss Adminis-tration~ Universi t y of Ca Zi f-orni a. BerksZ Y. recentZy spent a brief per iod at the Univer-sity a s the first Jayes/Qantas Fe ZZow. BB provided these "l'andom thoughts" before he

All thi s triggers yet another thought. You are in an era of boom . Most attention is paid to growth and development -new jobs, ne w industry, new wealth for New South Wales.

One aspect of life i n Newc a s tle - a nd Aust ra l i a -

Zeft the campus.

Edwin Eps t ein

The Newcastle area ;s

lfutifu1 - all the more sur-ing1y so when one considers heavily industrialised character of its economy. The beaches, ocean, cliffs, vistas and suburbs, with their ti1e-roofed homes, are quite

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iking . The preservation of n space - parks, reserves, ts ovals, gum trees and

bush - is most attractive and commendable. The Hunter Street Ma ll and Market Square are quite pleasant, enhanced by their period architecture and the absence of high-rise build-ings.

The weather this time of year is reminiscent of the San Francisco Bay (California) ar~a, where Berkeley is located, WhlCh means it can't be beaten.

The pride of Newcastle people in their country and

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· r region is obvious, r ved and reassuri ng. One es it from the newspapers,

from the construction which one sees throughout the area and from the optimism which permeates every conversation

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residents about the future \ ewcast1e and the Hunter.

Members of the business comm-unity, the trade unions and the g~nera1 populace have every rlght to share in the bright ~utu:e and an obligation, each ln ~lS own way, to contribute to 1 t.

The Hunter Valley is a gem - ;t reminds me greatly of our superb vineyard area in Nor thern Ca1~fornia, the Napa Va ll ey. It lS truly a regional an d national asset, not merely for t he bount i f ul harvest of fi ne wi ne s a nd other agricul-t ur al prod ucts, but for its s ~e ni c a tt ra cti on s and way of 11f e . Peopl e of th e area s hou1 d . ch e rish it and preserve it . Slmi1arly, Lak e Macquarie and the Port Ste phens area are exqui s ite.

Well and good: I would hope, however, that equal thought will be given to preservation of the be~t of the present, to conservatlon of the physical and aesthetic resources which are here - that in the rush to bring in the new, to industrial-ise and to expand, that you retain the best aspects of what you currently have - a beautiful area, a safe, comfortable and clean setting, an ethos of wholesomeness, congenial to raising a family - in short, a £,od place in which to work and 1, 'le. I hope that when I next come to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley that the clean beaches and blue-green waters of the Pacific remain; lush hills overlooking the ocean and the city are intact; one can still walk and ride with ease in Newcastle; clubs, schools and churches still abound; concern with the quality of life and "mateship" isn't replaced by an emphasis on the quantity and material abundance of l i f e' the agricultural abundance and' scenic attractions of the Hunter have not given way to block upon block of plant and factory, housing subdivisions, express roads, power stations and mines. I assure you I am not anti-growth; growth is essential and wi 11 and should come . I just hope you will observe the American experience

of the past century and not make the mistakes we did on our way to economic develop-ment. There is no point of re-discovering the wheel of economic expansion and atten-dant environmental degradation. It appears to me that there has b~en greater ,sensitivity to thls matter in New South Wales than there had been until recently, in the United States.

.Much car~ful and co-op-eratlve p1annlng by business labour, governmental and ' other community constituencies wi 11 be necessary to do the developmental job and to do it well. This co-operation in p1an~ing will in turn require conslderab1e goodwill a good-will whi~h, frequent1;, I gather, lS lacking here in New South Wales in common with the rest of the country. If the creativity I have seen evid -enced in business entrepren -eurship, particularly in t he marke ting area , can be matc hed in the in dus trial deve l opme nt f i e ld, the fu t ure of your country a nd of t his reg ion 15 indeed br igh t.

has bee n dis qui e ti ng to me. I refer to the exte nsiveness and intensity of industrial confl i ct. From my room at the Telford Motor Inn, I can count each morning the number of ships at anchor offshore. These vessels are aesthetic-ally pleasing on the horizon particularly at night when ' their lights glisten. They are, however, symbols of indus-trial contentiousness which can endanger the region's economic well being. Simil-arly, the question of the thi rd coa 1 loader and its ~mp1ications for Newcastle, of Jobs and contracts lost from New South Wales as a result of "industrial action" past and promised give evidence of a need for the formulation of a new "social contract" in the interest ?f the whole society.

