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Issue No 93 Gardens Point, Kelvin Grove, Kedron Park, Garseldine campuses and Sunshine Coast centre 6- 26 October 1992

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Early childhood student Christine Hartung with young painter Rebecca Downs. (Photo: Suzanne Burow)

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Early childhood students from Kelvin Grove are spreading the good news about the arts to hundreds of Brisbane youngsters.

The second-year Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood) students have been involved in a variety of community arts projects since the mid-semester break, including a children's program for Warana in the Botanic Gardens.

Their work is part of a core subject in drama and social education coordinated by early childhood lec- turer, Ms Cassandra Weddell.

"The subject aims to provide the students with an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge of developmentally appropriate arts practices in a va- riety of care, educational and community contexts,"

Ms Weddell said.

During the 10 days of the Warana festival, stu- dents provided activities for thousands of children.

Working in five silk tents in the gardens, they used a variety of collage materials for children to design and make pictures, masks, puppets, 3D constructions and weavings.

In another area of the gardens they set up tables and easels, provided brushes and other materials and encouraged children in painting and print-making.

Several other programs are in place to give stu- dents the right experience.

At the Royal Children's Hospital, the Mater Hos- pital and the Southport Hospital they are taking part in a play program organised by the Red Cross which involves storytelling and improvised drama.

Visitors to the South Bank Parklands also have the chance to be entertained by early childhood students.

The more extroverted of them are performing for young children and parents visiting the park until 30 October.

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engineer degree

The first soon-to-be graduates of a unique, combined engineering/

business degree are being welcomed into the job market with two months still to go to course completion.

The five-year course which began in 1988 at QUT combines manufac- turing systems engineering and mar- keting/management, BE (Manufactur- ing Systems)/BBUS (Marketing). Graduates also receive a diploma from the Australian Institute of Export.

QUT Head of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Professor Walter Wong, who conceived the course, said more than half of the 13 final-year students already had hand- ob offers and the others had not offers

of Unilever, Container Packaging, Whitco, Price Waterhouse, CSR.

Mixer, Fisher and Paykel, and Andersen Consulting.

Three graduates would be working overseas.

"I tell them that's good but make sure you come back," Professor Wong said.

The course emphasises manufactur- ing technology, man~facturing sys- tems, computer technology and dig- ital electronics as well as the basic and engineering sciences. On the business side, the focus is on marketing includ- ing export management, international business and contemporary manage- ment practice.

It involves teaching across three QUT faculties - Engineering, Busi- ness and Information Technology. The entry quota is 30, with a TE cut-off score in the mid-900s.

"Generally the students are very pleased with the course but we will be offering electives in future, at their suggestion," Professor Wong said.

"The graduates we are producing are technically competent, creative and have entrepreneurial flair."

Professor Wong joined the then QIT in 1986 after work and study abroad and was struck by the scarcity of pro- fessional engineers with marketing, ex,- port management and other business skills in Australia's manufacturing in-

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His combined undergraduate degree in manufacturing/marketing at QUT is still unique.

Professor Wong said at least one of the graduates would progress straight to postgraduate research. Projects in- volving PhD and masters students at QUT included intelligent shop floor control, optimising injection mould design, developing a machine vision system for food processing, and ex- amining reliability of electronic con- trol systems of flexible manufacturing cells. All of these were in association with industry.

The injection moulding project uti- lises advanced technology, stereo- lithography, brought to Queensland through joint funding from the State Department of Business, Industry and Regional Development, and the Queensland Tertiary Education Foun- dation. A network of computer workstations has been set up at sev- eral tertiary education institutions in- cluding T AFE and the Plastics and Rubber Technical Education Centre (PARTEC).

QUT is using the technology to make prototypes for commercial evaluation. Parts that take days, weeks or months to prototype with conven- tional methods can now be made in a matter of hours.

More news inside:

Jaim e wins bronze

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Graduation ceremontes

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Vice-chancellor's comment

The academic quality audit

The last issue of

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deiaii;d i;s~lt; of the academic quality audit carried ou't at <l'ttf.)j~;Brofessor...Q()rge 'Gordon, an experienced academic auditor from Strathclyde Unh:ersity. The audit broke new ground for the Australian higher education sys- tem and may be a taste of things to come with the likely establish- ment of an Australia-wide quality assurance system. 1

The Gordon report endorses the over!l.ll;dir;eGtion,of QOT's quality assurance systems dealiJ;tg with course'accreditation and approval, staff development and assessment,4he-teaehlng·and·1earning strat- egy and our approach to planning. At a detailed level the report indicates areas where we can refine and improve existing systems.

