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First page: ACME, the Library of Novelties, number 15, Volume 7, part two.
Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001
The Depressing Joy of Chris Ware
By Andrew D. Arnold
"The nut's a genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact.
Just look at the size of that thing. A foot and a half tall and over ten inches wide, it reaches the proportions of menus at Italian "family-style" restaurants. It sure doesn't look like a comicbook. But then, Ware has never produced anything that looked like a comicbook. It's part of his aesthetic. Sub-titled "Book of Jokes," it matches the dimensions of "Acme" number seven, from five years ago. It also follows that issue's format of putting a self contained "gag" on each page rather than a continuous story.
But first you have to get past the cover. It must be opened flat to be properly appreciated. A series of concentric circles form the center of a beautifully symmetric pattern. It resembles one of those mystical organization charts that some kook would meticulously work out, including the cycle of seasons, evolution, day into night, birth into death and all of human thought. Look more closely and you see it also involves Ware's particular motifs of stupidity, loneliness and the mundane.
Much of the jokes get their humor from this kind of existential shaggy dog structure. Quimby the mouse eats breakfast, takes a nap, rushes to the video store before it closes, chooses movies he's seen before but knows he likes and, in a jump of fifty years, lies on his deathbed in an empty hospital room. Or else, in a series of gags titled Tales of Tomorrow, an overfed man-child makes instant purchases on his view screen and schlurps product through a tube in the wall. A trip to the moon results in his doing more of the same in a different place.
Empty consumerism becomes the running theme of the book, typified by the series of stories about Rusty Brown, a nasty collector of pop-culture detritus. He lives in filth but owns the complete Summer of '87 Happy Meal toy series. It's the only work by Ware to clearly condemn a character without offering any sort of forgiveness. This gives the Rusty Brown vignettes a certain savagery but with limited scope. The whole book, owing chiefly to its "gag" format, begins to feel like the same note being hit over and over. It lacks the rich development of the Jimmy Corrigan series. Still, Ware's single note resonates like a tuning fork for America. After putting down "Acme" 15 I opened a piece of junk mail soliciting satellite TV that began, "Bring joy into your life." The Wareian "gag" completed itself in my head: the dish on the window sill, and me alone on the couch in my underwear staring at Jessica Alba.
Even if you don't like the jokes, you can always marvel at the design of the thing. "Acme Novelty Library" takes its title literally. You never get just comix. This issue has a special insert on cardstock of a cut-out, constructible miniature nickelodeon. It would probably work too. Elsewhere he fills an entire giant-sized page with a joke treatise, printed in a phone-book-sized font, on the different types of collectors. As always, even the indicia gets the Ware treatment, in that typically fussy prose of his: "Also, please note, should you be a German 'Hip Hop' band, or a Belgian night club, or a student filmmaker with a project due soon and no ideas — the contents of this volume fall under the general copyright" It goes on.
Those who have never picked up a copy of Chris Ware's "Acme Novelty Library" owe it to themselves to do so. His dedication to the holistic experience of a single comicbook issue has vastly increased the prestige of the medium. Being a stand-alone issue, number 15 will make an excellent introduction. Unlike some past issues he has made it easy to read. Just try not to get too creeped out by the monomaniacal amount of work he obviously puts into it.
"Acme Novelty Library #15" can be found at better comicbook stores and the publisher's website.
Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.
He's Gonna Step On You Again - John Kongos
Woman To Woman - Joe Cocker
Into My Own Thing - Sly & The Family Stone
I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth
Chicago Bus Stop (Ooh I Love It) - The Salsoul Orchestra
Satin Soul - The Love Unlimited Orchestra
Family Tree - Family Tree
I Love You More And More - Tom Brock
I Likes To Do It - People's Choice
You Did It - Ann Robinson
Hot Pants Road - The J.B.'s
I Forgot To Be Your Lover - William Bell
Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
Aht Uh Mi Hed - Shuggie Otis
Supernatural Thing - Ben E. King
The Boss - James Brown
Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Nilsson
Viva Tirado - El Chicano
The Human Abstract - David Axelrod
Blue On Blue - Gals and Pals
Whole Lotta Love - Ike & Tina Turner
Rags & Old Iron - Nina Simone
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye
Wiggle-Waggle - Herbie Hancock
Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Klaus Wonderlich & His New Pop Organ Sound
Higher Ground - Ellen Mcillwaine
Light My Fire - Shirley Bassey
Shack Up [Part 1] - Banbarra
Haven't You Heard - Patrice Rushen
All Night Long - The Mary Jane Girls
Risin' To The Top - Keni Burke
Westchester Lady - Bob James
Shifting Gears - Johnny Hammond
What A Man - Linda Lyndell
I'm A Good Woman - Barbara Lynn
House Of Mirrors - David McCallum
Holy Thursday - David Axelrod
Drumbeat - Jim Ingram
Manikkavacakar was a Tamil poet who wrote Tiruvasakam, a book of Shaiva hymns. Manikkavasakar was one of the main authors of saivite tirumurai: his work forms one volume of the Tirumurai, the key religious text of Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta. A minister to the Pandya king Varagunavarman II (c. 862 C.E. – 885 C.E.) (also called Arimarthana Pandiyan), he lived in Madurai. His work is a poetic expression of the joy of God-experience, the anguish of being separated from God. Although he is a prominent saint in Southern India, he is not counted among the sixty-three nayanars.
