Ireland’s STUDENT NEWSPAPER Of The Year 2005 Trinity News Est. 1947 Ireland’s Oldest Student Newspaper Tuesday, November 1, 2005 [email protected] Vol.58 No.2 Cian Traynor meets the New Look legendary Christy Moore MUSIC page 12 TNT Inside! First Year Nursing Students Protest at St James’s Nurses Will Refuse to Pay Vaccination Charges, Some Students Angered by INO ‘Agitation’ for vaccinations against Hepatitis B vaccinated free of charge. Fox Alexander and Tuberculosis. The students Mr Wallace stated that picketed outside the hospital and students were united in their deci- Trinity nursing students based at St staged a sit-in in the Nursing sion to boycott the €100 charge James’s Hospital will refuse to pay Administration offices. and had the full backing of the €100 each for vaccinations Following the protest, INO. because they consider the charge to hospital authorities agreed to vacci- A spokesperson for St be unjust, student representatives nate the students as planned and James’s Hospital told Trinity News have said. 65 first year students allow them to pay the €100 fee at a that the hospital was already pro- picketed the hospital on Friday, later date. All students have now viding Hepatitis B vaccinations to October 21st in protest at the con- been immunised but they are students at a reduced rate. “This is troversial fee. The protest was the adamant they will not pay a cent. the first year that St James’s has second in the space of year by According to first year offered vaccinations to students, in Trinity students at St James’s. Nursing student Mr David Wallace, previous years they had to get it Friday’s unplanned St James’s has no justification for done privately. The vaccination demonstration received widespread charging students for immunisa- actually costs the hospital €146 but national media coverage for the tions. “Student nurses have the we provide it at a reduced rate of students and had the backing of the same status as hospital employees. €100.” Irish Nurses Organisation (INO). Our health and safety are the The spokesperson said Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald Finds the Hist’s Northern Ireland Debate Too Exciting to Stay Awake For But some student nurses who took responsibility of the hospital, so it that students still had the option of Photo: Mark Hughes part in the protest have since should be up to the hospital to getting privately vaccinated if they accused the INO of ‘agitating’ the cover the cost of vaccinations.” wished. He added that he wasn’t in Organisation of hijacking the stu- “We'd been informed get us all out protesting about it dents are worried that it will create situation and making life difficult Mr Wallace, who acts as a position to comment on proce- dents’ protest. She said that some about the €100 cost of the vaccines rather than discussing it with the a bad atmosphere when we come to for students. the class’ INO representative, also dures in Tallaght or other hospitals. of the students took part in the a couple of weeks beforehand and hospital authorities.” do our The protest began when first year pointed out that Trinity nursing stu- One first year student demonstration reluctantly only nobody seemed to have a problem The student was also placements in St. James’s in students at St James’s objected to dents who do their annual work nurse who spoke to Trinity News after agitation by an INO represen- with it. But when the [INO] rep unhappy with the possible ramifi- paying a €100 levy to the hospital placement in Tallaght Hospital are accused the Irish Nursing tative at the scene. arrived she seemed determined to cations of the protest. “Many stu- Continued Page 3 Inside Donations to Trinity Reach Record Level The Abortion Debate The vast majority of this money “At the Trinity years. The government is likely to excess of €5 million have been News Feature looks at the facts, the law, and your views John Lavelle was donated by wealthy individu- Foundation, we like to cultivate provide just a fraction of the neces- received by Trinity during the year, See page 5 als, while smaller gifts from alum- relationships with our donors. sary funds. The College will be but the donors have requested that ni and businesses accounted for the Most of our supporters give gener- forced to rely largely on an their anonymity be maintained. Trinity College received a record- remainder. ously on a long-term basis. So it increase in private contributions to Mr Sparrow explained Society Recognition Tips breaking total of €40 million in The 2005 results put wouldn’t be uncommon for the fig- meet the shortfall. that the drive to increase private Enda Hargaden guides you through all you need to know private contributions last year Trinity ahead of all other Irish uni- ures to fluctuate significantly on a In