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Monash has acquired its own set of 'watchdogs'.
But the new acquisition has nothing to do with campus security. Instead, the watchdogs are featured in a series of limited edition posters, published by the national corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities Commission, to remind business about the regulation of corporate law.
Deputy ASC chair and former Monash academic Mr Peter Day pinned the last of the available ASC 'Watchdog' posters to the wall on the third floor of the Menzies building last Thursday as part of an official visit to the university's Department of Business Law and Taxation in the Faculty of Business and Economics, organised by department head Associate Professor Paul Latimer.
Mr Day, who was an academic in Monash's Accounting and Finance department in the late 1970s, said the ASC thought Monash would provide a good home for the posters.
"We expect this little gallery of watchdogs at Monash to serve as a regulatory reminder for the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders before they hit the business world."
Mr Day said the ASC welcomed the opportunity to get involved with Monash. "I would like to encourage students to take an interest in the actual regulation of corporations law, and I hope our posters will aid in this process."
By day, Mukinupin is a pleasantly familiar Western Australian country town, peopled by seemingly harmless eccentrics, says Peter Fitzpatrick, director of The Man from Mukinupin, now showing at Monash's Clayton campus.
But all is not as it first appears, says Fitzpatrick. By night, the town is a dangerous place where old guilts and timeless passions emerge as secrets and hidden vices invade its residents' consciousness.
Fitzpatrick, who is head of Monash's Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies, says the play resonates with an "underlying Aboriginal spirituality for the land raped by its white colonisers".
The Man from Mukinupin is running at Monash's Drama Theatre until Saturday 30 May. For bookings, telephone extn 51111.
Left to right: The 1998 Teaching Fellows at Monash -- Ms Angela Clarke, Mr Bill Underwood, Mr John Whitehorse, Ms Christine Oliver, Mr Robert Ward and Mr Rod Wise.
The Monash Teaching Fellowships continue to attract significant interest from a wide range of secondary school teachers, according to Ms Lucy Wiasak of Monash's Centre for Higher Education Development.
The fellowships, which started in 1995, offer VCE teachers the chance to spend one or two semesters at Monash teaching first-year students and undertaking projects aimed at enhancing student transition from secondary to tertiary education. Since its inception, 30 Teaching Fellows have participated in the scheme.
Ms Wiasak, the program's coordinator, said the fellowships helped university teachers to understand what happened at school and senior school teachers to understand how teaching was conducted at university.
"An added feature of this year's scheme is the placement of two teaching fellows within the one department," Ms Wiasak said. "The Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies is benefiting from the experience of Ms Felicity Kamevaar this semester, and Ms Angela Clarke comes on board in semester two.''
New Briefs 1998, four 15-minute plays performed by four Melbourne universities, comes to Monash next Tuesday 26 May.
The only Monash performance, to be held at 1 pm in the Student Theatre Space, Union building, Clayton campus, is a joint initiative of Melbourne University, La Trobe University, RMIT and Monash.
"It's really a chance for the theatre departments of these universities to get together and share working experiences," says Monash Student Theatre's artistic director, John Britton.
Monash Student Theatre's contribution to New Briefs 1998 is based on a short script titled Party Animal created by Britton, with music and visual elements developed by the cast.
The piece aims to tell a story through music, pictures and limited dialogue, says Britton.
For more information, contact Monash Student Theatre on extn 53108.
Applications are being invited for the position of returning officer for the Mature Age and Part-time Association's October elections.
An honorarium is offered. Applications close 5 June. For the position description, applications and inquiries, contact the MAPS office, Union building, Clayton campus.
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