Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
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1989, no. 4 (7 Apr., 1989)
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THE university of new south wales  

No. 264 (No. of 1989)  

Published fortnightly by the News Service  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBF 4388  

April 1989  

Timely new  

spectrometer  

could be winner  

for environment  

Researchers at UNSW’s  

School of Chemistry have ap-  

plied for an international  

patent for powerful new  

chemical analysis instrument  

which promises new class of  

commercial spectrometers  

with important environmental  

applications.  

Dr Michael Guilhaus, Lec-  

turer in the Department of Analyti-  

cal Chemistry, is the leader of  

team developing prototype of  

new time-of-flight mass spectrom-  

eter, which has been patented by  

Unisearch Ltd, UNSW’s commer-  

cial development and consulting  

agency.  

The innovative design results  

from two-year collaboration by  

the co-inventors, Dr Jim Dawson,  

an Honorary Visiting Fellow, and  

Dr Guilhaus and has already at-  

tracted interest from Australian and  

overseas instrument companies.  

The instrument, called an or-  

thogonal acceleration time-of-flight  

mass spectrometer (TOF-oa) is for-  

tuituously timed to take advantage  

of the latest developments in  

electronics and computing.  

Dr Guilhaus said that state-of-  

the-art ion detection technology is  

crucial to the TOF-oa and will lead  

to one of its key features: the  

Continued on page  

Dawkins  

supports  

sponsor  

proposal  

Three rural colleges of  

advanced education in NSW  

could in time achieve univer-  

sity status if they developed as  

university colleges under the  

sponsorship of the University  

of NSW, Mr John Dawkins  

announced on April.  

Mr Dawkins said the Federal  

Government would consider the  

long-term funding of research and  

postgraduate infrastructure at the  

three institutions if they became  

university colleges, and eventually,  

the components of university in  

its own right.  

“However, any unilateral des-  

ignation of the three institutions as  

single university at this time  

would compromise Federal funding  

of the necessary research and post-  

graduate infrastructure. It would  

also complicate the decision, to be  

made soon, on whether Mitchell  

College (at Bathurst) and the  

Riverina-Murray Institute of  

Higher Education (at Wagga  

Wagga) should become distance  

education supplier.”  

Both institutions are presently  

strong candidates for designation as  

Distance Education Centre.  

“The Federal Government is  

quite willing to consider its finan-  

cial commitment to funding needed  

to develop separate university  

structure if the university college  

arrangement goes ahead.  

“However, simply designating  

an institution as university does  

not automatically make it one.  

Long term planning is necessary to  

secure standards which would be  

recognised nationally and inter-  

nationally,” the Minister said.  

Mr Dawkins said designation  

of the tlirce* rural institutions as  

university colleges would give stu-  

dents in the central west and  

Riverina areas greatly improved  

access to UNSW’s Kensington  

campus and the opportunity to  

receive educational services from  

one of the most prestigious institu-  

tions in Australia.  

Mr Dawkins’ comments on in-  

stitutional arrangements in NSW  

follow his discussions with  

special taskforce on institutional ar-  

rangements which has been visiting  

colleges and universities through-  

out Australia.  

[See STOP PRESS on back page]  

Continued on page  

Academics petition  

Premier Greiner  

delegation of senior  

academic staff members from  

UNSW delivered list of over  

600 signatures to Mr John  

Harvey, the Principal Private  

Secretary to Premier Greiner,  

at the State Office Block on 28  

March.  

The list of academic signatures  

is part of protest calling on the  

Minister for Education, Mr Terry  

Metherell, to rescind plan to dis-  

establish the UNSW and reconsti-  

tute it as network University  

involving other country colleges.  

The academics recommend in-  

stead that the University of New  

South Wales Act (1968) be retained  

and the University sponsors the  

Colleges and assists them in their  

efforts to attain University status.  

The delivery of the signatures  

followed an unprecedented meeting  

at lire University on 22 March at  

which gathering of more than  

1,200 people unanimously rejected  

the Minister’s plan (see page 2).  

One of the delegates, Associate  

Professor George Paxinos, of the  

School of Psychology, said the  

response from academics had been  

unanimous from the schools and  

faculties where the collection has  

been completed. “Other academics  

will continue to add their names,”  

he said.  

The delegation to Mr Harvey  

included Professor Paxinos, Pro-  

fessor lan Sloan, Head of the  

School of Mathematics; Professor  

John Milfoil, Dean of the Faculty  

of Arts; Professor Barbara  

Gillam, Head of the School of  

Psychology; and Professor Clive  

Kessler, of the School of  

Sociology.  

Professor Milfull told Mr  

Harvey the signatures represented  

unanimous opposition at the Uni-  

versity to the proposals in their  

present form. “It is not an in-  

tractable position,” he said, “but  

do hope you understand how  

deeply we feel about the issue. We  

need fresh look at the situation.”  

Professor Gillam said it was  

unusual to gel University aroused  

in the way people at UNSW are  

aroused over the issue. “The Uni-  

versity does not have name for  

tradition or wonderful buildings,”  

she said. “It has become what it is  

because of its staff.”  

Franking machine  

Professor Kessler said the Uni-  

versity would find it difficult to  

claim national and international  

status if its academics lost control  

of the “franking machine” to pro-  

duce degrees.  

Professor Sloan said there was  

deep feeling that the University  

Act was going to be dissolved. “I  

hope the Government will be pur-  

suaded to back down on the legis-  

lation,” he said.  

Mr Harvey told the delegation  

that the Premier had already met  

with the Chancellor, Justice  

Gordon Samuels, who had put “a  

forceful case”. “This delegation  

shows the message is consistent  

and the University is speaking with  

one voice,” he said.  

Following the petition hand-  

over, the same delegation met with  

policy planner from the Ministry  

for Education.  

Mr Paul Hallahan, Foreman of the School of Chemistry’s Mechanical  

Workshop explains detail of the TOF-oa’s main chamber to Dr Jim  

Dawson, Dr Michael Guilhaus and Mr Peter Sweeney, who is doing the  

final drawings and construction of the TOF-oa. Mr Sweeney topped his  

graduation year in Mechanical Engineering at UNSW last year.  

typical screen from the l-Opt program showing simulated ion  

trajectories as the curved descending lines. The data at the top record the  

intensity and direction of the applied electric field at the cursor position  

(the sign near the bottom of the screen). The l-Opt software program  

was created by Dr Dawson and Dr Guilhaus to help them design their  

mass spectrometer and they now plan to commercialise the program.  

The Principal Private Secretary to the NSW Premier, Mr John Harvey (left)  

receives the petition of 600 signatures from (I to r) Professor Barbara  

Gillam, Professor John Mllfull, Professor Clive Kessler, Associate  

Professor George Paxinos, and Professor lan Sloan.  

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