I wrlte these words in a completely non-partisan spirit. After such a brief stay in your country, I feel no identific-ation with any single or comb-~na~ion of political or econo.-lC lnterests and my comments should not be construed in an advocacy fashion. They are surely not intended in that way. It would be bad taste in the extreme, moreover, for me to take sides in Australia's inter-nal affairs.

As to the University, I have enjoyed my stay here greatly. It is a beautiful campus, rem niscent of the wooded greenery of a number of University of California camp-uses. The architecture is tasteful and creative. My colleagues in legal Studies have been exemplary hosts and have included me in their pro-fessional and personal activit-i~s . during the course of my V1Slt. They are concerned ' and serious teacher-scholars, know-ledgable, with a strong sense of academic responsibility and demonstra ti ng intellectual vigour. I sense on their part a strong desire to consolidate and enhance the international reputation of the ·Uni", part-icu la r ly at a time when it appears it will have to grapple with the question of consolid-ation with the Newcastle College of Advanced Educati on.

I am most appreciative of the generosity of Jayes Travel Service Pty. ltd., particul a rl y its President, Jim Jenkins, a nd of Qantas, through its Reg ional Manager, Grant Pitman , f or f und-ing the Jayes/ Qantas Fel l ows hip whi c h has made my vis i t poss-i bl e . I a l s o wi sh to than k the Vi ce - Cha nce ll or, Pro f e ssor D.W. 6eorge , and Professor Ke v;n E. l indgre n, Head of the Depart.ent of l eg a l Studie s , who e xtended the invitati on t o me on behalf

of the University. My only regret is that academic oblig-ations at Berkeley preclude my stay here from being even longer . Hopefully, ' I shall be able to return in the near future for an extended period.

I have written these words in the spirit of an American cousin - a distant relative, but kin none the less ~ who has fond feelings for Newcastle and environs, admires the best aspects of your society and wishes to see them preserved. Hopefully, my perceptions bear some reasonable relationship to the reality experienced by permanent residents of the area ,

I do hope you wi 11 not consider these comments to be presumptuous and inappropriate for an outlander Yank but recently arrived in your country.

Historian's ad vie Dr. 0.1. Wright, of the Hist-ory Department, was surprised recently to receive a call asking if he would be prepared to advise on a bill to come be-fore the Australian Parliament.

Some years ago, Or. Wri ght published a series of articles relating to various interstate and Commonwealth-State disputes over the waters of the River Murray and his help is now sought over a "Bill for an Act to provide for the promotion of research and planning in connection with freshwater re-sources and for that purpose to establish an Australian Ins tit u t e 0 f F res h wa t e r Stud i es" .

Dr. Wright said that he was delighted that someone in a high place had recognised that an historian's knowledge of the past might be put to use in helping to build a bet-ter future. Academics on the Arts side could ~ake a massive contribution to the well~being of the community if they were given the chance, but unfort-unately this did not often happen in Australia, he said.

VISITING Academic life while they are visiting here is stimulating and busy for Senior Fulbright S c h 0 1 a r, Car r 0 1 1 whit e , and his wife Dr. Charlotte White. Both are Psychologists from the University of California, San Diego, who are here for a six months period.

Before the Whites leave for h 0 m eat the end 0 f t he yea r they expect to gain consider-ably from research in the De-partment of Psychology, as well as from seminars here and at several other Australian uni-versities. In California at the UCSD School of Medicine, Carroll is Clinical Professor of both Paediatrics and Oph-thalmology and Charlotte is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Paediatrics.

The special research in-terest of Carroll White is in electrophysiology of vision and the study of brain waves activated by visual stimuli, the "Visual Evoked Potential". "The ongoing electrical activ-ity of the brain, which phy-sicians record as EEGs or electroencephalograms, is briefly altered in specific ways bywhat we see, hear or touch", he says .

Carroll is interested in the Visual Evoked Potential since it contributes to both investigation of basic Scient~ ific questions and to practic~ al Medical Services . He has been a pioneer in both the scientific work and in promot~ ing the medical applications . Currently the Evoked Potential has become standard pro cedure contributing to diagnosis in Ophthalmology, Audiology and Neurology.

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White has been studying effects of prematurity and intensive care of newborn infants. Her husband has collaborated with her on one aspect of her work, observation of the visual sys-tem while the infants are in the newborn intensive care nursery, using the Visual Evok-ed Potenti a I.

"I developed a programme of systematic examinations of babies after they are dis-charged from the intensive care nursery. Our goal was to provide continuing SpeCial Care, as needed, for both par-ents and children", she says.