We will consider these issues over the next few months.

At a more strategic level the report raises concerns about the mismatch between the high level of innovation in the university and the likely availability of additional resources and personal energy needed to achieve the goals we have set. Certainly we must be warv of the vicious soiral that results from over-ambitious goals, high levels of creativity, limited resources and unfulfilled expec- tations. At the same time, uni- versities are first and foremost forward looking and creative institutions. QUT has no short- age of good and exciting ideas.

It is clear that Common- wealth funding will never be adequate and we will need to look to other investors who are prepared to fund the best of our ideas. Provided our plans are realistic I am confident that we will find investors who are pre- pared to make a contribution to QUT and hence to the future of Queensland and Australia.

Professor Dennis Gibson

Letter to the editor

Integration of the

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I wish to congratulate QUT on host- ing the 61 st ANZAAS Congress and thank Professor Tony Webber, chair- man of the Congress Organisational Committee for the successful organi- sation of a public-oriented event which covered a broad range of issues.

l participated in the congress and found its greatest impact was the way in which science, technology, man- agement and humanities were put on the right track through the process of integration.

Until the Renaissance in the 14th- 16th centuries provided science with an opportunity to free itself from the humanities, the two were one. But the impact of the Renaissance, coupled with the scientific method based on analy- sis, led to a great advancement in sci- ence and technology so that they are now the dominant forces in our society today.

The current problem facing society is that science and technology continue to advance at a hectic pace and the hu- manities, the public and even practis- ing scientists and technologists are be- ing left behind in the wake.

Public debate is important but to solve the problem we must look at the scientific method itself. It is based on

Obituary

Staff and students wish to pay trib- ute to Mr John Porter who died of lym- phoma in July.

Mr Porter was the first registrar at Brisbane College of Advanced Educa- tion from 1982 to 1987 and the first and only registrar at Mount Gravatt CAE from 1972 to 1982 prior to its amalgamation with Brisbane CAE in 1982.

Before taking up his appointment at Mt Gravatt CAE, Mr Porter was an eco- nomics lecturer at the former QIT.

He began his career as a secondary teacher and taught in a number of schools including Mareeba, The Gap and lndooroopilly State High Schools.

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observation and experiment, and it ignores integration which reflects exactly nature as a whole.

Fortunately integration, or a multi- disciplinary approach, has been slowly recognised and practised in the scien- tific community and it is foreseeable that integration based on analysis will be dominant in the next century as a better scientific method because it is less oppressive to nature.

Integration within the science com- munity would avoid both personal- ity-led and politically-led science. As argued by Professor Millicent Poole, integration of science with humani- ties and social science would allevi- ate the current imbalance between the two disciplines.

Integration of science with manage- ment would resuft in better organi"sa- tion of scientific research and more ef- fective communication mechanisms.

As a new university, QUT has tried to integrate various disciplines, allow- ing students to choose a wide range of subjects. This approach produces graduates with expertise as well as a basic understanding and appreciation

• of other fields.

This is encouraging and I recommend students choose subjects as diverse as possible.

My training in several diverse fields of chemistry, pharmacy, biotechnology and management has enabled me to carry out a broad, yet integrated re- search program of "bioactive natural products and medicinal plant biotech- nology".

My training also allows me to effec- tively communicate and collaborate with the community, industry and aca- demics from diverse backgrounds.

Society, universities and people should continue to promote the inte- gration of science, technology, the hu- manities, social science, management etc.

This is the approach we should adopt for the 21st century.

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Oodgeroo says treaty can be only , resolution

Aboriginal poet Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal urged support for a treaty between black and white Aus- tralians in her address to QUT gradu- ates at the Queensland Performing Arts Complex last month.

Formerly known as Kath Walker, Oodgeroo received an honorary doctor- ate during the ceremony on 24 Septem- ber in recognition of her contribution to Australian arts and community life.

In her speech she said the treaty

mechanism was the only way to recog- nise the territorial and legal rights of Aboriginal people.

"Anything else is an imposition and will merely water down the lie of terra nullius," she said.

"This legal lie of terra nullius has been used right up to and until the high court of Australia handed down its de- cision on the now famous Mabo case.

