July 23, 1975

Volume 7, Number 20 Summer swimmers Creeping socialism?

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TheNEWS Mrs. Foley retires Metal-based drugs Amalgamation opposed

Miniature cyclone on campus Cyclone Tracy is happening all over again . .. but

this time in a wind tunnel at the Department of Civil Engineering where she can do no harm.

The wind tunnel is simulating wind speeds of up to 250 miles per hour to testsmallbalsa-wood models of the "new generation" of Darwin homes.

Associate Professor B.J. Vickery has travelled to Darwin on several occasions to advise on design wind speeds, and on the interpretation of Australian building safety codes.

He expects there will be a strong swing away from the formerly popular elevated houses, built on stilts for ventilation in a humid climate.

"Elevated houses could be built again in Darwin, and built strong enough to withstand cyclones . . . but they would be a lot more expensive than a house on the ground," he said.

"Basically, if you want a wind catching house you are going to have to pay for it."

No new houses have been built since Darwin was

demolished by Cyclone Tracy seven months ago, but the Department of Housing and Construction has several new designed ready for a building programme.

These designs will be tested for their wind-catching properties at Civil Engineering's wind tunnel.

In the past, the wind tunnel has been mainly used to test large skyscrapers (such as the Centrepoint Tower and the Rocks Redevelopment), so it has been necessary to calibrate it differently to measure the effect of wind on a small house.

The Balsa-wood model houses are about four or five inches high. They are subjected to "cylonic" winds from an 8-feet diameter propellor at the other end of the tunnel.

Movements which result are recorded on a digital computer for later analysis. Individual rooms or groups of rooms can also be tested.

What constitutes an excessively "wind-catching" design for a house?

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pool) and a permanent booking from the Woollahra Swimming Squad for an hour and a half in the mornings (several lanes are reserved).

By contrast, the Squash Courts are 90 percent booked throughout the year, falling to about 85 percent only in the Christmas/New Year period.

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Extreme examples are the elevated house, or the house with wide overhanging eaves. A flat-roofed house is O.K., but a gable roof needs to be much stronger than a "hip" roof.

Professor Vickery said attention to detail in the jointing of houses was the most effective way of strengthening them against cyclones.

"Strength can be provided by remarkably simple measures like using an improved washer design to screw down corrugated iron roofing.

"In fact since the Darwin cyclone a private company has developed a larger, specially-shaped washer which is less susceptible to fatigue, and as a result the roofs will be much more securely fastened.

"Another simple way of building stronger homes is to use angle steel plating at the joint, rather than simple skew-nailing," he said.

Almost 30,000 of Darwin's pre-cyclone population of 40,000 have now moved back, but many of them are living in undamaged or restored houses, or caravans and demountables.

Some of the old homes have now been literally tied to the ground: steel rods connect the roof structure with the foundations; while others have used "overbattening" to strengthen the roof.

"Strapping down joints in this way is not particularly new, but it will be a new development when it is applied to particular jointings," he said,

"Builders are also looking at the use of soil anchors. Holes are drilled in the ground, and structural members are put in and held in place with concrete. This then connects to the roof (or to the floor in elevated structures), literally tying the house to the ground.

"Another ploy is to use overbattens to hold the roof on more securely. Before the cyclone there was hardly an overbatten in Darwin, unlike Onslo, Dampier and Port Hedland, where the cyclones are more frequent," Professor Vickery said.

Although economy will still play a large part in determining the type of house which is built, the re-builders of Darwin will have some sound advice on just how strong their buildings need to be.

The Department of Civil Engineering's wind tunnel can be used to measure the effect of wind on tall structures (such as the Kingsgatc complex seen here) or on suburban cottages. The Department has consulted on a variety of projects, including the reconstruction of Westgate Bridge, the Centrepoint Tower, the OCBC building in Singapore, and the Black Mountain tower in Canberra.

