Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Nf 378.944 UNI
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Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
Issue
1987, no. 1 (20 Feb., 1987)
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Contents

UNIKEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Relief in sight for dyspepsia sufferers 1
Everything you wanted to know about UNIKEN... 1
Aggregate calculation change sees cut-off marks soar 1
[?]NSW [?] results in new building for upper campus 2
JANE SINGLETON EATS AND SPEAKS 2
[?] for overseas students – UNSW report 2
Summer School studies 2
Ph[?]ospner seeks answers on gender questions 3
New SWRC Director hopes to extend Centre 3
Student election to Faculties and Boards of Studies 3
Many graduates find improved job market 3
Staff Assoc head wants no 'elite group' representation 3
Welcome to new students from the Vice-Chancellor 4
Problems with accommodation? 4
Friendly help and advice always available 4
UNIPREP to the rescue 4
Medical facilities on campus 4
UNIKEN s guide [?] Coping on 4 , 5
From gourmet cooking to Tai Chi 4
Healthy body, healthy mind 5
In the interes 4 , 5
Library tours a must 5
Got a problem? See Student Services 5
From the Students' Union President 5
In briet ... Gift pack memorabilia 6
Parking within the University 6
WINU Meeting 6
Evatt biography sought 6
Professor Pitney dies 6
Social Work Summer Studies 6
Physics Prof at Moscow nuclear forum 6
Credit Union scholarship and prizes 6
From around the unions on campus 6
Diary covering 21 Feb-8 March 6
Advertising 6
[?] at ANZAAS Congress 7
[?] opening nad [?] ceremonies for UNSW and Armed Services 7
The Travenol partnership and building 7
Feedback 7
Major expansion of sporting and recreation facilities 8
Be a sport – score in UNIKEN 8
Medical graduation launches 1987 ceremonies 8
No title 8

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UNIKEN  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 221 (No. of 1987)  

Published fortnightly by the Public Affairs Unit  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBF 4388  

20 February 1987  

Relief in sight for  

dyspepsia sufferers  

The management and preven-  

tion of stomach ailments associated  

with ulcers is well on the way now  

that UNSW-St Vincent’s Hospital  

team has discovered how the organ-  

ism causing dyspepsia actually  

works.  

Associate Professor Adrian Lee  

and postgraduate scholar, Stuart  

Hazell, from UNSW’s School of  

Microbiology, together with St  

Vincent’s gastroenterologists, Dr  

Tom Barody and Dr William  

Hennessy, began their research in  

1983 shortly after Australian clin-  

ician, Dr Barry Marshall, success-  

fully identified the organism  

Campylobacter pyloridis as the  

cause of gastritis.  

report by Hazell and Lee,  

recently published in The Lancet,  

suggests how the spiral-shaped  

bacterium goes about producing all  

that gas, pain, nausea and vomiting  

from which thousands seek daily  

relief in stomach powders.  

Campylobacter pyloridis lives  

close to the stomach lining, par-  

ticularly that area where acid is  

secreted and where urea, one of  

its growth requirements, is avail-  

able.  

The bacterium manufactures  

high concentrations of substance  

that breaks down urea the main  

waste product of protein in the  

body and produces ammonia.  

This causes further changes in  

the ‘colonized area’ and these  

prevent hydrogen ions, the main  

component of stomach acid, from  

passing up to the stomach. Instead  

they turn back into the cells and  

tissues whence they came, ulti-  

mately giving rise to an ulcer.  

The most persuasive aspect of  

the Hazell and Lee hypothesis is  

that it integrates earlier, and until  

now unreconciled, observations of  

gastritic and normal stomachs. It  

explains why acid levels drop rather  

than rise in ulcerated stomachs,  

accounts for the high level of  

ammonia in gastritic tissue and  

suggests how gastritis may be the  

precursor of an ulcer.  

If the hypothesis is verified  

(the research team is testing it  

now) the way will be open to assail  

Campylobacter pyloridis with anti-  

biotics and other weaponry.  

Dr Barody has recently used  

antibiotics and bismuth compounds  

to treat successfully number of  

people who have suffered from  

dyspepsia for many years.  

‘What remains now,’ says  

Professor Lee, ‘is to find out where  

the organism comes from, what  

groups of people commonly  

harbour it and how to prevent it  

from getting into stomach tissues.’  

Because Campylobacter pylor-  

idis normally lives in the intestinal  

mucus it may enter the body by the  

fecal-oral route or through contact  

with another animal species.  

Grants from the National  

Health and Medical Research Coun-  

cil totalling $41,000 are enabling  

Lee and his colleagues to con-  

tinue their research.  

Dyspepsia sufferers can take  

heart. Relief is in sight!  

Everything you wanted to know about UNIKEN...  

If you have just joined the UNSW community as student or member of staff this will be the first UNI KEN you have  

seen. For older hands this is the first UNIKEN since 1985 (publication was suspended in 1986 because of shortage  

of staff). Here are few points about us:  

• UNIKEN is published fortnightly by the Public Affairs Unit (PAU).  

• UNIKEN is your newspaper -we try to reflect all aspects of life and work at UNSW and depend largely on you to  

give us items of news, sporting items, contributed articles and your own pictures of academic and general interest;  

you can visit us in Room 159, The Chancellery or ring us on ext 2866 (from outside the campus 697 2866).  

