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When Rosemarie James and Becky Steven hadtheir hair shaved off to raise money for cancerresearch, it was the second time they had losttheir hair in 12 months — the first time wasdue to chemotherapy.

The teachers in the University’s Centre for English LanguageTeaching (CELT) both had breast cancer last year, and theyboth survived it.

“We had so much fantastic support from everybody atCELT,” said Rosemarie. “At first I thought I could get through itwithout telling anybody at work. Then I realised I needed theirsupport as much as my family’s. I feel very indebted to thepeople who helped me. That’s why I was willing to shave myhair off, to show my support, as well as help raise money,” shesaid. Continued on page 3

Revisiting the trauma

Becky Steven (left) andRosemarie James want to

demystify breast cancer and getpeople talking about it

by Lindy Brophy Rosemarie said she loved coming to work while she couldlast year, because, while she was in the classroom, she couldshut out the cancer. “I wanted a large portion of my life toremain normal,” she said.

When Rosemarie’s hair fell out, Bianca Panizza, Director ofCELT, left a bag of silk scarves on her desk. These werefollowed by dozens of beautiful scarves donated by all the staff,so Rosemarie could cover her bald head in style.

“Then, one day, Becky walked into my office and said: ‘I’vejoined the club’. I’ll never forget it,” Rosemarie said. Becky’sjourney through surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy followedRosemarie’s and the pair supported each other along the way.

But their paths took some quite different turns. Rosemariesaid the only way she could deal with the nausea dealt out bychemotherapy was to eat. “I ate and ate and put on 15 kilos.”Becky said she couldn’t look at food and became very thin.

Cancer survivors’ dramatic show of gratitude

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Cancer patients having chemotherapy andradiotherapy feel nauseous and constantlytired, and the last thing they feel like doing isexercising.

But visiting Raine Professor Kerry Courneya, a professor ofphysical education and an adjunct professor of oncology at theUniversity of Alberta, says exercising will help them to feelbetter.

His research looks at understanding the role of physicalactivity in cancer control, including primary prevention, copingwith treatments, rehabilitation after treatments and secondaryprevention and survival.

While he is at UWA, working with fellow Albertan,Associate Professor Bob Eklund, he is concentrating on womenwho have survived breast cancer and how to get them toexercise.

Professor Courneya and A/Professor Eklund are co-supervising a PhD student, Helen Milne, and combining theirexpertise: Professor Courneya’s in cancer and exercise, andA/Professor Eklund’s in motivation and social physique anxiety(anxiety about having one’s body evaluated by others).

This anxiety is often felt by women, and compounds thereasons why women with breast cancer or who have survivedbreast cancer, typically show a marked decline in exercising.

The two researchers are pooling their experience to do aunique study on exercise motivation in breast cancer survivors.

EXERCISE… a less radical therapy for breast cancer survivors

“Women who have survived breast cancer have gonethrough the shock of diagnosis, probably surgery, and oftenradiation and/or chemotherapy, all of which has left themfatigued, nauseous, perhaps in pain, quite likely depressed, andoften on long term drugs.

“They are at a time in their lives when exercise could dothem a lot of good, especially with the some of the therapies’toxic chemicals inside them. But our studies have shown thatmany women who exercised regularly before the cancer droptheir levels of exercise during treatment and take a long time toresume it afterwards. Those who weren’t exercising regularlybefore diagnosis rarely take up exercise during or aftertreatment,” Professor Courneya said.

“Added to how they feel physically is their self image and selfesteem. Many of them have lost a breast, have lost their hair,some have put on a lot of weight during chemotherapy, they areout of condition. Nothing is going to induce them to put ontheir bathers and go to a local swimming pool to exercise orturn up at the local YMCA or fitness centre and exercise withother women.”

This is where A/Professor Eklund’s research comes in. Hehas been looking at different sort of anxieties in differentcohorts of people (more often women) about their body imageand exercising in public places where their bodies may beevaluated.

“There are some women who love putting their bodies ondisplay, who find it motivating to compare their bodies and havetheir bodies evaluated by others. But for many women, and itwould generally include survivors of breast cancer, these arethe reasons they don’t exercise,” A/Professor Eklund said.

Professor Courneya said the natural reaction to nausea andfatigue was to curl up on the couch. “Indeed, these women areoften told to rest. But if we could find a way to get thesewomen exercising, they would find their fatigue reduced. Whenthey are fitter, they need less energy to complete daily tasks,which, in turn, makes them feel better.”

He has studied several groups of women who have survivedbreast cancer and are undertaking exercise programs in Alberta.“They all tell me how they love the controlled environment,

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where they are all breast cancersurvivors. They can take their wigs off,they don’t feel embarrassed about theirbodies, and they love how the regularexercise makes them feel better andimproves their quality of life.

“The challenge is to get women todo it – and to find places and programswith which they feel comfortable.

“The prognosis for breast cancer isusually good and most survivors arekeen to improve their quality of life, toprevent the cancer coming back. But thesocial physique anxiety is very strong.”

“I was always mad on the gym, doingyoga, meditation and tai chi. But I felt soawful I couldn’t keep up with myexercise,” Becky said. “I had to forcemyself to go for a walk. I used to walkon the beach, which really energised meand made me feel much happier. It wasonly when I was having chemotherapyand radiotherapy at the same time that Ifelt I had hit a wall of fatigue, and Icouldn’t do anything but lie around.”

Rosemarie didn’t do any exercisewhile she was sick, but she and herfamily moved house three times —

something most people find stressful todo just once. They first moved fromMaida Vale into a new home they hadbuilt at Jane Brook. “But I soon sawhow insane it was to have to drive fromthe Swan Valley in to QEII every day forradiotherapy. So we moved back to ourold house in Maida Vale while welooked for something in Perth. Then webought a house in Mt Lawley and movedinto it.”