"All previous claims at law, by the indigenous people had, up until that

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Honour for eye doctor

Professor Fred Hollows, renowned eye specialist and former Australian of the Year, will become an honor- ary Doctor of the University at the next graduation ceremony on 15 October. The ceremony will include about 300 graduates from Built En- vironment and Engineering, Business and Law Faculties. It will be held at the concert hall of the Performing Arts Complex starting 5.30pm. Book tickets on 864 5712 or 864 3157.

time, floundered on the rocks of that legal lie of terra nullius."

Oodgeroo also stressed the impor- tance of Aboriginal spirituality.

"Their spirituality is not a religion.

It is tied firmly to the spirit of their earth mother who created all living things."

The graduation ceremony involved more than 460 students from Health, Arts, Education, Information Technol- ogy and Science Faculties.

In presenting her for the award, QUT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Tom Dixon said Oodgeroo had made an out- standing contribution to Australian lit- erature and community awareness of Aboriginal issues.

Born on Stradbroke Island in 1920, the often outspoken poet changed her name in recent years to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe as part of her com- mitment to her Aboriginal ancestry and the ongoing land rights struggle.

A prolific writer and poet, her most recent publication is Australia's Un- written History: More Legends of our Land, released in June this year.

Oodgeroo was the first Aborigine to publish a book of verse.

Entitled We Are Going, it was re- leased in 1964 and was followed two years later by The Dawn Is At Hand.

The first edition of her anthology My People was published in 1970, the third edition being released in 1990. Her childhood reminiscences of growing up on Stradbroke Island are recorded in Stradbroke Dreamtime, published in 1972.

A prominent and persuasive advo- cate of Aboriginal rights since the 1960s, she brought the plight of her people to international attention for the first time in 1969 as Australian del- egate to the World Council of Churches Consultation on Racism in London .

As a bicentennial protest, Oodgeroo returned the MBE awarded to her in 1970. She has retained other awards including the Jessie Litchfield Award, the Mary Gilmore Medal and the Fel- lowship of Australian Writers' Award.

Notwithstanding her bicentennial move, she and her son Kabul (Vivian) were scriptwriters and producers for the Dreamtime story, The Rainbow Ser- pent, which was a major feature of the Australian Pavilion at World Expo 88.

Oodgeroo has lectured widely in universities and colleges throughout Australia and uses her own property, Moongalba, on North Stradbroke Is- land as an educational centre for adults and children to learn more about Abo- riginal culture.

Griffith and Macquarie Universities have also previously awarded Oodgeroo honorary doctorates in rec- ognition of her lifetime's work and commitment.

Student Michael Whee/en with his "telescope" contemporary sculpture. {Photo: Suzanne Burow)

Warana . boost for artists

Visual arts students at Kelvin Grove who took part in a Warana art exhibition in the City Botanic Gar- dens could not accuse organisers of limiting their opportunity to show their work to the general public.

"What separated this show from others was the sheer quantity of peo- ple coming through," said Daniel Mafe, lecturer in painting in the visual arts program at the Academy of the Arts.

"The artists will never have that kind of audience again."

Ten students from QUT joined oth- ers from the Queensland College of Art and the University of Southern Queensland in the display, seen by thousands of visitors during the Warana Festival.

The exhibition showed work by Pe- ter Storey, Jude Kentish, Kerry Zoerner, Claire Llewelyn, Joanne Clark, Rebecca Maslakiewicz, Natalie Billing,

Fiona Cameron, Katrine McLeod and Michael Wheeler.

Mr Mafe said the works chosen highlighted the inter-disciplinary ap- proach in place at Kelvin Grove.

"We wanted to show that while the work was representative of the individual studio areas such as paint- ing, sculpture and fibre the boundary between them is blurred.

"That's what separates us from other places."

Honour · for Pro-Vice-Chancellor

QUT' s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Re- search and Advancement), Professor Millicent Poole, has been elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sci- ences in Australia.

Professor Poole, who was Profes- sor of Education and Head of Social, Administrative, Comparative and Policy Studies at Monash University before her appointment to QUT in 1991, has an extensive background in teaching and research.

Her special field of study is the role of education in human development, where she has taken a "life span" per- spective.

She has contributed extensively to the field of adolescence and school- leavers.

"Education should provide enriched options for the development of all young people throughout their life span, regardless of class, gender or ethnicity," Professor Poole said.

