NO 12

23 JULY 81

Newsletter for The University of Newcastle

Anniversary At a meeting held in the Science Lecture Theatre in June, 1971, 80 interested peo­ple decided to form a Credit Union on the campus for the benefit of members of staff.

The first directors elect­ed on July 20 that year were: Mr. Maurie Edmonds (Chairman), Messrs Pran Chopra, John Arm-

~strong, Ooug Mudway, Trevor wRogers, Lionel Norberry, Neal

Keats, Noel Rutherford and Mrs. Joan Odgers. The Treasurer

OriginaL Directors of the was Mr. Darryl Doherty and Secretary Mr. Terry Chapman.

Operation of the Credit ~Union started on September I, W1971, with a loan limit of

$400 and 5 per cent paid on savings.

Joan Odgers, NoeL Rutherford, Pran Chopra, Doug Mudway, John Armstrong, DarryL Doherty and Maurie Edmond8. Ab8ent: NeaL Keat8, Trevor Rogers, Terry Chapman

grew to more than 480. It has have actively worked as Credit stayed at this level for sever- Union Directors.

Soon after operations be­gan, with 70 members now in

al years because of the Feder- A notable contribution al Government's financial pol- has been that of Maurie Edmonds,

the Credit Union, the direct­ors agreed to raise the loan limit to $1,000 to assist those arembe"'~ 'needing 11 ltaitce" ""ts: loan li.f.t has now ,.'tlte "i'll' $2,500.

icies towards universities and who has been Chairman since its colleges of advanced education inception. and the freezin~ of staff posit- The CurfiR'LtJ:'iIf.etnrs-'are: i Qrj$, " ';' ' .. ,., ",. j'" Me'ai'l '''ie'yO!'Alfkh. :lGb Stret-

On July 1. 1980, a pre:s.. nam, Br'f ... ,J4arsdeo, Dlr1"yl· entation was made to Mr. John Doherty, Peter Wottiez, Maurie

After eight months, mem­bership had grown to more than 100. In the following ye~rs, with the admission of mel"oers

Gubbins to mark the achieve- Edmonds, Graham Searles, 80b ment of $1,000,000 approved Weir, Jill Ide, Sue McNeil loans since formation. In the (Treasurer) and Bob Richardson last twelve months this has (Secretary).

~of the Students' Union and mem­..,bers of the College of Advanced

Education staff, membership

Amalgamation

eSpecial meeting of Convocation

risen to more than $1,200,000 . During the years, approx­

imately 35 members of staff

a notice of motion for disc,c.,s,s­fon at the meeting. It liec'fd':' ed to afiv-wrtise 'the- p1ace lInd tinte,Qf tile: ~"~ing.o~n.d ind;~-:-'_ at.- ctTearly thl mat'ioRs co.i.lU·

At .as,pe~j.' .• eetin"g in -the, be 5u blllitted to the Secretary Supper Rbo(R oftlte~ City Ifall up to 48 ho-yr. ,prfor to the , on August. 1~ at 8 pm, the pl'op- meeting. " ' • ' .'. 0511 to plillfJ4mate the 'Unfver- rh WarcleD' tlr,.'t ,radute's s1t,y ,and, J(.e'w.c.a'stle 'Conege of to att,nd the·mee'tU.' l""the ' AdMn.c:e4.ttlltcAtloriwHll)e Supper Room~ Eity!HaH, ffew,"', discuu'ed b-y ·.elnb.ers of .Con- castle, so tbatthe resolution' vDcaUoa.. passecl wowl4 Ill. ,pindicatiGrt

. TJIe special "'ettl\~,is of ,the f:eeltni~ of '''hoe general the GU~" of tit,. ,suhlln ss f on gradltate bo4y,., of .. requlsiUont'"ciaiZo mem- He saidtftat, as ltllgrad-bers of Convoca,tio,n. . uates would .~i"~!,ttt'

The ",arden ,of Cony,on.t10n call ing of tile speCial .general (Mr. Phi11p Mill!!,l'), coori'(ened meeting W'I'S. frill/! tb'e 'Untv., .. thesP,ec,tal ,JRee,tin9h.accord- sity's pof'n't of \fiew," 1;0,',' _*".n.,-uce w1th the B,y-Lawsof the sive uncter't'a/dn'g. CO.l'l¥~~'f.'n·s University. ", current roll cOllpris.s, 6 778

Sta!lding Co.mmittee of graduates and' everydt1e Of these Convocation met on JulY 16 and must receive a notice Of the considered the requisition and, meeting.

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lei ng J1Iin"'f'l,~ ;8f ,t'/li-s fa,~,t~, .s.tandtft9, ~ .... .ttee, ~~d .,antad th.e meet il'l9 tA I~¥.t' all of th, mJtter,!I _hic:'" A1ig,bt., a ff.e,c tg.radua tes i,n . a _"uy at -all, in tha event tha,t &'lIal­gaRthn of the Universl ty .·"d N1Ncn'tl~ Ce n &g~ 6'f Wlfva"C'ed" Educit't'i-on llc'cut'r8'd. " '

. ''''If'TnS&'' md:~ipI$'i n~ 1 fuh! , not, only ~he"~'Ii~'f'ng 't;'f wr de!tree~' '''Iof:~''i('tbmlltUri'1'tt:.\;ut al $'0, . CO,' "itv ot:~, "t i a,ft, r $ ri1f~,t,"" to el ett l1t1!III),&n! pf the;' tettm:ll a nit' i'ts· 1"1 girt'ttJ ~oWb rI:l'C'a~ 'of i thtfle',:.Eibume;\ 1·, an;d'l . ..,.,~ - .. at.,. ,.s *"fIo tif ·the: ~ . i S5<tI es -0 f)- t tUl 1trtil'e,pe Bd 8'ftC .. and in te:gr,n, , .~ . ,the Uliive;ra1<C'Y,II.

Mr'. Mi 11-e1' 'ad.t.ed that the ~nfv,ersfty woulc1 pO!jt tlt\~no-t­l~'$. TtI~orm'ng members DfCon­wHtktion about the meeting in the next few days.

Dear Sir,

Your issue of .11 June (Vol. 7, No. 9) carrt.oed an (unattr1but­ed) item t1t1ed "Teacher Educ:­atipl'1 Report". Thfs\l1ves the ·University viewo (In the Report of the COllllllitteeto Exalilt·ne Teacher Education fl'1 New South Wales-(tht Correy Report).

It is common for several views to ~lour1sh within uni­versities. 1 would like to present my ztfll'.()JIll~ views on the ljIajor j>ec~lIIIIIen'dations of t.he Correy.: COtil18tttee. wh i i: h . i .. s that tile &ari>~ fH'ep~r'at10n for teachtng sh:otflll 'be a course of at 1eas!t four years' dura'!:,"; ion tead1 .. to the degree of 8acMloraf Education. and that froll'l.lt7 he Diploll,a 11'1 Edue'­atien 'alould cease to be acce'pt­able as an JntUal qua l.ffi cat .. 10n fo" app,o.ip\.ent IS a teJc-1I­er in New South W.les schools, The Co.1JIlIIiUea ,favours an inte­grated'B.Ed'., t.ken over four years inuJlivers1ties and coll­eges. Practice teaching shoold start in the first year of the course. • There is a limit to the ben­

efit for tra1nee teachers from preparatory courses. After three years of an in­tegrated tra1ninq Cours@ nr four years of an end-on preparation (e.g. B.A •• Dip.Ed.) the candidate is surely ready to embark on his life career. It still further academic preparation or vocattonal training is needed this could come from inservice courses or by re­leasing teachers for study 1 eave.