Manikkavasakar is said to have born in Vadhavoor (Thiruvadhavoor, near by melur [madurai Dt]), seven miles from Madurai on the banks of river Vaigai. He belonged to Brahmin saiva fold. The group wore a top tilted knot to denote servitorship to Lord Siva like sambandar, etc. A mural and statuette of manikkavasagar with head knot is seen in Tirupperunturai near Pudukkotai. A poetic and elaborate hagiography of Manikkavasagar and his works was written in the 16th century and is called Tiruvilayadal puranam, meaning "An account of divine deeds". The same is not available now in its original form. Another called Vadhavoorar puranam and yet another Sanskrit work of the 12th century CE on the same saint is now missing.
According to accounts the king of Pandyan dynasty had selected Manikkavasagar as a part of his legion after seeing his military acumen and had once entrusted him with a large amount of money to purchase horses for his cavalry. On his way he met an ascetic devotee of Siva, who in fact was Siva himself. Manikkavasakar received enlightenment, realised that material things are transitory and built the temple of Siva in Tirupperunturai with the money. King Varaguna also was preached with knowledge of reality and blessed with mukthi after Lord Siva made him realize his small worldly mistake. Varaguana maharaja immediately gave up his throne and attained mukthi at feet of Lord Sivan.
Thereafter Manikkavasakar moved from one place to other, singing and composing devotional songs. Finally, he settled in Chidambaram. His Tiruvasakam is placed near the idol of Shiva there.several verses of tiruvasagam including the accho patikam after singing which he attained mukti at thillai nataraja's feet are also engraved in the walls of the chidambaram temple. The tiruchazhal hymn after singing which the communal buddists were exposed is also engraved in one of the prakarams. The work tiruchitrambalakkovaiyar was sung entirely in thillai chidambaram. Throughout his work manikkavasagar discusses how important it is to forego attachments and cultivate dispassionate, devoted, sincere and simple hearted love to lord siva inorder to attain his beatitude and also that the fiveletters of namasivaya alone give one mukti.
Manikkavasakar's work has several parts. The Tiruvembavai , a collection of twenty hymns in which he has imagined himself as a woman following the Paavai Nonbu and praising Shiva. The twenty songs of Tiruvembavai and ten songs of Tiruppalliezhuchi on the Tirupperunturai Lord are sung all over Tamil Nadu in the holy month of Margazhi ( The 9th month of the Tamil calendar, December and January).
Manickavasagar is believed to have won intellectual arguments with Buddhists of Ceylon at Chidambaram. His festival is celebrated in the Tamil month of Aani (June - July). Manikkavasakar's hagiography is found in the Thiruvilaiyadar Puranam (16th century AD).
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The Neodesha Register, Thursday, October 20, 1932, Pg. 5
Volume 49, Number 42
JOHN D. JACKSON DIES; RESIDED
HERE 63 YEARS.
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John D. Jackson, aged 90 years and 3 days, a Civil War veteran and a resident of this community for more than 63 years, died last Thursday evening at 7:40 at his home on South Fifth street in Neodesha. He had been in failing health for several years and had been bedfast for the last twelve years.
Mr. Jackson was a well known and highly regarded citizen of Neodesha and surrounding vicinity. He had been a resident of Wilson county for sixty years and the past twenty-two years had resided in Neodesha. Mr. Jackson had a wide acquaintance and all who knew him loved and respected him for his life’s path was marked. During his active years he lived a busy, useful life. As a farmer and stock buyer in the years that have flown he was absolutely honest and fair in all his business dealings. Mr. Jackson always enjoyed the confidence and good-will of his neighbors and friends. His death, while not unexpected, was nevertheless a severe blow to his loved ones. During his last illness he was tenderly and solicitiously cared for by some of his children and everything that medical skill and loving hands could do was done for him.