While Becky and Rosemarie aregrateful for the support of theircolleagues, the staff at CELT haveadmiration for the way they both got onwith their lives. “We’re very proud ofthem both,” said Bianca.

Colleagues Caimin Lynch and Fiona

Revisiting the trauma

Taylor are CELT’s traditional fund-raising organisers, and they arranged thehead shaving, Caimin losing his locks andFiona colouring hers. The group raisedmore than $200 with donations stillcoming in.

Rosemarie and Becky said that,although it sounded trite, they bothrealised, while they were sick, thatfamilies’ and friends’ support wasessential, and how important it was totell those people that they loved them.

They also hoped that their dramatichead shaving would help to keep breastcancer on women’s agendas, that theywould not be afraid to talk about it, andthat it would encourage them to haveany abnormalities checked immediately.

Professor Kerry Courneya and Associate Professor Bob Eklund understand that many womendon’t feel comfortable in the rehabilitation gym

Most of these young women have noproblems with social physique anxiety –but many women do

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Vice-Chancellor’scolumn

Crystallography can be foundin areas as diverse as thedesign of a Rolls-Royceturbine and the sequencing ofgenomes.

In such a huge field, it is all the moreadmirable that Professor Allan White,from UWA’s Crystallography Centre, isthe single most prolific contributor tothe world’s crystallography database.(His colleague, Dr Brian Skelton, is notfar behind at number five.)

This figure came from the CambridgeCrystallography Database last year. Andlast month, Professor White was fetedagain, this time by the US-based publi-shers Thomson-ISI, which presentedhim with a Citation Laureate.

Thomson-ISI indexes citations fromscientific researchers who acknowledgethe work that has influenced them.Professor White and Dr Skelton areboth in the top 100 most cited chemistsin the world.

The publisher presented 17Australian researchers with CitationLaureates at the National Press Club inCanberra, to recognise their outstan-ding contribution to research, asmeasured by the Thomson-ISI database.

Professor White was the onlyacademic from UWA on the list.

Influentialchemist

A pair of modest world leaders: ProfessorAllan White (left) and Dr Brian Skelton inthe Crystallography Centre

Our University has beenengaged in much debate —through Senate, AcademicBoard, Student Guild andpublic seminars — on theissues emanating from theFederal Government’seducation reform package.

Issues relating to options for increased HECS and the introduction of domesticfee-paying students involve many complex factors: ideological, political, economicand academic.

While there are arguments in favour of a bold and aggressive approach to theopportunities presented by new Government policy, there are also arguments infavour of a cautious approach to see how the market develops and how electionoutcomes (both Federal and State) are likely to affect policy shifts.

For us, the first issue has been to resolve broad policy and principle. In thatregard, the starting points for discussion have been the University’s mission andvision which direct us towards achieving international excellence as a high quality,comprehensive, teaching and research university. To do this we need to grow.

Our preferred position has been to achieve growth through publicly-fundedHECS places. Despite well-argued cases, we have not been successful.

Continued chronic Federal Government under-funding of the university sectormeans universities must consider all options. There may be discussion about thesources of additional funding, but there can be no question that such funding isessential to our University’s development for the benefit of our students and theState of Western Australia.

I am also confident there would be consensus on broad principles, includingthat:

• the debate on fees and HECS policy should be set against the core principles ofquality and access;

• the principal driver of access should be academic merit, rather than ability topay; and,

• there should be parity of academic (entry and exit) standards betweenAustralian and overseas students.

Despite our position as market-leader (in terms of demand from high qualitystudents) and whatever the outcome from the current debate, we must continueto impress upon the State and Commonwealth Governments that it would bevery unwise to use the perceived capacity of our University to attract fee payersas an argument for limiting our share of funded growth.

As part of the continuing consultation process, there are two forums for staffand students on April 14 in the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre (1-2pm) and onApril 22 in the Simmonds Lecture Theatre (noon-1pm). I would urge staff andstudents interested in these issues to consider attending one or other of theseforums.

Alan RobsonVice-Chancellor

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A UWA PhD student has become Everesthopeful Ed Bradley’s secret weapon.

Rob Duffield, who has recently submitted his thesis onenergy systems’ interaction in track and field sports, has beenhelping Ed, a BankWest executive and keen mountain trekker,to prepare to achieve his dream, to climb to the top of theworld’s highest mountain.

“I’m not a mountain climber – I’m actually a semi-retired400m sprinter – but I coordinate the School of HumanMovement and Exercise Science’s Centre for Athlete Testing.And when Ed contacted the school, he was put on to me,” saidRob.

For ten weeks, Ed has been following an exercise programdesigned by Rob to increase the maximum amount of oxygenhe can consume, to increase his strength and to improve hisendurance.

“To increase his VO2 max (the amount of oxygen he canconsume) he does repetitions of one- to three-kilometresprints and hard repetitions of swimming sprints. Thissort of exercise builds up the cardio-vascularcapability,” said Rob.

“At high altitudes, you can get to the point whereyou are operating on VO2 max just to keep alive.That happens at about 9,000 metres. Everest’speak is at 8,848 metres, so Ed will be just aboutstretched to the limit.”

He will be trekking about six to seven hoursa day with a 20 kilogram pack, so Rob has Edpractising with eight-hour treks in the SwanValley on undulating tracks, carrying 24 kg.

Ed is also under the care of a dietician andsays he hasn’t eaten so much since he was ateenager. “I made the mistake, last time Iattempted a climb in the Himalayas, of losingweight before I went, which I now know isexactly the wrong thing to do,” he said.