Currently she is involved in three areas of research: a project with col- leagues at the University of Helsinki, Finland and the University of Haifa,

Israel examining the role of culture on the development of self-esteem and orientation to the future on adolescents and young adults; a study looking at non-traditional career pathways for women; another looking at research policy and management in universities.

Professor Poole has also published extensively in four major areas- life

span development, language and cog- nition, policy research and general education.

Her latest work includes Young Aus- tralian Adults: Self Perceptions and Life Contexts (co-authored with G T Evans) and her current major work, Women and Careers: Orientation and Success (with J Langan-Fox).

The Academy of Social Sciences promotes growth and excellence in the field of social sciences. It coordinates the promotion of social science re- search and teaching, fosters research and subsidises the publication of rel- evant work.

It also represents Australia on inter- national bodies connected to the so- cial sciences as well as acting in con- sultancy and advisory roles.

Professor Poole is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Centre for Youth Development and Research, University of Minnesota.

She presented the Radford Memorial Lecture at the Australian Association of Educational Research in 1991.

Sex - murders ready to rise:

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QUT criminologist, Professor Paul Wilson, has predicted a sharp increase in sexual murders and se- rial killings in Australia.

He said the forecast was in line with an increase in violent sex crimes crimi- nologists were predicting in the United States.

Such crimes would be the result of Australian society taking on the char- acteristics that existed in America, he said.

"With more urban anonymity, greater disparity between the haves and have-nots and an increasing emphasis on media depictions of sexual violence, lust murders will rise in the next few years," he said.

Professor Wilson, who also heads QUT's Faculty of Arts, made the pre- diction in a speech he will present for the Graham Dick Memorial Lecture at the University of Tasmania in Hobart tomorrow nigh •.

Addressing the theme Sexual Crimes: Causes, Offenders and Dis- positions, Professor Wilson said re- search had shown there was no effec- tive form of therapy for people who engaged in violent sexual behaviour and no treatment to prevent them from re-offending.

Professor Wilson said researchers had looked at a variety of treatment programs, including "chemical castra- tion".

"While it is true that drugs known as "antihormones" may reduce sexual urges and fantasies, they have limited

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calendar

Wondering what to buy everyone for Christmas? Keep an eye out for QUT' s first art collection calendar due to be released later this month.

The calendar features a range of con- temporary and traditional paintings, ceramics and sculptures by Queensland artists. The works are among more than 900 featured in QUT's art collection.

QUT holds the fourth largest Queens- land public collection, and one of its greatest strengths lies in the works by Queensland-based artists.

The calendar aims to increase the profile of the collection in QUT and the wider community. For more infor- mation on this ideal Christmas gift tel- ephone the Public Affairs Office (07) 864 2999.

Police open day

QUT's role in police training will be featured in the Queensland Police Academy open day on Saturday 17 October at the Rudd St centre in Oxley.

The theme of the day will be "en- hancing professionalism through edu- cation and training".

The day will also provide opportuni- ties for interested people to speak with recruits, academic staff and serving police.

For more information contact 375 4057 extension 219.

Professor Paul Wilson

use in treating offenders who do not have high sex drives.

"My advice for policy-makers is to ask those advocating costly programs for firm evidence of effectiveness be- fore handing over large amounts of taxpayers' money."

Professor Wilson said the most cost- effective way to reduce crime was to concentrate on crime prevention rather than ineffective prison or treatment programs after victims had been vio- lated.

He said sex education programs, community crime prevention schemes, carefully evaluated prison programs and non-custodial supervisory and ac- commodation schemes would reduce the chances of sex offenders repeating their crimes.

CJC chief on ethics

The Chairman of the Criminal Justice Commission, Sir Max Bingham, will present the second annual QUT Ethics and Public Life Lecture at Parliament House on Tuesday, October 27.

Sir Max, whose term at the CJC ends at the end of this year, will ad- dress the topic Does Ethics Regula- tion Impede Good Government?

The chairman on the night will be the head of the Public Sector Man- agement Commission Dr Peter Coaldrake, and the respondents will be QUT lecturer in applied ethics Dr Noel Preston and lecturer in poli- tics at the University of Southern Queensland Dr Rae Wear.

The lecture has been sponsored by the Program for Applied Ethics and Human Change, the School of Humanities and the QUT Ethics Net- work.

The lecture will start at 7.30pm in the conference room on the fifth floor of the Parliamentary Annexe.

