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What happens when currents supplying the entire Sydney electricity grid have to be harmlessly turned off within a few hundredths of a second?

A 22-minute film produced within the University of Sydney to illustrate what might happen under such conditions has been awarded first prize in an international film competition.

The film, entitled Circuit Breaker Arcs, makes extensive use of high-speed cameras to show spectacular electrical events approximately 400 times slower than they occur in real time.

It won the coveted Orbit award at this year's ANZAAS scientific film exhibition, against 67 other entries from British, French, German, American and Australian filmmakers.

The film was produced by Jim Dale and Graham Wilson, of the Sydney University Television Service, for Dr Tony Stokes, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

The Acting Director of the Television Service, Mr Peter Bailey, said he was naturally "delighted" with the win at the ANZAAS exhibition.

"The exhibition attracts entries from organisations which have much greater resources at their disposal than we do, and the fact that we have been able to win against such competition is a great credit to Tony Stokes, as well as to Jim Dale and Graham Wilson," he said.

Explaining the background to the film's success, Dr Stokes said an important factor had been the use of film as a scientific medium within the Department of Electrical Engineering.

"The effect of the Department's high-speed camera was virtually to 'freeze' time, so that an event of one second, for instance, would take about five minutes to show on screen.

"This enabled us to do some basic research on the phenomenon of electrical arcs which develop in circuit breakers.

"This research is important because the electrical industry must be confident that it is using reliable circuit breakeis designed to handle the increased loads expected over the next 20 to 30 years.

"Present day circuit breakers have extremely good reliability, and this is of vital importance because the failure of a circuit breaker during high-power interruption produces an explosive build-up of energy which can hurl pieces of shattered ceramic and metal in every direction. If the circuit breaker is located in a critical position, the results can be blackouts lasting for more than a day.

"When either a lightning strike or a power interruption occurs, the system as a whole is always designed to withstand the resulting high currents, but only for a fraction of a second.

"During that time, whilst all the other components must sit there and groan, it is the function of the circuit breaker to take command of the situation and clear the fault in the shortest possible time. over page

Above: Resembling a set from a James Bond movie, this room contains giant circuit breakers which typify the "next generation"of circuit breakers which will be called on to quickly switch off currents at least as large as the present current of the Sydney grid. Below: This is what happens inside a circuit breaker following a lightning strike or some other power interruption along the line: contacts are separated by a blast of gas, and a fierce electric arc burns until "current zero" is reached. Heat from the arc is dissipated by continuing blasts of gas.

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"The trouble is that as power consumption by the community increases, we have to deal with increasingly higher loads — and at these extremes we really don't know much about the behaviour of electrical arcs," he said.

"The electrical arc was first seen in about 1820 by Sir Humphrey Davey, following the construction of a large copper/zinc battery by the Royal Society.

"It is a paradox of modern science that one of the oldest electrical phenomena to be studied in detail remains a mystery at the extreme ends of its operation. Our understanding of arcs in high-power circuit breakers is really still at the embryonic stage.

"In such switches it is neither possible nor desirable to cut the arc which develops - the arc, a burning column of electrical energy with temperatures of at least 20,000 degrees, must be smoothly but quickly extinguished by dissipating its heat with a blast of gas.

"We are able to study this dissipative process inside a specially constructed chamber with two high-pressure glass portholes. Our special high-speed camera, running at up to 10,000 frames per second (compared with 24 frames per second for normal sound movies and 16 frames per second for silent film) is installed outside one porthole of the chamber.

"A beam from a powerful argon ion laser shines through the other porthole. Inside the chamber, between the laser and the camera, currents of up to 16,000 amps with recovery voltages in the order of 80 kilovolts are fed through to simulate the electrical arc inside a circuit breaker.

"Because of the distortion of light by the intense heat and pressure gradient in the arc, it is possible to see exactly what happens inside a circuit breaker during those critical few moments when it is called upon to switch off a current.

"It is only with the help of these new research tools that progress is being made in the understanding of arcs.

"Because of the complexity and subtlety of the processes which are taking place it is physically impossible to convey the full detail in a printed document.

"It is a strong feeling that I have, and I think that it is a feeling shared by most scientists, that work is not completed until it is fully disseminated within the scientific community.

"It was for this reason that I conceived the idea of making a film of the work. Initially I took some black-and-white film to show at the conference. The results were so good that I took some further high-speed film in colour, and then called upon the expertise of the University's Television Service to shoot film inside and outside our laboratory, and to cut and blend the images for the maximum visual.impact.

"The whole thing grew from a relatively small idea at the beginning. We certainly had no idea of submitting it for the ANZAAS exhibition, and no thought of winning a prize. As a scientific publication, the film has certainly paid dividends."

Commenting further on the Orbit award, Mr Bailey said he thought it would make more scientists at this University aware that films can be a useful up-to-date record of research.

"In certain kinds of research it is not always easy to communicate with sponsors, and film can be a great help in this regard. Sponsors are pleased not only to gain a quick and clear understanding of the topic, but they are also pleased that the message is being got across very easily to other people."