He has trekked to Everest base camp (about5,000 metres) and has climbed Cho Oyu, the sixthhighest mountain in the world, next to Everest.“Cho Oyu is 8,201 metres, but I couldn’t make itto the top, and Rob looked at the reasons why Icouldn’t, before he designed my program,” Ed said.

Rob said Ed suffered from altitude sickness(which could be helped with the cardio-vasculartraining) and also suffered fatigue and exhaustion(which could be alleviated with the endurancetraining and the correct diet).

“About 8,000 metres is where altitude can startaffecting your body badly, and we’re doingeverything we can to guard against that,” Rob said.

Most lunchtimes, Ed runs from his BankWest office in StGeorges Terrace, up Mount Street, to Jacob’s Ladder, then upand down Jacob’s a few times, before running down to theKokoda Track at the foot of Mt Eliza and running the track,which he says is harder than Jacob’s.

His attempt to climb Everest starts this week, and he ishoping to raise money for Princess Margaret Hospital as hegoes.

Donations to PMH Climb for Kids can be sent to PHMFoundation, PMH Climb for Kids, PO Box D184, 6804. Ed’sprogress will be plotted on the BankWest website:www.bankwest.com.au

UWA’s Rob Duffield (left) joinsmountain climber Ed Bradley onthe Kokoda Track in Kings Park...“It’s harder than Jacob’s Ladder..”

Trekker in trainingUWA helps Ed to make it to the top

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The demand for totally perfect surfaces ongolf courses has reached the soil sciencelaboratories at UWA.

A visitor to the Vines Resort golf course in the SwanValley might see perfection in the rolling greens, carpet-liketeeing surfaces and smooth fairways.

But assistant superintendent Paul Wright sees couch grassencroaching on the bent grass, damage to the bunkers by thelocal kangaroos and, most insidious of all, the invisiblenematode slowly killing the carefully nurtured turf.

The nematode, an ectoparasite, has become the focus forPaul’s PhD, under the supervision of Professor KrishnapillaiSivasithamparam (known as Siva).

“You can’t see the nematodes – they’re underground –but the grass dies and the dead area slowly spreads. Mostpeople think it’s lack of water or nutrients, so they pile theseon, and vaguely wonder why the turf doesn’t recover.

“The symptoms are tolerable and, on public golf courses,which have low budgets, the problem just doesn’t getaddressed,” he said.

But golfers who pay high prices to play at The Vines, selectedas Australia’s best resort golf course in 2001 (by Golf CourseMagazine), demand the best, and Paul wants to deliver it.

“I love my job and I take pride in ensuring that everysquare metre of the 96 hectares of maintained irrigated turfare at their best as constantly as possible,” he said.

Paul completed an apprenticeship in turf managementthrough TAFE and has worked at The Vines for seven years.As assistant superintendent, Paul supervises a staff of 30green keepers, who mow 96 hectares of turf three days aweek, keeping the tees and fairways clipped to 7.5mm, thegreens to 3mm.

He completed a Bachelor of Turf Management externallyat the University of Sydney flying over for exams. He thenwent on to do his Masters, where he concentrated on couchgrass removal from bent grass on golf greens. (Pencross bentgrass is the variety used at The Vines to create a carpet-likesurface for putting).

“I finished my Masters in 2000 and I wanted to keepstudying because, much as I love my job, I don’t want to beout in the sun forever. I hope I can move to turf consultingone day in the future,” Paul said.

He is currently looking at nematode populations in turfand trialling four different types of grass to find the one mostresistant to nematode attack. “I’m concentrating on oneparticular nematode, a sting nematode. It lives outside theroot but has a needle nose (stylet) that punctures the rootand sucks out the nutrients. When a nematode has killed thegrass it’s living on, it moves on to the next living patch. It isvery resistant to the only nematocide on the market inWA.”.

He said golf greens, with moist sandy soils and roots highin nutrients, created the perfect environment for nematodes.The fight against them has almost become a personalvendetta for Paul, who is enduring the difficulties of

Parasite linksgreens to thelaboratoryPhD will benefit golfers

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Hockey, football, rugby andlacrosse will be played thiswinter on UWA fieldswatered by treated municipalwastewater.

The scrupulously treated ‘grey’ wateris usually discharged into rivers andoceans, and a valuable resource is lost.But last month, the University’sMcGillivray Oval became the first watercustomer in the metropolitan area touse large-scale application of thisresource.

The project is a partnership betweenUWA, the Water Corporation and theState Government’s Department ofEnvironment. All the new main lines,controls, pipes and filters have beeninstalled by the Subiaco WastewaterTreatment Plant and paid for by theFederal Government’s Coasts and CleanSeas Program.

The project supplies two megalitresof wastewater per day to McGillivray, towater most of its 18 hectares of sportsturf. The other 53 megalitres is stilldischarged about a kilometre offSwanbourne Beach. But this project isdesigned to trial the use of thewastewater for two years and, if all goeswell, the scheme could be extended.

Grounds supervisor at McGillivray,Chris Marsh, said he and his staff werehappy with the new scheme and hopedthat more than 200,000 people who usethe grounds each year would alsoapprove.

“The scheme is being very carefullymanaged,” Chris said. “Wastewater isonly used between the hours of 9pmand 1am and a four-hour ‘exclusionzone’ is in place, from the time thewatering stops to the time the groundscan be used.

Watersaving trialatMcGillivray

UWA sports park supervisor, Chris Marsh,is all in favour of wastewater on the playingfields

“No wastewater is used in areaswhere water is sprayed on buildings andwe also don’t use it near the jump pits.If we’re going to work on, say thecricket pitch one day, we’ll switch thesystem and use bore water on that areathe night before, so there is absolutelyno chance of any problems,” he said.

