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Structure of the new university. begins to emerge A CLEAR picture of the academic The 10 faculties of the enlarged Monashstructure of Monash University after I University will be Arts. Business, Com­July 1990 has emerged from recent puting and Information Technology.decisions of the councils of the univer­ Economics and Management. Education.Engineering. Law. Medicine. Professionalsity. the Chisholm Institute of Studies. and Science.Technology and the Gippsland In­In some of these a new academic groupstituteof Advanced Education.ing. known as a "school", will be in­After that date, the university - an troduced. It is defined as an academic unitamalgamation of the three institutions - within a faculty that may include a numberwill consist of 10 faculties spread over ofdepartments. or other academic units. ofcampuses in Caulfield, Clayton and similar or related disciplines.Frankston, together with a constituent The present faculty of Arts will gainuniversity college in Gippsland which, the Chisholm department of Appliedamong other things, will be responsible for Sociology within Anthropology anddistance education.Sociology. the Chisholm Literature Sec­The enlarged Monash University will tion within English and a new Politicscater for more than 25,000 students and Department resulting from a merger of thewill have a budget approaching $200 old Monash and Chisholm departments. Itmillion a year.will lose Social Work and Librarianship toThe merger of Monash and Chisholm the new Faculty of Professional Studies.wiHlead to an institution structured around Chisholm's David Syme School ofthe existing seven Monash faculties with Business will become a new Faculty ofnew faculties of Business. Computing and Business with departments of Accounting,Information Technology. and Professional Banking and Finance, Management, andStudies.Marketing.The Vice-Chancellor of Monash Univer­ The present Faculty of Economics andsity. Professor Mal Logan, said: "This Politics will be renamed Economics andwill make Monash a much larger, a more Management. It will lose the departmentcomplex and potentially more exciting of Information Systems to the new Facultyorganisation extending over four of Computing and Information Technologycampuses.and the department of Politics to Arts."The enlarged institution will offerImmediately after the merger a reviewstudents access to a much wider range of body will be established to explore ways ofcourses, and allow transfer of studentssetting up a single faculty within threefrom one course to another. It will haveyears to cover the broad area of managegreaterdiversity of courses and programsment related studies.extending from PhD level programs toThe Faculty of Computing and Informathoserelating more directly to businesstion Technology will include a School ofneeds.Computing and Information Systems com­"In contrast to other mergers elsewhere . prising the Chisholm departments of CominAustralia. the Monash-ChisholmputerTechnology, Information SystemsGippsland merger has been achieved withand Software Development. There willa great amount of goodwill and with an atalsobe independent departments of Comtentionto detail that not only looks afterputer Science, Robotics and Digitalthe staff working in all three institutionsTechnology. and Business Systems (thebut ensures that student views are taken inoldMonash department of Informationto account," Professor Logan said.Systems). The Director of Chisholm, Dr Geoff Education will consist of a School ofVaughan said: "The new university Graduate Studies at Clayton and a School presents great opportunities to meet the of Early Childhood and Primary Education educational needs of Australia in a rapidly at Frankston. changing world. " Within Engineering three of the ex.istingBut, he said, it was now up to govern­ five Monash department, - Civil,ment to help make a success of the merger. Mechanical, and Electrical and Computer"It is imperative that the Federal Govern­ Systems - will have divisions on thement provides the expanded Monash Caulfield campus, and the Caulfield divi­University immediate and continuing sup­ sions will be grouped into a Caulfieldport through increased growth, capital. School of Applied ~ngineering. A bodyoperating and research funds to ensure that will be set up to review this structureit holds its pre-eminent position in higher within three years.education .. ,Law and Medicine essentially will re­~~~AMAGAZINE FORTHE UNIVERSITY Registered by Australia Post - publication No. VBG0435NUMBER 7-89 DECEMBER 1, 1989main the same, having no Chisholm but. to allow the college a measure ofcounterparts.autonomy and to maintain its regionalThe new Faculty of Professional Studies flavor. it will retain a college chief ex.­will include a School of Social and ecutive officer. council and academicBehavioral Studies comprising the board which will be responsible-to and ad­Graduate School of Librarianship. the vise their Monash counterparts.Monash department of Social Work, and The college council will have delegatedthe Chisholm departments of Police authority to allocate the operating budget,Studies. Applied Psycbology and Welfare approve staffing and set up advisory com­Studies.mittees. It will report to the university onProfessional Studies will also include a policy and regulations, local issues. capitalnon-depanmental School of Nursing at works. and proposed courses and studentFrankston and a School of Art and Design load.made up of the Chisholm departments of The establishment of the college willCeramic Des!gn, Fine Art, Graphic assist the operations., of the new Monash­Design and Industrial Design.Gippsland Distance Education Centre.Science will retain its present depart­ The Director of the Gippsland Institute,ments with the exception of Computer Dr Tom Kennedy said: "A sound educa­Science. The need for establishing a tional and organisational base is now inbroad unit in the area of environmental place for the Monash Gippsland Distancescience will be examined.Education Centre which will further ad­Monash University College Gippsland vance the work of Monash University in itswill be administered by Monash University national and international roles.".m"'"$AL0,• Although they bear the same air of harassed these are not in factMonash students sitting for exams. Along with 1100 , these two pupilsfrom Essex Heights Primary School were taking part in a spelling competitionsponsored by the Victorian Employers Federation during Education Week.TICV0CV rhe YearinReritJWSee pages 12-15

Greater Monash gives more options The Vice-Chancellor,Professor Mal Logan talksabout how amalgamationswill affect the university.learn how' to handle attitudes and ap­ responsibility is to turn this to our advan­ • a continuation of the emphasis onproaches that come from a somewhat dif­ tage, maintaining all that Monash values so enterpri:,.ing activity. This includes enferentcultural milieu. But the basic highly but allowing new developments in trepreneurial activity but extends toMonash academic structure will remain new areas of knowledge that will take us creative ways of teaching and harnessingand we will have a more stimulating and into our second great phase of expansion. external support and 10 the introduction ofexciting institution than existed previously. What then are some of the characteristics innovative activities in the univerSity.It is far easier to provide an educational that will drive the new Monash? Briefly Many of the centres already establishedrationale for the future Monash than for the they are as follows:preservation of a binary system that funded • greater allemio" to teaching. Changeshave won excellent reputalions and attractedsubstantial funding in a relativelyshort time. Our policy will be one of furtherdeveloping a culture where it is possibleAS most readers of Monash Reporterwill know, the Council of MonashUniversity has resolved to merge withfor enterprising people to innovate: andto remove structures that prevent this fromhappening.Chisholm Institute of Technology and• an increase in 1M amount ofcollaboralionGippsland Institute of Advancedwith Ihe private sector. Many of themost successful research and teaching activitiesin Nonh American universities,Education as from) July 1990. Thiswill make Monash a much larger, anotably in Canada. have developedmore complex and potentially morethrough collaboration with business andexciting organisation extending overgovernment agencies. AI Monash some offour campuses.our best research groups are working inthis way; and our policy is to assist thisIn contrast to other mergers elsewhere inkind of collaboration in every way.Australia, the Monash-Chisholm­• greater participation in distanceGippsland merger has been achieved witheducation. In 1989 Monash-Gippsland wasa great amount of goodwill and with an attentionto detail that not only looks afterdesignated as a national distance educationprovider. There are potentially enormousthe staff working in aU three institutionsbenefits to flow from this new arrangementbut ensures that student views are taken intoaccount.- in the development of new courses andinnovative ways of teaching. and throughIn explaining this most important decision,it is necessary to consider previousthe application of new technologies.• greater flexibility and improved rewardgovernment decisions, notably those flowingfrom the recommendations of the Mar­systems to enable both general andacademic staff to have access 10 bellertin Committee in the early 1960s. as wellcareer paths on the basis of 'heas the policies set out by the currentachievement.Federal Minister and his State counterparts.• genuine efforts to open up career opportunitiesfor younger, non-tenuredThe major decision to be implementedmembers of stafffrom the Martin repon was the establishmentof a binary system of higher educa­• a willingness on the part of the university10 consider fairly all proposals thattion, consisting of a university sector,come to it from diverse sources.primarily engaged in teaching and fundamentalresearch and funded moregenerously. and a college system withmore emphasis on teaching and designed tomeet the immediate needs of industry andfunded less generously. It suited the viewsof the government of t1fe day, but therewas extremely little educational rationale engineering, technology and applied in patterns of student demand, worseninggiven for the binary system.. Over time the binary divide became anextremely troubled one, with collegesscience on the cheap.An area of major concern is research.Nowdays virtually all major research fundingstaff-student ratios in many disciplines andincreased student expectations combine topresent challenges and problems to in­has to be obtained externally in a novative and imaginative teachers. MONASH has signed an agreementmoving into what was seen by some as theterritory of the universities and vice versa. competitive process.• a continuation of the growth in with the Canberra College of AdvancedEducation to act as a sponsor]t was inevitable that some colleges such The Federal Government is taking graduate student numbers and in research.as RMIT, QIT and NSWIT shoutd move money' 'off Ihe top" of recurrent grants to Monash already has more graduatein the process whereby the college willtoward offering PhD programs in the institutions in order to suppon a research students than any other Australian universily.but new structural arrangements maysame way as it was inevitable that universitiesbecome the University of Canberra.fund in the Australian Research Council.should seek to develop the interface which then reallocates funds to individuals be necessary to devise strategies to fund The arrangements which will govern thewith business and industry. ]n shon the and research groups.and manage research.relationship include Monash approval ofsystem was fatally flawed and its continuationcould not be justified.anywhere other than some people being university. Monash already has an enviable academic staff appointments at the newII is diffICult to see this process leading • greater intemationalisation of the all higber degree programs and seniorThe current Federal Government resolvedthe problem by establishing a Unified others engaged more heavily in teaching. and research, but this can no longer be Monash would be represented on themore heavily involved in research and international reputation in both teaching university.National System and by encouraging, with The inescapable fact is that the resources taken for granted, and we must extend our Council and senior academic administrativecommittees. The two institu­the states, the merging of colleges with available to the institution will not allow efforts to recruit students not only fromuniversities.adequate research support for all members Asia and the Pacific but from North tions will promote academic interaction,Monash has worked closely and cooperativelywith Chisholm and Gippslandof staff. But Monash has to maintain anddevelop its excellent research tradition:America and Europe.The university needs greater understand~panicularlyeducation.in the area of distancetoward a merger; in fact our discussions this can only be achieved by imprOVed ing of the experience of Canadian universities,The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Loganfor example, and of the implications said the university would have the right towith Chisholm started before the publicationof the Green Paper.our research priorities and by seeking of Europe 1992 and of recent events in withdraw from any agreement at a m0­research management, clearly identifyingThe enlarged institution will offer larger amounts of non-government eastern Europe.ment's notice, and that he had insisted thatstudents access to a much wider range of funding.• the development of strategic linkages. all costs be met by the University ofcourses and allow transfer of students fromone course to another.The continuation of courses offered inthe fonner colleges will be essentialThe transformation of the Australianhigher education system over the past 18months has been remarkable. In NewSouth W~les almost all colleges have beenThese have to be built at a number oflevels. Some departments have built strongalliances with depanments in other institutions;examples include the link built byCanberra or the Commonwealth.To that end the Commonwealth alreadyhad promised support, be said.because of the very high student demand absorbed within existing universities or our Graduate School of Management withand the support they receive from a large renamed as universities in their own right. the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Monash Reporternumber of employers. Internally, then, In Victoria it is expected that the three the link with Sunway College in KualaMonash will have a greater diversity of larger universities each will have about Lumpur.The next Issue will be published Incourses and programs extending . from 25,000 students. Amongst all Vice- At the insti(utionaJ level, Monash is nowFebruary-Marcb, 1_.PhD tevel programs to those relating Chancellors, there is a general view that closely linked with the new University ofContributions (lett...., pbotos) andmore directly to business needs.the college system will completely Canberra. In a more competitive environmentthe winners will be those institutionssuggestions should be sent to theNone of this can be achieved quicldy or disappear.editor, Aileen Muldoon, Informationeasily. We have to appreciate the greater Whether we like it or not a new system which show a capacity to collaborate withomee, Gallery Building, or phonevariety of views inside the institution and of higher educalion has emerged; our others in achieving their objectives.ext 2OSS.MONASH REPORTER Page 2 DECEMBER 198')Monash agrees to sponsor ACT university J

Bruce awarded natural history medallion A UNIQUE talent for photographyand an enthusiasm for Australianplants has proved a winning combina·tion for Monash University botanicalphotographer, Bruce Fuhrer.Mr Fuhrer, a senior technical officer inthe DepaI1ment of Botany and Zoology,was awarded The Australian NaturalHistory Medallion last month at a specialmeeting of the Field Naturalists Club ofVictoria.The medallion is awarded annually inrecognition of services to Australiannatural history by increasing popular orscientific knowledge or by assisting in theprotection or propagation of Australianflora or fauna.Both in his work at Monash and outside.Bruce has always demonstrated a keen interestin natural history. Using hisphotographic skill. he has producedseveral publications on native flora. fungi ,lichens, ferns. seaweeds and liverwons.He also contributed a substantial numberof photographs to the first comprehensiveillustrated guide to the flora of Victoria.Flowers and Plants of ViCTOria.Mr Fuhrer is perhaps best known,however. for his study and popularisationof the Australian fungi. Primarily fromfirst hand experience in the bush. he hasprovided botanists with a wealth of informationon what is widely regarded as theleast well-known and taxonomically mostdifficult of plant groups.He has discovered many speciespreviously unrecorded in Australia andalso many new species - most of whichawait formal description because there arefew mycologists working in the country.He also has a fungus. CaJostoma fuhreriand a liverwort, FO$$ombronia fuhrer; ,named after him.Bruce became interested in nonnoweringplants precisely because therewas little known about them at the fieldnaturalist level."There was no popular literalure onliverworts. fungi and seaweeds and Irealised if I was going (0 find out anythingI had to do it on my own," he said.A self taught photographer, Bruce beganhis career in Portland operating a commercialphotographic studio. He graduallydeveloped an interest in plants and plantphotography.After spending nine years in Portland,he moved to Melbourne where he obtaineda position with a camera microscope importer.His work photographing Australianmosses attracted the eye of the MonashBotany Department and he was employedfirst on a contract basis and later as ve"".- /nent staff photographer.Mr Fuhrer's photographic work displaysan outstanding mastery of technique whichnot only reflects a botanisc's eye for detailbut also captures the beauty of the subject.For Bruce the unique quality of hisphotographs stems from the lack of anyformal training and a genuine appreciationof the beauty. design and form of plants."If you haven't any pre-conceived ideasor training than you have to improvise asyou go along. This I think tends to makeyour work more individual," he said."Photography is also my way of communicationwith natural history. I see thebeauty in plants and 1 try to put that forwardin my work."Mr Fuhrer's enthusiasm for naturalhistory has also made him a popular lecturerand leader of field excursions. In1988, he conducted a Natural HistoryAwareness Week in the Stirling Ranges inWestern Australia and often leads fieldtrips for junior and senior field naturalistsand university undergraduates.Apan from his work at Monast'!, Brucehas been instrumental in establishingseveral naturalist clubs in Victoria, particularlyfor children."I enjoy helping people to becomeaware of our natural heritage and who betterto do that with Ihan kids," he said.Monash input into radical law reforms • Award winning photographer, Bruce Fuhrer zooms in on some of the ptant life around theuniversity. Picture: RICHARD CROMPTON"Our whole system is geared to training Monash University awarded Bruce ankids to become competitive and aggressive Honorary MSc last year in recognition ofin a tough world, so] want to help kids to his work in botany, natural history anddevelop an appreciation of natural photography.history. "Statutory Maximum and A\W8ge 1985':'87Yeara30~~--------------~------------~----~THE most radical changes to max­ examined more than 500 provisions in 1020imum penalties in Victorian criminal Acts.law in more than a century is to be in­ According to Mr Freiberg, theirtroduced by the State Government. research found a major discrepancy bet­ween the level of penalty set in legislationThe reforms to Victoria's sentencing and the sentencing practices of the Viclawsaim to bridge the gap between the torian couns. (see table).10prescribed penalty. the sentence imposed The existing penalty structure was also I;ill ·11by the courts aod the time actually served. found to be "anachronistic, inconsistent,Monash University academics, Richard deceptive and unduly complex," he said.Fox and Arie Freiberg, both readers in tbe The main features of the proposed oLaw Faculty. made a significant research234687891011t2 ~"t4I:1.1t61t1J18--t·7""'18"-"ttll