The work on circuit breaker arcs has been supported by both industry and government agencies, notably the Electricity Commission of NSW, the Electrical Research Board, the Sydney County Council, the ARGC and the Research Committee of the University of Sydney.

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Above: Graham Wilson (left) and Jim Dale, co-producers of the award-winning film, "Circuit Breaker Arcs". Graham is Production Assistant and Jim is Producer with the University of Sydney Television Service. They are pictured using the Service's film editing facilities.

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Above: Dr Tony Stokes (left) with Jim Dale and Graham Wilson inside a laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Department. They are gathered around the high-speed camera which is being used as a research tool to analyse high-power electrical arcs. The camera shoots 2,000 frames per second, compared with 24 frames per second in normal sound movie cameras, and 16 frames per second in silent movies.

Above: A sub-station containing transformers and circuit breakers. . In the event of lightning strikes or other power interruptions, the circuit breakers are called upon to switch off enormous currents and smoothly extinguish the resulting arc. If the fault is then cleared, • power is often restored within seconds to the consumer.

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DRAMA FAST in chaos

The annual Festival of Australian Student Theatre is in state of complete

chaos according to the University of Sydney's Drama Director, Mr. Derek

Nicholson.

Mr Nicholson commented on the FestiVal and student drama in Australia on the eve of his departure for the University of Durham in England. He has been invited to act as Judge and Workshop Director of the 23rd National Student Drama Festival in Durham and hopes that this experience will provide him with a working model for the Australian festival.

In contrast to the Australia festival Durham is the "showplace" of student drama in Britain. Award winning productions often move to West End stages or on to tour Europe and America.

The festival in Durham is sponsored by the Sunday Times newspaper and the works presented receive wide attention from the critics and public alike. Famous theatre groups such as the National Youth Theatre have been spawned from the annual Festival.

Derek attributes the present state of disarray in the Australian festival to a number of basic administrative difficulties.

"It is not the quality of content which

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is plaguing the Festival, but the instability of the event," he said.

"In the past the Festival has had a terrific impact on theatre in this country and nurtured many now famous theatre personalities and genres such as the Carlton Movement. Now it is simply not recognized as an important cultural event in the community.

"The main problem is that a new

committee is elected each year to organize the Festival. Because there is no continuity of structure each committee has to start from scratch. The success of any Festival therefore depends on the experience of the committee members.

"We desperately need a depository of history to guide each annual event. This would mean office space and a part time secretary. Of course all this would cost money.

"We are really looking towards indirect subsidization. University administrations could help initially and then perhaps we could approach commercial ventures. However the Festival must remain student run and student initiated if it is to be seen as a valuable on-going event within the community.

"It is vital that students should have the opportunity to look at each other's work as well as perform their own productions. The festival should become the breeding ground for actors and directors for Australian drama.

"My trip will have a direct benefit as I will circulate an action report of the Festival in Durham and its organization. This will break the ground for constructing a framework for the Festival here in Australia to re-establish it as a major cultural activit."

LUNCHTIME TOURS OF CAMPUS DURING LENT TERM: WHAT GARGOYLE IS THAT?

While waiting in the centre of the quadrangle for the Wednesday

lunchtime tour party to assemble the carving illustrated (right) on one of the buttresses of MacLaurin Hall caught

the attention of hawk-eyed devotees

of this strange Lent-Term activity.

The initials HEB today stand for Higher Education Board, but that was clearly not intended in around 1910 when the building was erected since the Board was set up only at the beginning of 1976. After a few days of puzzling one enthusiast, fired with inspiration, realised the monogram could be for none other than Henry Ebenezer Barff, the University's longest-serving registrar, 1882-1924, who also held the position of librarian when this, the old Fisher Library, was built.

The tour duly •got under way, taking a look at the quadrangle as a whole, and visiting the two vestibules in the east wing, the Senate Room,

and the top of the Great Tower. The following week it was the turn of the Macleay Museum, the week after that the Anderson Stuart Building, and after that St John's College.

The tours start at 1.05 pm in the centre of the Main Quadrangle every Wednesday in Lent Term. Whether you are staff or student, if you want to see a little more of the fascinating university environment than you normally come across, make a diary entry for the following lunch hour recess:

April 5 — St John's College; 12 —Aeronautical Engineering; 19 —Nicholson Museum; 26 — Fisher Library.

May 3 — Services Building; 10 — Seymour Centre; 17 — Language Study Centre; 24 — Veterinary Precinct; 31 — St Paul's College.

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UNSW — BOOK FAIR

The following letters are published at the request of Ms. B. Ramjan, President of the Students' Representative Council and a Fellow of the Senate, and Mr. G.P. Nicholls, a Postgraduate student in the Department of Anthropology and a member of the AUS Executive.

The Vice-Chancellor does not necessarily accept the accuracy of any or all of the statements or allegations made and the University accepts no responsibility for any of the views expressed.