High set homes, popular in Darwin because of the ventilation they provide, are also more susceptible to wind damage. Wind speeds increase rapidly the further off the ground a structure rises. High-set homes may still be built in Darwin, but they will be more expensive than before.

HEATED POOL MORE POPULAR IN SUMMER

Although the University's heated swimming pool is kept at a constant 80 degrees throughout the year, its use by staff and students fluctuates considerably.

At the beginning of first term and at the end of third term the pool is full to overcrowded, but usage during second term falls away to almost nothing. The Secretary of the Sports Union, Mr Ron Sharpe, said it appeared that whether a pool was heated or not, people were simply not prepared to swim during winter.

"For some mysterious reason we've got it in our heads that summer is the swimming season, no matter what the water temperature is," he said.

Mr Sharpe said the pattern had remained the same since the pool (the only heated 50-metre pool in Australia) was opened in 1971.

"We get about 3,000 people per week during the first few weeks of first term, and about 2,000 per week around the "stuvac" at the end of third term — but during second term only about 800."

Even then, most of these 800 are made up of water polo players (about 50 teams from throughout Sydney use the

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GENESIS There was nothing immoral or outlandish in the attempts

by the government to borrow a sum of $4 billion, Associate Professor E.L. Wheelright said last week at the first of the Genesis '75 Lecture series.

Professor Wheelright was speaking to the topic "Social Democracy or Creeping Socialism". His co-speakers were Mr John Butterworth (the endorsed Senate candidate for the Australia Party) and Mr Dick Scott, the Federal President of the Amalgamated Worker's Union.

Professor Wheelright said $4 billion sounded like an awful lot of money, but was not such an outlandish sum in the context of the capital flow in recent years before the Labor government came into office.

"In the five years to 1972 the outstanding borrowings by companies, mainly foreign, which they'd borrowed from companies overseas, was $5.6 billion.

"If the current loan affair really was an attempt to "buy back the farm" (i.e. build up our own nationally-owned petro-chemical plants, uranium plants, railway electrification, port improvements etc), then no matter how bumble-footed and incompetent the attempt was by gullible Labor ministers, you could expect a violent reaction fromthe multi-nationals involved and from the political forces they can mobilise.

"Another point is that it would be very difficult to obtain loans for this purpose from the usual world capital channels, especially Wall Street.

"No capitalist bank or monetary fund is going to provide money to buy themselves out . .. so there is third world money available for these purposes and it is this the Labor government in its bumbling way was trying to tap.

"So when there is an attempt to bring socialism, creeping or whatever you call it, what do we get? We get frame-ups, we get letters springing out of the ground and appearing in the embassy at Washington, we get the bureaucrats sacking the treasurers.

"I don't think we'll ever get socialism unless we can mobilise the people of this country to take what is our own for ourselves and not for international capitalists," he said.

Mr John Butterworth said the Australia Party was opposed to monopolies, whether they be private or government.

Mr Butterworth said the term "socialism" in itself was meaningless in the context of the present day political spectrum of Australia.

"There is today no parliamentary party which is completely socialist or completely non-socialist.

"The Labor government has introduced Medibank, the National Compensation Bill and the National Superannuation Bill, the Trade Practices Act and competition with the private sector in some areas of revenue-earning business such as mining and insurance.

"But are these any more socialist than government control of the marketing of essential commodities, such as milk and eggs, through authorities and boards, or the margarine quotas, for instance?

"The Australia Party believes the government has discouraged the private sector for the past few years. They've made the mistake of assuming efficiency in industry can be imposed by bodies such as the Prices Justification Tribunal rather than ensuring truly competitive private enterprise.

"I believe this is a mistake, but I believe we'll get nowhere in this country until we stop categorising governments and putting meaningless but emotive labels on them and until we start judging governments on individual actions and decisions rather than calling them socialist or non-socialist."

Mr Dick Scott said he believed unions themselves were to

Social democracy or creeping socialism?