Campus quickies

Heartbreaking news from the Kedron Park campus - a callous band of gnome-nappers has struck, leaving the new herb and vegie garden bereft of security. Robyn Dougall, the cook at the campus canteen who started the garden and planted the gnomes, was spitting chips when she found out little Trevor, Brian and Terry had been snatched. But now she's handling the crisis in her own special way: "I like to think they've gone on holiday or taken off for a wild week-end and not felt like coming back."

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Talk about uni-speak. A memo sent to all staff recently requested volun- teers for a particular committee. To the anguish of some who care for the English language, the memo stated "the kick off meeting is anticipated to be in the October/November time frame". Readers will be amused to learn what followed. A subsequent memo said: "This initiative has been since placed on hold by the powers that be, perhaps because of the lack of enthusiasm to play ball".

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Nine bumps of various sizes belonging to nine preg- nant young women, a kind-hearted but austere nun, and a never-ending bundle of dirty laundry.

These are the features of Sue Rider's new play Bumpy Angels commissioned by the QUT Academy of the Arts to be performed by graduating students at La Boite Theatre this month.

Sue Rider is well known to Brisbane audiences as an actor and director. Twice a Matilda A ward win- ner, she is also one of Queensland's most frequently performed playwrights. Her play The Matilda Women toured throughout Queensland successfully for three consecutive years.

Written with poignancy and humour, Ms Rider's latest play uncovers an issue which until recently has been a well-kept secret.

Set in the 1950s in a home for unmarried mothers- to-be Bumpy Angels exposes the phenomenon of hiding women away from society when they had tarnished the angelic image of womanhood by falling pregnant.

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one of these homes," Ms Rider said. "She was sent from a country town to give birth in the city, had to sign away the child for adoption, then was expected to return home and resume her life as if nothing had happened."

The story had preyed on Sue Rider's mind ever since.

When QUT commissioned her to write for a predomi- nantly female group of actors, she seized the opportunity to give voice to all those women who had been hidden away in shame and were still carrying the pain of having to live a lie.

"I'd never written about a large group of women be-

fore," said Ms Rider. "It meant I could explore all those crazy things women do together - laughing, crying, sing- ing, arguing, even getting up and dancing. And all with great big bellies!

"The pain is there, of course, but it's an optimistic play.

Those women had enormous courage. They had to accept each others differences in order to find unity. Bumpy An- gels is a celebration of their strength."

Many of the issues in Bumpy Angels are just as perti- nent today as they were in the 1950s. Single mother- hood, immigration, the non-acceptance of Aboriginal culture, the idealisation of woman -all find resonance in the nineties.

The play's director, and Sue Rider's husband, Jim Vile, is enjoying guiding young actors through the rehearsal process.

"The play is challenging on a number of levels," he said. "It demands truth and depth of character and an understanding of the subject. It also requires a great deal of energy, as actors dash in and out of song and dance routines, sometimes in the middle of a conversation! It's a great vehicle for emerging actors."

The QUT Academy of the Arts employs more than 70 full-time staff who train around 600 students in the vari- ous disciplines of drama, music, dance and visual arts.

The drama program is one of the largest and most active in Australia providing students with experience in public performances as well as theory.

Bumpy Angels opens at La Boite Theatre on Monday 26 October and continues until Saturday 31 October. All performances at 8.00pm, with an extra matinee perform- ance at 2.00pm on Saturday.

Tickets are available through Dial'n'Charge on 846 4646.

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on future peace

The first Asia-Pacific Futures Studies present decisions and actions that would lead course, co-sponsored by QUT's Communica- to a global consciousness or cooperation tion Centre and held in Bangkok, Thailand, among diverse cultures, respect for the planet has sent world leaders a message from the and a total switch to recyclable products."

year 2020. Professor Stevenson is secretary-general-

Participants representing 13 nations have elect of the WFSF. He will take up the posi- called on present leaders to promote peace- tion at the end of 1993. At that time the· or- ful coexistence and stewardship of the eco- ganisation's secretariat, currently located in

system. Turku University School of Economics, at

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and Darren Schmidt, a masters student. In Bangkok possible scenarios for alterna- The theme of the course was The Futures tive futures were developed in answer to such of Development: Historical Roots, Present questions as: What if women held half the Trends and Alternative Futures. important positions in government? What if

"One of the tasks put to participants was genetic engineering factories replaced tradi- to anticipate their life in the year 2020 and to tional procreation? What if the centre of the consider the actions needed by the world's world economy shifted to south Asia?