February of this year, revenue was designed to supple- See page 18 from corporations, trusts, alumni versities in the fundraising stakes, year by year basis.” Glen Dimplex founder Mr Martin ment government funds, not and individual philanthropists. The having raised an unparalleled A member of the Naughton made a high profile gift replace them. “To compete inter- unprecedented figure, raised by €100 million over the last five College Board revealed to Trinity of €5 million towards a new state nationally, we need excellence,” he Pakistan Earthquake Trinity in the twelve month period years from private sources. News that the figures reflect an of the art nanoscience institute in said. “Excellence has a price. Report from GOAL’s team on the ground up to September 2005, is four The director of the intensification private fundraising Trinity. It was one of the largest Government funding will support See page 7 times higher than the €10 million Trinity Foundation, the body efforts, concentrated particularly public contributions ever made by the good and the very good, but to received in 2004. which oversees the college’s pri- on Irish multi-millionaires. an Irish individual to a university. be world leading we need to The percentage of Irish vate fundraising efforts, played Trinity’s building devel- According to Mr encourage philanthropy.” Sexy Science donors has also shot up with over down the record breaking haul. Mr opment plans for the campus’ Sparrow, donations of this magni- Jane Ferguson returns with more tales of the scientific 90% of the contributions coming Nick Sparrow said that the astro- North East corner and the Pearse tude are not uncommon, though TN profiles Trinity’s See page 24 from sources within the Republic, nomical increase in the 2005 figure St area will cost an estimated they are seldom made public. largest donors a marked shift from recent years. was misleading. €100 million over the next five Several other contributions in News Features: Page 4 Trinity News Two Don’t miss the first issue of the new look TNT! See supplement SU Embarrassed by Coca- Index College News p1-3 SU & Societies p18 Cola/Nestlé Double Cock Up News Feature p4 Comment & Opinion National p6 p19-20 by Coca-Cola. Both compa- dum of 24th February to Deputy President of the International p7-8 Letters p21 Trish Van de Velde nies’ products are banned maintain the current boycott SU Mr Tom Dillon, who is in Features p9-10 Gaeilge p22 Jonathan Drennan from SU shops. of Coca-Cola and Nestle prod- charge of publicising the boycott, In an ironic twist, ucts in the Students’ Union had no knowledge of the incident Film p11 Inter’l Students p23 the Students’ Union newspa- shops.” when contacted. However, he was Music p12-13 Science p24 The Students’ Union was doubly per had been released earlier Students voted for a quick to assure Trinity News that Food & Drink p14-15 Sports Features p25-26 embarrassed last week when a the same day running a front Students’ Union boycott of he would go and check whether product jointly produced by two page article highlighting Coca-Cola in 2004 for its there was any Nestea left in the Travel p16 Sport p27-28 companies it is actively boycotting Coca-Cola’s attempts to get alleged ill-treatment of work- fridge in due course. Careers p17 was being sold in one of its shops. its products back on the ers in Colombia. The Nestle Staff at the Hamilton Last Thursday, a Trinity News shelves of the SU shops. ban had been enacted six shop denied any knowledge of the reporter bought a bottle of Nestea The Students’ years earlier for alleged viola- incident. All offending products Look out for Issue 3 in Week 6! Iced Tea at the Students’ Union Union policy document for tions of the UNICEF have since been removed. Students shop in the Hamilton building. 2005 states unequivocally International Code of have been assured by the SU that Nestea is a beverage that has the that, “The council recognis- Marketing of breast milk. this is an isolated incident that unique distinction of being manu- es that the students of the Both boycotts were upheld in won't happen again. factured by Nestle and distributed college voted in the referen- a referendum earlier this year. 2 Tuesday November 1st, 2005 News Editor: John Lavelle COLLEGENEWS Trinity News Plans Announced for World Sports Centre Plans Unveiled Class Business School On Target for December 2006 Completion The new school will tive, was confident that the venture Liam Connors focus exclusively on courses of would be successful. study in executive management “The positive progress Trinity College has announced programmes and will build on the of our economy to date is in no plans to establish a new graduate foundations of the Trinity MBA small part due to the high standard school of management with the and the M.Sc.