Chris said the new system hadreduced power costs for the University,the watering was done more quickly(“The wastewater treatment plantpumps it out at 104 litres a second andin some areas, that means watering timeis reduced from ten hours to twohours”) and underground water wasconserved.

The CSIRO is monitoring the soil atthe sports park and the University issending monthly samples to the HealthDepartment. “The nutrient value of thewastewater is unknown, but there isdefinitely some nutrient there,” saidChris. “The water has an earthy smell,but it’s not obnoxious.”

The Hon Nick Griffiths, Minister forGovernment Enterprises, turned the tapto start the scheme at a ceremony atMcGillivray late last month.

Paul Wright loves his work at The Vines buthates the nematodes that infest small areas ofthe course

completing a PhD part-time, to findthe answers to the problem.

He gets up every morning soonafter 4am, is at work at The Vines by5am, works until 1.30pm, then spendsmost afternoons, until about 5pm inthe plant biology laboratories. Thenhe goes home to his wife and 7month-old daughter, checks on theprogress of the new house they arebuilding, writes up some notes, thentries to get six hours’ sleep before itall starts again.

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A small group of outstanding individuals is honoured each yearat UWA graduation ceremonies, their achievements spanningevery aspect of the community.

This year, their contributions to the community include working with the Bali bombvictims, upholding Aboriginal land rights, playing some of the best organ music in thecountry, bringing science to the people, and voluntary work in academia duringretirement.

The University bestowed honorary doctorates on Dr Fiona Wood, EmeritusProfessor John de Laeter, the Governor of Western Australia, Lieutenant General JohnSanderson, and former High Court judge John Toohey. They were all admitted to theHonorary Degree of Doctor of Letters.

Dr Fiona Wood is well-known to all West Australians for her tireless anddedicated work to save and heal the victims of the Bali bombing. She is recognisedinternationally for her contribution to achieving excellence in burns management.

A plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Dr Wood also has clinical and researchcommitments and is the co-founder and director of a successful tissue engineeringcompany, Clinical Cell Culture, which creates spray-on skin for the treatment of burnsvictims.

Her motto “How can we do it better?” drives her and inspires many others topursue quality burns care for patients.

Emeritus Professor John de Laeter is a distinguished physicist whosecommitment to public education has provided enjoyment for thousands of WestAustralians.

He led the development of the popular interactive science research centre, Scitech,and is still the centre’s patron. He developed the concept that led to the creation ofTechnology Park, at Curtin University.

He has a minor planet named after him, in recognition of his contributions toastrophysics. Professor de Laeter is also Chair of the Gravity Discovery CentreFoundation, the public arm of UWA’s Gravity Research Centre near Gingin.

His Excellency, Lieutenant General John Sanderson completed nearly fourdecades of distinguished military service before being appointed Governor of WesternAustralia in 2000.

By the end of General Sanderson’s military career, he was Chief of the Army andhad been seconded to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to completeplanning for peace in Cambodia.

A military and civil engineer, General Sanderson is committed to bringing attentionto indigenous issues and is dedicated to unleashing the creativity to be found in thewhole community.

The Honourable John Toohey is recognised, not only by his colleagues in thelegal fraternity, but by the whole community, as a champion of the rights of Aboriginalpeople.

As a Justice of the High Court from 1987 to 1998, he presided over cases which ledto significant change for indigenous people, including the Mabo and Wik decisions.Those decisions gave rise to the Native Title Act.

Justice Toohey’s association with Aboriginal people began in 1974 when he spent ayear in Port Hedland, setting up the Aboriginal Legal Service for the North West. Sincehis retirement from the High Court, he has continued that association, by researchingthe nature and content of customary law.

Eliteachievers

Clockwise from above: Honorary Doctorates toLieutenant General John Sanderson, Dr Fiona Woodand Emeritus Professor John de Laeter; Chancellor’sMedal to Malcolm Orr

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“How can wedo it better?”

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Chancellor’s Medals were awarded to six people whose serviceand commitment to the University has been exceptional.

Dr Hank Greenway made an outstanding contribution to teaching and researchand Plant Biology. But it was his work in retirement, as an Honorary Research Fellow,that brought him into such high esteem. Since his retirement in 1992, Dr Greenway hascontributed to the supervision of many postgraduate students, been ad adviser tostudents undertaking ecophysiological project, contributed to the ecophysiologicalgroup and taught a much-needed postgraduate course.

Dr John Glover, a geologist, made an equally distinguished contribution, bothduring his working life and in retirement. Since his retirement in 1990, his workinghours have exceeded those of a paid position. He has assisted with teaching, writtencourses for honours students, appraised manuscripts for colleagues, and continued hisown research into the origin of Aboriginal artefacts, and the role of radioactive mineralgrains in the origins of life and the search for oil reserves. Dr Glover was prominent inthe redevelopment of UWA’s Geology Museum in 1987.

Jan Stewart, a social worker by profession, who was educated at UWA, is ChiefExecutive Officer of Lotterywest. She has been a keen supporter of the University overmany year, in particular of the UWA Perth International Arts Festival and of theUniversity’s medical research programs.

Malcolm Orr capped his distinguished career as a university administrator withnearly 20 years as UWA’s Registrar. Serving under five Vice-Chancellors, his skills as awriter, administrator and diplomat became legendary among the University community.

Annette Goerke’s contribution to the community has encompassed outstandingmusical performance and music teaching in both religious and secular areas.

Appointed as organist at St Mary’s Cathedral at the age of 17, she played there for18 years, before being make Director of Music, and she continued in the dual role for afurther 25 years.

She has introduced Australian audiences to modern organ works, in particular themusic of Olivier Messiaen. One music critic wrote:’“Few organists in Australia havemade their mark on the music scene as impressively as Annette Goerke.”