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(From left) Kenrick van Noord, Timothy Barker and Blair Douglas with their Queen's Trust Awards. (Photo: Leon Frainey)

Our scientists score top awards

A post-doctoral research fellow and two pos_tgraduate students from QUT have been awarded Queen's Trust grants to undertake research.

Timothy Barker, Kenrick van Noord and Blair Douglas were presented with the awards by the Governor of Queensland, Leneen Forde, at Government House on 25 October.

Dr Barker, a post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Medical and Health Physics, re- ceived a $3000 grant, Mr van Noord, a PhD candidate in the School of Geology was awarded $4500 and Mr Douglas, an geology honours student received $3000.

Geology lecturer and Queen's Trust com-

mittee member, Mr Simon Lang, said awards for scientific research were relatively rare in the scheme.

"Many of Australia's most promising ballet dancers and musicians have been funded by the Trust but it is rare to get scientists in the scheme.

"These grants are very competitive across all fields of the arts, community service, sci- ence and technology and sport," said Mr Lang.

Dr Barker will use his grant for research into the production of accurate life-size replicas of human anatomical structures to assist medical staff in improving the treatment of patients.

Mr van Noord's award will allow him to

work on the geological history and age dating of the Calliope volcanic arc. The project is centred around the Warwick area.

Mr Douglas will use his grant to research the conditions influencing ground water chem- istry in relation to dry land soil salinity in Queensland.

The Dean of the Faculty of Science, Pro- fessor Tony Webber, said the QUT students success was a great step forward for both the faculty and the university.

''I'm very pleased they've shown the ini- tiative to apply and also to see how highly our graduates are regarded by the Trust's panel,"

Professor Webber said.

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QUT should be well placed to take part in cooperative ventures with future American space shuttle missions following emergency communications assistance given by a joint- campus research team on the recent Endeav- our mission.

Audio Visual Services laboratory assistant, Mr Andy Joyce, said the Johnson Space Cen- tre in Houston, Texas, had praised the vital role played by the QUT team in relaying mes- sages to the shuttle.

A group of researchers, including Mr Joyce, and School of Computing Science lecturer, Mr Neville Richter, had a pre-arranged agree- ment to speak to the Endeavour crew as they passed over Brisbane on orbit 92 at 6.30 pm on 18 September.

By chance, at that particular time, NASA lost communications with Endeavour. So for 10 minutes the QUT team relayed messages between astronaut Jay Apt and the Johnson Centre.

"NASA later praised the way we handled the situation and said that the help we gave had been reported in the American media,"

said Mr Joyce.

Their "shuttle rescue" role came about as a result of an application to NASA to carry out an education-based experiment with the shuttle.

"NASA had announced that they would take suggestions for educational research during the shuttle mission, officially num- bered STS 47," explained Mr Joyce.

"We planned for interested students and staff to be in the laboratory in the IT building with Neville Richter and there would a full conversing of keyboard-to-keyboard data with the space shuttle.

"The route for the conversation was from Gardens Point to Audio Visual Services at Ked ron Park, out 1 000 km to where the space shuttle was, and back again, using the whole lot of different building blocks to form one communication circuit.

"The communications section of Comput- ing Services played a key role in helping us set up the link."

Mr Joyce said the educational aim of the experiment was to establish a communica- tion link between, say, a laboratory and an orbiting shuttle to allow "live" space lectures or experiments.

The excitement of being the middlemen be- tween mission control and the space shuttle was heightened by being actually able to see the Endeavour as it passed over Brisbane.

From data provided by NASA Mr Joyce had calculated that the rays of the sun would reflect off Endeavour as it passed overhead.

So he set up special viewing equipment on an unused astronomy deck at Kedron Park.

"The shuttle was so bright," he recalled.

"It passed right overhead, moving very quickly."

Mr Joyce said the group had been "trying to achieve a bit of a leg in the door for future experiments" and feel their chances are now good because of the vital role they played.

Cost cutting

A committee has been established to consider ways of increasing the university's cost effi- ciency.

The Expenditure Review Committee, chaired by Dr Cherrell Hirst, is inviting submissions from all areas of QUT drawing attention to any prac- tice, process or item of expenditure in which cost efficiencies can be achieved.

The committee still welcomes suggestions, even though the deadline for submissions was 2 October. It will analyse potential savings and make recommendations to the Planning and Re- sources Committee of Council.

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The introduction of digital video communications (DVC) will open opportunities across a wide range of service indus- tries according to a study by QUT's Communication Centre.

