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
1992, no. 16 (9 Oct., 1992)
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Uniken THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
HIV-the'good' and'bad'virus? 1
Philosophy broadens its base to rural NSW 1
IN THIS ISSUE 1
NEWS In Brief Want to improve your ass-pect? 2
Construction compound for the Mathews carpark 2
Rally proposed at tramway workshops 2
New researchers make their mark 2
Quadrangle Building and hut relocation 2
First Australian book on rape and incest 3
A nice bunch of conquerors 3
Visiting Indonesians at UNSW 3
Schofield-part I 4
Tiber Wiener exhibition opened 4
Ethics of divvying up the health cake under the spotlight 4
PROFILE Cheerful new-look psychology clinic 5
Terpsichorean treats from Italian courts 5
FEATURES RAPID's faxes are running hot 6
Nuclear scientist to address St Petersburg conference 6
If music be the fruit of computers, play on 7
Not cliches but aphorisms 7
WHAT'S ON Diary 10-25 October 8 , 10
Advertising 8
Theory weds practice among the cornflakes 9
St Vincent's medical delegation to provide service in Vietnam 9
Obituary: Dr S.C.Baker 9
Bouquets for town planning students 9
Round-up Election off Student Members to Faculties/Boards off Studies-Session 2,1992 10
AGSM Board of Management 10
Donate-a-book day 10
Prepare to be blitzed 10
Bill Mitchell art award 10
Look up and wonder 10 , 11
Graduates of UNSW! 11
1993 UNSW Postdoctoral Fellowships 11
New directions in tertiary Japanese programs 11
UNSW '62 Alumni Scholarships 11
Minister delivers inaugural lecture 11
New look for newsletter 11
UNSW religious groups 11
SPORT Around the traps 12
SARC courses in self defence and life saving 12
Feedback Green bricks! 12
Autodesk design winner 12
If it's not in The Companion it hasn't been played 12

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Uniken  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

Issue no. 336 (No. 16 of 1992)  

Fortnightly  

October 1992  

HIV-the'good'  

and'bad'virus?  

THE fact that there are  

cases of people with  

long-term HIV infection  

who have as yet ex-  

hibited no AIDS symp-  

toms may have more to  

do with the existence of  

less virulent, or even be-  

nign, strain of the virus  

than the genetic makeup  

or physical health of the  

person.  

This is suggested by the re-  

sults of study conducted by  

the NSW Red Cross Blood  

Transfusion Service and the  

National Centre in HIV Epi-  

demiology and Clinical Re-  

search at UNSW. The study is  

reported in the October issue of  

The Lancet.  

“Over 10 years, 50 per cent of  

people with HIV infection de-  

velop AIDS and many of those  

die,” according to Senior Pro-  

ject Scientist with the National  

Centre for HIV, Mr Brett Tin-  

dall. “But we don’t know if the  

rate increases to 100 per cent as  

time goes by or if some of those  

infected will remain healthy  

and survive. And are the  

people who are surviving doing  

so because of their particular  

physical makeup or because of  

something to do with the  

virus?”  

The research team was able  

to review tire question by look-  

ing at the registry of people  

known to have acquired HIV  

infection through transfusion  

of blood in NSW and then fol-  

lowing up on those cases.  

“We were able to identify one  

HIV-infected donor and six  

subjects who were infected by  

blood products from him. The  

donor and five of the recipients  

who contracted HIV have no  

symptoms of the disease. All  

were infected with HIV more  

than eight years ago and yet  

remain totally symptom-free.  

In comparison, 50 per cent of  

the other 112 subjects who  

were infected in NSW at the  

same time have developed  

AIDS and an even greater pro-  

portion have lesser symptoms  

of infection.  

“Worldwide, this is the first  

group of subjects which has  

been identified in which each  

subject is known to have been  

infected with the same strain of  

HIV, and in which the donor  

and all the recipients share  

good outcome,” Mr Tindall  

said.  

"Further, we had wide  

range of subjects. Four are men  

and three are women, and they  

are from various age groups.  

The diversity of the subjects  

suggests that it is their ‘com-  

mon’ virus which is the cause  

of their having remained with-  

out symptoms.  

