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]4, 1970 ) _ WAL vs ~, the leisure jeans ~adam manshop duke lane to cannot DUBLIN UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE WEEKLY N,AVSPAPER Price ~1. students without i S students C SHAKE-UP obvious ~veen 18 i Thet S.R.C. has called on the Board to investigate its accounts and to withhold ex-Vice-President Alan r this in ! Baxter’s remaining salary until they are satisfied that he has co-operated satisfactorily in the production of the ty been i accounts. Mr. Baxter has failed on several occasions to comply with the Council’s request to present com- nstituent i’ plete accounts for auditing and this strong action has been taken following the Capitation Committee’s de- cision to withhold the S.R.C.’s grant. An even stronger motion was rejected at Monday’s Council meeting by 16 votes to 13 with 6 abstentions, but following a visit by S.R.C. President Paul Tansey to the auditors to 1 ascertain what exactly Mr. Baxter had or had not produced for audit, a special Council meeting was held on shed in Tuesday which passed an emegency Executive motion based on the information supplied by Mr. Tansey. I would The motion passed by the support Council on Tuesday was as follows, up the "Council calls on the Board in TRINITY BALL consultation with the student esulted representatives on it, to investi- P, even gate, or have investigated, the i those S.R.C. accounts and to withhold CRITICiSED + ople in the remainder of the ex-Vice- President’s salary until they are ting at Last Tuesday’s S.C.R. meeting passed two motions on next week’s satisfied with his co-operation in Trinity Ball. The first asked for the usual facilities, such as catering, the production of satisfactory minely library, common rooms and access to rooms, will be provided for accounts." This motion was passed students during the evening of the Ball. with no opposition, but with one .C.D." The second motion regretted that Trinity Ball "has ceased to be an Councillor abstaining. !gether occasion primarily for the entertainment and enjoyment of the student 2) By body. It would now appear that the Ball is being run as a commercial COURTROOM itation venture at a price and in a manner that is not attractive to the majority Council adopted a courtroom of students in College." procedure for the debate on the inued. original motion on Monday night. PICKET PLACED rouble Double tickets cost 6 guineas advertised in the national press. Speakers in t h e affirmative this year and the event has been It is expected that the majority of stressed that almost nothing had more those attending the Ball will be been presented by Mr. Baxter to ON "’T. C.D. "" been from outside College. Speakers at the auditors dealing with S.R.C. the S.R.C. meeting pointed out accounts for the period from The sellers of "T.C.D. Miscellany" were picketed by students last ISETA BANNED that students+ cannot afford the November 1969 to March 31st 3omb cost of the tickets and the other Friday. The protesters accused the publication of having racist an~ 1970. It was said that Mr. Baxter Fascist tendencies, one example of which was said to be the issue on- 7..D." ISETA, the commercial student expenses such as drink, dress-hire as treasurer in charge of the travel company, is no longer to taining the "Paki Poem," which implied that Pakistanis emigrate to | now transport and meals, and that it is finances must be held responsible be allowed use of the SRC’s doubtful if the Ball offers the type England with the express intention of living off the dole. taken but that he was not being accused facilities in Trinity. This was of entertainment demanded by of theft or dishonesty. The poem was supposed to have decided at a recent Council meet- what is now a predominantly Irish been written by a Pakistani living ing and is in line with a motion student body. HANGING MOTION in London; the editor accept it as BOARD , " passed at the last USI Congress Speakers also criticised the Mr. Baxter said that the motion such, but it has since been alleged when it was decided that SRCs proximity to m a n y students’ was "a hanging motion" which that it was written by a Trinity ACCEPTS ’ should solely support USI/USIT exams, but on the other hand it student. The protesters also felt "ews: threatened his career. He ex- services wherever possible. was pointed out, that the Week plained how, under the Council’s that "T.C.D." was the "refuge PROPOSALS: lsey; Rory Hamilton, speaking against is intended to subsidise DUCAC. accounting system it was possible of an upper class clique who were ~er, the motion, said that students Trinity Week ran at a loss last for sums of "up to £65" to be not