While accompanying her husband to Australia, Charlotte is writing about this work. During her stay here she has been invited to join the teach-ing staff in the Department of Paediatrics at The University of Newcastle so that she can ~ participate in Paediatric Sem- .., inars in the Medical School. She has also been invited to talk about her work in several major medical centres around the country . _

Carroll White's programme ~ provides mainly for his attach-ment to the Department of Psy-chology and basiC Visual Poten-tial research in association with Assoc . Professor B. Fenelon . However, under the terms of his Fulbright appoint-ment he will also spend some time travell ing to other uni-versities. Charlotte expects to travel with him and to vis-it medical centres at that time .

He says: "There is now wide interest in the many tVDes

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concerned , the patter n of tRe brain waves varies according to the nature of the stimuli; for example, a flash of light, a chequerboard, a group of circles, or colour. We have found that a red flash pro-duces an entirely different wave from a blue flash; also that a pattern presented in sharp focus gives an entirely different response from that

a n the sight of a very young baby is impaired. The babies, of course, are too young to be able to tell anybody about their difficulties.

_ "For a long time", he .says .. "visual perception was

investigated only in terms of a person's ve r bal behaviour, or what was observed as his, or her, response to stimuli. Now, much more is known about

_how the brain does it s process-"'ing, thanks p c

Visual Evoked 1 search in Psychology".

Stud ent Elec tions El ections for the senior posit-ions on the Executive of New-castle Unive r sity Students' Asso c iation - the Students' Representati ve Counci 1 - in

_ 1982 will be held soon. Students will be invited

to vote for the two paid pos-itions on the SRC, President and Media Officer, and the positions of Secretary, Treasurer and AU S Secretary.

~ The maximum wage for paid

fficers of NUSA is 120 per cent of the Henderson Poverty Line.

The President is the official spokesperson of NUSA, and, among other things, super-vises the work of the officers and is a member ex-officio of all standing committees and sub-committees of the SR C.

The Media Officer pre-par es and supervises Opus, the student newspaper, and other student publications .

Margaret Kavanagh is the current President and Mark Mordue is Media Officer.

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The University of Michigan has developed computing software to handle various models for analysing biomedical data.

One of the benefit s of Professor Richard Landis ' visit to the Department of Mathematics will be learning how to develop such software.

Professor Landis was awarded his Senior Fulbright Scholarship to carry out research in the general area of medical statistics while at the University of Newcastle.

A special research i nterest of Profe s sor Landis

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be assist i ng with analyses of risk factor data and heart disease mortality in Australia. His collaborators in this work are Or A. Dobson an d Or R. Gibberd, of ~e Mat hematics Department, an d Professor S.

Survey encourages hostels

John CoZZins

It would be socially reprehwn-s1ble to prohibit the provis-ion of hostel acco~10n for temporary construction workers in Singleto~ ~h1re. according to Mr.· Jotm· ·Co111ns. lecturer in Co..untty Programm-es.

Earlter· this year Mr. Coll1ns conducted an investig-ation ·for TUNR~ ltd. of the temporary housing of cons~ruct~ 10n wo~kforces in S1n~let~n Shire. in particular in hostels for single men. Singleton Shire Council was TUNRA's client.

Hr. Co 11i ns' survey found little evidence for the view that hostels are necessarily visually unattractive. socially disruptive or econo~1cally bur-densome.

He recomMended to Single-ton Council that hostel acc-ommodation for construction workers be encoura~ed. 1n con-junction with caravan parks. motels, flats and other types of accommodation.

Among the tasks performed by Mr. Collins· to allow him to prepa~e his comprehensive re-port were:

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Visits to more than 20 comm-unities in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland in which construction workforce accommodation had recently b.een prov.i ded.

Making contact with about 50 private and public bod-ies which had recently con-structed accommodation for temporary workers.

Analysing and assessing ob-jections received by Sing-leton Shire Council to hos-tel proposals in the area.

Recommending strategies which might be employed by the Council to mini.ise the impact of hostels. and

• Recom ending trategies to ·maxim1se the economic bene-ffts to the community.

In initial negotiations with bodies wishing to estab-11sh accommodation for constru-ction workers, Mr . Collins says there is a need to 1ns1st on h1gh standards. In the many communities which he had visit-ed, Council officers had ex-pressed concern th~t their Councils had not anticipated correctly the large number of workers which becl assoc1at-ed w1th general infrastr~ture projects. For ex_mple, Glad-stone City Council ex~ess~ ' concern that carava" ~~s were too cro~ed an. ~n4&requipped for the re'1~6hts' recreat10n~1 n~eOs.

