Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Nf 378.944 UNI
Created/Published
Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
Issue
1993, no. 17 (22 Oct., 1993)
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Uniken THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
UNSW honours Indonesia's Industry and Trade Minister 1
Neurochemists intensify search for elusive toxin 1 , 2
First occupants poised for Quadrangle move 1
In Briet Vice-Chancellor's General Forum 2
Debate on a republic 2
Annual golf day 2
NEWS UNSW joins Visions for the Future 2
Statement by the Vice-Chancellor about problems facing the University Library 3
Library resources shortage angers staff and students 3
Official opening of new Institute for Medical Research 3
Everything you wanted to know about contracting for research at UNSW... 4
Up, up and away 4
Unisearch seeks patent officer 4
Engineers win noted Awards of Excellence 5
Part of superconductivity group to move 5
1994 UNSW Student Guild Council 5
Busy times for social club 5
St George's final year productions 5
FEATURES First Dalcroze summer school for UNSW 6
Can UNSW rise to the challenge ahead? 6
GRADS Graduations '93 [more photos next issue] 7
WHAT'S ON Diary 23 October-7 November 8 , 10
Advertising 8
Round-up U Committee's $100,000 cheque 9
Kongo's nightcare and house fete 9
ANSTO chief to speak on energy research 9
Academic tutors required at Shalom 9
AC awards to Theatre and Film Studies staff 9
Anatomy prizes honour Vesalius book 9
Outback art in the Library 10
V-C to address academic staff 10
Fine drawings of Sydney on show at the University Club 10
AIWRAP seeks postgraduates in casual employment 11
Japanese tourism for discussion 11
Linguists needed for visitors' scheme 11
Aback Response to students and equal opportunity 11
Why Pizza Hut and McDonald's are so different 11
'Tatted up' Chancellery a scandalous waste 11
The wizard of ... AARNET 11
'The Centre'-an unstoppable cancer 11
SPORT Around the tmps 12
Swimmers dominate Games carnival 12
Basketballers create history 12

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Uniken  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

Incorporating the campuses of Kensington; University College, Australian Defence Force Academy; St George, Oatley, and the College of Fine Arts, Paddington  

No. 357 (No. 17 of 1993)  

Fortnightly  

Registered by Australia Post Publication NBF 4388  

22 October 1993  

UNSW honours Indonesia's  

Industry and Trade Minister  

DISTINGUISHED  

graduate of the Uni-  

versity of New South  

Wales, Hartarto Sastro-  

sunarto, who is now the  

Co-ordinating Minister  

for Industry and Trade  

in his home country In-  

donesia, received the  

University’s highest  

honour an honorary  

degree of Doctor of Sci-  

ence on 19 October.  

He was Minister for Industry  

from 1983 until earlier this year  

and has directed program of  

development, reform and de-  

regulation of Indonesia’s indus-  

trial sector which is widely  

regarded as model of success  

for developing country.  

He is also the first graduate  

of an Australian university to  

hold ministerial position in  

Indonesia and the first over-  

seas UNSW alumnus to be  

granted an Alumni Associa-  

tion Award for Achievement.  

Dr Hartarto studied at the  

Institute of Technology, Ban-  

dung, before coming to Austra-  

lia to do his Bachelor of  

Science in Chemical Engineer-  

ing at UNSW in 1955 to 1959  

with scholarship from the  

Colombo Plan.  

For more than 20 years the  

Colombo Plan brought thou-  

sands of young men and  

women from Asian and Afri-  

can countries to study in Aus-  

tralian universities.  

He is personally committed  

to increasing Asia-Pacific re-  

gional co-operation and spe-  

cifically promoted the mutual  

benefits of increased Austra-  

lian investment in Indonesian  

industry through transfer of  

skills and technology between  

the two countries.  

In 1992 Dr Hartarto was  

made an Honorary Officer of  

the Order of Australia (AO),  

the highest honour Australia  

can confer on foreign citizen  

in recognition of promoting  

economic links between the  

two countries.  

Neurochemists intensify  

search for elusive toxin  

Research into the  

role the environment  

and environmental tox-  

ins play in neurodegen-  

erative disorders like  

Parkinson’s Disease and  

Alzheimer’s Disease, has  

received two setbacks in  

recent times and both  

have made researchers  

more determined than  

ever to find an answer.  