Mr. Jackson had long been a familiar figure in Neodesha. After his retirement from farming, he continued his business as a stock buyer for many years. As long as his health permitted, he spent much time up town, visiting with friends, and he will be missed by his many friends as well as his children.
John D. Jackson was born October 10, 1842, in Schuyler county, Rushville, Ill., and departed this life October 13, 1932. He was married to Ann Suffrone Buckles on February 29, 1872. Mrs. Jackson preceded him in death, having passed away February 3, 1917.
Mr. Jackson was a Civil war veteran. He enlisted on the 10th day of August 1862, in Company D, 115th Regiment of Illinois Infantry, and was mustered out June 11, 1865, at Camp Hacker, Tenn.
Mr. Jackson came to Kansas in March, 1867, settled in Miami county, 12 ½ miles south of Paola, remaining there until the fall of that year, when he returned to Illinois. He remained in Illinois two years. In February the following spring he was married and came to Kansas. He and his bride drove through in a covered wagon and settled on a claim on which he had already filed and prepared for their coming, five and one-half miles southwest of Neodesha which Mr. Jackson still owned at his death.
Mr. Jackson had also been a member of the Masonic lodge in Neodesha for over fifty years.
Funeral services held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Methodist church for Mr. Jackson were very largely attended. Friends from southwest of Neodesha and other communities of this section and of this city gathered in large numbers to pay a last tribute to a highly regarded citizen. The Rev. A. J. Baird conducted the services, assisted by the pastor, Rev. E. C. Anderson. Rev. Baird paid a fine tribute to the life and character of Mr. Jackson. Funeral music was sung by Mrs. F. W. Cram, Mrs. Adah Bert, W. H. Davis and S. P. Shipley, accompanied at the organ by Miss Helen Davis. The songs were “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere”, “Going Down the Valley One By One”, and “Face to Face”. The floral tributes were beautiful and the casket was draped with the stars and stripes.
Harmony lodge was in charge of services at the grave, and conducted the Masonic ritualistic service. Following this members of Seward-Ayars post, American Legion took charge and conducted the military rites. In charge of L. J. Catlin, commander of the post, the following veterans composed the firing squad: F. L. Meanor, Ira Krueger, H. R. Taylor, Dewey Casey, W. E. Moulton, Willford Laverty, Jack Willison and George Kile. Donald Thompson, bugler, sounded taps.
Pallbearers were selected from the Masonic order, and were: W. A. Rankin, J. F. Rankin, A. S. Hopkins, J. D. Brown, Dr. E. N. Nichols and A. M. Burton. Burial was made in the family lot in Neodesha cemetery.
Mr. Jackson is survived by the following children: Mrs. Laura Carlton, Pittsburg, Kans; Mrs. Effie Price and Mrs. Grace Edwards, Neodesha; Mrs. Edith Mumford, Sycamore; Mrs. Zola Fenner, Neodesha; Mrs. Viola Mitchell, Bartlesville, Okla.; John C. Jackson, Neodesha; Mrs. Nina Webb, Neodesha, and Mrs. Nora Bray, Colorado Springs, Colo. One child died in infancy. There are fifteen living grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
A sister, Mrs. Mary Hailine, resides at Kansas City and a brother Garrett Jackson, lives in California.
A good man is at rest and the bereaved ones have the deepest sympathy of their many friends.
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1964>1969 Tv Sessions Anthology, Volume 1 - 1h12
The Arthur Haynes Show
(ATV, Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire)
Rec.: 7th february 1964 - Broad: 8th february 1964
1. I wanna be your man (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) - 1:49
2. You better move on (Arthur Alexander) - 0:59
NME Poll-Winners Concert / Big Beat 64
(ABC, Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.: 26th april 1964 - Broad: 3rd & 10th May 1964
3. Introduction - 0:45
4. Not fade away (Norman Petty / Charles Hardin Holly) - 2:21
5. I just want to make love to you (Willie Dixon) - 2:50
6. Iím alright (Ellas McDaniel) - 2:14
Hollywood Palace Show
(ABC, Los Angeles, California)
Rec.: 3th june 1964 - Broad: 13th june & 12th september 1964
7. I just want to make love to you (Willie Dixon) - 1:21
8. Not fade away (Norman Petty / Charles Hardin Holly) - 2:00
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, New York City, New York)
Rec.-Broad: 25th october 1964
9. Around And Around (Chuck Berry) - 2:40
10. Time Is On My Side (Jerry Ragovoy) - 2:52
The TAMI Show
(Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California)
Rec.-Broad: 29th october 1964
11. Around And Around (Chuck Berry) - 2:17
12. Off the hook (Mick Jagger/ Keith Richard) -2:32
13. It's All Over Now (Bobby and Shirley Womack) - 3:01
14. Time Is On My Side (Jerry Ragovoy) - 2:29
15. Iím alright (Ellas McDaniel) - 3:10
16. (Let's) Get Together - 2:13
Shinding!