Professor Wheelwright speaking at the first of the Genesis 75 lecture series at the Stephen Roberts theatre. Also pictured is Mr John Butterworth.

blame in many regards for the, lack of a proper socialist perspective in this country.

Mr Scott said multi-nationals and local monopolies made decisions purely on profit and under no circumstances considered the worth of their product or the effect on the environment.

He said it was not democratic that research and support services should be given to industry from public funds, and the benefits not shared by the public.

He said other areas of exploitation included the automotive industry, aerosols and detergents, and drugs.

"The majority of drugs taken by addicts are manufactured by monopolies — barbiturates, travel sickness, morphia, cocaine, heroin, tranquilizers, benzedrine — and these monopolies do not care about the eventual results. Should not the workers in these places take the first steps in limiting output to proven legal markets?"

"To me it seems we must look at public ownership of a whole range of industries — in that way you have control over what is produced, and the requirements that are needed in a country, and the profits that go from that particular area," he said.

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ON

CAMPUS Farewell to Jean Foley, Registrar

Mrs Jean D. Foley, Registrar of the University, will retire on Friday, July 25.

Last October the Senate accepted Mrs Foley's resignation to take effect in February or March this year. However she agreed to postpone her departure when she became Acting Registrar last November.

Mrs Foley first came to the University as a student in 1943. Her first job here was as Assistant Secretary to the Appointments Board.

She resigned to join I.B.M. and was later appointed to the Hospitals Contribution Fund to take charge of the computerisation of its operations.

Mrs Foley returned to the University as an Assistant Registrar with duties including the overall responsibility for installation of a new computer. From that position she was promoted to Deputy Registrar, Associate Registrar and then Registrar.

The new Registrar, Professor K.W. Knight, will take up his appointment on September 25.

Professor Knight has been Head of the Department of Government at the University of Queensland since May 1972. He joined that University's Department of External Studies in 1959 as a Lecturer in Political Science and, in the following year, became Lecturer in Public Administration in the Department of History and Political Science.

In 1965, he joined the Department of Government at the University of Queensland and was appointed Reader in Public Administration in 1968. Since 1971, he has held the J.D. Story Chair of Public Administration there.

In a recent issue of the University News at the University of Queensland, Professor Knight said he did not feel he was abdicating his responsibility as a teacher by accepting the position of Registrar here.

"In many ways I am essentially a teacher and it's likely that I'll continue to do some part time teaching."

He believes that universities need to be administered by people with an appreciation of academic values and feels that more academics should move into administration rather than remain critical from outside.

"It is important that there should be more of this sort of thing.

"It would serve to close the gap between the academic and the administrator, a gap which at present often exists because of their differing views about the functions and problems of the university."

Jean Foley, retires July 25

Ken Knight, starts September 25

Mrs Foley, or Jean Laing as I still tend to think of her, has a special place in the recent history and in the affections of the Faculty of Arts, whose secretary she was for several years. The Faculty will long remember her unobtrusive efficiency, her charm, and her unfailing good humour.

My own debt to her is immense. I know better than anyone, perhaps, what a constructive administrator she was, always looking for better ways of doing things, putting into practice the injunction of Geoffrey Chaucer (a poet who was also an administrator) to "take the fruit and let the chaff be still."

The Faculty, I am sure, would want to join, with

me in placing on record our appreciation and our best wishes for the future.

H.L. Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

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Mrs Foley's term as Registrar has been very regrettably short. Her great integrity, judgment, foresight and charm helped to make her an ideal Registrar. We shall miss her. It is a small consolation that she has agreed to remain with us in a consultative capacity, to complete some important work she had started and to give us the benefit of her advice.

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RESEA RCN Metals in Medicine

A research conference on 'Metals in Medicine' will be held in the School of Chemistry at Sydney University from August 27 to 29. The conference will be organised by the University's Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

About a hundred and twenty medical and chemical scientists from Australian hospitals and laboratories will attend. Over forty research papers will be presented.

The conference will deal with recent research on a wide range of metal-related problems on health and disease.