A graduate of UWA, she has taught in the School of Music, given regular lunchtimerecitals in Winthrop Hall and has enhanced graduation ceremonies for many years.

Molly McGurk is believed to be the only musician to have been a soloist with theSydney Symphony Orchestra, one year as a concert pianist, the next as a singer. Buther glorious voice established her reputation as one of the Australia’s finest singers.

During the heyday of the University Choral Society, she regularly appeared as asoloist under the baton of Sir Frank Callaway. While she was the School of Music’sprincipal singing teacher, she taught Sarah Macliver, Lisa Harper-Brown Elisa Wilsonand Gregory Yurisich, who all went on to have brilliant singing careers.

Annette Goerke and Molly McGurk were recommended for Chancellor’s Medals byEmeritus Professor David Tunley and Sir Frank Callaway (before his death last year) tomark the 50th anniversary of UWA’s School of Music.

Chancellor’s medals

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For the first time atUWA, enrolments in asingle unit have gonebeyond 1,000 students.

Microeconomics 101 has 1,040students signed up for Dr PamelaStatham-Drew’s first year unit. Thesecond most popular unit this year isanother in the Faculty of Economics andCommerce, Financial Accounting 101,with 694 enrolled students.

At a time when young graduates aretold to expect that they will be creatingtheir own jobs, an education ineconomics and commerce seems to bepreferred by more students to anyother individual area of study.

Economics and Commerce has beenrunning big classes and producing thebiggest numbers of graduates for severalyears. But thirty years ago, when mostgraduates could expect to get a job

simply because they had a degree, thepattern was different.

In 1974, the biggest single enrolmentwas in a first year Psychology unit.Psychology is still popular with first yearstudents, with an enrolment this year inPsychology 101 of 682 students. Butwhat caused the swing away fromstudents wanting to know what makesus tick, to wanting to know how tomake money?

Psychology lecturer Dr Vance Lockesuggests that money is not so much theissue as security. And he thinks it’sparents of young students who are keento see their children get a degree thatwill help them get a job.

A recent Australia-wide surveyshowed that adults rate happiness andsecurity for their children above thetraditional ‘great Australian dream’ ofowning their own home.

Dr Locke said that economics was a

transportable degree, so overseasstudents could study here and workback home with ease, and local studentscould work overseas with the samedegree.’“Whereas psychology is tied toprofessional registration boards here, soit’s less transportable,” he said.

“But, after all, economics andpsychology are not dissimilar. Economicsinvolves an understanding of thepsychology behind consumer behaviour,reserve bank decisions, managementstrategies, and motivation.

“Indeed, we offer a joint Bachelor ofScience/Economics degree to capturethis, and teach Masters level industrialand organisational psychology withOrganisational and Labour Studies,” DrLocke said.

“So another way of looking at thetrend is as a bias towards appliedpsychology in economic settings.”

In practical terms, big enrolmentsmean more choices for the students, ascore lectures have to be repeated onceor twice each week, because there is novenue that could fit more than 1,000students. And there are implications forteaching and learning effectiveness withgroups of more than 300 students.

Maxi enrolment for

Four final-year Engineering studentshave won Clough scholarships, providingliving expenses for this year and the offerof graduate employment next year.

Kai Valenti (mining engineering), Craig Boston (civil), ValenChan (electrical and electronic) and Guy Hill (mechanical) wereawarded their $5,000 scholarships by Clough Limited’schairman, Jock Clough.

The scholarship aims to encourage students in theapplication of their studies to business situations. The three-year Graduate Development program is designed to preparegraduates for careers in the engineering and constructionindustry through practical experience.

Craig Boston, who won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award ofDistinction and a UWA Leadership award in 2000, said thescholarship would take the pressure off tyring to balance bothwork and study in his final year. “I have such a high regard forClough, so to be recognised by them in this way is a realhonour for me.”

Kai Valenti, who already has a degree in physics, said he waslooking forward to spending time on site, to assist the transitionfrom university to workplace.

Valen Chan said he was delighted with his win and thought

Boost for young engineers

he had missed out as he was not called back for a secondinterview.

Guy Hill, Trinity College Academic Scholar in 2000, 2001,2002 and 2003 and trinity College Citizenship Scholar in 2003,said it was a real achievement to have won the scholarship. “Iknow the calibre of Clough Scholarship winners has alwaysbeen high,” he said.

Clough has awarded scholarships to students at UWA,Curtin and Murdoch universities since 1973.

Scholarship winners Valen Chan, Kai Valenti and Guy Hillwith withCEO Jock Clough (second from left)

microeconomics

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Australian students onexchange in Japan can find itan almost full-time jobkeeping on top of the verydifferent culture in thatcountry.

Three UWA law students also had tolearn about and work within a verydifferent legal system, when they wentto Tokyo earlier this year.

Through the Japanese InternshipProgram, co-ordinated by the LawSchool’s Associate Dean, Eileen Webb,the students, all in their final year of acombined degree this year, worked inTokyo law firms and lived with Japanesefamilies for just over a month.

They learned the difference betweenBengoshi and Shihoshoshi law firms. “It’sa bit like the difference betweenbarristers and solicitors in Australia, butthe different types of lawyers in Japanwork in different areas of law,” MsWebb said.

“The Bengoshi firms handle trade andcommercial law, while the Shihoshoshitend to handle more day top daymatters, including property law,” shesaid.

One of the students, SandraCostopoulos, worked with aShihoshoshi firm, run by Masao Oonuki,which also handled guardianshipdisputes. Her paper, as the final part ofthe elective Japanese InternshipProgram, will look at guardianship issuesin Japan.