The Editor, University of Sydney News

In the March 20th issue, the Vice Chancellor lent his office and name to various statements of law in commenting on a student meeting. It must be appreciated that the Vice Chancellor's discipline is economics. His views as to the law are those of a lay person, well or ill informed, depending upon the ability and skill of his informant.

The Vice Chancellor commented on the number of those who voted at the meeting, but neglected to point out the proportion of persons voting who attended the • meeting, which whilst it cannot be stated with precision was certainly over 90 per cent. The Vice Chancellor's attempt at a meaningful statistic would not have gained him a pass in any first year course except Propaganda I.

The Vice Chancellor well knows that the matters were under appeal at the time he published his article and well knows that the comments made by him in paragraph 2 canvassed the very matters of fact on which the Senate was to rule. This sort of material should be presented by the Vice Chancellor as a witness not in a newspaper polemic. The Vice Chancellor informant might well have explained to him the true ambit of the sub-judice rule. It is a pity that the Vice Chancellor has involved his office in what must be taken to be personal comment, particularly when it is the Vice Chancellor who is charged by the by-laws with the task of deciding to appoint a Committee of Inquiry and hearing any charges he, the Vice Chancellor, sees fit to bring. It is the office that is charged with this responsibility, not the man. It is a responsibility which cannot be delegated and Professor O'Neill only exercised this responsibility as the Vice Chancellor himself was absent at the relevant time.

In response to paragraph 4, the SRC and the Arts Society have a clear legal obligation to assist their members. There is nothing illegal about complying with the resolution of a duly convened

meeting. If the Vice Chancellor considers there may be an illegality it is his duty as the Vice Chancellor to bring the matter before the proper court on an application for an injunction in much the same manner, and no doubt to the same fate, as Mr. Farrell in his dispute with the University of New South Wales.

Barbara Ramjan, President,

Sydney University Students' Representative Council

The Editor,

University of Sydney News Though it is pleasing to see the

Vice-Chancellor devote some time and personal attention to internal University matters from his undoubtedly busy schedule he should perhaps exercise a little more care when that attention takes the form of a written contribution to so public a forum as the News (March 20).

The implication he draws from the first motion passed at the recent SRC General Meeting would seem to me to be correct. However it is, at best, ignorance on the Vice-Chancellor's part to deny that "homosexuals, women and other progressive activists" have been denied the very rights he would now defend. How else is it to be explained that a selection of people present at what could be termed a "left-wing" demonstration have had charges laid against them whilst much more abhorent but nominally "apolitical" behaviour on the part of some St. Paul's College students last year went by without any similar action being taken by the University.

Or how is it that last year students opposed to progressive SRC policies could disguise themselves and physically disrupt a properly convened SRC meeting by throwing eggs and assaulting representatives and visitors without any University inquiry —let alone charges. Why is it that students who took part in organized disruptions of two SRC General Meetings late last year (who included one of the student

Senators now sitting in judgement on anti-Eysenck demonstrators) are not charged with "impending the University" whilst people who merely attend or shout at a Psychology Staff Coloquium are investigated and charged then tried all at massive cost to the

"there has been no such denial" is hollow.

The second matter the Vice-Chancellor commented on raises a real puzzle. Surely he does not mean to argue that anyone invited by people in the University to speak has a right to do so. I had assumed the Vice-Chancellor supported those laws of the land referring to slander and libel. I wonder what action he would take to stop "free speech" in this connection and whether this raises an intellectual problem for the Vice-Chancellor.

I also understand that on at least one occasion the Vice-Chancellor himself has taken out a court injunction to prevent people speaking on campus; to prevent what was termed "incitement" in connection with the Victoria Lee demonstrations in 1970. I also recall that a few years ago a senior academic took out a $10,000 writ to prevent further discussion of the work of Australian anthropologists in Thailand and I do not recall the Vice-Chancellor supporting free speech then. Even more significantly I do not recall a murmur from the Vice-Chancellor or any of those now calling for a principled defence of "free speech" when an internationally famous Professor of Economics was refused a visa to even enter Australia for the sole purpose of speaking to a Conference at this University. But then he was a Marxist, Ernest Mandel, and it was a Socialist Scholars' Conference.

So it seems the Vice-Chancellor is quite happy to have a person such as Eysenck, whose whole style has recently been described as an "obsession with the desire to shock" (The Guardian, March 21), speak on campus and is also contented to see those with whose general political stance he disagrees denied permission to speak, write or even enter the country. Now this is fair enough as far as it goes, it's just good old political partisanship, but to dress it up as the bogus and simple-minded concept of "free speech" is disingenuous.

Briefly with reference to the

Vice-Chancellor's further comments; I'm sure that a proposition about dropping the charges and withdrawing the penalties from the Vice-Chancellor would carry some weight on Senate and the implied threat in the parting comment

question. What has been woefully absent

from the University's actions against the anti-Eysenck demonstrators has been any sense of perspective. Look at what else was happening last year; the constant harassment of progressive students on campus, the provocative nature of the Eysenck "closed" meetings, the lack of any attempt at conciliation by the University and/or Psychology Department authorities and ask are not the students' actions at least understandable in other than a "jackbooted storm troopers of the left" perspective? Perhaps the Vice-Chancellor's time would be better occupied trying to resolve problems on campus rather than exacerbating them by ill-considered and inflamatory remarks in the News.

