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news UWA4 NOVEMBERThe University of Western Australia ESTABLISHED 19112002 Volume 21 Number 17Perth International Arts FestivalThe Lotteries Film season at UWA’sSomerville Auditorium boasts thejewels in the crown of the film industry —read about them on page 10.

2 UWAnewsVCariousthoughts …One size does not fit allIt took a mighty national push in policy andimplementation across the Commonwealth tocreate the current Australian system of highereducation at the end of the 1980s.A reforming Federal Minister, in the form of UWA graduate,John Dawkins, determinedly pressed his vision of a greatlyexpanded university sector — involving the doubling ofuniversities both through the transformation of Colleges ofAdvanced Education and the amalgamation of colleges anduniversities — and a great advance in access, not leastdependent on the new HECS provisions. A national researchcouncil was also brought into being. A major CommonwealthMinistry grew up to oversee, fund and administer this newnational phenomenon of the unified national system.A distinctly centralised system had been set in motion, inwhich the best outcomes lay in access and research focus, andthe least attractive aspects in a ‘one size fits all’ funding andpolicy model.That centralising paradigm, and tendency of levelling down toa national norm, is in urgent need of transforming reform,towards the creation of a system of genuine diversity andrecognised missions among Australian universities.In all the debate about funding and budgets, that policy thrusthas been far too little discussed. And yet the move towards amore pluralistic system, of excellence through diversity ofchoice and institutional initiatives, could be the transforminghallmark of the Nelson review initiative.As with micro-reform in the economy at large, theuniversities are ready for an environment of much greaterflexibility and freedom, which draws from the capacities ofuniversities themselves, recognising the importance of a nationalframework of operation and accountability for public fundingfrom the Commonwealth.There are fears that such a flexible framework of choice, asadvanced strongly by the AVCC, might lead to a hierarchy ofuniversities and not a pluralism of quality and equal institutions.That could happen in an inappropriate policy framework andfunding mix.UWAnewsEDITOR/WRITERLindy BrophyTel.: 9380 2436 Fax: 9380 1192 Email: lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.auEDITOR-IN-CHIEFColin Campbell-FraserTel: 9380 2889 Fax: 9380 1020 Email: ccampbell@admin.uwa.edu.auDesigned and typeset by Publications Unit, UWAPrinted by UniPrint, UWAUWAnews online: www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/uwanews/But it should not happen if some fundamental policy and fundingchanges were put in place, namely:• raising the base-funding of all universities with significantlymore core funding and more appropriate indexation of allaspects of that Commonwealth resourcing;• new fully-funded places to meet demand, combined with adynamic model for redistributing places between regions andinstitutions based on demand and mission;• additional research and infrastructure resourcing distributedon the basis of highest quality performance;• significant contestable funding aimed to support regionalprovision of higher education and major equity initiatives;• flexibility for universities to set a HECS level above (orbelow) a standard rate, coupled with an equivalent volume ofresources for contestable allocation for those institutionsnot wishing to vary HECS charges; and• support for universities to build their entrepreneurialincomes – in overseas students, industry resources andphilanthropy.Such a major set of initiatives would, over a period of time,significantly lead to the creation of universities that representvery different missions, have very different cost drivers, and thatwish to pursue their own sense of development in the future.While all Australian universities could now benefit fromreform of policy and reform of funding allocations whichrecognises the missions special to each university, UWA is aclassic case of a fine university constrained in its growth,performance and potential by the ‘one size fits all’ policyparadigm.There is also a new collaborative role for the States to playin building higher education capacity in their special regions —without lessening Commonwealth responsibilities in corefunding. And there is a great opportunity for theCommonwealth to replace the old policy paradigms andexcessively bureaucratic reporting demands, with a moreresponsive and modern approach.A new century needs a new spirit to shape universityeducation for the changing society in which we live. It isdiversity rather than conformity which will deliver theexcellence which our staff and students deserve.Professor Deryck SchreuderVice-Chancellor and Presidentvc@acs.uwa.edu.auTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

UWAnews 3New school,new strategiesextend the visionProfessor D’Arcy Holman sits in an office in theState Government’s Health Department andcompares the beginnings of UWA’sDepartment of Public Health in 1991 with the launch ofour new School of Population Health last month.The biggest difference is the reputation the School hasdeveloped – reflected in the fact that the Head of School is alsonow a key player in the State health system. He is leading ahighly respected and widely recognised school of teachers andresearchers who are well on the way to achieving the vision towhich they aspired back then.That vision remains at the top of the new school’s strategicinitiatives and it is: We will influence policy and practice to improvethe public health through leadership in education and in the discoveryand communication of knowledge.From modest beginnings, the enthusiastic healthprofessionals who made up the Department of Public Healthtook on research projects, ran stimulating courses and came upwith innovative programs for public health. They becamerecognised, they were asked for advice and the departmentgrew rapidly during the 1990s, constantly breaking into newareas and proving themselves.“Our position in the health system has consolidated over thepast few years,” Professor Holman said. “But now that we arebetter known and more confident, we must be careful not tolose our excitement, not to become complacent. We must bebreaking new ground all the time.”The launch of the new School, hosted by Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson, with the Health MinisterBob Kucera, as the special guest, engendered excitement.Professor Fiona Stanley spoke about the importance ofpopulation health as an academic discipline, Associate ProfessorMatthew Knuiman recalled the development of the departmentwhich became a School, and Professor Holman talked about theSchool’s strategic future.Professor Holman’s immediate future is a metaphor for therest of the School. It is partly dominated by the reviewcommittees, councils and forums he chairs, as a leader in publichealth policy making. He is currently chairing reviews of theMental Health Act and the Mentally Impaired Defenders Act,which involve more than 100 people in the committeestructure.He is President of HealthWatch, a standards and surveillancecouncil, and chair of the Wagerup Medical Practitioners’ Forum,looking at the health problems associated with the WagerupAlumina Refinery.He is also chair of the Data Linkage Committee and has justdrafted a memorandum of understanding between the State andFederal governments which will open the way for national healthrecords to be brought into the State’s record linkage project.The project, which links the medical records of the people ofWestern Australia is unique in Australia and one of only sixsuch systems in the world. It has already provided valuableinformation for the Duty to Care study of the physical healthproblems of people who use Mental Health services in WA, andthe Quality and Safety of Surgical Care project, which evaluatedoutcomes of common and important surgical procedures inWA.