• The main advantage of a

• In Br.itain a clear trend has developed away from integ­rated B.Ed.Studies courses and towards end-on ones. The reason is that possess­ion of a'B.A. or B.Se. plus Dip.Ed. offers a wider range of emplayAleflt possfblliti,es than a B.Ed.

• The Auch.llluty Report recomm­ends ther~tention of the end-onsys.t .em as an a 1 ter­native. variety, not uni­formity, is surely desirable.

• It is in the interests of the New South Wales Depart­ment of Education, as ail employing authority, that some end-on trafningsystems continue. The end-on system can Provtde a.t very s/l~rt notice leaders fo', sallject­areas >."an unexpected short­ages o;C.cur.

• Could it be that on.e reason for the proposal to protract tea.cher training is to Rla.nu­facture work for aea4e11,~S 'I The Correy Committ .. , i\1I~ that teachers oP,PO.'$ia4 ... .. ~:.,,-, .. , longation of t-lt.-'~ 'G#r8'l" , trai ning IH"o-gr.m:Ille' {If.I·84}. Students-hl-traf,1t1rt, we~e divided tn- the 1 !"op In.ion • It was the teacher educators who fuoured the move.

• Prolongation of the. ,course wourd. obviously. increue the financial burden on parents or trainee teachers.

I do not necessari ly re­ject the principle of CQn­current training. ,Indeed, ~ think ft is probably the better method, provided l.t is under­taken in specially cqnstructed single-purpose institutions.

The arguments 0' the Correy Report in favo~ of four-year integrated courses as the compulsory norm are quite 11mited. They occu~ on pp. 183-184 and are essentially (al that the Committee thinks that ·,ittle could be done to provide for g~eater rigour ... withiQ the three-year period" and (b) that four-year traininq is common in Europe and North AlRerica.

four or five year concurrent teacher preparation pro­gramme would lie in the add­itlonal practice teaching this makes possible in the early years of the under­graduate course, instead of only in the fourth (Diploma) year. But because teachers are pald for accepting stud- S " U"t" "t ents, this expansion would ClenCe nl ' VISl be an extremely costly exer- Dr. John Challis, Director,

·cise. ~nd Mrs. Patsy Robins, Infor-An integrated (concurrent) mationOfficer, of the Aust-course is likely to disrupt ralian Broadcasting Commlss-the undergr:aduate programme ion's SCience Unit in Sydney in the Faculties of Arts, recently spent a day at the Science or Economics. The University discussing oppor-main source of disruption tunities for the expansion of would be the six or eight the ABC's coverage of research weeks of practice teaching. activities at the University.

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At lunch with senior • Experience has shown that academic staff members, Dr.

university students, faced Challis and Mrs. Robins learnt in an integrated course with about significant re$earch ~o~pet i t1 on between 11 academ- proj ects that wou 1 d be of i '!_ lC and professional- terest to the radio broadcast-training subjects, are likelYI ing audience. to concentrate 'on the former. Dr. Challis, who visited

some University Departments after the luncheon, stated that he was pleased to visit

If the Unfvers1ty were to provide a five-year B.A.-B.Ed. or B.Sc.-B.Ed. sequence this would mean' that its students would tate fhe years to qual­i fy for teachi.ng compared wi th the four years required for a CAE B.E~. degree.

It is possible that the Correy proposal to make the S.Ed. the basic qualification for 1nit11,l appointment may not be imp 1 emeJlted • BUt 1f it 1 s , I think we sboul,d consider whether su.cll a ,degre.e could be obtained, bY ,add,i:!:i!)nal wo~k taken ove, ttw! long vacatlon (e.g. thesi$ plus ,somepract­ical work)r-aifinerthen by an additfonal [fifth) year of en-rolment. '

Alterllat.Hely, a one­year (DiplOJita in £ducation) course at tb.e University might be followed by a one-year course, intheschoo 15 , given by practising !tuchers approv­ed by the Un1;;..rsity. Such a two-y:e~r cot.lrsecould lead to a S.Ed. degree.

ALAN 'BARCAN. .. Department of Education. ~

from Poland Sumaks, Kilims and a Gobelin will be exhi bited in the Great,A, Hall on August 4,5 and 6 from .. 10 am until S pm.

The thr~e types of Polish wall hangings haM' :been import­ed by Earotapest4l'y. of Randwick, which is- to' pruen't t 'he exhib­itfon in ,eonjunc,tio'n with the Department of COllimunity Prog-

'rammes. The wal1hangings will be for sale.

Eurotapestry previously held shows-of contemporary, Polish weaving at universit­ies in Sydney and the Univer­sity of Wollongong.

Along with posters and Children'S book 111ustrat10ns. the development of Polish weov1ng has attracted the in­terest of artistic circles in • .lnY' ,fl.Jtt.'$:crt the world. Pol­and sends up to a doz.en large

~t:!b!:~:. !!e~;t~:!~~ fab- e Newcastl e:W'J'l1Ye'rs 1 ~y ,as tne ABC wa.nted to pf'ovlde as com­preh-ensi've a coyeragl of major scientific research throughout Austra1:ta as it could ..

FollOwing the ViSlt. Dr. Chal1is wrote saying that Robyn W)lliams, the presente~ of The Science Show (Radto 2. Saturdays 12.40 pm to L3D pm. Tuesdays, 10.15 pm to l1 : pm) will make a follow-u:p vt,s'1t to the University to r&l;'Q',rd news and information for thls'how.

In addition, a' •. por·' on the effects of the l"'e-hltro­ducti on of fees htrs.:flC.o,nd and higher ,degrees on ~ ti:1\1versfty such as this on. h' be1ng con­sidered. The reptrti Dr. Cha 11 is says ~WQu1 Cl go into a new ABC radio Dr:[JgraiJlllle, Science and Society.

University post "'1\:'ttre 1 0' Ombra i n has ag reed to "become a Convocation Visiting Scholar. Athe1 is a natural­ist, photographer, author and

:same fisherman whose most re-cent book is a collection of :~hotographs of historic homes in the Hunter Valley. .

He is the third leading." figure from the Hunter Region: to be appointed Visiting Sth-~ olar at the University since 'I

,1977. The organisers pf ttle··-I .scheme, Standing committee' of'\. Convocation, has prev'iouslj~ ,­given Perc Haslam aJ!.d 'Jirii' . Comerford 5upportT-'or r'lfsearch' and publication prJ!j~CLt~ ..