Gary N icholls, Postgraduate student,

Department of Anthropology

Rare books and first editions are among 85,000 books to be sold at a Book Fair commencing on the 24th April. The Book Fair has been organized by the U Committee of the University of New South Wales and will be held at Unisearch House on Anzac Parade from 24th April to 29th April.

The books have been don-ated to the U Committee by the public, the majority being from private collections.

The Fair is open each day in April, as follows: Monday, 24th 10 am to 9 pm Tuesday, 25th 2 pm to 9 pm Wednesday, 26th 10 am to 9 pm Thursday, 27th 10 am to 9 pm Friday, 28th 10 am to 9 pm Saturday, 29th 10 am to 5 pm

Further information may be obtained from Barbara Roberts on 663.0351.

University as well as the reveals a degree of over-reaction individuals involved. The perhaps reflecting a less than sure Vice-Chancellor's assertion that intellectual position on the

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Above: a party of visitors from the University of Jordan at Amman crowds the site of last year's excavations at Teleilat Ghaasul.

: ARCHAEOLOGY Life was meant to be easy

Life was meant to be easier in the region around the Dead Sea 6,000 years ago than it is today. There was enough water to support goats, sheep, deer,

• wild pig and cattle ... and farming settle-ments could produce wheat, barley. legumes, lentils and olives.

This is the picture which has emerged from excavations at Teleilat Ghassul, near the northern tip of the Dead Sea in the Jordan Valley.

A Sydney University archaeological team, led by Professor Basil Hennessy, has spent three successive seasons at Teleilat Ghassul - and returned in Nov-ember last year after the third and final "dig" with some fascinating new insights into life in an early farming settlement.

• Their most exciting recent discover-ies have been a brilliantly coloured wall painting depicting three human figures -and a painter's workshop with lumps of

♦ red, yellow and white ochre and grinding stones and palettes.

Teleilat Ghassul today is hot, dry and

• bare with summer temperatures regularly over 50 degrees Celsius, but a pedological survey carried out in 1967 suggested that 6,000 years ago, Teleilat Ghassul was

m built on sandbanks in the midst of slow-moving fresh water - and plant life seems to have been abundant.

Generally, houses were built with a • single foundation of heavy river stones

and a mud brick superstructure. The mud bricks were sun-dried and laid in a mud

• mortar. Entrance to dwellings was through a

single doorway. Roofs appear to have been pitched and constructed of reeds

• and mud capping over a heavy timber frame.

"The reed and mud capping roof is • identical with the type still in use in the

Jordan Valley today", Professor Henn-essy says, "Stone-lined hearths and fire pits occur inside houses and in court-

• yards. From these have come a large quantity of animal bones. The majority appear to be of sheep, deer, wild pig and

• cattle. "The domestic areas have also pro-

duced large quantities of grain and seed -wheat, barley, legumes, lentils and olives.

• There is little doubt that the population of Teleilat Ghassul lived well".

Professor Hennessy said the brilliantly coloured painting recovered during last year's excavations was found on the collapsed walls of a building which was radio-carbon dated to about 4,300 B.C.

The only older wall paintings known anywhere are the paintings discovered at Gatal Huyuk, in Turkey.

The Teleilat Ghassul painting was found about eight feet below the surface and depicts three human figures, two of them wearing masks, standing to the right of a larger hooded figure holding a curved sceptre in his left hand.

Professor Hennessy said all three figures appeared to be grouped to the left of a shrine or religious area.

"The painting will be a very important addition to our information on ritual practices of the early Chalcolithic (4,500 - 3,500 BC) period" he said.

The initial lifting and cleaning of the painting was completed during the "dig" season. An expert from the British Mus-eum, Miss Ann Searight, spent a month working with the Australian team consol-idating the paintings.

Experts from UNESCO's School of Conservation in Rome will carry out final restoration before the painting is mounted for exhibition in Amman Museum in Jordan.

Teleilat Ghassul is a large site of the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (approximately 4,500 - 3,500 BC). The settlement, a series of mounds on the site which is around 300 metres below sea level, was first discovered in the early 1920's and was initially excavated by the Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome between 1930 and 1936.

Last year's season, which cost about $20,000, was funded mainly by the Aust-ralian Research Grants Committee, Sydney University, the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Work could continue at Teleilat Ghassul for generations, comments Professor Hennessy, but archaeological excavation is now so expensive that it is doubtful whether further seasons at the site will give any major new evidence.

This year in conjunction with Prof-essor Robert Smith of Wooster College, Ohio, Professor Hennessy hopes to start excavations at "an exciting new site" in the northern Jordan Valley - Pella.

Above: Miss Annie Searight, a Conservator from the British Museum, working on a part of the wall painting, dated at around 6,000 years old, which was discovered during last year's excavations.