“The new School will build on the successes achievedthrough the collective contribution of all our staff, past andpresent, and aims to increase our contribution to the nationaland international research and teaching effort throughpartnership with others,” Professor Holman said.“Symbolic of this approach is our joint success with theInstitute for Child Health Research in winning the first awardedNational Health and Medical Research Council’s CapacityBuilding Grant.“This will guide the spirit of our endeavours over the nextfive years.”Professor Alan Robson (left) and Professor D’Arcy Holman talk toHealth Minister Bob Kucera (centre) about the new schoolTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

4 UWAnewsBetter connectionswith the bushThe Prime Minister awards the funding to (from left) Rowan Maclean, Des Hutchinson,Alex Reid and Martin RowlesUWA has spearheaded a campaignwhich will result in up to 19regional centres getting vastlyimproved telecommunicationsservices.Alex Reid, the University’s IT policyexecutive officer and ProfessorialFellow in the School of ComputerScience and Software Engineering, wasthe driving force behind the bid forNational Communications Fund money,to improve technology links for healthand education institutions around thestate.He represented all the publicuniversities in WA and the group alsoincluded the government departmentsof industry and technology, health,education and training.“We put in a bid for $20m andeventually we were allocated $8m,” MrReid said. “The initial bid was toupgrade services at 58 schools,hospitals, university centres and otherhealth and education sites within 19towns from Esperance to Kununurra.We are now negotiating with Optus andTelstra to see how much we can dowith $8m. It could mean that we couldimprove services to all those sites butthey would have a slower capability thanwe would have preferred.”Mr Reid said the funding would meanpotentially better telecommunicationlinks between UWA’s Crawley campusand its Albany, Geraldton and Kalgoorliecentres.“Curtin and Edith Cowan universitieswill actually benefit more than us as theyhave more regional centres. But it isimportant for UWA to be out there,playing its part in the community, even ifwe don’t benefit hugely,” he said.“It certainly helped our bid to havethe whole of the education and healthsystems applying together. It was one ofthe strongest bids in the country.”The Deputy Vice-Chancellor,Professor Alan Robson, said Mr Reid’sinvolvement in the bid was critical and itwas his enthusiasm that got theconsortium going.“When I became aware that thisfederal government funding wasavailable, I contacted the StateDepartment of Industry and Technologyto see if they were making a bid andthey asked me to join them in a coordinatedbid. I encouraged the otheruniversities to join with us,” Mr Reidsaid.It will take up to three years for thefunding to be deployed andtelecommunications with the bushsignificantly improved.How is yourengine running?There were a few high performance Ferraris, someclapped out old Holdens and lots of middle of theroad family sedans.The UWA Medical Centre’s Pit Stop last month attracted allsorts of ‘vehicles’ as men on campus took the opportunity of afree comprehensive health check.The health promotion program targeted men and invitedthem to take themselves ‘over the pits’, encouraging them tolook after themselves as they look after their cars.The program was made up of eight pit stops, includingchassis check (weight issues), oil pressure (blood pressure),exhaust (smoking), fuel additives (alcohol), spark plugs(testicular cancer), duco (skin cancer) and torsion (flexibility).More than 70 students and staff took the opportunity of‘passing the pits’ at the Guild Village. Tricia Wylde, whoorganised the health check, said she was delighted with theresponse. Everybody who attended was given individual adviceand left with their work order completed and new ‘regosticker’ proclaiming that the vehicle was licensed androadworthy.Human Movement student Jamie Brooksby (right)checks ‘the spark plugs’Suzanna Bosnjic (Student Services)and Tricia Wylde (rear) check outcommerce student Greg Weinsteinand James Anderson (OFM)Straun Burges (HumanMovement) helps medicalstudent Sam Lieblich test hisflexibilityTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

UWAnews 5Telephone Inquiry Service’TIS wonderfulWe all know that if you want to find somethingout, you go to a library.But the University Library’s Telephone Inquiry Service (TIS)has carried this assistance beyond usual library boundaries.Since 1998, the service has been staffing an information line10 hours a day, five days a week, and dispensing such excellentand diverse information that one caller exclaimed:’“You have allthe information I need … can you give me the numbers forSaturday’s Lotto?!”Under the supervision of Sally Kenton, Client ServicesSupervisor, six Library Officers from the Business Library sharethe calls. They staff the phone for an hour-and-a-half at a time,and deal with inquiries ranging from advice on book borrowingand library membership to the availability of teleconferencingfacilities at UWA.“If we don’t know the answer to a query, we find out asquickly as possible and get back to the caller, then record thatinformation in our TIS guide for future reference,” said SallyKenton.While the majority of queries are library related, the servicehas grown to include referral to information sources in theUniversity at large.“We are not a switchboard but an information service whichcollaborates with Shelley Fong and her switchboard team,” Sallysaid.Helen Wallace, Business and Law Librarian and manager ofthe section, said the success of the service was due to thepeople on the TIS team who had a dynamic approach to theirwork and always followed everything through.One of the Library Officers who staffs the phone, DonMcSkimming, said callers appreciated getting a real person onthe phone instead of a recorded message.At night, the TIS is switched through to the staff in theHumanities and Social Sciences Library until library closing timeof 10pm. On the weekends, it carries a diversion message withan option to speak to a staff member.The staff said they were busiest on public holidays whencallers knew they were one of the few information services inPerth which were open.Another TIS member, Angela Germanier, said the nonlibraryqueries she might deal with during her hour-and-a-halfshift could include a question about where a caller could buy abook; members of the public wanting to book venues; staffneeding to borrow audio-visual equipment; copyright queries;people looking for lost property; where to find a JP and how tomake a bequest.Sally Kenton said the staff occasionally dealt with stressedcallers (particularly parents of young students) and it wasimportant that TIS staff provide an empathetic ear.