The Vi ce .. Charicel'l pr; who has endorsedth.e C'Qnvoca t i on

tVhitin.g Scholar s2 . .heme, gave ,.permhsion fo""~Ath)!l D'Ombrain ~P; be granted ,casual res i dency at the University. When he is on the campus AtheJ will be free to mix with staff and tudents, give tutorials and

rk in the Archives in the .Auchm~ty Library. '. He was born in Casterton ~n the Western District of Victoria. His father, a gen­eral practitioner, was one of

pioneer ornithologists of ralia. ~e b~lped the for­

mation of the Royal Australian _ .Ornitho10gists' Union. Athe1 learnt a.bout natu'l"lt bygo1 ng on excursions with his' father. His fntere.st was fLlrther devel-

:oped by living On .the north . shore in Sydney at atf!lle when the suburb was sparsely .. set.'t1..lld

'and a fine place i~ which t6~i study bi rds and animals. ' .'.

IJi,i. . After bei ng educated at Shore and Hawkesbury Agricult- . ura1 College, he worked on the land at Somersby and had a lot of success as a citrus-grower.

was part winner of a Wembley edal and winner of several

prizes in local citrus shows. Athel had studied optomet-

ry and when his brother, Arthur an ophthalmic surgeon, said he ' should come to Mait1and and

k with him as a manufactur­ing optician he said he would That was in 1929 and Athel wa~ associated with his brother first in Maitland for over 20 ~ears, and later for some years ln Newcastle.

In February, 1936, he marr­ied Esma Drew, of Clarencetown by whom he had a son, Robin ' who is a Technical Officer in C~emical Engineering. Esma dled in May last year.

Around 1950 Athel ret'1i~'d froll1 optometry and became it.' -.' .• photographer for ThB NaitZan· Me;rooury. After the 1955 Ho'Od hit his home he left the new.~ paper and established a comm~­cial photographic business in~ Maitland. Concurr~nt with '. ~"s,' activities ,he ~u I .; ~'pho.to-f1n1sh operator U at tll. ~a.t<tla.nd Showgroun4 .. nd I stringer TV clmeraman.

AtheZ D'Ombrain, of MaitZand - Convocation Visiting Scholar at the University.

Through the efforts of Athel and Newman Silverthorne, the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club was formed w1th Headquarters at Bundabah on the northern side of the Port. 1n . 1935 the fishing enthusiasts bUl1t a clubhouse at Shoal Bay "There was not one house at . the bay at this time - nothing but bush", he says. The Fish Club was taken over by the Army in the Second World War following which it was incorp­orated into the Country Club Hotel.

Athel is an expert on Port Stephens and its flora a~d . fauna. For example, he Vlslted Cabbage Tree Island regularly for 44 years observ­ing and banding the sea bird called Gould's Petrel. The ts l,and 1 s the onl y known nest­inQ plaCe of the species.

'He tells how he enjoyed _Jooking at the b1rds 1n the i.'.Wetlands .at Hexham as he trlv­.~11ed ~etween Maitland and . Newcastle- in the train. Prev­iously he had contr1buted sev­eral articles to the 6.woastle Mo"""'" BfJ.PaZd.J n .1 i65 he wrote a piece aboll1:tfti 1I1 .. d. a t Hex Ital!!", _Mr-. ~ I.. •. K. L 1 nva I'd the Herald"'s"tlHor;;l1ktd t";

story and asked Athe1 to W1"fte a weekly colUMn. Since that' time he has been a Saturday correspondent for The llepaU.

Athel is the author of published books, Game Pishing Off the AuetPaliGn Coaet and Pieh Talee~ an unpub11shed account of &ould's Petrel. catl­ed Northeast Of To.aree. and an unpublished autob10graphy~

His newspaper articles and bOQlcs contribute a great deal to the unfolding of the wonders of nature. Moreover, he 1s continually identifying spec1mens found in the bush Ind backyards for indiv1dulls.

As I result of his photo­g.raphi c .work over _!IIlny years, he has a monumental collection of photographs relating to the Hunter Valley. One of h1s roles as Convocat10n V1siting SChol¥. ... ,l11 be to work in ass­oc1ation with the Archives on Cataloguing h1s photographs and organis1ng the articles about nature that he has written for the IfewaastZe SeI"aZd.

He 1s I .e~ber of the Roy­al Australian Ornithologist's Union, an Assoc1ate of the Aust­ralfan Mus.u. and a ..-bar 0" the Order ·of Australia.

Family Medicine Professor Brian Hennen, who has taken up a three-month fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation, will assess the Faculty of Medicine's new curriculum from a GP's view­pOint.

As Professor and Head of the Depart~ent of Family Medic.ine at Dalhous1e Un1ver- '. sity in Canada, he is partic- ~ uJarly fnterested in the place ~ of General Practice (Family ~ Medicine in North America) in the curriculae of medical sch­ools. He stresses that Family Medicine is a discipline of its own and recently wrote a book, PamiZy Msdiains - a Guidebook fo~ P~aatitionS~8 of ~h. A~t (McGraw-Hill), with Dr. David Shires.

"As Kellogg Visiting Fellow fn Medfcal Education, I will be mindful of the need for medical students to grad­uate with a clear understand­ing of what General Practice entails. and what it is likely to confront- in the nex t 20 years. I will help to define leap~1ni Objectives, suggest wU-i'lri',-wtl1ch the object1ves en b:e . .attained .. nd design le.t~1ng materials and tests", he .. id.

Professor Hennen is pleas­ed to be involved with the New­castle Mellical School, which, he says, has a strong Community Medicine orientation and has shown greater interest than many other medical schools in teachin~ the value of a strong interpersonal relationship be­tween doctor and patient.

Off to Cambridge Mr. Brian Musgrove, who was awarded a University Medal at the last Graduation ceremonies, has been elected into a Bene­factor's Studentship at·St. John's College, Cambridge. He will undertake a Ph.D. thesis on D.H. Lawrence in the English Faculty of the University.

The Studentship is award­ed annually and entitles the holder to free tuition and a living allowance for three years, together with a travel allowance from his country of origin. Since the Studentship is open to cand{dates in any subject and to any university graduate who is not a member of Oxford or Cambridge Univer­sities, the competition is in­tense from both British and overseas candidates.

Mr. Musgrove expects to begin his studentship next October.

interest of visiting Kellogg Fellow

"Today we must train doct­ors to be able ·to deal with the great mass of technology avail­able to them, without lOSing sight of the humanistic aspects of medicine. So, I will be re­membering this objective as I examine the curriculum".

He has played a centia1 role in developments that have resulted in Family Medicine be­ing accepted in North America as an academic discipline in themajority of medical schools. He took his basic medical training at Queens University in Canada and has had apPOint­ments as a teacher in Family Medicine at McMaster Univer-

Convocation post filled

Mrs. Barbara Wa11is, who is an Instructional Designer in the Medical School, is the new Secretary of Convocation.

Elected at Convocation's Standing Committee's meeting on July 16, Mrs. Wal1is succ­eeds Mr. J.A. Lambert, Director of the Computing Centre.

Mrs. Wallis is well-known in Newcastle tertiary education circles.

While a student in the mid-Seventies she was a member of the Council. Later, she served a term on Standing Committee of Convocation. She holds B.Sc.(Sydney) and B.A. (Newcastle) degrees and a Dip. Ed. (Newcastle CAE).

sity and the University of Western Ontario. He received a fellowship from the College of Family Physicians of Canada to study Family Medicine in the United Kingdom and Israel. Since 1974 he has been Head of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University, where he has serv­ed as Chairman of the Committ­ee on Undergraduate Medical Education and as a member of the Long Range Planning Comm­ittee of the Medical Faculty.