It has been known for a long time that certain metals —iron, copper, zinc — are essential constituents of the diets of many organisms, including humans. It is a more recent discovery that the list of essential trace metals is much longer than had been suspected, and that specific diseases are associated with malfunctions of the biological processes in which the trace metals are involved. An important session of the conference will be devoted to medical and chemical work on these 'metal-metabolic' diseases.

Other topics to be discussed will include the effects and treatment of poisoning by metal pollutants (lead, cadmium, mercury); the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of chemicals which incorporate radioactive metals; and the development of entirely new classes of drugs from metal-containing chemical compounds.

One of the invited lecturers at the conference will be Dr John Cade of the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, Melbourne. His discovery that salts of the metal lithium are effective in the

treatment of manic depression was made about twenty years ago, but has been almost totally ignored by inorganic chemists.

Another lecture will be given jointly by Drs Alan Sargeson and David Buckingham of the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. They will deal with new research on the bactericidal and fungicidal properties of certain types of iron and ruthenium compounds. The biological effects of these compounds were discovered (partly at the University of Sydney) by the late Professor F.P.J. Dwyer about twenty years ago, but their possible clinical uses have scarcely been exploited.

The closing lecture of the conference will be given by Professor Eric Underwood, formerly Professor of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia and now a member of the Executive of C.S.I.R.O. Professor Underwood is a world authority on trace metals in relation to agriculture. His lecture will summarise the findings of the conference in the wider context of Australian medical and chemical research.

Enquiries concerning the conference should be addressed to Professor H.C. Freeman (extension 2757) or Dr J.K. Beattie (extension 3430), Department of Inorganic Chemistry.

Staff and students not registered for the conference but wishing to attend the lectures by Professor Barnett Rosenberg and Dr John Cade may obtain tickets for this purpose from Miss Sandra Saksida, Room 408, School of Chemistry, extension 2757.

AMERICAN PHYSICIST TO OPEN 'METALS IN MEDICINE' CONFERENCE

The opening lecture at the 'Metals in Medicine' conference will be given by Professor Barnett Rosenberg, Professor of Medical Biophysics at the Michigan State University.

Professor Rosenberg is responsible for the discovery in 1968 that certain complexes of the metal platinum are powerful anti-tumour agents.

This discovery opened the door to an entirely new range of methods for investigating the cancer problem, and sparked off the present upsurge of intense interest in the applications of inorganic chemistry to medical research.

One of the platinum drugs — cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum (II) — is now in an advanced testing stage in many hospitals throughout the world.

At the British Chemical Congress in London last year, Professor Rosenberg was able to report that the drug had produced encouraging responses with a number of cancers in terminal patients. Terminal patients are those who have an estimated average of 60 days to live.

The major side effect of the first platinum drugs was damage to the patients' kidneys. However, new drugs of the platinum family subsequently

Professor Rosenberg

developed do not appear to have this disadvantage.

Successful use of the drugs has been reported in cases of cancer of the genito-urinary tract and in such cancerous diseases as fibrosarcoma, lymphosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, endometrial carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. There have been dramatic remissions of tumours of the thyroid and breast.

Dr Rosenberg cautions that kidney toxicity is still the dose-limiting side effect of the platinum drugs in

humans. This remains a cause of anxiety among clinicians. A large number of researchers in laboratories in many countries are now seeking ways of minimising the kidney damage, and are searching for improved drugs of this type which have a greater therapeutic effect and a lower kidney toxicity. Some such drugs are now in the preliminary testing phases.

Professor Rosenberg will report these new developments at the Sydney University conference.

The "METALS IN MEDICINE" conference will be sponsored by the Foundation for Inorganic Chemistry within The University of Sydney. The foundation was formed in 1973 to promote the study and research in inorganic chemistry. The Governors of the Foundation are: Mr Alexander Boden (Hardman Chemicals Ltd.), Mr C.H. Kellion, Mr Vivian Chalwin, Sir William Pettingell, Mr W.P. Ryan (Rothmans of Pall Mall Ltd), and Mr G. Hermon Slade. The Members include Ajax Chemicals Ltd, Laporte Australia Ltd, Peko-Wallsend Ltd. The Foundation was responsible for the highly successful visit to Australia of Professor Linus Pauling in 1973.