(ABC, Haliford Studios, Shepperton, Surrey)
Rec.: 15th december 1964 - Broad: 20th january & 3rd march 1965
17. Oh baby (We got a good thing goin') (Barbara Lynn Ozen) - 1:47
18. Down the road apiece (Don Raye) - 2:26
Six Five (BBC, Belfast, Ireland)
Rec.-Broad: 6th january 1965
19. Little red rooster (Willie Dixon) - 1:19
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, London)
Rec.-Broad: 26th february 1965
20. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:05
21. Play with fire (Nanker Phelge) - 2:01
22. Everybody needs somebody to love (Russell/Burke/Wexler)
Pain in my heart (Allen Toussaint) - 2:24
Popside
(Swedish TV, Stockholm, Sweden)
Rec.: 2nd february 1965 - Broad: 8th february 1965
23. Introduction - 1:33
24 Everybody needs somebody to love (Russell /Burke /Wexler) - 2:19
25. Tell me (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:22
26. Around And Around (Chuck Berry) - 3:10
27. Little red rooster (Willie Dixon) - 3:41
28. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:44
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARTV, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 9th april 1965
29. Everybody needs somebody to love (Russell/Burke/Wexler)-
Pain in my heart (Allen Toussaint) - 2:33
30. Iím alright (Ellas McDaniel) - 3:28
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1964>1969 Tv Sessions Anthology, Volume 2 - 1h16
NME Poll-Winners Concert
(ABC, Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 11th april 1965
1. Introduction - 1:41
2. Around and around (Chuck Berry) - 2:13
3. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:55
4. Everybody needs somebody to love (Russell/Burke/Wexler) - 2:53
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, New York City, New York)
Rec.-Broad: 2th may 1965
5. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:19
6. Little red rooster (Willie Dixon) - 2:38
7. Everybody needs somebody to love (Russell/Burke/Wexler) - 2:10
Shivaree
(ABC, Los Angeles, California)
Rec: 16th may 1965 - Broad: 5th june & 24th july 1965
8. Down the road apiece (Don Raye) - 3:02
9. Little red rooster (Willie Dixon) - 3:06
10. Play with fire (Nanker Phelge) - 2:15
11. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:48
Shinding!
(ABC, Los Angeles, California)
Rec (music, RCA Studios*): 18th may
Rec (show): 20th may - Broad: 26th may 1965
12. Medley (Chuck Berry) / Down the road apiece (Don Raye) - 3:01
13. Little red rooster (Willie Dixon) - 2:41*
14. The last time (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:11*
15. Play with fire (Nanker Phelge) - 2:10*
16. (I can't get no) Satisfaction (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:41
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 4th june 1965
17. Iím moving on (Hank Snow) - 2:23
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec: 2nd sept. 1965 - Broad: 10th sept. 1965
18. Oh baby (We got a good thing goin') (Barbara Lynn Ozen) - 1:30
19. Thatís how strong my love is (Roosevelt Jamison) - 2:17
20. (I can't get no) Satisfaction (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 4:24
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 22th october 1965
21. Cry to me (Bert Russel) - 2:42
22. She said ëYeahí (Sonny Christy / Roddy Jackson) - 2:16
23. Get off of my cloud (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:30
Hullaballoo Show
(NBC, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec (vocals): 11th nov. 1965 - Broad: 15th nov. 1965
24. She said ëYeahí (Sonny Christy / Roddy Jackson) - 1:44
25. Get off of my cloud (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:49
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, New York City, New York)
Rec.-Broad: 13th february 1966
26. (I can't get no) Satisfaction (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:47
27. As tears go by (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:25
28. 19th nervous breakdown (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 4:15
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 27th may 1966
29. I am waiting (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:02
30. Under my thumb (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:58
31. Paint it black (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:21
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1964>1969 Tv Sessions Anthology, Volume 3 - 1h14
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, New York City, New York)
Rec.-Broad: 11th september 1966
1. Paint it black (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:40
2. Lady Jane (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:15
3. Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow? (Jagger/Richards) - 2:4
Top of the Pops (BBC, London)
Rec: 17th dec. 1966 - Broad: 22th dec. 1966
4. Have you seen your mother, baby, standing in the shadow? (Jagger/Richards) - 2:27
Ready! Steady! Go!