representative of students in The Board has accepted the should have a free choice to select year. College and as such shouldn’t proposals of the N.U.I./T.C.D~ Nell whatever travel service they removed without his knowledge. "future The Republican Club is intend- His supporters, led by Adrian and be getting grants from the Capita- negotiators on the organi, wished. Jim Hamilton said that ing to run a " Connolly Week " as Henry Bourke, Rory Hamilton and the Committee." sation of university education in nobody was attempting to do this an alternative to "Trinity Week," Shane Ross e 1 o q u e n t I y talked A spokesman for " T.C.D." Ireland." They feel that the joint as ISETA could set up their own but has been denied the use of about the ruination of Mr. Baxter’s said that the picket had not an proposals "are the best that can facilities in T.C.D.--just as they College facilities. career and how Council was trying adverse effect on sales as they had be reached by agreement" betweeli had done in U.C.G. He said that to make him into a scapegoat. in fact increased by 100. Attempts the universities, and have created Trinity SRC was an integral part are being made to make "Mis- "the circumstances necessary for FULL-TIME 59 of USI and hence couldn’t be ex- IMPOSSIBLE cellany" into a more representa- future co-operation. pected to encourage competition CHAPLAIN The S.R.C. currently has a tive inter-varsity magazine. The proposals are the univer- ,against a student enterprise. deficit of income over expenditure sities’ own alternative to the The Deputy President of USI A resolution authorising the Government’s Merger plan. They appointment of a full-time Presby- in the region of three to four stressed that ISETA was a purely thousand pounds. At Tuesday’s ACCOMADATION stress that there should be co- commercial concern and was only terian chaplain for Trinity and the operation between the various uni- other higher education centres in meeting Mr. Tansey enumerated interested in making profits, while documents which had not yet been BUREAU vesities, but that they should not USI put their profits back into the Dublin will be proposed at the be put in a position where they General Assembly of the Presby- presented to the auditors--balance Trinity S.R.C. is to establish student economy to subsidise other sheet and list of stock for last an accommodation bureau to lose their identity. The joint pro- non-profit making, student facili- terian Church in Ireland when it posals allow for some rationalisa- convenes in Belfast on June 1. September, bank statements from supplement the services offered ties and services. November to March 69/70, stock by the Deans of Residence. The tion by the avoidance of duplica- sheets for March 31st and a full Welfare Officer, Tommy Hamil- tion of courses--however, they are list of creditors. Mr. Baxter is ton, is currently compiling a list not as radical as the Goverl~ currently compiling more docu- of flats, digs and hostels from ment’s original proposals. mentation for the auditors as they information supplied by students. The Board in a statement said say it is utterly impossible for It is hoped that the bureau will that they had considered views OISQUES ET LUMli:RE them to produce accounts with the form part of a city-wide service from all the faculties and from alt run by U.ST the other bodies in College information already submitted. making their decision and cod- . ’t THE MOBILE DISCOTHEQUE cluded that they think that ~e decision is acceptable to most 6f WITH QUALITY LIGHTING STARTING FRIDAY College, although they realise th6t there are "reservations among ~e ACADEMY CINEMA staff in specific areas." These proposals have yet to be Elizabeth Taylor & Mia Farrow accepted by the Government--in Parties Catered for anywhere in Ireland fact the Minister for Education r~- ferred to them as being only "one in of many sets of proposals." Trinity S.R.C. has yet to issue a state- ment, though it is believed that Rooms 9.02 T.C.D. Phone 974309 one will be forthcoming in ~e SECRET CEREMONY near future. TRI TRINITY NEWS -- Thursday, May 21, 1970 TWO CRICKET ’] TRINITY CRUSH PEMBROKE, BEAT t MALAHIDE TO HEAD LEAGUE TABLE [ Trinity faced what were generally considered their toughest two matches last week-end, and in two op: magnificent games of cricket they gained two excellent vict~ries. Few people could ask for a more exciting finish than the last ov.er of Sunday’s match at Malahide, which Trinity won by just one run! t On Saturday, College Park was supported by Nixon with 16, team’s total of 84, their lowest for th’ the scene for what promised to brought the total to 145 all out.

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