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ADMINISTRATION The Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee is opposed to

the amalgamation of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education into a single statutory and unitary body.

In a submission to the Jones Committee, the AV-CC proposed the establishment of a Commission for Universities and Colleges and separate councils for each as an alternative to a unitary body.

The Jones Committee has been set up to consider the means of amalgamating the UC and the CAE into a "Single Statutory Advisory Body to the Australian Government".

The AV-CC said there were very proper differences between the universities and colleges which it was in the interests of the community to maintain and which could be undermined by a unitary Commission.

Neither the UC or CAE were purely advisory bodies and both had important administrative functions, the submission said.

The greater the number of institutions making submissions to a single Commission, the greater the problems of maintaining the intimacy, understanding and confidence which had marked relations between the universities and the UC.

These relations had made possible a large Government financial support for universities and a response by the universities to national needs without undermining university autonomy and academic independence.

The AV-CC said the UC and CAE were required by statute to consult one another.

"It may be that these consultations have not been adequate, and that in consequence the provision of opportunities for tertiary education has been less adequate or balanced than could be for a given level of expenditure.

"If this is so it would be wise to require the Chairmen of the two Commissions to publish a report on the desirable and balanced provision of opportunities for tertiary education, and of the appropriate contributions which could be made by the universities and the colleges respectively."

The AV-CC supported a new Commission and two Councils if the Government would not be content with the "simple change" outlined above.

This new Commission could have the following terms of reference:

To assess and to advise the Minister for Education on the

Opposition to unitary Commission

desirable level of provision for post-secondary education and the desirable contribution of the different sectors.

To consult the two Councils on the extent and balanced development of the various forms of post-secondary education and to establish targets for student numbers.

To establish, after discussion with the two Councils, appropriate guidelines for the calculation of recurrent grants per student per type of subject per level of study, research and equipment funds, the maintenance and extension of academic buildings, the provision of student and staff facilities, and the provision of statistical information.

To maintain a continuing appraisal of programmes and standards.

To comment to the Minister on the triennial reports of the Councils.

The AV-CC suggested the new Commission have a full time Chairman and two part time members plus the chairman and one part time member from each of the Councils.

The Committee's submission emphasised the differences between the UC and the CAE.

One important difference was that the CAE report was short on explanation and information. This made it impossible to make reasonable comparisons between the standards of expenditure adopted by the two Commissions. This shortage of information and analysis could be due to the difficulties of dealing with more than 80 institutions.

There was no known case where the UC had recommended grants anything like as high as those proposed in a triennial submission by a university but it appeared the CAE had recommended grants as high as those proposed by State authorities, in one case even provisionally proposed.

"This comment does not imply that the CAE is necessarily extravagant in accepting proposals made by the States. It is meant to emphasise the difference between the two Commissions which reflects in some measure the differences in the legal positions of universities and colleges and in their traditions and roles."

The CAE baldly stated that the control it exerted over study programmes was central to the discharge of its responsibility.

The UC adopted a very different attitude through its commitment to university autonomy. This again reflected the different legal positions, traditions, roles and experience of universities as self-governing institutions.

The Editor, The University of Sydney News, Dear Sir,

Your feature article this week (News, July 9) quotes Associate Professor Simons as complaining about the lack of younger staff at Science Faculty meetings. I would like to suggest one reason why this might be so.

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about 10 months, but so far I have not received any information at all from the faculty. I neither know where it meets or when (or even if). I am wondering how long I have to be here before they notice I exist. Perhaps this is the reason for the lack of younger staff at the meetings —no one has told them that there is a meeting.

C.J. Bell, Dept. of Environmental Physics.