(ARtv, Wembley, Middlesex)
Rec.-Broad: 27th may 1966
5. I am waiting (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:02
6. Under my thumb (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:58
7. Paint it black (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:21
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, New York City, New York)
Rec.-Broad: 15th january 1967
8. Ruby Tuesday - Rehearsals (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:36
9. Letís spend ësometimesí together - Rehearsals (Jagger /Richards) - 4:01
10. Ruby Tuesday (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:26
11. Letís spend ësometimesí together (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:11
Sunday Night At The London Palladium
(ATV, London)
Rec.-Broad: 22th january 1967
12. Connection (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:25
13. Ruby Tuesday (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:38
14. Itës all over now (Bobby & Shirley Womack) - 3:25
15. Letís spend sometimes together (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:44
The David Frost Tv Show
(US Tv, Stonebridge House Studios, Wembley)
Rec.-Broad: 16th june 1969
16. You canít always get what you want (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 4:51
17. Honky tonk women (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:06
The Ed Sullivan Show
(CBS, Los Angeles, California)
Rec.-Broad: 18th november 1969
18. Gimme shelter (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 4:33
19. Love in vain (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:41
20. Honky tonk women (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 3:19
Top Of The Pops (BBC1, London)
Rec.-Broad: 25th december 1969
21. Honky tonk women (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 2:56
Pop Go To The Sixties (BBC1, London)
Rec.-Broad: 31th december 1969
22. Gimme shelter (Mick Jagger / Keith Richards) - 4:18
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This photo appeared in the News, Volume 12, Number 20, November 10 to 24, 1986. The text was:
"BEYOND SCHOOL: increasing the opportunities for Aboriginal people in post-secondary education
The Aboriginal Education Conference held at the University on October 23 and 24 brought together over 100 Aboriginal Delegates, a majority of them Aboriginal, people mainly from throughout New South Wales and the Hunter Valley. Many of them were students, teachers and lectures from schools, TAFE, universities and colleges of advanced education who came to hear a number of distinguished Aboriginal educationists from other states discuss ways in which they are increasing opportunities for Aboriginal people to enter tertiary education and providing support for Aboriginal students.
Speakers included this year’s Boyer lecturer, Professor Eric Willmot, Head of the School of Education at the James Cook University, who argued the case for providing some exclusively Aboriginal schools while improving the quality of education for Aboriginal students in state schools.
The role that an Aboriginal community college can play in developing self-esteem, confidence and skills necessary to cope with tertiary education was outlined by Lillian Holt, Deputy Principal of the Aboriginal Community College, Adelaide
An overview of Aboriginal tertiary education in New South Wales was presented by Bob Morgan, President of the New South Wales Aboriginal Education Consultative Group. Barry Thorne outlined the role and direction of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Aboriginal education.
The training programmes in business administration offered at associate diploma, degree and postgraduate diploma level by the Aboriginal Task Force at the South Australian Institute of Technology were described by Sonny Flynn, Co-ordinator of the Task Force. This replaced a paper to have been given and in fact supplied by Veronica Arbon, on the Programmes, many of them offered externally, by the Aboriginal Studies and Education Centre, at the South Australian College of Advanced Education designed as the key centre for Aboriginal Studies in Australia. Copies of this paper and some others can be obtained from the Department of Community Programmes.
Eve Fesl, a linguist and Director of the Aboriginal Research Centre at Monash University, emphasised the urgent need for Aboriginal graduates. “White people are at the top of the power structure”, Mrs Fesl said “and unless Aboriginal professional people can attain some of these top position, white people will be making decisions about Aboriginal lives for the rest of our lives and for the generations to come”.
She stressed the need for Aboriginal teachers as well as training programmes in Aboriginal culture and history for all teachers. “We can have the best programmes in the world, but if the teachers are racist, the kids will drop out anyhow”. Aboriginal lawyers are also need. “We are now having to pay white lawyers and then having to try to get across to them what we want on land rights and our feelings on the land”.
