Master of Ceremonies was Associate Dean Dr Jeff Brand.  There were 28 sponsored awards, with many of the people from sponsors on hand to present their prize. All photos taken on the night by Mike Grenby are available at the Humanities Students Association office or on its website.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences did very well in the allocation of Teaching and Learning Grants this semester.  "We had an excellent field of applicants," said Professor Duncan Bentley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) and Dean of the Faculty of Law.

"I thank all applicants for the exceptional standard of applications.  The innovation and creativity in teaching that is going on at Bond University is inspirational to those with a passion for education.

"I strongly encourage those with innovative ideas to start working out ways that funding could help you develop them," he said.

Successful applicants for 2007 (funded in whole or part) were:

• Amy Kenworthy U'Ren, Marian Williams, Louise Mulligan and Simon Hunter: "University-wide cross-discipline awareness of the difficulties encountered by international students within the Bond learning environment"
• Debra Henly and Sonya Marshall: "Implementing and evaluating iLearn as a platform for assessing problem-based learning"
• Jonathon Sargeant: "CYMOBMA - Choose your own behaviour management adventure: experiential learning via multi-media".

Associate Dean Jeff Brand, Head of Communication and Media, is delighted that the Bachelor of Computer Games program is now a reality at Bond and that a new Games lab has opened its doors.

"The timing could not have been better," he said.  "This year world-wide computer games will be an AU$55 billion industry.  In Australia alone, the industry will top the AU$1 billion mark."

Director Rowan Hinton has welcomed the first 15 students with pizza and soft drinks at a function to mark the launch of the Bond College  foundation program. Thirteen of them are from Australia, nine from the Gold Coast.  He said:

Seven of Dr Masako Gavin's students in her Discover Japan subject have come back from the latest trip there enthused with the culture and lifestyle.

Advertising Principles and Practice and Advertising for Graduates students of Teaching Fellow Susie Ting have developed a real campaign for Student Activity Membership.

SAM is a campaign that captured the imaginations of the Student Council, Registrar and Vice-Chancellor.  They agreed that Bond should reposition voluntary student body membership as SAM, not just another fee.

In week 11 of 071 semester, eight teams of advertising students competed against each other in pitching potential advertising campaigns to promote the value of the Student Activity Fee. Campaigns were judged by the advertising students as well as members of Student Council and the Registrar Alan Finch. Vice Chancellor Robert Stable was also present to hear and see the ideas presented.

Reviewed by Richard Phillipps

Prof. Pearson has extensively revised his text, which is expanded from 380 pages in the second edition of 2004 to 486 pages this time.

He deals with legal issues and also with ethical ones.  A new chapter is added: on anti-terrorism and race hate laws. The chapter on privacy has been expanded, with a section on data protection legislation and other privacy-related laws.

Several cases from 2005 on are featured, including:

The Ferguson case involving publication of a sex offence, the Bic pen case, the Panel case (Channel 10), the Brothel case, the Police press release case, the Cooper case, the Treasury case and the Kazaa case. 
    
When next edition arrives, I hope there will be more on my favourite topic—blogging.

STUDENT PUBLISHES BOOK ON TV ADVERTISING

One of our postgraduate students in Communication, Arne Bruncken, has just had his honours thesis published as a book in Germany (co-author is his supervisor there, Gregor Halff).  It sells for 42 Euro.  His thesis is titled "Development and evaluation of special advertising forms on German television.

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She keeps in touch with Dr Michael Platzer in Austria, who lectured at Bond in International Relations earlier this year and ran a series of lunchtime lectures called Movies That Matter.

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Journalism Teaching Fellow Joy Cameron-Dow, given a hang-gliding lesson by her daughter, overcame her fear of heights. 

"Fantastic experience - will definitely do it again," she said.  "We went up 700 feet above Tamborine Mountain and could see the ocean and north to Brisbane.  The road was a ribbon and the cars were matchbox toys!"

To contribute, just email Dr Richard Phillipps rphillip@staff.bond.edu.au or call 0427 392 568.  He accepts news items any time.  Deadline for next issue: Tuesday, July 31.