Professor Hennen has also been involved with several nat­ional and fnternational organ­isations concerned with Primary Care and Family Medicine, in particular, the College of Fam­ily Physicians of Canada and the Society of Teachers of Fam­ily Medicine.

"I am also interested in palliative care and am a mem­ber of a hospice committee and a group concerned with death~ and dying". ~

Professor Hennen's visit to the Medical School will be a long one. Following his con­sultancy as a Kellogg Fellow, he will carry out a study leave programme for eight months a~ a Visiting Professor. Durin~ his sabbatical he will examine practical epidemiological re­search as it applies to health care evau1ation, in particular, planning health care evaluat­ion studies which compare pat­ient management in a community hospital and hospital clinical teaching units run by special­ists and general practitioners.

Photo: Bl'uce TUl'nbu Z Z.

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Vice-Chancellor . WoIlongong

Dr. Ken McKinnon has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong to succeed Professor Michael Birt.

Dr. McKinnon's distingui­shed career has involved him in all levels of the education system. At the university lev­el he has taught at Harvard University. As Director of Education in Papua New Guinea, Dr. McKinnon was deeply involv­ed in the founding and early years of two universities in that country. ·Between 1974 and 1981 he was the founding Chairman of the Australian Schools Com~ission.

Dr. McKinnon, who is 50. expects to take up duties as Vice-Chancellor of the Univer­sity of Wollongong on August 4.

BAR HOURs

uesdays and Thursdays - 7 pm tu rdays 1 Pili

Sundays (alternate) I pm

SQUASH University 11 (HI) female and University 12 (E4) male team were pennant winners in the recently completed Newcastle Dfstrict competition. Congratulat10ns - well done. WIND SURFING The Third term sporting pro­gramme wfll include instruct-on in the art of wind surfing, roviding sufficient interest s indicated. Please contact

Jock Armstrong on Extension 469, or call in at Room T23, Temportary Building. opposite the Faculty of Mathematics for

rther deta1ls. NTERVARSITY COMPETITIONS

The University of Newcastle will be represented in the following Intervarsity compet­itions during the coming vac­ation: SQUASH - Men & Women - Tasmania BASKETBALL - Men & Women -

Macquarie & Sydney HOCKEY - Men & Women , - Queens-

1 and SURF-RIDING - Men - Deakin.

WANTED - NEW MEMBERS Ladies Jazz Ballet and Keep-Fit, Tennis, Yoga and Meditation and Grass Skifng Classes are seeking new members for Third Term. Please contact Jock Armstrong on Extension 469 for further partfculars.

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NIDA SEASON NIDA wf1l be back in Newcastle at the end of next month. The play selected by the national theatre school 1s Shakespeare's !l'wdfth Night.

The setting for the pro­duction 1s hardly orthodox -India in 1912, during the twi­light of the British Raj.

Certainly, TWBtfth Nig~t is one .of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has de11ght­ed audiences for the last 400 years because of its colourful gallery of ch~racters, music and songs, m1xture of comedy and rO •• Rce and melancholic atmosphere. On account of the youth of some of the charact­ers, the play is ideally suit­ed to NlOA's exuberant style.

The students from the Technical Production and De­sign.~epartments of NIDA will

Due to injuries (not caused by squash). several Unfversity squash teams nee-daH1tional players to make up full teams. Any student. graduate Or staff member is eligible.

Specific vacancies are in Men's C and D grade, and in some Women's grades. but vac­ancies also occur in other grades during the competition.

If you are interested in filling one of these positions (even if only one week in two), please contact the Squash Club Secretary, David Morrison. on 49 7595 after 6.30 p1ll. or leave your name. address and telephone number{s) at the Amenfties Offfce.

On July 11, the Stan Milling­ton Newcastle Cross Country Championships over 12 km were held at the University. An important race on the running calendar, it attracted some of our best local runners.

The amazing Brian Margan, in top form after his recent 2hr.16min. win in the Vancou­ver Marathon. was first with the time of 39.2 min. Dive Forbes, winner of the Kfng of the Mountains 25 km, was sec­ond (40.2 min.) and Bevan French, winner of the Newcastle Marathon, was third.

provide scenic and lighting deSign, ·stage management and technica' support. including props and costumes.

The national theatre school takes a production to Newcastle and Canberra every ,.a~ to demonstrate the skills acquired by the school's act­ors, who are coming to the end of their COurse and are ready to enter the acting pro­fessfon.

NIDA's graduates include Kate Fitzpatrick, Judy Davis. Hele" Morse. Ivar Kants and John Gregg. The school pro­vides vocational training for not only actors and designers but also directors and stage managers.

TWBtlth Night, which will be directed by John Clarke. will be presented 1n the Drama Theatre of the UniverSity from August 25 to 29.

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1 U,UVUSITY CRICKET CLUB'S l i MIIUAL GEJlERAL 1EET1N6 I i will be held in the ,

~ SPORTSMAN'S BAR at the t l SQUASH COURTS on {

1 MONDAY, JULY 27 at 7.30 pm I, ' SuppeA and ~e6~e~hmen~6. {

,~ All a~e welcome ~o a~~end. "

{ David Bell, t SECRETARY.

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Six of our runners compet­ed, with the best performance coming from an improving Bob Kimberley in the good time of 47.41 min. P. Buckley resist­ed a last minute challenge from fellow team member F. Giacom. both finishing with the time 50 mins. exactly.

R. Parbery was very happy with his tfme of 51.9 min. and C. Whitehead ran well to re­cord 52.1 min.

T. Guttmann, running his usual well judged tactical race. was somewhat disappoint­ed with his time of 54.40 mfns.

~ YOU MAY PURCHASE YOUR SPORTING REQUIREMENTS AT BAR G A I N i P R ICE SI CALL AND INSPECT THE FINE RANGE OF ARTICLES Nrf

~ DAY FR(J1 9 AM UNTIL 10 PM. W HER E1 SPORTS UNION SHOP, ----..--. ........

Club owns ~odge Rathsl' than QfltJti.-1tgthB dl'um 01' stsvnding th. tl'ump.ts~ ths S'hO'J't14n4, A tpi.N ctub waved (% .tei ~soentZlI tD 4;'.­oMzoge t1l. mozotgagtl on the club's ,,1ci 1.odgs in ths Snol6Y 1I0un tains.

As the pictuzoe shows the cZub squazoed acoounte with the CommonweaZth Bank by presenting a oheque in the fOzom of a ski to the Bank'e campus bzoanch ManagBzo~ llzo. Pat lIatthswB.

Tony Bezoaog (CZub Board membezo)~ Harzoy Xsena (Treas­uzo.zoJ and A,bian fage (Chairman) azoe p.Q.togl'ap:hu with Nzo. Natth7l11B.