The Editor, The University of Sydney News, Dear Sir,

With due respect, it is to be hoped that the beans of Arts and Science will not pursue further their proposal to reduce

their Faculty quorums from 40 to 20 (University News 9th July 1975). It is bad enough that those two Faculties can be governed now by 111/2 percent of their membership.

Most of us would sympathise with Associate Professors Jack and Simons, facing possible repeated interruption of Faculty business through lack of a quorum. Hopefully, however, both Faculties will direct their attention to ways of improving participation in faculty government, rather than allowing the existing apparent "disinterest" of members to become further entrenched.

Robert Stead Administrative Assistant to the Dean

Faculty of Architecture

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NOTICES Election of Three Fellows of the Senate by Persons

enrolled as Candidates Proceeding to a Degree or Diploma in the University

NOTICE is hereby given that an election of three Fellows of the Senate by persons enrolled as candidates proceeding to a degree or diploma in the University will be held on WEDNESDAY, 15TH OCTOBER, 1975, in accordance with the provisions of the University and University Colleges Act, 1900-1973 and the By-laws of the University made

thereunder.

TENURE Each Fellow so elected shall hold office for the period 1st January,

1976 to 31st December, 1976.

PERSONS QUALIFIED TO STAND FOR ELECTION

1. Any person, except those specified in (2) below, who is enrolled as a candidate proceeding to a degree or diploma in the University is qualified to stand for election (in accordance with the nomination procedure prescribed in the By-laws).

2. The following persons are INELIGIBLE to hold office as a result of this election:- (a) full-time permanent members of the academic staff, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Deputy Principal, the Registrar, the Librarian and the Director of the Department of Adult Education; and (b) full-time permanent members of the non-academic staff who have been employed by the University continuously for at least three years.

PERSONS QUALIFIED TO VOTE IN THE ELECTION Any person who is enrolled as a candidate proceeding to a degree or

diploma in the University is qualified to vote in the election.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE 1. Each nomination of a candidate must be forwarded on a nomination

paper to reach the Registrar by NOT LATER THAN 5.00PM ON TUESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1975.

2. Each nomination paper must be signed by at least TWENTY qualified voters and must be accompanied by a written statement signed by the person nominated and signifying his or her consent to the nomination.

3. There must be a separate nomination paper for each candidate and no qualified voter shall be eligible to sign more than three nomination papers.

4. If a qualified voter signs more than three nomination papers, his or her signature shall be counted upon the first three nomination papers received by the Registrar and shall not be counted upon any other nomination paper.

5. Nomination papers are available during normal working hours either from the Information and Enrolment Office at the University or by telephone or written request from the - Registrar, University of

Sydney, NSW 2006 (692-1122, ext. 2019).

STAFF VACANCIES Applications for the following positions are

at present being accepted and should be forwarded to the Registrar by the dates indicated.

Chair of Pharmacology - 15th August, 1975.

Chair of Clinical Opthalmology - 1st September, 1975.

Chair of Physics - 1st September, 1975. Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Public

Policy - 31st July, 1975. Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Pathology

- 15th August, 1975. Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Computer

Science - 15th August, 1975. Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in

Veterinary Surgery - 25th August, 1975. Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Fine Arts

- 29th August, 1975. Lectureship in Applied Mathematics - 15th

August, 1975. Lectureship in Agricultural Economics -

15th August, 1975. Lectureship in Social Work - 31st August,

1975.

Student Membership of Faculties Elections 1975

Elections for student membership of Faculties for the period 1st January, 1976 to 31st December, 1976 will be held as follows. Details about nomination procedure, etc will be announced in the next issue of the University News.

Faculty: Agriculture Engineering Medicine Veterinary Science: Earliest date for receipt of nominations - Wednesday, 17th September; latest date for receipt of nominations - Tuesday, 30th September; day of election - Wednesday, 29th October.

Faculty: Arts Law: Earliest Date for receipt of nominations -

Thursday, 18th September; latest date for receipt of nominations -Wednesday, 1st October; day of election - Thursday, 30th October.