Funded jointly with a $93 000 grant the study was carried out for the joint private sector and government body, the Serv- ice Industries Research Program.

The program is administered by the federal Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce (DITAC) and the Aus- tralian Council for Service Industries (ACSI).

Telecom was a major contributor to funding of the study.

The report states that with the convergence of computing, telecommunications and broadcasting Australians were about to re-learn communication practice by "interacting 'face-to- face' in a variety of new applications - home-to-home, in distance education and in global offices via teleconferencing".

"Even entertainment communications promise to be interac- tive," the report says.

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People with industrial relations expertise will be increasingly in de- mand because workplace relation- ships are fundamental to Austral- ia's welfare, says School of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations head, Associate Professor Doug Blackmur.

"We are hearing constantly about award restructuring, enterprise bar- gaining, anti-discrimination laws, equal employment opportunity, occu- pational health and safety," he said.

"All of these issues are basic to the area of industrial relations and are at the very pinnacle of national public debate."

issues such as enterprise bargaining, advocacy and negotiation, industrial law and industrial relations in other countries.

The new course is understood to be the only Queensland degree with a major professional specialisation in industrial relations.

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"DVC will be used across many industries for monitoring industrial processes and medical procedures, displaying works of art and marketing products."

The report stresses that, to take advantage of DVC, there is an urgent need for business and government to develop niche markets in manufacturing and identify opportunities in soft- ware and service industries.

To cater for the demand QUT will introduce from first semester next year a Bachelor of Business - Industrial Relations degree course.

Professor Blackmur said while the degree would be freestanding, offer- ing an independent qualification, it included several units taken by all Fac- ulty of Business students.

Professor Blackmur said the past 10 years in Australia had been one of the periods of most significant change in industrial relations in the nation's his- tory. Further changes seemed inevita- ble "because both major political par- ties seem determined to open the Aus- tralian economy to the pressure of in- ternational competition".

"Once our economy is fully inte- grated with the international economy that will have major implications for how industrial relations are conducted in Australia," he predicted.

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"If we wish to prove our international competitiveness and be successful in trade we must stop being a follower and be- come a leader," he said.

"From the required 24 units, eight units will be devoted to basic business knowledge," explained Professor Blackmur.

"My own judgement is that the is- sue of industrial relations is so impor- tant to Australia for a whole variety of reasons. There's the question of pro- ductivity, but also the extent to which the society is a fair and equitable one.

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The report stresses the need for government to take the initiative in educating the business sector on the opportunities which exist. It advises extensive training programs and work- shops to promote the uses of DYC.

"The second eight unit block deals with the industrial relations profes- sional specialisation while the third block of eight units will be up to the student's choice. They may choose a related professional area like human resource management or management, or can choose units offered by other schools or faculties."

"Matters of public interest can be very important in the industrial rela- tions area."

Professor Blackmur said what re- ally worried him about moves towards the American system and enterprise bargaining was that matters of equity and the public interest might be sacri- ficed.

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"The greatest changes in development of the technology are going to happen in the next three to four years.

"We should be concentrating now on getting our percentage of the market place, concentrating on things at which we are good, seeking niche markets and entering into consortium ar-

Professor Blackmur said within the professional specialisation students would learn about industrial relations theory, institutions, history, workplace

"For example, it is quite clear that pay rates for women are far lower when compared with pay rates for men for equivalent work under the American system as opposed to the more cen- tralised Australian system," he said.

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The Salvation Army, Lifeline and Soci- ety of St Vincent de Paul are among the charities which will benefit from QUT's new Community Welfare Fund.

The fund was launched by the Vice-Chan- cellor's Staff/Student Liaison Committee and has been endorsed by Professor Dennis Gibson.

It will be administered by three trustees, including Dr Paul Inglis, a lecturer in the Faculty of Education.

He said in future years staff members

could submit proposals suggesting other community organisations which could ben- efit from the fund.

Contributions to the QUT Community Welfare Fund may be made by cash or cheque made payable to the QUT Commu- nity Welfare Fund and forwarded to the campus cashier on your campus.

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When it comes to supporting leu- kaemia research, Jupiters Casino isn't taking any gamble.

Representatives from Jupiters vis- ited QUT and the Mater Hospital last month to inspect vital diagnostic equipment purchased thanks to a

$83 580 grant from the Jupiters Com- munity Benefit Fund.

