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
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1984, no. 9 (15 Jun. - 19 Jul., 1984)
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UNIKEN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Sporting prowess: the sky’s the limit 1
Solar testing lab on the road 1
Gap closes to Fun Run date 1
Trend to full-time studies continues 2
Continued decline in staff numbers 2
Funding prospects In doubt as Government considers cutting CTEC recommendations 2
Government reports arriving—slowly 2
UNSW team takes national debating cup 2
SEMINARS ON CONTEMPT AND THE CREDIT ACT 2
CHILD STUDIES SEMINARS ON FAMILIES 2
COMPUTER TAPES 2
Wind power feasible for NSW says new study 3
The mechanics of an award winning design 3
Better images in the infrared 3
Elizabeth Macarthur – her role in the colony 3
Coming in with no wings but a prayer 3
Academic misconduct 3
Achievements in 1983 highlighted 4
Teaching 4
Reviews 4
Participation 4
Availability of the Report 4
Finance 4
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Annual Report 1983 4
External funding for research tops $10 million 4
Detecting bowel cancer at home 4
Dr Johnson's encyclopaedia of jazz 4
Humans need not suffer computer cringe 4
Optics of dung beetle eyes 4
Preserving our theatrical past 4
Low fitness in Australian children 4
In brief... FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 5
STUDY IN DENMARK 5
ANNUAL MANAGEMENT FORUM 5
A WEEKEND OF STUDENT VIDEO 5
GREEK ORTHODOX SEMINARY COMMITTEE 5
Diary covering 16 June—22 July 5
Advertising 5
Club hosts Uni art show 6
LIBRARY HOURS HOURS DURING RECESS ALL LIBRARIES 6
HONOUR FOR PROF YERBURY 6
Alumni 20 year dinner 6
Origins 6
Feedback Alumni papers 6
HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR SLEEP? 6
GENERAL EDUCATION AT RMIT 6
RANDWICK HISTORY ON SHOW AT CLANCY 6
JULY COUNSELLING COURSES 6
RECORDERED MUSIC 6
SHORT STORY COMPETITION 6
Uni managers increase their skills 6
Preserve the Old Tote precinct, says student 7
Water research projects on show 7
French scholar honoured 7
Quentin memorial 7
It seems to me... 7

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UNIKEN  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 188 (No. of 1984)  

Published fortnightly by the Public Affairs Unit  

Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBF 4388  

15 June 1984  

Sporting prowess:  

the sky’s the limit  

Any record in running won't be record very long according to new book, soon to be  

published by the NSW University Press.  

Two sporting experts who collaborated on the book, which includes detailed presentation  

of world records in running over the last 100 years, say there is virtually no limit to the way  

records will continue to be broken.  

Running Out of Time: An examination of the  

improvement in running records examines the  

history of running over the last century and the  

changing role of sport in various countries.  

The book's authors, Dr Ken Dyer and Dr Terry  

Dwyer, are leading academic authorities and both are  

considerably involved in the sport itself.  

competitive runner for several years. Dr  

Dwyer lectures in epidemiology at the University  

of Sydney and is an adviser to the Australian Distance  

Squad on the scientific basis of training.  

Dr Dyer is the Director of the Centre for  

Environmental Studies at the University of Adelaide  

and has written number of articles and book on  

sporting achievement.  

The opening paragraphs of Running Out of  

Time describe the dramatic 'almost unbelievable',  

improvements in track and field events. Today's  

marathon runners, contesting races of more than 43  

kilometres, are recording faster times than achieved  

in 10-km races as recently as the 1920 by the world  

champion Finnish athlete, Paavo Nurmi.  

Today, even schoolboys are duplicating Roger  

Bannister's achievement in 1954 of breaking the  

four-minute-mile feat which only 20 years earlier  

had been labelled impossible.  

In part, the book is also concerned with  

predicting new records and analyzing previous  

predictions which, the authors say, have mostly  

been wrong.  

'Unbelievable as it seems, the most accurate  

predictions have been obtained simply by laying  

ruler along the trend line defined by previous records  

and extrapolating the straight line in this way into  

the future', they say. 'This still seems to be the best  

method.’  

Running was one of the many sports activities  

of the ancient world and the earliest evidence of  

running comes from Memphis in Egypt in about  

3800 BC. Races were held around the walls of the  

town and between two pillars about 800 metres  

apart.  

Later in Greece, various regional festivals  

included athletic events the most famous of which  

were the Olympic Games. Precise records of the  

Olympics date from only 776 BC, but the book says  

they were probably celebrated up to six centuries  

earlier. The Games were the signal for temporary  

truce among all the warring factions in Greece,  

declared up to three months in advance to allow  

competitors to train and assure them of safe  

passage home afterwards.  

With the current cloud hanging over the Los  

Angeles Olympic Games and the boycott by Eastern  

bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, the  

authors argue that ideological struggles can be pur-  

sued in the sporting arena.  

'For all its absurdities, we would far rather see  

humans engaged in race for the three-minute mile  

than in the development of the neutron bomb or  

binary nerve gases', they say.  