“It’s a low tech personalised service with the emphasis onproviding friendly, helpful and accurate service,” she said.“Shelley Fong, on the switchboard, says the service has beentrouble free and one for which they receive no complaints!”One of the many positive responses from callersencapsulated the service: “…it is so good to get help, adviceand service with no attitude … with no regard to whether ornot I was a student, academic or a member of the public…”As well as providing an excellent service and promoting thegood name of the University, TIS staffing reflects the Library’ssupport of UWA’s Workforce Diversity Strategy: two of the10 members of the team were employed through the DiversityJob Bank.Mirela Mercea (back), Don McSkimming and Sally Kenton (centre)observe Rosanne Althorpe deal with an inquiryTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

6 UWAnewsa fortress cityuncoveredDesert sand gives upa 2,000 year old city …Archaeologists of the 21st century tend to get more excited by thescrapings of a domestic fireplace than the statues from a temple.“Of course everything is precious and vital to building up a picture of a community,but these days, we are more interested in the environment and the ecology of aparticular place and time, rather than the public life of a community,” said eminentarchaeologist Professor Graeme Clarke (pictured right), who visited UWA recently.Professor Clarke, the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Visiting Lecturerfor 2002, presented some of his past 16 years’ work in Syria at a public lecture for theSchool of Humanities (Classics and Ancient History).Since 1986, he has been leading an excavation of the abandoned Hellenistic city ofJebel Khalid on the west bank of the Euphrates River in North Syria, about 60kilometres south of the Turkish border.He discovered the lost city while conducting a survey for a Melbourne team ofarchaeologists who were excavating a Bronze Age site further up river.“I came across some pottery pieces, which eventually led me to the remnants of acity wall, and I realised what I had found,” Professor Clarke said.Excavation of the site began two years later and Professor Clarke, who was then aprofessor of classical studies and Director of the Humanities Research Centre at theAustralian National University, got together a team which goes to the site every yearfor two months.“We have to employ a guard for the other 10 months of the year. But it’s just notpractical to work at the dig for longer than that period each year,” he said.“For a start, the conditions are very hard and it’s difficult to get a team of expertstogether for any longer than a couple of months.“Each year the team we take with us might include an illustrator, a photographer, aconservator, an architect, a surveyor, metal, glass and coin experts and a botanist. Wetake between 15 and 18 people and employ up to 90 locals at the site. It looks likeRaiders of the Lost Ark when we’re at full strength!”Jebel Khalid was a Greek fortress 30 hectares in area built on a limestone plateau atthe beginning of the third century BC.“It was newly conquered territory for Alexander the Great and the city was a“The charcoal remainsfrom the fireplaces tell uswhat wood grew in thearea so we know howdamp it was. Soil samplescan also tell us what sortof plants grew and we canbuild up an ecologicalpicture…”THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

UWAnews 7military colony built to guard a rivercrossing,” Professor Clarke explained.“It was abandoned in the first half of thefirst century BC when the Greekdynasty collapsed and the Romanschanged their protection strategies.“Jebel Khalid was not the sort of placeyou would stay in if it no longer had a use.Everybody lived inside the fortress wherethere was no natural water and thepeople all had to leave the fortress to goout and work in their fields, then comeback in again at night.“Being an abandoned city means thatwhat we are finding is their rubbish,what they didn’t want and what theyfound too heavy or awkward to takewith them. It is all covered in 2,000years of dust and sand.”But, slowly, Professor Clarke and histeam are building up a picture of theenvironment on this plateau on thebanks of the Euphrates, more than2,000 years ago.“We have found olive pips and grapeseeds preserved in the fireplaces, so weknow they grew them. The charcoalremains from the fireplaces tell us whatwood grew in the area so we knowhow damp it was. Soil samples can alsotell us what sort of plants grew and wecan build up an ecological picture.”It has taken around 13 years toexcavate about 10 domestic houses ona large block. They have learned aboutthe women’s activities at home whilethe men worked the fields, findingevidence of spinning, weaving andcooking.“We are interested in finding outhow people lived, their culinary habits,their diets, so we go first for domestichomes rather than public buildings.“We have found a lot of stew potswhich means they didn’t eat theiranimals until the end of the stock’suseful life. They would have used theirsheep, goats and horses for carryingloads and providing milk for cheese andyoghurt, and for wool. The only younganimals they slaughtered were pigs andthe native gazelle.”Professor Clarke said his teamworked ‘fiendishly hard’ every Marchand April, rising at 4.30am, working atthe dig until midday, then spending theafternoon analysing, conserving andcataloguing their finds until the lightfaded.“Essentially, we work a double shiftevery day. And living in a Bedouin villagein the heat and dust where we mustcommunicate in Arabic with the localsand share two showers between 18people makes it hard going.”He said they had found coins at thedig from the fourth century AD.“These were dropped by what we callstone robbers. A lot of the stone hasbeen taken from the city. There isevidence that tractors came in duringthe 20th century to take stone away.“The French encouraged theBedouins to become sedentary. Somany of them robbed the city of itsbuilding blocks, to provide theirpermanent homes. It’s still happening.When we were there this year, somelocals came to take away some stoneblocks because somebody in theirvillage had died and this is how theybury them, under stone blocks.”Everything the team unearths at JebelKhalid belongs to the Syriangovernment. The major pieces go tothe museum at Aleppo, the nearest cityand the second biggest city in Syria, afterDamascus.“But they are only interested inwhole pieces. As it’s an abandoned site,there are plenty of broken plates, whichare fine for the information they cangive us, but not for display in a museum.“There are many more years of workin the dig but eventually, we willprobably get permission to take some ofthe unwanted pieces out of the country.In the meantime, they stay in storage,”he said.Professor Clarke explained that histeam would not excavate the entire site.“These days we leave something forthe archaeologists who come after usbecause they’ll be looking for differentthings,” he said. “Thirty years ago, wewouldn’t have been interested in theecology and environment of a site; wewould have been looking at differentaspects. And it will change again.“So we only ever ‘sample’ a site now.We have only excavated one of the 30columns in the fortress wall. We don’tneed to unearth all 30 because they willall tell us the same thing.”As the visiting professor for theAustralian Archaeological Institute atAthens (AAIA), Professor Clarke istouring Australia and visiting all theuniversities which support the AAIA.“I am very pleased to report that theclassical studies departments around thecountry are hanging on. They seem tohave stabilised after being under threatfor a while. But who knows what willhappen in the future?”Graham Clarke on sitein SyriaTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBERS 2002