Mr. Coll1ns says th'at no Coun~i1 officer h«d ltaled that hostels depr~eG ~eal estate values in "th~ ·10c81 vicinity.

On several oCGashn"-peo. ple had co~n~e~ that so~al problems were no' mar. 'pr~lent in ho·stel-s fO ... li1ng1e-e ... p 1 oyees.. bu.t thwy- We1"t! -mud! more visible.

Turning to th~ i pact on other people, Mr. Col11n5 says that if spechl1 sed accolIIlII~-· at10n is not pr-Ov1ded for· con-struction WOrhq· ·sollW'.n 1 be wl111ng to pay- quite higft. "errts fol' thr'SlIall pool of reltt'able . ac-c01llll0dat1 on. The 1111p'aC't 1111 low and lIiddle incolle groups who currently rent their res1d-ences will be dramatic.

The survey found little to support the view that the construction industry 15 any more likely than any other in-dustry to act IS a receptacle for deviants, or is any .ore likely to create deviants.

~The 1nvestigator came to the conclusion that the great-er the degree of Iss1.11at1on possible between workers tem-porarily in Singleton and the faster a high degree of assim-ilation is achieved. the fewer the chances of social disrupt-ion occurring. If a community such as Singleton wishes to properly house large numbers of construction workers, it should aim at providing the widest possible range of styles of accommodation."

As for the question of which sites are best for host-els in Singleton, Hr . Col1ins has recommended that the Coun-cfl not insist that hostels be placed on the sites of the construction projects.

Some other points to emer-ge from his report:

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Trees and shrubs should be planted immedtately permiss-ion is granted to erect a hostel, to screen it from public view.

Hostel designs should pro-vfde for television viewing, newspaper dellveries, tele-phones. mail deliveries.

air-conditioning. if poss-1ble a bank. washing ach-fnes and clothes dryers, a liquor 11cence if the host-el 1s far away from a pub-lic bar, sealed roads, a kiosk and covered link-ways between dorm1tor1es.

To maximise the econo ic benefits to the com~un1ty, he reco~mewded the continual u~dating of a list of people who wish to seek work in, and bus-fnesses that wish to have deal-ings w1th, locel hostels and offering to Singleton residen-ts the opportu~1t1es to manage kiosks, sell liquor, operate bus services an.~POvide sub-contracting se~y1ces to the hostels.

Singleton M"",k1..,..1- Coun-cil agreed" 1n pf"inC'f1lle to the recommendations in Mr. Col1ins' report.

Book 'rhe lIew/bsps of 1;1Is OHh.-tra~ a select10n fro.-the entTtes of thi s year's Milttarl Poetry Pr1ze, has just been publish-ed by the Depart~~nt of English. Priced at $5.60. the book 1s available at the Co-operative Bookshop on campus.

The Mattara Poetry Prize, embodying Nat10nal and Junior Compet1t10ns, was Spoftso~d by the Hunter Dhtrfc't ~wte'r Board. which provided $501,.: .

Dr. Paul Kav.nagh, lect-urer 1n English. organised all aspects of the poetry co~pet1t-10n, including the Judgl~g, as well as the publication of ~. lIelllbBJOB of 1;11. OJlOpatH.

The President of the Hunter D1str.tt·w.ter Board, Professor A. C.~heel. ann-ounced the pr1z · w1~~~s, pres-ented pr1zes- ~nd ' th.hked the judges, Professor A.D. -Hope, Professor G.A. Wilkes ana Dr. Kavana,", at· I special· fUII«ion at the Board- .n sept&*&er 8.

The p~1z.s for ·t~ Nat10n-a1 Compet~tton were-award d to Kevin Hart and Les Murray. The Jun1or· •• I?d went to Brad Temp.,1ey, of New la.btoft.

Thantin,- the Water Board, Dr. Kavanagh said that more than 300 prev10us1y unpublish-ed poems had been entered in the Mattara Poetry Prize. As the qualfty of most •• 5 excell-ent, it had been a hard job to distinguish the two .inners froll the others.

Professor Ca~icha~l.ssured those at the function that the Water Board. having t.ten part in Mattara . Spring Festiv-als over a long period, would maintain its interest in the Poetry Prize.

The poets whose entries were selected for publication in the book are: Geoffrey Dutton. Tony Fitzgera1d, Kev1n Hart. Andrew ~cDonald. Eliza-

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beth lawson Marsh, les A. It'~ Murray. Mark O'Connor, Geoff •• l S~. Page, Marc Radzyner and Chrf' Wa11ace-Crabbe.