A committfIB to dizosct ths p1.an to: 8etabUeh a 1.odge at Pel'ishsl' in the KosotuBko Na1iionaZ Pazo·k wa ... hated at a meeting in the Staif Houas in 1111. !'?Jet ao1lllfli,ttse was composed mczi.nl.lI o,f TJnivezosity ,tat! -Ba~y, Niteheson (Chail'man~ thsn at the Auchmuty Librazoy)~ Vav~d C~eed~

'Adzoian Page~ Ian Bsaman~ John Azom8i~ong. J~ny'Soobie (then at the Auchmuty Libzoazoy)·and Owen Scott.

Ths Commonweal.th Bqnk agzoeed to 1.end the o1.ub $35~ 000 to bui1.d t·lI. Lodge. Nembezos we:t'e recruited and issued with shazofls to zoaise mozoe funds.

Nutubimba~ t~ aZub's lodge~ was opensd in 1976. The total cost 161%. '9-$~1J00~ but the bui1.ding's value haB s04zoed in zoecent yflazos to a figuzoe i.n tI:r;.ae •.• of $800 ~ 000.

1Iow the Sho:rtZand Alpine Ch.}) ha, 118 sha.reho1.dBzoS~ 40 pezo cent of whom azoe connected with the Un.iverBity and Newaast1.e CoHsgs of Advanced Education. The by­laws pzoovids that on1.y zossiden~1r of the Newcastle dist­zoic1; can be membezos.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE DRAMA DEPARTMENT

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STAFF -Appointments Hrs. A.J. Futter. Stenographer. Departllent of Chemfcal Engin­eering. Ml's. lit. :lawren~e. Stenographer. Seet'Hary.J s. D1 v is i on. Mtu D .. M.' 1.1oyd, Professional Officer, Fa.~lty of Medicine.

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1)I' .. er. ~lIputfng Centre. Ms 'A. ROboi'ltam. Stenographer, Oep(j'tllen:t df Economi cs.

Resigna tions Mr. C.~. Baker. Drama Theatre TechR1ci.~. 'Department of Drama. . Mrs. B.E. Eckford. Senior Librarian •. Auchmuty Lf brary. Dr. M.W. Howard, Research Associate, Jl~pa,.tlle"t .&f Chemistry. ;"., . Dr. R.A. Johnlon. Post­Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry. ~. G.S. Paterson, Laboratory Craftsman, Departlllent of a Metallurgy. .. Mr. T.K. Turner, Laboratory Craftsman, Department of Meta 11 u rgy.

Freewheeling Extravaganza Although written in the middle M. ,the disastrous Sicilian Ex­pedition, Aristophanes' The Bi~d. (414 BC) is the least specific of all his political plays. Its satire is general and one needs no knowledge of tihe personali·ties and in­fighting of Fourth-Century Athens to e,njoy the work.

BIoI't" aHhough it is a free­whee 141'1,.9 e.xtravaganza, wi th song,'d'alite,' colour', and lots of cemedy, it still hU an ... edge to 1t. Through its ellb~ orate. fantasy it celebrates an urge as familiar now as then -

by the desire to "drop out", the desire to escape a society torn

ARISTOPHANES ~{f~i~~~~!~on and set up a new The two Athenians in this

In the DRAMA THEATRE at 8.15 pm play don't head for Nimbin. Instead they join the birds,set up a commune with them, proceed

DATES: Thursday, July 30 to Saturday, AU.gust 1 to beat off all the scroungers Wednesday, August S to Saturday, August 8 and hangers on who try to join

(7 MS~" only) the movement (you may recogn i se some of them), humble the Gods

PRICES '. Adults _ $3 (who appear in person), and live happily ever after.

Students & Pensioners - $2 ran Watson is the Director of this show. He is a freelance

T.l.c.Iz.U.6 Me 4va...i.l4ble 61L0m t.he UniVeJLJ.it.y Union OIL director. Most of the actors 61L0m t.he 17ep4JLt.ment. 06 171L4m4. Telephone.: 685 105 (all Drama Department students) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. ~~~~~ .. ~~~ ... ~ are appearing in a major pro-• uuction for the first time.

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Drug Use and Drug Abuse Before a new drug is put on the market we can have legislative safeguards to protect people from adverse effects. However, Professor Tony Smith says, the effects cannot be accurately predicted in relation to every patient.

"This is why we need Clin­ical Pharmacology", Professor Smi th says. "One of its funct­ions is to explore why some people handle drugs differently from others".

Professor Smith, who is Foundation Professor of Clinic­al Pharmacology at the Univer­sity and Regional Adviser to the New South Wal es Heal th Com'm­ission, addressed the annual general meeting of Convocation on drug use and drug abuse in Newcastle.

First, medications have brought great benefit to man­kind, as evinced by progress made in the control of tuber­culosis and leukemia.

Professor Smith says: "Looking at the abuse of drugs at Royal Newcastle Hospital is just one aspect of the study of the extent of the problem of drug abuse in this region.

"However, in the period 1976 to 1979, the Hospital admitted 7,559 emergency pat­ients. Of these 1,612 (21 per cent) were suspected of having a heart attack. That was the greatest single group.

"Second came the 639 pat­ients (8.5 per cent) who had deliberately self-poisoned themselves with drugs", Prof­essor Smith says.

"Our evidence suggests that drug overdoses are common­est in the early years of life.

Seminar Mr. Ray Watterson, Lecturer in Legal Studies, will be one of the speakers at a seminar to deal with New Media: Law and Policy at the University of New South Wales on August 22.

Organised by the Austral­asian Communications Law Assoc­iation and the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, the seminar will be the first discussion at a national level between the communications industry, the legal profession, academics and others about the legal and policy issues of im­pending communications devel-

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Well over 80 per cent of our patients are under the age of 40.

"We have also analysed the drugs that were taken. It is not remarkable that minor tranquilisers, like 'Valium', accounted for 35 per cent. Ten per cent were anti-depressant drugs".

Professor Smith has been surprised by the high incidence of barbiturate use . Nowadays, barbiturates are in many places regarded as obsolete and he finds it distressing to find that one in nine overdoses is caused by their use.

"This clearly indicates that these drugs are freely available still in our commun­ity", he says.

Certain drugs, like thal­idomide, are inherently toxic no matter who takes them, while others that are perfectly safe for many patients to use will,

on occasions, cause adverse con­sequences. For example, pat­ients who are either elderly or very young are very much at risk, because the body, at the extremes of age, handles drugs differently from the process which occurs in the adult.

Professor Smith went on: "There are adverse reactions to drugs which cannot be pre­dicted such as allergic react­ions to antibiotics. Another fact is that some people are genetically predisposed to han­dling drugs differently from others. This situation is be­ing studied in our laboratory and in other laboratories. We are especially interested in environmental influences".

He concluded : "Despite the wishes of our legislators there can never be a totally safe drug".

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Conference Dr. Tim PedLey. of the Depart­ment of AppLied Mathematics and TheoreticaL Physics at the University of Cambridge taLks with Dr. Ludwig EngeL. of the Westmead Centre of Sydney dur­ing the conferenae on PhysioLog­icaL FLuid Mechanics and Math-

Forthcoming Events The News thought that early notice of the Travelling Film Festival's visit to Newcastle this year would be appreciated by some members of the Univer­sity.