8 UWAnewsAnawardwinningbalancingactreducing energyincreasing recyclingThe University has topped the sector in reducingenergy consumption.A survey of 24 higher education institutions world-wide has putUWA at the forefront of energy management. The study byEnergetics (a corporate arm of Western Power) indicated thatUWA had progressed from two stars (representing 33 per centachievement in reducing energy consumption) in May 2000, tothree stars (representing 53 per cent) in August this year. Energeticshas assessed 767 sites world wide, 51 in the education sector.Of these 51 sites, 24 are higher education institutions.UWA’s rating of 2.4 is the highest recorded in the sector. Theaverage in the sector is 1.4.UWA’s environmental manager, Gordon Walsh, said it wasimportant that the very good work carried out by OFM staff,particularly Tony Humphries, John King, Stuart Townsend,Bruce Thompson and Russell Candy, with regard to energymanagement and environmental sustainability, was recognised.If it was anybody else, you might be worried. But asJeremy Smith is an anatomy and human biologystudent, on the brink of completing his PhD and anational award-winner to boot, it’s likely that he knowswhat’s best for his own anatomy.For the past few years, Jeremy has been sitting on a biginflated exercise ball instead of a chair, to work at his computer.“I’m a sprinter and I train hard. I found that sitting in anorthodox chair all day affected my back, which in turn affectedmy hamstrings. A physiotherapist suggested I try sitting on aball instead of a chair – and I’ve never looked back!” he said.His career will probably never look back either, as Jeremyrecently won the 2002 Junior Scientist Award from the Societyfor Reproductive Biology (SRB).He received the award for his paper, co-authored with hisPhD supervisor Associate Professor Brendan Waddell, on leptindynamics in pregnant rats.The hormone leptin is produced primarily by fat cells and isbest known for its role in regulating food intake andmetabolism. But leptin also plays several roles in reproduction,most notably as a signal for puberty onset and the promotion offetal growth. Jeremy’s work has focussed on the biology ofleptin during fetal and postnatal development.“The work we presented at the SRB’s Annual ScientificMeeting in Adelaide was on how the transport of themother’s leptin to the fetus changes during pregnancy,and how this transport is disturbed in a model of fetalgrowth retardation,” he said.Professor Waddell pointed out that Jeremy wasthe fourth winner of the Junior Scientist Award fromthe SRB from the School of Anatomy and HumanBiology since 1985.“This is an incredible success rate for a single Schoolgiven that the SRB is a national society (including NewZealand) and the big funding for reproductive biology researchover this period has been in Melbourne and Adelaide,”Professor Waddell said.“Where sound energymanagement systems can be putinto place, the real success tothe energy reduction program lies with every individual oncampus, as it is the lighting and computer use that is by far thegreatest factor effecting the energy consumption on campus,”Mr Walsh said.“Even though we are doing well, we must not becomplacent. We can still do better and that largely depends onindividuals turning off their computers and lights when they areleaving them for an extended period,” he said.The University’s recycling efforts are also improving. MrWalsh provided figures comparing equivalent energy saved byrecycling in July ( at the start of the new program), comparedwith August and September.There has been a steady increase in effective recycling. InSeptember we recycled 40.43 tonnes of waste (compared with14.5 tonnes in July), saving the equivalent of 525 trees (302 inJuly), 165,601 kWh of power (95,413) and 161 square metres oflandfill (93).THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

UWAnews 9SocratesandGandalf –modelsformentorsMentor was the faithful friendof Odysseus in Greek mythology,who then became the wiseadviser to his son, Telemachus.But, as Director of Students Services,Jon Stubbs, pointed out to a roomful ofstudent mentors, Odysseus andTelemachus didn’t turn out too well andhe preferred the example of Plato andhis mentor Socrates.Mr Stubbs was thanking the studentsfor their participation in UWA’s(student) Mentor Scheme. This year, 396students gave up their time to be trained,then matched with first year students,whom they helped over the first fewdifficult weeks of first semester. Somestudents remained in contact with theirmentees all year. More than 1,100 firstyears took advantage of the scheme.Fiona Turnbull was Daliboy Acimic’s mentorthis year. They are both commercestudents.Student Services administrates thescheme and they put on an appreciationceremony last month, at which thementors were also thanked by ActingVice-Chancellor, Professor AlanRobson, and Guild President, RyanBatchelor.Professor Robson told the studentshow the scheme had begun in (his)faculty of Agriculture (now Natural andAgricultural Sciences) and that he hadalso been a mentor, to some membersof staff.Ryan Batchelor congratulated thementors for putting something back intothe University by helping out the firstyear students.Many of the mentors said they wouldtake part in the scheme again next year(for some it would be their thirdconsecutive year of mentoring) and thattheir mentees were also eager to trainand help first years in 2003.Jon Stubbs left them with quite adifferent perception of first yearstudents when he said that his favouritementor of all was Gandalf, from Lord ofthe Rings, who looked after thecreatures of Middle Earth and drew outthe courage of the Hobbits … or firstyears!Students rallyfor kidsTwo thousand, three hundreddays of care for kids do notcome cheaply.Between three full day picnicsand three week-long camps, UniCamp for Kids (UCFK) providesthis care for many of Perth’s lessprivileged five to 12 year oldchildren every year. That isequivalent to caring for a singlechild for more than six years.Throw in trips to AdventureWorld, water slides, Perth Zoo anda host of other must-sees foryoungsters and the annual bill tokeep the charity afloat hovers nearthe $70,000 mark.The students’ latest fundraiserwas the annual UCFK Car Rally,which was, as usual, well attendedand a social as well as a financialsuccess. But this time of the yearheralds the critical fund-raisingperiod, with the coffers beingdepleted by the recent picnic andthree weeks of camps coming up inJanuary.UCFK welcomes public andcorporate support. Anyone wishingto make a donation to help thisyear’s camps can call 9380 2648.Setting out on the annual UCFK carrally (from left): Scott Fitzgerald fromECU, Human Movement graduateEmma Attwood, Pip the pirate’s ‘parrot’and UCFK president and HealthScience student Luke van Zeller.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBERS 2002