“We were able to isolate the  

virus from one of the subjects  

and it appears that it is not as  

virulent as some other strains.  

“This series of cases provides  

cause for hope in an epidemic  

which has been so bleak.  

“It suggests that there may be  

some people who, although in-  

fected with this virus, remain  

symptom-free for many years  

and possibly never develop  

symptoms of AIDS.  

“The identification of non-  

disease causing strain of the  

virus may also hasten the de-  

velopment of safe and effec-  

tive vaccine,” he said. ■  

Philosophy broadens its base to rural NSW  

Teachers in rural  

NSW have not been  

forgotten in the School of  

Philosophy’s program of  

promoting the subject to  

children.  

The next phase of the already  

successful program will be the  

staging of four-day residential  

workshop for teachers in rural  

NSW, to be held at central  

location in the State’s far-west  

in January 1993.  

The program recently re-  

ceived welcome boost when  

Dr San Mac Coll, lecturer in  

the School, received grant for  

$83,595 from the NSW Educa-  

tion and Training Foundation  

(ETF) for project titled: Phil-  

osophy in schools: Practical  

thinking and problem-solving  

skills.  

Dr Mac Coll hopes the rural  

workshops will become regu-  

lar feature of the program, simi-  

lar to the regular two-day  

workshops held at the Univer-  

sity. Teachers in rural areas will  

be encouraged to attend the  

workshops through the estab-  

lishment of ETF Scholarships.  

Dr Mac Coll said the ETF  

grant is being used for three pri-  

mary purposes; designing  

philosophy curriculum for Pri-  

mary schools as follow-up to  

the Kinder Kids Kit which was  

launched last year; to hold the  

residential workshops  

for rural teachers; and to de-  

velop course material for the  

Graduate Certificate in Educa-  

tion Studies (Philosophy for  

Teachers) at the University of  

New England.  

The correspondence course,  

to begin in 1993, is based on  

similar Graduate Certificate  

course which began at UNSW  

this year. The UNSW course is  

part-time postgraduate degree  

course for teachers.  

“Philosophy curriculums for  

children are taught in 30 coun-  

tries around the world,” Dr  

Mac Coll said. “While there are  

international characteristics of  

philosophy for children, we're  

setting material for Australian  

schools.  

“Teachers undertaking the  

Certificate course are able to  

implement aspects of the  

course while they are teach-  

ing.”  

Dr Mac Coll said there has  

been real upsurge in interest  

from teachers since the incep-  

tion last year of the Philosophy  

for Kinder Kids Kit which pro-  

vides an Australian content for  

kindergarten children based on  

Australian children’s literature  

normally available in school  

libraries. She is hoping for  

similar response from the phil-  

osophy curriculum she is de-  

veloping for Primary schools.  

“The Graduate Certificate  

course taught at UNSW uses in-  

quiry-based learning practices,  

with focus on classroom dis-  

cussion,” she said.  

“This develops reasoning  

skills, particularly in the areas  

of reading and oral comprehen-  

sion, conceptual analysis, im-  

aginative thinking, formulating  

and solving problems, giving  

and evaluating reasons, and es-  

tablishing sound judgment.  

“The basic assumption is  

that children will most readily  

become active and skilful thin-  

kers by learning to reason  

together through dialogue and  

discussion.”  

What sort of philosophical  

issues do children like to dis-  

cuss? Well, they include the  

significance of friendship, the  

value of fairness, the meaning  

of goodness, the concept of re-  

ality, and the nature of truth.  

Footnote: An information  

evening for prospective Grad-  

uate Certificate students for  

1993, and others interested in  

philosophy for children, will  

be held in Room 23 of the Mor-  

ven Brown Building at UNSW  

from 5.30 pm on Monday No-  

vember.  

For further information con-  

tact the School of Philosophy  

on 697 2371. ■  

IN THIS ISSUE  

First Australian  

book on  

rape and intest  

— page  

Ethics of  

divvying up the  

health take  

— page  

Mr Brett Tindall  

The question is...? Dr MacColl with (from left) Oliver MacColl, Noah Cohen, Nicola MacColl  

and Jared Cohen.  

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