The Film Festival will take place at the Civic Theat­re over the weekend of Septem­ber 11, 12 and 13 - the final days of this year's Mattara Festival.

In addition to six of the most popular films screened at the Sydney Film Festival last June, the TFF wi 11 bri ng to Newcastle the Australian film, Par The Term Of His NaturaL Life. which was made in the Twenties and restored by the National Library in Canberra .

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ematical Biology in the Depart- The Secretary/Manager of the ment of Mathematics on July 10. Union, Mr. S. Barwick, has

The conference attracted announced that this year's 25 participants from NewcastLe. Union Dinner will be held in Sydney. New South WaLes. Quee"8- t;n,.tJj;i.~tq(ia Room on Friday '.r-_ Land. WoHongong and Maaquarie ev.n.~g. September 1S.Mr. '~" Universities. The At,.,ia Ene1"- Justfe6 Staples. of the Arbit ... '.!-. gy Commission and The Joint ratton Comm1ssio~, ha~ a~reed Coat Board. Dr. Pedtey is a to be guest speaker. speaiaZist in the fieLd of PhysioLogiaaL FLuid Mechanics.

make way for the parking stat­ion near the Trades Hall.

While i .... Solton Street, it was agreed that Adult Education activities should be incorpor­ated into the University of Newcastle. Nancy Kirby came to the Short1and campus as a result of this decision.

For 18 months she worked in the Department of Community Programmes - first for Dr. John Turner and, then, for the Director, Dr. Brian Smith. She transferred to Biological Sci­cnrcc ~nrl wnrked with Professor Barry lWettcher for seven yea rs.

Her retirement agenda will ~qfn with her receiving visit-

Pictured on her last day before retiring. Nancy Kirby. with Professor B. Boettcher and Dr. D. Angus.

ors from the United States and. &reat Brita1n. She· plans to , p.l&y Ra little more golf than,::....ii. before" and to participate in such community work as the activities of the Mayfie1d Lions Club. Also, she hopes to find

Nancy Kirby retires Nancy Kirby, Secretary in the Department of Biological Sci­ences, retired on July 22 after a combined 20 years on the staffs of two universities.

Nancy's life in universit­ies was sub-divided into the University of Sydney phase -1961 to 1973 - and the Univer­sity of Newcastle phase - 1973 to 1981.

Whilst attached to the University of Sydney she worked in Newcastle as Secretary in the Department of Adult Educat-

ion, a small Department which functioned conjointly with the Newcastle Branch of the Worker's Educational Association. They were originally housed in the Inglis Tea Building, King St­reet East, Newcastle . The City Council then granted the Department of Adult Education and the WEA accommodation in an old cottage in Gibson Street Newcastle. Adult Education ' subsequently moved to the ANZ Bank in Bolton Street so the cottage could be demolished to

time to work in the garden. A joy for the ex-Secretary will be seeing more of her "fairly new" grandson.

In her working life she has met many interesting people. She has worked for engineers, historians, economists and sci­entists and has enjoyed the var­iety of her work. She says she will miss her many friends at Newcastle University.

Researcher's view of Arcadia Dr. John Rockey, Sub-Dean of the FacuLty of Architecture, received a 1980 grant from the InternaL Research Assessment Committee to investigate arch­itecturaL aspects of aLternat­ive communes in the Rainbow Region of northern New South WaLes. He toLd the News that the study waB cLoBeLy reLated to his ARGC project 'AustraL­aBian Utopias' discuBsed in the 5 March 1981 NewB. Part of his ..... "Hems had bun to ezamin . possibt. innovations ok hitdiag teonnotogy a3d u .. 0/ the matflriate.

HowevBr, as this report by Dr. Roak.y states, aond~t­i03S ted him to oo»o.n1;1'at. on the state of the.hous •• and· the indifference of counter­ouLturaLists to heaLth and buiLding oodes.

Attitudes and conditions were contrasted with 19th cen­tury sanitarian principles in a paper entitled The House that Chadwick BuiLt: Histor­ioal' refLectionB on buiLding oodes and aLternative archit­ecture in the utopian communes of Nimbin. It aimed to show that, from the viewpoint of the history of utopias, modern experimenters were out of line wtt.l!ltheir idealistic ,.redecess­ors who eag.erly embraced lores of hygfene and sanitation be­cause they saw t.hem as a pec­essa ry 11 nk between bea 1 thand happiness.

Many ef tile struetures visited .did -nqt .celll1l1y with current by-laws nor, indeed, with specifications stipulated by Edwin Chadwick, The Father of English Sanitation, in 1868. He had pointed out the need to 5 a ~GU« "d, f'OiUA.tlilt;fD!JI s, ky. 1 0.' , a e.r i "!l. the.... w.Hlieft· ta b·l81IO'f .la

_ site t4 fK)t ~l_sr Utan !915 mm. be low ·tl\.'$urface by •• f".soil drainage. Materials fer floor construction were to be imper­meable to water and laid so as to exclude rising damp and

~ earth exbalatfons. Wa 11 s were to be of fi rst

Class "tel'i,·"h, no,,-condu.d-o rs 'Of .bftJ... . iJllp.:l"'lIIUb 1( t~ . gas aJuf·· ... "*'. W •. l'h«:~l •. ·lf\'Shle and out, and harbour no animal­cules. They should be of light agreeable colour, and proofed against damp, filth, vermin, fire and miasma: the miasmatic or pythogenic theory of disease being the basis of Chadwick's anti-contagionist position. . ..

V~ntHdlon :O\J'~'. pro­vide tbrae ~~I:ng.sof fl"esh war. ail' -ml . .ftour.· Chimney heat hJs tl~1d b.- redtolced and radiant heat from fires applied more advantageo~sty.

Double glazed wi l,ldQ!ff' we re to be ma tc hed by ,",Uow wa 115 ud 't'he itS', 0 f • venti ]at­ing chiRlney~ tb.t relfed on convection currEints around a metal flue - to' oMnge ai'r,

. A constant supply of fresh w6·ter in 1 ead free pt pes, the use of trapped sinks. self­cleansing water closets on the syphon principle and reflex valves at the sewer pOint were his suggestions for house drain­age. Self-cleansing sewer mafns, shaped like an inverted egg in section, and regular washing of hard wearing imper­meable streets and footpathi cOllplete.dllis spe,cificatfons for. tire Vi,ctj):riari ..,.'(:hi t~ct. All t/tesj! ~lS.ilres were gallged to prOIlOit.." ud standardise' th,e -.prTn1:t'ples of the sanitary !BOiIenien.t th'a t Chadwi ct saw prinCipally in utilitarian terms of social economy.

Lismore Council's move to issue d.molition orders on many uncertified structures had political ramifications. While understandable in terms of public health, it was seen as an act of social coercion and as a retaliation for en­vironmental objections to logg­ing in nearby Terania Creek. The conflict brought to the surface the old argument of law versus liberalism, central to the Victorian laissez faire objections to.Stat. intervent­fon into the arena of !,ublic health legislatfon.