10 UWAnewsFood, flowers,Finland &Francis FordCoppolaAcomedy to open the season, a sumptuousfood film for Christmas week, and a movie setin the freezing Arctic wilderness for the firstblistering week of February – the Somerville filmseason is perfectly planned.The Lotteries Film Season is always the first part of thePerth International Arts Festival to get up and running – andthe last to finish, with the final film screening at the SomervilleAuditorium from March 31 to April 6.The final offering is a documentary featuring 11 of theworld’s leading filmmakers and their 11-minute viewpoints ofSeptember 11.The first film, Greenfingers (December 2 to 8) gives newmeaning to ‘flower power’ as the Hampton Court PalaceFlower Show is hotly contested. Helen Mirren is an eccentricand flamboyant gardening guru in the mould of Joyce Grenfell.For completely different female characters, wait for thesecond film, The Business of Strangers (December 9 to 15),which has been described as maliciously funny and with morebite and wit than the mainstream can provide. Twobusinesswomen are stranded in an airport and theirrelationship becomes a psychological thriller.Dinner Rush (December 23 to 29) is set in a trendyManhattan eatery with the themes of food, fun and family.This year’s Cannes Film Festival winner of the Grand Prixand best actor awards went to a Finnish film, The Man Without APast (January 6 to 12). It’s the quirky and uplifting tale of a manwhose life and memory are taken away from him, a story aboutpeople living it tough on the fringes of society who still knowhow to be gentle.The first feature film made in the Inuktitut language,Atanarjuat — the Fast Runner (January 27 to February 2), is set inthe eastern Arctic wilderness, sure to cool you down on a hotsummer night.A new view of piano teachers, a new life for a Tunisianwidow and a new print of Francis Ford Coppola’s Palme d’Orwinning film of 1974, The Conversation (March 5 to 8) are allincluded in the season. An Italian political satire, an Iranian‘work of art from a visual poet’ and the touching story of twoelderly French sisters, one with an intellectual disability, provideplenty of variety.Tickets for the Somerville season are available from BOCSor at the door. Standard tickets are $13, Friends of the Festival$11, pensioners, students, seniors, backpackers andunemployed, $8. Gates open for picnickers from 6pm and thefilms begin at 8pm.ExtendingservicestoMotorolaBy the time you read this, those staff and students who walk past thegeography, geology and physics buildings each day, will probably be ableto do so as easily as they used to.For several weeks, the path outside those buildings has been dug up as contractorsand some staff from the Office of Facilities Management have upgraded undergroundservices.Project officer Bob Davies explained that the main purpose of the work was toextend the chilled water services to the new Motorola building on Fairway.“While we were at it, we decided to update the irrigation mains. The old irrigationmains now carry optical fibres to the Motorola building,” he said.The work has extended to the back of this precinct, alongside the computer sciencebuilding and to the south of the art gallery.Gas mains have also been extended. Mr Davies explained that after the old stormwater system was replaced in front of geography/geology, the drains needed to be backfilledand the soil around and above them compacted before the gas mains could be laid.“It might have looked to the uninitiated as though we had filled in everything, thensuddenly remembered the gas mains and dug it all up again, but this is how it had to bedone,” he said.There are seven sites on campus where services are being progressively upgraded.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

UWAnews 11A tribute tothe first DVCThe man who created theposition of Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UWA died in theUK last month.Current Deputy Vice-Chancellor,Professor Alan Robson, paid tribute toProfessor Charles John Birkett Clews,who became the first DV-C in 1962.Professor Robson said that prior to1962, the University’s executivestructure had not included the positionof Deputy Vice-Chancellor.“From 1962 until late 1972,Professor Clews helped steer UWAthrough a vital decade of development,as deputy to Sir Stanley Prescott, andlater, Professor Robert Wheelan.”Born in London in 1912, ProfessorClews studied physics extensively inboth the UK and Europe, and from1940 supported the British war effort asa scientific adviser with direct links tothe War Cabinet Office.In 1952, he accepted the position ofProfessor of Physics and Head of theDepartment of Physics at UWA. Twoyears later he was appointed Dean ofthe Faculty of Science, and was also amember of the University governingbody, the Senate, and Chair of UWA’sProfessorial Board from 1956-57.In the early 1960s he was aconsultant to the Australian Institute ofNuclear Science and Engineering, andfor many years a member of the Statecommittee of the CSIRO.What adifferencea daymakesAboriginal school children inthe Albany area have startedthinking about aiming for auniversity education.Two groups of Noongar children, adozen from local primary schools andanother similar group from regional highschools, each spent a day at UWA’sAlbany Centre recently, under theVocational and Educational Guidance forAboriginals Scheme (VEGAS).UWA Albany’s development officer,Randall Jasper, talked to the childrenabout UWA, the Albany connection andtertiary study in general.The students then spent time withone of the Albany tutors, GrahamMcKeich, who teaches geography. Heand Mr Jasper co-ordinated hands-onactivities, mapping and usingstereoscopes.“They loved finding Noongar placenames on maps,” Mr Jasper said.With the help of Marilyn Strotherfrom the School of Indigenous Studies,the students then did some field workwith biologist Kirsty Alexander from theCLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Kirsty Alexanderexplains about the marine life found in theriver; using stereoscopes for mapping;concentrating …Waters and Rivers Commission. Theytook mud samples from Oyster Harbourand analysed them. The children wereamazed at the different marine animalsthey found living in the mud.They also inspected fish traps andtalked with Sam Williams, a localNoongar elder, and his daughter SamMerritt about them.The older children did some work inthe areas of archaeology and philosophy.“But it was more of an educationalday than work experience. We wantedthe students to have fun learningsomething new and to understand thatthis is what university can be like,” MrJasper said.“At the end of the day, we gave themall lollies but, before they could havethem, they had to promise that they’dcome back here and enrol at Universitywhen they left school!” he said.C A M P U SsecretsThis enticing little path disappearsinto the shrubbery on the south sideof the administration building.Follow it and it takes you down tosome equally enticing looking stone stepsto a basement door. It actually leads to atea room and the staff from nearbyFinancial Services call it the dungeon.It’s been there for as long as anybodycan remember but only recently some ofthe bushes around it were cleared awayand the secret path was revealed to others.If you have a secret spot on campus,a favourite feature or a little-knownfact to share, please send it to us:lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.auor phone extension 2436, fax 1192.THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBERS 2002