They agree, however, that there is also much  

which can be criticised in modern sport. Many  

people believe that running round and round in  

circles, on flat synthetic surface, to exhaustion, is  

an absurd thing for humans to do in the first place  

let alone for millions of others to take fanatical  

interest in.  

'But it is our unshakeable belief that if we, as  

species, devoted as much time and effort towards  

running three-minute mile, or marathon in one  

hour thirty minutes, or whatever, as we presently  

devote to building weapons systems, we could reach  

these athletic goals', the authors say. 'And there  

would still be room for improvement!'  

Running Out of Time with its study of the  

developments in running records is intended as  

book of reference and analysis which should appeal  

to all students, in the widest sense, of human physi-  

ology, achievement psychology, sports psychology  

and sports sciences in general.  

Running Out of Time: An examination of the  

improvement in running records, by Dr Ken Dyer  

and Dr Terry Dwyer, is published by the NSW  

University Press with recommended retail price for  

hard cover of $19.95.  

Solar  

testing  

lab on  

the  

road  

The University's Annual Report for 1983 has just been released. Highlights inside  

on pages and include;  

• trends in teaching, staff and student numbers  

• the process of review  

• finance  

• participation in higher education at UNSW of disadvantaged groups  

• external funding for research tops $lO million  

• selected research items  

The traditional idea of the wide verandah  

farm house as the ultimate Australian dwelling  

is myth, according to UNSW architect who  

has developed unique mobile facility which  

measures the thermal effectiveness of buildings  

on site in all seasons.  

Associate Professor John Ballinger, an expert in  

passive solar architecture principles, which use the  

sun and local climate to maintain thermally comfort-  

able conditions in buildings, says such homes were  

designed in an era when heating was easy and cooling  

impossible.  

'They tend to be cool in summer, but bitterly  

cold in winter, because the wide verandahs exclude  

both the summer and winter sun', he says. Professor  

Ballinger has converted conventional caravan into  

sophisticated mobile recording facility bristling  

with high technology and special instruments  

designed by him to see how well buildings 'work'.  

The facility is the first of its kind in Australia  

and, according to Professor Ballinger, came about  

following proposals from both the Federal and State  

governments.  

'They wanted to provide monitoring facility  

for certain house, so we made counter proposal  

for facility constructed here at UNSW to do the  

job and which could be used over and over again',  

he says.  

The caravan, towed by four-wheel-drive  

vehicle, contains micro-computer programmed to  

control all the instruments which scan the house or  

building being tested.  

After arrival on-site, tower is raised on the  

caravan which measures both wind speed and direct  

and diffuse solar radiation (diffuse radiation is  

radiation broken up by clouds). Professor Ballinger  

says cables are taken into the building to measure  

the temperature in 20 different locations. In house,  

the air temperature is recorded in most of the main  

rooms and in the roof space.  

'All measurements are taken simultaneously  

with the recording of the solar radiation and wind  

speed', Professor Ballinger says. 'Under certain cir-  

cumstances heater, which we control via thermo-  

stat or time clock to maintain certain temperature,  

would be placed in the house. Over ten-day period,  

we can then ascertain how much energy is required  

to maintain the temperature.'  

The 'leakiness' of house or building how  

much energy is lost through draughts, gaps in  

windows and ill-fitting doors can also be  

accurately measured by device which pressurizes  

the building.  

Professor Ballinger says that by knowing the  

volume of air being forced into the house, and also  

the house's volume, the difference can be worked  

out to determine the 'leakiness' of the building.  

'Our facility could be used for assessing  

number of different types of buildings from schools  

to homes’. Professor Ballinger says. ‘The Housing  

Commission will be our first client, for an assessment  

of their dwellings.'  

Gap closes to Fun Run date  

From this baby's-eye view of the 1983 UNSW/  

Heart Foundation Fun Run, the jazz band eclipsed  

the excitement of the finish at the Village Green.  

About 1,200 eager runners contested the event  

and organizers are hoping for an even bigger and  

better field this year when the runners take off from  

UNSW on the Bkm course on Sunday 22 July.  

Entry in this year's UNSW 7th Annual Fun Run  

could see you winging off to the Gold Coast or one  

of number of other Aussie destinations prizes  

not only for outright male and female first placings  

but also in draw for all participants who finish.  

The National Heart Foundation benefits from  

the run via sponsors and incentive prizes are given to  

sponsored runners raising above $3O. There are also  

over 30 categories winners of which will receive  

medallion.  

The race is great tune-up for the City-to-Surf  

race held two weeks later and has proved popular  

among Sydney's growing legion of fun runners in  

past years.  

Entry fee for the UNSW fun run is $2 for  

students and people age under 18 and $3 for others.  

Entry forms and more details are available from the  

gymnasium on 662 3672 or 662 3271.  

Modest from the outside, but step indoors shows this to be  

no ordinary mobile home. Associate Professor John Ballinger,  

an expert in passive solar architecture principles, describes  

the features of the unique rolling laboratory which can go  

virtually anywhere to measure the thermal effectiveness of  

buildings.  

Public Affairs Unit  

Public Affairs Unit  

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