There is need too, for Aboriginal political scientist. A National Aboriginal Conference established in accordance with Aboriginal traditional systems may have been far more appropriate than the NAC designed by Europeans. Similarly problems experienced by land councils and co-operatives and decision made by bodies dealing with Aboriginal funding illustrate the importance of training Aboriginal economists, accountants, and business administrators.
Aboriginal philosopher, historians and archaeologists are needed to approach their fields from an Aboriginal perspective; likewise Aboriginal psychologists and sociologists who can not only introduce an Aboriginal perspective, but may throw a new light on such issues as why so many white people in Australia have more race hated towards Aborigines than any other group and what makes many white teachers racist in the classroom.
Aboriginal women in Alice Springs have developed plans for an Aboriginal birth centre since a newly-built Alice Springs Hospital is seen as inappropriate to Aboriginal birthing customs. There is a need for Aboriginal doctors and nurses (and architects) with a perception of the different values in Aboriginal society.
Eve Fesl highlighted the problems faced by Aboriginal graduates in what she described as “Aboriginal industry”. White Anglo-Saxon males are still the decision-makers. When equity programmes are introduced often women are chosen who uphold the values of the men in power, “door keepers” who will keep out ant bright women who may threaten male values. White “experts” and some Aboriginal people in positions of authority feel threaten by Aboriginal graduates and sometimes work against them. There is a need to reassure them that tertiary education does not, as it is sometimes claimed, undermine Aboriginality.
The Monash Orientation Scheme (MOSA) established be Eve Fesl and outlined by the current Director, Isaac Brown, in fact was designed to reinforce Aboriginality while giving support to Aboriginal students and equipping them with skills. Isaac Brown described the difficulties faced by Aboriginal students in universities, which he described as “male dominated, conservative, enlist Anglo institutions with a strong middle class bias”. The aim of MOSA is to help Aboriginal students cope with another culture while enabling their own to develop and strengthen. Aboriginal students come to MOSA from all over Australia, many of them come from remote areas.
Aboriginal students are encouraged to explode their past and attempt to identify their original forbears. Going to university is not seen as being isolated from the community, but getting to know the Aboriginal community and becoming part of it. Students attend weekly lectures given by Aboriginal people from the community and are taken to sacred sites, Aboriginal health centres and to other Aboriginal organisations in the community.
In developing literacy and improving communication skills, use is made if the increasing number of Aboriginal authors and comparison and mad with English authors.
Numeracy is developed by building on the knowledge of the community from which the student comes. Mathematics was a part of Aboriginal culture in so far as it was needed. MOSA starts at that point.
Aboriginal students are presented often for the first time with an account of the violence of contact history and the denigration of their culture. This can produce a group of “angry, bitter, frustrated blacks’. MOSA tries however to develop positive attitudes and to show, according to Isaacs Brown, “what we can do to live alongside and within another culture without losing our own”.
Aboriginal student are vulnerable to a “shame job”, humiliation and a sense of failure, so the emphasis in MOSA is on building up confidence and reinforcing positive attitudes.
It is seen as essential that the Director be an Aboriginal person with the required level of education and experience and that the Director should be accessible and approachable at all times. The emphasis is on security, but not dependency. The enclave, located centrally, continues to be used by Aboriginal undergraduate students fro continuing support.
MOSA is a highly successful programme and is seen as a model to be followed by other tertiary institutions.
The Aboriginal Education Conference arose largely as a result of a recommendation from the committee established by Senate to increase opportunities and support for Aboriginal students. Although we have Aboriginal medical students at the University, there are only three other Aboriginal students studying here. The committee had made a number of recommendations to remedy this situation and the Conference presented a splendid opportunity to find out what is succeeding in other places before we embark on our programme.
It also provided an excellent chance to hear from Aboriginal people involved at all levels in education process in this area
A panel of local Aboriginal staff and students from schools and tertiary institutions discussed the educational situation for Aboriginal people in the Hunter Region. Some clearly defined areas which emerged during the Conference provided topics for workshop during part of the final day. Among recommendations arising from the workshops were the need for greater consultation with Aboriginal groups, especially by funding bodies, the need for improvements to the secondary school system and the need for support systems such as those outlined by visiting speakers.
Resources and organisations were provided by the University, CAE, TAFE, the Awabakal Aboriginal Co-operative ant the Commonwealth Department of Education and the New South Wales Department of Education. The Women’s Committee of the Awabakal Aboriginal Co-operative and the Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Service arranged child-minding facilities. The Conference was a truly co-operative effort which already promises some long-lasting benefits."
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