12 UWAnewslast wordsize of Perth, it seems competition is to be a given in musiceducation in WA. This competition has resulted inconsequences both good and bad. High quality, comprehensivemusic education at tertiary level relies on critical mass; for largegroup activities such as orchestras and choirs, for bringingstudents together to learn from, inspire and compete with eachother, for maximizing resources and for achieving economies ofscale. There is little doubt that a higher standard of educationcould be achieved through a single tertiary music school in WAin place of the current competitive model.By Mark CoughlanHead, School of MusicIt is nearly 50 years since music was formallyestablished as a discipline at UWA. This period hasbeen characterised by growth, entrepreneurship,building foundations in music scholarship andperformance and strong community outreach. It hasalso been marked by periods of intense competitionboth within and external to the University.The initial 1907 proposal to establish a university in WesternAustralia included music as one of the disciplines and thecampus design competition required the inclusion of aconservatorium building. However, some decades later, the planto establish a lectureship in music within the Faculty of Arts wasopposed by the faculty, which had competing priorities tosupport other developing disciplines. So competition was anissue for music from the outset. Finally, in the face of ongoingopposition from the Arts Faculty, it was agreed to appoint aReader in Music in the Faculty of Education.The first classes were in music history and music educationbut the original vision of establishing a conservatorium withinthe University remained.The proposal was never realised at UWA and, despite thefact that degree courses in performance were developed, theinability to offer a wider range of performance studies (such ascertificates and diplomas) ultimately led to the establishment ofthe WA Conservatorium of Music, which, as part of the WAAcademy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University, hasbeen competing with UWA in the provision of music degreesfor the past 15 years or so.Despite years of attempting to resolve the competitivetensions resulting from two tertiary music schools in a city theLABELHowever, on the positive side, competition has meant thatthe School of Music has had to work hard to remaincompetitive, ensuring a high level of student satisfaction,constantly reviewing its offerings to ensure they are up to date,professionally relevant and appealing to potential students. TheSchool has monitored developments nationally andinternationally and new initiatives have been embraced,including historical performance scholarship linked withperformance on original instruments and more recently worldmusic, jazz improvisation and music technology. An increase inthe number of public concerts and their professionalism andhigh profile has benefited not only music students, but theUniversity and wider community as well.After seeing the 2001 documentary film on the MusicDepartment of Sydney University, Facing the Music, I am not sosure the absence of competitive drive is always a good thing.Here was a music department that seemed trapped in a timewarp, one that had not been required to compete with theother music schools in Sydney (and there are at least fourothers) or seemingly within its own University for resources,student places or strategic support. The SydneyConservatorium, also part of the University of Sydney, had justreceived a new $150 million building but the Department ofMusic could not afford a few thousand dollars to pay someoneto take the choir.Facing the Music is an extreme example of the tensions andproblems many disciplines are experiencing in Australia. Thesimple approach to funding shortfalls is to cut offerings, increaseteaching loads and hope for better times. This strategy did notwork for the Sydney department where it created a downwardsspiral which ultimately threatens its ongoing viability. In acompetitive climate, the cutting of certain aspects of a courseto save money might result in giving away competitiveadvantage to another institution. This could then lead to adecline in enrolments and snowballing financial problems.So as we celebrate the vibrant UWA music culture builtduring the past 50 years, the next 50 begins with the challengeof how we continue to pay for it. I read recently of three majorUS music schools which were established in the 1920s; theEastman School (University of Rochester), the Curtis Institute(Philadelphia) and the Julliard School (New York) each with aprivate endowment of around US $12 million. That’s one wayto reduce competition!theSource: Touches of Sweet Harmony; John Meyer (Nedlands:Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education,UWA, 1999)THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 4 NOVEMBER 2002

infoUWAnewsResearchGrants&ContractsAUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OFTECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANDENGINEERINGDr Philip Vercoe, Animal Science:‘Development of an international centre foraquaculture genetics and enhancement ofselective breeding program for the commercialproduction of freshwater crayfish in Australia’’–$13,636 (2002).GRAINS R&D CORPORATIONA/Prof Wallace Cowling and Dr SusanBarker, Plant Science:–‘Development ofmolecular marker and mapping technology forlupin breeding: UWA component comparativemapping across lupin species and between legumegenera’’— $218,235 (2002-04).Prof Zdenko Rengel, Soil Science & PlantNutrition 0701 Soil Science and Plant Nutrition:‘Optimising potassium cycling in soils and cropsfor improved grain production in WA’’—$498,076 (2002-06).Mr R. Snowball, CLIMA: ‘Germplasm collectionof trifolium and other pasture legume speciesfrom short season, low latitude regions in theMediterranean’’— $54,000 (2003-04).Continued on back pageCAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENTLIFT-OUTCompiled by Joanna ThompsonTelephone: 9380 3029Facsimile: 9380 11624 NOVEMBER 2002 Volume 21 Number 17Email: joanna.thompson@uwa.edu.auChristians and Muslims a peaceful dialogueWhat is surely one of themost unusual combinationsof career and researchinterest should provide two stimulatingpublic lectures this week.Jesuit priest Father Tom Michal is aworld expert on Islam and has studiedand taught Christian-Muslim dialoguethroughout the world.The American Catholic priest with aPhD in Islamic theology is the Secretaryof Inter-religious Dialogue for theSociety of Jesus in Rome. He presentstwo lectures, one on TuesdayNovember 5 and another onWednesday November 6, both in theSocial Science Lecture Theatre, bothbeginning at 7.30pm.UWA’s Catholic chaplain, FatherGerald Brennan, also a Jesuit, said DrMichal was received enthusiasticallywhen he last visited UWA about fiveyears ago.