Alternative dwellers re­sist the enfore:einent of costly codes, deSigned fo'r' d.ensely populatec! .u.rban areas. In their truly'~elfghtful .read­fan retreats, they have sought a reinter'pretatfon of Ordin­ance 70 for ruraJ condftions - at present un~er w~, by the Departllent of Envfroh~ent and Ptanning. Ho~ev~r •. Rqth •. ' elSen . .t:iah of sanih,., bClusing tller~ is 1 f tt le room for neg~ otiation. Public health is not an area with which any group can take risks, nor is it wise to act in ignorance of the bitter experience and struggle that led to the estab­lishment of the codes. Danger­ous parallels with earlier cen­turies could arise should by­laws be ignored or seriously emasculated.

C'aunter-,cy ~ tu ra 1 i..sts have been v iawed by 'lIome all a tym­ptOIl Of a ffl uencll .,Iti the m.Ufn9~'!'p~.eu of' 'fRaterialism. Others ... ·~ as escapists from tJ'it~;.1J.es of capftal­ism 0'" thw 'to>t.l1tarian tend­encf IS of gO.'i~rnment control. Many sincere C'ommune dwellers are seekfng sanfty and 'sur­vival p1)wer' through contact with nature, as if they feel they are someday destined to becolle a remn.ant.of a civilis­ation headed for destruction. Should something akin to On the Beach become a realfty, Chadwick's House may yet be put to the test in time.

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• Aboriginal policies

In an address she gave to the Hunter Valley Branch of the Australian Federation of Uni­versity Women, Margaret Valadian, the first aboriginal woman to graduate in Australia, outlined the various unsucc­essful policies on aborigines since white settlement.

First, Margaret said. there had been "soothing the pillow of the last remnants of the original tribes. then trying to assimilate them in­to white society and, later, to integrate them, and. more recently, the Whitlam Govern­ment's policy of self­determination and the Fraser Government's one of self­management".

Education, or "schooling", was always seen as the means of achieving policy aims. yet all that had been achieved was

· to create a barrier between children and their elders, be­tween 'children and their cult­ural heritage.

"Not one aborigine grad­uated until the 1960's", she said. ,.

Margaret believes that un­less a community has its own sy stem of education, and its own control over it, critical problems are inevitable.

The Aboriginal Training and Cultural Institute is in­dependent and set up by the aboriginal people themselves, making it possible to use the teaching methods of traditional aboriginal society, which, Margaret says. is one of the most effective education sys­tems in the world.

Her view is that it is a terrible indictment of the Commonwealth Government that funding for the Institute was finally obtained from Holland! Moreover the Department of Aborigin~l Affairs, did all it could between 1976 and 1978 to thwart the setting up of the Institute and, since its estab­lish.ent, every conceivable obstacle has been placed in the way of its successful oper­ation!

How does Margaret see the future of Australian aborigines?

One the one hand, she says, she remains hopeful. People are starting to grasp what is meant by aborigines managing their own lives, and, also, her work at the Institute some­times makes her feel that they are on the right track.

On the other hand, she says she is pessimistic about the chances of aboriginal comm­unities' survival beyond another decade ; they are now under greater threat than ever be­fo r e - from al coholi sm, poo r hou s in g , wid espr ead unemploy­me nt , high mo rt a ll ty.r~tes, new pre s sures from m1n1ng .

HUGAM born Soon co.puters will be every­.here. To help teachers. Unfversity staff and students and other people .ho use the best-selling Apple 11 Micro~ computer, the Department of Education has sponsored the formation of a regional users' group.

After two meetings in the Department of Education. the group HUGAM (The Hunter Users' Group: Apple Microcomputers), has 35 ~embers and a plan for future activities that inc1ud~ es visiting guest speakers and the estab11shment of a l1brary of business and educational soft-.are.

The increas1ng 1nterest in m1crocomputers prompted the State's Department of Educat­ion last year tO,begin to in­stall units in h}gh schools, prepare a Computer Studies Curriculum for use in schools and appoint Computer Advisers in all educat10nal regions of the State.

According to people who distribute computers, 12 high schools in the Newcastle educ­ational region possessed com­puting equipment at the end of last year, However, they say, the figure will be great­ly augmented by the end of 1981, when very few high schools will be without com­puting eqUipment.

Because microcomputers have found such wide accept­ance as an aid in teaching, the Department of Education at this University decided that it had to provide Educat­ion students with tuition on how to operate them.

Dr. Alan Smi.th, Lecturer in Education, is in charge of the Computers in Schools.and. Society Course, an elect1ve 1n

the Dipl oma in Educa t i on pr o­gramme. The Department poss­esses its own Apple 11 Micro­computer. The number of Dip. Ed. students taking the micro­computer elective has increds­ed from nine last year to 22 at present.

Dr. Smith organised the inaugural meeting of HUGAM last April. Staff and stud­ents from regional high sch­ools, owners of small business­es, private individuals, staff and students of both the University and the College of Advanced Education and others are represented on the group. Or. Smith is interJm Presid­ent and Mr. Ross Dib1ey, part­time University student, ;s interim Treasurer. As it is convenient for members to ass­emble at the University where ample parking is available and a library of literature on software can be used, meet­ings have been held on this campus. When HUGAM held its second meeting on June 25, four members brought their machines wi th them. .

At the group's next meet­ing on July 30 Mr. Roger Keat­ing, of Sydney, who has rep­resented Australia at the International Apple Core. will be the guest speaker. Mr. Keating, author of two war games for microcomputers, will talk on programming war games.

At its meetings HUGAM will discuss the application of microcomputers to account­ing systems and clerical work in general, data logging in laboratories and other places and a proper constitution for its activities.

The group also intends to affiliate with the Internat­ional Apple Core, which funct­ions in Daly City in Californ­ia. This step will augment the group's library of mater­ial on educational software for Apple Microcomputers.

. ' d t of HUGAM g ives PauZette Dp. AZan Smith. intep~m ppeB~ en • ZZ Z on an AppZe I I Mi a poaomputer. Hosahke and HeZen Dura a 6B80n

Change of Name The Australian Vice­Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) has decided that the Austral­ian/Asian Universities' Co­operation Scheme (AAUCS) will in future be known as the Australian Universities' International Development Program (AUIDP). The change was effective from July 1.

Careers Day

Opportunities are now available in Australia's Defence Forces for a wide variety of professional careers which provide good pay and great prospects for promotion. You must be an Australian citizen or have permanent residency status in Australia, and meet our selection requirements.

The AVCC wishes to emph­asise that the change in name does not reflect any major change in policy and all on­going comm1tments of the. AAUCS will be continued by the AUIDP.

If you are interested in obtaining an appointment, please con­tact the Studehts Employment Office before the Careers Day to be held on July 29. A typical range of job opportunities are listed below. Jobs that are available under the Services Undergraduate Scheme are indicated with an asterisk:

Professor K.J.C. Back, Vi oe-thancellor of . James Cook IJritnr'sf,w111 continue to be tile Chai r-JuT! of the new orSlnth. .;~i on an'd ~.fes. sor D. E. 't1"""'tl and ~r. Y..~ .. l_·, C.ont1·et$ w:il1 conttllue to ser-ve: "'. Ofr.,1:.;4r and 6.e.c:uUve

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_ tt\iq;t~ ~rs .of tha AUIo-P w1'11 t.ellf~, 'tbe' sallle as 'the AVCC.