BACK from U.K. Professor Brian Fraser, Assoc-

Professor in Physics, was a participant fn the Inter- ) national Associ ation of Geo- ~ ,' , magnet1sm and Aeronomy's nd, Symposium jn Edinburgb~ Scotland, from August 3 to 15.

Professor Fraser presen-ted an invited review piper on The Generation and Propagation of Pc 1 - 2 Waves in the Mag-netosphere. Work undertaken

, by Professor Fraser and other workers whtle h~ was on study leave at UCLA in 1980, util-iz1ng .agnetic field and particle data from the USA geostlt10nary satellite ATS-6. was recounted ln the piper.

As Cha1rmln of the IASA's Working Group on Ultra low Frequency Pulsations, he con-ducted two business meetings. attended by some 56 scienttsts from 18 countries. including the USA, UK, USSR ~d the

_ peoPle'S Rt~ubt1c of China. Prof.ss~r Fra~er 1s also

a member of the Pul$lt10n Work1~g ireup of the jofnt NASA/European Space Agency rnternationll Sun Earth Explorer spacecraft mission.

he group con~ucted a workshop t E~inburgh.

The ISEE mission com-prises three spa~ecraft. two closely fol10w1ng each other in an equatorfa1 highly eccen-tric orbit and a third upstream of the earth in the' s.alar wind. The aim of the group 15 to investigate the spatial struc-ture of geomagneti~ pulsations in space by studying ~nd1v1dual pulsati~n events. Professor Fraser h~~ respo~stb111ty for magnetic f ield data f or two of these events, which have been

~made available by .Dr C,. Russell,

f UCLA. Orr·, ~;t,~ ~,tur'l jp...,.ney

Prof~uo:r 1:r.("U~,!!j ,e:nt two days at .1.per~jlt;.P$;'I't ; London. a ttend1 q, _·U WO.r.t.e1l Pul· sation rvent Workshop and a

_ week at the Space Science entre of the Institute of eophysfcs and Planetary

Physics It UC,l.o\. Here he worked on ISEE magnetic field data. This research will be continued at Newcastle.

Partial financial sup-port for this trip was pro-vided by IRAC.

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An ex hibition o f metal sculpture wa s held recently i n the Library forecourt . The sculp tllJ>"" weJ>B made by Seoond Year students from Arohitecture as a proJeot in their vi"vat stud-ies Bubjsot. In addi tion to the rsqlliJ>8mente for the s culpt-ures to enhance the forecourt and to give pleasur e and delight, the students were asked to make sure that the sculptures were safe, did not obstruct the movement of people across the fore-court and could be installed without damage to the forecourt 02' the environs. The fabrication of the works had to be either carried out by the students themselves or with the assistance of the Departmental craftsman Jeff Richards.

r----Av----PREsENTiTION--uNITl CAVSU has taken delivery ~f a ~~d&k AY Presefttatton untt. I

l which will be made available to staff as an aid to teach-ing.

l- To demonstrate the abilities of this interesting audio- l J visual unit Hr. Bede Jordan of CAVSU will have it on l i display in the foyer of the Auchmuty Library on September l t 23 at the following times.

~ 10 AM 1 PM 3 PH l ~ He w111 also advise ~embers of the staff how t~ey might I f:S': ~~e_ un~~s ~a~ =: thet:...::tivft1e~ __ ~

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New' Society The Society of Friend s of 2NUR- FM wa s f ormed recen t l y. It is a group of people, mos t of whom are from outsi de the Univers i ty, whose common con-cern is to raise · funds to pro-vi de alternative radio broad-ca sting in Newcastle and the $urrounding area.

Earlier this year, the i nau gural meeting of the Soc-iety el ected the following to

. t he committee : . President, 8il l Jone s .

Secretary, Henk de Jon g. Treasurer, Iris Smith . Other committee members , 6eoff Grafnger and Brian Fennel1. All those who su bscr ibe

t o the programme guide are automatically members and ca n come along to meetings which

- are held in the Mathematjcs ., I" Common Room from time to+·t"n1fe.:

Not all the meetings are concerned with raising funds ; ~ another ob ' ect is to get th e ~ peop l e together f or enjoyment~ such as the barbecue held at ~ the end of Jun e . ;I"

However, the current pro · ject is the gues s ing co_petit . ion. The prize is an Avanti stereo system by Pioneer. worth $1,500. The winnin g t i cket will be drawn by the Lord Mayor, Ald. Joy Cummings, on December 11. Tickets are just $1 each or $10 a book •

Over the next few weeks the Society hopes to have some-one knock in g on your office door with tickets . Why not beat them to the punch and come up to t he sta t ion and get your ti ckets there , meet some of the pr ese nte r s and have a look around.

