EVELYN TENT makes her trinit bow on page six, more vitriolic than ever. THE RISE AND FALL OF %[ DUBLIN UNIVERSITY’S NEWSPAPER PRIVATE EYE ~ examined by Charles Dutton (page 5). Thursday, 27th October, 1966. Vol. XIV, No. 1 Price Threepence i, NEW COLUMNS "i "Trinity News " Ten Years J 98 0 of landladies Ago, compiled by Gordon Godfrey (page 5); Broad- bent, edited by Pepeta I Harrison (page 6); The say"no coloureds Bird Walk (mainly for the birds) edited by Jenny .? Storey (page 6). need apply" BIAS appears, aided and abetted by Steven Harris Only 10 of the 600 land- following the notorious Green and William Young (page ladies on Trinity’s list will Tureen case, when an Indian 5). take coloured students. Of student was convicted of the these even less will take murder of a young Irish girl "Africans." whose body was found INCREASED NEWS AND SPORT COVERAGE AND This startling fact emerges hacked to pieces in a Dublin from some recent surveys restaurant’s cellar. COMMENT. over the vacation into the Students as a whole tend problem of student accom- to be living further from the city centre each year. The modation in Dublin. So ’ i:! average price for a single ,) I ’ serious indeed has the situ- Launderette by ,! ation become (" It is now room and partial board is practically impossible to now 5 guineas, but many next year find rooms for coloured offers of accommodation are students ") t h a t College refused because they are too It now seems as though far out. This year students, authorities have had to set Miss Chloe Sa)’er, this ),ear’s Miss Fresher PHIL McMASTER that much-aired plan to have aside rooms in College for and especially male students, a launderette in College may coloured Freshmen, in con- are being more exacting in be consummated at last, by trast to the general policy of their demands than ever be- the end of next year. fore. Many expect such not allowing "Freshets" to The S.R.C. Survey of last live in. "luxuries " as study-bed- Mini-skirted Miss Fresher rooms with desks, but such year indicated a large amount A fall in the number of requests as these are almost of student support for the coloured students entering impossible to fulfil.. puts Trinity before modelling venture. College authorities Trinity in the last few years, Male students, as well as have given the project a due perhaps to the higher being more demanding, also The frenzy of Freshers’ boost by saying that it would entrance standards, h a s She hoped that her mini- Miss Fresher’s bouquet flap if they are not immedi- Week reached a climax on skirts would not be frowned was given by Watson’s of seem to be economically meant, however, that the ately fixed up with rooms. last Saturday night with the viable, even if the support is problem appears less severe upon by College authorities Nassau St., and Morgan’s In general, men are preferred election of Chloe Sayer as as none of her skirts were less presented a large bottle of not quite as great as that re- this year than it has been in in lodgings, but women in vealed by the survey. Half Ljother years. Miss Fresher 1966. than 4 inches above the knee. sherry. fiats and bed-sitters. There The result of the com- Hardly waiting for the the students asked, said they The attitude towards has been a large increase this petition, sponsored by Trinity award, three professional would use a College coloured students had been year in the number of re- News, was announced by the " Freshmen," Ben Milling- Freshets’ week launderette if it were estab- lished. improving but took a sudden search students and staff Editor to an Examination ton Buck, Simon Boler and Alan Stott, Chairman of turn for the worse in 1964 seeking accommodation. Hall packed solid with Simon McCall, carried the Freshers’ Week, praised the The main stumbling block dancers. Other judges were winner shoulder high for the participation of Freshers on at the moment is accommo- H u g h O’Neill, financial benefit of clicking photo- the programme of the week. dation. A cellar is technically editor of The Irish Times, graphers. He also paid tribute to his unsuitable and alternative and Pepeta Harrison, fashion The choice of Chloe, who committee, to the S.R.C. and space is limited. The most Trinity students to march editor of Trinity News. wore a white woollen mini- to the academic staff for their likely position for the Chloe, a 19 - year - old skirt, with a nine inch split hard work. launderette appears to be in Londoner and former model, in front, attracted the " Some of the administra- the