Made through the QUT Foundation earlier this year, the grant supports the work of a joint QUT/Mater Hospital program in molecular pathology and leukaemia research.

The much-needed funds have enabled the research team to pur- chase a chromatic colour image analysis system, installed at QUT, and a Genepure Nucleic Acid Ex- traction System, housed at the Mater Hospital.

Leader of QUT's part of the re- search, senior lecturer in pathology Dr David J Allan, said the equipment was vital for accurate and fast diag- nosis and would greatly boost re-

search potential.

The new computer image analysis system provides a vastly increased body of collated data essential for di- agnosis and treatment.

The Genepure system extracts pure DNA from blood samples within hours, a process which takes several days when attempted manually.

The visit to QUT and the Mater Hospital last month provided Jupiters representatives their first opportunity to view the equipment in action.

Representatives included chairman of the Community Benefit Fund Board Mr Hunter Perkins, board secretary Mrs Beverly Taylor and former board chairperson Lady Ramsay.

Right: Jupiters Community Benefit Fund chairman Mr Hunter Perkins (right) tries out new diagnostic equipment with Dr David E Allen, head of OUT's analytic electron microscopy unit.

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Canberra design position

Dr Catherin Bull senior lecturer in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture has been appointed a member of the four-person National Capital Planning Authority (NCPA).

The NCPA has the ongoing respon- sibility for the planning, design and management of the Australian capital.

The charter of the authority also in- cludes the fostering of awareness of Canberra as the nation's capital. The position is for three years in the first instance.

The four part-time members of the NCPA meet monthly to oversee the work of the organisation.

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First year drama students at Kelvin Grove will stage a Foundation Year Festival to showcase their work.

The festival will act as a finale to the students' first year of study and will become an annual event.

Four plays will be staged during the season:

20-24 October: The Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill, Woodward Theatre

QUT, Kelvin Grove. '

Directed by Sean Mee, this contem- porary piece explores the lives of peo- ple during the turbulent years of the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime.

27-31 October: Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Metro Arts Theatre, I 09 Edward Street.

Directed by Dianne Eden and Christine Hoepper, this tragedy is centered around a wedding in a rural Spanish community and explores the values and traditions of a close-knit society.

3-7 November: Legacies, by Steve Capelin, Woodward Theatre, QUT.

Researched and written by both Abo- riginal and non-Aboriginal students, Legacies explores cultural relations between black and white Australians.

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Election notice

QUT Council Members

QUT Council is the governing body of the University, chaired by the Chancellor, Mr Vic Pullar AO. Council will be reconstituted on 20 November 1992. In accordance with the QUT Act and Statute 8, nominations are

no~ called for the filling of the following positiOns:

• Academic Staff (three positions)- Aca- demic staff are full-time staff employed pri- marily to teach, conduct research or manage an academic faculty, school or research cen- tre, and the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-

ancellors and Pro-Vice-Cnancellors.

• Nonacademic Staff (two positions) - Nonacademic staff are full-time staff of QUT who are not academic staff.

• Two members who are members of Con- vocation, neither of whom shall be a full-time staff member or enrolled student of the Uni- versity, appointed by and from Convocation in the manner prescribed by the Statutes.

Convocation comprises all members and past members of the Council, all graduates enrolled as members of Convocation and all members of the full-time academic staff of the University. A Convocation member is eli- gible to nominate a candidate, be nominated as a candidate and vote except that a Convo- cation member who is also a full-time mem- ber of staff or an enrolled student shall not be eligible to be nominated as a candidate.

Nominations must be made on the pre- scribed from, available from Campus Regis- trars or the Secretariat at Gardens Point. Vot- ing will be by postal vote. Ballot papers will be forwarded to electors following close of nominations at 5pm Monday 19 October 1992.

For further information please contact Tina on 864 1911.

Support QUT with a gift in your will

QUT's continued excellence in teaching and applied research depends on the gener- osity of individuals who recognise the value of practical university education.

QUT is now receiving gifts in wills to support teaching and applied research pro- grams through the QUT Foundation Fund.

A gift in your will is the easiest way to be involved in QUT's future. Simply include a clause in the following form:

"I give and bequeath ... to QUT Foun- dation Incorporated to be applied for the general purposes thereof and I declare that the receipt of the secretary, treasurer or other proper officer of the said foundation shall be full and sufficient discharge to my Trus- tee for the payment of the said legacy and that my Trustees shall not be bound to see the application thereof."

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