New FAUSA Executive Th e new Pres i dent of the Federa t ion of Austr 1i an Uni -versi ty St aff Assoc i ati on s (FAUSA) is Dr. Adr1an Ryan, of Sydney Univer sity. He repla ced Dr. Peter Darvall, who re t ired fr om the Presidency af ter a two-year term of office . FAUSA 1s the national academic sta f f asso ciation covering more than 8,300 members in Australian universities .

Dr. Ryan, 48, i s a Reader in the Department of Pharmaceu t -i cal Chemistry at Sydney. He i s also Pres1dent of the Uni-versity Academic Staff Assoc -ia t1 0n of New South Wales, and of the Sydney Association of Uni versity Teachers .

$1,240 Grant Mr. Ph111ip Moore. Lec turer in Education

l r ec&nULreCeived a

grant of 1,24 Tro~ the ~ dis banded Educati on Research and Development Committee (ERoC) to assist in coveri ng costs assoc1ated wit h the pro-du ctton of a book f or teachers. The book wi~l concentrate on a novel approach to lnalvsing ch11dren ' s reading behaviour.

I The approach, miaou6 aaatyais, analyse s the error s, mi scues , tha t children comm ' t dur i ng ora l readi ng . Through misou8 anatYBi B a ch i l d' s ~~rengths and weaknesses in r.ading, can be evaluated.

: The book ar i s s di r ec tly ._ fr om Mr . Mo ore 's ERDe-fu nded r esearc h proj ect of 197 9 . That project employed miscue anal ysi s procedures in i nvest-i gating the developmen t of.· read i ng strategie s 1n c~~~~ r~~ a. ~ed ~~x throug~ 12.

Dr . Ryan is also a p~rttime me~ber of the Nati onal Health and Medic al Research Counc1l Sub-Co~~ittee on Food Science and Te chnology.

Dr. RYln heads the new FAUSA execu tive, which was elected at the FA USA An nua l Seneral Meeting 1n Melbourne. Representatives of staff assoc-iations from all 19 Australian universities attended.

Or. lan Lowe was elected as Vice-President of FAUSA . He is Senior Lecturer 1n Sci-ence, Technology and Society at Griffith Univ ers1ty and is Director of the Science Po11cy Research Centre at that Univer -sity .

Research f indings from othe r mfscu e s t udi es, wh1c h have been conducted pr1mari1y at t he Uni ve rs ity of Ar izo na , Where Mr. Moore spent part of his recent outside s t ud i es prog ra mme, wi l l be in cor por at-ed in the pu bli cat i on .

lh~ pu-l'-f}Q.S.e O-~t~ e boo-K-w111 be t o ac quain t t eac hers of infant and pri mary chi ld-ren with the t heoret i cal un de r-pinnings of mi scue analysis as well as the prac tical ap plicat-ions of the procedure for anal-ysing reading behaviour and determining appropriate teach-i ng strate9 ~~.~~ ________ _

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' . ('" Schools' HISTORY DAY .'

During the last vacat10n a Hi story Day for Year 12 stud -ents wa s sponsored j ointly by the History Department and th .. · ' Newcastl e Hi story Teac he rs '. ' . Associat i on. I

Three hundred students and 30 teachers were welcomed ~ ' t o the Uni versity i n t he Grea~" Ha ll by the Acting Vi ce- r Pr incipal , Professor Ken ~" Dutton. . ~

The programme for the day mainly comprised a series of 11 lectures on various aspects of three of the five Options ava1lable to Modern History students . - ...

Proceeding s con c l uded wi eb adVice on how to deal with e x~~ ami nations . ,,1

Along wi t h three vis i to rs' L from Sydney un i versities , t hese membe r s of the Departmental s taff l ectured: Shel1ah Gray, Greg McMinn, Peter Hempenstall and Don Wright. For the Depa r t Ment, Don Wright and Erfc Andrews acted on the Organis -i ng COllmittee .

1982 Student Ball The Union Board of Managemen t invites applications froll clubs and societi es affi1iated with the Students' Association or the Sports Union wishing to conduct a ball in the Union during Second Term, 1982 .

Four dateg have been r e-served - those Frfday nights i n the second, fifth, seventh and ninth weeks of te rm.