“He not only has a profoundknowledge of Islam but he genuinelyTEACHING AND LEARNING COMMITTEEvalues it as a faith.”Fr Brennan said that after studying inIndonesia, Dr Michal had originally wantedto study medicine and return to Indonesiato help them with their health system.“But the Muslims in Indonesia toldhim that he could help them much moreby spreading the word about Islam. Andso he began lecturing and teaching.”He has lectured and taught atuniversities in the US, Indonesia, thePhilippines, Turkey, Iran, Malaysia andthe UK, including the Shahid BeheshtiUniversity in Teheran and ColumbiaUniversity in New York.His lectures this week are Christians andMuslims: Toward Dialogue of Liberation(Tuesday) and Islamic Revival in Asia :Implications for Christian-Muslim Dialogue(Wednesday). Entry to each lecture is $10.Dr Michal’s visit to UWA issponsored by the Western AustralianCouncil of Religious Studies. For moreinformation, call Sister Philomena on9325 6927 or 9370 6462.Teaching and Learning Development Fund - Outcomes-based Education Scheme - June 2002The Teaching and Learning Committee has selected the following eight projects for support from the Teaching and Learning Development Fundin support of the introduction of an outcomes-based approach to teaching, learning and assessment.The Committee congratulates the following grant recipients:Project Leader(s) Faculty School/Discipline Group/Dept Project Title Funds AllocatedAssociate Professor Ian Saunders Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty-wide (Communication Studies) Outcomes-based curriculum, Delivery andAssessment in Communication Studies $11,650Dr Nick Letch and Cherry Randolph Economics and Commerce Business School Outcome-based Scales for Student(Information Management and Marketing) Competencies in Information Systems $11,400Mrs Di Gardiner Education GSE The Development and Assessment ofProfessional Competencies as Outcomesof Initial Teacher Education in theGraduate Diploma in Education Programme $14,430Dr Angus Tavner Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Applying an Outcomes-based Approachto the Thermofluids Stream inMechanical Engineering $8700Dr David Glance Computer Science and Software Engineering Outcomes for Software Engineering 104.Level 1 Outcomes for Software Engineeringand Java Programming within the Schoolsof CSSE and EEE. $11,760Associate Professor Paula Baron Law Law To Develop an Outcomes-based EducationApproach to Contract Law $11,000Associate Professor Bob Bucat Life and Physical Sciences Biomedical and Chemical Sciences (Chemistry) The Development of an Outcomes-basedApproach to the Teaching and Learningof Introductory and Biological Chemistry 130 $13,455Sandra Carr Medicine and Dentistry Education Centre Essential and Desirable Clinical Skillsfor the Medical Course using anOutcomes-based Education Approach $7500In order to disseminate the results of these projects, each grant recipient will, after conclusion of the project, provide a short written report for theUniversity community and also participate in the presentation of a seminar organised by the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning.Date compiled: 15 October 2002

CAMPUS4Diary– 18 NovemberTuesday 5 NovemberCHRISTIAN–MUSLIM DIALOGUE,PUBLIC LECTURES‘Christian and Muslims: toward dialogue ofliberation’, Fr Tom Michael SJ, CatholicPriest, Secretary for inter-religiousdialogue, Rome. 7.30pm, Social ScienceLecture Theatre. Cost: $10.Wednesday 6 NovemberCHRISTIAN–MUSLIM DIALOGUE,PUBLIC LECTURES‘Islamic revival in Asia: implications forChristian–Muslim Dialogue’, Fr TomMichael SJ, Catholic Priest, Secretary forinter-religious dialogue, Rome. 7.30pm,Social Science Lecture Theatre. Cost: $10.Thursday 7 NovemberCENTRE FOR WATER RESEARCHAND ANIMAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR‘A multiscale approach to studying theinteractions between phytoplankton andzooplankton in eutrophic systems’, DrAnas Ghadouani, Department of Biology,University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.4pm, Jenny Arnold Lecture Theatre,Zoology Building.Friday 8 NovemberASIAN STUDIES SEMINAR‘Cybermasculinities: interrogatingmasculinity online in Japan’, RomitDasgupta. 1-2.30pm, G.25 SeminarRoom, Ground Floor, Social SciencesBuilding.Monday 11 NovemberASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE SEMINAR‘Bioinformatics’, Dr Chris De Silva,Electrical and Electronic Engineering.12.30-1.30pm, Joske Seminar Room,Medicine, Fourth Floor, G Block, SCGH.MEDICAL SEMINAR‘The interface between clinical andlaboratory genetics’, introduced by ProfPeter Klinken with various speakers. 2-5pm, WAIMR Seminar Room, B Block,QEIIMC.Tuesday 12 NovemberCHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘Novel optical probes for processmonitoring and analysis based on silverhalide fibres: infrared spectroscopy – asleeping giant?’, Michael Heise(Dortmund). 12 noon, White LectureTheatre.Friday 15 NovemberCLIMA SEMINAR‘Understanding G_E interactions in lupinsin Western Australia’, Dr Bob French.4pm, CLIMA Seminar Room.What’s onnextPlaces are available in the following workshops due to close within the next month.Further details are available on the CSD Web page: http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/programme/ or by contacting CSD on ext. 1504 or csdoffice@csd.uwa.edu.au.• HOW THE UNIVERSITY WORKS: HUMAN RESOURCES ISSUES• APPLYING FOR DISCOVERY PROJECTS• APPLYING FOR NHMRC GRANTSGRANTS FROM THE GENERAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT FUNDMembers of general staff may apply for individual grants from the Staff DevelopmentFund to attend courses and conferences. In the last rounds of applications, thefollowing staff were awarded grants:Susan Hisheh, Anatomy and Human Biology ESA & SRB Annual Scientific MeetingAnna Kim, Centre for English Language Teaching 15th English Australia EducationConferenceMargaret Anderson, International Centre 16th Annual International EducationConferenceLouise Case, Legal Services Office“Legal Mechanics of TechnologyTransfer” ConferenceTricia Gardiner, Prospective Students Office National Association of ProspectiveStudents Advisers 7th BiennialConferenceRachel Schmitt, Prospective Students Office National Association of ProspectiveStudents Advisers 7th BiennialConferenceChristine Casey, Research Grants Office Australasian Research ManagementSociety ConferenceTrudi McGlade, Research Grants Office Australasian Research ManagementSociety Research ContractsWorkshopSimone Ross, Research Services2002 ANZSLAS/AATA LaboratoryAnimal Science ConferenceBlake Dearsley, Student Services“The Vital Partnership” ConferenceMark Edwards, Student ServicesPathways 6 ConferenceBarbara Levit, Student Services,Pathways 6 ConferenceChristine Page, UWA Business School AVCC Leadership Programme forJohn Budge from the Physics Workshop hasthe perfect antidote for anybody who has‘done their dough’ on the Melbourne Cup.Budgie is staging another of his FREEGet Happyconcerts on Wednesday 6 November (the day afterthe Melbourne Cup). Two members of the PerthAccordion Orchestra will perform in the SunkenGarden from 1.10pm to 1.50pm.… everybody is welcome.

