1994 School Magazine

Girls' Grammar ^coool aBrisbane 1994

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SUMMIT ON FOREIGN Am AND popi. 11A'ITON (TllE CAURO CONFERENCE COMES To BRISBANE!) e all gathered - delegates from 16 nations - to debate the issue of foreign aid and the appropriateness of using aid as a means of controlling population growth and thereby helping Third World countries. Sounds heavy. ..? Well it is in one way but it really makes you think and the afternoon turned out to be really enjoyable and stimulating

CARTOONll^G OR LAMPOONING:

e were most fortunate to enlist the services of Sean Leahy to act as our CRITIC IN RESIDENCE demon- strating that the "anime" pen is often mightier than the sword Have you ever wondered how a political cartoonist derives his ideas and translates them into those funny little pictures that appear in your paper every morning? How many of you turn to the "comics" and cartoons in the

morning or weekend papers? Is comedy humour a more ef- fociive medium for making a point than a page of tightly writ- ten text? Have you ever had problems understanding a car- toon? Do you ever wish you could draw good cartoons? What makes for a

good cartoon? What makes people laugh? How does a car- toonist create a cari- cattire of someone? What would your own caricature look like? and why do we never see any FEMALE cartoonists? These and many more were some of the questions that Sean attempted to answer for us ... and left us to ponder in the next morning issue of me Co"tier M"it, IlylA'IRS group of our Year 12 Maths U students have been responsible for designing a lifting hoist to be donated to

"Uruted Nations General Assembly"

Do we have any responsibility to help others before we help ourselves? Can we prevent widespread famine and poverty and ITow? Should the rich countries increase their commitment to aid? Who benefits most from aid - the donor or the recipient? Why do TITe poorest countries receive the smallest provision of aid??? The atmosphere in the Gehrmann Theatre rivalled that of any political forum: there was lobbying, bargaining, back- scratching, backroom dealing, speeches, interjections, loud voices, humour, truth and of course a lot of half-truths ... some answers, some SOILitions The girls conducted themselves most ably and proved themselves a match for anyone in Canberra or the United Nations itself! The success of the afternoon ensures that this has now become a permanent event in future years ... with the sugges- lion that we might form our own UN association at the school JOHN WALSH HEAD OF SOCIAL STUDIES FACULTY

the staffatSunsetholme, a nursing home in Kel- vin Grove. The device will transfer patients who have little weight bear- ing capacity from bed to chair. The students have worked with consulting engineers, physiothera- pists, industrial design- ers and staff from other nursing homes. Enor- mous help has been given by Peter Charles the involved engineer and Des Walmsley who

Testing the dew'ce have contributed to the engineering aspect of the device. The students involved have learnt a great deal about real life mathematics 54