Usually law students who also studyarts, and who major in Japanese, applyfor the internship. One of the studentsthis year, Nicholas Cunningham, ismajoring in Chinese studies, but plans tospecialise in Asian law. He was placedwith a Bengoshi firm, run by TomokatsuMaeda in the Ginza-Higashi Law Office,in the centre of what is described as thebest shopping area in the world. Thecompany does a lot of business withChina and Nicholas worked withChinese businessmen during hisinternship.

The third student, Andria Wu, alsoworked with a Bengoshi firm. Herplacement firm, Ryudo Sogo Law Office,dealt with trade and commercial law,and was situated in the middle ofTokyo’s nightclub district. Its principal,Hiroshi Matsushima, has been involvedwith the internship program for eightyears.

The internship program has beenrunning for ten years, but this is only thesecond year that UWA students havejoined in. It was started in 1994 when anow retired Japanese lawyer, Mr Ishida,approached Griffith University’s lawschool. At that time, Eileen Webb wasworking at Griffith and she ran theexchange for three years, before comingto UWA.

“Then in 2002, we started somecross-enrolments in the Griffithprogram and, the following year, I wasasked if we would like to send some ofour students on the internship programand I found myself co-running it again,”she said.

“The Japanese law firms do so muchfor the students. As well as taking theminto their workplaces, many of them arehost families for the students; they puton parties and other entertainments andreally look after them. The ShihoshoshiAssociation put on a series of lecturesespecially for our students, andprovided interpreters for classes theyoffered.

“It’s a fantastic opportunity for thestudents. It provides an experience thatcould change the course of theirprofessional lives.”

Cultural manners andlegalmatters

Law student, Sandra Costopoulos, worked with a Shihoshoshi firm, run by Masao Oonuki

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lastwordTH

EDaniel StepniakLecturer, UWA Law School

It may also be attributable to ourparticipation being construed aspatronizing and partisan rather thaninformative and objective.By moving beyond independent,scholarly commentary into the politicalfray and purporting to assume the moralhigh ground, we run the risk ofdevaluing our contributions by providingthose with a vested interest in stiflingour commentary with the ammunitionrequired to foster a public perception ofour contributions as elitist, politically orideologically driven and condescending.The challenge of constructive publiccommentary, it seems to me, is toinform public debate without necessarilyalso forcing public agreement with ourpersonal conclusions on issues, politics

or persons. This means, for example,that in questioning the use of the term“illegal” with reference to asylumseekers, or discussing the socialimplications of indefinite detentionwithout trial or the denial of naturaljustice and judicial review to“terrorists”, we need to ensure that wedo not create the impression that suchissues are only relevant to thoseadopting an “anti Bush” or “antiHoward” posture. Ultimately, it is farmore important to ensure that publicdebate is informed, than to promoteour own political conclusions.Some of us still feel frustration when wethink of the 1999 referendum, notbecause the republic amendment wasrejected, but because we permitted acampaign of misinformation to exploitthe public’s lack of interest in andunderstanding of our constitution andstructure of government to produce anoutcome so unrepresentative of thepublic’s unquestioned preference for anAustralian head of state. This lack ofpolitical knowledge and understanding(eg. virtually no Australian can name thecurrent Governor-General) leaves ourcountry’s democracy vulnerable tomanipulation.Criticism of our courts, egged on byoften uninformed media commentatorsand those resentful of restraints whichcourts impose on their power, providesanother prime example of an area ripefor academic community involvement.Contrary to prevailing views, our courtswelcome constructive feedback andcriticism of their decisions. To thinkotherwise would be to suggest that ourjudges do not interpret and apply lawswith which they personally may notagree, but rather that their decisions

Promotingmerely reflect their personalconvictions.As a discipline, Law is not unique inbeing misunderstood by the public, or inthe reasons for that lack of publicunderstanding. In large measure, thepublic’s lack of legal knowledge andunderstanding is the law’s fault - thejealously guarded mystique of whichwe’re reminded whenever we hear thatour courts are sufficiently transparentand accountable because ourcourtrooms are open and our judgesare required to provide written reasonsfor their decisions.’It is one thing toprovide reasons, quite another toprovide reasons which are bothaccessible to and understandable by thepublic. Working to change suchmindsets from within our disciplines,professions and classrooms is our longterm strategy for facilitating publicaccess to and understanding of publicissues and institutions. Providing ourstudents with opportunities to interactwith community groups, I believe, is acrucial but underutilized communityservice. Such interaction serves topromote awareness of the levels ofpublic awareness, understanding andattitudes towards our disciplines, anappreciation of community values, whilstfacilitating community input into ourdisciplines.Our universities have the capacity topromote and encourage theinvolvement of their staff in communityeducation and public debate throughgreater recognition of such work. I notethat an academic’s writing of aninformative and readily understandablecolumn for a newspaper, while likely tobe read by hundreds of thousands isdeemed an insignificant contributionalongside the publication of an esotericjournal article, written in a languagepossibly only understood by a handful ofothers, and unlikely to be read by morethan a few. At a time of tertiaryeducation restructuring, when we seekcommunity support and public funding,it may be appropriate to examine theextent and manner in which wecontribute to public knowledge anddebate.

The labelling of some academic contributions to public debateas partisan and out of touch elites may be attributed to a lack ofpublic understanding, misinformation and unchallengedassumptions disseminated by those with a vested interest intheir acceptance.

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LIFT-OUT5 APRIL 2004 Volume 23 Number 3

CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT

Compiled by Joanna Thompson

Telephone: 6488 3029Facsimile: 6488 1162

Email: joanna.thompson@uwa.edu.auinfoUWAnews

Schools are reminded that all University equipment available for sale must be advertised in the UWAnews. Receipts should be PeopleSoft account coded490 (computing with barcode), 491 (non-computing with barcode) or 493 (items with no barcode). If equipment has an existing barcode please contact

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CONDITION refers to the general condition of item ( 1 = as new; 2 = good; 3 = serviceable; 4 = unserviceable). AGE refers to the nearest year.