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THE SENATE Decisions of April 3 meeting

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AMENDMENTS TO ACT The Vice-Chancellor reported that the NSW Parliament had not

yet passed the Bill to amend the University and University Colleges Act under which The University of Sydney operates. The Legislative Council had inserted an amendment to that section of the Bill which was designed to make it clear that the Senate has power to make By-laws relating to fees and charges payable in respect of organisations of students or of students and other persons; the Council's amendment added a proviso that all such fees and charges shall be applied to the purposes of the University and not to any non-University purposes. The Government had indicated its unwillingness to accept the amendment and its intention to seek the views of the University.

NINE-YEAR LIMIT The Senate approved an amendment of Senate Resolutions for the

purpose of specifying a maximum time-limit of 9 calendar years (except with the permission of the Faculty of Medicine) for MB BS candidature. As previously announced, the Faculty had proposed a time-limit of 8 years but the Senate had asked for advice about increasing the limit to 9 years; the Faculty reported that it had no objection to the time-limit being increased to 9 years.

THIRD CHAIR OF PSYCHOLOGY The Senate had before it a report from the Vice-Chancellor in-

cluding a letter from the two Professors of Psychology, Professors R.A. Champion and J.P. Sutcliffe, expressing their concern at what they con-sider to be a discrepancy between the conditions of appointment which were approved in 1976 for the third Chair of Psychology (which has not yet been filled) and their own conditions of appointment in relation to arrangements for the Headship of the Department of Psych-ology. The Senate appointed a Committee to discuss the matter with Professors Champion and Sutcliffe with a view to reaching an agree-ment acceptable to the Senate, the Department of Psychology and Professors Champion and Sutcliffe. In addition the Senate referred to its Committee on Reorganisation in University Government and the general question of the interpretation of the By-laws relating to Depart-ments and Schools with regard to Arrangements for the Headships of Departments vis-a-vis the conditions of appointment for, and the By-laws relating to, Professors.

REPORT ON EXAM RESULT The Senate adopted a report which had been made by the

Academic Board following a reference from the Senate concerning a letter from a candidate for the BSocStud degree relating to an exam-ination result. In adopting the report the Senate made some decisions which are being conveyed to the candidate and to the Board of Studies in Social Work.

BUDGETS The Senate approved the proposed budgets for 1978 for the

Postgraduate Civil Engineering Foundation, the Power Foundation for Fine Arts, the Postgraduate Foundation in Veterinary Science, the Postgraduate Committee in Veterinary Science, the Poultry Husbandry Research Foundation, the Dairy Husbandry Research Foundation, the Coppleson Postgraduate Medical Institute and the Postgraduate Committee in Dental Science.

ACADEMIC PROGRESS Following a request made at the previous regular meeting of the

Senate, the Vice-Chancellor tabled information relating to the academic progress of students who had successfully appealed to the Senate for permission to re-enrol in 1977 following their exclusion because of fail-ure. The information showed that half of such students passed in 1977.

STUDY LEAVE The Vice-Chancellor informed the Senate that the Tertiary

Education Commission had prepared a report on study leave provisions and that this report would be published to provide an opportunity for comment.

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AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS The Senate approved recommendations regarding amendments of

By-laws for the purpose of — (a) changing the title of the Director of the Language Laboratories to "Director of The Language Study Centre" with regard to membership of the Faculty of Arts; (b) providing for the Dean of the Faculty of Arts to be represented if he so wishes on the Boards of Studies for the Diploma in Psychology and for the Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language; (c) making provision for work completed for the PhD degree in the Faculty of Law to he credited towards LLM candidature; (d) up-dating the By-law relating to Faculty of Agriculture membership following the renaming of the Department of Agricultural Botany as the "Department of Agricultural Genetics and Biometry".

The Senate approved recommendations regarding:- '` The insertion of a footnote to recent By-law amendments (which

are subject to the approval of the Governor) relating to Matriculation for the purpose of adding the following additional languages to the list of approved matriculation subjects for entry to the University as from and including 1979: Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Amendments of By-laws and Senate Resolutions for the purpose of introducing in the Faculty of Engineering a new diploma in Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering in 1979.

REPORTS ON EXCLUDED STUDENTS The Senate adopted two reports from the Committee and con• •'

fumed its decisions relating to the appeals of students excluded, because of failure, from re-attendance in a course or Faculty.

The Senate had before it a report from the Committee in con-nection with the appeals of three previously enrolled students who, al-though not excluded because of failure, had been unsuccessful in an application for admission to a new Faculty. The Senate disallowed the appeals in the case of two of the students and agreed to refer the third case to the Vice-Chancellor for decision.

STANDING COMMITTEE OF CONVOCATION The Senate noted that the Standing Committee had elected the

following Office Bearers for 1978:- President, Miss K.E. Georgouras, MB BS, DDM; Deputy President, Mr J.W.S. Mackenzie, BScAgr; Honorary Secretary, Mr R.M. Howe, BDS.