App11ca t i ons, 1ndicating t he preferred week, s hould r eac h t he Secre tary/Mana ge r by Tuesday, October 13, 1981, and the House Committee w11 1 al loc -ate dates at its meeting to be held on Wednes day , October 14, 1981 .

Student Council

on ." ~. ·, ow . .n.. ___ _ ~uc e nts of ~On1ver s lty

wi ll s hor t ly cast t hei r vot es i n the elec t ion for a stu dent member of t he Coun cil. i

An el ection is necessary---.:11 to fil l t he vacancy on t he . Coun ci l tha t will occur wh~ t he t erm of off i ce of Hr . Ste phe" Date expires on Decem -b e r 31 !.h.e-...p.e.r-S.C»lI-....,e'-'l~e~c'-Lt."ecud ________ _ wil l hold of f ice from Ja nuary I, 1982, to December 31 , 19-8-3-.

Nom i nati ons cl ose on September 28 at noon . The Secretary to t he Uni ver s ity ;s Retu rn ing Off ice.r .

SPORT P VILION PORTSMAN'S BAR HOURS Tu sdays 0 T ur d ys, 7 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, (as requ1red by users).

INTER-VARSITY - SQUASH LADIES: Twelve teams co~pet-

ed, Newcastle came fourth.

HEN Twelve teams compet-ed, Newcastle came equal seventh.

Kay Stone (Economics and Commerce) gained selection in the Comb1ned Universities Tea~ which defeated Tasmania by three rubbers to one.

TABLE TENNIS MEN Eleven teams compet-

ed, Newcastle came second.

Robert Haberl was ed in the winning Comb1ned Univers1t1es Team which play-ed Armidale Police "Boys Team".

GLES: Final Rankings -rt Haberl second and

il1p Horton seventh.

DOU LES: This event was won by the ewcastle Comb1nation

~ Ph11fp Horton and Robert

berl.

ng~at~tation8 to aLL Inter-va~eity oontGstante for indiu-id~at and t am p rfoPmano.e.

PAVILION PORTS SHOP has re-stoc ed after n virtual sell-out in recent w eks. Pop 1n and ake a election from th many barg ins. Hours: 9 m until 10 pm. seven days per week.

WANTED

HOCKEY Association finals and grand fin Is 111 be played on the Un1vers1 y ovals on Sept-ember 19 and 20.

C ICkET - Th's week the New-clstle District Cricket Team will play North Sydney on the Ray Watt Oval.

A State trial match will be held at No.l Oval on Sept-ember 19 and 20.

On September 20 t No.2 Oval, the University Crfck t Club will play a trial mltch gainst La~bton and New

Lalllbton. On September 27 It Nos.

1 and 2 Ovals, trial Qatches will be played 911nst W ratah.

ATHLETICS - Two teams of Uni-versity runners entered the recent Newcastle Herald Fun Run. Each won the category 1n which It was entered.

In the Athletics Club cat-egory, the winning team com-prises:

Terry Wall - 4th (35mins 4Osec.) Albert Mymeyer - 23rd (38:00) Bob KtMberley - 26th (38:20) Paul Buckley - 71st (40:30)

The second team, entered in the category for Tertiary Institutions comprised: Col Wh1tehead - 125th (41:45) Tony Guttmann - 162nd (42:45)

Dick Parbery - 169th (42:55) J ff Reeve - 214th (43:45) Hike Hann.ford . 689th (52:35)

Not entered 1n a Univer-sity team, but also running, were: H. Daniels - 86th (40:50) D. MacDonald - 133rd (41:55) J. B1ggs - 160th (42:45) J. Lambert - 257th (44:30) D. F1 nlay - 550th (50:10)

A total of 1,386 runners finished the course on what was an ideal, although somewhat windy. day.

Individually, Terry Wall ran very well to record 4th place. Col Wh1tehead also ran very well for his team. Bob KiMberley pushed Albert Hy.eyer hard III the way, and John 11ggs and Tony Qutt •• nn had their usual hard-fought tussle, only to come out equal at the finish. Jeff Reeve. rarely seen In competition, also had In excellent run. The winn1ng time for the event was 34 mins, 27 secs. (K. Canard).

The success of the two teams is I reflection of the enthusias of University runn-ers. The co~pet1t1ve, yet fr1endly, sp1rit 1n which they ran the event, and their succ-elsJcan only enhance the name of the Un1vers1ty 1n the co unity.

Anybody wishing to join the running fratern1ty 1s wel -co.e. If you wish to join the Athletics Club. the MeMbership fee 1s nom1nal. and there Ire plenty of runs on the calen-dar. All the running events Mentioned tn the Uniuer.it¥ •• ~ •• however, are open to the Dubltc.