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The Richard BakerSenate Prize

The President of the Australian Senate,Senator the Hon. Paul Calvert, invitesentries for the Richard Baker SenatePrize, valued at $3000, for the best essay,article, thesis, dissertation, book orjournalism (in any medium) relating to thework of the Australian Senate.

There are no age or other restric-tions on eligibility for the prize. Entriesmay be submitted by their authors ornominated by any other person.

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CAMPUSApril 5–18

DiaryTuesday 6 AprilPUBLIC LECTURE‘Sending them home: the new world ofrefugee politics’, A/Prof Robert Manne, LaTrobe University. Chaired by Dr CarmenLawrence. The public lecture is free,however reservation is essential on 64882020 by 30 March. Australia became, inSeptember 2001, more extreme in itspolicies toward asylum-seekers than anyother Western country. It adopted astrategy of using naval force to excludeunauthorised arrivals by boat. Itimprisoned asylum-seekers indefinitely ifthey failed to prove their claim to berefugees. And, for those boatpeople foundto be genuine refugees, it granted onlytemporary visas that forbade familyreunion and left hanging the threat ofimminent deportation. This lecture looksat the reasoning behind these punitivepolicies and their devastating effects, andmoves on to consider the present attemptto repatriate — frequently against theirwill — the Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians whohave been turned away from Australianshores. It is based on in-depth interviewswith a range of Middle Eastern refugeesand sets their stories of suffering in abroad political context. This is agroundbreaking and dramatic account oftransformation with global consequences.As other Western nations come to adoptsimilarly harsh measures, this account willserve as a prophetic evocation and analysisof the increasingly desperate plight of therefugee in a world of ever more tightlycontrolled borders. 6.30pm, SocialSciences Lecture Theatre. ALL AREWELCOME. The nearest carpark is P3, P4,P5 via Hackett Drive, Hackett Entrance 1or 2.

PERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUP ANNUALGENERAL MEETING‘The Annual General Meeting will takeplace at 7pm in the Arts Ground FloorCommon Room G14 followed at 7.30pmby a talk given by Karen Hall entitled‘There and back again: film andmedievalism in Peter Jackson’s Lord of theRings Trilogy’. All are welcome.

6 and 7 AprilUNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY‘Latin Whirls. Join Tango 22 for anunforgettable extravaganza of music, danceand images as they take you on aspellbinding journey through the origins ofthe most passionate and sultry of all music,the Argentinean tango. 7.30pm, OctagonTheatre. Tickets available from BOCS on9484 1133 or the Octagon Theatre on6488 2440.

Wednesday 7 AprilPROSH DAYThe UWA Student Guild’s annual PROSHcharity is on again! Prosh is one of the(b)oldest and (ig)noblest traditions ofUWA students. Started in 1931, Prosh(short for Procession) is that special day inApril when students dress up and hit thestreets. They sell Prosh, the satirical paperwritten by UWA students (proceeds goto charity). There is then a procession offloats around the Perth CBD and the dayis finished with the infamous Prosh Ball inthe Guild Tavern.

BIOMEDICAL AND CHEMICALSCIENCES LECTURE‘Single molecule studies: biomolecules andhigh speed gene sequencing’, Dr ShankarBalasubramanian, Department ofChemistry, Cambridge University, UK.Observing molecules at the singlemolecule level (i.e. one at a time) hasconsiderable potential to reveal propertiesthat are normally hidden in classicalstudies on an ensemble of molecules. Thelecture introduces single moleculefluorescence approaches and their use instudies on the structure and dynamics ofbiologically important DNA and RNAsystems. The second half of the lecturefocuses on a radical single moleculetechnology for ultra-fast DNA sequencingbeing developed in Cambridge, aimed atsequencing a human genome a day. 12noon, Simmonds Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 8 AprilFREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTKate Newell on the oboe and EmilyGreen-Armytage on the piano. Works byBritten and Poulenc. 1.10pm, OctagonTheatre.

Wednesday 14 AprilFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY TALK‘Dirk Hartog and the land of theEendracht’, Dr Phil Playford, HonoraryAssociate of the WA Museum and theGeological Survey. The first known visit byEuropeans to the west coast of Australiawas by Dirk Hartog and his crew in theDutch East India Company’s shipEendracht on 25 October 1616. Theylanded at what is now known as CapeInscription on Dirk Hartog Island, leavinga pewter plate inscribed with a record oftheir visit nailed to a post standing uprightin a rock cleft on top of the cliff. Thatplate is the oldest known record ofEuropeans landing in Australia. DirkHartog’s discovery resulted in themythical southern continent of ‘TerraAustralis Incognita’ being replaced factuallyon world maps by ‘The Land of theEendracht’. The name ‘Land of theEendracht’ continued to be used for theAustralian continent by the Dutch EastIndia Company for more than 150 years,

before being replaced in common usageby New Holland, and eventually byAustralia. Dr Playford discusses the seriesof famous people who visited CapeInscription and its environs during theseventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenthcenturies placing objects at or near CapeInscription, or removing them, or (inDampier’s case) making a scientificcollection. Each of these objects andDampier’s collection are still in existence.7.30pm, Library Training Room, GroundFloor, Reid Library Building.

Friday 16 AprilLAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALK‘Primates and art’, Dr Ian McLean, UWA.Art from earliest times has pictured theambiguous differences/similarities betweenhumans and other animals. This talk willdiscuss the representation of suchambiguity in art, especially in relation tothe depiction of primates, and thephilosophical issues it addresses. This talkis part of a series in relation to theexhibition ‘Lisa Roet: Pri-mates’ on displayat Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery until 20April. 1pm, LWAG.