The Senate also noted that the following five additional members had been elected to the Executive Committee:- Miss G.E. Bennett, BA; • Associate Professor C.R. Boughton, MB BS, DTM&H; Mr F.S. Hespe, BE; Mr R.H. Syred, MB BS, DGO; Mr W.L. Whatmore, BVSc.

ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES After some discussion the Senate resolved, in accordance with a

notice of motion from Professor Wilenski, that the Senate Committee on Reorganisation in University Government be asked to report on the • advantages and disadvantages of the present and possible alternative procedures for the election of the three Fellows by the other Fellows.

APPOINTMENTS The Senate approved recommendations regarding the form of ad- •

vertisement and conditions of appointment forthe Chairs of Community and Geriatric Medicine and of Paediatrics at Westmead Hospital.

The Senate approved recommendations regarding (1) the appoint-ment of Honorary Associates in Bacteriology and in Chemsitry for • 1978, (2) the appointment of three persons to membership of the Faculty of Agriculture and two persons to membership of the Board of Studies in Social Work.

The Senate approved recommendations from its Advisory Corn-mittee and from the Academic Board regarding appointments to the Chairs of Prosthetic Dentistry and Social Work.

The Senate approved the appointment of a Visiting Professor in Inorganic Chemistry (details to be announced later).

The Senate confirmed the Vice-Chancellor's action in appointing a Senior Lecturer in Oriental Studies and Lecturers in Economics, Education (two), Mechanical Engineering, Law, Agricultural Genetics, German, Semitic Studies, Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Italian • and Social Work.

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:NOTICES THE WILLIAM AND EDITH BURROWS

BURSARIES Applications are invited for the award of

a number of William and Edith Burrows Bursaries. The awards will be made to students proceeding to the degree of Bachelor of Dental Surgery.

The value of each bursary is up to $200. The bursaries are also available to students receiving Tertiary Allowances or other forms of assistance.

Application forms may be obtained from the Secretary to the Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry or, on the University campus, from Daphne Johns, Registrar's office, Room N641,

• top floor, Northern Wing of the Main Quad-rangle.

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

Professor Frederick Sontag, a visiting American philosopher of religion, will present a lecture and discussion on the above topic on April 13 (see weekly calendar). Enquiries to Professor James Tulip, English, ext. 2367.

UNIVERSITY WELFARE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Members please note that the Annual

• General Meeting of the Sydney University Welfare Association will be held on Thursday 13 April 1978 at 1.00 pm in room 274, level 2 of the Carslaw Building.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS (AGRICULTURE)

RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA The Reserve Bank of Australia invites

applications for Fellowships for applied research into Australia's primary industries, beginning no later than June 1979.

The Fellowships are tenable for one year at an approved Australian research institution other than where they are at present employed. They are not intended to provide opportunities for obtaining higher degrees. The salary will be within the range of $14,851 - $19,551 per annum and transfer costs within Australia will be provided for the Fellow and family.

Application forms are obtainable from The Secretary, Reserve Bank of Australia, Box 3947 G.P.O. Sydney 2001, with whom applic-ations close on 30 April 1978.

Further information is availalbe from Mrs. Holliday in Room N641 in my office.

S.U.P.R.A. The Annual General Meeting of the

Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association, S.U.P.R.A., will be held on Tuesday, 2nd May 1978 in the Chemical Engin-eering Common Room, for the election of a Committee and Executive for 1978. All members are invited to attend: copious refresh-ment of the usual high standard of excellence will be provided by the Association.

PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OR READER

Applications and recommendations for promotion to Associate Professor or Reader effective from 1st January 1979, should be forwarded to the Registrar by 8th May 1978.

It is suggested that those Senior Lect-urers who wish to apply for such pro-motion should contact their Head of Dep-ment or the Professor most concerned with their work to whom copies of a state-ment entitled "Information for intending applicants for promotion to the grade of Associate Professor or Reader", have been forwarded. Copies of these statements may also be obtained by telephoning extension 2715.

R.C.D.F. GRANTS FOR 1978/79 The Reserve Bank is currently inviting

applications for RCDF support in 1978/79 for both new and continuing projects.

Further information including fields of special interest and application pro formes are available from Mr. J.B. Buchanan of my office (ext. 3324).

Nine copies of each application should be forwarded to the Registrar (attention Mr. Buchanan) not later than 21st April 1978, to enable them to reach the Bank by the closing date of 30th April, 1978.

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WEEKLY CALENDAR - Continued from back page

2.45 pm Carillon recital.

3.30 pm Inspection of bells, main quadrangle.

6.00 pm Manning bar. Jamie Griffin - "Ragtime Cabaret".

7.30 pm Union movies - Logan's run and Norman is that You.

WEDNESDAY, APR IL 19

9.00 am Television program on Channel 7. Department of Adult Education, 'Jane Austen's Emma'. Dr. Penny Gay.

1.00 pm Conducted walking tour of University grounds. Leaves from centre of Main Quadrangle at 1.05 pm (this series of tours is being conducted voluntarily during Lent Term only). The Nicholson Museum will be visited during this tour.