Faculty: Architecture Dentistry Economics Science: Earliest date for receipt of nominations - Friday, 19th September; latest date for receipt of nominations - Thursday, 2nd October; day of election - Friday, 31st October.

Jean D. Foley, Registrar.

INFORMATION ABOUT CANDIDATES Each candidate may provide at the time of nomination a statement

of not more than one hundred words containing the following information: Full name, Academic year, Academic qualifications, Age, Positions of office held in public bodies, clubs and institutions (including University clubs and societies) with dates of tenure.

Such information shall be edited by the Registrar and printed as a summary of information for distribution with the voting papers.

METHOD OF ELECTION 1. In the event of more than three candidates being nominated, the

election shall be conducted by postal vote in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the By-laws.

2. A list of all qualified voters, completed to 16th September, 1975, shall be available for inspection in the Registrar's office at the University during normal working hours for a period of at least fourteen days prior to 1 5th October, 1975.

3. The Registrar will forward in September, 1975 to each voter at his or her last recorded address a voting paper and information about the candidates.

4. All voting papers received by the Registrar not later than 2.00pm on Wednesday, 15th October, 1975 shall be counted in the ballot.

5. The election will be conducted in accordance with a preferential system as prescribed by the By-laws.

BY-LAWS The By-laws governing the election of Fellows by persons enrolled as

candidates proceeding to a degree or diploma are set out in the University Calendar for 1975 (Volume I, pages 104-106).

SYMPOSIUM SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR ARRAYS

Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, South Australia. 1st to 2nd September, 1975 (Monday and Tuesday).

Inquiries to: Mr H.A. d'Assumpcao, Building 87, Laboratories Area, Weapons Research Establishment, Box 2151 GPO, Adelaide, SA 5001.

Registrations no later than 31ST JULY, 1975.

SQUASH COACHING FOR MEN AND WOMEN

6 one hour classes for $8.00. Mondays 11-12 noon, 12-fpm, 1-2pm. Enrol Sports Centre (Western Avenue).

SOCIAL SKILLS WORKSHOP Students who would like to improve their

social skills especially in the case of shyness and loneliness are invited to attend a small working group during the 1st week of the August vacation.

Further details: Student Counselling Service, Institute Building, City Road. 660-8229.

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Lectureship in Soil Science - 1st September, 1975.

Recognised Teachers in Divinity - 31st July, 1975.

Temporary Clinical Instructor (Rural Veterinary Centre, Camden) - 25th August, 1975.

Lectureships/Principal Tutorships (2) in German - 15th August, 1975.

Temporary Senior Tutorship in Pathology -8th August, 1975.

Tutorship in Physical Chemistry - 1st August, 1975.

Assistant to the Director of the Language Laboratories - 31st August, 1975.

Further information about any of the above may be obtained from the Staff Office, Old Geology Building, University of Sydney.

Mr Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Visiting Fellow A.N.U. Canberra and an expert in Contemporary Italian Music will lecture on SYLVANO BUSSOTTI and New Italian Music on TUESDAY, 29th July, 10am - 12 noon in the Music Auditorium, Griffith Taylor Building.

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WEEKLY CALENDAR hi, _ August MONDAY, JULY 28 12 noon "Pollution Control Legislation", Mr C.E.

Potter, School of Law, University of NSW (Engineering, Society & the Environment Series). P.N. Russell Building, Lecture Theatre 2

1. )0pm - "Effects of Acrilamide Poisoning on 3.00pm Peripheral Nerves", Mrs Elizabeth Post,

Department of Medicine (Neurosciences Seminar) South Badham Building, Room 237.

2.00pm "On the Non-deducibility of 'Ought' from 'Is"'. Associate Professor D.C. Stove, Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy (Staff Seminar). Staff Common Room, Traditional and Modern Philosophy, Main Quadrangle.