Research centre reviews 25 years of Asian studies HOW a Javanese cigarette industryaffected local Indonesian culture in theearly 1%Os sounds an unlikely startingpoint for one of Monash University'soldest research centres.But a work-in-progress seminar atMonash in 1962, based on a thesis by aMelbourne University student, sparked theidea for an interdisciplinary centre thatwould focus on Southeast Asia.Two years later, the Centre of SoutheastAsian Studies was established. This year itcelebrated its 25th anniversary.In 2S years, the centre has crossedalmost as many national borders as it hasacademIc boundaries. Staff and graduatestudents in anthropology, economIcs,education, geography. history. law.linguistics. literature. music, politics andsociology now conduct research into Indonesia,Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philip-­pines, Brunei, Singapore arid Thailand.Each year the centre presents weeklyseminars, as well as two or three majorconferences, for staff. students and thepublic. It also provides travel grants andresearch expense funds for about sixstudents carrying out fieldwork in theregion.The centre has .also assisted .tIC universitylibrary in setting up an extensiveSoutheast Asian research collection. Sofar. it has published 96 of its own titles, includingmonographs, working papers andthe proceedings of annual lecture series.Since 1987, the centre has offered avisiting fellowship to academics whospecialise in the Southeast Asian region.Emeritus Professor John Leggechronicled the centre's beginnings in acommemorative lecture at its silver jubileecelebrations in October. A specialist in Indonesianaffairs. Professor Legge was oneof the driving forces behind the centre'sestablishment."The proposal to the Arts Faculty Boardin 1964 to set up the centre involved anumber of significant choices," he said."Herb Feith and [ had in mind the Cornellmodel based on a graduate operation.The idea was that undergraduates wouldreceive a basic training in one or twodisciplines and would then go on to focuson an area 'at graduate level."Having established a teaching approach.the two academics then had to define thegeographical extent of the area that wouldbe the centre's focus."Rightly or wrongly we chose a narrowerscope (than other instituttoRS). Sincethen the centre hb re~i~ted suggestionsthat we should take in India and Pakistanand become a Centre of Southern andSoutheast Asian Studies.''But then Southeast Asia was reallybeyond our initial resources. We wouldhave to admit that. at first, we were only aCentre of Indonesian and Malayan Studies.. 'That was where most of our expertiselay. with Herb Feith and myself to coverIndonesia. and Bill Roff and Cyril Skinnerto look after Malaya. Ailsa Zainu'ddin(Education) was to join us a little later."The centre's establishment coincidedwith confrontation between Indonesia andMalaya. and events were changing rapidly.MONASH REPORTER.. It seemed that what was happeningthere posed urgent problems for Australia.We were strongly policy-oriented. with asense of the imponance of explaining Indonesiato a wider Australian public."And we were also concerned to engagein a dialogue with policy makers andshapers of opinion .••To that end. the centre held a number ofseminars for senior members of theDepartment of External Affairs, theDepanment of Defence. members ofParliament, journalists and businesspeople.'·We felt that we had established a relationshipbased on confidence with poIicymakersand reporters. We hoped that theywould feel that there was some advantagefor them in gelling an academic slant onthe matters they had to handle on a day-todaybasis. "Professor Legge was quick to point outthat a contemporary emphasis now appearsa little old-fashioned_ Although there wasstill a need for such an approach, he said,su~h an emphasis had to be pan of abroader concern with history, culture andlanguage.Under the directorship of ProfessorJamie Mackie. who was appointed in1968. the centre began to focus on othercultures and disciplines."We moved confidently into Thailand.Vietnam. Kampuchea and Burma. and atthe same time became less narrowlypolitical in focus." Professor Legge said."The development of ethnomusicologyunder Margaret Kartomi, the growth ofSoutheast Asian interests in the departmentof Geography, with the aid of BasilJohnson, Mal Logan and Gale Dixon, andthe appointment of Malaysia specialistMichael Swift to the chair of Anthropology,helped to extend ourdisciplinary base .••With an increase in scope, the centrebegan to attract increasing numbers of'graduate students from the region."This was of tremendous imponance inenriching the program by giving us directcontact with students from the countrieswe were studying." Professor Legge said."It also gave us a network of contacts inSoutheast Asian countries as those studentsreturned to take up academic or civil serviceor other poSitions at home."About 50 graduate students are affiliatedwith the centre. Many are from countrieswithin the region. including Brunei,Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philij>pinesand Singapore.In 1979, Professor Jamie Mackie wassucceeded as Research Director by DrDavid Chandler. Since taking over therole. Dr Chandler has concentrated oncommunication between members of thecentre through regular newsletters. socialgatherings and publications.Projects planned for next year include aconference highlighting Melbourne's Indochineserefugee community and a conferenceto be held in Thailand. sponsoredjointly by the centre and the Siam StudiesInstitute .The centre also will administer an exchangeprogram recently established withGadjahmada University in Yogyakana.SolUlt_st AsIan Studies, research director, Dr David Chandler (leftl andEmeritus Professor John Legge at the centre's 25th anniversary _rations.Kennedy to chair national distance education forum Page 4THE director of the Monash­Gippsland Distance Education Centreand of the Gippsland Institute of AdvancedEducation, Dr Tom 'Kennedyhas been elected the first chair of theNational Distance Education Conference(NDEC).Dr Kennedy was elected for a two-yearterm by representatives of the eight NationalDistance Education Cenlres and twospecialist distance education providerswhich. togelher with the CommonwealthGovernment. make up the conference.In the past year the Government has attemptedto rationalise the provision ofdistance education by designating a limitednumber of inslitutions as Distance EducationCentres. Two of these centres are inVictoria, the Monash-Gippsland centreand Deakin University.The idea is that other institutions wantingto provide external courses shouldwork with a Distance Education Centre todevelop and produce the course material.Dr Kennedy said the conference wouldprovide a forum in which to discuss initiativesto support the national distanceeducation etlon."We are looking at co-operation betweeninstitutions to come up with thehighest quality course materials as costeffectivelyas possible. "He said the conference would have aplanning role, so that resources weretargeted effectively. and students whorelied on distance learning would have accessto the broadest possible range ofcourse options .The conference also will advise theFederal Government on education andtechnology issues. because of the overlapbetween distance education and the use ofnew technology.The Fedeml Minister for Employment.Education and Training. Mr JohnDawkins, welcomed Dr Kennedy 's ap-pointmenL He said Dr Kennedy's broadbackground and expenise, including hiswork at the Gippsland Institute, which wasa signifICant provider ofdistance educalionthrough its link with Monash University.would he particularly valuable to thedevelopme,nt of distance education inAustralia."There are already more than 50,000external students throughout Australia. anddistance education. under the umbrella ofthe national conference. is playing a major---role by opening up new avenues of opportunityfor many more Australians." MrDawkins said,• Dr Tom KennedyDECDIBER t989)

Universities unite on resources Williams al Monash University on global three mini·buses to move students between such as the Scripps Institute ofclimatic history.campuses.Oceanography in San Diego or the LamontThe idea is to collaborate in teaching and The financial catalyst for the institute Doheny Geological Observatory in Newresearch and to share expertise and expen· was a gran. of S375,OOO from BHP York. "sive equipment between the eight groups Petroleum. To this the Victorian EducationLister also spoke of plans for a hit teaminvolved, La Trobe's depanments of Foundation has added $1.3 million, thefor environmental disasters, such as the oilGeology and Physics, Melbourne's depan· universities themselves $550,000 andspillage in Alaska or the salination of thements of Geology and Meteorology. and Shell, $50,000.the Monash centres for DynamicalMurray·Oarling basin. "Such an environmentalimpact unit would be chargedAlready. Monash has been able to pur·Meteorology and Computational chase the latest trace element analysis with collecting factual information and actingas a repository of knowledge."Mathematics and depanments of Earth equipment with funds contributed jointlySciences. Geography and Environmental by the departments involved in theSciences.institU(e.The group would welcome close affil ia·The institute will be able to upgradetion with CSIRO divisions in Victoria.significantly undergraduate and post· Professor Gordon Lister. the chairmanSeveral joint research programs are underwayalready between the universities andgraduate course offerings from next year, of the Monash Eanh Sciences depanmemNew courses, framed in response to strongsaid: "The institute is one way of helpingwi.h indus.ry and .he CSIRO.industry demand. will be offered jointly by to overcome a chronic lack of funds forall three universities in the fields ofresearch in areas of great imponance both The members of the institute see aspetroleum and mineral geophysics.to Victoria and Australia.necessary imponant strategic research ingeomechanics and image processing. "We hope it will increase research op-­ areas such as evaluation of mineral andThere will also be five new full·time lecturingponunities and make us more attractive to fuel resources, remole sensing and landpositions, extra parHime lecturers, both Government and industry. and to management. Ihe long.term evolution ofnew library acquisitions. new equipment. potential students. What we envisage is a the Victorian landscape and the predictionan administrative office, and even a fleet of research body of international standing of periods of floods and droughts.MANY ofthe imponan! challenges forAUSlralia are !o do with the changingSlruc!ure of the plane! theGreenhouse effee! and global clima!icchange, the destruction of the ozonelayer, the search for resources, erosion,salinity.With help from the Victorian EducationFoundation and the resources explorationindustry, Melbourne's three universities­La Trobe, Melbourne and Monash ­jointly have established the Victorian In·stitute of Eanh and Planetary Sciences inorder to face such challenges effectively.The institute will have an initial fund of$2,3 million, It will encompass people anddepanmeots that already are leaders infields related to global change andresources mapping and management. forexample, Professor Andrew Gleadow ofGeology at La Trobe University on pro·cesses in the earth's crust: Professor BillBudd of Geology at Melbourne Universityon Antarctica; and Professor MartinProfessor to support depressed mothers A SPECIAL "infan! stress uni!" !oassist mothers suffering severe poS!­nalal depression and babies with earlydevelopmen!al problems could beestablished a! Monash Medical Cenlre(MMC) if one of Professor BruceTonge's goals is realized.Monash University's new professor ofDevelopmental Psychiatry. Bruce Tongehas a panicular interest in the problem ofposl·natal depression."It can interfere with that very crucialand important time, when mothers are lay·ing down a relationship with a new baby, ,.he said.Professor Tonge said although post-nataldepression was a common disorder sufferedby many normal women, it tended tobe a hidden problem."They don' ••ell people about i., .heyfeel roUen and guil.y and unhappy, .heyfeel no-one uni:lerstands them, their relationshipswith their husbands get distoned,and some of them become increasinglyhousebound - they won't go out at all. ,.Professor Tonge is critical of the factthat one public hospital residential unit fortreating mothers with post-natal problemhas closed this year ... I was very concerned about that,because we're not talking here about fivestar hotels to give upper middle classwomen a break after they've had theirbabies, we're talking about essential ser·vices for women who are having genuine,very real difficulties relating to theirbabies, and their babies to them ...Professor Tonge sees a roore sinisterlong-.erm effect of leuing these problemsgo untreated."If we don't intervene at that point intime, we're creating difficulties that in thelong run are going to be a drain on thehealth services, .. things like thedevelopment of psychiatric disorders in.ha. child, family problems, marilalbreakdowns, and ongoing psychiatric illnessfor that woman."Another of Professor Tonge's special interestsis childhood autism. and he hasbeen involved in producing a film onautism with the Victorian Health PromotionsUnit."We hope '0 set up a! MMC a specialclinic for the assessment of children withvery severe developmentaJ disorders likeautism. and encouraging research into thatarea," he said.MONASH REPORTER)« {{ &• The new professor of Developmental Psychiatry, Professor Bruce Tonge. displays the toots of his trade. Picture: KIM MINElT.Professor Tonge will aJso be looking at.he way family rela.ionships and childhoodillnesses interrelate."Take. for example. asthma - we knowthat sometimes very complex and disturbedfamily relationships can be set up infamilies where there's a child with severeasthma, and that family therapy is an interventionthat offers really quite somepromise in helping children with asthma.and their families. recover,"Professor Tonge has been interested inpsychiatry since his days as a medicalstudent."In my early years as a doctor, I saw aclose link between family factors, lifel'a&< Spressures, psychological factors. personalityissues and physical illness," hesaid."I spent a soon period in general prac·tice and discovered that a good number ofpeople who came to see me had issues intheir life of a psychological nature, so Iwanted to learn more about that."Professor Tonge feels that an imponantaspect of dealing with child patients is theability to connect with the child in oneself."One of the things we aim to teachmedical students is how to communicateeffectively with children - you don't justdo it with words but also with play anddrawing."So pa.ience is required, bu. perhapsmore patience is required in dealing withbureaucracy and administration thanclinically with the children with whomyou're working!" he commented wryly.Professor Tonge's interest in children is·not confined to his professional life - hedescribes his own three children- as "agreat joy to me", and spends his spare. time sailing with them, gardening with hiswife and has an interest in choral singing.The wheel has ,urned full ci.-Qe for theuniversjty·s. engaging new professor - hegraduated in Medicine from Monash in1970.DECEMBER 1989