Scientists believe that one of  

the keys to discovering what  

causes neurodegenerative dis-  

orders lies in finding the  

causes of ALSPDC amyotro-  

phic lateral sclerosis parkin-  

sonism dementia complex an  

illness that sometimes destroys  

its victims’ motor neurones,  

leaving them paralysed in  

manner similar to ALS, the dis-  

order which has afflicted Pro-  

fessor Stephen Hawking.  

There are at least three  

places in the world where this  

condition has been extraordi-  

narily common region in  

Japan, region of western  

Papua New Guinea and the is-  

lands of Guam and Rota. Guam  

has been the centre of most re-  

search and the centre of the two  

setbacks.  

The symptoms of ALSPDC  

first drew the attention of sci-  

ence in the late 19405, when  

Western physicians noted that  

the Chamorros, natives of  

Guam, were dying of disease  

similar to ALS, but at rate 50  

times that of the industrial  

countries. ALS is more com-  

monly known in Australia and  

the UK as Motor Neurone Dis-  

ease.  

Researchers scoured the is-  

land for 30 years looking at  

family histories, searching for  

genetic causes, bacterial or vi-  

ral agents, or environmental  

poisons. They found nothing  

that was fully convincing until  

Peter Spencer, of the Albert  

Einstein College of Medicine,  

took on the problem in 1981  

and looked at it from different  

angle: excitotoxicity.  

In report published in Sci-  

ence in 1987 he proposed that  

BMAA, or some other cycad  

component, might act as  

“slow toxin” that damages  

nerve cells over the years. As  

further evidence he wrote that  

people in New Guinea and Ja-  

pan who showed symptoms of  

ALSPDC also used cycad seed  

as medicine.  

The findings that such “exci-  

totoxins” may have role in  

Continued on page  

First occupants poised  

for Quadrangle move  

THE first occupants  

will be moving into  

the East Wing of the  

Quadrangle Building  

later this month. Due to  

be ‘practically’ com-  

pleted at Christmas this  

year, the Quadrangle  

Building represents the  

biggest project under-  

taken on campus in  

about 20 years.  

On 26 October, the Student  

Guild and the Dental Surgery  

will be moving to the Quadran-  

gle Building.  

From 27 to 29 October, the  

following areas will be moving  

from Student Services: Deputy  

Registrar (Student Services),  

Access Scheme. Counselling  

and Careers, Finance, Accom-  

modation, Part-time Employ-  

ment, Disability Support Unit  

and the University Health  

Service.  

The Staff Association and  

the Professional Development  

Centre will be moving on 12  

November.  

Additionally, the Educa-  

tional Testing Centre and the  

Chaplaincy will move to the  

Squarehouse by the end of No-  

vember. This paves the way to  

remove all temporary huts  

from the Physics Lawn and to  

allow the area to be land-  

scaped.  

Access for these groups will  

be via the Basser Steps when  

their rejuvenation is com-  

pleted. The new Basser Steps  

will be wider and will provide  

access for people with disabili-  

ties.  

Until the steps are reopened  

access will be from High Street  

along the access road to the  

west of Basser College or be-  

hind the Union shops and via  

the south side of the college.  

An alternative ground level  

option is available for people  

with disabilities. Any enquir-  

ies regarding this option  

should be directed to Paul  

Turner on ext 3831.  

When completed, the Quad-  

rangle Building will be the  

headquarters for the Faculty of  

Commerce and Economics.  

It will also provide substan-  

tial additional teaching space  

including computing laborato-  

ries; major new university  

union food hall, lounge and  

shop; and new mid-campus  

student centre (which will  

house areas listed above mov-  

ing into the East Wing).  

It will also house the Co-op  

Bookshop and an Ansett Travel  

Agency. ■  

Dr Hartarto Sastrosunarto is flanked by the Chancellor, the Hon Gordon Samuels (right) and the  

Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Niland just prior to Dr Hartarto receiving his honorary degree of  

Doctor of Science. See page for further graduation photos.  

Researchers at UNSW's Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Unit include  

(back left to right) Mr Tim Charlton, Mr Ganesh Kumar, Mr Ray Lidgard  

and Ms Anne Cerpa-Poljak, and (front) Dr Mark Duncan, Ms Vicki  

Labbon (part-time clerical assistant), Ms Pat Duffield and Gabrijela  

Matanovic. Photo courtesy Medical Illustration Unit.  

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