4. )0pm "Dilute Magnetic Systems", Dr G.B. Smith, Physics Department, NSW Institute of Technology (Physics Colloquium). School of Physics, Lecture Theatre 1.

8.00pm "The Sixth Book of Virgil's 'Aeneid"', Professor R.D. Williams, University of Reading. Philosophy Room, Main Quadrangle.

TUESDAY, JULY 29 10.00am "SYLVANO BUSSOTTI and New Italian 12 noon Music", Mr Christopher Lyndon-Gee,

Visiting Fellow from Australian National University. Music Auditorium, Griffith Taylor Building.

1.00pm "Impact of Social Change on Education" (Genesis Series 1975) Chairman: Professor J.M. Ward. Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre.

4.00pm "Minicomputer Hardware Selection", Mrs M.E. Jacob, Technical Services, Fisher Library. Lecture Theatre 5, Physics Building.

5.00pm "The Structure of Bosistoin, a New Triterpene", Mr J.A. Croft, Department of Organic Chemistry. Chemistry Lecture Theatre No. 4.

15pm "Biological Applications of Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy: Some Case Histories, e.g. The Iron-Sulphur Proteins", Professor Graham Palmer, Department of Biochemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas. Chemistry School Seminar Room 418.

8.00pm "Dialogue and the Vernacular", Professor Arthur Delbridge, Department of English, Macquarie University (Australian Culture in the Nineteenth Century), Seminar Room N401, John Woolley Building.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 1.00pm "Use of Electron Probe Analysis in

Ultra-structural investigation", Dr C.E. Nockolds, Electron Microscope Unit (Anatomy Seminar), Anderson Stuart Building, Room 337.

1.05pm "The Role of Solar Energy in Our Community: Discussion on Social,

Environmental and Economic Problems", Professor C.N. Watson-Munro (Chairman), Professor L.C. Birch (Energy Research Centre Seminar Series). School of Physics, Lecture Theatre 8.

2.00pm "Introduction to Mathematical Ecology", Professor E.C. Pielou, Dalhousie University. Carslaw Lecture Theatre 8.

5.15pm "The Geological Importance of Stromatoporoids", Mr D. Morris, Department of Geology. (Zoology Seminar) Zoology Colloquium Room.

6.30pm "The Role of Environmental Impact Assessment in Decision Processes", Mr I.R. McIntyre, Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of New South Wales. Hall of Assembly, Level 4, Sydney University Law School.

THURSDAY, JULY 31 10.00am "An Aspect of Australian Poetry",

distinguished poet, Mr Peter Porter. Woolley Building, Room 395.

2.00pm "Introduction to Mathematical Ecology", Professor E.C. Pielou, Dalhousie University. Carslaw Lecture Theatre 8.

6.30pm "Olympia 1936". Film. (Australasian Society for European History). Carslaw Lecture Theatre 8. Admission: 60c.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 9.00am "Resonance Raman Spectra of Inorganic

Chromophores", Dr R.S. Armstrong, Department of Inorganic Chemistry. (Inorganic Chemistry Research Seminar). Chemistry Seminar Room 418.

1.00pm "The Autonomous House", Mr Colin James, Department of Architecture (Architectural Science Seminar). Architectural Science Lecture Theatre.

1.05pm "The Nature of the Heartwood Transition", Mr K. Bamber, Wood Technology Division, Forestry Commission (Botany Seminar). Botany Building Large Lecture Theatre.

NOTICES Basser Department of Computer Science will

hold a Three-day Seminar on August 6-8, 1975. "THE ECONOMICS OF DATA PROCESSING" Analysing the Computer Industry and the Costs of Data Processing. To be held at the University.

This is the last issue of The News this term. The next issue will appear on Wednesday, September 3.

EXHIBITION Until July 31, Exhibition of Modern Books

- "Science and Technology" (From the British Council). Hours: M-F 8.00am-11.00pm; Sat. 9.00am-5.00pm; Sun. 2.00-6.00pm Rare Book Section, Fisher Library.

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