Pioneer warden of Halls opts for active retirement WHEN Monash University opened in1961 the north-east COrner of the campuswas a bare patch of red clay whichhad been levelled to pour the concretefloor for a large factory. That samearea now is home to more than 1000members of the university in the fiveHalls of Residence.The man who, as the first warden ofDeakin Hall, pioneered that developmentis Dr Jack McDonell. At the end of theyear he will retire from the university after28 years of service.When Deakin Hall opened in 1962. itwas only the second co-educationalresidence in an Australian university.Bruce Hall at ANU had opened in 1961with separate buildings for men andwomen. But Deakin was the first to housemale and female students in the samebuilding. and it set the pattern for all thefuture halls.Almost every year during the 60s a newbuilding was added to the complex . Whenthe Central Dining Halls completed thegroup. Jack McDonell became the ExecutiveWarden.In this position he not only consolidateda pauern of life for student residenceswhich was different from the more traditionalcolleges at older universities. but healso developed a management structurewhich included student representation. andwas flexible enough to respond to the rapidchanges of the late 60s.By the end of 1972 when he left theHalls, the red clay patch had been lUrnedinto the pleasantly landscaped site we seetoday. The complex stands as a tribute to11 years of pioneering work led by JackMcDonell.Although life as Warden of Deakin HaJJwas often a 24-hour a day, seven days aweek responsibility. it was not the onlyposition Jack held during these early years.He became a pan-time lecturer in Physics,having come to Monash from the PhysicsDepartment of Melbourne.The First Year Physics Laboratories hadto be designed well before the appointmentof Bob Street as Professor. Jack. with hisobvious knowledge and experience inlaboratory teaching, was on hand to advisethe architects. It is obvious his advice wasgood. The layout has changed onlyminimally over the subsequent 28 years.He was always concerned to bring aboutimprovements in teaching. laboratoryMcDonell has become more widelyknown . And in recent years. the managementof Normanby House has brought himback into contact with those university administratorswith whom he worked soclosely at the Halls.There are those who have known Jackwell in other spheres of university life. Heplayed a leading role. for instance. in theearly year of the academic staff association(SAMU).He also contributed to the establishmentof sport at Monash as the founding presidentof the Monash Baseball Club. evencoming OUI of retirement to play for theclub early on. (Jack was awarded a FullBlue for baseball at Melbourne University.and still remembers with relish playingbefore a crowd of about 20.O at PrincesPark in the days when baseball was used asa curtain raiser to VFL matches.)Jack often participated in student/staffand interdepanmental cricket matches. Histheories about off-breaks delivered outsidethe leg stump were contrary to hisknowledge of physics and a definite dangerto those fielding close to the bal.He was an active member of the StaffDrama Group which provided some of theearliest theatre on the campus. includingseveral of the initial productions at theAlexander Theatre when it opened in1967.In his retirement Jack hopes to spendmore time helping to develop anmherpioneering venture in education. In the early80s. he and three other Victorians pickedup news of a new movement in Europe- the University of the Third Age (U3A).the age of active retirement.They set up the first U3A group in 1985.and in four years this has grown to 25groups in Victoria with total membershipof about 4000. U3A groups also have beenestablished in all other states. Jack is presidentboth of the Monash group and theVictorian nelwork .• Dr Jack McDonellJack's retirement from the universitywill bring to an end another chapter of theMcDonell family association withMonash. His father. Alex McDonell. thenDirector General of Education. was amember both of the Interim Council andthe First Council of Monash. His wife.Win. is a present member of Council.Doug EllisSports and Recreation Associal ionFirst lunch for law foundation A MONASH University Law SchoolFoundation is being established to promoteteaching and research within theFaeulty of caw.Three major banks have already agreedto become members of the Foundation.The State Bank and Westpac have bothpledged $100,000 over five years and theNational Bank has agreed to donate$45,000 over three years. In addition, theVictorian Bar Council is considering contributing$25.000 to the Foundation.According to the Dean of Law , ProfessorBob Williams, although Monashalready has a University Foundation, it isvital for the Law School to be able to attractits own funds.. 'The government is not prepared to giveuniversities enough money to do their jobproperly. Bodies within the university.therefore. are either going to have to attractfunding from outside sources or thcyare going to drift into becoming secondrate organisations which don't have fundsavailable to do the resedrch they are supposedto be doing." he said.Professor Williams said a law foundationwould be able to attract funding fromsources that would not necessarily contributeto a general university foundation... Anyone who pUIS in money to theFoundation will know it is being usedspecifically for the benefit of the LawSchool," he said .According to Professor Williams, apriority for the law school at the moment isthe ability to attract and. retain middle rankingand senior staff in the areas of commercialand business law." It is my wi sh to establish with outsidefunding. two specialist chairs in the area ofcommercial law ," he said."A primary purpose of the Foundationth~refore would be to gather together contributionsto help achieve this aim .. ,A first foundation lunch was held on 20November to thank the three banks whoagreed to become members of the Foundation.Representing the banks were Mr RossBarnett. Community Affairs ManagerMarketing. State Bank of Victoria, MrJohn Carydias. Manager, State Bank,Monash University. Mr David Bruce.Assislant General Manager. National• The Monash Law Foundation receives three 'big' cheques. Pictured from left to rightare: David Bruce (National Bank), Geoff Kimpton (Westpac), the Vice-Chancellor, MalLogan, Dean of the Law School, Professor Bob Williams. Geoff Mumford (Westpac) andPeter Shepard (State Bank).Australia Bank Ltd. Mr Frank Cicutto. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Acadcmic). ProfessorJohn Hay. and the Registrar. Mrwork and student assessment - all aimedGeneral Manager Credit Bureau. Nationalat making learning a richer experience forAustralia Bank, Mr Geoff Mumford. Tony Pritchard. together with many of thehis students. And he took a great interest inManager. Westpac Banking Corporation, senior members of the Law Faculty.curriculum development at the senior levelMonash Branch, Mr Geoffrey Kimpton, Speaking at the luncheon. Professorin secondary schools, supporting the introductionof more objective methods ofBanking Corporation. Mr Ian Buchanan, edw.:ation is becoming more and moreGeneral Manager for Victoria. Westpac Williams said: "The value of a legalassessment in Year 12 Physics, which inRegional Manager. Westpac Banking Corporation.and Mr Peter Shephard , General careers in all areas of business, includingrecognised as a sound preparation fortum influenced the assessment of othersubjects.Manager Personal Banking, State Bank. banking . Banking Law is an area we areIn 1973. he took study ' leave at thePresent at the luncheon were the seeking to develop. and the active supportrelatively new Open University in the UK.Chancellor. Sir George Lush. the Vice­ of three of Australia's leading banks is particularlygratifying."This led to him taking a whole new directionChancellor. Professor Mal Logan. thein his professional career. Later thatyear, he retu~ned .to pioneer a new Monashventure; he became director of the newlyestablished Centre for ContinuingEnglish journal on sale Education.Over the past 16 years. this centre hasTHE latest edition of the Englishbecome well-known for organising andDepartment's journal, Margin, is nowrunning conferences, seminars and shortcourses which bring together members ofavailable.Margin, No. 21, 1989 features Marcusthe university with people from outsideClarke's first Australian publication,bodies.Because this work has involved people indiscovered by Monash English Ph.D student,Nan Bowman Albinski.Margin is edited by Dennis Davison andpublished three times a year. Subscriptionmany university departments, JackOther anicles include "The Kowalski costs $5, post free.MONASH REPORTER Page 6 DECEMBER 1989) Archives: A Lucky Discovery" by Marie­Claire Le Moigne-Mussat and a review of )Edward G. Dyson's "The Authemic Early Depiction of Donahs and Larrikins". by J.S. Ryan.

• Max Teichmann at his farewell party.Hail and farewell, Max WHEN I joined Classical Studies way MAX Teichmann was one of the firstback in 1966. one of the first people I appointees to the Politics Depanmentmet outside the circle of departmental at Monash University.colleagues was a raffish. actually In the last few years he and Herb Feithrather scruffy. but very friendly fellow have been joint Fathers of the department,in Politics - Max Teichmann. the last remaining members of the early1960s cohort which also included RufusMax was known for the intensity ­ Davis (the foundation professor), Rossthat's the best word for it - of his parties Martin, Graeme Duncan, Robert Orr and(we were all younger then!), the rapier·like Colin Tatz.quality of his wit and the integrity of his Max came (0 Monash from the unusuallyviews. The last two are still just the same. varied background: not only theAge will neither mellow nor moderate Philosophy Department at the Universitythem.of Melbourne, but also the AIF; not onlyThough he's certainly not misanthropic, postgraduate study at Oxford, but alsosome may think that Max is cynical. I Monlsalvat.don'e. It's rather that he doesn't hold with Richly experienced, he has always beenpretence, lies. self·seeking and all the a man of words - fluent, entertaining.paraphernalia associated with those in trenchant, freewheeling; the best talker inpublic life. the department, and perhaps in theTo hear Max in the Faculty Club, a university.small cigar in one hand, a glass in the Over the years he wrote a good deal onother, was always an experience. Thoughissues of the day, especially in matters ofhis habits may be more moderate now, theAustralian foreign and defence policies.way he can cut through deceit and protatorand controversialist, and will be wellHe became widely known as a commen­paganda - be it that of the Liberals or ofthe ALP. that of the US or of the remembered by a great many people inSoviet Union, or even that of elements in these roles.the university. still remains a delight.Underlying this work in the publicdomain, however, was a solid base ofMax knows and is known by hundreds atscholarships of a very traditional kind -Monash, if not personally, then by his~5!!!?I.arship w.~h showed in his manyradio voice. He is scholarly without beingyea?s'" teachirTg of subjects as diverse aspedantic, approachable without being conclassicalpulitical theory and 20th centurydescending. and affable without heingEuropean politics.familiar. I'll miss seeing him aroundVale Max: Monash will be a poorerMonash. We need people like him here.place without you.Saul BastomskyDavid GoldsworthyClassical StudiesPolitics DepartmentCentre open for business ALTHOUGH the Sir John Monash Management. the centre should prove to beBusiness Centre was only opened last a very successful joint undertaking.month it is already proving to be an •'It is an innovative joint venture, offer­educational and financial success. ing high class educational, training andSituated adjacent to the CAE, on the conference facilities in the central businessfifth floor, 252 Flinders L&ne, the centre is district," he said.strategically placed in the heart of "It means we are able to provide theMelbourne's central business district. programs in the city (or our students butThe centre has the flexibility to provide a we can also run seminars and conferencesfull range of business and management in facilities of which we are part owners.training; from basic programs in compmer •• And we develop a presence forand office skills to advanced work at post­ Monash close to the organisational headgraduatelevel, including the first year of quarters of many business corporationsthe Monash Master of Business Ad­ and government bodies."ministration (MBA) course.The centre is being established as a com­The centre also has a complete range of pany with Monash and the CAE as equalconsulting and conference services in­ shareholders. It is expected the centre willcluding a lecture theatre, three conference provide significant financial benefits to thesuites, a board room and catering facilities. joint partners.The initial response from the business The board of management of the newcommunity to the conference training centre includes experienced and successfulfacilities available at the centre has been people from industry and education. Theextremely positive.chairman is John Haddad. the managingThe centre is already functioning close director of Federal Pacific Hotels andto capacity as a conference venue. justify­ chairman of the Australian Touristing its value as an inner city project and Commission.assuring its financial success. Monash University Vice-Chancellor.According to Professor Allan Fels. Professor Mal Logan and Professor Felsdirector of the Graduate School of are also directors on the board.MONASH REPORTERRecycling craze bypasses Monash WHILE the color green pulses through the end of September we collected 20 tontheveins of most environmentally­ nes of waste paper from Monash. not aaware Australians. Monash appears to huge amount.have undergone bypass surgery. "The university should be generating alot more. but it still has a lot of recyclableOf the 170 tonnes of paper, 300 tonnesmaterial going out in the waste stream."of bottles. 42 tonnes of aluminium cansWith its high percentage of low-gradeand half a million polystyrene cups used bymaterial, the paper from Monash has to bethe university each year, only paper is bepainstakinglyhand-soned, a process that ising recycled in any quantity, and even thisboth time-consuming and expensive.scheme is facing severe problems.The economic reality is that recyclingAs for the other used but reusablemust be commercially viable, Mr Tomadinmaterial, the tips are getting bigger: onlysaid.three per cent of glass and two per cent of"Recycling exists to the extent that it'saluminium is recovered from the Monashprofitable. It's as simple as that. A sidewaste stream. (This compares with abenefit is that recycling aids the environrecoveryrate of about 33 per cent for glassment - it's cheaper to recycle than to cutand 54 per cent for aluminium in municipaldown trees. But we wouldn't like to see theschemes. The $600 wonh of polystyreneservice cease, so we hope to educate peocupsdiscarded each week by the Unionple as to our requirements ...cannot be recycled at present.)Education on such a scale requires co­According to a report by a research team ordination, Dr Mews said. At present,in the Graduate School of Environmental however, the arrangement is purely ad hocScience, each year about 3,800 cubic - a possible explanation for the poormetres of waste is removed from the cam­ response from staff and students to thepus at a cost of $61.000.recycling strategy.The report reveals that if a comprehen­ The report recommends the establishsiverecycling scheme were introduced at ment of a committee to advise the Vice­Monash, the sale of recoverable waste Chancellor on issues concerned with thewould raise almost $22,000 a year. at the environment, particularly recycling.same time reducing the waste removal bill It has also advocated the appointment ofby some S3.500.a Recycling and Environment Officer toThe repon. was compiled in response to a develop and co-ordinale a comprehensivegrowing concern about waste disposal on recycling scheme. The position would, incampus.time. become self-funding through recyclingactivities.Dr Constant Mews, a lecturer inmedieval history and a member of the The Union has decided to take recyclingMonash Conservation Group, believes matters into its own hands. Warden of theMonash could become an important sup­ Union, Graeme Sweeney, said: "Theplier of recyclable materials.Union intends to enter the recycling fieldin 1990, with particular accent on glass"In the long-term we would like to seeand aluminium. as well as paper.the university engaged not oilly in recyclingbut in recycling for its own use," he "It is investigating the purchase of self­said. . sorting bins that will automatically son outIt is an achievable aim in a state that aluminium fr'om glass. It also intends toleads the world in the industrial develop­ employ a part-time co-ordinator toment of recycled material, but one which facilitate the whole recycling exercise,may never be realised under the present through organising the collection, storagesystem at Monash.and despatch of reusable waste, and encouragingpeople and groups within theTo the minuscule collection rates ofUnion to participate ...recyclable materials can he added thepossibility that a 12 month old agreement Like waste paper, there is no official col·with Australian Paper Manufacturers lection of glass and aluminium from(APM) to recycle high-grade office paper Monash, so the introduction of self-sortingmay be on the verge of collapse.bins in the Union is timely.The problem appears to he one of The Envirobin is a Monash-designedlethargy - the 60 green bins supplied by device that sons both glass and aluminiumAPM are cenainly filling uP. but with the at source. Co-invented by Environmentalwrong material.Science student, Ms Elvyne Hogan, it isAPM representative, Mr Will Tomadin, designed to make the disposal of glass ands&id: "The service provided at Monash is metal both clean and efficient.suppused to be for quality waste paper. But interest in this home-grown invensuchas photocopy paper, but we seem to tion is not limited to the campus, nor tobe getting a mixture of newspapers, text­ Australia. Organisations in the Unitedbooks. magazines and other low-grade States are looking at the possibility of seilmaterial.ing the Envirobin there as pan of efforts to"From the start of the financial year to solve a world-wide problem.Page 7 DECEMBER 1989

Mapping the gains of multiculturalism IF a stranger to this country were toscan the contents page of an issue ofthe Journal of Intercultural Studiesthey would soon grasp the meaning ofAustralian multiculturalism.Take the first issue of Volume 10,published earlier this year: it includes astory on the treatment of German nationalsin Australia between 1939 and 1947; oneon Chinese communities here; and adescriplion of the problems faced bysecond-generation Italian women inAustralia seeking their own identity.The journal is one of the more visibleresults of the work of the university's Centrefor Migrant and Intercultural Studies.For 15 years (it celebrated an anniversaryin October) the centre has been investigatingthe progress of Australianmuhiculturalism, from the services providedto newly-arrived migrants to thebenefits of SBS Television.One of the oldest research organisationsat Monash, the centre has always relied ona fraying shoestring for its operation andthe goodwill of a core of committedacademics for its survival.When Professor Michael Clyne was appointedits first chainnan in 1974 the centre'sannual budget was $400. which wasused to cover the costs of visiting speakers.By 1987 the budget had "ballooned" to$2650 - and there it remains.Multiculturalism itself may not be quiteso static, but it seems unlikely the issuewill ever capture the public's imaginationas it did at the height of the Whitlam era,when the term was first coined." People at the time were conscious of achanging and maturing national identify. "Professor Clyne said...It was a time of pressure groups andlobby groups. We used to get up to 120people attending our regular Monday nightseminars."These forums were a catalyst for agreat deal of social change at a time whenthere was a policy shift from assimilationto multiculturalism."The seminars produced some interestinginteraction between researchers,practitioners and ethnic politicians, whowere just beginning to make their presencefelt."This all happened within two years ofthe election of the Whitlam Government."POlicy-makers met those who were puttingpolicy into action. And when new initiativeswere introduced the centreevaluated them .Some of the issues it looked at in thoseheady days were migrants in theworkplace, the teaching of English as a secondlanguage. the ethnic press, ethnicmusic. and the ethnic aged.Tooay multiculturaliam only comes tothe fore when people feel threatened, suchas by cuts to migrant education or the proposedmerger of SBS and ABC Television.Professor Clyne said."People nowadays are more secure withchanged aUilUdes and new policies. andthere are more forums in which they candiscuss ideas."There isn't the same idealism tooay asthere was when the centre was establ ished.There is no longer the need for slrugglenow that many of the original initiativeshave been accepted ...Although multiculturalism was a fact oflife in Australia. the gains made in the past15 years are constantly under threat. ProfessorClyne said. "Therefore, it is imperativethat such an organisation exists toreview the initiatives and ensure that theycontinue...As well as hosting prominent visitingscholars. the Centre for Migrant and InterculturalStudies also publishes the influentialJournal of Intercultural Studies.First published in 1977. it provides aninternational forum on ethnicity.multiculturalism, multilingualism andmigration. by drawing on disciplines suchas sociology. anthropology. linguistics.politics. education and social work.As the scope of its journal suggests. thecentre is truly inlerdisciplinary in nature.even its budget. Each of the five participatingfaculties - Arts. Education,Economics and Politics. Medicine andLaw - contributes to its upkeep. (TheFaculty of Arts provides the centre with aroom. equipment and a part-timeadministrator.)Professor Clyne said an interdisciplinaryapproach has given people 31tached to thecentre an opportunily to broaden theirfocus. with plenty of cross-fertilisationfrom different disciplines and perspectives.One of its most important and enduringroles has been to provide a link betweenacademia and the ethnic communities.The present chairman. Associate ProfessorPeter Hanks of Law. said: "There isa high level of support in the communityfor the centre's work. providing as it doesboth speakers and academic advice.• ASSOCiate Professor Peter Hanks"lts good profile was built up originallythrough working with bodies like theEthnic Affairs Commission, the Federa·tion of Ethnic Community Councils andthe Office of Multicultural Affairs. as wellas with individual ethnic groups ...The centre was one of the first inAustralia to establish its own graduatediploma. although it has not been offeredsince 1986. (A noted graduale is the chairmanof the Australian Advisory Committeeon Languages and Multicultural Education.Joe Lo Bianco.)While its resources may be minimal,there is a need to reintroduce postgraduateteaching in the area of crossculturalstudies, Associate Professor Hanks said."Now is the appropriate time to draw oncourses, subjects, and units in a range ofdisciplines and blend them into an MA orgraduate diploma." At the moment we' re pushing towardsestablishing a teaching program if theFaculty of Ans can be persuaded to give acommitment to co-ordinate teaching."In order to give the program legitimacyit would need to include a core subject,such as the methodology of interdisciplinarystudies, or multiculturalism aspublic policy in Australia ...Monash needsmore dialogueDECISION making and communicationsat Monash is not all fine anddandy.If we stroll down memory lane a bit. thestaff at Monash used to feel that we formeda "community of scholars". Problemswere discussed widely and decisions weremade collectively.Typically. a proposal of general interestwould originate at some level in thesystem. it would be referred 10 facuhiesand departments. and decisions would bebased on the flow of opinions from departmentsto faculties to Professorial Board toCouncil.No longer is that the case. Now. imporlantdecisions are made at the levels of theVice-Chancellor, Deans, and/or ProfessorialBoard and are then transmitted toCouncil. The decisions are then announced(often first) in the Age and then confirmedor contradicted in SOUND.Depanments and faculties have had nosay in such important matters as whetherMonash should amalgamate with some orall of Gippsland, Chisholm, Victoria College,Canberra CAE, Melbourne orLaTrobe Universities. the PoliceAcademy, or Playbox Theatre. And ifdepartments have no say. that means thesub-professorial staff have no say.There was a special Science FacultyBoard meeting on 19 October called todiscuss the merger with Chisholm. Recommendationsfor the meeting were formulatedby a working group, on the morningof the meeling. and tabled for discussionat the meeting. So much for carefulconsideration!The dean ruled out of order any discussionof whether the merger should takeplace, on the grounds that the matter hadalready been decided by the ProfessorialBoard. This. in spite of the fact that of sixScience Faculty departments which hadpreviously voted on the matter, all six wereoverwhelmingly against the mergerbecause of its lack of any educationalbasis.At a meeting on 12 September with someAns and Mathematics staff, the Vice­Chancellor was challenged with the complaintthat communications with both theacademic and general staff were bad. Hisreply was to the effect that the output ofSOUND had been doubled, and that on thetwo occasions the main committee on theChisholm merger had met. it immediatelyproduced a newsletter.He also asked for a majority of staff tosupport him on the Chisholm merger, andin his plan to tum Monash away from aBritish model towards an American mooelof a university. (If there is an Americanmodel for what has been decided forMonash. I have yet to hear of it!)What is now missing at Monash is a twowayflow of information. The administrationcannot expect a majority of academicsto support a policy about which they havenot been consulted and for which norationale has been produced. And the problemsare not confined to the academicsonly. The administration has notnegOli