ASIAN STUDIES SEMINAR‘Tùdai, TV and hybrid women: HarukaYùko and Japanese feminisms’, LauraDales. 1pm, G.25 Seminar Room, GroundFloor, Social Sciences Building.

CLIMA SEMINAR‘Cladistic and phentic analyses ofrelationships in Iranian species of Medicagousing molecular and non-molecular data’,Kioumars Ghamkhar, UWA; ‘A moleculargenetic map for narrow-leaf lupin’, DrMatthew Nelson, UWA. 4pm, CLIMASeminar Room.

MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Role of the family cytokine in liverdevelopment’, A/Prof Lawrence Abraham,Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 9am,Microbiology Seminar Room 1.1.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Wednesday 21 AprilPSYCHOLOGY SEMINAR‘Binocular vision for 3D motionperception’, Julie Harris, University ofNewcastle-upon-Tyne. 4pm, PsychologyNorth Block Rm 2.33.

THE RODNEY PRIDER TRAVELAWARD LECTUREGraeme Miles, a doctoral student, 2004Teaching Intern in Classics and AncientHistory, and last year’s winner of thisaward, will give a lecture on his travel, hisexperiences and the personal andacademic benefits he has derived from thisopportunity. 6.30pm, Fox LectureTheatre.

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Raine VisitingProfessorships

FIRST ROUND

Closing Date: Monday 24May 2004

Nominations are invitedfor Raine Visiting

Professorships in 2004 witha closing date of Monday

24 May 2004.

All Schools (including Centres) inthe University may now nominatefor Raine Visiting ProfessorshipAwards. These awards facilitatethe visits of distinguished scholarsto the University for the purposeof advancing medical research.

Two categories of VisitingProfessorship are offered:• long-term visits fully funded by

the Raine Foundation(Category 1 Professorships); and

• short-term visits funded on ashared basis with the hostSchool(Category 2 Professorships).

Nominations are invited each yearnormally in February and July andup to three awards may beoffered in each round.

A copy of the Conditions andNomination Form are availablefrom the Raine administrativeoffice or the web site as detailedbelow.

http://www.raine.uwa.edu.au/visit/

Raine Medical ResearchFoundation

Suite 24, Hollywood SpecialistCentre

95 Monash Avenue, Nedlands,WA 6009

Telephone: 9386 9880Fax: 9386 9522

Email: raine@raine.uwa.edu.au

2005

RainePrimingGrantsApplications closeMonday 3 May 2004

The Raine Research Committeewishes to provide Priming Grantsfor medical research scientists atan early stage in their career,particularly for those who areprogressing towards anindependent research career toassist them to become morecompetitive for national andinternational peer-reviewgrants.

(Priming Grant Guidelines)

Applications are invited for RainePriming Grants in 2005, inaccordance with the Guidelinesgoverning these awards.

The Grants provide funding forresearch into any area of medicalscience that investigates thenature, origin and cause of humandisease, and the prevention, cure,alleviation and combating of suchdisease.

The Grants are offered for a two-year period subject to annualreview, and may be used toprovide funding, or part funding,for salaries of researchers and/ortechnical staff, minor equipment,and consumables. The research isto be carried out at, or inassociation with, The Universityof Western Australia.

Guidelines and Application Formsare available from:

The Raine Medical ResearchFoundation

Suite 24, Hollywood SpecialistCentre, 95 Monash Avenue,

Nedlands, WA 6009(UWA MBDP: M651)

Telephone: 9386 9880 Fax: 93869522

Email: raine@raine.uwa.edu.au or

the Internet at:www.raine.uwa.edu.au/grants

Applications close on Monday 3May 2004

Applications must be received atthe above office no later than5pm on Monday 3 May 2004.

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NEDLANDS, large house, ideal for visitingacademic’s family. 3 bedrooms, 2 studies, 2baths, small yard, less than 5 minutes bike ride/10 minutes walk from the northern edge ofUWA campus. Short walk to Hampden St shopsand bus stops, and 2 minutes to King’s Park(bushland and recreation). Fully furnished withkitchen fittings and utensils, linen, heating, etc.Owner will be away in Singapore from early July2004 to early July 2005, so looking for a one-year tenant, if possible. Asking $400 per week;bills for electricity, gas, water, telephone will betenant’s responsibility. Email: acciaiol@cyllene.uwa.edu.au; ph: 9386 7183.

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Sonja Gustin, Research Officer,Surgery and Pathology

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Penelope Harding, Graduate ResearchAssistant, Pathology

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Michelle Lewis, Graduate Research Assistant,Women’s and Infants’ Health

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Dr Mohamed Makha, Aust. Postdoc.Fellowship, Biomedical and Chemical Sciences

Dr Kenneth Mann, Fractional Lecturer, GSM

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Dr Andrew Martin, Senior Lecturer,Paediatrics and Child Health

Dr Renuka Martin, Research Associate,Surgery and Pathology

Dr Thomas Martin, Senior Lecturer,Biomedical and Chemical Sciences

Anne McKenzie, Consumer Research LiaisonOfficer, Population Health

Dr Brendan McQuillan, Senior Lecturer,Medicine and Pharmacology

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Timothy Ogilvie, Apprentice Cabinetmaker,OFM Workshop

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Peta Robson, Accountant (Faculty Support),Financial Services

David Rogers, Senior Employee RelationsOfficer, Human Resources

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Declan Scott, Associate Lecturer,Economics and Commerce

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Dr Victor Soucik, Lecturer,Economics and Commerce

Dr Karl Stoffel, Senior Lecturer,Surgery and Pathology

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Janine Wood, Digital Copy Officer,Administrative Services

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Dr Min Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,Population Health

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