NAVY LAWYERS

* DOCTORS * DENHSTS

TEACHERS * ENGINEERS

ARMY AIR FORCE LAWYERS * DOCTORS

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TEACHERS * ENGINEERS * ENGINEERS * PHARMACISTS * PHARMACISTS * PSYCHOLOGISTS * PETROLEUM CHEMISTS

* Suitable positions are also available for students studying Economics, Commerce, Political Science or History subjects.

FOR SALE AUTOMATIC V8 TORANA - 1975 One owner, NRMA inspected, registered until May, 1982. $3,200. Please tele­phone 54 7853 or 685 651.

TORANA - 1971 Four cylioder, four-door, registered until January, 1982. Presently owned by little (?) old (?) lady who has taken great care of the car. $950 or nearest offer. Please telephone Extension 695 or 57 1896 (after hours).

GALANT - 1976 "Regillterecl' ug$:'11 May. 1982. Excell ent condf'ti41l: Owner going overseas, lDust selt.·Jl1.5~ or nearest offer. Please telepflO1Jl.e .,b-ttJls1on 302.

YW 8££11.£"",; IVo- _ . Mechanh:.H!)'<~IU. immaculate condlt10n, registe,r&d~·~.t:i' February 1982. Forced to sell for $2 •. 000 or nearest offer: Due to the additi on of twins in the faml1y! Please telephone Extension 523 or 52 4869.

VW SUPERBUG 1~75-1976 What can f 5IIy except that its a Superb Vehicle in excellent condition, faultless in perfor~ance, registration due August 1981. $3,900 or ne-arest offer. Please telephone Extension 523 or 52 4809.

G I V E A WAY - PEDIGREED ALSATIONS Two female six-mont~ old pedigreed alsat­ions - Tan and White and Black and White. Owner transferred. Please telephone Extension 491 or 63 2923 or 68 1591.

P 0 SIT ION S WANTED TYPING

The following persons would like to type theses, reports, occasional papers etc.: Mrs. O. Oosterveen, Awaba, telephone 59 4774. Mrs. D. Rogers. New Lambton, telephone 57 5257. Chris & Clancy's Secretarial Service. telephone 53 2748, Mrs. J. Alexander, Wallsend. telephone 51 3825. Mrs. J. Marsden, Woodberry, telephone 66 3448.

H -0 USE FOR R ENT - MEREWETHER Available from early September 1981 until the end of June, 1982. Four-five bed­rooms. two bathrooms. double garage etc. Beach available for-suitably fastidious tenants. Please telephone Extension 657.

Donation Sport for Handicapped

ESSO Aust . Ltd. sent represent­atives to the University on July 16. After they interview­ed Engineering students in re­lation to future employment possibilities with the Company, the representatives presented $3,000 to the University for use in the Faculty of Engineer­ing.

The organisation of a regular, on-going sporting and fitness programme for ' intellectually handicapped people will be the subject under ·discussion at a weekend seminar in the gy~nas­ium at the Newcastle College of Advanced Education on August 8 and 9. .

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.$tud1tl. Guest Speaker: Or. COIIY. 1o.«Hhtfl1~G111 (legal Advhecw Pr~tectl on Offie~r th t~e Office of the Unitecl ".~joPls Hi9h COIIIIII­iS$loPler for Refugees.) Dr. Good~in-Gill .111 spe.k on t~e origins of the refu­gee proble., the role of the UN and sDlutions te 1 em. RO'OlR R04.

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Hunter Valley Region Special Olympics Committee and the Department of Community Programmes have combined to present the seminar.

Speakers will include Ms Margaret Dunn, Project Officer, Department of Sport , Recreat-10ni Dr. Russell Baland1n, Medical Superintendent of stockton Hospital and Mr. Leon Burwell, President of the Man­agement Committee for Special Olympics.

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. '., , • pili '/b"P' 6.10 pili. Meeting of the Australi.n

InsU tute of hlternl,t-"*al Affairs. Guest Speaker:

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 1.0$ PIlI ANGLICAN EUCHARIST (Feist

of St. Stephen) ~ Chap­laincy. Union Basem~nt.

SUIDAY • .:JULY 26

B p.

TUESDAY, JULY 28

lpa'

1.06 pm

B.IO pili

THUfttDAY • .J1JLY 30

.0(111

Mr. Peter Rodgers. form.r Sydney Mornin g Herald corr­espondent , will speak on Australian-Indonesian Relations. Staff Hou se.

"EWCASTLE fll-M SOCIETY pnseftts: sllLI! I E,R BLUE (U.S.A. 1970) BOl

Politlcal Fil.: FROITLINE - an iaMensely distrublng film .. de on the frontline of th" Yitt".all1 W,r. ANlidtAM EUt\tAUST' (CoJII.ea.­ora t 1-on ,et the S.i nts and Martyrs of Europe). Chap­laincy, Union a.s~..n~. SlIIIlAR - DtrllaMIJt3t ~r Philosophy. Guest speaker' Mal"tin Hart_If",,'. 'I'op1c: ". And Cockroaches don't c.~rl disease. (Philosoph l cal pNJltl1ll1S 1n connection'with the concept of disease.' Lo~atlon: Ralph Robinson's home, 72 Carnley Avenue, Mew Lambton. .

FILM - ZABRISKIE POINT -Students protesting about political issues with. nice psychodelic ending. Common Room - Adgiss10n 50c~nts.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5

'oon to 8 pili

'pm

THURSDAY. AijCUST 6 .oon

FRIDAY, AUGUST 7

PLAY: ANOREXIA SOMETIMES Fe.'nist Film: UNION MAIDS and SUGAR and SPICE~ __ -+-_

GERMAR P~ATIRE fILM -Verlorenes Leben (1977). Runze's theme is the quest­ion of justlce, the finding of truth, guilt and punish­ment. during the last days of World War 11, a priest tells a Hltle, 1Duth abOQt bis' put and wltY /le lIee_ a pritJt. '. CON(£IT lffttur,,,,, Ue. Ni gl1 Lenl.' R.a.tiltl\~

-, ... FILM'- VATERS"IP 0011" -an1mat~d cartOon of that story about rabbits. Ad.ission 50cents. $E~lMAR ~ D.partment of loc;101ol)'. Guest ~peater a.tt1na Cass (Institute for Research into Social Vel fare, ~n1vers1ty of .Hew South wales). TopiC: 1IIotnen and the ,Vel '..Ira State. Rooll1 11326 (~hIlYi,ou,ra 1 Sciences Building)

LA$T DAY RAGE faaturlnf Stray Dags

Un~v.paity N~WS ia published on a tWO-WBBkZy baais in t he Searetapy's Division fop th ~~~tOl'1 The Sflcpfltarll, :rh~lhliv.p.i~y of NewaastZ.. Storiu 4r;d 'l.'t1l1U ahou'Ld r8aoh M!.

n Armatrong and Mrs. h~nda AUP.'L~U8, CI- Room GS? or Room GBO in the MoNu'LZin Buitdin ~y 5 Plml on the Thursday befoPB the pubZication date. Second Term pubZioation dates are g uune ,June 25, JuZy 9, Juty 21 and August 6.