The law targets nuclear arms IF the seeds planted at a recentmeeting of international la~yers bearfruit, Professor Christie Weeramantry'sworld vision of a future free ofnuclear weapons may come closer toreality.Professor Weeramantry. the Sir HaydenStarke chair of law at Monash. has justreturned from the inaugural world congressat The Hague of the InternationalAssociation of Lawyers Against NuclearArms, lALANA.As IALANA vice-president, ProfessorWeeramantry is hopeful that a case beingprepared by the organisation will lead tothe outlawing of nuclear weapons.Through the agency of the United Nations.[ALANA is hoping to push for anofficial judgement from the InternationalCourt of Justice.Professor Weeramantry describes thecurrent altitude of countries suspected ofpossessing nuclear weapons as "you say itis illegal - you prove il.""There is no comprehensive treaty thatmakes them illegal ... there is no documemhaving the force of law which saysthat nuclear weapons are illegaL" ProfessorWeeramantry said."We extract these principles fromcustomary international law but we don '{have a treaty or a judgement which saysthat one of the sources of international lawis treaties, and another is judgements...The congress resolved to work for thedeclaration of the illegality of nuclearweapons.According to Professor Weerarnantrythere are several grounds on which theorganization can make a strong case to theInternational Coun of Justice."Under the principle of proponionality,you cannot use weapons that cause damagewhich goes far beyond the purposes ofwar, so weapons that cause a dispropor- .lionate amount of damage would thereforestand outlawed by that principle," he said.The principle which forbids causingdamage to neutral states who are not in thewar would also prohibit nuclear weapons,as their use would result in devastation tocountries other than those at war with eachother.A third principle is the prohibition ofanyaction or weapon which causes unnecessarydamage and suffering."This principle outlaws any weaponswhich would cause more destruclion Ihanis necessary in a war (as nuclear weaponswould)," Professor Weeramantry said.Professor Weeramantry's case wouldalso argue for Ihe outlawing of storingnuclear weapons for use as a permanentdeterrent.He said there was a growing view thatwe need to conserve the ecosystem of ourplanet. and the use of nuclear weaponswould destroy the life suppon systems ofthe earth and constitute a crime againsthumanity - another argument forIALANA's proposed case for the InternationalCourt of Justice.Professor Weeramantry has long beeninterested in the responsibilities of scientistsin regard to the development ofnuclear weapons. He is the author of abook entitled Nuclear Weapons andScientific Responsibilities, which hassparked off a debate in the United Statesdrawing in scientists who advise the Pentagonon nuclear weapons.Albert Langer's chern partner makes news THE name Albert Langer is one mostpeople associate with Monash's turbulentpast - but these days it's hischemistry prac partner from those earlyuniversity days who makes news.Carol Austin is the director of Public Affairsfor BHP. one of Australia' s biggestcompanies, and enjoyed her laboratorywork with Mr Langer during her sciencecourse in the 1960s...Albert had a brilliant mind and was avery interesting fellow student. Thosewere the days of the Vietnam wardemonstrations so there was a lot going onaround me at university that added colorand interest to my student days," she said.But was Ms Austin a radical student?"I was only involved on the peripherywasn'(one of the student radicals orheavily involved in the SRC."I listened to the lunchtime discussion aswe all did and participated in the debates inthe interminable coffee breaks we had, butI was by no means a student radical!"Ms Austin's extra-curricular interestslay more in the fine ans area, and she wasinvolved in getting a pottery studio oncampus.Following her graduation in science inI 969,'she set offwilh her new husband forPapua New Guinea, where she worked forthe local Bureau of Statistics.She then became involved in trade andeconomic policy, which was what sparkedher interest in economics. leading to adegree in the field from Australian NationalUniversity.While her husband studied for hisMaster's degree at London University, MsAustin worked with the British Depanmentof Trade and Industry.Following her economics degree atAustralian National University on herreturn to Australia from Papua NewGuinea in 1978, Ms Austin worked as aresearch economist for the Reserve Bank,and then with the Australian IndustryDevelopment Corporation.If Ms Austin's face looks familiar, it'sprobably from her role as an economiccommentator on the now defunct Carleton­Walsh Repon on ABC television.• The Sir Hayden Starke professor of law, Professor Christie Weeramantry.IALANA has been developed as a resultof several recent writings on the illegalityof nuclear weapons, inclUding ProfessorWeeramantry's book.The association receives strong supportfrom the American Lawyer's Committeeon Nuclear Policy, the Procurator Generalof the Soviet Union (who is also presidentof the Soviet Lawyers' Association), and• Carol AustinOn the communications side, she saysbusiness does not always understand thedifference between providing informationand communicating -something that herinfluential members of the Swedish Parliament.The first world congress attracted200 lawyers from 30 countries.With this committed global membership,Professor Weeramantry is confident thatthe organization's long-term goal of completelyoutlawing the development, storageor use of nuclear weapons will beachieved.Monash honorsfire heroineFIRST year engineering student,Tanya Redfern, received a copy ofJohn Monash: A Biography, recentlyfor a courageous act.Tanya saved 20 elderly people from afire which extensively damaged 'an agedpeople's home at Murrumbeena inSeptember. She was working as a relievingnight supervisor at.the home and was theonly employee on duty when the fireSlane

Plain and practical advice on writing IN REVIEW The Student's Writing Guide for the Arts and Social Sciences by Gordon Taylor Cambridge University Press, 1989, price $14.95GORDON Taylor, a member of the My own department, History. withLanguage and Learning Unit of which Taylor has worked closely, owesMonash's Faculty of Arts, has helped him a particular debt for his teaching andgenerations of OUT students to write advice - generously given not just tobeller.beeinning students with serious writing-'~-Biography of a Victorian Virtuoso IN REVIEW James Edward Neild By Harold Love Melbourne University Press, 1989, price $39.95 THE idea of one person in today'ssociety combining the roles of theatrecritic, doctor and coroner would seemunlikely, if not impossible.Yet during the last century's"Marvellous Melbourne" era there wassuch an individual- James Edward Neild.Neild is the subject of reader in English,Dr Harold Love's recent biography, JamesEdward Neild. Victorian Vinuoso.Born in England in 1824, Neild grew upin Yorkshire and practised as a doctor untilhe felt the lure of Antipodean gold in 1853.Securing himself a free passage as ship'sdoctor on the clipper "Star of the East" ,Neild arrived in Melbourne in October1853.But having tired of the backbreakingwork of gold mining he took up employmentas a "consulting chemist" withDavid Rutter Long' s bustling citybusiness.His role was to diagnose ailments as wellas prepare prescriptions - a combinationof professions now illegal, but greatlyvalued by the Melbourne populace of the18505.However, Neild's great love in Englandhad been theatre. He had been a professionalcontributor of verse to variousnewspapers from the age of 13 so it ishardly surprising that he left the chemistshop in 1855 to become a full-timejournalist.Neild quickly became an influence onthe growing theatrical industry of 19th centuryMelbourne, and perhaps the firstreviewer to throw off the "colonialcringe" mentality .He objected to "the belief that anythingproduced or written in the colonies must beinferior to anything produced or wrinen inEngland...Neild saw himself as " a plain spokenman of sense and a mortal enemy of cantand humbug" .MONASH REPORTEROther writers described Neild as cantankerous,condescending, malicious, orwittily extravagant; indeed, depending onone's point of view, he seems to have beenall those.Neild's aim as a reviewer - " to explainto actors how they might do bener nexttime" - did not make him the mostpopular of critics.To understand this, one must reaJise thatin those days there was a far more symbioticrelationship between theatre proprietorsand critics than there is today.Tickels for any number of peoplenominated by the newspaper were madeavailable each night and the paper was expectedto provide sympathetic advertisingand reviews.Neild threatened this cosy relationshipwith his idea of the role of the critic.Describing the expression of an operasinger reaching for high notes as displaying" the agonies of death fromstrychnine" was unlikely to endear Neildto one and all.Another of Neild's pet hates reveals himas a reviewer ahead of his time; he particularlyloathed the stylised 18th centurymethod of frequently addressing theaudience.Neild wanted actors to make the audienceforget they were in a theatre: "Ihave come to regard dramatic performancesvery much as I regard pictureswhich are painted, and to approve or condemnin proportion as they approach to thereal or recede from it".Neild felt having wizards perform led tothe theatre "being perverted from itslegitimate uses", and in his review claimedthat the wizard 's tricks relied heavily on" a concealed assislant and the complianlstooge" .This review spawned a number of unflatteringdescriptions of Neild . from"malapert apothecary" to "pill-peddlingdilettante who poses as ajournalist in orderP~edifficulties, but also to more advancedstudents (and staff) seeking to expressthemselves with the utmost clarity andprecision.The Monash community should be glad- proud indeed - that Taylor's expericnceand expertise in these vital matters arenow available to an international studentaudience in this handsome and reasonablypriced paperback.There is all the plain and practical adviceone would want here on questions rangingfrom when to use 1'1" and "we" inacademic prose to how to avoid the dread"dangling modifier", and all of it con·veyed in clear, almost conversational,prose.This is - let me hasten to add - asophisticated and stylish book which postgraduatesand others will read withadvantage, but it is also one that should beaccessible to senior secondary schoolstudents. Among practical writingmanuals, which are twopence a dozen andfrequently off-putting in the extreme tostudents, Taylor's book is a very superiorexample.The Student 's Writing Guide is, however,much more than a manual of grammaticaldo's and don 'ts. hardly surtoobtain free admissions and dinnerinvitations" .But there were also many performerswho admired Neild . Foremost among themwas Dame Nellie Melba, of whom Neildsaid: "Everybody who heard her willdesire to hear her again, and everybodywho did not hear her is at the moment consumedwith regrets at not having beenpresent" .According to Dr Love it was this tributethat convinced Melba "to embrace singingas a career and seek her fortune overseas".Although his theatrical criticism was alarge part of his life, Neild also maintainedhis medical career, lecturing at MelbourneUniversity in forensic medicine and editingthe Medical Journal of Australia.He was an early advocate of sanitation, atopic on which he wrote extensively , andwas the unofficial (and unpaid) medical adviserto the theatrical profession - a neatway of wearing both hats at once.Dr Love said Neild was considered 10 bethe most influential of the AustralianMedical Association's founding fathers.Neild also spent a long period as thepreferred Government pathOlogist, a rolewhich culminated in a stint as acting coronerin 1891.Aside from his professional interests,Neild found time for a wife and severalchildren, as well as some extra-marital activites,amusingly documented by DrLove.The biography depicts Edward JamesNeild as a fully rounded character, a manof temper and passion, but also with astrong streak of sympathy. One gains someidea of the respect he commanded frommention of a special benefit performanceorganised for Neild by the theatrical professionat the end of his career.The occasion raised more than a year' 5salary as a d~tor for this man who caredpassionately about the theatre andmedicine: a Victorian Virtuoso indeed .Dr Love has written a fine biography ofthis fascinating man. His style is never dryor condescending to the reader, yet hisdocumentation is extensive.It is an absorbing book which I warmlyrecommend for anyone with an interest in acharacter who helped fashion " MarvellousMelbourne" .Julie Houghton10I prisingly because Gordon Taylor is not somuch a grammarian as a ~lOr. That is tosay, his book is about rhetoric in themedieval, renaissance and ultimatelyclassical sense of spoken and written eloquence.In a medieval Italian universily, Taylorwould have taught the ors dktom;nis, thepractical art of good writing. For Taylor.language cannot be divorced from thought," writing is not merely a skill we employ torecord our knOWledge. but the verymoment at which we confront what learningand understanding are all about"(page xi).Students often complain when we historyteachers correct their grammar, orcomment that an essay would havereceived a higher mark had it been writtenbetter. What right have historians got, theysometimes say outright, to "mark theirEnglish", as if to imply that good style ismerely the cream on the cake, or justrhetoric in the pejorative sense of theword.Gordon Taylor has heard all of this, andwill have none of it. Badly written history(or whatever) is bad history . Good historyis all the better for being written in clearand expressive prose.This excellent book is, then, as muchabout clear thinking and constructive readingin the Arts and Social Sciences as it isabout ~ritingthem well, and from thisclassical humanistic concern with theessential unity of language and thoughtcomes much of its power and importance.Now. when academic prose is oftenjargon-ridden and university administrationsfrequently write goddbledegook, wedesperately need Taylor's modest defenceof plain eloquence.There is yet another bonus in store forthe reader. Taylor is not only a metor butan anthropologist whose field of specialisationhas been the natives who flit in and outof the groves of academe.This book is as good a place as any tolook if you want to understand the implicitvalues held by Australian teachers of theliberal arts in the last part of this millennium.(I knew Gordon to be a good listener- and occasionally a speaker of measuredeloquence - over a lunch-time beer, but Ihadn't realised quite how good a listenerhe was!) His definition. en passant, of"academic culture" will be immenselyuseful to students who. when they firstarrive at university, are understandablypuzzled about what " they are reallyafter". about what "they really want".I mighl conlude that Gordon Taylor's isan essentially generous definition ofacademic culture - although we don'tescape scot-free from this gentle probingof our mores - and I for one am gratefulto him for it at this time of external attackupon universities and internal low morale.I do wish . however, that Taylor had nottold students that J.M. Keynes "worked inbed until lunch-time". That is hardly theway to academic success in the hard newworld of Mr Dawkins.Bill KentHistory DepartmentDECEMBER 1989