Paddock (the area to the on U.S. embassy is studying Modern Lan- national new~papers and on tive officers of the Univer- north of Nos. 33-37). guages and hopes to be an Sunday she spent the after- sity," he said, "were not as Michael Adams, President actress." This honour came noon on top of Liberty Hall co-operative as they should of the S.R.C., commented: A peace march to the U.S. approval of conditions in as a complete surprise to being photographed for the Vietnam and call Irish have been. Some times I felt "I am cautiously hopeful Embassy is planned by the me," she said laughingly. Daily Mirror. that certain officers resented that the launderette will Irish United Nations Student students to take a stand," the presence of students in be in existence by next Association to protest against said Kenan Atiyah of the the University and regarded summer." the war in Vietnam. Trinity branch. them as unnecessary irritants "We want to demonstrate Support for the march Republican club in the smooth running of to the Irish public our dis- has come from the Fabians, the College machine. The W e e k, financed by COBBLESTONE the Voice of Vietnam Com- CONVERSE mittee, the Labour Students’ the Saturday night dance, Association, and there will formed in Trinity appears to have pleased most " Where on earth are S.R.C. motion also be representatives from Freshers. Very few had any you off to now?" asked the College of Surgeons and A Republican club has at from members of the public, complaints, although some Timothy. "1 thought we The following motion will last been set up in the muttered complaints a n d were going to have lunch from Queen’s, as well as wished for a conducted tour be discussed at an extra- College w h i c h produced shock at outspoken posters of the College. Many hoped together." ordinary meeting of the many trade unionists. Wolfe Tone, father of Irish have been the least problems "Oh, lunch can wait," that next year they would .~aid Hermione with a S.R.C. to--night : Allegations that this would Republicanism. Already it which the club has had to see the Provost and all were careless toss of her golden "Council having regard be merely another " Renta- has attracted interest from cope. They have also had to lavish in their praise of the hair. " I’m off to HODGES to the proposal of Irish crowd" demonstration were some unusual quarters. undergo the surveillance of never-ending supply of FIGGIS to get all my United Nations Student dismissed owing to the wide- sinister unidentified men in coffee. books for the term The club was born in the trench-coats at Front Fate. before anyone else gets Association to hold a Viet- spread support the march aftermath of last Easter’s there." nam peace march on Satur- was receiving. The marchers A uniformed Garda has taken " You sneaky old thing. 50th anniversary celebrations away one of the leaflets. day, 29th October"" will assemble at Parnell and is now setting about Davis bust breaks I’ll come with you." 1. Agrees that the S.R.C. Square at 2.30 p.m. on attracting members who will The club seems to be "1 was going to ask you Saturday, 29th October. attracting a large and varied Alan Craig broke the bust anyway. I need someone should participate officially support its radical pro- to carry them for me." in the march. selection of members and of Thomas Davis last week. A leaflet distributed by gralume. It is this radical they plan a number of The accident happened when 2. Urges Trinity students the Association outside the programme and the willing- it was being carried into the to take part. ness of the club to blazon it activities for this term, in- Labour Party Conference in- cluding a wine reception committee room of the Hist. THE UNIVERSITY 3. Instructs the Execu- cluded the statement: "Each conspicuously on posters, and an evening of songs in Said Mr. Craig: "I just BOOKSHOP tive to prepare a statement and everyone of us who will hoardings and leaflets which conjunction with the Folk touched it against the door for Trinity students, ex- not speak and make an effec- have drawn the attention of Song Society. But their main post and it shattered." The For all your Textbooks. plaining the S.R.C. stand tive stand is guilty of being hostile and non-student eyes task will be to propagate the loss, however, upsets the (new and secondhand) to the club. and to prepare other pub- a party to murder and Republican faith among the political balance of the Hist’s 5 and 6 DAWSON ST. licity. genocide." Anonymous ’phone calls infidels.