UC in the News - June 2002

 

Published by the Communications and Development Department

 

June 2002

 

Professor Tom Furness (HIT Lab NZ)

Govt backs virtual reality lab at uni, Press, 1.6.02;

 

Associate Professor Bruce Jamieson (Human Resources), Dr Maureen Montgomery (Association of University Staff), Mr Tom Gregg (Exec)

Uni staff in cuts target, Press, 1.6.02;

 

Mr Tom Gregg (Exec)

Varsity deficit grows, Press, 3.6.02;

 

Mr Marty Braithwaite (Association of University Staff)

University staff say Vice-Chancellors’ overpaid, Newstalk ZB, 4.6.02;

 

Dr Annie Potts (Gender Studies)

sViagra study, Press, 3.6.02,
Older, bolder, sexier, Christchurch Star, 7.6.02,
Viagra prompts more sex speak – research shows, Oamaru Mail, 7.6.02;

 

Professor Frank Sin (Zoology)

Mums blamed for lazy sperm, Oamaru Mail, 3.6.02;

New research into causes of male infertility, Now TV, 4.6.02;

 

Associate Professor Bruce Jamieson (Human Resources), Mr Tom Gregg (Exec)

Positions to go in recovery plan, The Citizen, 3.6.02,
Jobs targeted to go at university, Christchurch Star, 7.6.02;

 

Associate Professor Denis Dutton (Fine Arts)

Spreading the word, Press, 4.6.02;

 

Professor John Raine (Exec), Dr Tom Furness (HIT Lab NZ)

Govt gets behind lab, Press, 4.6.02;

 

Mrs Susan Worrall (MBA)

Business degrees, Press, 4.6.02,
MBAs under the microscope, Management, June 02;

 

Professor Gerald Orchard (Law)

Wallace lawyer uses legal ploy in trial bid, Waikato Times, 5.6.02,
Wallace lawyer uses rare device to get trial, Evening Standard, 5.6.02,
Unprecedented tactic used by Wallace lawyer, Daily Post, 5.6.02;

 

Mark Billinghurst (HITLab NZ)

Research studies less use of keyboard and mouse to control computers, TVNZ, 6.6.02;

 

Dr Bob Peffers (Management)

Bridging the gap, The Citizen, 7.6.02;

 

Dr Bruce Waldman (Zoology)

NZ frogs in danger of croaking, The Citizen, 7.6.02;

 

Mr Stuart McMillan (National Business Review)

Dysfunctional US intelligence services soon to face reckoning, National Business Review, 7.6.02,
Small-government leader and bureaucratic oddity, National Business Review, 14.7.02,
Illegal migrants stay on after deadline as Pacific solution turns to Pacific nightmare, National Business Review, 21.6.02;
European Union leaders turn attention to illegal migration, National Business Review, 28.6.02;

 

Dr John Henderson (Political Science)

Early election date set, Now TV, 11.6.02,
Early election call no surprise, Evening Standard, 12.6.02,
They’re off, The Citizen, 12.6.02,
Prime Minister calls early election, TV One, 12.6.02;

 

Professor Daryl Le Grew (Vice-Chancellor), Dr Maureen Montgomery (AUS)

Canterbury staff to fight redundancies, NZ Education Review, 12.6.02;

 

Professor Bob Hamilton (Management)

Entrepreneurs: made by nature or nurture?, Press, 13.6.02;

 

Dr Nora Devoe (Forestry)

Logging policy adds to old injustice, Otago Daily Times, 14.6.02;

 

Mr Alan Robb (Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems)

Analysts attack ‘misleading’ Vertex Group prospectus, National Business Reviews, 14.6.02,
Intellectual property write-off ‘unusual’, NZ Herald, 15.6.02,
Audit cost ‘may double’, Press, 24.6.02,”
Cost of company audits might double, The Dominion, 24.6.02,
Audit costs could double after verdict, Bay of Plenty Times, 24.6.02,
Audit fees may double, Southland Times, 24.6.02,
Audit costs could be set to double, Gisborne Herald, 25.6.02,
Some NZ firms use WorldCom methods, Hawkes Bay Today, 29.6.02,
Some NZ firms ‘doing a WorldCom’, Timaru Herald, 29.6.02,
New Zealand firms probably doing a WorldCom, says lecturer, The Dominion, 29.6.02;

 

Professor John Burrows (Law)

’Enormously able’ judge, Press, 15.6.02;

 

Mr Ian Gilmour, Professor Laurence Weatherley (Chemical and Process Engineering)

The case for woodburners, Press, 15.6.02;

 

Mr Richard Neal (Students’ Association)

UCSA – debt No. 1 issue, The Citizen, 19.6.02;

 

Professor Phil Butler (Physics), Professor Bruce Jamieson (Human Resources)

Wrong staff told to take severance, Daily Post, 19.6.02,
Varsity makes staffing gaffe, Gisborne Herald, 19.6.02,
University apologises after ‘gaffe’, Press, 19.6.02;

 

Mrs Margaret Brown (Conference Office)

People management is the key to success, NZ Education Review, 19.6.02;

 

Mr Glen Busch (Fine Arts)

School photos, NZ Education Review, 19.6.02,
Samoan culture celebrated, NZ Education Review, 19.6.02;

 

Professor Phil Butler (Physics)

Job scare as varsity slips up, NZ Herald, 19.6.02;

 

Professor Pat Bodger (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

Centre boosts power research, Press, 22.6.02;

 

Dr Ron MacIntyre (Political Science)

Islam in today’s world, Press, 24.6.02,
George Bush announces his Middle East Peace Plan, National Radio, 25.6.02;

 

Keith Turner (Electric power Engineering Centre)

Power course plan, The Citizen, 24.6.02;

 

Mr Jim Tully (Mass Communications and Journalism)

Claims MMP is behind powerful editorials, Newstalk ZB, 11.6.02,
Paper’s closure shocks staff, Horowhenua-Kapiti Chronicle, 25.6.02,
Shock, horror at loss, Evening Post, 25.6.02,
Staff shocked at paper’s closure, and job losses, Press, 25.6.02,
Newspaper closure shocks staff, Bay of Plenty Times, 25.6.02,
Wellington’s Evening Post closure, National Radio, 25.6.02,
The end of a era, Evening Post, Radio Pacific, 25.6.02,
Post’s demise resurrects ghost of national daily, Evening Post, 27.6.02,
Newspaper war talk resurfaces, Evening Standard, 28.6.02,
International news coverage, National Radio, 30.6.02;

 

Dame Phyllis Guthardt (Chancellor)

Canterbury University adopts a Maori name, National Radio, 25.6.02;

 

Mr Roger Maaka (Maori)

Some National Party candidates have spoiled the Party’s initiatives for the Maori vote, National Radio, 25.6.02

Dr Tim Bell (Computer Science),
Passion for teaching rewarded, Press, 25.6.02,
Honour for science lecturer, Christchurch Star, 26.6.02;

 

Dr Greg Newbold (Sociology)

Lawyers’ group wants sex-crime trials changed, The Dominion, 27.6.02;

 

Mr Neville Blampied (Psychology)

Don’t smack, say academics, Christchurch Star, 28.6.02,
Concerns about widespread acceptance of physical punishment, Newstalk ZB, 28.6.02;

 

Professor Jon Raine (Exec)

An extra incentive, Unlimited, June 02;

 

Associate Professor Mike Dewe (Information Technology)

Compiling the MIS 100, MIS, June 02;

 

Associate Professor Frank Sin (Zoology)

Examination of the reproductive genes, National Radio, 29.6.02;