*1.05 pm Seminar. "Carrara, the continuing tradition of Stone in Architecture". Speaker: Switic Korzeniewski, Architect-ure Lecture Theatre, Level 2, Architecture Building.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "Failure of Glass from Solar Radiation". Speaker: Mr. Leon Jacob. Staff Conference Room, Level 5, Mechanical Engineering Department.

4.00 pm Seminar. "Photoelectrochemical conversion of Solar Energy". Speaker: Professor D. Haneman, School of Physics, University of NSW, Lecture Theatre 4, School of Chemistry.

5.15 pm Seminar. Title to be announced. Speaker: Dr. Guy Bush. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Zoology Colloquium Room.

7.30 pm Union Night Debate. "This House would legalise the production, sale and use of Marijuana".

7.30 pm Union movies - Hedda Gabler and Dolls House. 8.00

8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of "The Ran Dan Club".

THURSDAY, APRIL 20

10.00 am Colloquium. "The HSAB Principle in organic chemistry. Speaker: Mr. D. Randles. Lecture Theatre 2, School of Chemistry.

12.15 pm Union movies - Eliza Fraser.

1.00 pm Chamber music al fresco in the Pleasaunce B-B-O.

1.10 pm Seminar. "Fine Structure of Human Buccal Mucosa in Health and Disease", Speakei: Associate Professor C.J. Griffin, Department of Histology and Embryology, Seminar Room.

1.10 pm Organ recital by Michael Heeman in the Great Hall. 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm. Seminar. "Analogies, Theories and Practice in

Prehistoric Archaeology", Speaker: Michael Walker, Reading Room, Department of Anthropology.

7.30 pm Union movies - Face to Face and Swastika. 8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of

"The Ran Dan Club".

FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 9.00 am Seminar. "Dynamics of Planar-Octahedral Interconvers-

ion of Cobalt (III) and Nickel (II) Complexes".Speaker: Dr. J.K. Beattie and Dr. W. Moody, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry Seminar Room 418.

12 noon Seminar. "Non-covalent cross-linking of Lipid Bilayers by Myelin basic protein and its relevance to Myelin formation and structure", Speaker: Dr. R.W. Smith, School of Chemistry. Room 471, Biochemistry BIg.

12.15 pm Union movie • A Devil's Playground, 1.00 pm Seminar. "Regulation of cysteine biosynthesis in

E. Coll". Speaker: Dr. R.E. Loughlin, Department of Biochemistry, the Large Lecture Theatre, Botany Blg.

5.30 pm Manning Bar Entertainment - "Dan Johnson Band". 7.30 pm Union movies - All the President's Men and Scarecrow. 8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of

"The Ran Dan Club".

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 2.30 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of and "The Ran Dan Club". 8.00 pm 7.30 pm Union movies - Carrie and Inserts.

SUNDAY, APRIL 23 7.30 pm Union movies - Celine and Julie go Boating.

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WEEKLY CALENDAR The Book Exhibition held by the Association of Australian

University Presses, will be held from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm, Monday to Friday, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Saturday, and 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm Sunday, from April 3 to April 30 at the Rare Book Library, Floor 2, Fisher Library.

MONDAY, APRIL 10 11.00 am Seminar. "The relationship between heat resistance of

spores and the optimum and maximum growth temper-atures in Bacillus species. Speaker: Dr. A.D. Warth, CSIRO. Department of Microbiology. Biochemistry Building, Level 5, Room 533.

2.15 pm Seminar. "A smoothing and interpolation procedure". Speaker: Dr. A.S. Gustafson, Computer Centre, ANU. Lecture Theatre 5, First Floor, School of Physics.

4.00 pm Colloquium. "Electron Cyclotron Harmonic Emission Measurements on High Temperature Plasmas". Speaker: Mr. D.V. Bartlett. School of Physics, Lecture Room 5 (Room 337).

5.15 pm Seminar. "The Social Implications of Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages". Speaker: John O.Ward. History Department Seminar Room B.

TUESDAY, APRIL 11 9.30 am Ecology Discussion Group. "Colony Structure, Social

Behaviour, and Reproductive Strategies in .a Species Complex of Ponerine Ants". Speaker: Phil Ward, School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Seminar Room.

1.00 pm Debate."The Australian Democrats are a flash in the pan", John Dowd, MLA for Lane Cove, Colin Manson, Senator-Elect and Bob Carr (Education Officer, Labour Council). The Refectory, Holme Building.

1.00 pm Public lecture. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and the Sidhi programme. Carslaw 8. Free.

2.45 pm Carillon recital. 3.30 pm Inspection of bells after recital, all welcome in the

Main Quadrangle. 6.00 pm Manning bar entertainment. Blues, Country and trad-

itional Malaysian songs with Mick Cheong. 8.00 pm Lecture. "Pompeii - threatened again". Speaker:

Dr. J.P. Descoeudres. Stephen Roberts Theatre.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12

9.00 am Television program, Channel 7, 'Jane Austen's Emma' Dr. Penny Gay, Department of Adult Education.