FOR SAL E CORONET CARAVAN (IS') together with annexe. On site at lemon Tree Passage. Excellent condition. $2,950. Please telephone Extension 534.

The following persons would l ike to type theses, reports. occasional papers etc: BLACK I WHITE TELEVISION - $10. Mrs. J. Marsden. Woodberry. Please tele-p~one 66 3448 or contact Br1an Marsden on Extension 696. Mrs. J. Gennette. New Lambton. Please telephone Extension 720.

I N D 1 A NCO 0 KIN GeL ASS E S learn to cook Indian meals (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) and some snacks in five lessons. Classes will be held from 9.30 am until 12.30 pm on Wednesdays commencing September 30. The cost is $6 per lesson including all ingredients. For further information please telephone 52 4957.

BRAEMAR GAS HOT WATER SERVICE - 15 gall ~ on storage unit. $20. Please telephone 51 4463.

UPRIGHT CLOTHES DRYER in excellent con-dition (hardly used), $40. Please tel-ephone 45 9879.

CLASSIC MK7 JAGUAR - 1951. 99% restored. Mechanically Al. paintwork Bronze (NO RUSTll), all timber finishes fully re-stored. (Needs interjor hood lining -now available) plus spares. URGENT SALE - $5,500 or nearest offer. Please telephone 57 5257.

DIARY OF EVENTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Noon FILM - Pretty Baby, Common Room. Admission 50¢

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 8 pm Brilliant Brazilian Classical Guitarist - Bago Berto Linhares, Common Room. Admission FREE. 11 am

2 pm -3.30 pm

8 pm

Professor C. Ellyett wi 11 pre-sent a seminar entitled: Renewable ~nd ' Non-Renewable Energy - ~~pecially in Austr~lia and New Zea~and. Room SIOI . (Economi cs & Commerce). : ,

Professor J.A. Liggett, 6~rnell University, C/- Water ~search Laboratory, The University of New South Wales will present a a seminar entitled: The Bound-ary Integral Equation.Method Applied to HydrodynamIc Flows. Room EAGOI (Engineering Complex)

UNION DINNER - Guest Mr. Justice Staples. ment provided by Les Palmfronds

Speaker : Entertain-

and the

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Professor Grainger Morris will present a seminar entitled: Noon

6 pm

A Schauder Theorem in Spite of Bifurcations. Room VI07 Mathematics Building.

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT in the Bar.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Newcastle Film Society Presents:

8 pm Palm Beach - Australia 1979, Alhip Thoms.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 SUNDAY,

8 pm

SEPTEMBER 20 12 .30 pm Professor D.M. Armstrong (Traditional & Modern Philos-ophy, Sydney), will present a seminar entitled: Laws of Nature as Relations between Universals, and as Universals. Room AIIO (McMullin Building).

Newcastle Film Society presents: Padre Padrone - Italy 1977, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

1. 05 pm

8.30 pm

WEDNESDAY,

3 pm

6.30 pm for 7 pm

Anglican Eucharist (Feast of st. Matthew), Chapl ai ncy Offi ce, Union Basement.

Lindsay Porter wi 11 present a seminar entitled: "Kant's Doctrine that Existence is not a Real Predicate. (Please tele-phone Ralph .Robinson for the location of the seminar).

SEPTEMBER 23 Dr. Gail Pearson, University of New South Wales, will lecture on: Female Subaltern Policy in India. (Her lecture will take in both middle-class and dalit women. Room V02 (Mathematics Building). For further infor-mation please contact D. Wright, Extension 261.

Meeting of the Hunter Valley Branch of the Australian Feder-ation of University Women.

1. 05 pm

5.15 pm

Anglican Eucharist - MICHAEL (Feast of St. Michael & All Angels), Chaplaincy Office, Union Basement.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING for members of the Staff Credit Union, Southern Cross Lounge.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Noon

8 pm

FILM - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Common Room . Admission 50¢

CONCERT to be held in the Great Hall with special guest artists Margaret Roadknight and Jeannie Lewis. Admission: $5.50 (students) and $7.50 (guests).

Tickets are available from the Bank Agency, University Union.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

Noon FILM - Alien, Common Room. Admission 50¢

Guest Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Robinson (Professor of Repro-ductive Medicine). Professor Robi nson wi 11 speak on: Foetal Growth and Development . Medical Lecture Theatre (K202). ----~~~ .......... ~~~~--.......... ~~

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