A tradition of Buddhism in Australia IN REVIEW A History of Buddhism in Australia 1848-1988 By Paul Croucher New South Wales University Press, 1989, with the assistance of the Monash University Publications Committee. PAUL Croucher is a young AustralianBuddhist who studied Asian historyand Japanese at Monash'.He had just spent a year in Japan. Thailandand North India, when in 1984, whiledoing an Introduction to Japanese Studies,it happened that he was taught by LesOates, who was to figure prominently inhis later study which became this book.Croucber writes in part for himself, toformulate a tradition of Buddhism in Australiaas part of his own cultural heritage,and also for other Buddhists to give them aperspective of various branches ofBuddhism in Australia.The book is also no doubt aimed at anon-Buddhist readership, to serve as anapology for Buddhism. However, keyBuddhist concepts are not explained indetail for the uninitiated, although a concise(even too briet?) glossary is included.Despite Ihis insider's perspective, thebook is not narrowly sectarian. Neitherdoes it clearly espouse one branch ofBuddhism at the expense of others. Theauthor favours an eclectic approach tore ligion, or a " peaceful and dynamicBuddhist anarchism" .The history of Buddhism is hardly amajor current in Australian history. Onemight imagine that there would not beenough to fill a book, and that before thecounter culture of the late sixties and earlyseventies only a few crackpots and eccentricswere attracted to Buddhism.Croucher provides an amazing array ofevidence for a longstanding, constantthough small stream of Buddhist activity ofone kind or another in Australia, and afascinating cross-section of Australian culturalhistory.He projects the possibility of Buddhistpresence in Australia long before whitesettlement through Asian traders inAmhem Land . The first verifiable instancehe presents is of Chinese Coolie labourersin 1848.He aims to document comprehensivelyevery single instance of Buddhist activity,which he demonstrates to be part of aworldwide phenomenon, involvingBunna, Sri Lanka, England, Gennanyand, to a lesser extent. America and Japan.That is, it is related to the goo-politicalreality of the British Empire, with Englishspeakingmonks who could teach and'1ordain westerners in their own country orelsewhere, and the possibility of Englishand Germans being ordained in thesecountries.One of the surprising features of this historywas not SO much the compartmentalisationof different pockets in places likeSydney. Melbourne. Brisbane. and theschisms which arose easily within eachpocket, but the lack of awareness of AustralianBuddhists in each phase of what hadgone before them . This is a sign that it hasnot been a strong movement. but 10 adegree haphazard and sporadic. thoughnever with the same lack of continuity asbetween the Arnhem Land traders and latersettlers.Australians have been attracted to Buddhismat various times because it was seenas a rational alternative to Christianitywhich was more compatible with science;because it was pacifist; because it was ecologicallyappealing; because it espousedvegetarianism. It has consistently attractedthe educated. and originally the uppermiddle class. but since the seventies hashad a broader class base.White Australian Buddhism was fed byHawke. Ken Wriedl. poets BernardO'Oowd. Max Dunn and Harold Stewart.artist Margaret PresIOn. Aboriginalnovelist Colin Johnson. all illustratingpoints of contact with mainstream Australianculture and history.Croucher shows he has the foundationsof an excellent history writing technique;he handles a broad sweep of events, incorporatingpanicular ~haracters and themeswith considerable assurance and narrativeskill.He has an ability to bring out broadthemes within a plethora of detail, yetwithout using sweeping generalisations.He manages to surprise the reader. bycarefully withholding developments till theright moment.His use of Quotation of primary sources- diaries. letters. newspaper reports.Buddhist newsletters and journals - isalways vivid. He traces the establishmentof bookshops such as Theosophical Bookshops,as well as Buddhist societies., showing the kinds of reading mattermaterial that was available to people in anera when this was the main access toBuddhism. He also details the contactswith qualified teachers. This solid methodologyis supplemented by extensive use oforal histories and interviews.One of the major themes which emergesin the book is that of acculturation ." Buddhism is a universal religion and thusessentially transcultural. but ... AustralianBuddhism will only have found itsown identity when it gives rise to a largernumber of authentic. home-grownteachers" .It needs to adapt its practices to somedegree for its new environment. An excessivedegree of compromise was responsiblefor many years of stagnation. as whenJackson and Knight in Sydney playeddown ritual and meditative practices. butobviously some adaptation is necessary.He is optimistic that Buddhism will acquirea secure place in Australian life. and that a"synthesis between Buddhism and westernhumanism" will emerge.Croucher emphasises the dangers ororganisations and committees. and favorsanarchism . This is a danger common to allreligions . How can Buddhism alone avoidthis']This more readable and compelling historyis al so an essay on the nature ofBuddhism in an Australian context. andwill be of interest to Buddhist and non­Buddhist Australians alike. for revealing anew aspect of Australian history andculture.Alison TokitaJapanese Studies Departmentliterdture - such as the translations of thePali canon by E.F. Woodward - and byvisiting European speakers. many ofwhom had spent time in Buddhistcountries. and by qualified native teachersfrom Sri Lanka. Burma etc. who were professionalworld tourers of Englishspeakingcountries.It is remarkable that there was no strongfoundation in the form of links with anestablished mother church in a Buddhistcountry. This is no doubt partly to do withthe fact that Buddhism is sometimes seenas not being a religion so much as a philosophy.The book is studded with mini-biographiesof people significant in thedevelopment of Buddhism in Australia.People like Marie Byles and Leo Berkeleywho stressed meditation and were amongthe founders of organised Buddhism inSydney. were thwarted by Natasha Jacksonwho is portrayed as having had adestructive. schismatic influence, with beridolisation of the American Buddhist nunSister Dhammadina. The discreditation ofthe latter as a charlatan is one ofCroucher's major tasks.In Melbourne around the same period ofthe fifties, the atmosphere was moreeclectic and tolerant. under the influenceof Les Oates. The Buddhist Society of Victoria,founded in 1953, had close ties withSri Lanka and Burma, that is, with TheravadaBuddhism. The influence of theMahayana faith of Japan and America wasto come later.The major criticism to be broughtagainst the book is the system card typeflipping over of a myriad of apparentlyinsignificant characters who do not haveany clearly drawn personality or salientcharacteristics. In later chapters the detailis sometimes overwhelming. like a compendiumof every Buddhist in Australianhistory. so that no one might feel left out.However. there are also some vivid portraitsof fascinating characters. The systemcards bring before us an array of person­• way for the past . . . the museum in the Classical Studies Depanment had tobe rearranged following the recent arrival of several valuable pieces of ancient pottery,on loan from a Melbourne collector. The pieces date between the fifth century Be andthird century AD and include Attic vases, south Italian pots, Etruscan heads. a Helleniststatuette and two sarcophagi. And more pieces will follow after new display cases haveages who have had contact - fleeting or been installed . Surveying the recent additions to the collection - and wondering wherelasting - with Buddhism: people like the the extra furniture is going to fit - is senior lecturer in Classical Studies. Dr Saulactor Peter Finch. the novelist George Bastomsky. The museum, on the sixth floor of the Menzies Building (South Wing), isJohnston , politicians Alfred Deakin , R.J .open every Wednesday between 12.30 and 2 pm.MOl'ASH REPORTER Page JI DECEMBER 1989

Graduates on the move in 1989 ­­­­SOME graduates who made news this David Melvin SA 1978. New manageryear: of leisure services 31 Doncaster andMeredilh Allan ~ BA 1983. Appoinled TempleslOwe Council. policy vice-president of the Victorian Or Barry Perry LL.BHons 1969. NewYoung Liberals.deputy Ombudsman to investigate com­Brian Corbitt - MdEd.St 1987. Principal plaints against police. of Ardoch-Windsor Secondary College. Peter Reith BEc 1972, LL.B. 1974. TheEve Fesl - BAHons. 1978. M.A. 1986, new Liberal Party spokesman onPh.D. 1989. First Koorie to complete a education. doctorate of philosophy. Eve is the Bruce Rosengarten - BEc 1979.director of Monash University's Koorie Manager of the new Myer department Research Centre.store in Rundle Mall. Adelaide. John Harvey - B.Juris 1%7. LL.B. Dr Pam Rosengarten MB. BS 1979.1969. Appointed managing parener atNew director of accident and emer­Melbourne chartered accountant Pricegenq services at Frankston Hospital.Waterhouse.Barry Rowe - BEc 1975 . Appointed StateMargaret Jackson - BEe. 1973 . Firstwoman elected chairman of the Institute Agriculture and Rural Affairs Minister.of Chartered Accountants. Geoffery Ryan - BEd 1973. New princi­Dr Erin Jancauskas - BEHons. 1976. pal of the Westbourne and Williams­M.Eng .Sci . 1981. First Australian to town Grammar Schools. study space engineering at the Interna­ Daniel Salvador - BA 1987. Ordained to tional Space University in France. the priesthood at the SI Bernard'5 Sr Rosemary Joyce - BA 1979. B. Ed. Catholic Church in Belmont. 1981 . New principal of SI Brigid's Col­Stuart Schneider - BSe 1974, B.Ed.lege. Horsham.1979. New Chief Executive Officer at Chris Keogh - BA 1979. TV personalilY the Mt Alexander Hospital. on The Comedy Company. Meryl Sexlon - BEe 1983, LL.B. 1983.Geoff Kimpton - B.A. 1970. AppoinledNamed the Victorian Career Woman ofgeneral manager of Westpac Bankingthe Year.Corporation, Victoria.Malcolm Kinloch - MBA 1988. Ap­ SImon Smilh - B.luris 1972, LL.B. pointed executive director of SI 1974, LLM 1988. Appoinled Aus­George's Hospital in Kew.tralia's first private insurance Ombuds­Jon Linehan - BEeHons. 1983. The Aus­ man. tralian Labor Party candidate for the RIchard Southby - PhDMed 1973. Nam­Federal seal of Casey.ed Friesen Professor of the Health Ser­Dr Rick Lowen - MB, BS 1974. Ap­ vice Administration at The George pointed director of The Accident and Washington University. Emergency Department at the Heidel w Teren

Diet could slow •ageing process THE onset of old age may be slowed Cells begin to die and the performanceor modified by simple dietary sup­ of the body's tissues and organs declines.plements if a new theory of ageing This eventually leads to a point where theproposed by biochemists from Monash body can no longer meet the environmentaland Nagoya universities proves to bedemand for continued existence.The researchers have in fact foundcorrect.evidence of a decline with age in theThe theory published earlier (his year in amount of energy produced in musclethe influential British medical journal. 11le mitochondria. This data was published in aLAncet. al so provides suppon for the con­ companion paper by Marzuki and Dr Edtroversial practice of using large doses of Byrne of St Vincent's Hospital. MelbourneVitamin C as preventive medicine. in the same issue of The Lancet as lheIn the Lancet paper Professor Anthony hypothesis .Linnane and Associate Professor Sangkot And a German worker has now shownMarzuki of the Monash Centre for that the proportion of cells with defectiveMolecular Biology and Medicine and two energy production mechanisms increasesJapanese colleagues suggest that ageing from almost nothing in young children upand several degenerative diseases are causedto about 50 per cent at age 50.at least in pan by a lifelong build up of Because the enzymes further down themutations in the genetic material of the line still may work perfectly well, it mightmitochondria, the cell's energy production well be possible to by-pass a singlecentre.blockage in the energy chain so that theThe mitochondrial genetic material is cell can carry on its activities, the Monashresponsible for the construction of 13 en­ researchers say.zymes (catalysts) critical to the body's In fact, Linnane and Marzuki proposesystem of energy storage and release. that certain substances, jf taken in largeThese enzymes are linked together into an enough amounts. can be used to by-passenergy production line, in such a way that these "breaks" in the energy chain ofthe product of one reaction becomes a cells. These substances are present in comnecessaryingredient of the next.mon foodstuffs and include Vitamin C, theHence a defect in anyone of the eninboth plants and animals, and a Vitaminless well-known ubiquinone which occurszymes can render the line, and themitochondrion containing it. inactive. The K-like chemical. menadione.researchers argue that over time, as the A few such supplements are already innumber of cells with a high proponion of clinical use. and, the researchers argue,mitochondria containing defective genetic new and more effective supplements couldcode increases. the body's capacity for be designed artificially to treatenergy production decreases.degenerative disease.Professorial moves • Dr Bill Kent. 47. reader in the department of History. has been appointed to a personalchair in history. Dr Kent is known internationally for his work in the field of ItalianRenaissance history.• Dr John Hamill, 31 , senior scientific officer at the Agricultural and Food ResearchCouncil Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK, has been appointed to the Chair ofDevelopmental Biology.• Dr David Healy. 41. senior lecturer in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.has been appointed to a chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology . He graduated in medicineat Monash in 1973.• Professor Bruce Tonge, 42, of the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry atthe University of Sydney , has been appointed to the Chair of DevelopmentalPsychiatry. He graduated in medicine at Monash in 1970.• Dr Joe Monaghan, 50, a reader in the department of Mathematics, has been appointedto the Chair in Applied Mathematics.• Professor Gordon Clark, 39, of the School of Urban and Public Affairs, CarnegieMellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been appointed to the second chair inGeography and Environmental Science. He graduated in economics at Monash in1973.• Professor Bernard Barry, 54, of the Cranfield School of Management, UK, has heenappointed to the Computations Chair of Management in the Faculty of Economics andPolitics.• Dr Harry Cullinan Jr, 51. Academic Dean, Professor and Senior Research Associate atthe Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton. Wisconsin, has been appointed to theChair of Pulp and Paper Technology in the depanment of Chemical Engineering. He isalso director of the new Australian Pulp and Paper Institute at Monash.• Dr Paul Rossiter, 42, chairman of the departmenl of Materials Engineering, has beenappointed to the Chair of Materials Engineering. He graduated in science at Monash in1968.• Associate Professor Paul Zimmet, 48, of the depanment of Biochemistry. has heenappointed to a part-time Research Chair in Diabetes. He is an internationallyrecognised expert on research into diabetes.• Associate Professor Sangkot Marzuki.Coselco first in technology park A RESEARCH company making useof a revolutionary new technique tostudy and design vaccines and medicaltests has become the first tenant of theMonash University Science andTechnology Park.Coselco Mimotopes Ply Ltd, a whollyownedsubsidiary of the CommonwealthSerum Laboratories (CSL), has just openeda laboratory complex worth more than$4 million on the park which is beingdeveloped across Blackburn Road from theuniversity's northeast comer.1ne laboratories have been designed tothe highest safety standards and are equippedwith the latest fume cupboard andchemical and biological containmenttechnology.In its new premises, the company willundenake research and developmentemploying technology which allows therapid construction and testing of hundredsof protein fragments at once. The method,developed by company founder Dr MarioGeysen, could lead to new or improvedvaccines, new diagnostic tests and advancesin the study of the mechanisms ofdiseases.Proteins are long chains constructedfrom about 20 different kinds of aminoacids. Up till now the method of buildingthem in the laboratory was to bind the firstamino acid to a resin, and one at a time inorder join on subsequent amino acids tomake up the chain. Once the chain wascomplete the first amino acid could becleaved from the resin by Ireatment withacid.What Geysen recognised was that theprocess of attachment for each amino acidwas the same. The wh;ole action ofbuilding up the chain was repetitive - ineach step only the amino acids changed.So he designed a simple piece of equipmentmade out of special plastic. a top withan eight by 12 array of pins which fitted intoa bottom . of 96 wells. By attachingstarter amino acids to the pins and plung~ing them into appropriate biochemicals inthe wells (differing only in the order theamino acids are added), 96 different chainscould be made at once.Recently it has been recognised that,while protein chains may be thousands ofunits long, they rely for their biological activityon a region or fragment of perhapssix to eight amino acids.This being so, using GeyseR'S technique.it has become relatively easy to constructthousands of small protein fragmentsof different combinations of amino acids.and screen their activity systematically.The method holds such promise for thedesign and development of new vaccinesand tests that CSL have put up the moneyfor the new facilities and have agreed toback the nedgling company for five years.Several scientists of more Ihan 10 yearsstanding with CSL have been induced totrade in their employment security and goand work for the new company.Already Coselco has begun a series ofcollaborative ventures with several internationalinstitutes and drug companies.A senior researcher. Dr Tom Masonsaid he thought that the first products of thecompany would be medical diagnostictests, because their development was lesslikely to involve the exhaustive safetytcsling associated with vaccines.In the longer term, he said he was excitedby the potential of pure research usingtheir technique to investigate cellreceptors work."These are the switches, if you like,which control the action of cells," he said.•'If we could mimic the hormones thatstimulate or inhibit them, it could lead advanceslike an oral version of insulin togive much bener control of diabetes. forinstance...In the meantime, Coselco is marketingits technology in kit fonn through CambridgeResearch Laboratories in Cambridge,England. The kits include theplastic holders. pins, software, chemicalsand instruction outlining differentstrategies of use.Coselco Mimolopes hopes to establish aclose relationship with Monash involvingcollaborative research and the use of services.At present it is negotiating access tothe university's libraries. health service,spons and recreation centre and other serviceson a fee paying basis.MONASH REPORTER Paa