1.00 pm Public lecture. The Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and the Sidhi programme.Carslaw 8. Free.

1.00 pm Conducted walking tour of University grounds. Leaves from centre of Main Quadrangle at1;05 pm (this series of tours is being conducted voluntarily during Lent Term only). Aeronautical Engineering will be visited during this tour.

1.00 pm Union theatre concert - "Rose Tattoo". 1.10 pm Piano recital by Tony Fogg in the Great Hall. 4.00 pm Colloquium. "Particle Motion". Speaker: Associate

Professor G. deVahl Davis, Staff Conference Room, Level 5, Mechanical Engineering Department.

5.15 pm Seminar. "Symbiosis in the gut of Termites", Speaker: Dr. M. Eutick, Department of Biochemistry, Royal North Shore Hospital. Zoology Colloquium Room.

5.30 pm Lecture. "Science Policy Research: No Answer to a Cry for Help? Speaker: Professor J. Ronayne, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of NSW, Chemistry School Lecture Theatre 2.

8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of "The Ran Dan Club".

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

12 noon Colloquium. "Lenin and Bureaucracy". Speaker: M. Krygier. Department of Government, Room 276.

12 noon Union movies - The Man who fell to Earth.

1.00 pm Public lecture. The Transcendental Meditation (TM)

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technique and the Sidhi programme.Carslaw 8. Free. 1.10 pm Seminar. "Changes in the mitochondria' liver adenine

nucleotide concentration in the Perinatal Rat".Speaker: R. Sutton, Department of Histology and Embryology Seminar Room.

1.10 pm Organ recital by Peter Bray in the Great Hall. 2.00 pm Lecture and discussion. "The Rise and Fall of the •

America! Dream". Speaker: Professor Frederick Sontag. John Woolley Building, N395.

8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of "The Ran Dan Club". •

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

9.00 am Seminar. "The Angular Overlap Model: Applications to Inorganic Chemistry". Speaker: Dr. M.A. Hitchman, University of Tasmania. Chemistry Seminar Room 418. do

12 noon Seminar. "The Motion of Lipids in Biological Membrane Speaker: Dr. D. Bishop, CSIRO Plant Physiology Unit. Room 471, Biochemistry Building.

12.15 pm Union movies - "Janis". 40 1.00 pm Public talk. The transcendental meditation technique

and TM-Sidhi programme. Carslaw Lecture Theatre 8. 1.00 pm Seminar. "The Sodium Efflux Pump in Higher Plants".

Speaker: Dr. R.F. Davis, Rutgers University, U.S.A. ES The Large Lecture Theatre, Botany Building Al2.

3.00 pm Seminar. "Straightening the Way: An Enga Kinship Conundrum". Speaker: Daryl Feil. Reading Room, of Anthropology.

3.00 pm Colloquium. "Recent Developments in Stuttering Therapy". Speaker: Dr. Roger Ingham, Macrae Room, Main Quadrangle.

8.00 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of

• "The Ran Dan Club".

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

9.30 am Graduation Ceremonies - Divinity, Music, Science. 11.30 am Graduation Ceremony - Engineering.

2.30 pm Downstairs at the Seymour: Cartwheel's production of 8.00 pm "The Ran Dan Club".

SUNDAY, APRIL 16 0

7.30 pm The Eighth Nicholson Museum Concert, The Melos Quartet of Stuttgart. Concert tickets $10.00,students $3.00, in the Great Hall.

7.30 pm Union movies - A Woman under the Influence. •

MONDAY, APRIL 17

11.00 am Seminar. "Chromosome replication and cell division in B. subtilis." Speaker: Professor R.G. Wake, Department of Biochemistry, Biochemistry Blg, Room 533 Level 5.

12.00 Film. "On the Waterfront", part of course "A Critique of Contemporary Liberalism", Merewether Lecture Theatre 2. Department of Government. 50c admission. 0

1.00 pm Seminar. "Animal models of neuroleptic side-effects". Speaker: Dr. D. Jackson, Department of Pharmacology. Anderson Stuart Building.

2.15 pm Seminar. "The Kendall-Stuart cube law for Election Predictions". Speaker: Professor R.G. Stanton, Dept.

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of Computer Science, University of Manitoba. Lecture Theatre 5, First Floor, School of Physics.

5.15 pm Seminar. "Attitudes to Non-Christians in the 17th

• century England". Speaker: Marcel Dimo, History Department Seminar Room B.

7.30 pm Union movies • Lucky Luciana and Kansas City Bomber.

• TUESDAY, APRIL 18

9.30 am Ecology Discussion Group. "Predictability of Poma-centrid Patch-Reef Fish Communities". Speaker: Dave Williams. School of Biological Sciences, Zoology

• Seminar Room. 12.00 Colloquum. "Press reaction to the formation of the

UA Alliance". Speaker: R. Albury. Department of Government, Room 276.

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