• Copies of UNIKEN are distributed in bulk to all work units and to boxes throughout the campus -if you have  

any difficulty in getting your copy regularly, please let us know and we shall adjust the distribution system.  

• If you want others to know of an event you are organizing, please submit an entry for the Diary column (see  

page 6; forms available from the PAU).  

• Classified advertisements are available free to members of the University for personal requirements (see page 6).  

• Letters to the Editor are welcome (see guidelines on page 7).  

• Deadlines for submission of copy have been published for the full year in the Public Affairs Planner 1987 obtain-  

able from the PAU; the deadline for the next issue is published on the Diary page (in this issue, page 6).  

UNIKEN’s guide for new students, 4,  

Aggregate calculation  

change sees  

cut-off marks soar  

Aggregate marks required by  

students to get into UNSW this year  

appeared to have risen sharply but  

this is mainly the result of change  

in calculating aggregates.  

The process of making offers  

of places in first year undergraduate  

courses has now been completed  

and the University is confident it  

will reach its target of 3,293 new  

first year students in 1987.  

For 1987 admissions, the Uni-  

versity calculated matriculation  

and selection aggregate for appli-  

cants who had completed the 1986  

NSW Higher School Certificate  

which, unlike previous years, used  

unsealed marks provided by the  

Board of Senior School Studies.  

Because of the change in the  

statistical ‘mean’ marks from 50 to  

60 used by the Board for standard-  

ising unit courses, aggregates for  

most applicants were higher than  

those for comparable students in  

previous yea s.  

‘As result, cut-offs for all  

courses appeared to rise consider-  

ably’, according to Senior Deputy  

Registrar, Mr John Fitzgerald.  

However, he emphasized that  

while number of courses did show  

marked increase in cut-offs in  

real terms, most had cut-off very  

similar to that for previous years  

when the change in calculating  

aggregates was taken into account  

(see table).  

The highest cut-off marks were  

for Medicine (436) and Law full-  

time (433), while the lowest cut-off  

marks were for Applied Science  

(excluding Chemical Engineering)  

and Surveying both with 346  

marks.  

This year saw the first students  

being admitted under the Univer-  

sity’s special scheme for the entry  

of educationally disadvantaged  

students the ACCESS Scheme.  

Mr Fitzgerald says of the 222  

applicants deemed eligible under  

ACCESS, 114 matriculated and  

therefore were considered for selec-  

tion. Of these 52 received offers  

under the concessional provisions  

and further 21 received offers in  

their own right, having achieved the  

necessary aggregates to enter the  

course of their choice.  

He says all 73 such students are  

eligible to make use of the special  

support provisions which will be  

implemented for them during their  

first year studies.  

As UNIKEN goes to press  

enrolments are incomplete as most  

country and overseas applicants  

have not yet enrolled. Totals for  

first year enrolments, for re-  

enrolments in second and later  

years and enrolments for higher  

degrees and postgraduate diplomas  

will not be known until later.  

Final totals for all courses will  

be taken on the official counting  

date, 30 April, and will be pub-  

lished in UNIKEN when available.  

ENTRY STANDARDS  

HSC Aggregate required  

The figure in brackets is the score achieved by  

the equivalent percentage of 1985 HSC candi-  

dates entering in 1986.  

Stuart Hazell  

Section of human stomach biopsy  

from patient with gastritis, showing  

bacteria associated with the gastric  

epithelial cells (stomach lining). The  

dark sausage-shaped objects are the  

bacteria (Campylobacter pyloridis).  

Associate Professor Adrian Lee (left) and doctoral student, Stuart Hazell,  

from the School of Microbiology, perform biopsy urease test. patient's  

biopsy is placed in microtitre tray containing urea solution. If the biopsy  

turns red it shows that patient is infected with Campylobacter pyloridis.  

This diagnostic test is now being used at St Vincent's Hospital.  

Public Affairs Unit  

Kevin Doig  

Mrs Doris White with her daughter, Sheryl, who enrolled in  

Social Work during the recent enrolment period at UNSW. Sheryl  

is one of more than 3,000 new first year students in 1987.  

Year of entry  

Course  

1987*  

1986  

Applied Science  

(excl. Chem. Eng.)  

346 (300)  

300  

Chemical Engineering  

371 (335)  

347  

Architecture  

385 (356)  

335  

Building  

354 (311)  

315  

Landscape Architecture  

376 (343)  

342  

Town Planning  

364 (324)  

309  

Arts  

358 (317)  

304  

Commerce F/T  

394 (369)  

356  

Civil Engineering  

371 (335)  

335  

Mech. Engineering  

371 (335)  

342  

Elec. Engineering  

397 (373)  

379  

Surveying  

346 (300)  

300  

Law F/T  

433 (426)  

408  

Medicine  

436 (430)  

423  

Social Work  

352 (308)  

311  

Health Admin. F/T  

364 (326)  

312  

Science  

354 (311)  

304  

Computer Science  

405 (386)  

383  

Optometry  

406 (387)  

394  

Psychology  

397 (373)  

375  

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