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Spacious house in lovely rural villagein the South-west of France, 2 hours drive fromBordeaux and 1 hour drive from Pau. Use ofcomputer/internet connection, car, fridge etc.In exchange a flat or house in Perth–Fremantlearea is wanted for at least 3 months (Jan-March2003) and maybe more. Family of 2 adults and 2children. Contact Helene Jaccomard 9833 1236or hjaccom@cyllene.uwa.edu.au or Nadine.gassie@free.fr.WANTEDLIVE-IN PART-TIME CHILDCARE, own selfcontainedaccommodation (Fremantle thenSubiaco from April) plus car. Morning duties andsome household work for relaxed friendly family.Suit mature, reliable, flexible person, such aspostgraduate student/researcher. Negotiableterms. Phone 9336 3237 after 7pm or emaildburgner@paed.uwa.edu.au.Research Grantsand ContractsContinued from front pageINTERNATIONAL RESEARCHEREXCHANGE PROGRAMMEProf Susan Berners-Price, Chemistry: ‘NMRstudies on DNA interactions of poly-nuclearplatinum’’– $32,000 (2002-04).THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OFWESTERN AUSTRALIAMr Ross Kelly, Econs & Comm: ‘Revision offormulas used to differentially resource schools’- $13,489 (2002).WESFARMERS PREMIER COALProf Robert Gilkes, Soil Science & PlantNutrition: ‘Soil properties in relation to plantgrowth and rehabilitation methods for colliecoal mining wastes’’– $17,000 (2002-03).WANTED TO RENTFEMALE STAFF MEMBER and well-behaved,quiet Labrador need 1 bedroom and courtyard/small garden close to UWA for long-term rentfrom Nov/Dec. About $130/week. Call Alia9380 7835.VISTING PROFESSOR FROM USA, 2 adultsand 3 children arriving 9 Feb and leaving 23 June2003, require at least 3 bedrooms, withinwalking distance of UWA. Around $400/week.Call Brenda 9380 2360 or emailbrendac@cyllene.uwa.edu.au.HOUSE-SITTER AVAILABLEFEMALE AVAILABLE TO HOUSE-SIT, betweenDecember 2002–February 2003. Responsible,happy to look after pets and work in garden.Please call 9380 2927 if you’re interested.Leadership Development for WomenCall for ApplicationsThe Leadership Development for Women (LDW) Programme is calling for applications for its 11thprogramme. LDW is open to all levels of female staff who are employed half-time or more and whosecontracts run at least until the end of the year in which the programme starts.To meet the needs of all eligible women, two separate programme streams are run in alternate years.The 2003 programme, Developing Personally and Professionally, is designed for women who are keento explore their leadership potential while they are establishing themselves in their careers. Potentialparticipants will be keen to extend their self-management and leadership skills within their currentroles, as well as explore future career paths and possibilities.Heads of schools and sections, managers and supervisors are asked to encourage eligible women staffto apply for LDW, which has made such a difference already to 270 women at UWA.Applications for LDW 2003 close on 21 November 2002. Further details, including howto apply, are available on the Web at http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/ldw/whatson/index.htmlRedundant Equipment for SaleITEM PRICE AGE CONDITION CONTACT EXTOverhead projector, 3M 9080 $150 ono 4 2 Russell 1904 rcoleman@library.uwa.edu.auApple Powerbook 5300cs $150 7 2 Peter 7959 phacking@admin.uwa.edu.auApple Colour Stylewriter 2400 $50 – 2 Peter 7959 phacking@admin.uwa.edu.auToshiba 2500CDS $350 6 – Prof Seares 7387MAC II Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Apple Monitor Offers – 2 Amanda 3879MAC IIfx Offers – 3 Amanda 3879OCT 486 SX Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Power MAC 7200/120 Offers – 3 Amanda 3879MACIIVX Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Viewsonic 15" Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Power MAC 8100/110 Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Apple Multiple Scan 14" Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Apple Audiovision 12" Display Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Apple 15" monitor Offers – 2 Amanda 3879486 computer Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Amuse 80DT printer Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Image Writer II Offers – 3 Amanda 3879HP Paint Jet Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Apple Personal Laserwriter Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Personal Laserwriter NT Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Apple color RGB Monitor Offers – 2 Amanda 3879MAC Keyboards x 15 Offers – Amanda 3879Apple Multiple Scan 15" Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Viewsonic 15" Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Viewsonic 15" Offers – 2 Amanda 3879Panasonic KX-P1624 24 pin Multiple node printer Offers – 3 Amanda 3879Bids should be accepted by Monday 18 November with departments to have first optionDepartments are reminded that all University equipment available for sale must be advertised in the UWAnews. 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