Eve leads the way for other Koories .fIffif!I:... m n,_• Dr Eve Fesl faces the media after receiving her doctorate at a graduation ceremony atRobert Blackwood Hall earlier this year. Picture: RICHARD CROMPTON.SJudy of brown coal shows growing uses VICTORIA is not called the GardenState for nothing. It sits on the remainsone of the world's largest compostheaps - the brown coal deposits of theLatrobe Valley.In fact, brown coal has gone a stage fur·ther than compost, but it is a good sourceof humic materials, which are formednaturally during composting. says Dr TonyPatti, a chemist from the School of AppliedScience at the Gippsland Institute of AdvancedEducation.•'There are many reports of weird andwonderful effects of humic substances onplants and micro-organisms, particularlyas a growth stimulant. Some quile significantclaims have been made which deserveto be investigated."Because of this. for the past five years.in collaboration with the Coal Corporationof Victoria, Patti has been looking at compositionof brown cOdl dllJ it~ po!>sible applicationsin agriculture.Humic substances are the naturalbreakdown products remaining aftermicro-organisms have worked over plantmaterial in soils, sludges and peats.Using the expertise of the Cal Corporation'slaboratories at the Gippsland Institute,Patti has been studying the differencesbetween humic extracts obtainedusing different chemical treatments.Now that he has a feel for the chemicalcomposition of the humic extracts fromVictorian brown coal. Pani is beginning aseries of collaborative projects aimed atdetennining their biological activity.Most of the projects are appl ied innature. For instance, he is collaboratingwith horticulturalists. Debco Pty Ltd in astudy of the use of brown coal as a meansof making trace elements available toplants.A second line of research is to investigatereports that humics enhance theefficiency of conventional fertilisers. It hasbeen claimed that humic acids in combinationwith conventional nitrogen fertiliserscan increase plant yields by up to 30 percent over the fertilisers alone.There are sound environmental andeconomic reasons for looking at theseclaims. If they turn out to be true. the useof humic extracts could lead to a drop inthe amount of fertiliser needed per hectare.This would mean less runoff intofreshwater systems, reducing what isbecoming a significant environmentalproblem.A further claim in the literature is thathumic substances can stimulate the growthof micro-organisms. If true, this could 9'5!have an important impact on the fermenta- ~tion and biotechology industries, which de- ~pend on growing micro-organisms. "~Patti is working with Dr John May and ~Khoi Yu-Trong of the Monash II.Microbiology Department on a series of iexperiments to test the effect of humics on

For many plants, mite is right AN ongoing study by a research teamin the Botany and Zoology Departmenthas uncovered what is thought to bethe most widespread and ancientexample of co-operation betweenspecies.Members of about a quarter of thefamilies of woody flowering planls possessliule bumps or pits called domatia on theunderside of their leaves. They are particularlycommon in rainforest vegetation.The researchers believe that plants growthem deliberately to shelter mites. Inreturn the mites eilher protect or groom theleaves by eating other small creatureswhich feed on leaves or removing parasiticfungi .This would open up two interesling prospects.As the wild relatives of severalagricultural crops are among the plants thatcarry domatia, it could hold the potentialfor improving crops by learning to managebetter this form of biological pest controland by introducing it to new crop strains.The second benefit would be thediscovery of a manageable system forstudying one of the great unknowns ofecologx, ~ the interact,- bet'keen speciesknown as mutualism.Research team leader Dr DennisO'Oowd said: "]nteractions betweenspecies are a glue holding biological communitiestogether. The three most importantinteractions in this respect are thosebetween predator and prey, competitionbetween species for a scarce resource andmutualism.. 'Comparatively little work has beendone on mutualism, although it could bevery imponant to the understanding of thebiological world. Using the plant-mitesystem, very large experiments onmutualism could be set up in a smallspace .• ,O'Oowd's research group has been accumulatingevidence on the mice-plantrelationship since 1986. The first task wasto demonstrate whether or not mites wereassociated with domatia. This was done byexamining tens of thousands ofdomacia forany evidence of mites. ehher the animalsthemselves, or their eggs, or even theirfaeces .In fact, mites accounted for about 90 percent of insect-like creatures in domatia.They occurred in about half the domatiaand on about 70 per cent of the leaves, witha preference for older leaves.It is easy to show that domatia are grownby plants deliberately; that they are notgalls formed as a reaction to mite invaders.Not only do domatia grow in the absenceof mites , but they can al~o be detected inembryonic leaves within the bud.And the structure and position ofdomatia would seem to suggest that theyare not specialised for use by plants asglands, or insect traps or for absorbingwater or gases.The researchers found that the mites harboredby domatia fell almost exclusivelyinto two groups: mites which feed on fungiand other plant parasites on leaves, andpredatory mites which eat plant-damaginginsects and mites, their eggs and larvae."Domatia provide the mites with auseful humid shelter where they can laytheir eggs in safety and gain a measure ofprotection from the things that eat them,"0'Dowd said.During the course of its work, theresearch team has discovered that the relationshipbetween mites and plants goesback a very long way indeed.Palaeobotanist Dr Dave Christophel is.'.: :, ..• A mite scurries for cover into a leaf domatium outside of which an egg can be seen.Artwork: ANNE O'OOWDstudying ancient assemblages of leavestrapped and mummified in the Angleseacoal field and in a sand mine at GoldenGrove, near Adelaide. These leaves havebeen preserved from a rainforest whichwas growing in the mid-Eocene, about 43million years ago. And on the underside oftheir leaves. many display domatia.As well as the leaves, the group hasfound fossilised mites. Not only have theyturned out to be from tree-living species,but at least one of them is from 'a speciesclosely related to one commonly foundliving in leaf domatia in Queenslandrainforest..« EDUCATING RITA Ju1911 to 15C.~~ r "c.:; .'T'c'17..~ ;~~""::,* NICE GIRLS July 19 to 22*CORALIE LANSDOWNESAYS NO Aug- 9to 12• A handshake confirms a successful experiment. The director of the Alexander TheatrePhil A'Vard (right). and project manager Ross Mollison congratulate each other beneathdetails of the season that brought Playbox to the suburbs.MONASH REPORTER I'llge 15P/aybox becomes a Monash centre FROM the beginning of 1990,Melbourne's Playbox Theatre is tobecome a Centre of Monash University.The university Council and the board ofthe Playbox Theatre Company Limitedhave signed an agreement to establish thePlaybox Theatre Centre of MonashUniversity.Under the agreement, the university willlease the Malthouse Theatre Complex inSouth Melbourne. tit it out, and make itavailable to the new centre.]0 return, the centre will develop andpresent innovative Australian theatre, providingboth popular entertainment and experimentaldrama, and balancing theatreeducation with performance.The formal linking of Playbox withMonash follows the staging at the university'sAlexander Theatre of Play Season'89. Australia's first suburban se'ason ofprofessional drama. Two of the season'sthree productions came from the Playbox.and the whole exercise was such a successthat there are plans for a repeat performancenext year.The idea is to bring theatre closer towhere people live. As Alexander Theatremanager. Mr Phil A'Vard, pUIS it:··Nowadays. Monash isn' t too far out. Thecity is too far in."Interaction between the ptaybox andMonash dates back to the mid 70s. whenthe Playbox held workshop readings ofnew Australian plays on campus. And theAlexander Theatre has. in past years, borrowedPlaybox anistic director, Mr CarrilloGantner, to star in several of itshomegrown productions.The new Playbox Theatre Centre plansto support Australian playwrights and helpthem develop and refine new scripts. liSprograms will also include internationalworks from groups whose performancesare peninent to Australian anisis and audiences.Particular stress will be laid oncultural links with Asia.The chairman of the board of the newcentre will be Mr Graeme Samuel (the presentchairman of the Playbox TheatreCompany) and the deputy chairman will bethe Vice-Chancellor. Professor MalLogan.The agreement calls for a review of thenew centre after two to five years ofoperation.DECEMBERt989

-EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS Wrillen and compiled by the director of External Relations and Alumni Affairs. Ms Jennifer BeckAlumni highlights: here and overseas .. ---­"MONASH alumni groups have been TASMANIAparticularly active this year with a Invitations to a reception to be held atvariety of functions being held on Hobart in February 1990 will be sent outcampus, interstate and overseas. soon.If you are living in Tasmania. but haveMELBOURNEretained your COntact details in Melbourne.Following the success of the Science please let us know so that an invitation canFaculty's 10 year reunion. which was be sent to you.orga ni sed by a small voluntary committee THAILANDof graduates in conjunction with the The V ice-Chancellor. Professor MalDepartment of External Relations and Logan. will host a function for MonashAlumni Affairs, it is planned to extend the graduates and friends in Bangkok innumber of 10 year and 25 year reunions to January 1990.be held in Melbourne each year.Letters of invitations will be despatchedSuch events are a regular part of the pro­ soon and we look forward to receivinggram of long-eslablished alumni groups contact with Monash alumni in Thailand.such as Medicine and Law. but up until (Please let us know if you have changed,,1now. faculties such as Arts and Science your address) .• At the London reception (from leh): Associate Professor. Ian Rae, Ingrid Schefflerhave not featured.MALAYSIA (MBBS. 1983). Jane Healh (MBBS. 1980) and Graeme Cliff. who oblained an EngineeringWith the indications of support and of­ The establishment of a Monash alumnidegree from Monash and an MBA.fers of help received through responses to group in Malaysia was put on " hold".the graduates' survey. there is every pending the incorporation of the Australianreason to be optimistic about a graduate and New Zealand Graduates' Associationheightening of activity in 1990 and of Mal.ysia (AN ZGAM).beyond.We are now looking at how best to useIt is hoped thai some new disciplinary­ the services available through this group tobased groups will gel off lhe ground in suppon and promote Monash University1990. including Linguistics and History. Alumni activities.Meanwhile. a big thank you to all those involvedin running the many groups - forABOUT fifty Monash graduates at­ graduates in London might consider maktendeda social function held in May at ing Victoria House a focal point for theirtheir good ideas. energy . enthusiasm andsheer hard work.Victoria House. London.activities and a regular meeting point atQUEENSLAND MGA is filledspecified times for Monash visitors toA thoroughly enjoyable dinner was heldThere are about 200 Monash graduates London.at the Allegro Restaurant in Brisbane on 19 with optimismin Britain, and the invitation 10 meet over Preliminary steps have been laken toSeptember. Guest speaker was Murrumbadrinks marked the stan of our effort to establish a small interim steering commitbringthem into closer contact with the tee. comprised of gr.-duates living in theMP. Deane Wells (BA Hons 1972. MA THE past year has been one of op­1976. LLB 1980). Mr Wells gave a willy university .timism at committee level . SeveralLondon area. This will gradually be exandentertaining address on the role of theAssociate Professor Ian Rae was host fornew members have joined the commilparliamentarians. Since parliamentarythe evening and welcomed the grctduatestended to include graduates whotee. bringing with them fresh ideas andvolunteered their services from cities as farmatters in Queensland are in a state ofon behalf of the Vice-Chancellor Professor apart as Edinburgh. Southampton andsignificant and cont inual nux. his address enthusiasm.Mal Logan. Brislol .was both topical and informative.The committee has functioned in past Mr lain Haig. Agent-General for Vic­ The graduates' various response to theSpecial thanks to Mr Wells for his con­ years with a nucleus of committed toria. also w~Jcomed the Monash visitors letter of invitation is greatly appreciated. Atribution to the evening and to all those members who have carried the load with and reminded them that they were always directory of Monash graduates living inwho attended the dinner.unfailing dedication. and the assistance of welcome al Victoria House on The Strand. Britain is now being compiled and will beNSWIACTnew committee members will give new im­ The suggestion was made that Monash available to interested graduates.The Vice-Chancellor. Professor Mal petus to the association.Logan. hosted receptions for Monash The MGA commitee has sought tograduates living in the ACT and New create informal links with other alumniSouth Wales on 17 and 18 November. groups at Monash, and were heartened byIf you did not receive an invitation to the attendance of representatives fromthese functions but are living in NSW or other groups at the Annual Generalthe ACT, please use the change of address Meeting Dinner recently.fonn on page so that we can bring our Thirty- fi ve members and somerecords up to date and keep in touch with member's panners attended the AGM Dinyou.ner. The dinner was hailed a great suc­Victoria.............. ........•.. ............. .................... ...... .,•.. .... ........ .... 33.500 Australia: cess, and was much enhanced by the afterdinnerspeaker who was none other than ACT .......... ... .. ... ......•.... .... ..••.. ... ... .••. .. .......•..........••••....... ....•.... 400 New Soulh W.les ............... .. ..... ... ............. .......... ..........................830 Monash's own Mr Doug EJlis, Director of Queensland ........... ....•.....................•....... .. .............. •••................. 340 Library appeal the Sports and Recreation Association. Western Australia . ............. .. . .. ..................... ................................. . 220 MONASH Univen;ity graduates gave . Mr Ellis is a foundation staff member of Soulh Australi • ................................. ........................•••..... .. .. ..• ..... 210 generously to the Annual LibraryMonash. and his anecdotes of Monash as Tasmania .... ...... .. . ..... ... .. .. ............................................... ........",.140 only he knows it were both interesting and NonhemTerritory ,. .......... ..................,' " . ,' ..................... .. ,' " ..........70 Appeal this year.hilarious. The AGM Dinner is to be an an-Graduates from lhe ye.rs 1964 10 1974. nual event. and details for next year's dinwhowere asked to contribute for the firstOverseas: ner will appear in Monash Reporter and intime this year, made an average donationMal.ysia ................ ......... .................... ................. .... ..................2.000 SOUND.of $70 each.Sing.pore .. ....... .. ... .. ..... .. ..............:...... ....................... .............•.. 270 All executive offices were filled at theThe money will be used 10 buy books inUniled Kingdom .. ........•.....................................~ ........................200 AGM. and olher members indicaled Iheirthose areas of interest specified by theUniledSI.les................• .....................:.......................•.• ...........•.. . 170 willingness to serve on committee. All thisgraduates.Hong Kong ...... .... .. .....:..........•.. :......... .. ....................... .. ..............100 indicates a productive year for 1990. There have also been many other New Zealand .......................... .......................... ....... ....... ....... .. .....70 The office bearers for 1990 are: Presigeneroussupporters of the Ilbrary. some of Th.iland ...................•............... ... ...•...........................................60 denl - Anne Langdon 650 3248 (Home);whom have donated regularly for more Indonesia ..,.. ,............. ........ ......., ......................................... ......... 55 Secretary - Jean Grey 787 2192 (Home);than 13 years. These donal ions. which Canada ............................ .............................. .......... ............ ......50 Treasurer - Sylvia Evans.average about $60, are vital to the continu­Anne Langdon In addition there are Monash graduates recorded as living in another 40 countries.ing expansion of the library collection.PresldeDt (Roond figures only).MONASH REPORTER Pogo 16 DECEMBER 1989London reception attracts our alumni Where are the graduates?

EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS EDUCATION DURING Ihe pasl 12 monlhs membersof Ihe Monash Educalion Alumni haveenjoyed several funclions wilh gueslspeakers and have also seen Ihe firslPeler Fensham Scholarships awarded10 six posl-graduale ~Iudems in IheEducalion Facully. .AI the Annual General Meeting inFebruary. Dr Barry McGaw. director ofthe Australian Council of EducationResearch was guest speaker. The topic ofhis speech was issues of assessment in uppersecondary education.Executive committee elections were heldat this meeting with all former commilteemembers indicaling lhal they would bewilling to serve on· the committee for thefollowing year. Mrs Julie Johns andAS9OCi8te Professor Dick G'unston werealso voted on to the committee. Dr PaulGardner was elected convener, Joy Vogt.depuly convener and Neil Mclnlosh,treasurer. Joan Szalman was re-employedas executive officer.The State Education Minister JoanKirner was the guest speaker at a dinner inJuly. This was a very successful functiongiving alumni members the opportunity tomeet with the Education Minister and hearher talk on the future directions of educationin Victoria.In 1988 the alumni established the SilverJubilee Fund to raise money to providescholarships for poSl-graduale slUdenlS.These scholarships were seen as a practicalway by which the alumni members couldhelp present stUdents and the university.The scholarships were named .the PeterFensham Scholarships in honor of ProfessorPeter Fensham who has just retiredas Dean after two terms in the EducationFaculty. This year the first Peter FenshamSchplarships were awarded at the alumniannuaJ dinner in November.The recipients are PhD students B.M.Bandaranayake, Gr~eme Hawthorne,Anila LUSlig, Jamsheeda Khan and MajorieHome and Masters student NoreneHill.The Federal Minister for Science.Customs and Small Business, Barry Jones,was guest speaker at the annual dinner. MrJones. a fonner teacher. spoke on waysscience and the teaching of science mustimprove and grow in the future.The next function for the EducationAlumni is the annual general meeting on22 February in the Gallery Thealreue, cost$6 for members, $7.SO for non-members.Membership subscription for the alumniis SI8 ordinary membership or $13 country/overseasmembership. For further informationplease contact Joan Szalrnan on565 2787 or write c/- Education Faculty.Monash University, Clayton.Joan SzalmanEducationTHE Mannix Old Collegians A~ocialionsleering comminec has been keptbusy Ihis year drafling a conslitulionwilh a view 10 formal ising Ihe associalionin 1989.Other activities have included organisingthe annual ball and monitoring pastresidenls' address changes.The association lakes this opponunity toMONASH REPORTER• At an education alumni function (from left): The convenor, Dr Paul Gardner; the Vice­Chancellor, Professor Mal Logan; the Victorian Minister for Education, Mrs Joan Kirner; Mrslesley Greagg; and the Dean, Professor David Aspin.GEOGRAPHY THE Geography Alumni started offthe year with an addre~ by DOled anlinuclearactivisl and environmenlalisl,Dr Helen Caldicon.Dr Caldicott spoke at a lunchtimemeeting of students and staff and laler addressedalumni members at an eveningmeeling held in the Gallery Building.AI the leelures, Dr Caldicou expressedreal concern for tbe furure of the earth andstressed how immediate action was Deededto save the planet.Another highlight of the year was lhecareers night held in August. More than 90geography SludenlS packed the theatrette inthe Gallery Building to hear from pas!geography SludenlS, who spoke on theircareers and advised current students aboutobtaining jobs as geographers. The functionwas SO successful the alumni hopes tomake it an annual event.The Geography Alumni of MonashUniversity concluded its 1989 activities ona high DOle when members gathered in theBanquet Room for the annual dinner.The new ehainnan of the GeographyDepartmenl, Professor Gordon Clark, whohas returned to MORash after 15 years inthe Unired SI8IeS, addressed members andcommented on the differences in attitudesof Australians and Americans to modernsocial issues.He also praised the real world relevanceof geography as taughl al Monash andranked Monash geography mosI favourablyagainSl the type commonly taught inprominent universities in the US.Members of the Geography Alumni isopen 10 pas! SlUdenlS of the MonashGeography Departmenl. For infOrmalionplease contacl Paddy Rapson, Geographyand Environmental Science Depanment.Monash Universily, ClaylOn 3168 orphone 565 2946.Paddy RapsonGeography• Geography alumni (from left): Christine Kenyon, Murray GoukJ, Paddy Rapson and AnnScotl.HIGHLIGHT of the year was thecelebralion of the 25th anniversary ofthe founding of the David DerhamSchool of Law.More lhan 550 graduales, staff membersand friends gathered al the Savoy Ballroomof the Hyall on Collins at the end of May.LAW lMANNIX COLLEGEl thank Rob GelJ, our guest speaker at thisyear's dinner, as well as those who attended.Also make a note in your diary that thedinner is held each year on the eve of theVFL (AFL) Grand Final.If you know of any past residents whowould be interested in receiving theassocialion's newsletter or becoming afinancial member ($20 a year). contactMannix. College to obtain details.Page 17President of the Monash University LawAlumni, Campbell McComas, acled asMC and played tbe part ofa 19605 law studenl,Willy Waller-Baxler. GueSl speakerwas the Victorian Premier, John Cain.Other events this year were the AnnualGeneral Meeting conducted over drinks atthe Redback Brewery, Fleminglon Roadon 31 August. Some members also attendedIhe 1989 Wilfred Fullagar MemorialLecture, delivered by former AustralianPrime Minister, Gough Whitlam.The MULA entertained final yearstudents to drinks at the Monash UniversilyStaff Club on II October. The MULAundergraduate awards were presented tothe 1989 Law Review editors, JonathanClough and Jennifer Douglas.If you want to be pan of the action in1990 and are nOl already a member ofMULA. phone Helen Milovanovic at theLaw School on 565 3373.MEDICINE THE Associalion of Monash Medical Graduales has cominued ils involve­menl wilh Ihe facully, wilh thegraduales and wilh Ihe undergraduales.We have representation on the FacultyBoard and are playing an active role on theCurriculum Review Committee. We haverecently conducted a survey of all ourgraduates and HEARU have helped collatethe material. A summary will be publishedin the nex.t Newsletter.We are having discussions with theDean, Professor Roben Porter, to ascertainhow a postgraduate centre could beincorporated in the proposed new facultybuilding on campus.The Annual General Meeting and dinnerwas beld al the Dorchester again in 1989 ­sadly the last time at this venue as theMelbourne Cily Council in ilS wisdom haswithdrawn the lease. It was a gala occasionwith the "unveiling" of the association'sPortraits of Professors Rod Andrew andGraeme Schofield and the presentalion oftheir pastel studies, following which ProfessorSchofield gave tbe afler dinner address.The association was also delightedto confer Honorary Life Membership onGraeme Schofield. We again Ihank him forall his support and encouragement andwish him well in his retirement.Please note in your diaries that nextyear's AGM/Dinner will be beld at theTudor Court on Friday, 18 May. AssociateProfessor Eric Glasgow will be our guestspeaker.Rosemary Wright has continued thetradition of excellence in the production ofour quarterly Newsletter. The associationcontinues to send one complimentary issueper year 10 all non-member graduates andnow to all clinical undergraduates.We have continued with offeringassistance in organizing 10, 15 and 20 yearreunions. These functions are generallyvery well attended and voted a hugesuccess.This year we have given a scholarshipfor a PNG medical student to come toMonash for his elective and we are hopingbe will write an article for our newsleuerto hear his views and reactions.We will be presenting the final yearprize at the final year dinner held at Leonda.Last year's winner was Dr SusanWigg. We continue to provide interest-freeloans to clinkal students who find they arefacing financial difficulties.We hope to see many members,associate members and potentia) membersal Ihe next AGM/Dinner on 18 May.For funher information phone ValdaTwaddle on (03) 895 3456.J.R. EldertonPresidentReport on the Troup abroad NEWS from abroad has reached lbeMonash Reponer.The son of Dr Gordon Troup, a readerof the Physics Department at MonashUniversity, has been recently appointedconsultant geratologist to the West SuffixHospital in Bury, 51 Edmonds.Dr Mkhael Troup has been livingoverseas for about six years with his wifeand their t I month old baby daughter.DECEMBER t989

EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS MATENGA II SMEEA THE Materials Engineering Alumuni The top item on the agenda of the new THE Society of Monash Electrical fUlure. Would you like 10 lell lhem howAssocialion (MATENGA) is now committee concerns the production of an Engineering Alumni (SMEEA) has you fitted in after graduation? If so get inentering its founh year!Alumni Register. This is intended to be a now been going for Ihree years and touch with us,Peter Aird. as our Founding President.quite unique resource for the professional boasts more Ihan 300 members. RESEARCH AND GRANTShas done a marvellous job in setting up theactivities of our membership.II has been a busy year for Ihe Departresearchin diverse areas. Professor RayThe department is forging ahead withbasic infrastructure of our association. He There have been many changes in ment of Electrical and Computer Systemshas returned to the ranks of our committee. Materials Engineering' and these will be Engineering, one of Ihe highlighls beingJarvis and BHP Melbourne Researchhaving completed the maximum number of detailed in the depanmental repon which the SMEEA's second dinner on June 2. ALaboratory have received a GIRD (Grantsterms as president that is pos5ible under we intend to send to you in early 1990. directory of members listing more than for Industry Research and Developments).our constitution, and Yvonne Fayman has300 names has also been prnduced and The $1 million grant will be used toPlease forward any address up-dates totaken over his position.costs only $10 (cheques to be made out to develop generic technology for real timeChris Berndt as soon as possible so thatThe new year also saw a change in much you do not miss out. Feel free to forwardSMEEA).3D vision for robotic and inspectionof the committee. A note of appreciation isAlthough membership continues to grow systems .any comments or suggestions to Yvonne orextended to the retiring members who haveit is still only a third of the total number ofOther research and leaching activities inChris (C/- Dept. Materials Engineering) aldone much to make the association viable. any lime - we are always looking for feedgraduates from the department. Anyonethe depanment include new courses inThe- mid-year dinner still remains thewho would like to join should phone Dr communication and research in videoback!major activity of MATENGA. On theseKishor Dabke on 565 3507 or Dr David coding.occasions it is quite surprising whoDr Chris Berndt Morgan on 565 3483 or leave a message OTHER NEWS"comes out of the woodwork".Materials Engineerin~ 565 3486.Monash University will amalgamateGRADUATE SEMINARSwilh Chisholm on July I. 1990. Whal kindThe SMEEA organised IWO lalks this of electrical engineering degrees willMECHANICAL ENGINEERING year to undergraduates who may be feeling develop on the two campuses is an openlost or are unable to see where the course is question. Similarly what happens to thestatus of past graduates of the two institu~leading. Guest speakers were GeoffTHE Mechanical Engineering Alumni The association has adopted a . 'business Ramadan (1982) of Unique Micro Design tions when they are amalgamated isAssociation was formed in 1984 to main­ lunch" format where grnduates from diftaincontact between graduates.ferent years are brought together in an Sharpley. 1984) of Asea Brown Soveri.Dr Kishor Dabk.Ply LId and Marianne Lourie (nee something you may wish to comment on.Jacek Stecki took the helm at the start of informal gathering with members of the These were well attended and the studentsElectrical aDd Computer1988 and has brought about some major depanment.would like more talks to occur in theSystems Engineeringchanges to the style and effecti.veness of Three business lunches were held thisthe association . promoting exchange year with about 60 members turning up tobetween students and graduates. . each function.This year two Alumni meetings were The !lissociation is already planning its SCIENCE held overseas with Jacek meeting gradu­ activities for next year and hopes to holdates in Singapore and Dr J. Mathew attend­ an annual dinner_more informal lunches IF Monash science graduates have According 10 Robyn lhe general leveling meeting in both Singapore and Kuala and. put out a newsletter.anything in common olher than their and awareness about (he role of good nutritionin health is encouraging.Lumpur. Anyone interested in joining the degrees, it is Ihal Ihey show eXlra­Later in the year members from Singa­ Mechanical Engineering Alumni Associaporeand Malaysia returned the visit and tion should phone Jacek Stecki onsomething about nutrilion, probablyordinary diversity in their careers. "People really feel Ihey can doAl Ihe 1978-1979 Science Facuhy rebecausethey are close to it at least threewere given a tour of the department. 565 3523.union dinner held in August. there wereentrepreneurs, computer consultants. those.times a day. " she said.Combined wilh Ihe knowledge of olherwith a career in the Defence Department,nurses, hospital consultants and solicitors.factors related to hean health of weight.The message of the evening wascholesterol. blood pressure, smoking andexercise, Robyn believes it means thatreflected both in the careers of the"we can take control of our lives in a verygraduates and the speech made by V icetangibleway" .Chancellor. Professor Mal Logan; thatgraduates have an enormous choice ofWith a background not only in clinicalcareers and make an important impact onnutrition but also as an an researcher andAustralian society.director's assistant at Sotheby's, RobynA direclory IiSling Ihe 1978 and 1979believes that a science degree is "a greatgraduates was distributed at the reunionbackground to any career. giving in­people drinking atand is being distributed to those who werevaluable training in thinking clearly andfunction. and only four bottles of beer.unable to attend the dinner.logically" .GRADUATE SPOTLIGHTEntrepreneur, Harry Ramelan put theThese days Robyn Charlwood is very Monash network to good use when he selPHYSICS much in the public eye. As newly ap­ up his company, Unique Micro Design, si~pointed head of the nutrition program at years ago. .THERE was an encouraging response and talk about career paths for physics the Victorian Division of the National Afler gradualing in 1978, Harry worked10 Professor Fred Smith's letter to graduates. Heart Foundation, her overall task is to get in the research department of ICI as an inacrossthe message which links good nutri­ formation scientist. According to Ramdanphysics graduates about the formation Of the graduates who responded to the of an alumni group. letter, 77 per cent were still directly in­ tion very positively to hean health. he had also regarded this lime as a •'step­A large number of people indicated they volved in science. Other areas included This may lake lhe form of speaking 10 ping stone" to forming his own company.would be willing to make it happen. They management , consultancy, marketing and groups of health professionals, supplying Wilh brolher Geoff (a Monash Elecuicalwil1 be called upon soon to help draw up a the law. Teachers and schools accounted infonnation and resources to the public and Engineering graduate), Peter Wonhprogram for 1990. for 10 per cent, with 26 per cent of those overseeing health promotion programs. (fonnerly with the Monash ComputerMany offered to meet current .students employed in the tertiary education sector. Robyn was heavily involved in producing Cenlre) and Manhew Raflopoulos, anthe "Hean Health" menus at the Victorian accounlanl who holds a Monash degree inArts Cenlre and has appeared on Channel economtcs, Ramdan formed Unique Micro9's "A Current Affair" program talking Design (UMD).SOCIAL WORK about the myths associated with heart Ramdan said the enterprise fulfils a longdisease.term aim to "have a powerhouse ofTHE Monash Social Work Network to draw on the expertise of graduates tograduales doing high level work".was launched this year with a recent speak on developments in the field.UMD conducts research and developmentsin electronics and manufacturesdinner held at Monash University. A directory of members with their placeof work and special professional interestsmicro processor-based devices such asAboul t30 graduales, sludenlS and Slaff is available to all members. It shows themagnetic cardreaders. bar code readersattended the evening with Lesley Hewitt wide rang. of posilions held by Monashand point of sale displays.from Protective Services as the guest social workers. Any social work graduateThe company's links wilh Monash exlendspea~er.wishing to be included should contact thewell heyond lhose making up ilSThe network aims to develop and main­ External Relation & Alumni Affairs directainworking team. The Mechanical Engineer­supportive links between the members tor, Jennifer Beck on 565 5007.ing Department and Montech are two ofand continue the ties with the department For funher information about thelhe company's clienls for whom lhe UMDof'Social Work al Monash.Monash Social Work Network phone Jinnyteam have been working for some time onThe functions will combine a social and McGrath on 523 8399 (w) or 551 6805 (h)the developmel;1t of a vibralton analysis andeducative focus and it is hoped to continue or Jo O'Neill on 509 0604 (h).Robyn Cha~wood.other systems.MONASH REPORTER Pogo 18 DECEMBER 1989

EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND ALUMNI AFFAIRS Survey results IN the last year's Graduates' Special The survey also found that 56 per cent ofedition of MOMSh Reponer, we respondents felt sufficiently well informedsought feedback from graduates onahout Monash, whereas only 33 per centtheir sense ofattachment to the universityand what value they placed onfelt well infonned about their own faculty.Hardly surprising, therefore, that 21 percent did "not know" or would not recommendMonash to a prospective student. Buttheir time here. The responses havebeen illuminating and have helped us 77 per cent would.ta know in what ways we might maintainClearly, communicating with ourcontact.graduates about issues and developmentsThe overwhelming number of has to be a top priority. In fact, 77 per centrespondents would choose Monash again ifthey were to apply to enrol at a universityof respondents sought some form ofregular communication from theuniversity.Graduates also experienced interest inother activities:again - 88 per cent as against 12 per cent.One of the classic reasons given forchoosing Monash again was; "Because Iliked it". Others included, "Monash was(and is) about excellence" and ..It is themost forward-looking university". Therewere some obviously biased answershowever; "Monash is the best universityin existence!" The "delightful grounds"and "beautiful campus" also featured,which will hearten those who have beenresponsible for landscaping the campusover the years.Graduates were also asked to state on ascale of one to five how valuable their timewas at Monash. Only one person gave it a"five" - a complete waste of time. Theother results were~ 51 per cent ofrespondents thought their time there wasvery valuable (one); 31 per cent gave it a"two", 16 per cent gave it "three" andtwo per cent gave it a "four".How did they rate the quality of the formal/professionaleducation received here?Excellent (I) 29 per cent; (2) 49 per cent;Average (3) 18 per cent; (4) three per centand Poor (5) one per cent.And how valuable was it in terms of personaldevelopment? Very valuable (I) 45!f cent; (2) 23 per cent; Moderate (3) 25..,er cent; (4) six per cent; Detrimental (5)one per cent.Responses to the question •'What didyou value most about your time atMonash?", can nearly all be summed up inone answer: ..It expanded my horizons".This was the outcome of opportunities providedthrough lectures and tutorials, clubsand societies, sports and recreation, livingin halls and through developing an independentmind and spirit and meeting lotsof different people.And what did people value least? Exams,lack of funds, lack of time. the windand the mud in those early years. Thosewho found distance to Clayton a problemwill be pleased to know that Monash nowsits at the demographic centre ofMelbourne. How things change!Just to show that you can't please all thepeople all the time, student politicsfeatured as both the most valued and leastvalued aspect oflife at Monash. Many pe0­ple cited it as the least valued aspect andone only as the most valued.And how strong is the graduates' senseof identity with Monash? Strong (I) 29 percent, (2) 25 per cent; Moderate (3) 34 percent, (4) 10 per cent and Non-existent (5)two per cent.* 64 per cent indicated that they wouldappreciate access to Jibrary facilities* 54 per cent indicated their interest inprofessional development courses• 41 per cent · responded positively tothe question of travel opportunities* 36 per cent indicated their interest insporting facilities* 36 per cent wanted hotel discounts* 25 per cent indicated an interest inMonash memorabilia* 25 per cent favored social activities* 22 per cent would be interested incurrent affairs seminars.The infonnation gained from graduates'responses to this survey has been enormouslyhelpful in determining programpriorities. It has also provided importantinfonnation for those involved in otherareas of the university including the libraryand continuing professional education.Thanks to those around the world whooffered their service to help in furtheringthe alumni program. The great deal of interestshown in alumni activities shouldlead to increased contact between theuniversity and its graduates and amongstthe graduates themselves.The time and trouble of all those whoresponded is greatly appreciated as aresubsequent letters and phone calls from in·terested graduates.For further infonnation about the surveycontact the director of External Relations& Alumni Affairs, Jennifer Beck on565 5007. Jennifer BeckExternal Relations and Alumni AffairsDiscount cardA MODaSh AlumnilD card will entitleyou to • number of benents:• Eligibility to apply for SpecialMembership of Monash University Club atonly $30 a year.• Savings on Thomas Cook TravelProducts through Monash Alumni ThomasCook Travel Club - discounts on holidayswithin Australia. international airfares,cruises, insurances and commission freetraveUers' cheques.• Bonuscard rates. at Southern PacificHotels, The Parkroyal Collection,Travelodge. Bonuscard rates can save you10%, 20% and even 40% a night on yourhotel accommodation.• Special rate for Monash Alumni atthe Hyatt on Collins, Melhourne.• Monash Alumni rates at hotels of1beVictoria Holdings Limited: The SberatonHotel, Melbourne, The Victoria Hotel,Melbourne. The Grosvenor Hotel.Adelaide.Graduates' guide to alumni groups Cbemical EngIoeering: Inquiries: Dr EricOlbrich, 565 3436Chemistry: Inquiries: Dr Ernie Nunn,5654566Civil Enaineerina: Inquiries: Dr Bill Young,5654699ClMsk:al Studies: Inquiries: Mrs NormaGilbert, 565 3013Earth Sdenca: Inquiries: Mr Guy Royce,5654892Economics & PoUtks: Inquiries: AsSOC'. Professor Lachie McGregor. 565 2319 Education: Inquiries: Mrs Joaa Szalman, 565 2787Electrical Engineeriog: Inquiries: Dr KishorDabke, 565 3507EllIlish: Inquiries: Ms Barbara Calton,5652156Geography: Inquiries: Ms Paddy Rapson,565 2911Japanese: Inquiries: Dr Helen Marriott,56522nLaw: Inquiries: Ms Helen Milovaoovic.565 3373Llbracianship: Inquiries: Mari Davis,608 6888Mannix College: Inquiries: Dr G.L.McMullen. 565 3583Materials Engineerlna: Inquiries: Dr PeterAird, Dr Chris Berndt, 5654919Mechanical Engineering: Inquiries: Mr JackStecki, 565 3523MecUdne: Inquiries: 5654318Monash Graduates' Association: Inquiries:Ms Anne Langdon. 650 3248Music: Inquiries: Mrs YvonDe Hansen.5653230Physics: Inquiries:Professor Fred Smith,565 3630Social Work: Inquiries: Ms Jinny McGrath,5238399Overseas and InterstateWestern Australia: Inquiries: Monash AlumniWestern Australia, c/- Mr Ken Fehily. POBox 7312, Cloisters Square. Perth, WA6000. Tel. (09) 481 3550 (bh), (09)275 7500 (ah)Queensland: Inquiries: Monash AlumniQueensland. c/- Mr Christopher Joy. Box80, Red Hill, Queensland 4059. Tel. (07)369 6499 (bh)Mala,..: Inquiries: Monash Alumni Malaysia,c/- Ms Yong Siew Lan. ANZGAM Secretarial,1...0( 3, Lorong Utara 8. 46200Petaling Jay., Selangor. Malaysia. Tel. (03)756 2389Hoog Kong: Inquiries: Monash Alumni HongKong, c1- Dr Albert Leung, Department ofBiochemistry, The Chinese University ofHong Kong, Shatin NT Hong Kong. Tel.~35 2333, ~35 2876Singapore: Inquiries: Australian Alumni Singapore,c/- Mr Lee Siew Khaun, 10 AnsonRoad #16-16, Internacional Plaza. Singapore0207. Tel. 225 6737General: Inquiries: Department of ExternalRelations and Alumni Affairs. Monash Uni·versity, Clayton, Vic. 3168. Tel. 5652044The colors NYMPH's thigh is one prescribed colorin the Dictionary of Color Standardsthat Monash Univell>ity has notselected for its academic dress.However. rose beige. peacock blue andbanana silk are among the colors adoptedby different faculties to adorn the academicgowns at graduation ceremonies.Director of External Relations andAlumni Affairs, Jennifer Beck, recentlypresented a history of the development ofacademic dress from the 1200s to Halls'residents. Tutors acted as models for theoccasion.According to Ms Beck it was not untilthe lSOOs when colors in academic dressbecame significant...It was by this time that faculties felt aneed to assert themselves as a unit and tomake their common aims known 10 theuniversity as a whole," she said. "It alsosecured them against unqualified perpetrators...The Monash University faculty colorsare: Ans - old rose, Economics ­peacock blue, Education - banana silk,Engineering - rose beige, Law - white,Medicine - victrix blue and Science ­primrose silk.Updating our records This year's RnaI Issue of Mo"",h Graduates' Special, there were 1020R.pon., Is being sent to more than copies returned to sender. New or for­39,000 , ...duat... As In previous warding addresses were found for 525years, we are asking your help to (51 %) of these.keep our massive address list uJH'" If you give insufficient informationdate.we may not be able to identify you.From last year's mailing of theTO: Mr John Kearton,Department of External Relations and Alumni Affairs,Monash University, Clayton, 3168Surname at time of graduation: ........................................................... . Given names: .................................................................................... . New surname if applicable: ................................................................ . New title if applicable: ........................................................................ . Last address notified: ......................................................................... . .............................................................. Postcode: ............................. . New address: .................................................................................... . Confederation THOSE involved in running alumnigroups around the campus are nowconsidering the establishment of a confederationof alumni groups. .The organisation would have the advantageof proViding a loose structure thatwould accommodate the comparativelydiverse alumni groups.It would also provide a channel of communicationand a means of mobilising opi­To enjoy these rates - and others asthey become available - apply for a.................,.............................,.,•........... Postcade: .............................. Monash Alunini ID card by sending a feeof 510, together with your name, address,degree and year of graduation to the Degree and year graduated: ..............................,................................. Depanment of External Relations andAlumni Affairs, Monash University, Student 1.0. number, if known: ............................................................ nion and support.Clayton 3168.MONASH REPORTER Poget9 DECEMBER 1989

Re-creating the art of the copy RE.CREATION/RE-CREATION ­The An of Copying, 19th and 20thcenturies, is the University Gallery'sfinal exhibition for the year.The curator of the exhibition, MerrynGates. concentrated on three differenttypes of copying practice: the studentcopy. the mature copy and the contemporarycopy.The exhibition includes rarely-seenworks from the Collections of the NationalGallery of V icloria and regional galleriesas well as plaster casts of antiquesculptures and contemporary artists fromMelbourne and Sydney.For many centuries the practice of copyingthe works of master painters bystudents and apprentices was an accepted,even preferred. way of teaching lhetechnical skills of the artist.During the 19th and 20th centuries, thepractice of the an of copying fell intodisrepute in preference for the notion oforiginalily. Most an schools have nowdiscontinued the practice of copying andemphasise instead the value of individualexpression. Student copyists may still beseen occasionally at the National Galleryof Victoria copying the works of the EuropeanOld Masters.Rank Xerox Copy Centre sponsored thepublication of the substantial cataloguewhich is still available at the Gallery (priceS7). The exhibition will close on 2December.The Friends of the Monash UniversityGallery will host a champagne ChristmasParty on Tuesday 28 November in theGallery. Music will be provided by theEarly Music Society Ensemble. TheFriends will present two drawings to the .Uni-versity Collection which have been acquiredwith funds generously provided byits members.From 6 to 20 December. an exhibition ofrecent acquisitions, loans and gifts to theCollection will be on display in theDrysdale Gallery. Gallery hours: Tuesdayto Friday 10 am to 5 pm.The Gallery will be closed from 20December and will re-open on 28 February1990 with a retrospective exhibition ofpaintings and drawings by the distinguishedMelbourne anist/engineer, the lateEdwin Tanner.Jenepher DuncanMonash Unlvenlty GalleryThe McGowans take life by degrees GRADUATING from university is a "If you live in Melbourne, education is arts, science, medicine and surgery, farmina·milestone in anyone's life, but for really easy, and you don't have to travel economics, social work., engineering. Mrs McGowan has been to everyMarie McGowan, the word graduation away, because all the scbools are there, but education, ,,"rentina, law and agricultural araduation, and now the children are offit's much harder in the country:' science. he( hands has taken up breedillll her ownhas a special significance.Ms McGowan said in the case of her Five McGowans - Cathy, Helen, Peter, horses and racing them - activities atWhile not a university graduate herself, family, there was another very gratifying Rebecca and Miriam - each have at least which she has been very successful.she could lay claim to being part ofdegrees aspect of her parents. one Monash degree. Mr and Mrs McGowan celebrated theirranging from medicine to law. "TIle end result of all these children Their father, Paul McGowan, has an 40th wedding anniversary in August. andMrs McGowan is the mother of 12 off- ~hing their potential is that many of us agricultural scienee degree, and worked as are justifllbly proud of all they and theirspring who will soon have 17 degrees have come back and are working in the an agricultural scientist before returning to children have achieved.between them.country," she said.What makes this feat especially ad- Cathy McGowan has a professional inmirableis the fact that the McGowan clan terest in seeing educational opportunitieshas had to overcome the tyranny of developed for rural women. Program for RBHdistance which comes from living in rural "My fellowship involves going to The rollowlng actIvities are sc:heduled music for the festive season. AdultsAustralia.Canada to see how the Canadian govemrorRobert BlIlckwood HallIn December: $12, Cone. $6. 8pm. TIcket Inqulrios:Spanning an age range of 18 years from ment consults with rural communities, par­2: PRE-CHRISTMAS SOUND SPEC­ write to 11 KiplIng Court, East Buroldestto youngest, the McGowan family ticularly rural women, when it sets up ser­TACULAR - Features the University wood 3125, or phone 8411 1068 A.H.grew up on a farm in the Indigo Valley, vices for them," she said.of Melbourne Institute of Educationnear Wodonga in northeast Victoria. "We've got pretty good systems for men9: VICTORIAN CHILDREN'SWind Symphony and special auest ar­According to daughter Cathy McGowan, getting things through their networks, butCHOIR - The Keith Glover Christtists.8pm. Adults $9, Conc. S7 .who has an ans degree from Monash and " it is much more difficult to get servicesmas Celebrity Concen features theGroup concession also available.was recently awarded a Churchill whtch are appropriate for women ...Junior Strings of Melbourne. Con­TIcket Inquiries: 878 S893 or A.H.FelJowship, rural women are often the ducted by Spiros "Rantos. 8pm. AdultsUD- Ms McGowan is working at present as a7291305.sung heroes when it comes to their rural affairs adviser for the AgricultureS14.50, Cone. $10.50. Ticket in­children's academic achievements. and Rural Affairs Depanment. quIries: 890 4575.3: THE VICTORIAN BOYS' CHOIR"Often rural women do this kind of full- The 17 degrees the McGowan children 10: MELBOURNE YOUTH MUSIC- Director of Music: Paul Forster.time parenting, and then get this amazing will have by the time next year's gradua­ COUNCIL - All ensembles of theThe annual Family Christmas Coneenresult at the end of it. ' . she said. lion ceremonies are held cover the fields of Saturday Music School - Melbourneprogram will include items by allYouth Orchestra. Percy Graingergroups within the choir. A specialYoulh Orchest...ol. Melbourne Youthfeature this year will be a performanceSymphonic Band. John Antill Youthof some choruses from Handel'sBand, Junior Training Band, Margaret"Messiah" for which the performersSuthenand Strings. Junior Sirings.will be joined by tenors and bassesMelbourne Youth Choir and SILHOUcomprisingthe Victorian Chorus and aETTE: Melbourne String Choir. 3 andsmall orchestra under the leadership of7pm. Adults S8, Conc. $5. TicketsMargaret Griffiths. Adults SIO, Conc.available at the door. Inquiries:S5, Family (two adults and their690 8624.children under 16 years) $25. 5.3Opm.Ticket inquiries: 233 1642 or 16: NATIONAL BOYS' CHOIR CON­2331142. CERT - Christmas carols old andnew. including .'The Song Cycle ­6: THE AUSTRALIAN GIRLS' Dancing Day " by John Rutter. CarolsCHOIR ANNUAL COMBINED by Malcolm Williamson. WilliamCHOIRS CONCERT - Christmas Walton. Vaughan Williams and Ord.music from around the world as well as Arrangements of traditional carols byselections from the 1989 Canadian L1e'Yellyn. Carter and Ray Charles.Tour repertoire. Features the Percy 8pm . Ticket inquiries: 439 9146 orGrainger Youth Orchestra together 431 1741 A.H.with the 380-voicc Australian Girls'17 : SCHERZO MUSIC ACADEMYChoir. 7.30pm. Ticket inquiries:ANNUAL CONCERT AND4194800.AWARD PRESENTATION - Therow . left 10 nght - Cathy . Rebecca. MIriam, Peter, John . Paul, 8: CHIME CHRISTMAS CONCERT Melbourne Academy Boys' Choir.Rick. Veronica. Front row. left to right - Patricia. Frances. Paul (father). Marie (-nother). - Boys and girl s choir-; as well as uirected by Andrew Bladhurn. 2pm.Elizabeth. Helen. en sembl e~ combining: in a ~ onl'en of Ticket inquiries: 560 1513.~I()"'ASII REPOKTER Pa~e 20 m:cnIRER 1989PRtNTEO BY SYME MEDIA IINCORP IN VICTORIA) 103) 797 0222